{"slug":"charity","tag":"charity","variants":["charity"],"description":"No description yet","count":26,"kinds":{"institution":13,"person":13},"related":[{"slug":"leadership","tag":"leadership","shared":13},{"slug":"uk","tag":"uk","shared":13},{"slug":"advocacy","tag":"advocacy","shared":3},{"slug":"research-funding","tag":"research funding","shared":3},{"slug":"clinician-scientist","tag":"clinician-scientist","shared":2},{"slug":"colorectal","tag":"colorectal","shared":2},{"slug":"funding","tag":"funding","shared":2},{"slug":"pancreatic","tag":"pancreatic","shared":2},{"slug":"skin","tag":"skin","shared":2},{"slug":"biliary","tag":"biliary","shared":1},{"slug":"blood-cancer","tag":"blood-cancer","shared":1},{"slug":"breast","tag":"breast","shared":1}],"records":[{"id":"pancreatic-cancer-uk","kind":"institution","name":"Pancreatic Cancer UK","route":"/institutions/pancreatic-cancer-uk/","tldr":"The UK's pancreatic cancer charity: a specialist nurse Support Line, the list of NHS specialist centres, the Optimal Care Pathway that GIRFT and the national audit measure against, research funding and the campaign to end PERT shortages."},{"id":"pancreatic-cancer-action","kind":"institution","name":"Pancreatic Cancer Action","route":"/institutions/pancreatic-cancer-action/","tldr":"A UK charity founded by a pancreatic cancer survivor that works on early diagnosis: symptom awareness campaigns and education for GPs and the public."},{"id":"breast-cancer-now","kind":"institution","name":"Breast Cancer Now","route":"/institutions/breast-cancer-now/","tldr":"The UK's breast cancer research and support charity: a free nurse helpline, the Someone Like Me peer service, Moving Forward courses, an online forum and patient information on triple-negative disease, alongside funding of the Toby Robins Research Centre at the ICR."},{"id":"bowel-cancer-uk","kind":"institution","name":"Bowel Cancer UK","route":"/institutions/bowel-cancer-uk/","tldr":"The UK's bowel cancer charity: information and an email service answered by colorectal nurses, the Never Too Young campaign for younger patients, and the policy work that pushes the NHS on screening, Lynch syndrome testing and emergency diagnosis."},{"id":"bowel-research-uk","kind":"institution","name":"Bowel Research UK","route":"/institutions/bowel-research-uk/","tldr":"The UK medical research charity for bowel disease: small proof-of-concept grants and PhDs in bowel cancer and inflammatory bowel disease, with patients on its review panels."},{"id":"ammf","kind":"institution","name":"AMMF, the Cholangiocarcinoma Charity","route":"/institutions/ammf/","tldr":"The UK's only charity dedicated to cholangiocarcinoma and the other biliary tract cancers: patient information, a list of UK centres with expertise, research grants, an annual conference and a nurse study day."},{"id":"roy-castle-lung-cancer-foundation","kind":"institution","name":"Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation","route":"/institutions/roy-castle-lung-cancer-foundation/","tldr":"The only UK charity that works on lung cancer alone: a nurse-answered helpline, information days and support groups around the country, research fellowships, and the campaigning that pushed the NHS towards a national screening programme."},{"id":"prostate-cancer-uk","kind":"institution","name":"Prostate Cancer UK","route":"/institutions/prostate-cancer-uk/","tldr":"The UK charity that funds prostate cancer research, answers the questions the NHS has no time for through a team of Specialist Nurses, and is paying for half of TRANSFORM, the trial that will decide whether Britain ever screens for this disease."},{"id":"melanoma-focus","kind":"institution","name":"Melanoma Focus","route":"/institutions/melanoma-focus/","tldr":"The UK melanoma charity whose free nurse helpline is the one place a frightened person can ask a specialist skin cancer nurse a question without waiting for an appointment, and which says up front that it cannot tell you from a photograph."},{"id":"skcin","kind":"institution","name":"Skcin (the Karen Clifford Skin Cancer Charity)","route":"/institutions/skcin/","tldr":"The prevention charity that campaigns on the one lever in skin cancer that is bigger than any drug: what the country does about ultraviolet exposure, and what it charges for sunscreen."