Our charities
WOMAC supports a different cancer project each year. Since 1979, we have donated over £1,000,000 to more than 50 worthwhile causes. Below is a timeline of the charities and projects we have been proud to support.
Charities we've supported
2024/25:Bright Cancer Care, Karen Clifford Skin Cancer Charity (Skcin)
2023/24:OPA, Cure Leukaemia
2022/23:Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, Maggie's
2021:brainstrust, George Fox
2020:Dimbleby Cancer Care, Princess Alice Hospice
2019:EHE Rare Cancer Charity (UK), The Elizabeth Loury Ward, Southend Hospital
2018:Kidney Cancer Support Network
2017:Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust
2016:Prostate Cancer UK, Pancreatic Cancer UK
2015:Fight Bladder Cancer, Cyclists Fighting Cancer, The Lyla Nsouli Foundation, Momentum
2014:Sarcoma UK
2013:The Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund, The Marcus Rutherford Foundation
2012:Action Against Cancer
2011:Beating Bowel Cancer, Heart of Kent Hospice (Aylesford)
2010:Samantha Dickson Brain Tumour Trust
2009:The Eve Appeal, The Little Princess Trust
2008:Leukaemia Research Fund, The Neuroblastoma Society
2007:Myeloma UK, The Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice (Farnham)
2006:The Orchid Cancer Appeal, The Isabel Hospice (Welwyn Garden City)
2005:The Cancer Treatment and Research Trust, The Peace Hospice (Watford)
2004:Marie Curie Cancer Care nurses, St Luke's Hospice (Basildon)
2003:Lymphoma Research at The Royal Marsden Hospital, Willen Hospice (Milton Keynes)
2002:The Royal College of Surgeons, The Youth Cancer Trust, The Kingston Hospital Cancer Unit Appeal
2001:BEN's cancer care unit at Alexandra House, Weston Park Cancer Trust
2000:UK Child Cancer Study Group
1999:Lucy's Roof Garden, Royal Marsden Hospital, Malignant melanoma research, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
1998:Sobell House Hospice (Oxford)
1995/97:Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund nurses
1994:Royal Free Hospital
1992/93:Hammersmith Hospital chemotherapy/day rooms
1991:BACUP breast cancer counsellor
1990:Westminster Hospital counsellor
1988/89:WOMAC Research Fellowship at Whittington Hospital
1987:London Hospital cancer patient counsellor
1986:Malcolm Sargent Fund for Children
1985:Middlesex Hospital Urology Research Fund
1984:Westminster Hospital
1982/83:St Christopher's Hospice (London)
1981:Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund
1980:Leukaemia Research Fund
1979:Gunnar Nilsson Fund