Skip to main content

100% of your donation works hard to keep this service free to patients wherever possible

How it works

We offer 2 free treatments of your choice, after which we invite donations for subsequent treatments.

Our therapists are all volunteers and give their time and expertise for free, as do the lovely people who answer the phone and welcome you when you arrive.

We pay for the continuing professional development of our therapists, car parking, all equipment – acupuncture needles, oils, phones and IT and even this website. Donations are vital in enabling us to continue.

100% of your donation works hard to keep this service free to patients wherever possible.

We make the most of every volunteer and make sure we avoid unnecessary administration costs.

Thank you for donating to My Cancer My Choices

Every 2 minutes someone in the UK is diagnosed with cancer.

Anything you can give will help us to provide free wellbeing-enhancing complementary therapies for people living with cancer.

We appreciate every pound you give us,
and promise to spend it wisely.

These are just some of the ways your donation can help make a difference to someone with cancer.

£10
donation

Buys a 500ml bottle of organic massage oil

£50
donation

Secures a licence for one acupuncturist to treat patients

£150
donation

Trains 10 volunteers to give hand massages

£350
donation

Trains a volunteer massage therapist

Make a regular gift and make a difference today 

Regular donations are extremely important to our charity and help make a huge difference to the lives of our patients.

By choosing to give a regular monthly donation, you will be helping us to plan ahead and make long-term improvements for our patients.

Other ways to donate

In my will

Making a Will is an important way of looking after the future of your family and friends. After you’ve taken care of loved ones, you may wish to leave a gift in your Will to your favourite charity.

It’s a little known fact that most charities wouldn’t survive without gifts in Wills. 

By remembering  My Cancer My Choices in this way, you’re ensuring that our work will continue to provide some respite for others.

If you choose to leave us a gift, we can provide you with our official charity name, address and registered charity number to give to your professional advisor and codicil should you need it.

GET IN TOUCH

Donate your clothes

Whenever you have a wardrobe clear our, you can donate your clothes to us.  Our sustainable clothing partner, Frankie and Ruby, will sort through them and resell or recycle every item and will donate up to 50% of the proceeds to My Cancer My Choices.    

If you click on the link below you can find out exactly how this collaboration works which has already raised over £2000 for the charity.  Turn your preloved clothes into sustainable fashion for others and raise money for us at the same time. 

Donating in memory

In times of loss, it’s often helpful to be able to honour the memory of someone special through a donation to a suitable charity, so that their legacy can live on.

For a recent loss, many also wish to ask family and friends to donate money to a suitable charity, in place of sending flowers to the funeral or memorial.

We have chosen Memory Giving to provide a safe, secure method of collecting donations in memory of a special person. They collect Gift Aid, which further increases the donation, and enable donors to leave a message in tribute to the person being remembered.

 

 

 



Corporate Donation

There are many reasons for businesses to give to charity, a need to be philanthropic, employee engagement, personal emotional reward, even tax benefits.

Whatever your reasons, making a donation to My Cancer My Choices, whether one-off or ongoing, will make an enormous difference to those living with or recovering from cancer.

“We decided to support a local charity as part of our corporate social responsibility and chose My Cancer My Choices when it was all still just a kernel of an idea.

As the charity has grown and developed it has been a joy to watch, an inspiration for our other members, and a privilege to be part of, particularly hearing the impact the charity has had so far on the people it serves.”

Tracey Miller, Director, Bigger Brighter Bolder Ltd, an organisation that supports entrepreneurial businesses. 

Read more about our corporate donors here

Donate by post

Making a single or regular ongoing donation by post couldn’t be easier, and you can use either cheques, postal orders, credit or debit cards.

By cheque – please make cheques payable to ‘My Cancer My Choices’.

By direct debit – please download and fill in our Donation/Standing Order form and then return to us by post to the address below.

Add Gift Aid

Adding Gift Aid to your donation means that any donation you make to My Cancer My Choices in the future, or have made in the past 4 years, will be increased by at least 25% at no extra cost to you.  

This means your £40 donation gives us £50.

To add Gift Aid to your donation – please download our Gift aid form here, fill it in and return to us by post to: 

My Cancer My Choices, 1st Floor, 46 Old Bath Rd, Charvil, Reading. RG10 9QR

So far, with your support…

  • Over 6000 complementary therapies have been provided

  • 28 courses of mindfulness have happened

  • Over 100 complementary therapies are now given each month

  • Over 140 hours of Tai Chi and Yoga sessions completed

  • 750 volunteer hours are donated every month

  • Our team has grown from 9 to 30 therapists

  • We offer treatments at 4 venues across Berkshire and run virtual services