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2010/11 Projects who have received Grants

Darent Valley Hospital, Dartford. £20,000

Help pay for a specialist breast ultrasound machine. This means faster breast cancer diagnoses for patients which helps take away the worry and stress of waiting for results. The ultrasound machine enables the consultant to be able to diagnose lumps as he or she sees patients. This ‘One Stop Shop’ approach means patients no longer need to revisit the hospital if the outcome is good news.

The Christie Charitable Fund. £1950

To buy massage chairs for their Complementary Therapy Service.

Butterwick House Children’s Hospice

To allow the Hospice to take groups of young people to various parts of the UK to meet other young people for a weekend. Also with enough funds to allow at least four futher day events.

Action Cancer, Belfast. £25,000
Breast Cancer Awareness
Salary for Big Bus radiographer for one year. The bus provides a scanning service for women outside the NHS age group. This vehicle is driven around N.I. to various locations e.g. housing estates, factory yards etc.

Variety Club of Great Britain. £11,950
Helping Disabled/Disadvantaged Children
Helping children with cancer related illnesses

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester. £1950
Complementary Therapy Service
Three portable massage chairs that can be taken on to the wards and to treatment clinics

Pembrokeshire Cancer Support, Wales. £3000
Outreach help and Complimentary therapies
For use towards the costs of reflexology therapy and relaxation classes for cancer suffers

Isabel Hospice, Welwyn Garden City, Herts. £5000
Specialist Palliative Care Services
Small portable syringe drivers to be used by patients both in the Hospice, nursing homes or in their own homes under care of the Community Nursing Team

DebRA, Crowthorne Berks. £5000
Finding treatments for Epidermolysis Bullosa  (skin Cancer)
To be able to continue specialist care, support and treatment for EB in providing hands-on medical treatment to teenagers and young people who have developed fatal skin cancer.

Complementary Cancer Care Trust, Bexley, Kent. £4250
Holistic support and Counseling service to carers
Support Project – providing holistic approach for people with cancer, their families and carers.

St. Cuthbert’s Hospice, Durham. £9000
Specialist Palliative Care for life limiting illness
Planned respite Service for 8 carers and family members to provide a welcome break for those caring from cancer.

Butterwick Hospice Care, Stockton on Tees. £5000
In-patient and day care for adults and to children
Funding for Siblings Support Group for those who have brothers or sisters undergoing treatment including a residential weekend away.

St. Luke’s Hospice, Harrow Middx. £4000
Providing Hospice Care
Funding towards providing Complementary Therapy Service within patients’ homes and at the hospice.

Cancer Kin, Royal Free Hospital, London. £3168
Supporting those living or affected by breast cancer
Providing dance therapy classes for one year for those living with or affected by breast cancer.

Bowel Cancer UK, London. £10,000
Dedicated to help with up-to-date advice and guidance on this disease.
Towards the service of detailed dietary advice to people living with and beyond bowel cancer.

Darenth Valley Hospital Charity Fund, Dartford, Kent. £20,000
Cancer fighting fund.
Funding towards handheld Breast Ultrasound Machine from which consultant can diagnose lumps as they see patients.

St. Raphael’s Hospice Sutton, Surrey. £5000
Serving the Boroughs of Sutton and Merton.
Funding towards in-house entertainment (one show for each day centre day) and gallery furniture for Common Room

Crossroads Caring for Carers, Weston-super-Mare, N. Somerset. £5000
Palliative and Terminal Care Scheme.
Funding support for terminally ill individuals and their carers at a hugely emotional and challenging time.

The Harbour, Bristol. £10,000
Professional counselling and psychotherapy to those affected by terminal or life threatening physical illness.
Funding psychodynamic counselling for those affected by cancer and are isolated or who have psychological as well as medical difficulties.

Children with Leukaemia, London. £5000
Pioneering research into causes and treatments and supporting leukaemic children and their families.
Minimal residual disease analysis which detects minute traces of leukaemic cells in children’s bodies which enables doctors to spot high risk children.

Breast Care Charity, Antrim Hospital. £3000
One-stop breast clinic to provide support initiatives for diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer.
Funding towards an exercise programme for rehabilitation of patients with breast cancer.

Lewis-Manning Hospice Lilliput, Poole. £5000.
Palliative care to local people living with cancer.
Funding towards physiotherapy and rehabilitation for cancer patients

Strongbones Children’s Charitable Trust, Romford. £5000
Bone cancer and muscular skeletal charity aiding those under 21 years-old.
Funding for respite care to young bone cancer patients plus their families and emergency grants for bedding, clothes etc. at critical times.

St. Luke’s Hospice, Basildon, Essex. £3000
Care for those with advanced progressive disease.
Funding for a carer for four hours a week for one year, helping both the patient and their families.

The Rainbow Centre for Children. £6680
Offering homoeopathic consultations and remedies to sick children, family, adults and carers.
Funding towards aromatherapy and Indian Head Massage to be given for one year including home visits if required.

Below are further examples of the projects who benefitted between 2009-2007.

CancerBACUP £5,000
CancerBACUP was set up twenty years ago. Their experience shows that patients and families have unmet information needs and they offer a national freephone helpline, a range of information booklets and factsheets along with a comprehensive website.The Foundation’s money will enable Cancer BACUP to publish a revised edition of the information booklet on Cancer and Complementary Therapies. It is important that the booklets are re-published regularly in order to give patients, and their families, up to date information of what is available. www.cancerbacup.org.uk

Marie Curie £10,000
We are sure that everyone has heard of Marie Curie Cancer Care and their emblem of a daffodil. They offer a completely free service to cancer suffers and families alike. The Caron Keating Foundation has donated money specifically for their ‘Living Rooms Appeal’ for the Marie Curie Centre in Belfast. They wish to extend this centre with seventeen brand new, purpose built patient rooms, all with more space, more facilities and more comfort. £10,000 will pay for four specialised chairs and the Foundation wish this centre all the best with their wonderful work. www.mariecurie.org.uk

Hartlepool Hospice £5,000
This hospice in Hartlepool receives just 30% of its funding from the local Primary Care Trust. They are a 10 bed in patient unit with an out patient unit, HomeLink outreach service and 24 hour helpline. Along with conventional medical treatment, they offer joint complementary therapy for patients suffering from any terminal illness and gives them the opportunity to focus on something enjoyable which may distract them from their everyday pain and symptoms. Family members are also helped with the therapies which can help to alleviate emotional strain, physical demands of caring, uncertainty and fear together with altered roles and lifestyles. The money from the Caron Keating Foundation will help fund a registered nurse trained in complementary therapy for a day a week along with the consumables necessary. www.hartlepoolhospice.co.uk