Grants Awarded
Arcobaleno Cancer Trust (ACT) provides grants to assist in the treatment and care of those suffering from cancer.
ACT has raised over £500,000 to support the advancement of medical research into the causes, treatments and potential cures for all types of cancer. For more information on how to apply for an ACT grant, please click on the link button.
Grants Awarded
ACT has raised over £500,000 to support the advancement of medical research into the causes, treatments & potential cures for all types of cancer.
ACT provides grants to assist in the treatment and care of those suffering from cancer.
For more information on how to apply for an ACT grant, please click the button below.
Major Research Grants
We are also grateful that we made the final grant payment of £30,000 to The Institute of Cancer Research, marking the third year of Dr. Sally George’s project, [Read more...]
Our Race Night last March was an incredible success, and we proudly raised an amazing £73,833 for The Royal Marsden's Precision Therapeutics projects. We recently received confirmation from [Read more...]
We had the pleasure to be invited to the The Institute of Cancer Research, in Sutton, to meet with Dr Sally George and see what our grant of [Read more...]
These funds have supported the new cellular immunotherapy unit which supports the setup and implementation of complex clinical studies in both Haemato-Oncology and solid tumours cell therapies. Immuno-oncology [Read more...]
Small Grants Awarded *
* The maximum amount that can be applied for is £5,000
ACT has awarded a grant of £5,000 to support a 12-month research project led by Professor James Flanagan at Imperial College London, in partnership [Read more...]
ACT granted £3,515 to the Institute of Cancer Research to purchase a specialised spot- curing lamp for use in bladder cancer research. The equipment [Read more...]
ACT has awarded a grant of £5,000 to Great Ormond Street Hospital to fund advanced statistical analysis as part of a multidisciplinary study into [Read more...]
ACT has awarded £4,990 to support Dr Jarvis at Imperial College London in applying lipid systems biology approaches to the diagnosis and understanding of [Read more...]
ACT's grant of £5,000 will support Professor McHugh's investigation into whether a protein called SNM1A represents a viable therapeutic target in ALT-dependent cancers — [Read more...]
Thyroid nodules are common, but around one-third of biopsies produce unclear results — often leading to surgery as a precaution. Yet only 20% of [Read more...]
Grants from Siobhan’s Legacy
We have awarded an additional grant to Noah's Ark Children's Hospice, this time for the Bereavement Support Service. This service provides emotional, social and [Read more...]
Noah's Ark Children's Hospice provides clinical, emotional, and practical care to babies, children, and young people with life-limiting conditions, including cancer. ACT's grant of [Read more...]
We are also grateful that we made the final grant payment of £30,000 to The Institute of Cancer Research, marking the third year of [Read more...]
Building on prior research identifying CD180 as a marker of treatment-resistant leukaemia stem cells, this project will evaluate CD180 expression across 15 subtypes of [Read more...]
This project, continuing our support for the work of Dr Antonis Pouliopoulos at King's College London, is developing a gene therapy for children with [Read more...]
Haven House Children's Hospice provides holistic, child-led therapies for children with life- limiting conditions, including cancer. ACT's grant of £5,000 will fund 48 therapy [Read more...]
Apply for a Grant
If you’d like to apply for an ACT grant, firstly please ensure that your request is eligible by checking it against our Grants Policy, available to view or download here.
If you’d like to go ahead and make an application, please download our Application Form (also available here) and send a completed version to info@arcobalenocancertrust.com.
We consider applications periodically, and will respond in due course.
