Through the Helping You Help Others programme, Macmillan, the national charity supporting people living with cancer, is inviting new cancer self help and support groups across the UK to apply for grants of up to £500 to help with their initial development and promotion of service such as:

• Promotional costs
• Printing (leaflets, stationary, newsletters etc.)
• Postage
• Venue hire
• Refreshments costs
• Speaker fees; etc.

Start-up grants for new groups are assessed on a monthly basis from January through to December. The final closing date for Start-up grant applications this year is 1 December 2010.

For more information and to request an application pack, please email: resources@macmillan.org.uk or phone 020 7840 4936.

Macmillan are also inviting existing groups to apply for grants of up to £3,000 for their continuing development, for activities such as;

• away days
• speaker's fees and associated costs such as travel
• purchase of group resources such as computers, laptops and display materials for use at information days.

The closing dates for grants to existing groups applications are the 2nd July 2010 and the 29th October 2010.

For more information visit the Macmillan website