Childhood Cancer Awareness Month highlights

December was Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.  CLIC Sargent wanted to use this opportunity to raise awareness of the challenges children and young people with cancer face and enable people to support our work helping them and their families.

Thank you to everyone who supported us and took part in the activities we ran throughout December. 

Here are some of the highlights:

• We launched our report, Counting the costs of cancer, at the start of December highlighting the financial struggles many families face while their child has treatment.  Our findings were extensively reported on in the media with coverage in: national newspapers, such as The Sun, The Daily Telegraph and The Metro; radio and TV news programmes like Sky News, Channel 4 News and BBC Radio 5 Live; as well as by local newspapers and radio stations
  
  
• Many people donated generously to our 2011 Christmas Appeal, with hundreds of volunteers coordinating collections throughout the UK as part of the Big Bucket Collection and thousands of our Christmas pin badges and decorations were bought at locations across the UK
  
  
• Over 1,270 people also showed their support for children and young people with cancer by wearing our flower on their Twitter and Facebook profiles.

We know we will be needed more than ever in 2012, and beyond. Right now, CLIC Sargent can only help two out of three children and young people diagnosed with cancer. We want to reach as many as possible, and with your ongoing help we can do this. Thank you.

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