Why leave a gift in your Will

By leaving us a gift in your Will, you can help researchers uncover better, kinder treatments. You can help make sure everyone affected by blood cancer gets the care they need. And you can bring us closer to the day when every person diagnosed with blood cancer survives.

Over 60 years, thanks to the generosity of people like you, we’ve now invested £500 million into blood cancer research. As a community, we’ve helped to change the world.

A gift in your Will could get us to the day when every single person with blood cancer survives. Together, we could beat blood cancer within a generation.

In 1960, David and Hilda Eastwood lost their little girl, Susan, to leukaemia. In their grief, they brought families together to fund research – so no-one would suffer the pain they had.

David and Hilda started by selling ‘two-bob’ hankies sewn in their living room to friends, raising £12 for Great Ormond Street Hospital. And with that first donation, Blood Cancer UK was born.

Within a year, they’d teamed up with other families who’d lost loved ones to blood cancer. Together they raised £3,000 to help set up the first leukaemia research unit at Great Ormond Street.

By leaving us a gift in your Will, you can continue Susan's legacy by helping researchers uncover better, kinder treatments. You can help make sure everyone affected by blood cancer gets the care and support they need. And you can bring us closer to the day when every person diagnosed with blood cancer survives.