Yorkshire Cancer Research
Yorkshire Cancer Research is a registered charity that funds research, principally in Yorkshire, into the causes and cures of cancer. We do this by fundraising in Yorkshire and providing awards to Yorkshire based academic institutions. Through publishing and sharing the results of this research with the world's scientific community, Yorkshire Cancer Research hopes to develop more effective treatments for cancer sufferers world-wide. Yorkshire Cancer Research raises its money in Yorkshire and spends it in Yorkshire at its five centres of excellence based at the universities of Bradford, Hull, Leeds, Sheffield and York and their associated teaching hospitals. We are the most successful regional medical research charity in the UK and we fund internationally recognised research, which focuses on a variety of cancers including: breast, bowel, cervical, non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, ovarian, prostate, skin, and genetics of cancers. We are not a regional division of a national charity we are an independent charity, based and operating in Yorkshire only. We are still, however, at the very forefront of the international fight to find a cure for cancer. We’re working for a world without cancer Your support is crucial in helping us fund vital research.

Kirkwood Hospice
Kirkwood, the Hospice for Kirklees, cares for local people who face life-threatening illness, for example cancer, late stage heart failure or severe lung disease. The Hospice provides 16 in-patient beds, day care services in the hospice’s Support & Therapy Centre, including a drop-in service at the hospice every Friday and bereavement services in the Family Care Centre, which includes care & support for bereaved children. There is also a team of three palliative care specialist nurses, who provide advice and support in patients’ own homes and an education centre providing palliative care education and training.