By Lesley Morris | Head of Trust Income & Partnerships
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 a whole range of activities from exercise and relaxation, escape rooms and quizzes, cookery and art, dance and book and film reviews, all rounded off with an online Christmas Party that bought all of them together for a night of fun and laughter.
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”.
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