Yorkshire children’s cancer charity Candlelighters scoops two awards.
The team at children’s cancer charity Candlelighters is celebrating after winning two awards. They were awarded the Charity Excellence prize in the Yorkshire Choice Awards. These awards are designed to…
Candlelighters focus on raising awareness of rare childhood eye cancer, retinoblastoma.
Yorkshire-based children’s cancer charity Candlelighters is raising awareness of a rare eye cancer, to recognise World Retinoblastoma Awareness Week from 11th May – 17th May 2025. Emily Wragg, CEO of…
Candlelighters shine a light on teenage cancer support to reflect awareness month
April is Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Awareness Month, and Yorkshire cancer charity Candlelighters is marking the occasion by shining a light on teenage cancer support. Along with 19 other…
12-year-old’s fundraising applauded by Yorkshire’s children’s cancer charity Candlelighters.
A youngster’s extraordinary fundraising efforts are being celebrated by Candlelighters, Yorkshire’s children’s cancer charity. Recovering cancer patient Josh Faulkner, aged 12, formed the ‘Team Josh’ fundraising group in April 2024…
Candlelighters recognise World Cancer Day with the work of their Supportive Care Research Centre.
Candlelighters, the children’s cancer charity, is marking World Cancer Day on February 4th by recognising the first year’s work of the Candlelighters Supportive Care Research Centre (CSCRC), at The University…
Combine your New Year resolution with fundraising, urges charity.
Children’s cancer charity Candlelighters is urging people with a challenge event on their New Year wish list to consider combining their run, epic hike or obstacle course, with fund-raising for…
Children’s cancer charity Candlelighters celebrate pioneering at-home chemotherapy service.
Yorkshire cancer charity Candlelighters is celebrating after their successful funding of a pioneering at-home chemotherapy service for children. Throughout 2024, the charity funded a brand new NHS role, the Candlelighters’…
Yorkshire family urges people to support ‘double donation’ scheme for children’s cancer charity this Christmas.
A Yorkshire family is encouraging donors to support children’s cancer charity Candlelighters this Christmas, with a matched donation scheme which will double what people give. The matched funding is live…
Candlelighters offers children respite from childhood cancer with weekend residential trip.
Children’s cancer charity Candlelighters hosted a weekend of fun and respite at Lineham Farm for 34 children whose siblings face a cancer diagnosis. Around 150 children in Yorkshire are diagnosed…
Yorkshire children’s charity Candlelighters: one of top three charities in UK for Governance Award.
Candlelighters, a charity supporting children with cancer and their families in Yorkshire, has been shortlisted as one of the top three charities in the UK for the ‘People in Governance’…
Children’s Cancer Charity Candlelighters accredited as 36th in Top 100 Great Places to Work in the UK.
The team at Candlelighters, the Yorkshire-based children’s cancer charity are celebrating after being accredited as 36th in the Top 100 Great Places to Work in the UK. CEO of Candlelighters,…
Candlelighters CEO Emily Wragg shortlisted for Yorkshire Leadership Awards
Emily Wragg, CEO of children’s cancer charity Candlelighters, has been shortlisted for the Public and Third Sector Leader in the Yorkshire Leadership Awards. Candlelighters is a charity which for over…
Reunited: My son’s cancer nurse also treated my sister, as a child.
“My sister had leukaemia 19 years ago. Seeing the same nurse, when my son was diagnosed with cancer, brought all those memories flooding back.” In 2005, when Georgia Lewis was…