Walk the Walk grants £100,000 to charity Action Cancer

We’re delighted to have awarded £100,000 to Action Cancer to help support people affected by cancer throughout Northern Ireland.

Action Cancer’s Therapeutic Services can help deal with the physical and emotional impacts of cancer - for example, pain, restrictions, fatigue, sleeplessness, anxiety and fear. The charity offers Counselling, Complementary Therapies, Life Coaching, Peer Mentoring, Scar Therapy and Yoga/Pilates to those in need.

Carol Withers is an HR Manager from Larne. Carol lives with her husband and has two grown up boys aged 25 and 22. Having accessed Complementary Therapy with Action Cancer, following a breast cancer diagnosis, Carol shares her experience:

"I cannot speak highly enough about this service, as well as the invaluable support I received from my therapist, Alicia, throughout the past few months. Alicia is an exceptionally knowledgeable, compassionate, and remarkable individual. Amidst a challenging period in my life, the assistance from Action Cancer, and especially Alicia's support, greatly eased my journey. Her approach was incredibly personal and intuitive; it felt as though Alicia could effortlessly understand my emotions. I am grateful for everything. Thank you so much.”

Alicia Ferguson, Complementary Therapist at Action Cancer, said:

“We are thankful to Walk the Walk for providing us with this funding. Our Therapeutic Services are on offer from Action Cancer House in Belfast and throughout Northern Ireland across 16 locations. Thanks to this funding we will be able to extend our reach to more people like Carol who are living with the impacts of cancer.”

Nina Barough CBE, Founder and Chief Executive of Walk the Walk added:-

“I am delighted to share that Walk the Walk have awarded a grant to Action Cancer. This will fund 1,000 sessions of therapeutic support to around 215 people diagnosed with cancer. I know from my own experience how frightening and isolating a cancer diagnosis can be, so the service which Action Cancer provide to help support cancer patients through an incredibly difficult time, really is life-changing. Three years ago, we were thrilled to be the principal funder of Action Cancer’s new Big Bus, which does such vital work across Northern Ireland, providing health checks and breast screenings for women outside of the NHS screening range, 40-49 and over the age of 70. It is really exciting that by working together again, our charities are continuing to make such a huge difference. Grants, like this one to Action Cancer, are also amazing news for Walk the Walk’s wonderful fundraisers. I cannot thank these fantastic people enough!

The funding will also enable Action Cancer to proceed with the development of an Integrative Cancer Care Pathway model, including the development of relevant programmes and associated IT infrastructure, aimed at establishing Action Cancer as the Northern Ireland Integrative Cancer Care Centre.

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