Love Hope Strength works alongside, collaborates with and supports a range of agencies, and has developed long term partnerships with many of these organisations. Love Hope Strength’s partnerships play a key role in ensuring all decision making is evidence based, meaningful and well planned to create sustainable and transformational change wherever possible for people affected by cancer. These partnerships help ensure LHS’ charitable objects are met, its aims are fulfilled, vulnerable or underprivileged communities can be prioritised, due diligence is carried out effectively, and that both benefactors and beneficiaries get the most out of the Love Hope Strength movement.
Underprivileged Communities
The Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) is the largest global membership organisation dedicated to taking action on cancer, representing cancer services and professionals from across the continuum of cancer care, from prevention, early detection, treatment and care to palliative care. UICC has official relations with the World Health Organisation, connects more than 1,100 member organisations over 170 countries and territories and works with over 60 partners to bring together health leaders, governments, civil society and policy makers to unite the cancer community.
LHS supports UICC’s Membership Support Fund with an annual donation to enable hospitals, research facilities and other cancer organisations from low and middle-income countries, particularly those in regions facing conflict, to join the UICC so their staff, volunteers and patient representatives can access training, resources and expertise to enhance treatment and care at a local level and help provide greater equality in advancing cancer control globally.
Policy and Research
The World Cancer Research Fund focuses its work on how diet, weight, physical activity and environmental factors can affect your risk of developing and surviving cancer. The WCRF’s prevention and survival work is helping people live longer, happier and healthier lives. Love Hope Strength has helped fund WCRF’s prevention programs for young people in the UK and the dissemination of this work, and its development programs for clinicians in Africa.
Love Hope Strength has supported the Newcastle University Myeloma Genome Initiative, a cutting-edge project that employs advanced genetic and computational technologies to analyse the genetics of people with the blood cancer multiple myeloma, bringing the world ever closer to a cure.
Helping Hand along the way
Through the years, Love Hope Strength has left more than its footprint in countries where trekkers have walked. LHS has funded life-saving equipment and support services in Asia, Africa and South America following ‘Rocks’ hikes. In Nepal, LHS funded the country’s first mammography and internal radiation machines through its partnership with the Nepal Cancer Relief Society.
In Peru, following the hike to Machu Picchu, the team of trekkers helped fund a new vehicle to transport patients to hospital so they could receive treatment for their cancer. After the successful Sahara Rocks trek, LHS pledged support to the Lalla Salma Foundation for the Prevention and Treatment of Cancers in Morocco.
Following the Kilimanjaro Rocks treks, a longstanding partnership with the Children’s Cancer service, Tumaini La Maisha, in Tanzania. LHS provides regular funding for the team at the Children’s Cancer Unit at the Muhimbili Hospital in Dar Es Salaam, and its outreach services across the country to fund salary, equipment and chemotherapy costs. The Hospital Unit’s two wards and hostel are called ‘Tumaini, Upendo, Ujasiri’, Swahili for Love, Hope and Strength.
Get On The List
Through its ‘Get On The List’ collaboration with the international blood cancer charity DKMS, LHS has registered almost 250,000 people onto international stem cell registries to help people with blood cancer or a blood disorder who need a second chance of life. Incredibly, over 4,500 of those who have registered with LHS have been identified as potentially life-saving matches, and this number continues to grow every month. In addition, LHS has supported DKMS with grants to help fund its life saving clinical support services.
Former Love Hope Strength staffers Rob and Tina Rushing established the non-profit Punk Rock Saves Lives (PRSL) in 2019. PRSL regularly attends festivals across the US to share wellbeing and healthcare information and to encourage people to ‘Get On The List’. LHS provides funding for PRSL to help keep the Rushings on the road to spread their positive messages and to save lives, one concert at a time.
Clinical Support Services, UK
In the UK, the Love Hope Strength has supported new equipment, better facilities and special projects to enhance National Health Service (NHS) cancer provision. LHS has provided grants to a range of NHS charities linked with NHS Trusts and Health Boards across the UK including the East Cheshire NHS Trust, Cambridge University Hospitals, Hywel Dda University Health Board and the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.
From 2014-2017 Love Hope Strength partnered with the Cancer Services Team in North Wales and the North Wales NHS Charity, Awyr Las, to raise over £350,000 for cancer services in the region.
Clinical Support Services, USA
LHS has funded a range of cancer support services, from the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital to the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians (HAAM), to provide better access to cancer treatment and to support some of the most vulnerable communities in the US.
Clinical Support Services, Australia
In Australia, LHS has supported a number of projects to improve services available to those affected by cancer. Through its partnership with the Nelune Foundation, LHS has helped to purchase equipment for the haematology ward in Randwick, Sydney.
Foundation Friends
The Beauchamp Family Foundation provides LHS with an annual matched funding grant, when enables LHS supporters to have their donations matched. This regular, significant support means that for every $1 and every £1 donated to LHS, a further $1 or £1 is donated, up to $50,000.
This generous matched funding has motivated many philanthropists and community-minded organisations to give through LHS, including Arcis Golf, which has sponsored a number of LHS events and activities through the years.
LHS’ success in saving lives one concert, one step, one helping hand has and can only be achieved through these very distinct, but incredibly valuable altruistic and professional partnerships.
