NO MEDICINE CURES
WHAT HAPPINESS CANNOT

It is with great sadness that we must inform you that Nigel Lewis-Baker, our Chair, sadly passed away on Sunday, 3rd March 2024.  We offer our heartfelt love to Nigel’s wife, Janet, their family and friends.

Nigel led an amazing and varied life in the military and international airlines, setting up his own businesses in airline services, management consultancy, printing, web design and a fleet of mobile car valeting vans.

Diagnosed with inoperable, incurable and, then, local advanced prostate cancer in May 2004 Nigel had to take early retirement and in 2007 was introduced to the Surrey University research team initiated by the Prostate Project, of which he later became a trustee.

He took part in three clinical trials for immunotherapy under Professor Hardev Pandha and, having already launched Topic of Cancer as local cancer support groups, he agreed to extend the charity to fundraising. The team is now one of the leading establishments in immunotherapy, that has itself become frontline treatment for many cancers.

Along the way Nigel took on extended walks, John O’Groats to Land’s End, threw himself out of a perfectly good aeroplane and paraded in public in frock and wigs to raise funds and awareness.

Nigel also worked with other national charities as spokesman, campaigner, public speaker and appeared many times on radio and TV as well as being flown to New York to speak with the United Nations on non-communicable diseases. He received many awards from charities, local authorities and media but the pinnacle was being awarded an MBE in 2014 for his work with cancer patients.

We will all miss him.