The Challenge
Whether it’s walking the dog, running with friends, cycling every day, kicking leaves with grandkids, taking part in an online yoga video, a game of tennis or a boot camp class – the way you move is up to you! The goal is to get fit, have fun and make a difference.
Every day you move helps us make sure children and young people with cancer, and their families, can be together this winter.
So how will you move? Join the challenge and make every minute count!
Why your Support Matters this winter
Children and young people with cancer are facing a long, exhausting winter with days spent many miles from home.
This winter, children, young people and families going through cancer treatment will need to make early morning journeys to hospital and weary drives home in the dark. Parents will sleep in uncomfortable hospital chairs and spend hours worrying about the uncontrollable costs of hotels, petrol and food. Meanwhile, siblings will be left at home - their family separated at the most worrying time.
Your support changes everything.
It means the whole family can stay in our welcoming Homes from Home, close to specialist childhood cancer treatment centres. For families, it’s more than a free place to stay. It’s a place that feels like home. It’s having the time for a home-cooked meal together or a mug of hot chocolate with a bedtime story. When the snow starts to fall, it’s the chance to put on wellies and build a snowman in the garden. But most of all, when everything else is uncertain, it’s a chance to just be together.
Cancer doesn’t have to mean families are torn apart. That special moments are lost. You can keep families together this winter by taking on the 30 Days of Fitness Challenge.
Who we are
When a child is diagnosed with cancer it threatens everything, for them and their family. At a time when they should be busy being children, enjoying their rollercoaster teenage years or finding their feet at uni, life becomes full of fear. Fear of treatment, but also of families being torn apart, of overwhelming money worries, mental health stretched to breaking point, of having nowhere to turn, no one to talk to.
At Young Lives vs Cancer, we get that. We are the charity that helps children and young people (0-25) and their families find the strength to face whatever cancer throws at them.
We know everyone’s different, so we work hard to make sure each family has what they need to get through cancer. It could be a financial grant for a parent struggling to keep their child warm through their treatment or for a young person who can’t afford to get to hospital. Or helping a family stay together at one of our free Homes from Home close to the hospital where their child is having treatment.
And if we think families aren’t being heard by the whole system, we’re not afraid to raise their voices or shout on their behalf. Children and young people with cancer deserve the same opportunities as anyone else. We’ll always have their back, because we’ve been there before.
Powered by the kindness of our supporters, we’ll face it all together.
