Leeds steps up to raise 100k for 100 years of life-saving cancer research

People in Leeds and across Yorkshire have walked to raise over £100,000 in the 100th year of Yorkshire Cancer Research, celebrating a century of life-saving cancer breakthroughs and progress in the region.

- By Grace Tindle Contributor

From schools to care homes, families to colleagues, hundreds of supporters laced up their walking boots to take part in the 2025 We Walk for Yorkshire challenge and the Yorkshire Three Peaks, walking over 30,000 miles across the region and beyond.

Yorkshire Cancer Research funds £64m of cancer research and services, including 25 clinical trials, giving people across the region the opportunity to take part in and benefit from innovative cancer research. The funds raised from these events will help the charity bring more pioneering cancer research and services to Yorkshire communities, so people can live longer, healthier lives, and share more time with the people they love.

Among the fantastic fundraisers who have stepped out in solidarity to bring more cancer cures to the region is 51-year-old Mark Singleton, from Roundhay, who walked the three Yorkshire Peaks for three people in his life who sadly passed away from cancer in 2024.