Volunteers needed for cancer charity

Fri, 09 Jan 2015

An Island-based cancer charity is looking for volunteers to bolster its fundraising efforts.

Manx Cancer Help is looking for people to help out at events and come up with ideas to deliver services to growing numbers of people affected by the disease.

The charity says around 400 patients are diagnosed here each year - but more people are either surviving it or living longer as they're being seen earlier and are offered cutting-edge drugs to confront it.

Andrea Chambers is the chief executive officer, she explains why it needs to recruit: