School fundraising

Be part of our plan

Your school can be part of our plan to build a Children's and Teenage Cancer Centre at The Royal Marsden Hospital in Sutton.

Find out about how you can hold a Hair Raising day at your school. Or visit the our plan website for more general information.

The story so far...

At The Royal Marsden, we specialise in treating people with cancer – 40,000 of them a year. And as some of our patients are smaller than others we've got a special children's unit called The Wolfson Children and Adolescent Unit.

It's a very special place and one of the largest children's units in the UK, seeing more then 900 young patients.

Today, 1 in 650 children develop cancer but thanks to places like The Wolfson Children and Adolescent Unit three-quarters of them are cured and go on to become wrinkly old grown-ups.

The big task!

Our task is to raise half a million pounds a year to keep improving with the latest technology, research and treatments.

That's why we're calling on Captain Chemo and you to help us do just that. Captain Chemo and his Chemo Command have a two missions:

• to help you learn more about childhood cancers and their treatment
• to help you help us to raise the money which our team needs.

The Adventures of Captain Chemo were created by Benjamin de Garis who died in July 1998 aged 18, having had treatment at The Royal Marsden Hospital since he was 13.

Visit the Captain Chemo website to learn more about cancer and its treatment. Most importantly, assist the Captain and his Chemo Command on their quest to maneuver the Chemo Craft to shoot and destroy tumours and bacteria.

Join our daredevil cadets

There are a number of ways you can help The Royal Marsden:

• Select The Royal Marsden as your charity of the year and fundraise with the Chemo Command throughout the year.
• Become an honorary Cadet for the day by holding a Captain Chemo Day at your school and fundraise for The Royal Marsden's Wolfson Children and Adolescent Unit.

To help you along the way, Captain Chemo has some great ideas of what Cadets can do with his A–Z of fundraising ideas.

For more information about getting your school involved call us on 020 8770 0279 or email captainchemo@rmh.nhs.uk