Sarcoma UK

Who we are

Sarcoma UK is a national charity that funds vital research, offers support for anyone affected by sarcoma cancer and campaigns for better treatments. It is the only cancer charity in the UK focusing on all types of sarcoma.

We are a relatively young charity that supports a strong, caring and mutually-supportive community. We are staffed by a growing team managed by a board of trustees (comprising a balanced mix of those with personal experience of sarcoma and those that don’t), and supported by experts in the sarcoma field.

Sarcoma UK was founded by Roger Wilson CBE, a sarcoma patient.

We rely on generous voluntary donations and the energy and imagination of our tireless fundraisers.

We keep our administration and running costs to a minimum which means that more of your money goes directly to funding vital research.

Sarcoma can affect anyone. That’s why we fund vital research, campaign for better treatments and offer support for everyone. We know that we have more work to do to make Sarcoma UK more representative of all the people affected by sarcoma. That’s why we want to hear from you whatever your gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, economic background or any other aspect which makes you unique.

Being part of Sarcoma UK means that your uniqueness will help bring about a world where fewer people are affected by sarcoma. And that’s a win for everyone.

We’re bringing about change. Join us in doing that.

Our vision
Where everyone affected by sarcoma cancer has the treatment, care and support they need.

Our mission
To ensure everyone affected by sarcoma receives the best treatment, care, information and support available and to create the treatments of the future.

What we do

· Drive awareness of sarcoma cancer.

· Find answers through funding sarcoma research.

· Provide information and support to anyone affected by sarcoma cancer.

· Campaign for better treatments and to improve standards of care.

Our goals

· More people will survive sarcoma.

· More will be known about the causes of sarcoma.

· Everyone affected by sarcoma will have access to the best treatment and care.

Our culture and values

We are shaped and driven by people affected by sarcoma.

We listen to, learn from, and work alongside people affected by sarcoma. Their voices and experiences drive everything we do.

We are committed to equity.

We strive to reach everyone affected by sarcoma and ensure they can access the same quality support, information, and care, regardless of who they are or where they live.

We collaborate to make a bigger impact.

We work with healthcare professionals, researchers, organisations, and policymakers because together we achieve more than we ever could alone.

We uphold the highest standards.

We advocate for quality care, treatment and research, using evidence and our expertise to share best practice and push for better outcomes.

We are relentlessly ambitious.

Sarcoma is decades behind other cancers. We will use our voice, influence and expertise to take every opportunity to close this gap, and we will not stop until we do.

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

Sarcoma can affect anyone. That’s why we fund vital research, campaign for better treatments and offer support for everyone.

Being part of Sarcoma UK means that your uniqueness will help bring about a world where fewer people are affected by sarcoma.

And that’s a win for everyone.

This policy permeates all aspects of Sarcoma UK’s work, in relation to our actions and attitudes
towards colleagues, consultants, temporary workers, and all others associated with our work. This
policy covers all members of staff at Sarcoma UK including employees (whether permanent or fixed
term) and consultants.

We know that we have more work to do to make Sarcoma UK more representative of all the people affected by sarcoma. That’s why we want to work with people whatever their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, economic background or any other aspect which makes them unique.

Under the Equality Act, individuals are protected against discrimination on the following grounds:
age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage
and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. Sarcoma UK is committed to promoting equal
opportunities in employment. No individual or group should receive less favourable treatment on any
of these grounds.

The following forms of discrimination are prohibited under this policy and are unlawful:

• Direct discrimination: treating someone less favourably because of a Protected Characteristic.
  For example, rejecting a job applicant because of their religious views.
• Indirect discrimination: a provision, criterion or practice that applies to everyone but
  adversely affects people with a particular Protected Characteristic more than others, and is not
  justified. For example, requiring a job to be done full-time rather than part-time would adversely
  affect women because they generally have greater childcare commitments than men. Such a requirement would be discriminatory unless it can be justified.
• Harassment: this includes sexual harassment and other unwanted conduct related to a Protected
  Characteristic, which has the purpose or effect of violating someone’s dignity or creating an
  intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for them. Harassment is
  dealt with further in our Anti-harassment and Bullying Policy.
• Victimisation: retaliation against someone who has complained or has supported someone else’s
  complaint about discrimination or harassment.