Woman's Weekly

Leaving a LEGACY

Hearing the stories of how so many lives have been changed as a result of the charity she and her late husband Ian set up is overwhelming, but a wonderful legacy in his memory, says Jenifer.

Ian was diagnosed with heart failure in 2003, his condition so severe doctors only gave him two months to live. But after travelling to Germany for pioneering stem-cell treatment, he lived another three years and devoted himself to establishing the Heart Cells Foundation, so others in the UK could also access the therapy.

‘Ian was a positive, tenacious person,

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