THE founder of Tetbury cancer charity Hope for Tomorrow, Christine Mills MBE, has won a Good Housekeeping Inspiring Reader award as part of the Women of the Year Awards 2016.
Christine was nominated for the Women of the Year Awards in October last year in recognition of her work in launching the world's first custom-designed Mobile Chemotherapy Unit (MCU), in partnership with the NHS, in 2007.
Since then, the charity has provided another ten units around the country.
Hope for Tomorrow aims to bring cancer closer to home to help patients save valuable travel and waiting time and the stress of parking at hospital Oncology Units.
She founded the charity after her husband, David, was taken ill with cancer and she was struck by the difficulties faced by cancer patients in travelling long distances for chemotherapy.
Christine said: "It's wonderful to be nominated by Good Housekeeping for an award for my work with Hope for Tomorrow.
"My dream, and that of my wonderful team, is to help cancer patients throughout the country, providing a better experience of treatment for them.
"Our aim is to have at least one Mobile Chemotherapy Unit in every county by 2025."
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