Since Yorkshire Cancer Research was set up in 1925, it has become the most successful regional medical research charity in the UK. They fund internationally recognised research into the cause and cure of cancer at universities and their associated teaching hospitals throughout Yorkshire.
YCR is not a regional division of a national charity – it is an independent charity, based and operating in Yorkshire only. They are still, however, at the very forefront of the international fight to find a cure for cancer.
YCR’s MISSION
The charity’s objective is to promote research in Yorkshire into the cause and cure of cancer, which today accounts for one in four deaths in the UK.
From their office in Harrogate, Yorkshire Cancer Research aims to raise £4 million each year.
Yorkshire Cancer Research funds research by awarding grants to scientists working in universities and their associated teaching hospitals throughout Yorkshire: Bradford, Hull, Leeds, Sheffield and York.
The concentration of specialists and expertise in this region means that cancer sufferers right here in Yorkshire and throughout the world have access to some of the world’s best treatment and therapy.
Yorkshire Cancer Research is a registered charity – Reg. Charity 516898