Big Give Christmas Challenge 2024

We are excited to announce that we are taking part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge 2024, the UK’s largest matched funding campaign.

Donate on the Big Give website between 12 noon on Tuesday 3rd December and 12 noon on Tuesday 10th December 2024 and double the impact of your donation.

One donation, double the impact.

For one week only, any donation you make to our project, Innovation to Impact: A Cure for Neuroblastoma will be DOUBLED - up to £5,000!

So if you donate £10, it will turn into £20. Or £25 will become £50. At no extra cost to you!

With your support, we can accelerate research and give children with neuroblastoma the future they deserve.

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What is the Big Give Christmas Challenge?

The Big Give Christmas Challenge runs for seven days each year and offers supporters of participating charities the opportunity to have their donation doubled.
Alongside donations from our generous Big Give Pledgers, Neuroblastoma UK have been offered match funding thanks to our Big Give Champion Pledgers ShareGift. We are truly grateful for their support.
Your donation will be DOUBLED by our generous Big Give Pledgers (The first £5000 of donations).
Donate early to make sure your donation is DOUBLED and help us raise £10,000 for neuroblastoma research this Christmas.
All donations must be made on the Big Give platform to be doubled.

Your donation can enable scientists to take crucial first steps on the road of discovery

Innovation to Impact: A Cure for Neuroblastoma

The money raised during the Big Give Christmas Challenge will help provide new research grants and vital pump-priming funding for innovative neuroblastoma research.

With your support, we can enable scientists to take crucial first steps on the road of discovery and get us closer to a cure for neuroblastoma.

Donate to the Big Give Christmas Challenge and help save young lives

How can I take part?

Save the date. Tuesday 3rd December until Tuesday 10th December 2024
Sign up to pledge your support and receive an email reminder
Raise money with family, friends or colleagues. Hold a coffee morning, donate money instead of buying Christmas cards or skip a weekend treat and donate the money you saved!

Bethany’s Story

Neuroblastoma is a rare and aggressive childhood cancer, and sadly not every child survives. Bethany was diagnosed with neuroblastoma at just 2 years old and bravely endured months of intense treatment. Despite her incredible courage and resilience, Bethany passed away at the age of 5 on Christmas Eve.

Just weeks before her 2nd birthday, Bethany was diagnosed with stage four high risk neuroblastoma, after a lump was found in her tummy. She needed intensive treatment for a year and a half, and was clear of her cancer for around six months.

But two years after her initial diagnosis, a routine scan in May 2019 showed that the cancer had returned in her head. Beth needed more chemotherapy and the tumour was successfully removed. Eight weeks later, another scan showed cancer spots in her hips. Beth carried on with her treatment for another three months, but in September 2019 another routine scan showed that it hadn’t worked.

It was then that her family made the extremely hard decision to stop Beth’s treatment, take her home and give her the best life they could in the short time they had together. On Christmas Eve 2019, Beth quietly passed away. She was five years old.

Bethany’s story is a reminder of how urgently we need more effective treatments and a cure. This December, you can honour children like Bethany by donating to fund the life-saving research that could change the future for other children battling this devastating disease. The first £5000 donated will be doubled, thanks to Big Give match funding - meaning your donation can have double the difference. Together, we can save more lives and bring hope to families facing neuroblastoma.”

Donate today and help make double the difference.