About
The Challenge
Join thousands of others taking on a cold water dip for World Cancer Day on the 4th February for Young Lives vs Cancer.
The challenge is simple. Organise your own dip with friends and family and simply brave the cold of the sea, a lido, or river this World Cancer Day. Yes, it's a challenge but with this comes a huge sense of achievement.
Your dip will help make sure children and young people with cancer, and their families, can be together this winter.
Join the challenge and make every minute count!
Here’s what your fundraising could help us achieve.
£26
Could pay for an hour of support from a Young Lives vs Cancer Social Worker, helping children, young people and their families get the care they need, when they need it.
£70
Could fund a night's stay at one of Young Lives vs Cancer's Homes from Home, allowing a family to stay close to their child during treatment.
£100
Could fund a financial grant to help young people and families cover travel, food, or household costs so they can focus on treatment.
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.
