Macmillan Cancer Support Redules a quarter of employees and hardship scheme scraps Charitable societies

McMilalan’s cancer supported a quarter of its employees, reduced its danger and threw its main financial scheme that provides millions of pounds in grants to thousands of patients, and could reveal the Guardian.

UK The most popular charity “The harsh financial climate has led to radical changes to protect its future and ensure that it can still support the most vulnerable cancer patients.

But achieving the guardian raises questions about how McMilalan ends in this situation and how the 100 -year -old difficulties will be closed to these patients who need support.

The investigation was found:

• 50,000 cancer patients with low income cancer will lose annually with less than 1,000 pounds of savings to reach 200 pounds with the closing of the scheme.

• McMelan has spent 100 million pounds more than it raised over the past six years.

• In 2023, wage spending and salaries rose to 80 million pounds, an increase of nearly five (18 %) from 68 million pounds in only 12 months.

• In 2024, McMelan told that 1,200 employees – about 60 % of its working power – were at risk of repetition, with 431 leaving.

The demand for McMilalan’s support and advice, as the best cancer support provider, expands quickly. The number of people with cancer has increased amid a better awareness of symptoms, successful NHS initiatives to detect and treat cancer early, the growing population and aging.

MacMillan, which was created 114 years ago, plays a major role in providing NHS, by financing 11,000 cancer nurses and care workers, providing specialized financial and emotional support to more than 130,000 people with cancer every year.

The charity says that the harsh financial climate forced it to make significant discounts in its working power and services to secure “long -term financial sustainability”.

In 2018, the MacMillan Council agreed to maintain spending on services despite the flat income of donations. By drawing regularly on reserves over the next six years, it managed to spend 100 million pounds more than it collected from public and companies gathered.

Although it is still one of the most successful donations in the UK, by 2023, donations did not fail to keep pace with high costs and demand for cancer support. The last annual numbers show that its 232 million pounds of sterling was a dwarf of 265 million pounds.

MacMillan is also likely to face questions about her decision to the vital grant diagram. It was presented 100 years ago, when the Charitable Society – then the National Society for Cancer – presented medical fees, nursing care, clothes, artificial ends and hot water bottles.

The last annual numbers show that McMilalan distributed 17 million pounds through the amount of 200 pounds for patients with low income cancer to help them in the transportation costs of hospital visits or heating bills.

Grants-only families with very low income are tested with savings less than 1,000 pounds qualified-and reduced their value in recent years from 350 pounds to 200 pounds with high demand.

McMelan says she will continue to support “people most at risk with cancer” but they have not determined how he would do so or who will remain qualified for future financial assistance.

The Guardian found that this scheme is the only national national cancer fund in the United Kingdom. This will affect thousands of the poorest cancer patients in the country, at the same time as the UK faces levels of deep destitution and poverty.

A breast cancer patient on McMilalan, Laura, talked about “complete disbelief” when she was told that she could obtain a 200 -pound grant. “I cried a lot but this time with happiness. I can pay a rent this month and be able to buy some oil for heating.”

A second patient, Linda, who was diagnosed with breast and kidney cancer, said the grant enabled her to keep heating while recovering from surgery. “Although I fell on pathological wages, it was not enough to cover the highest costs of home heating, so the grant caused a difference.”

The discounts in McMilalan’s aid team teams will witness fewer phone operators and discounts in the level of specialized financial advice and emotional support that they can provide to the callers.

McMelan said that like many charities, she felt the impact of the financial climate and made changes to help re -focus their resources and ensure their long -term financial sustainability.

The charity confirmed that it had exposed 1,262 people to the risk of repetition, of whom 239 took voluntary repetition and 174 formed. “We had to make some very difficult decisions, including limiting our organization by 26 %,” said a spokesman.

The spokesman added that McMilalan’s goal is to support more cancer patients. “To do this with the least money and a smaller team, we must focus on developing services that we can expand its scope to meet the increasing need. We have reviewed all our services, including the grants that we provide as the demand exceeds the money we have, and made the difficult decision to close this offer.”

“All the time, we tried to reduce the disturbance of people with cancer,” the spokesman added. McMelan was now in “a strong financial situation to continue to provide vital support to people with cancer in the future.”