Welcome to the Caron Keating Foundation Website

The Primrose Trust £20,000
A Kent based charity supplying a breast care centre for women. The Centre has been converted from a chapel with beautiful and tasteful alterations most of which have been donated by local companies and craftsmen. The Caron Keating Foundation grant will be used for equipping a treatment room for breast cancer patients and will be called the Caron Keating Room. www.primeroseorganisation.org.uk

Melanie Beattie Appeal £10,000
This grant will be used to provide a Comfort System used by the Oncology Department at Clatterbridge Hospital in Liverpool. This is an innovative system of giving local radiotherapy to breast cancer sufferers using a less invasive method than the traditional way which caused less discomfort.

Youth Cancer Trust £10,000
The Tracy Ann House in Bournemouth has been giving children with cancer traditional holidays by the sea since 1997. Activities for 18 to 25 year olds include rock climbing, donkey riding and playing games on the sand. The young people are allowed to bring a friend or sibling, and they all gain support and friendship from meeting others in the same position as themselves in an independent setting. The grant from the Caron Keating Foundation should fund 20 children for a holiday such as this. www.yct.org.uk

Leukaemia CARE £4,000
Leukaemia Care in Worcester is a National Charity providing support and care to sufferers of cancer of the blood, leukaemia. The above grant will be used to construct a consulting room in which leukaemia patients can benefit from complementary therapies giving by specialist volunteers. This room will be known as the Caron Keating Room. www.leukaemiacare.org.uk

Ian Rennie Hospice £15,000
The Caron Keating Foundation has given a grant to the Ian Rennie Hospice in order that a specialist palliative nurse can be provided to help out in domiciliary services in the Tring area of Hertfordshire. This nurse will enable more people to stay within their home setting that is often the desire of patients during the final stages of terminal illness. www.irhh.org