Who We Support
Thank you to all our supporters
Art For Cure have so far donated through their fundraising in excess of £1.3 million in donations to leading breast cancer research projects and grant funded donations to breast cancer support services in East Anglia. Below is a record of our successful donations since the charity was founded in 2014.
2014
£100,000 donated to UK's leading breast cancer charity, Breast Cancer Now for specific research.
2016
£100,000 donated to Breast Cancer Now’s Professor Clare Isacke’s research into secondary breast cancer
£48,000 donated to Cancer Campaign in Suffolk (CCIS) for an innovative, greatly needed, new wig project
£12,000 to fund breast exercise classes for two years in the Ipswich and Felixstowe areas and provide all patients with an exercise DVD
£10,000 donated over two years to Caring For Me, a community project founded by Corinne Peacock offering breast cancer patients a course of six complimentary therapies free of charge
£4,000 donated to Senior nutritionist at Ipswich Hospital, Debbie Taylor to produce a nutrition / weight loss booklet and pilot a short course for patients with breast cancer to help them lose weight post-treatment
2017
£10,000 donated to East Anglian charity littlelifts (www.littlelifts.or.uk), providing chemotherapy comfort boxes for women approaching treatment with primary breast cancer
£12,000 to Ipswich Hospital charity to re-instate a part time psychological-sexual counsellor position for two years for breast cancer patients
£4,000 funding for the design of a new information-based, easy to use website for the John Le Vay Cancer Information Centre at Ipswich Hospital
2018
£100,000 donation to Breast Cancer Now's Professor Chris Lord's gene research project
£100,000 further donation to Professor Chris Lord’s gene research at Breast Cancer Now Research Centre, London
£100,000 donation to The Blossom Appeal (a new breast care centre at Ipswich Hospital (£75K in June 2018 and £25k in December 2018)
£26,988 donation to charity littlelifts providing chemotherapy comfort boxes to breast cancer patients going through chemotherapy treatment at Ipswich Hospital and James Paget
£3,000 to John le Vay Centre at Ipswich Hospital for specialist training of fitness trainers to support those with cancer at local sports venues around the Ipswich area
2019
£30,000 donation to a specific triple negative breast cancer research gene project run by Dr Rachel Natrajan at the Breast Cancer Now Research Centre in London
£20,500 to support services at Ipswich Hospital (breast care counsellor, support to a nutrition programme, treatment room re-decoration, funding of a breast cancer support group and specialist sports training in cancer care bursaries to sports centre staff in the East Suffolk area)
£10,000 to support charity Littlelifts for chemotherapy comfort boxes to those facing treatment in West Suffolk Hospital
2020
£25,000 - Further funding donation to Breast Cancer Now’s gene research (Project leader - Dr Rachel Natrajan at BCN Research Centre, London)
£23,000 - grant donation to littlelifts for complimentary chemotherapy comfort boxes for women with primary and secondary breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy treatment at Ipswich Hospital and West Suffolk Hospital
£25,000 - donation to The Blossom Appeal for a newly proposed 2022 breast care unit at Ipswich Hospital
£6000 - funding for breast cancer post-surgical exercise classes at Ipswich and Felixstowe fitness centres
£4,400 - funding for first two nutrition and weight loss courses run by senior nutritionist Debbie Taylor, following breast cancer treatment at Ipswich Hospital
£2000 - Additional funding for interior refurbishment of treatment room for counselling and alternative therapies at the John Le Vay cancer centre at Ipswich Hospital
2021
£70,000 - donation to Blossom Appeal Colchester and Ipswich Foundation Trust
£50,000 - Ipswich Hospital - Breast exercise classes Ipswich and Felixstowe / Scar tissue therapy service / Breast cancer counselling / Specialist national micro-pigmentation courses for breast care nurses ( nipple tattooing post-mastectomy) / Psycho-sexual counselling
RESEARCH (included in above £50k donation)
BREAST CANCER NOW - TOBY ROBINS RESEARCH CENTRE LONDON
£20,000 donation to Professor Gary Cook metastatic breast cancer research
£20,000 donation to BCN Progress Research Fund
2022
£75,000 - awarded to Breast Cancer Now ( £25k each to x 3 leading research projects )
£11,500 - grant donation to Keeping Abreast, Norwich, a charity supporting those facing mastectomy and mastectomy
£10,000 - donation to Royal Marsden Hospital, London towards a lifestyle and dietary research project for women .
£3,000 - grant funding for a specialist breast care nurse at Colchester Hospital in breast micro pigmentation training ( breast tattooing following mastectomy)
£5,000 - establishing a breast care nurse training fund for courses and further eductaion at Ipswich and Colchester Hospital.
£6,000 - funding of a part-time specialist breast cancer counsellor at Ipswich Hospital
£9,000 - grant donation to charity Littlelifts for chemotherapy boxes for patients with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy at West Suffolk Hospital
£50,000 - to Breast Cancer Now ( Professor Judy Coulson - Liverpool) research project 'How Cancer Cells Divide'
£750 - attendance for 5 specialist breast care nurses from Ipswich Hospital to attend the national ABS (Association of Breast Surgery) conference in London
£600 - re-printing of Nutrition Guide booklets at Ipswich and Colchester Hospital