You can help young people with cancer

THROUGHOUT September, for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, the UK’s leading children’s cancer charity, Young Lives vs Cancer, will be helping children with cancer have their voices heard. They may be little, but they have big voices.

Having cancer when you’re a child is scary, lonely, relentless and painful.

Over the past year our children have missed out on so much.

But for many children with cancer they are still swapping classrooms for chemotherapy, still waving at family members through windows and watching friends blow out birthday candles via phone screens.

This Childhood Cancer Awareness Month we want everyone to see children with cancer for who they are and who they want to be.

Because they are more than their cancer. We would love to see the community come together to help young people with cancer in Leicestershire, and there are lots of ways to get involved.

We’re looking for volunteers to represent Young Lives vs Cancer at our bucket collections in Morrisons stores.

We have various dates throughout September, all available dates and times can be found on our website.

In return, volunteers will get a warm fuzzy feeling and a huge sense of pride.

In the UK, children with cancer face an average 60-mile round trip to hospital to get life-saving treatment, with many travelling further.

We would love people in the community to sign up to our Challenge60. They could run 60 miles throughout the month (two miles a day), complete a 60-mile bike ride, or even hop, we don’t mind.

In Leicestershire in 2019-2020 we supported 148 families and gave out 92 grants worth £17,100 to help families with the sudden costs a cancer diagnosis brings.

We would like to thank the community for their ongoing support.

Their efforts mean Young Lives vs Cancer can be there for the children and young people of Leicestershire with cancer, keeping families together by providing home from homes near hospitals and financial grants for support.

You can find more information about all of the ways to get involved this Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, make a donation or shop online at: younglivesvscancer.org.uk #MoreThanMyCancer Max Baker, fund-raising engagement manager (East Midlands), Young Lives vs Cancer