Cancer Focus Northern Ireland has congratulated local MLAs and MPs who have worked at Stormont and Westminster to develop significant tobacco control legislation to help protect future generations from tobacco. Under the UK’s standardised ‘plain’ packaging of cigarettes legislation, which comes into...
Cancer Focus Northern Ireland is holding its first ‘Writing my Cancer Journey’ sessions in Coleraine next month. ‘Writing my Cancer Journey’ is one of the many care service complementary therapies that Cancer Focus NI offers patients to help them cope with their illness. Patients from the greater Co...
Thirteen charities have warned that a hike in charity shop rates in Northern Ireland could mean they would have £5.5m less to spend on the most vulnerable. A total of 18,648 charity shop customers from all over Northern Ireland signed a petition calling for charity shops to retain their no rates sta...
As part of World Cancer Day on February 4, Cancer Focus Northern Ireland is urging all local MPs to support an Early Day Motion at Westminster calling for adolescent boys to be given the HPV vaccination to help reduce incidence of cancer. The charity is also calling on the Health Department at Storm...
There are lots of ways in which schools and youth groups can get involved and raise funds for Cancer Focus NI. Whether it’s an interactive storytelling session, non-uniform day, coffee party, sponsored walk or a sports day, you’ll have fun and help to support people affected by cancer in your local...
