Could your organisation help to increase cancer awareness in your local community?

Royal Marsden Partners (RMP) is offering up to £4,000 to local community and voluntary groups to deliver four targeted campaigns focusing on cancer awareness in 2025-2026. 

Each campaign will run in a specific month to link in with national awareness activity or localised campaigns, as below: 

• September 2025 – Bladder Cancer, focused on women with vague/lesser-known symptoms

• October 2025 – Bowel Cancer, focused on areas and communities with a low uptake of screening

• November 2025 – Lung Cancer, focused on people who currently smoke

• February 2026 – Oesophageal Cancer, a collaborative campaign with Heartburn UK to raise awareness of common signs and symptoms.

Campaigns will require organisations to run both an in-person event or activity, as well as an online digital campaign using social media.

You will be supported to share simple messaging about cancer awareness and to signpost people to local cancer services. All events, activities and messaging must meet criteria to support local communities to stay healthy and well.

A maximum of £1,000 per campaign is available, of which £500 is ringfenced to support your digital media campaign for each campaign.

Priority will be given to applications which reach communities with poorer health outcomes, in particular:

• people aged 55 and over
• African, Bangladeshi, Caribbean, Chinese, Korean, Pakistani, Somali, and Sri Lankan communities
• people living in areas experiencing poorer access to healthcare
• specific groups experiencing poorer access to healthcare or from at risk populations, such as older adults, those living in areas of deprivation, ethnic minority communities, people with disabilities.

At least one person from your organisation must attend half-day in-person training with Superhighways at the RM Partners Cancer Alliance office. The session will be an introduction to the grant programme, with a primary focus of social media and digital campaigns. This includes Instagram, LinkedIn, WhatsApp and Facebook. No prior experience of social media campaigns is required.

The training dates/times are either:

• Tuesday 1 July 2025, 9:30am – 2pm OR
• Wednesday 2 July 2025, 9:30am – 2pm.

Application is through a brief online form.

If you have any questions or would like further information, email rmpartners.pcei@nhs.net.

The deadline for application to be received is 11pm Sunday 1 June 2025.

For more details and guidance, visit the he RMP Community Grant 2025 -2026 webpage here.