How we are funded

Big Lottery Fund

In June 2010, we were awarded a grant of £497,825 by the Big Lottery Fund through their People and Places scheme.

The grant will fund the provision of cancer specific welfare support for patients and their families across Wales.

The Dealing with the practical for better living programme will assist cancer patients to deal with the practical difficulties that can arise following a diagnosis of cancer. In order to deliver the programme we will be:

• appointing six new cancer specific welfare advisers
• recruiting and training 100 volunteers as cancer specific welfare assistants
• developing active relationships with other charities, community organisations and establishments and the NHS in Wales
• undertaking a marketing campaign to increase the awareness of the Tenovus Freephone Cancer Support Line (0808 808 1010).

The six cancer specific welfare advisers will provide crucial cancer specific welfare advice for patients and their families. One will be designated to the Support Line and the other five will serve the following local authority areas:

• Swansea
• Neath and Port Talbot
• Caerphilly and Blaenau Gwent
• Powys
• Wrexham and Flint

All new six posts will be filled by 1 April 2011 and the recruiting of volunteers will commence in January that year.

Delivering the Dealing with the practical for better living programme requires £350,000 in addition to the Big Lottery Fund. The charity has committed to fund this through its diverse fundraising programme. Already the Bower Trust and the Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust have awarded the charity grants specifically for the funding of this programme.

trusts

Grants from trusts and foundations are an important funding source for the charity that can provide significant funding towards the overall cost of specific projects. 

Over the years, many trusts and foundation have supported the charity by annually awarding us a grant towards our varied support programme for cancer patients, their families and carers.  Tenovus is grateful to these charities for their continued support over many years, amongst which are:

• G M Morrison Charitable Trust
• The Forest Hill Charitable Trust
• Thomas Roberts Trust
• The E E and D D Griffiths Trust.

Over the last four years, we have developed a strategy for seeking funding for specific projects from appropriate trusts and foundations.

The strategy has resulted in some significant funding for specific projects, such as:

• The eight Tenovus funded PhD studentships that commenced in 2009 - 10: The Kidani Memorial Trust and The Jane Hodge Foundation have each fully funded a research project for their duration
• Our Dealing with the practical for better living programme has secured funding, in addition to the Big Lottery's People and Places scheme, funding from both The Bower Trust and The Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust.

This year the charity will apply to between 120 and 150 trusts and foundation for funding of various projects, including:

• a second and third mobile unit to take telemedicine, health checks and cancer specific psychosocial support to deprived and rural areas across Wales
• a further 8 PhD Studentships that will commence in September 2011
• Tenovus Innovation Grants for psychosocial research
• Sing for Life Choir programme to be rolled out across Wales

legacies

"Tenovus' continued success, and 65 years of history, providing support to countless cancer patients, owes much to the people who have remembered the charity in their Will." - Claudia McVie, Tenovus Chief Executive

We can all leave Tenovus a gift in our Will and care for our family, whatever our circumstances.

One in three of us alive today will receive a diagnosis of cancer at some time during our lifetime - and, if current trends continue, the ratio will be 1 in 2 by 2020. 

Leaving Tenovus a legacy could be an additional way in which you can practically care for your family.  A way also of caring for your friends, colleagues, neighbours and community, and of contributing to reducing the annual instances of cancer diagnosed.

Every year Tenovus receives £1 million through legacies. This is a significant contribution to our annual income and funding of our programmes below:

• support, advice and treatment for cancer patients
• cancer prevention
• research to improve the outcomes for people with cancer.

All these programmes are developed in partnership and delivered where they are needed most - right at the heart of the community.

By having a valid Will, you will ensure that those you want to care and provide for after your day actually receive what you wish them to have.

We recommend that you instruct a solicitor - making a Will does not have to be expensive or difficult.

Our legacy leaflet 'There are ten of us in our family' sets out what you should do to have your Will written and why leaving a legacy to Tenovus can be so important to you and your family.