2024 Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
Be The Change ~ It Starts With You
Every September, the Daniella Logun Foundation proudly joins the national movement for #ChildhoodCancerAwareness Month #CCAM.
Together, we shine a vital spotlight on the holistic wellbeing and mental health needs of children, young people, and the families navigating a cancer diagnosis.
Our deepest gratitude goes out to our incredible families, friends, sponsors, and partners across the Healthcare and Voluntary, Community, Faith, and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sectors. Your overwhelming support helps us amplify this crucial cause and build a stronger safety net for those who need it most.
Will you stand with us next year?
Partner with us, wear something yellow, or host an initiative of your own. Together, we can transform awareness into action.
#WearSomethingYellow
and Promote our campaign.
Do Something Spectacular
and Fundraise.
Bring Your Family to
Our Family Fun Day
#WearSomethingYellow 2024 campaign
September is #ChildhoodCancerAwareness Month ~ #CCAM
Join the movement ~ #WearSomething Yellow ~ Send your photos in
Raising Awareness in Uxbridge
The Children and Staff ~ Laurel Lane Primary School
Raising Awareness with The Directory Guys and Global Group
Raising Awareness with Rev Urmila Kurkalang and St Matthew's Church Involved
Did you know that ...
Raising Awareness with Patricia Wright Former CEO and Phil Spivey CPO
The Executive Teams at Hillingdon Hospitals Foundation Trust.
Why Your Support Is Important
Everyday, many of our families are struggling with feelings of isolation. They struggle to meet day to day needs as they juggle with the priorities of caring for their child with cancer.
Many children, parents and siblings struggle under the sheer emotional and psychological shock of a cancer diagnosis and the harsh invasive procedures that are needed in a very short period of time. With feelings of anxiety, depression, fear, grief, social anxiety, separation anxiety, panic and it becomes more impossible to successfully balance and juggle routine work-life priorities against urgent care needs, multiple oncology clinics, hospital scans, administering medication, other sibling needs, school, family and friends. We cannot ignore this.
Please write to your MP to request more funding to provide our children and their families with access to structured wellbeing support after diagnosis. Please click here to read about some of the specialist services we offer.
Raising Awareness with The Rainbow Children's Outpatient Ward team
~ The Hillingdon Hospital
Did you know that ...
Raising Awareness with The Bumblebee Children's Inpatient Ward team
~ Hillingdon Hospital
Raising Awareness with Our Partners ~ The Hillingdon GP Confederation
Raising Awareness with Our Sponsors ~ Knockmoy Consultancy
Raising Awareness with Our sponsors ~ Metro Bank Uxbridge
Raising Awareness - Championing Children with Cancer & Their Families.
Get your teams involved
We need more people from the community to get involved in our #DLFWearSomethingYellow campaign!
Get ready for 2025 AND help us raise more awareness of the impact of childhood cancer on the emotional, practical and spiritual wellbeing of children and their families.
Inspiring Young Minds
We are always inspired by the young people who walk through our doors to volunteer with us.
You bring so much strength and hope to our vision for our children and young people diagnosed with cancer.
Your contributions, inspire us to keep going and together we will gain momentum to amplify the voices of our children and young people with cancer and their families across the UK.
Raising Awareness with Stronger Families Hillingdon
We believe that people make the difference and relationships matter. We joined the Stronger Families Partnerships Hillingdon in September, to gain an understanding of the support that is available for children and their families across Hillingdon, build links with other community-based support teams identify areas of partnership working that responds to the needs of the children, young people and their families at an earliest opportunity.
Get involved and raise awareness to reach more communities
#CCAM #2024 Family Fun Day
Bringing children and families together.
Thank you to all the children, parents, friends and volunteers from various community groups and agencies across our community who joined us on Saturday, 28 September 2024 to make our CCAM family fun day a success.
We loved the high energy, children playing, laughter, fun games and discussions that centred on the purpose of the fun day. Together we saw over 350 people through our doors.
We raised £4640.01 with special thanks to our sponsors and friends at The Directory Guys and KnockMoy Consultancy. We need your help to raise more funds to support our children and their families.
Do something spectacular and join us next year to raise vital funds.
Did you know that ...
Mickey, Minnie Donald and friends
Raising awareness at our Family Fun Day 2024.
Using Dannie's Story to raise awareness of childhood cancer
Hillingdon Hospital Radio, the Mayor's Chosen Charity 2024/25 was live to host a roadshow and broadcast at the #DLFCCAM2024 family fun day.
