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 over 10 years since the charity was founded in 2014.

2024 (so far)

Funding breakdown:

A total of £38,453.10 has been allocated to select projects so far in 2024.
Breast Cancer Now - £10,000

to fund a project run by Professor Gary Cook who is investigating better ways to track how secondary tumours in the bone respond to treatments.

Prevent Breast Cancer - £10,000

to fund their use of microsimulation to refine a risk-adapted screening process to identify the most effective methods of early breast cancer detection.

Little Lifts - £7,928.10

for their continuation of care packages split across Ipswich and West Suffolk.

Keeping Abreast - £7,025

for the rent of their office/packing room and the supply of comfort and care bags.

Cancer Support Suffolk - £3,500

to buy prosthetic breasts for educational use and to fund the continuation of their “All About You” project.

2023

Collapsible tabs

A total of £191,127 was allocated to select projects in 2023.
Breast Cancer Now - £125,000

£75,000 for three 3-year projects and one that is ongoing. This funding helped BCN look at options for when chemotherapy doesn’t work, observing at a cellular level. This research will provide hope where they may not usually be any.

A unanimous wish to donate a further £50,000 was made by the participants of the AFC India Cycle Ride in 2023.

Ipswich & Colchester Hospital - £31,620

for 4 different local initiatives which were all very productive and well within our target market.

Keeping Abreast - £17,119

for the rent on their office/packing room, Pink Packs, and the supply of comfort and care bags.

Prevent Breast Cancer - £10,000

for an ongoing project to mimic breast cancer tissue in the
laboratory at a cost of £100k. PBC
have been operating since 1996 in Manchester and are running the only breast cancer prevention centre in the country.

Little Lifts - £7,388

for 210 boxes at Ipswich and West
Suffolk both radiotherapy and chemotherapy boxes.

2022

Funding breakdown:

A total of £170,850 was allocated to select projects in 2022.
Breast Cancer Now - £125,000

3x projects of leading research projects were each awarded £25,000.

A further £50,000 was donated to BCN's Professor Judy Coulson's research project 'How Cancer Cells Divide'.

Keeping Abreast - £11,500

to Keeping Abreast, Norwich, a charity supporting those facing a mastectomy.

Royal Marsden Hospital - £10,000

for the London hospital's lifestyle and dietary research project for women.

Little Lifts - £9,000

for chemotherapy boxes for patients with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy at West Suffolk Hospital.

Ipswich & Colchester Hospitals - £5,600

£5,000 for a breast care nurse training fund for courses and further education at Ipswich and Colchester Hospital.

£600 for the re-printing of Nutrition Guide booklets at Ipswich and Colchester Hospital.

Ipswich Hospital - £6,750

£6,000 for the funding of a part-time specialist breast cancer counsellor at Ipswich Hospital.

A further £750 for 5 specialist breast care nurses from Ipswich Hospital to attend the national ABS (Association of Breast Surgery) conference in London.

Colchester Hospital - £3,000

for a specialist breast care nurse at Colchester Hospital in breast micro pigmentation training (breast tattooing following mastectomy).

2021

Funding breakdown:

A total of £160,000 was allocated to select projects in 2021.
Blossom Appeal - £70,000

for the Blossom Appeal Colchester and Ipswich Foundation Trust.

Ipswich Hospital - £50,000

for breast exercise classes, a scar tissue therapy service, breast cancer counselling, specialist national micro-pigmentation courses for breast care nurses (nipple tattooing post-mastectomy), and psycho-sexual counselling in Ipswich and Felixstowe.

Breast Cancer Now - £40,000

for the Toby Robins Research Centre in London.

£20,000 donation was made to Professor Gary Cook's metastatic breast cancer research.

£20,000 donation was made to BCN's Progress Research Fund.

2020

Funding Breakdown:

A total of £85,400 was allocated to select projects in 2020.
Breast Cancer Now - £25,000

for further funding to Breast Cancer Now’s gene research (Project Leader: Dr Rachel Natrajan at BCN Research Centre, London).

Little Lifts - £23,000

for complimentary chemotherapy comfort boxes for women with primary and secondary breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy treatment at Ipswich Hospital and West Suffolk Hospital.

Blossom Appeal - £25,000

for a newly proposed 2022 breast care unit at Ipswich Hospital.

Fitness Centres in Ipswich & Felixstowe

for breast cancer post-surgical exercise classes.

Debbie Taylor Nutritionist - £4,400

for the first two nutrition and weight loss courses run by senior nutritionist Debbie Taylor, following breast cancer treatment at Ipswich Hospital.

John Le Vay Centre - £2,000

for interior refurbishment of the treatment room for counselling and alternative therapies at the John Le Vay cancer centre in Ipswich Hospital.

2019

£30,000 donation was made 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 was donated to support services at Ipswich Hospital including a breast care counsellor, support to a nutrition programme, a treatment room needing 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 Littlelifts for chemotherapy comfort boxes to those facing treatment in West Suffolk Hospital.

2018

£100,000 donation was made to Breast Cancer Now's Professor Chris Lord's gene research project.

£100,000 was further donated to Professor Chris Lord’s gene research at Breast Cancer Now Research Centre, London.

£100,000 donation was made to The Blossom Appeal (a new breast care centre at Ipswich Hospital (£75K in June 2018 and £25k in December 2018).

£26,988 donation was made to Little Lifts, providing chemotherapy comfort boxes to breast cancer patients going through chemotherapy treatment at Ipswich Hospital and the James Paget Hospital.

£3,000 was donated to the 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.

2017

£10,000 was donated to East Anglian charity Little Lifts, providing chemotherapy comfort boxes for women approaching treatment with primary breast cancer.

£12,000 was donated to an Ipswich Hospital charity to re-instate a part time psychological-sexual counsellor position for two years for breast cancer patients.

£4,000 funding was donated for the design of a new information-based, easy to use website for the John Le Vay Cancer Information Centre at Ipswich Hospital.

2016

£100,000 was donated to Breast Cancer Now’s Professor Clare Isacke’s research into secondary breast cancer.

£48,000 was donated to Cancer Campaign in Suffolk (CCIS) for an innovative, greatly needed, new wig project.

£12,000 was donated to fund breast exercise classes for two years in the Ipswich and Felixstowe areas and provide all patients with an exercise DVD.

£10,000 was 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 was donated to Senior Nutritionist at Ipswich Hospital, Debbie Taylor to produce a nutrition and weight loss booklet and pilot a short course for patients with breast cancer to help them lose weight post-treatment.

2014

£100,000 was donated to UK's leading breast cancer charity, Breast Cancer Now for specific research.

Want to support these projects?

If you want to support these fantastic projects like these, why not consider making a donation? Or, browse our Online Gallery to buy art, which instantly donates up to 50% of the sale to select projects every year.