21st Marathon des Sables 2006

About CLIC Sargent

Every 48 hours, 10 children are diagnosed with cancer or leukaemia. CLIC Sargent acts as a lifeline keeping families together when the unimaginable happens. With your support, CLIC Sargent will help families to get back on their feet.

CLIC and Sargent Cancer Care for Children merged in January 2005 to become CLIC Sargent, the UK’s leading children’s cancer charity. We will be there for each family, caring every step of the way, providing individual support to children and young people with cancer and leukaemia and their families through:

• Clinical, psychosocial, emotional and financial services in hospital, at home and in the community across the UK
• Being a strong voice nationally and locally
• Research into improving treatment and care
• The care and treatment of children with cancer has come a long way and today, 7 out of 10 children and young people diagnosed, will survive.

CLIC Sargent is committed to improving this figure still further through its specialist care and by funding both clinical and social research projects.

Two facts remain the same, however, and must not be ignored:

• Cancer is still the largest killer disease in young children.
• The survivors of childhood cancer face major challenges of on-going side effects and discrimination. They still need our support

Sargent Cancer Care for Children was founded in 1968 by Sylvia Darley OBE as a lasting memory to the late Sir Malcolm Sargent.
CLIC – Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood was founded in 1976, in the South West, by Bob Woodward, following the death of his young son to cancer
For more info please visit www.clicsargent.org.uk

James Corrigan and James Elson raised nearly £13,900 for CLIC Sargent by running the 21st Marathon des Sables in 2006 across the Sahara Desert.