Charities

Listed below is more detailed information including links to different charity organisations

Bone Cancer Research Trust

The Bone Cancer Research Trust is the charity that offers hope to people affected by primary bone cancer.

https://www.bcrt.org.uk/

Bright Future UK

Bright Future UK offers help support and provides advice to teenagers with a cancer diagnosis between the ages of 13 and 24.

https://www.brightfuturesuk.org/

Pennybrohn

Great advice for living with and beyond cancer.  The charity is based in Bristol but offers lots of online support and information.

https://www.pennybrohn.org.uk/

Life After – A Roadmap for Cancer Survivors.

http://cancersupportivecare.com/Survivor/

Cancer Research UK

Great advice for living with and beyond cancer.  The charity is based in Bristol but offers lots of online support and information.

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/

Changing Faces

Changing Faces is a UK leading charity who want a future where everyone with a visible difference on their face or body has the confidence, support and opportunity to lead the lives they want.

https://www.changingfaces.org.uk/

Chordoma Foundation

The Chordoma Foundation is working to improve the lives of chordoma patients by accelerating research to develop effective treatments for chordoma, and by helping patients to get the best care possible.

https://www.chordomafoundation.org/

Chordoma UK

The aim of Chordoma UK is to raise awareness of chordoma within patient and clinician communities and to ensure the future of high-impact research initiatives.

https://chordoma-uk.org/

Contact a Family

Contact a Family provides support, advice and information for families with disabled children, no matter what their condition or disability.

https://contact.org.uk/

Epithelioid Haemangioendothelioma.

EHE Rare Cancer Charity have three core objectives that they are passionate about because they believe offering support to people living with EHE, while promoting research and understanding are the best way to combat this disease.

https://www.ehercc.org.uk/

Ewing’s Sarcoma UK

Ewing’s Sarcoma UK is a charity set up to increase the amount of money for research into Ewing’s sarcoma. The Charity believes that there are potentially great advances to me made in the diagnosis and treatment of Ewing’s and  to help people fund research into this comparative rare cancer.

https://www.ewings-sarcoma.org.uk/

Finding your Feet

Supporting people affected by amputation or limb difference.

https://findingyourfeet.net/

GIST Cancer UK

GIST Cancer UK aims to support GIST cancer patients and fund research into GIST to improve treatments and find a cure for this rare cancer.

https://www.gistcancer.org.uk/

Limbless Association

The charity for anyone who has had an amputation

https://www.limbless-association.org/

Macmillan Cancer Support

Macmillan Cancer Support consist of millions of supporters, professionals, volunteers and campaigners.  Together they offer the support a patient requires to live life as fully as possible.

https://www.macmillan.org.uk/

Maggie’s Centre

A Maggie’s Centre is a place to turn to for help with any of the problems, small or large, associated with cancer.

https://maggies.org/

Rare Cancer Research Foundation

The Rare Cancer Research Foundation is dedicated to curing rare cancers through strategic investments and innovative collaborations that facilitate effective research and accelerate deployment of promising therapies.

https://rarecancer.org/

Sarcoma UK

Sarcoma UK is a national charity that funds vital research, offers support for anyone affected by sarcoma cancer and campaigns for better treatments. It is the only cancer charity in the UK focusing on all types of sarcoma.

https://sarcoma.org.uk/

Shine Cancer Support

Shine offers support to anyone with a cancer diagnosis aged in their 20s, 30, or 40s.  They also offer residential breaks and retreats.

https://shinecancersupport.org/

Teenage Cancer Trust

Teenage Cancer Trust create world-class cancer services for young people in the UK, providing life-changing care and support so young people don’t have to face cancer alone.

https://www.teenagecancertrust.org/

Teens Unite

Teensunite provide those aged 13-24 with the social, emotional, and physical support that is vital to their recovery. They can come together with others their age who understand what they’re going through, and remember who they are as a person, not just a cancer patient.

https://www.teensunite.org/

Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative

For more than a decade, the Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative has worked to improve lives by increasing sarcoma awareness and funding high-quality research.

https://www.sarcomahelp.org

Trekstock

Trekstock provides social and practical support to young adults facing cancer in their 20s and 30s throughout the UK

https://www.trekstock.com/

Willow Foundation

The Willow Foundation offers special days and gift boxes for seriously ill young adults between the ages of 16 and 40.

https://www.willowfoundation.org.uk/

Young Lives vs Cancer

Formally CLIC Sargent, Young Lives vs Cancer is a great charity who support children and families up to the age of 24, they also offer financial grants.

https://www.younglivesvscancer.org.uk/