# CLIC Sargent launches NI capital campaign

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2011/08/26/clic-sargent-launches-ni-capital-campaign/
- Published: 2011-08-26T13:58:26+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Children’s cancer charity CLIC Sargent is running a £4 million capital campaign
in Northern Ireland.**

The ‘**Home from Home**’ campaign seeks to raise £4 million for two new facilities
that will give families a place to stay while their child is in hospital receiving
cancer treatment. On average a family in Northern Ireland will make a round-trip
of 95 miles, up to five times a week so that they can access the cancer treatment
their child needs at the two specialist Belfast hospitals.

The new campaign will target both high level donors and community fundraising to
reach the target. CLIC Sargent in Northern Ireland is currently recruiting four 
fundraising posts to support the Home from Home campaign.

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The posts include an Appeal Director and Major Donor manager as well as community
fundraisers. [CLIC Sargent](http://www.clicsargent.org.uk) currently runs nine Homes
from Home across the UK.

Former world boxing champion **Barry McGuigan** will be the patron of the appeal.
His wife Sandra, who is also a patron of the charity, has been named as Chair of
the Appeal Committee. He explained his involvement, saying: “I know first-hand about
the vital support CLIC Sargent provides for families affected by childhood cancer,
because it helped our family when my daughter Danika was diagnosed with leukaemia
at the age of 11.”

Northern Ireland’s other children’s cancer charity, Northern Ireland Childrens Cancer
Fund, is also running a capital campaign to enhance one facility in Newcastle and
provide a new support centre in Belfast.

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