William’s Fund raises money for research into Childhood Cancers.

William’s Fund was established in February 2001 in memory of William, who died on December 12 2000 at the age of 4 years and 9 months. William amazed everyone at how he coped, always smiling with a twinkle in his eye that won so many hearts. Since William died, we have raised over £600,000 for The Childhood Cancer Research Fund*, All the profits raised by William’s Fund go directly to the research programme. We have no paid employees and administration is all voluntary.

Something many people do not know is that the key to treatment of cancer, especially childhood cancer, lies in the diagnosis, without that; the prognosis is poor. Childhood cancers behave in a very different way to adult cancers; they respond differently to treatment and can be unpredictable in both positive and negative ways. Dr Mitchell who was William’s consultant is running the research programme, which is very specific to Childhood Cancer, at laboratories in Oxford; he has little funding other than charity and no official fundraisers. There are now several researchers and some incredible results, which will also help the understanding of general cancers, whilst focusing on rare childhood forms.  There are of course many big charities concerned with cancer but most are focused on adult forms and this may not help the children.                                             

 

William inspired us to start the fundraising and we see this as a fitting tribute to William to continue in his name. Please help us to support this vital research.