About
The Challenge
Join thousands of others taking on the Swim 10k Challenge in July. Simply complete your 10k swim outdoors between 1 - 31 July. Head to your local lido, river, sea or lake and complete your 10k. This is your challenge, your way.
Your swim will help make sure children and young people with cancer, and their families, can be together this summer.
Join the challenge and make every minute count!
Why your Support Matters this summer
Children and young people with cancer are facing a long, exhausting summer with days spent many miles from home.
This July, children, young people and families going through cancer treatment will need to make early morning journeys to hospital and weary drives home. 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.
But 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 cuddle with a bedtime story. 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 July.
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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.
1. Register
Get a free swim hat and set up your fundraiser
2. Fundraise
Raise money to support children with cancer
3. Get Swimming
Head outdoors and swim 10k between 1 - 31 July
