With no government funding, CLIC Sargent relies entirely on support like ours to continue to provide much needed help to the ten children and young people diagnosed with cancer every day in the UK.
The funds make a real and tangible difference towards services like TOPS (Teenage Oncology Patient Support). TOPS helps teenagers with cancer to continue having a normal ‘teenage life’ by organising holidays and activities with people of their own age. Undergoing treatment for cancer has a major impact on the lives of children and can mean they feel separated from their friends and peers due to long periods on the hospital ward. One teenager recently back from a TOPS trip to Ireland says, “Everybody there has some form of cancer, it made you realise you were not the only one it happened to. It was a great experience and a wonderful holiday, I would recommend it to anyone who gets the chance to go.”
