For children/young people

Below is a list of useful organisations that help children and young people with cancer.

Camp Simcha is the only charity working specifically to help Jewish children in the UK with cancer.

Camp Simcha
Pearl House, 746 Finchley Road
London NW11 7TH
Tel: 020 8731 6788
Fax: 020 8458 6819
http://www.campsimcha.org.uk
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A website and computer game for young people with cancer. Captain chemo is a cartoon character created by a former patient of the Royal Marsden Hospital.

Address: The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Downs Road, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5PT

Tel: +44 (0)20 8642 6011

Email:captainchemo@royalmarsden.org

Web:http://www.royalmarsden.nhs.uk/captchemo/index.asp

UK wide charity for families and individuals affected by retinoblastoma. We offer support and information, fund research and raise public awareness of this rare cancer. Address: The Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel Road, London, E1 1BB

Tel: +44 (0)20 7377 5578 Fax: +44 (0)020 7377 0740

Email: info@chect.org.uk

Web: http://www.chect.org.uk/

Set up by two sisters who lost their hair through chemotherapy, Hats 4 Heads aims to provide stylish, comfortable hats for people of all ages who have lost their hair due to illness.

Address: Hats 4 Heads, PO Box 407, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA15 9WX
Tel: 0161 941 6748
Web: http://www.hats4heads.co.uk/index.html
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Lymphoma Information For Everyone. Providing a service to young people, Lifesite.info is part of The Lymphoma Association.

Address: C/o The Lymphoma Association, PO Box 386, Aylesbury, Bucks, HP20 2GA

Tel: +44 (0)1296 619400

Helpline: +44 (0)8 08 808 5555

Email:lifesite@lymphoma.org.uk

Web:http://www.lifesite.info

To provide teenagers, suffering from long term or life threatning illness, with access to computer technology thereby enabling them to continue their education and maintain contact with their school, so as to continue to develop key life skills and help them in coping with their illness be that in hospital or at home.

Tel: +44 (0)1522 543 642

Facsimile: +44 (0)1522 540 938

Email:jackie@mattdotcom.org.uk

Web:http://www.mattdotcom.org.uk

To provide a network for young people aged 13-25 who have or have had a family member affected by cancer to gain support through social, practical and emotional activities.

Address: PO Box 2561, Coulsdon, CR5 2YA

Tel: +44 (0)01737 555 411

Alternative: +44 (0)7713 082 797

Email: info@siblinks.org

Web: http://www.siblinks.org

Get honest cancer information written specifically for teenagers, advice and support on how to cope with cancer, and the space to share experiences of cancer with other teenagers. Subsidiary of Cancer Backup.

Helpline: +44 (0)808 800 1234 (Mon - Fri, 9am - 8pm)

Web: http://www.click4tic.org.uk
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Deals with all issues of teenagers with cancer.
Address: 3rd floor, 93 Newman Street, London, W1T 3EZ

Tel: +44 (0)20 7612 0370
Fax: +44 (0)20 7387 6000

Email: tct@teenagecancertrust.org

Web: http://www.teenagecancertrust.org

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Web:http://www.teenagehealthfreak.org/

Provides the addresses and telephone numbers of local services providing counselling, advice, information, befriending, for children and adolescents.
Address: 1-2 Taylors Yard, 67 Alderbrook Road, London, SW12 8AD

Tel: +44 (0)20 8772 9900

Fax: +44 (0)20 8772 9746

Email: admin@youthaccess.org.uk

Web: http://www.youthaccess.org.uk/
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A collection of interviews with young people about their experiences of health or illness. They tell you what it’s really like! www.youthhealthtalk.org aims to identify the issues, questions and problems that matter to young people.

Address: 7200 The Quorum, Oxford Business Park North, Oxford, OX4 2JZ

Tel: +44 (0)1865 487176

Email: info@dipex.org

Web: http://www.youthhealthtalk.org/