Above and beyond for children with cancer
Above and beyond for children with cancer
Lots of fantastic organisations offer support and guidance for families facing childhood cancer, here are just a few of them. If you can’t see what you need, please contact our support team – they know about many more and can put you in touch with the support you need.
Excellent information about specific childhood cancers, resources and guides.
Supporting young people aged 8-24 to rebuild confidence through sailing, adventure and online support.
Helpful youth workers at Nottingham Children’s Hospital and Leicester Children’s Hospital who offer a range of support.
Young Lives Vs Cancer offer emotional, practical and social support for children and young people with cancer.
Supporting the families of children fighting cancer, by gifting them a free holiday and enabling them to spend quality family together.
Supporting young people aged 8-24 to rebuild confidence through sailing, adventure and online support.
Helping children with life-limiting illnesses make special memories. They offer a holiday at their lodge in Sherwood Forest.
A charity providing a free break in their Skegness holiday home for families going through childhood cancer
Offer fun activity camps at their residential centre in Derbyshire for children and young people affected by serious or life-limiting illnesses, including sibling camps.
Taking seriously ill children on the ‘Holiday of a Lifetime’ to the theme parks of Central Florida.
Granting the wishes of children who are living with serious or life-threatening illnesses between the ages of 3-18.
Making Wishes come true for children with life threatening illnesses between the ages of 2-16 in the UK.
Provides psychological and emotional support for seriously ill 16-40 year olds through the provision of special day experiences.
Granting wishes for children in Leicestershire who are life limited, terminally ill, have experienced life-changing physical or emotional traumas.
Supports Leicestershire families who have lost a child, with up to two years of counselling and peer support groups.
Child bereavement UK help families rebuild their lives when a child grieves or when a child dies.
The leading national charity for bereaved people in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Rainbows supports families with respite, through end-of-life care, and during bereavement.
Leicester-based bereavement support and counselling for families following the loss of a child.
Support for families who have a child with a life-limiting illness.
Support for children and young people following the death of a sibling or parent.