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CLIC Sargent is the UK’s leading children’s cancer charity.
The emotional care and support, as well as financial help, that it gives makes a vital difference to children with cancer and their families.
Every day 10 families are told their child has cancer. CLIC Sargent is the only charity that offers them all round care and support. Readathon's amazing contribution to our work makes a HUGE difference to the children and families that we support, keeping them together when the unimaginable happens.
Rachael Groom, National Events Manager, CLIC Sargent
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The Roald Dahl Foundation makes hundreds of grants across the UK to help individual children, and their families, each year. These are some of the grants made in Scotland, providing much needed help to children with neurological and haematological conditions, and their families. For the year 2008/2009, 22 grants were awarded to families in Scotland. Examples of the kind of grants the Foundation makes include help with travel expenses to help parents when a child must remain in hospital, utility bills especially gas and electric when heating must be kept on continually when a child is sick, and household items such as fridge freezers, beds and bed linen. One example is a grant awarded to a 2-year-old girl with epilepsy to help with the provision of a “sleep suit” to help improve her night-time positioning and help prevent deformities. |
CLIC Sargent
Reg Charity No: 1107328
CLIC Sargent is the UK’s leading children’s cancer charity and aims to ease the burden of childhood cancer on children, young people and their families.
Every day 10 families in the UK are told their child has cancer. Diagnosis often comes as a shock. Treatment usually starts straightaway and can last up to three years.
As the children’s cancer charity, CLIC Sargent is there… with clinical, practical and emotional support, every step of the way.
Right now we can only help two out of three families whose child has cancer. We need your help to be there…for each and every one.
CLIC Sargent offers the following services:
- Specialist nurses care for children on the ward and, when children leave hospital, this specialist care continues at home.
- Social workers are there from the moment of diagnosis helping ease the emotional and financial strain on families.
- Play specialists use play to help children cope with, and understand, difficult treatments and procedures.
- Homes from Home. Children are treated in specialist cancer units, often miles away from home. CLIC Sargent Homes from home offer families somewhere comfortable to stay fro free, close to their chil
- Care grants. Many families caring for a child with cancer find that costs go up, but their income comes down. That’s why we offer CLIC Sargent Care Grants to help ease the pressure, which families can receive within 72 hours.
For further information: www.clicsargent.org.uk
The Roald Dahl Foundation
Reg Charity No: 1004230
Roald Dahl was the honorary chairman of Readathon from 1988 until his death in November 1990. In 1991 his widow, Felicity, started a grantmaking trust in his name; the Roald Dahl Foundation’s grants help children and their families in a very direct way, so it seemed natural for Readathon to help support it.
Readathon money is used by the Roald Dahl Foundation primarily to help children and young people who have serious blood disorders, epilepsy and the after effects of acquired brain injury or other degenerative neurological conditions.
Typical recent grants and projects include:
- New Roald Dahl Epilepsy nurse specialists in in Essex and Southampton.
- Information for children with bleeding disorders and their families in Northern Ireland.
- End of life nursing care in their own homes for children with neurological and haematological conditions in Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire.
- A support project for children and young people with Sickle Cell Disease and Thalassaemia in the West Midlands.
- Support days for families with children living with the longterm effects of meningitis in the West of England, Northern Ireland, East of England, Wales and the Midlands
- Small grants to children with a blood or neurological condition where extra financial help is needed, for travel to hospital, clothing or bedding, telephone bills and for sensory equipment and specialist toys.
For further information: www.roalddahlfoundation.org