Mairi Semple FundRegistered

The function of the Fund is to provide resources for the relief of any persons normally resident in the designated area and suffering from any type of cancer, and to provide assistance where possible for individual Cancer Research Projects, notwithstanding the provision of para.1(d) of the constitution, and in particular:- (a) to give assistance in the provision of domestic and/or nursing help in Cancer illness, (b) to provide special equipment and/or treatment in the domestic situation where no provision for supplying such is made by the State, (c) to make grants for travelling to suitable Cancer treatment centres to patients and relatives, (d) to permit of measures providing greater privacy, quietness and dignity than may normally obtain in the case of terminal stage cancer in hospitalised patients, (e) to make grants to individual research projects in the Cancer group of diseases, such projects to be determined by the Organising Committee of the Fund.