Treatment Bag CIO
Treatment Bag is a non-profit charity dedicated to creating luxury gift bags for cancer patients. Our story began when one of our trustees was being treated with chemotherapy; in walked a local fruit farmer who silently handed a carrier bag of apples to each patient, before settling down for his own treatment. This small act of kindness had a huge, positive impact on everyone in the room. We want every patient to feel that. Our bags don't contain any apples but they are full of luxury gifts chosen as antidotes to the often grim side-effects of cancer treatments - gentle skin products, lip balms and mouth washes, cashmere-mix beanies and scarves, herbal teas and mugs and organic chocolate.
Bags can be requested via our website and, in return for a donation, sent directly to a patient. In addition, we donate bags to x7 NHS hospitals each month, where the feedback is overwhelmingly positive - from the patients and the wonderful nurses! Each hospital costs the charity £5,000 each per year, so we need as much help as possible to fundraise for this. Thank you very much indeed for your support.