Selfcare Workshops for Young People with Cancer

The planning us well underway for a Teens Unite Beauty workshop on 20th July, to be held at the Admiral Codington in London.  Our partners, Look Good Feeling Better are busy packing goody bags for the young people to use on the day and take away with them.

During the day the young people are pampered from head to toe, with professional reflexology, manicures and pedicure and taken through a step-to-step guide for applying make-up, and get to take home some designer make-up to recreate the look at home.

For many young people, this will be the their first opportunity to meet others their age fighitng cancer, and will enable them to share their thoughts, feelings, hopes and fears in a way they haven't been able to with anyone else.

The young people are able to enjoy a relaxing spa-like experience without the worry of feeling self-conscious or 'out of the ordinary'.  Over lunch they can take the time to get to know one another and hear each others stories and speak, not just about illness, but the wider world.

What do they young people have to say?

Just to remind you of how important your donations are and how much if a difference you will be making to a young person fighting cancer, we wanted to share this quote with you from a young person who attend one of our Beauty Workshops

"I admit I was feeling sceptical about being at the workshop and surrounded by people who looked or felt as I did.  I think it was safe to say that since meeting everyone that day I've never looked back.  What stood out was how much everyone was laughing, and how positive they all were.  Before then, I'd only known how to be depressed about having cancer.  People would avoid the subject and feel awkward asking how things were going.  I had no idea there were other young people in the same situation as me." Georgia, 22

Links:

• Teens Unite Website