Remember Your Loved One
When someone close to us dies, giving a gift in Tribute to them is a special way to remember a loved one, eternally.
By choosing The Institute of Cancer Research as the recipient of a gift, you will provide much needed support for our 850 scientists who continuously do research into cancer in all its forms.
When we receive a gift in someone’s memory, we can establish a Tribute Fund in their honour for you and look after all the administration. The Fund named after your loved one gives friends, relatives and colleagues a focus for making their own individual contribution.
Frequently Asked Questions and information
1. How do I let others know about my loved one’s Tribute Fund?
2. Does the Tribute Fund expire?
3. Growing your loved one’s Tribute Fund
4. How do I organise a donation collection at a funeral?
5. How do I order more free Donation forms and envelopes?
7. I have collected some money already or I wish to make a one-off donation. What should I do?
8. Information for Funeral Directors
9. Six Great Reasons to support The Institute of Cancer Research’s work
10. Gift Aid: Making your donation bigger at no extra cost to you
How do I let others know about my loved one’s Tribute Fund? Go to top
If there are other people you feel would like to remember your loved one, we will be happy to send them their own donation form. All you need to do is return a Friends and Family Tribute Form to us with their names and addresses and we will contact them for you.
Does the Tribute Fund expire? Go to top
No, it does not. The Fund will remain open, should anyone else wish to contribute in the future.
Growing your loved one’s Tribute Fund Go to top
There are numerous ways in which you can make your loved one’s Tribute Fund grow.
Making a regular gift is a really easy way for friends, family and colleagues to make your loved one’s Tribute Fund grow. They might want to give monthly from their pay or by standing order, or perhaps on a Birthday, on Mother’s or Father’s Day, or on an Anniversary.
Just contact us by or on 0800 7319468 and we will help you and answer any questions you have.
How do I organise a donation collection at a funeral? Go to top
If you are organising a collection, please ask your Funeral Director to provide our free Donation forms and envelopes at the service of your loved one. If your Funeral Director is unable to assist, please contact us by or on 0800 7319468 and we will send you everything that you need.
Alternatively, you can collect Donation forms and envelopes from our head office, or you can:
You may wish to donate all the money you collect to us or share it between causes important to you and your loved one. All donations are valuable to us.
To return the donations collected either:
- Deliver your envelopes to our registered offices
- Send a cheque to our registered offices (at 123 Old Brompton Road, London, SW7 3RP) with the completed donation forms of everyone who has contributed, and we will thank them all for their gifts.
We will also write to the deceased’s next of kin and let them have the names of those who donated. For privacy, we do not disclose the gift amounts.
How do I order more free Donation forms and envelopes? Go to top
Please contact us by or on 0800 7319468 and we will organise for donation forms and envelopes to be delivered to you within 1-2 working days.
How can I let others know that we will be collecting donations for The Institute of Cancer Research at my loved one's funeral? Go to top
If you would like people to make a donation to The Institute of Cancer Research in lieu of flowers we suggest you include a request in your loved one’s death notice.
An example of wording is: ‘Donations in lieu of flowers to The Institute of Cancer Research, 123 Old Brompton Road, London, SW7 3RP’.
I collected some money already or I wish to make a one-off donation. What should I do? Go to top
Thank you for having thought of The Institute of Cancer Research.
To send the money you have already collected or to make a one-off donation, you can:
- Donate on-line using your debit/credit card
- Ring us on 0800 7319468
- Download the Donate In Lieu Of Flowers Form and fax to 0044 (0)20 7153 5313 or send it with your donation to: Donations in lieu of flowers, The Institute of Cancer Research, 123 Old Brompton Road, London, SW7 3RP, UK.
Information for Funeral Directors Go to top
The Institute of Cancer Research can provide free Donation envelopes and forms especially designed for Funeral Directors. If you do not have any of our envelopes/forms, or if you need to re-order please or call us on 0800 7319468 with your required amounts and we will organise for delivery of these to you.
For further information please contact us by or on 0800 7319468.
Six Great Reasons to support The Institute of Cancer Research’s work Go to top
- £10 will allow us to buy 50 disposable syringes.
- £25 enables us to store 4 tumour samples for a year for analysis.
- £100 a year will pay for the storage of 6,000 blood samples.
- £600 will allow us to buy a bench microcentrifuge for use in our laboratories.
- £1,000 will pay for the microarray experiments to analyse the difference in gene expression patterns between five cancer and five normal patient tissue samples.
- £5,000 will buy a gradient thermal cycler PCR machine for DNA amplification. This is needed for cloning DNA for use in experiments.
Gift Aid: Making your donation bigger at no extra cost to you Go to top
If you are a UK taxpayer, you can Gift Aid your donation, making your gift worth almost one third more at no extra cost to you. If you use Gift Aid it means that for every £1 you give, we receive just over 28p from the Inland Revenue, helping your donation go further. All you have to do is complete the ‘Gift Aid it’ section on our donation form. It is that simple.We thank you again for your continued support of our scientists and clinicians, here at The Institute of Cancer Research.
