Birmingham based Ecorys UK raises £10,093 for Youth Cancer Trust!! Staff from the Birmingham based international research and consulting company Ecorys UK have cooked, walked, dressed and run their way to supporting the charity. During 2014 staff walked the Malvern...
Unfortunately, Youth Cancer Trust did not win the Lottery award 2014. A very deserving project run by Age UK won first place. We were extremely proud to be in the top 7 finalists out of 750 health related projects and want to thank everyone who took the time to vote...
I’m Ceinwen also known as Wen and I’m now 23 and live in Cardiff… 3 years ago my world was turned on its head when I was diagnosed with a rare illness called Very Severe Aplastic Anemia – I heard Anemia and thought ‘oh I just need some more blood and I...
My name is Paris, I’m 18 and live in Leicester… I grew up quite a healthy child, apart from a couple of broken bones I had never suffered any health issues. I was 14 when I first discovered a lump in the front of my neck. I can always remember that morning...
My name is Andrew and I am from Wales… My story starts long before I was diagnosed. At first I was getting really bad headaches, my hands were shaking uncontrollably and I had no control of my walking speed when I was walking downhill. When I went to the doctor...
Hi, my name is Kate and I live in Plymouth… I was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma in my right shoulder blade in October 2000, I was 16. I had completed my GCSE’s and had just started doing my A levels. I had been in horrendous pain with my shoulder for 18 months...
My name is Dariusz and I live in Suffolk… It’s a couple of years since it all started, but this is the first time I have decided to tell my story. I am a reserved person, so I have certain stories, which I do not share with anybody. Actually I am now changing...
Josie taking part in Spinnaker Sailing on a Youth Cancer Trust holiday Josie, our daughter, had her 3rd pituitary brain tumour in 1999. Because she was then totally blind and with short term memory problems I was with her in the ward at Bart’s Hospital as a carer. A...
The Youth Cancer Trust has made several international friends over the past couple of years through social media. A few months ago we met Amy through Twitter having read one of her blogs and thought that her experiences were so very similar to the ones we hear about...
On behalf of us all at the Youth Cancer Trust, I am delighted to be celebrating 15 years since the Trust was founded in October 1997. It seems many moons ago when Sir John Scott MBE and I set about the hard work in creating a charitable service based on the idea of...
The Youth Cancer Trust is a charity based in Dorset. It provides online support and free, therapeutic wellbeing holidays for young people living with and beyond cancer in the UK or Ireland.
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