},{"id":"lymphoma-action","kind":"institution","name":"Lymphoma Action","route":"/institutions/lymphoma-action/","tldr":"The United Kingdom's only charity dedicated to lymphoma: a freephone helpline, support groups, a buddy scheme, a lymphoma trials database and a seat at the table when NICE and the Scottish Medicines Consortium appraise a lymphoma medicine."},{"id":"blood-cancer-uk","kind":"institution","name":"Blood Cancer UK","route":"/institutions/blood-cancer-uk/","tldr":"The UK's blood cancer research charity and support line, covering lymphoma alongside leukaemia and myeloma."},{"id":"anthony-nolan","kind":"institution","name":"Anthony Nolan","route":"/institutions/anthony-nolan/","tldr":"The UK stem cell register, founded in 1974, and the charity behind the clinical nurse specialists who look after transplant patients in NHS centres."},{"id":"brandi-williams-broome","kind":"person","name":"Brandi Williams Broome","route":"/people/brandi-williams-broome/","tldr":"Nonprofit executive who leads The V Foundation, a charity that raises money to fund cancer research across the United States."},{"id":"laura-brady","kind":"person","name":"Laura Brady","route":"/people/laura-brady/","tldr":"Chief executive of Worldwide Cancer Research, a charity that funds early-stage discovery research into cancer in more than 30 countries."},{"id":"dominique-bazy","kind":"person","name":"Dominique Bazy","route":"/people/dominique-bazy/","tldr":"President of Fondation ARC, the French charitable foundation that funds cancer research, whose board mandate was renewed in June 2026."},{"id":"andrea-sironi","kind":"person","name":"Andrea Sironi","route":"/people/andrea-sironi/","tldr":"President of Fondazione AIRC, the Italian charitable foundation that raises funds from the public to finance cancer research across the country."},{"id":"philippe-bergerot","kind":"person","name":"Philippe Bergerot","route":"/people/philippe-bergerot/","tldr":"Radiation oncologist who has presided over the Ligue nationale contre le cancer, France's national cancer charity, since 2024."},{"id":"gemma-peters","kind":"person","name":"Gemma Peters","route":"/people/gemma-peters/","tldr":"Chief Executive of Macmillan Cancer Support, the UK charity that provides practical, emotional and financial support to people living with cancer."},{"id":"matthew-reed","kind":"person","name":"Matthew Reed","route":"/people/matthew-reed/","tldr":"Chief Executive of Marie Curie, the UK end of life care charity, since February 2019."},{"id":"andrew-little","kind":"person","name":"Andrew Little","route":"/people/andrew-little/","tldr":"Chief Executive of Movember, the global men's health charity that funds prostate cancer, testicular cancer and mental health programmes."},{"id":"andrea-seale","kind":"person","name":"Andrea Seale","route":"/people/andrea-seale/","tldr":"Chief executive of the Canadian Cancer Society, the national charity that funds cancer research, advocates on policy and runs support services across Canada."},{"id":"jacinta-reddan","kind":"person","name":"Jacinta Reddan","route":"/people/jacinta-reddan/","tldr":"Chief executive of Cancer Council Australia, the national body of Australia's state and territory cancer councils, which leads cancer control advocacy and research funding."},{"id":"nikki-gallagher","kind":"person","name":"Nikki Gallagher","route":"/people/nikki-gallagher/","tldr":"Advocacy and governance leader who is Chief Executive of the Irish Cancer Society, Ireland's national cancer charity."},{"id":"ashley-ball-gamble","kind":"person","name":"Ashley Ball-Gamble","route":"/people/ashley-ball-gamble/","tldr":"Chief executive of CCLG, the UK charity and professional body that unites the children's and young people's cancer community."},{"id":"rita-schmutzler","kind":"person","name":"Rita Schmutzler","route":"/people/rita-schmutzler/","tldr":"Gynaecological oncologist and hereditary cancer expert who became President of Deutsche Krebshilfe, Germany's largest cancer charity, in 2026."}]}