How Children with Cancer UK is getting a fundraising boost with Salesforce

Children with Cancer UK was set up by parents who lost two children to cancer.

At the age of just 14, Paul O’Gorman was diagnosed with leukaemia, and died two months later in early 1987. His sister, Jean O’Gorman, was diagnosed with breast cancer in Spring 1987, and passed away in the November. Their parents, Marion and Eddie O’Gorman, set up Children with Cancer UK in the wake of losing their two children, as a way of helping other young people and their families affected by the disease.

The charity’s motto is ‘Until every child survives’, and so far its efforts have facilitated a big shift towards that goal. Since it started operations in 1988, Children with Cancer UK has raised more than £300 million, funded over 300 research projects, while childhood cancer survival rates have improved from 67% in 1990 to 85% in 2018.

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