Giving Extra Awards Regional Winner Stephen Sutton - Halifax

My name is Stephen and this is my story. I’m 19 years old and I’m just a normal teenage. Unfortunately though, for the last three and a half years I’ve been battling cancer and recently my disease has been described as incurable by doctors. I’ve been dedicating a lot of my own time towards fundraising and in about a year now I’ve raised about £500,000 for Teenage Cancer Trust. Another thing I have been doing recently is sharing my experiences with as many people as possible. This has been to a crowd of 4,000 people at the O2 Arena in London or just a smaller group. The main message I want to spread is that life is for living. My adventure started my making a social platform called Stephen’s story. On it I included a list of 46 things that I wanted to complete. Number one on my list was to raise £10,000 for Teenage Cancer Trust. Other things include crowd surfing in a rubber dingy, a skydive and I ended up getting a troll doll tattooed underneath my armpit. Another thing was to drum in front of a huge crowd. I ended up doing this in front of 95,000 people live at Wembley. Since starting my adventure I think I’ve inspired more people than I could ever have imagined. I’ve had a lot of kind comments where people say I’m helping them. I just feel obliged to continue, it makes me happy to feel like I’m making a difference.