Message from the Trustee’s of ‘Something To Look Forward To’
It is with great sadness that we have to announce our founder Fiona Coldron passed away on Thursday 18th February, 2021, peacefully and surrounded by her family.
Fiona, who having first-hand experience of living with cancer since 2007, knew the importance of having ‘Something To Look Forward to’ and together with her family made it her life’s mission to help others.
We know it was her wish for us to continue the charity and Fiona’s daughter and husband will spearhead this in Fiona’s memory.
Fiona Coldron BCA
Founding Director
Staff
The Executive Directors of ‘Something To Look Forward To’ are responsible for the strategic development, effective management, and ensuring long term sustainability of the charity.
For the last 20 years he has run his on web design company in Cambridge, creating hundreds of websites and enewsletters for corporate clients worldwide.
Andy now specialises in building websites for charities as “the people involved with charities are just way nicer to work for”.
Our Ambassador
Lisa Faulkner
Lisa became the Ambassador of the Charity in September 2018 following her involvement in the filming of the team for the National Lottery Awards. The ‘Something To Look Forward To’ team struck up an instant rapport with Lisa and they also felt that her own personal experience of how cancer can affect families and loved ones meant that she had an immediate affinity with the charity. Lisa said that having something to look forward to becomes so important at such a difficult time, and spending time with loved ones becomes the most important thing.
Lisa has established herself as a leading actress starring in numerous high profile TV dramas. In 2010 Lisa won BBC 1′s Celebrity MasterChef and has since gone on a remarkable food journey. In 2017 Lisa accepted the role of Fi Browning in Eastenders, leaving the soap in dramatic fashion at the beginning of 2018. In 2012 Lisa’s first cookery book was published, Recipes From My Mother For My Daughter and became an instant bestseller, reaching number one in The Times non-fiction list. Lisa’s second cookbook The Way I Cook was published in September 2013. Her third book, Tea and Cake was published in February 2015 also becoming a bestseller. Lisa’s latest cookery book From Mother to Mother was published in Spring 2017. In the early summer of 2019 Lisa Faulkner’s 5th and first non cookery title will be published by Ebury. Meant To Be tells Lisa’s personal story and discoveries to motherhood via IVF and ultimately adoption.
Our Patron
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan MP is the Member of Parliament for Tooting, South West London and the Shadow Minister for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Dr Allin-Khan studied Medicine at Cambridge University; then worked at the Royal London and Hommerton Hospitals post qualification. She went on to complete a Master’s degree in Public Health specialising in Global Health and Emergency Humanitarian Assistance. Following this, she spent many years working as a Humanitarian Aid Doctor in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. She also worked in rural Australia as an emergency flying doctor. Prior to her election, she worked as a junior doctor in the Accident and Emergency Department at St Georges Hospital in Tooting.
Dr Allin-Khan regards the work of ‘Something To Look Forward To’ as vital in improving outcomes for families affected by cancer poverty in the UK and was honoured to become our Patron in October 2017.
Dr Allin-Khan supports us in publicising the issue of cancer poverty and the importance of improved emotional health amongst cancer patients and their families. She also donates private tours of the Houses or Parliament – a once in a lifetime experience! We are honoured to have her as the Patron of our charity.
Board of Trustees
The Trustees of ‘Something To Look Forward To’ are responsible for ensuring the purposes of the charity are observed. They oversee the strategic planning and finances and ultimately what the charity wants to achieve long term
Alison is delighted to become the Chair of Trustees and strongly believes in the aims for “Something To Look Forward To”. She hopes her professional experience will help the founders to achieve their worthy goals.
It’s time to give something back, and Tim is looking forward to helping ‘Something To Look Forward To’ succeed in making a difference.
Paula was thrilled at the opportunity of being a Trustee of such a worthwhile cause and is looking forward to the opportunities that the charity can give to individuals and families.
Sean has been a Trustee of a small national charity for the last ten years and is delighted to have been asked to join the Board of Trustees of ‘Something To look Forward To’ and hopes that his experience will be of benefit to this evolving charity.
Social Media Ambassadors
We are proud to be supported by a range of brands, influencers and bloggers who have been instrumental in helping us source gifts, experiences and essential items for those affected by cancer.
Cat Sims aka @notsosmugnow is an Instagram blogger covering the world of patenting, adulthood, relationships and mental health.
Cat created the #GiftMatch campaign which involves her only accepting gifts from brands if they donate the same or similar item to charity and we are honoured to be one of the recipients!
“There’s no denying it: influencer marketing works. It’s a win for the brand and the influencer but here’s the thing….Isn’t it possible to do more? To do some good? I founded the #GIFTMATCH campaign to turn a win-win situation into win-win-win because I wanted charities to benefit too”.
Cat Sims
Social Media Guru
Darren lives in Northamptonshire and works full time as a Manager of a national builders merchant. He created ‘Days Out Now’ in 2017 to help families find fun days out. Now, he’s helping us, help those affected with cancer by sourcing family activities across the UK.
Darren is married with three children. Having personally seen the impact cancer has emotionally and physically on loved ones, he really wanted to make a difference and chose to help our charity.
Volunteers and Advisors
‘Something To Look Forward To’ is supported by a board of volunteers and advisors who provide advice and help in a variety of areas. This voluntary help is crucial to the running of the charity.
Not only has David sponsored any event we have done, but he even joined us running the Cambridge Half Marathon and running it faster than all us youngsters and helping us to raise over £40k.
When he is not running David is very good at filming and producing awesome videos for websites and we are very appreciative of all David’s help with the creation of our videos.
He is now helping us take our website to the next phase. Automating many of our processes through the website and giving us the capability to cope with the future increase in demand as our service grows.
Mikey has organised charity events in Cambridge raising thousands of pounds for different organisations over many years.
After hosting a charity evening for our cause, Mikey is delighted to be a part of the work Something To Look Forward To are doing.
