The AA, founded in 1905 is a well-established and trusted British motoring association. At the end of 2023, AA colleagues voted for Cancer Research UK as their Charity Partner of the year. They have now raised over £200k from baking to biking, running, walking and more. Together our contributions will add up to significant support for Cancer Research UK.
We’ve been Amey’s employee chosen charity since 2020, with many employees volunteering their time, donating their pre-loved goods and finding fun and innovative ways to fundraise for our life-saving work. To date, they’ve raised over £350k. Amey also take part in our Cancer Awareness in the Workplace programme which supports employees to reduce their risk of cancer and take positive action for their health.
In 2025, Baringa colleagues voted for Cancer Research UK to be their charity partner for the next three years. Baringa have set out to build the world’s most trusted consulting firm – creating lasting impact for clients and pioneering a positive, people-first way of working. Together, we’ll be raising funds to support our life-saving work as well as Baringa colleagues volunteering their time to help Cancer Research UK with various projects.
Since it launched in 2016, our award-winning partnership with Bellway Homes has raised over £5.1m for our life saving work. This is thanks to record levels of employee fundraising across around 300 Bellway Homes sites and offices, supported by a dedicated team of over 30 charity coordinators. Additionally, Bellway provides Cancer Research UK with opportunities to share our potentially life-saving health awareness messaging to their broad network of employees via in person nurse health stands, webinars and regular communications.
Launched in Autumn 2023, our partnership with Cards Direct aims to raise £100k over two years for life-saving cancer research. Cards Direct colleagues and customers can take part in activities in stores across the country including cash donations, fundraising initiatives, volunteering, and through the sale of selected products.
Stand Up To Cancer is our joint national fundraising campaign with Channel 4 that brings the UK together to speed up progress in life-saving cancer research. Supported by the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) in the US and launched in the UK in 2012, Stand Up To Cancer funds translational research, turning academic breakthroughs in the labs into new treatments that could make a real difference for people with cancer. More than £62 million has been raised in the UK to date, funding 55 clinical trials and projects, and involving around 11,000 cancer patients across the country. Every year, Channel 4 staff take on their own fundraising challenges and have so far raised over £250,000 for the campaign. A popular fundraiser is the highly competitive Seed Fundraising Challenge where different Channel 4 teams are given a small amount of money and challenged to see which team can transform it into the largest amount of money. The broadcaster was also one of our first corporate partners to take on the ‘Sprintathon’ where participants run a marathon in individual 100m sprints.
Since our partnership with Coinstar launched 19 years ago, the company has raised over £1m from the fantastic customers who choose to donate their loose change to Cancer Research UK when they use Coinstar machines nationwide. Coinstar - a world leader in self-service coin counting operates a network of nearly 2,000 machines located in supermarkets across the UK. Customers can take their unsorted change to the machine where it is counted and converted into a voucher that can be exchanged for cash or used towards shopping. And thanks to Coinstar’s ‘Coins that Count Programme’, consumers can choose to donate their coins directly to charity, resulting in £1.1 million already raised for Cancer Research UK.
Since 2017, Co-op Legal Services have supported our work by donating funds from sales of their special packages, including wills and lasting power of attorney – as well as through the generous donations of their customers. The partnership has now raised over £350,000 towards life-saving research.
In partnership since 2015, Edwardian Hotels London have pledged to raise a total of £2m towards research at the Francis Crick Institute in London. Their fundraising activities have included exclusive events, customer donations and a whole host of employee challenges, such as climbing Snowdon by night.
We’ve been in partnership with Funky Pigeon since 2017. During that time, their customers have generously raised over £500,000 for our life-saving research by donating at checkout or purchasing a card or gift supporting translational research through Cancer Research UK's Stand Up To Cancer. In February 2025, Funky Pigeon also launches a card and gift range that will support Cancer Research UK, with a percentage of sales going to support our research.
Haven chose Cancer Research UK to be their charity partner for 3 years. Since launching in July 2024, our partnership has gone from strength to strength engaging teams across all 38 parks plus their Head Office in Hemel Hempstead. To date Haven have raised over £320,000 for Cancer Research UK and are aiming to raise £500,000 by summer 2027.
Live Nation UK has been a proud supporter of Cancer Research UK since 2008. Across the Live Nation family, Ticketmaster UK and Festival Republic continue to drive fundraising through customer donations, festival activations and staff-led initiatives. The combined partnership has now raised over £4 million.
Ticketmaster UK has now raised over £1.8 million since 2015 through its long‑running customer donation programme, which invites customers to add a contribution to Cancer Research UK when purchasing tickets for selected concerts and events online. In Autumn this activity supports the Stand Up To Cancer campaign, with staff in the London and Manchester offices having previously taken part in some epic fundraising challenges such as boxing, ballroom and comedy events. In 2019 and 2020, Ticketmaster also led an international World Cancer Day collaboration, uniting global offices to raise funds through staff activities and customer donations.
