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Leading cancer charity supports an extra quarter of a million people in a single year as coping with a cancer diagnosis gets tougher across the UK

Stuart Mitchell

The UK’s largest cancer care charity, Macmillan Cancer Support, has published its 2023 Annual Report and Accounts which highlights it has helped more than 2.3 million people affected by cancer in 2023, a quarter of a million more than in 2022. Its increasing support comes against the backdrop of an ongoing cost of living crisis, increasing pressures on the NHS, worsening waiting times for cancer diagnosis and treatment and stark health inequities that adversely impact many people with cancer’s outcomes and experiences. The latest report and figures highlight the enormous…

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Santander UK becomes first sponsor of Macmillan Cancer Support’s Mighty Hikes

Stuart Mitchell

Macmillan Cancer Support has announced Santander UK, one of the charity’s banking partners, will become the first ever official sponsor of its Mighty Hikes fundraising event series. The sponsorship is part of a three-year partnership which aims to raise vital funds for the charity to help support people financially impacted by cancer. Many people face extra and often unexpected costs following a diagnosis, which on average can reach almost £900 a month. This comes on top of additional financial worries caused by the cost-of-living crisis, making this a truly distressing…

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Celebrities and charity join forces to urge people with cancer not to suffer in silence amid signs of a surge in loneliness among patients

Stuart Mitchell

Celebrities are starring in a powerful new video urging people affected by cancer to “come forward and get the support you need” amid signs they are suffering in silence. Stars including actor Daisy Edgar-Jones and Joanna Lumley have joined forces with Macmillan Cancer Support to tell people to contact the charity for help and to “let it all out”, as new research reveals over a quarter of a million people (270,000) with cancer in the UK (9%) feel they have no one to talk to about their worries because of…

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We Are Undefeatable: a major new campaign to support people with long-term health conditions to be active

Stuart Mitchell

An inspiring new campaign – We Are Undefeatable – is being launched to support the one in four (15 million) people in England who live with one or more long-term health conditions, such as diabetes, cancer, arthritis and Parkinson’s. By recognising the unique barriers people with health conditions face, the campaign aims to help people build physical activity into their lives, by hearing from others who have become more active through the ups and downs of living with their condition. Individuals living with a long-term health condition are twice as likely to…

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National Garden Scheme and Macmillan Cancer Support celebrate 35 year partnership

Stuart Mitchell

On July 23rd, the National Garden Scheme and Macmillan Cancer Support celebrated an exceptional 35 year partnership that has generated £17.2 million to support people living with cancer. A gathering at the Garden Museum in London brought together today’s partnership team along with many who were working for the charities in 1984. Former Chairman and Trustee of the National Garden Scheme, Angela Azis, spoke of the decision making process and how Macmillan was first invited to be a beneficiary of the National Garden Scheme in 1984. With its ethos to…

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