Action Cancer

The objects for which the Charity is established are: 1) To protect health and wellbeing through the provision of services, equipment and facilities for the treatment and screening against cancer and allied diseases, particularly, but not exclusively in Northern Ireland. 2) To provide help, support and assistance through the development and provision of counselling, coaching, complementary therapies and similar interventions to people directly or indirectly affected by cancer. 3) To develop an awareness of cancer, its allied diseases and related illnesses through the provision of education, diagnostic services, equipment and facilities, the promotion and support of research and the dissemination of information. 4) To effect positive change to the lives of the population of Northern Ireland through promoting, campaigning, lobbying and the general influencing of opinion formers, stakeholders and the general public on issues relating and pertaining to health and specifically cancer, its allied diseases and related illnesses. For the purposes of the objects, people “directly or indirectly affected by cancer” includes individuals who have a suspected or confirmed cancer diagnosis, their relatives, carers, friends, work colleagues and acquaintances. The advancement of education,The advancement of health or the saving of lives