Thanks to payroll giving and customer donations via their MyReward scheme, longstanding partner NatWest Group has generated over £7m towards our life-saving work since 2002. NatWest Group also champions the global Giving Tuesday campaign where they encourage employees and customers to sign up to payroll giving and donate their MyRewards points to charity. We are delighted to have them as a partner and thank them for their continued support.
Our partnership with NIVEA SUN launched in 2012 to raise vital funds for skin cancer research. Since then, we’ve helped millions of people stay safe in the sun with our annual campaign featuring easy-to-remember steps to enjoy the sun safely: 1. Seek shade 2. Cover up 3. Apply sunscreen.
Penguin Random House makes a donation to the Bowelbabe Fund for Cancer Research for each copy sold of ‘How To Live When You Could Be Dead.’ Written by Dame Deborah James in the lead up to her death, the book focuses on how she flipped her diagnosis into ‘realistic and rebellious hope’. Sales of the book have raised over £300k to date for the Bowelbabe Fund.
Revolut customers can donate to Cancer Research UK via the Revolut app either monthly, weekly, as a one-off payment or by selecting to have each transaction rounded up and the difference donated to their chosen charity. Our partnership with the UK financial technology company launched to celebrate World Cancer Day 2020.
In September 2022, we celebrated the launch of an exciting new long-term partnership with Rhenus Logistics, a leading logistics service provider with 37,500 employees across 970 locations globally and an annual turnover of 7.5 billion Euros. Employees of Rhenus in the UK will be finding fun and innovative ways to fundraise for our life-saving work, and we will be delivering our Cancer Awareness in the workplace programme across the company.
Royal London is the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, providing a range of pension and protection products to customers and employers, primarily through independent financial advisers. Royal London are a purpose-driven mutual: ‘Protecting today, investing in tomorrow. Together we are mutually responsible’. This defines the impact they want to have for their customers and for society.
Our partnership is focused on helping reduce the health and financial impact of cancer today and for future generations. Our partnership supports Royal London customers and the wider public right now, with information that helps people take action to reduce their risk of cancer and spot it earlier. It is investing in the discoveries of the future; helping fund research into ways to prevent cancer and developing better detection tools to give people the best chance of living. Royal London is also helping Cancer Research UK generate economic evidence that could influence the government to act on urgent cancer priorities that will help save lives.
Our partnership with renewable energy company ScottishPower started in 2012 with the bold ambition of raising £5m over 3 years. Fast forward more than a decade later, and our partnership is stronger than ever with £40m raised. This incredible amount is thanks to various initiatives including employee and supplier fundraising, sponsorship of Race for Life events across the UK and Stand Up To Cancer campaigns, as well as their Help Beat Cancer energy tariff where ScottishPower make a donation for every month a customer remains on the tariff.
Scrap Car Comparison have supported Cancer Research UK since 2020. Scrap Car Comparison’s Donate A Car scheme allows you to get rid of your old, damaged or unwanted vehicle and give all, or just some, of the profit to Cancer Research UK, as one of their chosen charity partners. These donations will help fund life-saving cancer research.
Since our partnership began in 2013, Slimming World has raised over £30m. This is through campaigns such as the Big Slimming World Clothes Throw, Walk All Over Cancer and the London Marathon. Slimming World have also sponsored our Race for Life event series since 2023 and are on a mission to help people lead healthier, happier, more active lives. As well as raising vital funds, the partnership also supports our shared goal to raise awareness of the links between obesity and cancer.
From 2001 to 2022 Tesco were the proud headline sponsor of Race for Life. In 2018, we came together with British Heart Foundation, Diabetes UK and Tesco to launch the Health Charity Partnership. Together we aim to tackle the biggest health challenges facing the nation. We’re supporting Tesco colleagues, customers and the wider public to live healthier lives and reduce their risk of developing diabetes, cancer and circulatory diseases. We do this through a range of initiatives – from communication campaigns to upskilling Tesco Pharmacy colleagues, to jointly lobbying the government. Tesco also makes it simple for their customer and colleagues to donate, and those pennies add up to make a big difference in beating cancer! They’ve helped raise over £70m for our life-saving work since 2001.
Over 21 years, our incredible partnership with TK Maxx raised over £50m for Cancer Research UK, with more than £46m of this total supporting Cancer Research UK for Children & Young People. This makes TK Maxx our largest corporate supporter in this area of our work, helping more children and young people with cancer live better lives through more effective and less toxic treatments.
During the partnership, TK Maxx customers and associates donated over two million bags of clothes, accessories and homeware to sell in our shops through the Give Up Clothes For Good campaign. This helped us raise vital funds for Cancer Research UK for Children & Young People. TK Maxx also raised funds through sales of charity merchandise and customer donation initiatives.
Since the start of our partnership with Warburtons in early 2015, the company has contributed over £4m through employee fundraising and donations from the Warburton family. We were delighted that Warburtons agreed to extend the partnership to Autumn 2026.
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