This year, 170 people will tap into services provided by the cancer society in the Whanganui, Rangitikei and Waimarino region.
From providing information to emotional support and transport the organisation is behind people living with cancer.
And a huge amount of the money to pay for that comes from the annual Relay For Life, which is being held around the country and locally at Cooks Gardens this weekend.
Doing the relay for the first time is a woman who has benefited from a range of the Cancer Society's services over the past 18 months. Paula Hingley was diagnosed with breast cancer in April 2014 and was almost immediately put in touch with the Cancer Society.
"(Without it) I would've had a lack of knowledge. I had no one close to me that had had cancer. The information that I could get was absolutely brilliant, especially the books."