Support Dan Erickson aka 'Dan the back man's London cancer treatment - Updates

Meetings happening & first Sponsorship

14 July 2026

Thank you to all our supporters and especially to the team from RUDE COFFEE who have sponsored us 3 months of their RUDE coffee to take with us. You can check them out at https://rudecoffee.co.nz/

If you sign up to their emails, they have some awesome offers quite regularly and we absolutely love it. Massive thanks to Stephen & the team at RUDE!

We have a meeting scheduled with London team this week so we will know dates very soon! It will be great to have the ability to start planning.

Hopefully our next update will be soon.

Please keep sharing the give a little page! Share the updates with your contacts.

With Gratitude!

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Good news! First phase is complete.

24 June 2026

We got news today that the funding for the treatment has been approved! Now we just have to have some meetings with the London treatment team scheduled.

From there they will set dates and organise flights.

We can only guess when that might happen at this stage, so hopefully packing summer clothes is still the right thing to do.

Thank you everyone who have contributed and are yet to contribute, for holding the space for the success of this part of the journey.

Dan has to have ankle surgery when he gets back too so your support is gratefully received and will help him worry less about how to manage everything when he gets back from London too.

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Still waiting for dates

9 June 2026

I was hoping we might have heard any day now so I could have something substantial to update with so I have been holding off. I didn't want to hold off any longer before updating. So the current situation is we remain in a holding pattern of not knowing when, which I think is the more stressful part of the experience.

Dan has been overwhelmed with gratitude for the people who have come forward and it has helped him relive some memories of travels around the country.

He is the kind of guy who will give the last shirt off his back to help anyone in need. Please continue to share his story with people you know might be old clients of his. He loves the stories and memories of where kids are now, who had ponies he was able to help.