Alex Hopwood was the founder of this very special charity A Gift To Lift

Alex created A Gift TO Lift when she herself was battling blood cancer. She started making headbands from her hospital bed, to pass the time, keep her positive during treatment and most importantly so that she could sell these and have some money to be able to buy a fellow patient a wish, something to give them some positivity!

Her product range then expanded to headbands and jewellery, all hand made, packaged and designed with a positive message behind them! 

alex sadly lost her battle with blood cancer but during her last days handpicked a special team of volunteers to carry on a gift to lift in her legacy to continue what she had so selflessly started.

Today the charity is ran by her mum jacky hopwood assisted by cousin laura, helped by alex’s auntie lindsey, and friends, shelley, james, emma, Vicky, lauren, Sammy and gemma and loyal helpers Craig, Lois and Stuart.

alongside them also helping are Claire who has gone through treatment for and is in remission from blood cancer herself, and Dianne who lost someone very close to her to blood cancer. We are also lucky enough to have event volunteers to include the hardworking Kay and Terry.

we keep striving to achieve all of alex’s hopes and dreams, to keep her name and legacy alive and of course to help as many blood cancer patients as we can.