Ian Kirkham

We are sad to announce the death of Ian Kirkham our founding chair of UCARE who died on October 24th 2009 from prostate cancer.

He was an inspirational founding chair to UCARE and he contributed significantly to its initial development through his drive determination and ambition, bringing to the group of trustees his business and inherent leadership skills.

It was characteristic of Ian, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer, to turn a devastating illness into a passion to further the development of research and understanding to benefit others with urological cancer through UCARE. He wanted to develop a charity that was robust and sustainable and through his vision was able to bring many qualities to our charity. He brought to the charity a huge amount of business acumen which was instrumental in developing it. It was his wish that UCARE was launched with a fantastic Blenheim dinner which many will remember. He also set ambitious and hard targets for fundraising which focused all of the fundraising efforts.

He will be a sad loss for UCARE and greatly missed but we are grateful for all that he has done for the charity.