2017 Children’s Hero Award Mark Edwards MBE

December 22, 2017 By JACK

Three Strohm Sisters Family Foundation partners law enforcement members to raise money to fund research into paediatric cancer. They hold an annual Gala in NY each year and honour specific members of law enforcement for individual efforts in their efforts to support such causes. This year, JACK board member Mark Edwards, MBE, was awarded the 2017 Children’s Hero Award.

The Three Strohm Sisters Family Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 1999 by three sisters, all of whom were afflicted with breast cancer. As cancer survivors, they found strength in organizing a foundation to support those battling this dreadful disease by sponsoring events that will raise money for cancer research.

In addition to their commitment to eradicating cancer, the Strohm Family has a tradition of law enforcement and public service stretching back almost a century. The Strohm Family subscribes to the tenets that cancer is a scourge that respects no national boundaries, when good people focus their efforts on a common problem anything is attainable, and there is no commodity more precious than a child’s life. To these ends, the Strohm Sisters Family Foundation has developed a Law Enforcement Partnership with the goal of eradicating pediatric cancer. This Partnership has evolved to encompass a broad spectrum of the law enforcement community on both sides of the Atlantic.

By uniting the global law enforcement community, as well as citizens of the world who believe in being of service to their fellow man, with leading international scientific researchers, we are confident that a cure for childhood cancers will be found.

Three Strohm Sisters Family Foundation also made a donation to JACK.

For more information please visit Three Strohm Sisters Family Foundation.

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An Emergency grant is available for Neuroblastoma families facing financial loss or increased costs because of Coronavirus measures.

Funds have been made available by J-A-C-K and Solving Kids’ Cancer to help families in the UK affected by Neuroblastoma (low, intermediate or high-risk), who face financial loss or increased costs due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

Guidelines have been issued by the Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group asking that families of children and young people on active cancer treatment, or within 6 months following the completion of treatment, stay at home for the next 12 weeks. These guidelines are being reviewed and updated on an ongoing basis. This is in line with the government guidance.

Parents / Guardians who are self-isolating alongside the child and that suffer financial loss or increased costs as a result may apply to the emergency fund for an initial grant towards their immediate subsistence costs.

Emergency grants of £250 are available now for those who are facing financial loss or increased costs as a result of the need of their child to stay home for the stated 12 weeks.

Additional support may be made available at a later stage for families facing acute financial loss because of the rapidly evolving public health crisis.

Criteria for accessing the grant is as follows;

You are the guardian of a child with Neuroblastoma (low, intermediate or high-risk) who is currently in active treatment, or within 6 months following the completion of treatment (at the point of application).
You have suffered financial loss or increased costs as a result of the need to self-isolate with your child which cannot be remedied by the emergency measures in place which can be found on the government website which is being continually updated. Also here.

To apply for the £250 emergency grant simply complete the form below and submit it by email to familygrant@solvingkidscancer.org.uk along with a copy of a letter or other documentary evidence from your Clinician or Medical institution which provides evidence of the active treatment of your child or treatment within the last six months (of the date of application).

We, at JACK, are thankful for the ability to provide money alongside SKC to the emergency fund for families. We are grateful to Solving Kids Cancer UK for administering the process and applications for the grant must be made via the email to Solving Kids Cancer.