Charity of the Year 2023

The Tadcaster Harriers Charity of the Year for 2023 was submitted by Dave Baxter

Charity of the Year- Cancer Research UK

Club member and local Physio Dave Baxter selected Cancer Research UK as his ‘clinic charity of the year’ and now the club is pleased to announce that this very worthy cause will also be the club charity for 2023.

In August 2022 Dave sadly lost his Mum to a very sudden and aggressive Cancer which all happened too quickly for them to fully identify the primary cancer, let alone target any specific treatment. This was referred to as Cancer of Unknown Primary although the suggestion was that Pancreatic Cancer was the most likely culprit. As a supporter of Cancer Research for the last 21 years Dave decided to focus any fundraising efforts for the year for this amazing charity and specifically on the research into Pancreatic Cancer.

Dave’s main running and fundraising target for 2023 will be the Pilgrims Way Ultra 100 mile race on 9th September. He is also planning a ‘Tad Physio Round’ which will be a stand-alone, do anytime 50k circular route in the same vein as the Bob Graham Round where people will complete at their leisure and join ‘the club’ with a ‘FKT’, ‘wall-of-fame-completers’ and hopefully a guided ‘introduction-to-ultra’ day out on the route. There will also be other events organised by Dave and the club.