Donate to help us beat cancer

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Regular donations fund world-class research

Donate monthly to support over 4,000 researchers, doctors and nurses working tirelessly to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer. Now and in the future.

When you make a regular donation, even if it’s a small amount, your impact builds up over time. With that reliable income, we can plan ahead and commit to long-term research projects with huge potential to help beat cancer.

Want to increase or make a change to your regular donation?

You can manage your donation online. Or if you’d like to decrease or stop your regular donation, please call us on 0300 123 1861 or email supporter.services@cancer.org.uk. We are so grateful for whatever support you can offer to help beat cancer.

Over a year, your donations add up

£10 a month could fund a research nurse for a day

Research nurses support and monitor patients during their treatment, and raise awareness of our trials.

£25 a month could buy a blood sample machine

These machine spins blood until they separate. Our scientists can then study cancerous cells to find out about them and target their weak spots.

£40 a month could run Cancer Chat for a day

Cancer Chat is our safe online space, open to everyone affected by cancer. It can provide a lifeline to people with cancer and their loved ones.

£50 a month could help fund the next breakthrough

This could pay for a research assistant for a week. They carry out important experiments that bring us closer to the next cancer research breakthrough.

Meet Oliver

I feel fortunate to have the chance to help with medical research. It’s an exciting time – we need the investment and the funds now.

- Oliver

Oliver was diagnosed with tonsil cancer in 2009 after spotting swollen glands under his jaw. He then had a tonsillectomy followed by chemotherapy. Oliver also took part in a trial we funded. It investigated whether a new type of radiotherapy caused fewer side effects, and if it worked as well as standard radiotherapy for head and neck cancers.

Fund the research that matters most to you

We’re the only charity fighting over 200 types of cancer. When you give to Cancer Research UK, we think carefully about where we spend the income across all cancer types.

We have 17 research areas you can choose to fund. From bowel cancer to children’s cancers or simply where the need is greatest.

Other ways to donate

There are other ways you can support our amazing research if you don't want to donate online.

Take on a fundraising challenge or activity

• Fundraise through your own Giving Page

• Find someone else's Giving Page

• Pay in your fundraising

Leave something behind to help others

• Leave a gift in your Will

• Donate in memory

• Organise a funeral collection

Donate your pre-loved items

• Donate items to a shop

• Find a shop

Give effortlessly through donation schemes

• Find out about Gift Aid

• Learn about Payroll Giving

Make philanthropic donations

• Learn about philanthropy at Cancer Research UK

Donate online, by post or phone

Donate online

Our online form is the quickest way to donate.

Post

You can send us a single donation form(PDF) or a regular donation form(PDF). Our Freepost address is on the forms.

Phone

Call our supporter services on 0300 123 1022 (8 am - 6 pm)

Stay in control of how you give

If you already donate to Cancer Research UK, you can increase or change how much you give and how often.