Cancer Charities Support Fund
Overview
The Cancer Support Funding award will enable charities to provide a wide range of support services for cancer patients throughout NI, and will cover key areas in the cancer pathway; from pre-diagnosis, through to palliative and end of life care. These services are key support mechanisms towards the implementation of the Cancer Recovery Plan and the Cancer Strategy, and important in working towards the Department’s aim of building cancer service capacity in communities.
The Cancer Charities’ Support Fund will provide support of between £5,000 and £1 million for cancer charities.
The three categories of grant values are:
£5,000 to £30,000 – due to open Autumn 2021
£30,000 to £500,000 – due to open Autumn 2021
£500,000 to £1million - closing date 5 July 2021 1pm
Fund outcomes:
Specific outcomes that the Fund should deliver are:
- Prevention such as awareness raising sessions and campaigns
- Psychological support/counselling
- Palliative care
- Improved access to information and support services including financial/welfare/ benefits advice, and support available through new technologies
- Enhanced provision of, and access to, practical support for people with cancer
- Services to support physical and mental health and wellbeing
- Specific research into the experience of patients with cancer
- Provision of screening services, and
- Delivery of cancer rehabilitation programmes.
For an application to be successful, it must contribute to at least one of the above outcomes, depending on the level of funding applied for.
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