OUR SERVICES
OUR SUPPORT
Receiving a cancer diagnosis can be the start of a very emotional time for the person with the condition, their family, friends and work colleagues. Our service users will be receiving support to deal with these emotions is a very important part of acceptance and recovery. All service users have an initial telephone or face to face assessment, which is more of an informal chat, so that we can assess the support required and start booking services which will provide the service users immediate relief, comfort and solace. During the meeting we will talk about the service users' individual circumstances, cancer treatment, any concerns they have and what support they are looking for. If the support required is out of our mandate, we signpost service users to the appropriate service provider.
Our Approach
Talking Therapy (Adult & Children)
Our Talking therapies are effective and confidential services delivered by fully trained volunteers. We safely recruit volunteers from healthcare providers and they can help with common mental health problems like stress, anxiety and depression associated with cancer diagnosis and treatments for people who use our service in the community. Where appropriate we work with local organisations and other charities to signpost people who use our service for safe and effective further support. All Volunteers are Mental Health First Aider (MHFA) trained.
Advocacy
We enable people to be involved and have a say in the community and in their health and welling. We will work with the community to have their concerns and needs addressed in a timely manner. We are aware of the disproportionality and disparities in health care and in particular cancer awareness, prevention, and treatment programmes amongst ethnic minority communities. We work with our community to promote and express the views and wishes of people who use our service and their human rights in a person-centred way including the BAME communities.
Food Bank Service
The Charity will be addressing community health disparities through our food bank services. Work with local services and supper markets such as Tesco, Asda, and Sainsbury to fight against malnutrition especially to those battling with cancer in our community, we will work with these foodbank charities and supermarkets to provide perishable and non-perishable food to people who use our services in the community. Our Food Bank will deliver weekly perish and non-perishables food to people with cancer in the community who are finding it difficult to meet their nutrition and hydration needs.
Respite
Through our valued volunteers, CANCER UK-SALONE, provides respite to families of those suffering from Cancer in the U.K.
Our volunteers help with shopping, assisting people with community engagement, medical appointments, befriending and talking therapy.
This is achieved via a risk assessment to identify needs and providing trained and experienced volunteers who are safely vetted by CANCER U.K.-SALONE to provide respite support to the families of someone with cancer. Depending on the risks and need assessments this service will be triaged and offered so other family members can have a rest or use such time to do other activities that are personal to them.
This provision will be diverted to families with young children and serious medical conditions such as cancer, leukaemia, and /or other conditions where appropriate, and where the family or parent are identified to need respite, especially at night or if they want to rest or do some domestic engagements.
Support with picking up medication from the pharmacy if the client or their family is unable to or just need a break.
Support with small scale shopping if the client or their family is unable to or just need a break; this service will be provided via a referral pathway.
We will create a database of volunteers who are robustly vetted and in line with our safeguarding and wellbeing policy and procedures, we will provide training that will lead to our volunteers successfully providing respite care for our community. Such respite could include watching over a child in their own homes, whilst the parents have a good night's rest or create play activities whilst parents step out to the store or for an appointment, our respite caregiver could also join families to medical appointments or organise activities as an extra support. The Charity will work closely with local organisations, G.Ps, Hospitals, Cancer wards to enable effective referral pathways to our services and other local partnerships.
The Impact
Our service users will feel more inclusive and have connections to their community. These services will have a positive result on our service users and their family’s wellbeing.
The charity also works overseas in Sierra Leone (West Africa) with the same objectives, policies, and procedures as in the UK and follows all guidance and legal requirements within Sierra Leone to provide support to local people with no access to healthcare and support and treatments. The prevention, diagnostics, support care and treatment are virtually non-existent in most parts of the country. The Charity will work alongside other local partners and volunteers to educate, raise awareness, signpost, give psychosocial support and provide community capacity building and sensitisation around cancer in local communities.
Trustees
In the UK, the Trustees work with the Charity’s Constitution and governing documents to ensure the Charity’s objects are met in line with demands, targeting and serving the intended beneficiaries. The Trustees will monitor these objectives, purposes and have regular meetings, assess, review through feedback to ensure quality assurance and improvement of our services. The Trustees are mandated to ensure our services are standardised, delivered in a respectful, equitable, accountable manner and not compromising the quality of care received by our beneficiaries.
The charity also works overseas in Sierra Leone (West Africa) with the same objectives, policies, and procedures as in the UK and follows all guidance and legal requirements within Sierra Leone to provide respectful, accessible, quality and free access to cancer care to our beneficences.
The charity also works overseas in Sierra Leone (West Africa) with the same objectives, policies, and procedures as in the UK and follows all guidance and legal requirements within Sierra Leone to provide support to patients with no access to cancer care, support and treatment. Prevention, diagnostics, supportive care and treatment are virtually non-existent in most parts of Sierra Leone. The Charity will work alongside other local partners and volunteers to:
Advocacy
We advocate and lobby in the best interest of our beneficiaries.
Educate
Communities, schools and institutions on lifestyle changes to reduce their risks, create awareness on prevention, signs and symptoms.
Support
Provide psychosocial support by funding diagnostics, counselling, treatment and palliative care including medication and nutrition for underprivileged and vulnerable groups, especially women and children.
Capacity Building
Provide cancer care training to healthcare professionals and community health groups
Wellbeing
Our holistic approach covers both the physical and mental wellbeing of our beneficiaries.
The Charity carries out its purpose with the best interest of the community at heart. The trustees will ensure our daily activities are in line with our objects/purpose for the benefit of the community and reflect our governance policies and procedures. The charity practices minimal or no financial transaction between the charity and its beneficiaries but outsource needs to service providers.
