About

The Mission Remission hub was built for cancer survivors – we share hundreds of inspirational stories and practical strategies to move forward after cancer.

Looking to get started? Take a peek at our strategy pages.

What do we do?

Mission Remission supports cancer survivors move forward after treatment to live happy, healthy, independent lives. Our mission is to improve the experience of cancer recovery for every person across the country.
Mission Remission is a grassroot community-run charity. We help people by running an online platform, now with over 15k community members. We run support groups, online discussions, a book club, and an advocacy team.
Our campaigns support people and the NHS. 2022 aims include:

• Speeding up diagnosis so people live longer and face fewer long-term consequences
• Improving the experience of those dealing with cancer & transforming services so they’re person-centred
• Helping people improve personal relationships with their clinical teams
• Building a holistic survivor package & finding a partner to pilot this

WHY?

90% of people feel the time after cancer is just as traumatic as the diagnosis. You’re faced with the need to return to ‘normal’ life, when life no longer feels normal.

What Support is Available?

There's no national NHS service commissioned to address these issues. In fact, more widely, there’s sparse information on life after cancer. When life after cancer is mentioned, it's amongst advice on palliative care and prognosis rates. And it is just not appropriate to seek support about life after cancer from people who are still receiving treatment or who have terminal diagnoses.

So we wanted to do something about it.

Our vision is for everyone to live a happy, healthy, independent life after cancer and we plan to improve the experience of recovery for every cancer survivor in the UK.

Our People

Laura Fulcher – Founder 

As a 2x cancer survivor before the age of 35, Laura experienced the lack of information that exists after treatment finishes herself. So she founded the only national charity dedicated to supporting those recovering from cancer.  

She's a secondary school English teacher and has researched community-building, parental involvement, and narratives for change in education. Over the last six years, she's transferred her skills to the wonderful world of heath.

Since founding Mission Remission, she regularly speaks at conferences and supports health organisations to refocus on what’s actually important: serving people and improving their lives. She’s been a CCG lay member championing patient involvement; a trustee for the Patients Association, leads health data projects from a patient perspective; provides strategy consultancy to trusts, CCGs, and national organisations; and has run international projects in Africa.

She waited fifteen months for her first cancer diagnosis after 9 GP appointments, being repeatedly passed from one department to another and being turned away from A&E. She’s now a passionate health campaigner, writing for The Guardian, The Telegraph, Daily Mail, along with health journals like the HSJ and organisations like the Kings Fund. She also runs Mission Remission’s early diagnosis campaign, Something’s Not Right, calling for policy changes to prevent cancer delays.  For more of her writing, see here.

 

Dr Jane Spurgeon - Clinical Advisor, Cancer Survivor, & Trustee

Jane is a GP and a breast cancer survivor. Since her diagnosis, she's refocused her attentions and now says yes to every opportunity that comes her way!  She has three young daughters and loves running.

 

 

Emma Robertson - Lived Experience Expert & Trustee

Emma Robertson was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013 and has been treated for metastatic cancer since 2015. She lives on a one hundred and twenty year old narrowboat in West London with her husband and their cat, is a keen gardener, and enjoys keeping bees. Emma campaigned with Just Treatment for others to be given NHS access to the CDK4/6 inhibitor Palbociclib. She was interviewed by Adrian Goldberg for BBC Radio’s “5 Live Investigates” and has subsequently spoken at various events, including the “Challenges to Preventing Cancer Cure” conference at The Francis Crick Institute in March 2019.

Andrew Morgan 

Andrew, affectionately known as Morse to most, works for Merrill Lynch and specialises in esoteric global trade transactions. Like his namesake, he's a professional problem solver and fills his spare time cycling, watching interminably long documentaries, and is a keen plant collector. 

Ryan Pickett – Software Developer & Trustee

Ryan is a full-stack developer, primarily working on Java backends, with over 15 years of commercial development experience.

Chelle Kime - Personal Trainer & Community Fundraiser

Chelle, is our resident personal trainer. She joined the Mission Remission team in September 2023 to manage our fitness project and is now involved in fundraising too. She has been a personal trainer since 2014 with her own business called Adrenalize. Chelle was diagnosed with primary oestrogen-positive breast cancer on NYE 2021. Treatment involved surgery and radiotherapy.

Susanna Walker - Social Media

Susanna, joined the Mission Remission team in September 2023 to curate our website and Social Media content. Previously an Art Director on magazines, then a freelance journalist, she loves hearing people's stories and sharing our community's experiences.  In her spare time she loves seeing live music, going to festivals and travelling. Susanna has had cervical cancer and two different types of breast cancer. Treatment included surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy.

Hannah Elton-Wall - Head of Community & Organisation

Hannah joined Mission Remission in May 2023. She came from a background in charity management and has extensive experience delivering community wellbeing programmes. She loves singing, gardening and chicken keeping! You will also find her running our Changemaker meetups online. Hannah was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2019 which was treated with a radical hysterectomy.