RPM Launch 'Focus on Life' Exhibition and Auction

Tonight RPM will be launching, 'Focus on Life', a private view and auction of leading photographers' work at the Getty Images Gallery. The exhibition and auction have been developed in aid of the Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund to help raise funds and drive awareness of pancreatic cancer.

The event supports the efforts of Howard Kerr who, after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, decided to raise awareness and money for research funds by founding, and walking the Howards Way Walk, which stretches 100 miles. Over the last four years, RPM's Partner Lee Farrant joins a group of industry friends to walk this very stretch and collectively they have raised over £250,000.

As a direct result of Howard's effort and influence, the Howard Kerr PhD Studentship Award was created at Barts Hospital, to help find ways to detect pancreatic cancer at an early stage via proteins in the body. They are making some progress, but more research and money is needed and at a cost of £80,000 per year, the PhD Studentship is getting increasingly difficult to fund via the walk alone. Focus on Life is an additional fund-raising initiative to help raise extra funding and drive engagement with both Howards Way Walk and the Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund.