Selfcare Workshops for Young People with Cancer

During what can only be described as a strange and difficult year for the whole World, we have all experienced some of the isolation and loneliness that the young people we support experience every day – isolated by their illness they have faced further isolation with the need to shield.

And, while we have not been able to get them together for our normal workshops and activities, we have been doing all we can to ensure that they stay connected with others who genuinely know what it is like to face cancer in your teenage and young adult years.

We have transitioned our Positive Steps program to online delivery, and rather than delivering an activity three or four times each month, we have been delivering online four times a week.

The young people have still been able to take part in our beauty workshops, designed to help them tune in to their new look following their diagnosis and treatment. Ahead of the sessions, we have posted them the items they’ll need for the session, then they have clicked a link and connected with our professional service delivery teams who have shared their knowledge and supported the young people with skin care techniques as well as make up application techniques.

Each week we have hosted online sessions where the young people have been able to come together, learn new skills and be part of a community. They have been able to chat and relax and spend valuable time with friends old and new.

We thank you for your continued support of our work, ensuring that more of the seven young people who, every day in the UK, hear the words “you have cancer”.