The charity provides specialised care and support for young people with cancer.
Starting in January running throughout the whole of 2025, Newsquest will join forces with Teenage Cancer Trust to help deliver the charity’s mission of ensuring no young person faces cancer alone.
Newsquest will be gifting £2.5 million of advertising to the charity across its extensive portfolio of more than 200 titles, online and in print, to drive more public awareness and funding for the charity.
It follows on from Newsquest’s successful year-long partnership in 2024 with the NSPCC, the UK’s leading children’s charity.
The Teenage Cancer Trust partnership will include initiatives such as promoting the signs and symptoms of cancer for young people, what it’s like to be a teenager with cancer and ongoing fundraising appeals and challenges.
It will also include Newsquest staff participating in volunteering and fundraising throughout the year.
Henry Faure Walker, Newsquest CEO, said: “Teenage Cancer Trust does a remarkable job helping young people with cancer, and we want to do our bit to support this.
“This will be one of the largest initiatives that we have run for a single charity and we hope that it will have a really positive impact raising awareness and engagement across the huge audiences our media platforms reach.”
Kate Collins, Chief Executive of Teenage Cancer Trust, added: “When we started in 1990, there was no specialist care for young people with cancer. Since then, the specialist care we provide for young people with cancer has grown into 28 units in NHS hospitals across the UK and more than 70 specialist nurses and 40 youth support co-ordinators.
“However, we know not enough people are aware of how critical this support for young people with cancer is.
“Seven young people a day hear the words ‘you have cancer’, and by 2030 that number is expected to rise to 10 a day.
“Those critical years when you’re young, shape the person you become but without specialised care and support, cancer can be devastating.
“We’re here to make sure that doesn’t happen, however there is still much more for us to do to make sure all young people get the support they need and deserve.
“We are so grateful to Newsquest for their incredible generosity and support.
“This will enable us to share more information about the vital work of our nurses and youth support co-ordinators, as well as the stories of young people who need us.
“Over the next year, we’ll be sharing adverts about our work, the impact cancer has on young people, as well as ways people can fundraise and support us.”
Teenage Cancer is there for anyone diagnosed with cancer aged 13-24, and their loved ones too.
It funds specialist nurses, youth workers and hospital units within the NHS, so young people with cancer get the sensitive, individual care and support they need at a unique and critical life stage.
Newsquest publishes over 200 titles across the UK and has a monthly digital audience of over 50 million users.
Many of its local titles are read, online and in print, by more than 75% of the local population.
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