Health & care
Our Specialist Nurse Helpline
Nationwide, by phone and chat
Free calls with specialist cancer nurses for patients and families, seven days a week.
$47,450 raised of $65,000
73%
The Linden Cancer Support Foundation
No one should face cancer alone
Specialist nurses on the phone seven days a week, practical help for families and research into kinder treatments.
- Free calls, seven days a week
- Grants for families
- Research you can follow
21,000calls answered last year
Nurse helplineOpen today 8 am – 10 pm
Our work
Help, from the first call
Health & care
Support for Families Through Treatment
Five cancer centres
Travel costs, grants and a family support worker for households turned upside down by cancer.
$22,800 raised of $38,000
60%
Health & care
Fund a Day of Research
Partner university labs
Every gift buys time in the lab for research into kinder treatments for children's cancers.
$29,600 raised of $80,000
37%
400calls every week
Our nurses
A nurse who knows cancer
Every call is answered by a specialist nurse, not a script. They explain treatment, help with side effects and listen for as long as you need.
- Calls in thirty languages
- Evening live chat
- Follow-up after treatment
- Support for carers too
The people
Nurses, staff and trustees
Dr Helen Ward
Lead cancer nurse
Grace Mensah
Chief executive
James Whitfield
Chair of trustees
Nadia Haddad
Treasurer
Voices
What a call can do
I called at ten at night after my diagnosis. The nurse stayed on the line until I felt I could sleep.
The family support grant paid for petrol to every one of her appointments. It took one worry away.
Fourteen cakes, thirty friends and $860 for the helpline. We are doing it again next year.
Transparency
Our annual reports
2025Latest report
Annual report 2025
Our year in numbers and stories: 1.2 million people reached, 214 new water points and 9,400 children in school.
- people reached in 2025
- 1.2M
- of spending on programmes
- 84%
- raised from 31,000 supporters
- $4.2M
2024Annual report 2024
The year we opened our first reading clubs and doubled the size of the mobile clinic round.
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2023Impact report 2023
An independent look at what changed in the villages we have worked with for five years.
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