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Home > About us >CLIC Sargent is the UK's leading children's cancer charity. We provide the widest range of services and the highest number of care professionals to look after children and young people with cancer and their families. Our services are tailored to family-needs, using feedback from our service-users.
As advocates we give children, young people and their families a strong national voice, helping them to be heard and understood. Our research looks at ways of improving treatment and managing side-effects, to help patients and to improve quality of life for survivors.
CLIC Sargent was formed in 2005 after a successful merger between CLIC and Sargent Cancer Care for Children. Both had a rich history of excellent care and support and together we are stronger and more effective providing more for more children and young people with cancer and their families.
Our history
- Sargent Cancer Care for Children - founded in 1968 by Sylvia Darley OBE as a lasting memory to the late Sir Malcolm Sargent.
- CLIC - Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood - founded in 1976 in the South West by Bob Woodward following the death of his young son to cancer.
Charity milestones
- 1975 - Sargent funds first Sargent Care Professional at Alder Hey Hospital, Liverpool
- 1981 - CLIC opens first Home from Home - CLIC House, Bristol
- 1994 - Sargent develops work with young people and the first teenage group stays at Malcolm Sargent House
- 2001 - £1 million CLIC ward opens at Bristol Children’s Hospital
- 2005 - Spends £8.2 million on Services as CLIC Sargent
CLIC Sargent's Charity Registration Number is 1107328
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