The Action Mesothelioma Day event in Manchester was established by the Greater Manchester Asbestos Victims Support Group in 2006.
All donations raised at our 2025 event will be divided equally between the June Hancock Mesothelioma Research Fund ( https://www.junehancockfund.org/ ) and the Mesothelioma UK Research Centre ( https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/murc ).
Mesothelioma is an aggressive cancer caused by asbestos. Though asbestos was banned in 1999, it's still in the places where we live and work. As these asbestos materials deteriorate, they pose a growing risk to us all, and to our children. Mesothelioma, which can be caused even by very low exposure to asbestos dust, killed 2,257 people in the UK in 2022.
Freedom of Information requests show that asbestos is still present in around 80.2% of local authority maintained schools in Greater Manchester. At the current rate of progress, many schools in Greater Manchester will still be riddled with asbestos 100 years from now. That's just not good enough for a wealthy country in the 21st century.
Join us at 12 noon in the Main Hall of the Friends Meeting House (6 Mount Street, Manchester, M2 5NS) on Friday 4th July 2025. We will be using our event to call for pot of funding from the government to get some of the higher-risk asbestos out of Greater Manchester schools. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
