The Charity - We are Macmillan. Cancer Support
Macmillan Cancer Support, Registered Charity 261017, is heading for its 100th birthday in 2011. In 2000 the 2000th Macmillan nurse was funded and the organisation has a proud record by any standards.
Named after founder Douglas Macmillan, who was so moved by his father’s pain and suffering from cancer that he wanted advice and information for all cancer patients, special homes at little or no cost and voluntary nurses to attend to people in their own homes, a legacy living on in the greatly respected Macmillan Cancer Support of today.
Macmillan Cancer Support has been instrumental over these many years in:
- Providing practical help to patients and their families
- Supporting in-patient care
- Contributing towards building hospices
- Setting up and equipping Macmillan cancer care units
- Training doctors, nurses and students in advanced pain control and cancer care
- Pioneering minimum standard care levels and providing a ‘voice’
- Developing and distributing UK cancer services information to General Practitioners
- Operating specialist telephone help lines including for young people
- Continuing to build up and offer practical, medical, emotional and financial support and life improvements to the one in three of us affected by cancer.
But the work doesn’t stop. In Hampshire £756,000 is needed to fund more medical specialists to work in the county’s main cancer treatment centres. In neighbouring counties and UK-wide many people look to Macmillan for the support that makes their care really personal. Voluntary groups help Macmillan Cancer Support to help all affected by cancer. 99% of Macmillan’s funds come from voluntary donations.
In 2007 Macmillan Cancer Support helped 305 people in Hampshire and 23,888 in the UK overall. Funds for this were £106,461 and £8,685,370 respectively. Ellington @ Wellington 2008 looks forward to making another significant contribution to Macmillan’s funds.
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