Today’s brief is a special one, in which we have teamed up with a charity that supports teenagers and young adults aged 13-24 years old who are living with cancer.
Young people need to be treated as young people first, and cancer patients second. They need expert treatment and support in age-appropriate areas. The Tom Bowdidge Youth Cancer Foundation provides clinical, practical, financial, and emotional support to help them cope with their cancer diagnosis.
With 7 Teenagers and Young Adults being told they have cancer every day, the need for support is ever increasing. For every single person helped, there will be so many more that are not. The Tom Bowdidge Youth Cancer Foundation aims to bring that number down across the UK
We work nationwide, primarily in England and Wales and want to be noticed by as many people as possible.
And that’s where the OMBLES come in. We want you to help us spread the word about the important work we do in your typically brilliant, instinctive creative ways.
One Minute Brief of the Day :
Create posters to raise awareness & promote the important work of The Tom Bowdidge Youth Cancer Foundation @TBFCharity to encourage more donors and supporters.
We want you to help us communicate to young people with cancer that we exist and that they can turn to us for support.
Tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs and @TBFCharity with the hashtag #TBFCharity
Deadline 6pm. Enter as many times as you wish but don’t forget to put your Twitter handle in the corner of your submissions.
Prizes:
WINNER: £150 CASH!!
2nd Place: £75 CASH!!
3rd Place: £50 CASH!!
Why the charity was started.
The Tom Bowdidge Youth Cancer Foundation is a charitable foundation, founded on 28th February 2014 in memory of Tom Bowdidge. Tom died of a Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumour and extensive peritoneal disease in October 2013, at the age of 19.
Read the full story about Tom here.
Our Mission, Vision and Values
Vision
Our vision is to ensure all Teenagers and Young Adults can equally access support physically, emotionally and financially and receive the best possible treatment through advances in research.
Mission
We promote the relief, care, well-being and rehabilitation of teenagers and young people suffering with cancer and their families.
We carry out research and publish any useful results into the causes and effects of cancer in teenagers and young people.
Values
Supportive – providing support in several ways, through grants, provision of rooms
and spaces, and equipmentCompassionate – personal understanding of situations and what is needed
Responsive – reacting to grant applications within hours of receiving
Trustworthy – spending donations in the best interests of young people with cancer
Non-discriminatory – encouraging any young cancer patient to apply if aged between 13 and 24 years
Passionate – being committed to provide support to Teenagers and Young Adults with cancer
Collaborative – working with parents, carers, social workers, hospital trusts, scientists, and researchers
Objectives
To provide care grants and equipment to every Teenager and Young Adult with cancer that needs support.
To create age-appropriate rooms or spaces in hospitals nationally.
To fund research into treatments for all Teenage and Young Adult cancers
“I had given up thinking of a future………I will finally have a purpose after spending so long locked away in hospital”
Find out more here:
https://www.facebook.com/thetombowdidgefoundation
www.instagram.com/tombowdidgefoundation
Our colours are
Blue #2c5ba9
Pink #e23b93
Pale Blue #c3d3eb
Fonts available here.
