Thank you to everyone who took part in the UCAN Christmas Poster Campaign.  Generous companies raised in excess of £1,700 by writing their Christmas greeting to friends and colleagues on the UCAN Christmas Poster and donated the cash normally spent on cards to the charity.

In July Patrick Tawse and Graham Bell cycled from Aberdeen to Edinburgh raising a huge amount of money for UCAN.

A Young north-east swimmer is poised to achieve his ambition of raising at least £1,000 to fight cancer.

Plucky Ryan Kaczmarek, 13 of Banff took part in this year’s Banff-Macduff bay swim for UCAN, the north-east’s urological cancer charity.

His supporters have already stumped up more than £900 and more money has still to come in.

He has also been guaranteed a donation from the Celtic Charity Fund, the charitable arm of Celtic FC. Ryan who is a Celtic supporter decided to raise money for UCAN after former Hoops player John Hartson was diagnosed with cancer.

Ryan entered the gruelling Banff Bay swim on Saturday 8 August and finished in 25 min 34sec.

Ryan said “I was pleased as I managed to be 13^th out of almost 50 swimmers and beat my personal best by two minutes. I would like to thank everybody who sponsored me”.