Welcome

Cavendish Cancer Care is a local Sheffield charity dedicated to improving the quality of life for people living with cancer in South Yorkshire, North Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.

We believe no one should face cancer alone, so we provide emotional and physical support through counselling and therapies for patients, carers and their families.

Our services are provided free of charge; we rely on donations, fundraising, and help from volunteers to continue our work. We provide the support that local families deserve.

Covid-19 Update:

While the Tim Pryor Centre is temporarily closed, we are still here to offer support to local families affected by cancer.  We are currently providing telephone and online services, including counselling, relaxation and self-management techniques.

Our Young People’s Service can provide support by telephone and video calling.  We also continue to offer our well-established peer-to-peer telephone support service, Cavendish Cancer Buddies: https://cavcare.org.uk/about-us/cancer-buddies/

If you would like one of the team to contact you for a chat and to discuss what support may be available please fill in our self-referral form by clicking the link below.  Alternatively, you can call us on  0114 278 4600 and leave a message with your details so we can call you back or email us on info@cavcare.org.uk.

Self Referral Form

If you would like some information to pass on to friends and family, you can download a leaflet about the support we can provide by clicking here.

Help us be there for those who need us

Cavendish Cancer Care is funded almost entirely by the generosity of the local public and we’d like to thank everyone for their kind messages of support over the last few weeks. Sadly, a large number of events and fundraising challenges have now been cancelled or postponed.  This includes events which were being organised specifically to raise funds for Cavendish, as well as mass participation events like the Sheffield Half Marathon. As a result we have already lost more than £20,000 of income, and we don’t yet know how whether events planned for the summer will be affected as well.

The good news is that there are still lots of ways you can support us and ensure that we can be here for the local families that so desperately need us during this extremely difficult time:

You can still get involved in our 250 Challenge – you could get sponsored to have ‘Dress Up Fridays’, set yourself a step challenge or donate your morning commute.

Maybe sign up to the rearranged Sheffield Half Marathon, perhaps even get your friends, family and colleagues involved.

Or if all that sounds like too much hard work, you could simply donate to our Cavendish Cares campaign and directly fund vital support for people living with cancer – just £11 will fund supplies for an art therapy session to help a child come to terms with their parent’s cancer diagnosis.

Further support for those affected by cancer is also available from:

Cancer Support Centre:  https://www.westonpark.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Covid-19-Guidance-for-Service-Users-Members-of-the-Public_170320_FINAL.pdf

MIND:  https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/coronavirus-and-your-wellbeing/

The government has advised that everyone should now avoid non-essential travel and contact with others to fight coronavirus. And, this is particularly important for anybody with underlying health conditions and reduced immunity.

For further information:  https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/