Nicole’s Legacy
Nicole’s Legacy
RIBI Young Citizen 2008 Award winner Nicole Dryburgh, who died in May 2010, is being remembered in a BBC documentary which has been made by BBC producer and Rotarian Eve Conway.
Nicole was a remarkable young lady with many achievements to her name including receiving the Diana Award, writing two books, penning a weekly column for her local paper, running a website and raising thousands of pounds for the Teenage Cancer Trust.
Nicole's fundraising activities knew no bounds and she abseilled down the side of King's College Hospital in London. She raised £43,000 to fund Nicole’s Sweet, a paediatric neuro-rehabilitation suite on Lion Ward at King’s College Hospital and launched Nicole's Fund to raise thousands for a specialist Teenage Cancer Trust Unit at the Royal Marsden Hospital's branch in Surrey.
These achievements were made all the more inspiring as she was fighting a battle against cancer which had left her paralysed from the legs down, deaf and blind. She was first diagnosed with cancer at the young age of 11 and was determined to overcome it.
Nicole enjoyed receiving her RIBI Young Citizen Award in Blackpool in 2008 and everything that happened afterwards, including her trip to New York, thanks to Rotary, and meeting Prince Harry. There was also all her fundraising activities.
She celebrated her 21st birthday in February 2010 and was so pleased that she had been free of her spinal cancer for three years but sadly died from a brain haemorrhage just three months later.
If you would like to donate to Nicole's Fund and help reach the £200,000 target, click here.
Thursday, 5 January 2012