#ActOfUnity

LET’S BEAT CHILDHOOD CANCERS SOONER

SUPERHEROES UNITE! Thank you for supporting World cancer Day 2017 and uniting your school in a life-saving fundraising effort. On 4th February everyone across the UK and the world, will join forces in an incredible #ActOfUnity to accelerate progress in the fight against cancer. Unite your school for a superhero themed dress-up day during January or February to help find cures and kinder treatments for young people facing cancer. This pack has all the tips and advice you need to get your school’s fundraising off to a flying start and remember to capture your Act Of Unity on film. If you’d like any more information on World Cancer Day please call us 0300 123 1022 or visit cruk.org.uk/worldcancerday.

LET’S BEAT CHILDHOOD CANCERS SOONER

SUPERHEROES UNITE Uniting your students in a life-saving fundraising effort has never been easier. Follow our 10 steps to success and your superheroes will be taking over the world in no time. 1. Chat to your staff about holding a superhero themed dress-up day to support World Cancer Day and set a date during January or February. 2. Staff and Students can wear superhero fancy dress (or casual dress if preferred) and make a £1 voluntary donation to Cancer Research UK. 3. Don’t forget you can also order a box of 50 Kids & Teens Unity Bands to distribute in the run up to 4th February. Your box of 50 Kids & Teens Unity Bands is free of charge from the Cancer Research UK online shop, just head to cruk.org/SchoolUnityBands 4. Use the letter/email template attached to notify parents of the upcoming event. 5. Promote the day using the posters provided online and in this pack. 6. Collect the £1 donation on the day from each superhero. 7. Unite your superheroes together and capture your ‘Act of Unity’ on camera. You can even plan an event on the day – see our ‘on the day suggestions’. 8. Once you’ve collected your donations return the proceeds from your superhero themed dress-up day using the instructions provided on the ‘returning your money’ page of this pack. 9. Share your cancer beating act with us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram using the hashtag #ActofUnity and @CRUK_Kids

How your superhero fundraising effort can make a difference

£20

The cost of running our Cancer Chat Forum for one hour, helping many parents and families through very difficult times.

Pays for the time of an expert statistician for a day. With over 6 in 10 children on

£85

clinical trials, it’s essential we have these amazing minds to crunch through the numbers to uncover the best and kindest treatments.

Buys a special chemical measuring tool

£100

that lets scientists find out the size of DNA molecules. These tools are being used by Professor Steven Clifford and his team in Newcastle, as they analyse the genetic signatures of children’s brain tumours and use them to predict the best treatments.

£200

Buys a pipette, an essential item to make our paediatric scientists’ experiments accurate, giving the precise results needed to accelerate breakthroughs in the lab, and save the lives of more children.

£400

Is the amount it costs to run one of our recent clinical trials for a day, to find out if new drugs can

£1,800

help children with leukaemia whose cancer has stopped responding to chemotherapy, or has come back after treatment.

The costs of the work of our Children’s Clinical Trials Team for one day, It’s only by running clinical trials that we can find better and kinder treatments for the brave children, teens and young adults with cancer, and keep more families together.

Registered charity in England & Wales (1089464), Scotland (SCO14666) & the Isle of Man (1103). © Cancer Research UK 2015. All rights reserved. The Cancer Research UK name and logo, and the Cancer Research UK Kids and Teens logo are registered trademarks of Cancer Research UK.

All you need to know about fundraising for Cancer Research UK Kids & Teens

Is your fundraising all done?

Here’s how to get your money to us. WE ARE HERE TO HELP

It’s easy – you can pay in the money you’ve raised online, by phone or post. Online You can pay in with a debit or credit card at cruk.org/WorldCancerDaySchoolsFundraising Phone Call us on 0300 123 1022 to make a payment by credit or debit card.  Post You can send us a cheque using the money return form in this pack.

WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR LEFT OVER UNITY BANDS If you do have any spare Unity Bands after your fundraising event, please recycle the box and return only the bands. All you simply need to do is put the bands in an envelope to FREEPOST CANCER RESEARCH UK and we’ll receive them. Please do not send money to this address.

CRUK.org/worldcancerdayschools

If you’d like any more information on World Cancer Day please don’t be shy, give us a call on 0300 123 1022

@CRUKKidsandTeens

@CRUK_Kids

MONEY RETURN FORM Thank you so much for your fundraising! To make sure that all the money you have raised is correctly allocated to Cancer Research UK Kids & Teens, please complete this form and send it back to us at the address below, along with your fundraising money.



Your Name: School Email: School Name: Address: Postcode:

Please find enclosed a cheque(s)/Postal Order for:

£

Please ensure that all cheques are made payable to Cancer Research UK.

If your activity was sponsored then please also include a completed sponsorship form– you can download these from our website. This enables us to claim Gift Aid on your contribution, and UK taxpayers can add an extra 25% to their sponsorship at no extra cost to them. Make sure your sponsors write their full name, home address and postcode on the form, so we can claim Gift Aid. The form must be completed in their own handwriting.

The address to send everything to is: Cancer Research UK PO Box 1561 OXFORD OX4 9GZ

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

FOR OFFICE USE ONLY SOURCE CODE: SCZBRND16 PRODUCT CODE: CHCOFF RES: RES814

Registered charity in England & Wales (1089464), Scotland (SCO14666) & the Isle of Man (1103).

WE’RE PLAYING OUR PART IN ONE INCREDIBLE #ActOfUnity Dear Parent or Carer,

World cancer Day needs our support. Young people and children fighting cancer need our school. Future generations need our school. In a life-saving fundraising effort, we are uniting our school in one incredible #ActOfUnity for World Cancer day 2017. Our students will join forces with millions of others across the UK and the world to play their part in an #ActOfUnity that will accelerate progress in the fight against childhood cancer. We’re uniting for every single young person and child affected by cancer. Our school’s fundraising will save lives. Join our #ActOfUnity Today.

We are uniting by: Superhero Day Selling unity bands

With your help we will find cures and kinder treatments for young people facing cancer.

Cancer Research UK is the world’s leading cancer charity dedicated to discovering new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer. Survival rates over the past 40 years have doubled. Cancer Research UK’s ambition is to accelerate progress so that three in every four people survive.

Every day around 11 young people in the UK are diagnosed with cancer. Despite improving survival rates, cancer is the leading cause of death in children, teenagers and young adults.

Thank you so much for your Support cruk.org/worldcancerdayschools CRUK.org/worldcancerdayschools

@CRUKKidsandTeens

@CRUK_Kids

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