CLIC Sargent are very proud to be working on our third Big Sing and we are confident 2008 will be the biggest and best year yet!

CLIC Sargent is the UK’s leading children’s cancer charity offering all round care and support for children and young people with cancer and their families.


During treatment – specialist nurses, doctors, play specialists, Homes from Home

In hospital & at home – specialist social care and family support

In the community – specialist youth services, holidays, grants, helpline

After treatment – helping survivors, supporting those bereaved, research


CLIC Sargent provides the widest range of services and the highest number of care professionals. Our services are tailored to family-needs, using feedback from our service-users. As advocates we give children, young people and their families a strong national voice, helping them to be heard and understood. Our clinical research looks at ways of improving treatment and managing side-effects, to help patients and to improve quality of life for survivors.

Every pound you raise can really make a difference.

  • £1.50 puts cancer and leukaemia into words that young children can understand, in a set of three colourful storybooks written especially for children under 10.
  • £5.00 could buy some finger puppets which will help a CLIC Sargent Play Specialist to explain treatment to young children in a gentle way, helping them to understand, and better cope with, treatment.
  • £10.00 provides parents with CLIC Sargent’s ‘File of Facts. Many parents find our Filofax indispensable as it contains useful hospital information, charts for blood counts and space to record other key facts about a child’s treatment.
  • £20.00 helps buy several blood sample kits that CLIC Sargent Nurses can use on a home visit, saving a family making a round trip to hospital for a simple blood test.
  • £50.00 means that a CLIC Sargent Social Worker can be there soon after diagnosis, talking to a family one-to-one. Every family is different, so we assess their individual needs and tailor our services to suit them.
  • £100.00 means a young person who has (or had) cancer or leukaemia can go on an activity weekend. After months in hospital it helps them restore self-confidence, regain independence and rebuild a social life.
  • £200.00 funds a CLIC Sargent Care Grant which helps families with the extra costs of caring for a very sick child, such as bigger phone bills, travel costs and heating bills.
  • £280.00 will accommodate a family at a CLIC Sargent Home from Home for 10 days. Here they can stay together within walking distance of the hospital where their child is being treated, which is often many miles from their own home.
  • £1,000 means that a family can enjoy a relaxing holiday together, taking a break from the trauma of treatment, at Malcolm Sargent House in Ayrshire. It may be the first family holiday for years.

Everyone at CLIC Sargent is sure the Big Sing 2008 will be a great success and we hope you all have lots of fun taking part.