September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

Join our #DLFWearSomethingYellow campaign to raise awareness of Childhood Cancer; bring your family, friends and colleagues to our family fun day for a donation of £1.  Together we can raise funds to continue to support our children with cancer and their families.  Online or in person, every little counts.  Learn more here.

#DLFCCAM2023 Family Fun Day

...and our esteemed friends

The Worshipful Mayor of Hillingdon Cllr Shehryar Ahmad-Wallana, Cllr Steve Tuckwell, the Hillingdon Member of Parliament for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, Cllr Sital Punja, Cllr Stuart Mathers, Patricia Wright CEO The Hillingdon Hospital and Rev Richard Young St Matthew's Church, Hillingdon Brain Tumour and Injury Group for participating in the #DLFWearSomethingYellow #DLFCCAM2023 campaign. 

Our Children and Young People diagnosed with brain tumours, other cancers and their families rely on your support to create a more inclusive community, where holistic wellbeing resources are easily accessible and equipped to meet the needs our children and their families.

We offer a range of flexible services to support our children and their families.

In September we raise awareness of the longer term wellbeing challenges, demands, needs and issues that arise in the lives of children diagnosed with a brain tumour or cancer and their families. 

Did you know that 26% of childhood cancers are neurological (e.g. brain or spinal cord related)?  Brain tumours are unlike other cancers and behave very differently in children compared to adults because children are still developing and their cells are still rapidly growing.  Brain tumours cause 1 in 5 childhood cancer deaths in the UK and 10 children in the UK are diagnosed with a brain tumour weekly.  Children with brain tumours deteriorate very quickly and within weeks can loose all their major motor skills including speech and language, mobility, sight, hearing and bodily functions.  This is a difficult situation and we at the DLF understand.  We exist to support our families and reduce their feelings of isolation and helplessness during these changes. 

This September, will you consider the plight of children with cancer and their families?  Can you participate in our #DLFWearSomethingYellow campaign to raise funds?  Can you extend an act of kindness to support a child with cancer in our community?  Click on the logos now. 

Our mission is to close the support gaps and improve wellbeing outcomes for our children and their families.

In 2021, we launched our first campaign to raise awareness of childhood cancer in our community.  Life changes for children with cancer & their families. 90% of our families struggle with various expressions of isolation, due to the gap in the availability and accessibility of childhood cancer wellbeing support services. 

Our mission is to close this significant wellbeing support gap and improve wellbeing outcomes for our children and their families. As the exclusive childhood cancer support charity in Hillingdon, September is a critical opportunity to campaign and raise greater awareness of the holistic wellbeing needs of our Children and Young People with cancer and their families. 

What We Do and Why We Need Your Support

Today, many of our families struggle to cope with the life changing cancer diagnosis in their children, the fast-paced treatment cycles, the symptoms, harsh treatments, side effects, and holistic wellbeing needs that occur after diagnosis.  These changes and overwhelming pace add untold pressure to family life.  Feelings of isolation increase as priorities change and friends and family start to withdraw.  If left unchecked many family relationships strain and break under the pressure of these complex care and wellbeing changes. 

Our mission is to improve the holistic wellbeing support available to children with cancer and their families.  A child diagnosed with cancer requires holistic wellbeing support that should be prioritised for alongside care and treatment, to ensure their holistic needs are addressed early.  This is the strategy for better outcomes.  Please click here to learn about our contribution to the development of the Children's Palliative Care Outcomes Scale (C-POS) with Cecily Saunders Institute of palliative Care and King's College London.  Watch the video for families and professionals.

Join our campaign, write to your MP to request more funding to charitable services such as ours.  Click here to read about some of the tailored services we offer or click the button below to learn more about our future vision for our community.