Kay's Endeavours (Registered Charity Number 1173531) acts as a support fund for cancer patients. It will offer grants to adults who have a cancer diagnosis and are being treated at St Bartholomew's Hospital. Please click to view our application form, guidance notes and our privacy policy.
Many cancer patients are unable to work temporarily or permanently because of their illness and / or the side effects of the treatments and medication that they receive. Members of their family may also have reduced earnings if they need to stop work or work less in order to care for the patient. They and their families may have many and complex needs in terms of trying to maintain their physical and mental wellbeing whilst dealing with the illness. The charity's aim is to provide funding for measures which will improve the quality of life of the patient and / or their family and to address any gaps in the support which is already available. This could include funding for equipment, medical aids, travel expenses or social / recreational activities.
Kay's Endeavours was set up in memory of our much loved friend Kay Everett who had cancer. Kay was a human rights lawyer who was passionate about protecting the rights of asylum seekers and refugees.
We held a sponsored Coast to Coast Cycle Ride in 2017 and will be undertaking more fundraising activities in 2018. You can donate money to support Kay's Endeavours and you can also set up a fundraising page if you would like to raise money to support the work of the charity. Please contact us if you need any help with organising or promoting a fundraising event or activity.
We use Wonderful in order to collect our donations as they do not charge any fees and so all the money which is donated goes to the charity.
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Kay's Endeavours offers grants to adults who have a cancer diagnosis and are being treated at St Bartholomew's Hospital. The charity's aim is to provide funding for measures which will improve the quality of life of the patient and / or their family. It will not provide funding for medical treatments.
Our aim is to make the application process as simple and quick as possible, while collecting enough information for us to assess each application and manage our funds appropriately.
Please provide your full contact details. We ask your date of birth to establish that you are over 18 and in the event that we need to contact your medical team for supporting information.
Please tell us about your diagnosis and current health.
It would be helpful if you could provide a supporting letter from your medical team. If you are not able to provide this with your application, we would seek to contact the named person to verify your diagnosis and to seek any relevant information to allow us to process your application.
All information provided will be treated confidentially and will not be disclosed to anyone other than the charity's Trustees, who make the decisions on all applications.
Please tell us about what help you need to improve your quality of life. This could be a wide variety of things, such as equipment, medical aids, travel expenses, help with bills, social or recreational activities, child care or anything that would make a significant difference to your quality of life. We are not able to fund medical treatments.
Please tell us the monetary value of the assistance requested, when any payments need to be made and who the payments need to be made to. If you have quotations, please include copies with your application.
This is your chance to tell us more about your circumstances and why you need support. Remember that we need to know how a grant will improve your quality of life.
You do not have to be on a means tested benefit to apply for a grant. Please tell us about your household income, your family composition, any debts you may have, and why you need this grant. If you are receiving benefits, please tell us what you are receiving.
Please tell us if you have applied to anyone else for this help and the likely time it will take to get this help. This will help us assess your application and its urgency.
Please sign and date this application form. In signing, you are agreeing that we may contact your medical team for supporting medical information in relation to your application. We will treat all information supplied in confidence and will not disclose any medical information provided, other than to the charity's Trustees who make decisions on all applications. You are also agreeing that we can hold and process your data in order to consider your application and, if your application is successful, to help provide the assistance you have applied for and for related purposes including administration and accounting purposes, analysis to help us manage Kay's Endeavours, statutory returns and legal and regulatory compliance. We will deal with your data in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Please let us know if at any point you have any concern about us continuing to hold and process your data.
This privacy policy tells you how Kay's Endeavours collects and uses personal information about individuals. We collect information about individuals who may benefit from our financial support, those who have received one of our grants and information about our trustees, who manage the charity.
We are a grant giving charity that provides financial help to individuals in financial need who meet our criteria, subject to available funding.
We collect some financial details and may also collect health information in order to assess a grant application submitted to us.
We will need to know an individual's name, address, telephone numbers and/or email address so we can:
We only keep this information for as long as we need to for the purpose of the application. We make sure we keep the information secure and comply with legal rules that are in place so we can process this information safely. If we process personal information about you, we are willing to:
If you want a copy of the personal information we hold about you, you should write to us (at the address below).
All applications should be made by email. Please note that the transmission of personal information and other data via email is not completely secure. If you do not have access to email then you can submit an application by post (Kay's Endeavours, 64 Ulverston Road London E17 4BW).
Yes, sometimes, but only if we need to for the purposes of carrying out our activities. For example, we may buy goods such as medical aids or equipment from external suppliers who will need your name and contact details so that they can deliver these items to you.
We may also share your information with other charities who could assist with your application, or who are currently helping you, to enable us both to make a decision regarding assistance. This will only be done with your explicit consent.
We will not disclose personal information about your health to anyone else unless we have your explicit consent.
There are other legal reasons where we may need to pass personal information to a public body. For example, we may be asked to pass information to law enforcement agencies, to investigate a crime.
We will only use personal information to promote the charity with explicit consent from you.
When someone visits our website www.kaysendeavours.org.uk we may use Google analytics to collect standard log information about visitors and general details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out how many people visit the site. We collect this information in a way that does not identify anyone. We do not seek to link that information to anyone or use it in any other way.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or to provide information to the owners of a website about how it is being used by visitors to that website. We use cookies only as part of Google analytics, to see if someone has viewed our website previously.
You can contact us by email at contact@kaysendeavours.org.uk or by post to:
Data Protection OfficerIf you think the personal information we hold on you is inaccurate, or out of date, please contact us (using the contact details above) so that we can correct it.