The Latest Breaking News from Young Lives vs Cancer

Children with cancer to have travel costs paid in new £10 million scheme

The fund is part of a wider package to transform young people’s cancer care

The Independent UK · Feb 2

Mother to join Kiltwalk to raise funds for charity she set up in son’s memory

Six-year-old Jaxon McKenzie, from West Lothian, died last December just eight months after being diagnosed with a brain stem tumour.

Evening Standard · Sep 11, 2025

Relaxing lottery rules in NI ‘would hand charities multimillion funding boost’

MLA Sian Mulholland has proposed a private member’s bill that would enable operators like the People’s Postcode Lottery to set up in the region.

Evening Standard · May 9, 2025

Charity shuts all its shops as cost of living crisis makes them too expensive to run

Young Lives vs Cancer, which supports children and young people and their families fighting cancer, has announced the closure of 13 charity shops, affecting 39 jobs, and 300 volunteer posts

Daily Mirror · Jun 1, 2023

'I have aggressive cancer - huge travel cost meant I almost gave up treatment'

The cost-of-living crisis is hitting young people going through cancer treatment hard, with a third of families saying they’ve been forced to cut back on food, and one in five selling possessions to cover the cost of getting treatment

Daily Mirror · May 23, 2023

Nurse's panic when baby 'taken away' at eight days old

Leanne Aydemir noticed a rash on baby Kerem's face

Liverpool Echo · Apr 1, 2023

Charities write to PM demanding more help for households in fuel poverty

A poll for the End Fuel Poverty Coalition suggests 76% think the Government is not doing enough to support vulnerable households this winter.

The Independent UK · Nov 3, 2022

Intrepid Lanarkshire schoolboy scales Ben Nevis in aid of children's cancer charity

The 11-year-old has raised over £900 for Young Lives vs Cancer

Daily Record · Oct 14, 2022

'I noticed a spot on my back but at 21 it never crossed my mind I had cancer'

Jak Howell thought the mark on his back was just an insect bite - but sadly he was diagnosed with stage 3 melanoma

Wales Online · Apr 8, 2022