Local Charities

Check out the local charities listed below. These serve the local community and offer practical, emotional, lifestyle and financial guidance.

National Cancer Charity

Macmillan has spent more than 100 years helping people living with cancer. From the moment someone is diagnosed with cancer, they are there with all the information, support and guidance they need, to help everyone with cancer live life as fully as they can

Our chairman, Paul Baker, having worked for many years in the cancer field was encouraged by the Macmillan Information Centre in Hereford County Hospital to set up a cancer support group to serve the local community.

Maggies Centres

Maggie's is a safe place that offers emotional, financial and practical support to all those affected by Cancer. Maggie's also offer a monthly group meeting (mini Maggie's) in the Forest of Dean on the third Friday of the month between 10-2pm, at The Main Place, Old Stations Way, Coleford GL16 8RH.

The Main Place, Coleford

Contact

The Lodge, College Baths Road, Cheltenham, GL53 7QB

Tel: 01242 250 611

email cheltenham@maggies.org

Website/s

Maggies Cheltenham

Getting Men Talking

A charity on a mission to make life better and easier for men with cancer. We want men to enjoy life and have fun by connecting them both in-person and online in supportive environments.

Contact

The Cancer Club is a virtual community so has no physical offices but can be contacted via the below details:

Address: 7 The Halliards, Walton-on-Thames KT12 2LT

Phone: 07760 164133

Email: info@thecancerclub.co.uk

Website/s

The Cancer Club

You can join free HERE

Herefords leading Cancer Charity and Therapy Centre

YELENI is Herefords leading Cancer Charity and Therapy Centre offering free support and therapies to people living with cancer paid therapies to the public. Free personalised health support to anyone living with any cancer at any stage and also to your main carer.

Contact

Address: 2 Blackfriars St, Hereford HR4 9HSPhone:

01432 342342

Email: info@yelenisupport.co.uk

Website/s

Yeleni Website

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Our Story.

We are a self-help voluntary group, run by people living with, and affected by cancer, working on a community basis since 2016 covering the Ross-on-Wye and surrounding area of this important market town in rural Herefordshire. We are here to support anyone affected by cancer, either directly or indirectly regardless of age, on a non-discrimination basis in a friendly and empathetic way. The chair, Paul Baker, having worked for many years in the cancer field was encouraged by the Macmillan Information Centre in Hereford County Hospital to set up a cancer support group to serve the local community.