FROM cake bakes to NHS open days, from dress down days to tweets, cancer charity Hope for Tomorrow's third annual chemotherapy in the community Week, from October 10-14, promises to be full of events and energy, with patients, supporters and NHS medical teams throwing themselves into helping to publicise the benefits of bringing chemotherapy closer to home.

Hope for Tomorrow brings cancer treatment closer to patients via its mobile chemotherapy units (MCUs) - one of which is in Gloucestershire.

This year Gloria Hunniford, a patron of the charity, is ambassador for the awareness week.

She said: "As patron, I am delighted to be the ambassador of Hope for Tomorrow's chemotherapy in the community Week.

"The charity is providing a service that is just amazing in terms of making life easier under very extreme circumstances in having chemotherapy.

"This campaign plays a vital part in raising awareness and fundraising for the charity and we need your help to do this.

"Please help them to 'keep the wheels turning' thereby bringing cancer treatment closer to patients' homes, saving travelling, time and stress.

"I am very proud that Hope for Tomorrow's fifth mobile chemotherapy unit Caron is named in memory of my daughter, who had to undergo many sessions of chemotherapy treatment."

Founder and trustee Christine Mills MBE said: "Our theme for this year is ‘keep the wheels turning.'

"Together with our NHS partners we want to show how much we care about the quality of chemotherapy treatment and how cancer patients are treated.

"Spreading the word about what we do is so important for the continued work of the charity.

"With fundraising and awareness events such as these we will be able to continue to bring cancer treatment closer to patients' homes."

With a total of eleven units on the road (Gloucestershire, South Wiltshire, Somerset, Hampshire, North Wiltshire, Berkshire, East Kent, Lincolnshire, Cornwall, West Suffolk and East Essex) and more in the pipeline, the charity's MCUs drastically reduce the stress for cancer patients and their loved ones of driving long distances and enduring waiting times for chemotherapy treatment at main Oncology Centres.

Chemotherapy in the community week is the charity's annual awareness campaign to highlight the benefits that MCUs bring to patients undergoing treatment.

With a series of events being held by NHS partners and supporters across the country, the charity is spreading the word about the benefits of the mobile chemotherapy units and the service they offer.

To request a supporter's pack, which contains the resources needed to help with fund and awareness raising activities, call 01666 505055 or email info@hopefortomorrow.org.uk. Hope for Tomorrow will help to promote your CITC event through social media.