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Macmillan Emergency Appeal

People living with cancer need our help more than ever. We can’t let them down.

Help us fund new virtual services and recruit new workers while our nurses support the NHS frontline, so we can be there for people living with cancer now.

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£5 a month for a year

Could help run a small Macmillan information and support centre for 2 hours, helping people affected by cancer to find information and support.

£10 a month for a year

Could help run our Online Community forum for over 2 hours. In this time, over 1488 people affected by cancer in the UK can give emotional and practical support to each other on anything to do with cancer.

£20 a month for a year

Could pay for a Macmillan nurse for more than a day, helping people living with cancer and their families receive essential medical, practical and emotional support.

£30 a month for a year

Could keep a typical Macmillan information and support centre stocked with all the information resources it needs to support people affected by cancer for more than 5 weeks.

£50 a month for a year

Could pay for a Macmillan social care worker or family support worker for more than a week, helping patients, family members, and carers manage the social and practical problems of living with cancer.

£25 could make a real difference

It could help develop our online resources for coronavirus, providing people living with cancer with the information they need to help reassure them at this time.

£50 could make a real difference

It could help the Macmillan Support Line answer calls from people living with cancer on how coronavirus affects them and how Macmillan can support them.

£75 could make a real difference

It could help Macmillan’s Telephone Buddies, who are providing emotional support to people living with cancer through regular ongoing telephone sessions. As people are being advised to avoid face-to-face contact, the support that’s provided over the phone is more important than ever.

£100 could make a real difference

It could go towards recruiting more professionals to help fill the gaps on the frontline and help people living with cancer navigate their journeys in the midst of coronavirus.

£10 makes a difference

£10 could keep a typical Macmillan information and support centre stocked with all the information resources it needs to support people affected by cancer for 5 hours.

£20 makes a difference

£20 could pay for more than 50 copies of The cancer guide. This Macmillan booklet can help someone recently diagnosed with cancer and their families, understand more about cancer, its treatment, and the help available.

£30 makes a difference

£30 could run a small Macmillan information and support centre for 1 hour, helping people affected by cancer to find information and support.

£50 makes a difference

£50 could help run our Online Community forum for over an hour. In this time, over 744 people affected by cancer in the UK can give emotional and practical support to each other on anything to do with cancer.

£100 makes a difference

Every £100 we spend on our phone service could lead to our welfare rights advisers on our Macmillan Support Line helping people affected by cancer to claim £4,231 in benefits they are entitled to.

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