About History

CAREW was full of celebration and family fun on Saturday Jun 24 as local entertainers, businesses and emergency services spent a day at the Festival of Hope

The festival was organised to celebrate the legacy of Adam Evans-Thomas, whose battle with leukaemia inspired all of those around him. The organisers said about the background of the festival: “Almost 25 years ago, a young carefree lad called Adam Evans-Thomas was diagnosed with leukaemia in Withybush Hospital. Finding that he was a rare tissue type with no matches in his family, he set about searching for a bone marrow donor.

“Today, we look back and see his legacy to Pembrokeshire: An inclusion into the Guinness Book of Records for the most Bone Marrow Donors recruited in a day; a new high dependency Room in the Heath Hospital’s Transplant Unit, called ‘The Pembrokeshire Room’, a new Cancer Support / Distraction Centre in Haverfordwest Called ‘Adam’s Bucketful of Hope Cancer Support Centre’, giving free treatments to Cancer patients and carers and now finally, a newly completed ‘Pembrokeshire Haematology and Oncology Day Unit’ in Withybush Hospital, Haverfordwest.