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LV=

Amazing result from LV=… Youth Cancer Trust was fortunate to be recipients of the employee Pennies for Charity initiative in 2014. The amount raised was £3,655.52!!

Improving our services!

PLEASE can you take part in our survey? It’s important that we listen very carefully to your needs as a young person living with and beyond cancer, so we can adapt and change to support you in the most effective ways possible now and in the future. Please can...

Birmingham based Ecorys UK

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...

Lottery Awards Results 2014

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...

Wen from Cardiff

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...

Paris & Paige – Twins from Leicester

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...

Andrew from Wales

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...

Kate from Plymouth

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...

Dariusz from Suffolk

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’s mum Ann Wheeler

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...