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We allocate a significant proportion of the funds we raise to help children with cancer and their families cope with the trauma of diagnosis and treatment.

Read more about our welfare projects below.

A day out at Zippos Circus

Larry McCarthy 28 September 2011


Thank you everyone who sponsored a child to attend Zippos circus extravaganza.

Your donations allowed us to invite children with cancer and their families to a unique day with Zippos Circus on Saturday 24th September 2011.

Around 200 VIP guests of CHILDREN with CANCER, including families featured on our website, enjoyed a two hour, sensational circus extravaganza, featuring over 20 performers.

The audience held their breath as motorbikes roared around the cage of death, and laughed at the silly antics of the clowns. Our guests even tr... Read More
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Children's hospices

Isabelle Gore 21 April 2011
Tremendous progress has been made in the treatment of childhood cancer in recent years - around three quarters of children diagnosed with cancer now survive.

For around 300 children a year in the UK, however, treatment is not successful. Through our investment in research we are trying to improve the outlook for these children, to drive up the survival rate still further.

In the meantime we do what we can to help families facing the loss of a child.
 
Hospice care

A network of children’s hospices exists to help and support life-limited c... Read More

Paul’s House, London

John Smithies 10 November 2010

We have worked with our friends at CLIC Sargent to establish a new home from home for the families of children being treated at University College London Hospital.

Paul’s House, named after Paul O’Gorman, opened in September 2010.

Thanks to the overwhelming generosity of our supporters, we were able to contribute £1.1 million towards the costs of this much-needed new facility.

More than 200 children and teenagers with cancer are treated at UCLH every year. Only one third are from the London area, with the remainder travelling from all ov... Read More
Related Topics ucl, paul's house

Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Paul O'Gorman Building

John Smithies 01 August 2010
This new children’s hospital, the only dedicated paediatric hospital in South West England, opened in 2001. It is a national and international referral centre for children requiring bone marrow transplantation.

In addition to providing the most up-to-date treatment facilities, one of the main aims in the design of the new hospital was to overcome many of the practical difficulties that face patients, families and staff.

The provision of more single cubicles and single rooms and better facilities for parents to stay overnight with their child ... Read More

Great Ormond Street Hospital redevelopment

John Smithies 01 August 2010


The team at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital treats one in 10 of the children diagnosed with cancer in the UK.

We have worked with them to support two major capital projects: the Paul O’Gorman Patient Hotel and the redevelopment and expansion of their oncology and haematology facilities.

Paul O’Gorman Patient Hotel

In recent years the Hospital has placed a growing emphasis on the development of its day care services so that children don’t need to be admitted unnecessarily.

This has great benefits for children being treated for can... Read More

The Amazing Great Children's Party

John Smithies 31 July 2010


July 2010 marked the 23rd anniversary of our amazing great day of fun for thousands of disabled, disadvantaged, leukaemic and seriously ill children.

Once again we entertained around 6,000 deserving children – children whose lives are not the expected carefree ones of childhood because of some disability or a life-threatening illness, or perhaps a difficult or unhappy home

With the help and support of many volunteers and sponsors, we provided all the expected party fun – marvellous magicians, fantastic face-painters, fabulous food, rollicki... Read More

Paul O'Gorman Lifeline

John Smithies 01 February 2000
Since 1996 we have been working with a charity now called Paul O’Gorman Lifeline which helps to provide treatment for children from eastern Europe and central Asia with life-threatening illnesses.

Treatments for cancer are expensive and many poorer countries simply do not have the means to provide them. Countries in eastern Europe and central Asia do not have the facilities or the finances to provide the treatments which are available in developed countries.

Treatments for cancer are expensive and many poorer countries simply do not have t... Read More

Holidays in Tuscany

John Smithies 12 December 1999
A week's holiday, for sick and recovering children, in the exquisite Tuscan hills.

A week’s holiday in Tuscany, Italy, is being offered for families with a child who has recently had, and is recovering from, leukaemia or another life-threatening cancer.

Friends of CHILDREN with CANCER, with holiday villas in Tuscany, are generously making this offer.




This holiday includes:

One week’s holiday in a villa in the Tuscan hills. Nearest airport is Pisa. Accommodation With a family on a bed & breakfast basis Self-caterin... Read More
Related Topics tuscany, holidays

Young Oncology Unit, Christie Hospital, Manchester

John Smithies 01 February 1999
In 1998 we contributed £250,000 to The Christie Hospital to help them develop new facilities that allow teenagers to receive treatment in an age-appropriate environment.

Teenagers with cancer have different needs to child or adult patients but in most hospitals teenagers are treated either on a children’s or an adult ward.

The teenage years are a particularly difficult time to be hospitalised for an illness such as leukaemia.

Hospitalisation removes the young adult from their friends and peers at a critical time in their social development. ... Read More

CHASE Hospice Care for Children

John Smithies 30 January 1999
CHASE exists to support families whose children are not expected to reach the age of 19 because of incurable illnesses.

We have contributed £150,000 to CHASE to help meet the cost of providing services to the families of children whose leukaemia treatment has failed.

Although four out of five children diagnosed with leukaemia now survive, leukaemia still claims the lives of around 100 children every year in the UK.

Dying children need time and space with their families to come to terms with what is happening but at the same time they need sp... Read More
Related Topics CHASE
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