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When a child is diagnosed with cancer life becomes full of fear, for them and their family. Fear of treatment, but also of families being torn apart, overwhelming money worries, of having nowhere to turn, no one to talk to.

At Young Lives vs Cancer, we help families find the strength to face whatever cancer throws at them. Powered by the kindness of our supporters, we’ll face it all together.

Welcome to our website. Logan’s Fund are a Scottish children’s cancer charity who operate UK wide. We try and do whatever is possible to help and support families affected by childhood cancer. We won’t ever change the world but we might just change yours. Please have a look through our pages and see how we can help.

Little Princess Trust is a charity that supplies real-hair wigs free of charge to children across the UK & Ireland that have lost their own hair through cancer treatment and other illnesses.

The Children’s Cancer & Leukaemia Group is a UK charity dedicated to supporting research and those looking after children and teenagers with cancer.

We provide sailing trips to young people aged between 8 and 24 who are in recovery from Cancer and Leukaemia. The trips are free and are split into Under 18s and over 18s. We have a base in Largs, North Ayrshire.

SHARE is a new initiative created to establish a register of people interested in participating in health research and who agree to allow SHARE to use information to check whether they might be suitable for health research studies. This access can be incredibly useful when it comes to developing new treatments and cures for a wide variety of health conditions.

It only takes a minute to join the SHARE register, but together we can make a real difference to Scotland's future health.

It's Good 2 Give offers support to young people with cancer and their families, providing day to day services in the wards in the East of Scotland to make life more bearable. Please see our website for more information on what we do.

We provide: Support for parents/patients in the form of a Hospital Liasion, Advice, Outings for patients, Links to Support Groups, Regular newsletters, Coffee Mornings and much more - please see our websitefor more information on what we do.

CHAS is the only charity in Scotland that provides vital hospice services for children and young people with life-shortening conditions.

At CLAN we offer a dedicated, confidential service through our team of support workers for children, young people and families. Through their work they aim to provide information, listen to the individual and allow children and young people to explore their difficult feelings in a safe and secure environment. The team are also fully trained to undertake loss and bereavement work.

LoveOliver funds vital research into childhood cancer at Newcastle University and provides a range of invaluable practical support to families affected by it, across Scotland. Please see our website for more information, and speak to your CLIC Sargent social worker if you feel LoveOliver could support your family. LoveOliver also provides support to the childhood oncology wards at Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow including therapy supplies, distraction toys, video consoles and games, books etc.