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Our Values

We are the charity that helps children and young people (0-25) and their families find the strength to face whatever cancer throws at them, and we are underpinned by our core values, Curious, Collaborative, Changemaking, Creative and Courageous.

This is our ‘insight’ value – it reflects reciprocal sharing of information and willingness to learn. This is a build on ‘Integrity’.
Paying attention speaks to our relationship with research, and with the system – an active role in our context.
To pay attention is to look outward – we know what’s going on, and what’s ahead.

This builds on ‘One Team’ and expands it to communities, collaborators and the system at large. We know we can’t reach the North Star alone.
This value is rooted in insight from social work colleagues, who consistently shared their experience of being ‘in it together’ with children, young people and families.

This is our system change value, and expresses our commit to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging; the North Star demands a better future for all children and young people with cancer.
This value expresses our active, positive role in change, at all levels; through service impact, improvement, support, and progress – we are all changemakers.

This is value rooted in innovation, and recognition that we will never have all the money and resources to do everything ourselves – there are many routes to our destination and joy is in the journey.
What has gone before is not a blueprint for the future – we reject perfectionism and are up for trying new and different things.

This is a leadership value, building from ‘Brave’. It has leadership, organisational and system applications; it should not be interpreted as imposing hopefulness on the community we support.
Instead, it is about us leading with a vision for a better future, and optimism in the ability of ourselves and our collaborators to come together and make it a reality.
As leaders, we are in the business of hope; we believe in better and we are making it happen.
This value is rooted in the experiences of our Voice Board.

OUR AMBITIONS

LONG TERM AMBITION ONE: CONTINUE TO BE A MAJOR SERVICE PROVIDER

We’re proud to lead the way in delivering high-level, psychosocial support throughout cancer treatment, end-of-life, and bereavement. We’ll continue to invest heavily within this area to ensure we always provide the tailored support that’s needed and that our services remain relevant.

continue to deliver high-quality trauma informed integrated social work and accommodation services
assess how we deliver services, responding to the changing needs of children and young people
look for opportunities to collaborate and share knowledge for bigger and better impact.

LONG TERM AMBITION TWO: SHAPE THE SYSTEM

From education authorities, NHS and Governments to businesses and corporates, we’ll pull communities and organisations together to collectively transform the future of care.

continue to keep the needs of children and their families on the agenda of the new UK Government and raise their voices on these topics across the UK
seek to improve post-treatment wellbeing outcomes – working in collaboration with our partners to truly understand what drives and what hinders wellbeing after treatment
lead and inspire conversations on the new technology transforming the health and social care landscape and work with innovators and entrepreneurs to create new solutions together
build an outcomes framework for the North Star, so we can consistently learn, improve and make strategic, informed, decisions about where to invest time and resources.

LONG TERM AMBITION THREE: CREATE AND SHARE SYSTEM EVIDENCE AND INFORMATION

Interrogating and sharing data is a priority for us over the next three years. We’ll use data to transform services, improve policies, build relationships, strive for equity and hold those with power to account.

use our data as a foundation to conduct further research on how we can improve the system
develop a new Centre for Insight, a collaborative initiative allowing people across the sector to share research findings and understand the experiences of children and young people with cancer
find new partners to work with who can help us expand our evidence base further
develop our technology systems so our data is always of the highest quality and fully accessible

Our 2024-2027 Strategy

We want a better future for children and young people with cancer.
Our 2024/27 strategy, ‘The Time Is Now’, lays out how we as Young Lives vs Cancer will contribute to making it happen.

Read our 2024/27 Strategy

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