WELCOME TO COPING WITH CANCER NE
Coping with Cancer North East celebrated 25 years as a charity in 2007. Founded as a support group it has grown from humble beginnings into one of the foremost regional cancer charities.
Coping with Cancer offers support to the cancer community at times when it is most needed, at diagnosis, during treatment and in end of life situations.
Coping with Cancer volunteers, counsellors and complementary therapists can be found in local hospices, in chemotherapy day units in most of the regional hospitals, in support groups and Drop Ins and on the end of a telephone.
Coping with Cancer’s philosophy of helping when and where help is needed has made it one of the most “invisible charities” in the region yet it makes many thousand of patient contacts and gives around 5000 one to one counselling and therapy sessions each year.
Coping with Cancer has been an Investor In People for 8 years, resubmitting to the standard successfully three times and in 2005 was one of the ten winners of the Glaxo Smith Kline Awards given nationally to the charities judged as the top health-related charities in the UK.
Coping with Cancer has no expensive buildings to maintain and employs only a small number of part-time staff. This helps to make it a value for money organisation with 75% of any funds given by the public being spent on delivering FREE services to those in need in the North east.