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Throughout September, LATCH is also inviting our supporters to help support our Childhood Cancer Month Fundraising Campaign, helping to ensure our vital services are around for families today and for those who will face similar struggles in the future.

LATCH Welsh Children’s Cancer Charity is pleased to announce the appointment of Mrs Susan A E Gwyer-Roberts, Deputy Lieutenant of Gwent, as Chairperson following the recent retirement of Ian Rogers.

A ten year old girl from Cardiff has returned from The Christie Hospital, a £125 million NHS facility in Manchester which opened in December 2018, to receive treatment for a rare form of cancer.

LATCH is thrilled to announce the appointment of Jade Morgan as General Manager, based at the LATCH Office at the Children’s Hospital for Wales.

Three exciting opportunities have arisen to join the LATCH Team based at the Children's Hospital for Wales.

After facing treatment for cancer over the course of one year, an inspiring young girl from Haverfordwest launches charitable fund to help other families going through similar journeys.

The LATCH Social Worker Team assist families in applying for a range of LATCH grants designed to ease the financial burden, and in 2018 alone, LATCH gave out grants totalling over £385,184 to families of children with cancer and leukaemia for essential support such as travel to and from the hospital, heating bills and even mortgage and rent shortfalls.

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LATCH’s Emyr Owen Branch, based in Porthcawl fundraise tirelessly throughout the year in order to ra ...

Isabel Williams from Penygroes, Carmarthenshire, was diagnosed with a brain tumour in April 2015, wh ...