We partnered with Hillingdon Vision to cover our photography and videography.
Dannie's story and the stories of all the children we support, is the reason we host this event, to inform and educate our community on the inequalities and gaps that exist in the access to, outcomes and experience of holistic wellbeing support in children and young people with cancer and their families.
Do something spectacular and join us next year to raise vital funds.
Raising Awareness with Cllr Colleen Sullivan - Mayor of Hillingdon 2024
Raising Awareness with Cllr Scott Farley and Cllr Labina Basit
Raising Awareness with Brunel University Volunteers.
Students make our communities thrive.
Raising Awareness to Support Children with Cancer
Our #CCAM Family Fun Day bridges the social inclusion gaps in our community through family fun.
No one wants to think about childhood cancer. The thought of a child suffering is difficult. The thought of a child with long term illness is hard. The thought of a child diagnosed with cancer is unbearable and we often retreat for emotional safety just at the thought. Yet this is the reality for 10 children per week in the UK. 1 in 3 of whom will be diagnosed with a brain tumour. Not every childhood cancer diagnosis is terminal but, life will change permanently and often irreversibly for 100% of every diagnosis.
Children will experience changes in their diet, sleeping patterns, speech and language, learning ability, speech and language processes, memory and recall processes, confidence levels, emotional and behavioural changes. The list is long. Imagine the challenges their parents and siblings must face.
Our family fun day helps us draw our community together. We use
Dannie's story
to inform and educate our community on the difficulties our children face through diagnosis and care.
Do something spectacular and join us next year to raise vital funds.
More family fun.
Call To Action! Help Us Reduce Wellbeing Inequalities.
Everyday, many of our families are struggling with feelings of isolation. They struggle to meet day to day needs as the juggle the priorities of caring for their child with cancer.
Many parents struggle under the sheer emotional and psychological shock of a cancer diagnosis and the harsh invasive procedures that are needed in a very short period of time. It becomes impossible to successfully balance juggling work-life priorities against urgent care needs, multiple oncology clinics, hospital scans, administering medication, other sibling needs, school, family and friends.
You can:
- Write to your MP to request more funding to provide our children and their families with access to structured wellbeing support after diagnosis.
- Donate to support our work - we offer practical support, fresh food deliveries, toys at Christmas and birthdays, SENCo to support with learning disabilities, professional advocacy prayer and spiritual support, psychological/emotional counselling, specialist nutrition, assistance with tradesmen and domestic issues.
- Fundraise for our teams - can you host bake sales, picnics, walks, runs, bike rides, swims, adventure trails - just anything fun to raise critical funds to keep our services running?
Please click here to learn more.
Raising Awareness with the London Fire Brigade
Here come our heroes!
We would like to thank the wonderful Blue watch team of our local London Fire brigade. We were delighted you could make the event and stay as long as you did!
Again, no one wants to think about childhood cancer. We recognise that the thought of a child suffering is difficult, the thought of a child with long term illness and the thought of a child diagnosed with cancer is unbearable.
Children with cancer are first children before anything else. Therefore, it was great to see some of our brave firemen walking around our event ground and speaking to various children and families. Thankfully, not every childhood cancer diagnosis is terminal but, life will change permanently and often irreversibly for 100% of every diagnosis.
However, a childhood cancer diagnosis impact the whole family - the child, their parents, siblings, friends, teachers, medical team and more. Our family fun day helps us draw our community together because sadly, this connects us all and cuts across every child service in our community and local authority.
Do something spectacular and join us next year to raise vital funds..
Don't look away now...
More action is required to improve the wellbeing support available to our children. A child diagnosed with cancer requires complex wellbeing and social care support that should be prioritised for alongside medical care, to ensure their holistic needs are addressed whilst receiving care. Through ring-fenced local and national government funding, this is achievable.
The priorities of emotional, mental and psychological self care, sibling care, and other needs quickly fall away in this fast-paced environment become low in priority. Sleep, rest, diet, nutrition, lifestyle, emotional wellbeing increase in low priority and in the medium to long term, changes start to show. Without support, family relationships and friendships start to strain and eventually break apart under the pressure of new and complex wellbeing changes.
Write to your MP today and request more funding to provide our children and their families with access to structured wellbeing support after diagnosis. Do something spectacular and join us next year to raise vital funds.
Do something spectacular and join us next year to raise vital funds.