Our work

Our work

We are the leading national children's charity dedicated to the fight against childhood cancers.

Our aims are to determine the causes, find the cure and provide care for children with cancer.

Life-saving research

We fund life saving research into the causes, prevention and treatment of childhood cancer.

Read more: Our research funding

Innovative welfare projects

We fund innovative welfare projects to provide better care for young cancer patients and their families.

Read more: Our welfare projects

Raising awareness

We campaign to raise awareness of childhood cancer to protect more children and to improve the lives of young cancer patients, today and for future generations.

Read more: Our campaigning work | Raising awareness

Featured stories£1.5 million for childhood cancer research

Thanks to your support, we recently awarded 11 new grants for research projects that will help us to understand the causes of childhood cancer.

Selected from amongst the 34 projects originally submitted, these 11 projects represent the very best hope of advancing our knowledge about the causes of childhood cancer.

Read more: 11 new grant awards

Scientific conference on early exposures and childhood cancer

In April 2012 we are hosting an international scientific conference on the causes of childhood cancer, with a particular focus on in utero and early childhood exposures.

If we can understand what elements of today’s lifestyle are placing our children at risk, we may be able to implement protective measures.

Read more: Our scientific conference 2012

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