Ladies Fighting Breast Cancer Charitable Trust
Charity 1088943
Overview
Summary
Ladies Fighting Breast Cancer appears to occupy a distinctive community-facing role alongside clinical breast-cancer care in Birmingham and the West Midlands. Its formal objects allow investment in treatment, research and hospital facilities, while its public-facing offer concentrates on peer connection, practical advice and small financial support. This suggests an organisation designed to reduce the social and financial consequences of diagnosis as well as raise funds for medical benefit, acting as a bridge between affected people, families and local health-related institutions.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Moseley
Confidence: low
LFBC's current support page identifies a weekly choir session at MAC in Cannon Hill. The available evidence establishes a recurring LFBC-delivered activity at this venue, but does not directly establish the Moseley ward assignment.
- Ladies Fighting Breast Cancer — Support page
States that the LFBC wellbeing choir meets every week at Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, on Tuesdays during school term time at The MAC, Cannon Hill. - MAC Birmingham — Visit page
Identifies the venue as Midlands Arts Centre, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham. - Birmingham City Council — Cannon Hill Park
Lists Cannon Hill Park as being in Moseley.
Remaining uncertainties
- LFBC says its coffee mornings take place 'in and around Birmingham and Worcestershire', but publishes current locations only through its closed Facebook group or mailing list. The evidence does not support assigning those activities to further Birmingham wards.
- The organisation's principal direct Birmingham site evidenced publicly is the weekly choir at MAC, rather than a dedicated LFBC premises. Its registered and referenced office address is in Bromsgrove, outside Birmingham, and should not be treated as a Birmingham operational site.
- LFBC provides substantial non-place-specific support through its closed online BreastMates Central group, online coffee mornings, one-to-one support and bursaries. These services support people across Birmingham and the West Midlands, but available evidence does not show their distribution by Birmingham ward.
- LFBC says Hug-In-A-Bag is provided through 12 Midlands hospitals and that BreastMates Central refers people to Macmillan Cancer Care for specialist services. These arrangements materially extend reach beyond the MAC-based activity, but the current hospital list and referral locations are not published in the evidence reviewed.
- One older LFBC choir page contains inconsistent venue wording, referring both to Tally-Ho Conference Centre and to The MAC. LFBC's more recently crawled general support page explicitly states that the weekly choir meets at MAC, so MAC is treated as the current location while the historical inconsistency remains unresolved.
Additional evidence needed
- A current LFBC calendar or mailing-list schedule identifying the venues and dates of Birmingham coffee mornings and craft sessions.
- A current list of the 12 Midlands hospitals receiving Hug-In-A-Bag packs, including whether and how Birmingham hospitals participate.
- A current LFBC impact or annual report breaking down service delivery, referrals, bursaries or beneficiaries by location.
- Confirmation from LFBC of whether it has any regular Birmingham delivery locations beyond MAC and whether the choir venue has changed.
Areas of work
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who they help
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Makes Grants To Organisations
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A bridge between clinical aims and everyday life
The charity appears to translate a medically focused purpose into support for the non-clinical pressures of breast cancer, including isolation, hardship and the needs of families and supporters.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish the organisation from a research-only or hospital-fundraising charity: its potential value lies in connecting care pathways with the lived experience around diagnosis.
Show evidence
“Its objects include care, treatment, medical benefits, financial assistance and recreational facilities for patients, families and dependants.”
Source:Charity Commission“It provides community support through BreastMates Central and a choir, alongside financial guidance and micro-grants for essentials.”
Source:Organisation
Peer connection may be a core delivery mechanism
The support group, coffee mornings, craft events and choir suggest that relationship-building is not incidental fundraising activity but a principal way the charity provides care.
Why it matters
This indicates possible complementarity with clinical providers and advice services that may address medical or practical needs but have less capacity to create sustained peer belonging.
Show evidence
“BreastMates Central, weekly coffee mornings, craft events and the LFBC Choir bring people together.”
Source:Organisation“The charity says it supports fighters, survivors, supporters, family and friends affected by a breast cancer diagnosis.”
Source:Organisation
A broad mandate, with an unclear current balance of investment
There is a notable tension between wide formal powers to fund research and facilities across a 70-mile hospital catchment, and a website that foregrounds direct community support. The organisation may have evolved toward a more visible social-support role, or may operate both models in parallel.
Why it matters
Understanding this balance is important for identifying potential partners: hospitals and researchers may relate to the charity differently from community, welfare and peer-support organisations.
Show evidence
“Its objects include research into breast cancer and provision or improvement of treatment and research facilities within 70 miles of University Hospital Birmingham.”
Source:Charity Commission“Its website highlights support groups, a choir, advice, counselling and bursaries.”
Source:Organisation
- Whether the charity currently funds hospital equipment, research or organisational grants, and at what scale.
- Which communities across the West Midlands are reached, underserved or absent from its support network.
- How people are referred into support and how the charity works with NHS, research and welfare partners.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports and accounts showing spending by bursaries, community support, research, equipment and grants.
- Information on referral routes, delivery locations, participant demographics and formal partnerships.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
To raise funds to assist in the treatment of breast cancer.
Charity objects
1) TO PROVIDE CARE TREATMENT AND OTHER MEDICAL BENEFITS FOR PATIENTS SUFFERING FORM BREAST CANCER RESIDING WITHIN A 70 MILE RADIUS OF THE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, BIRMINGHAM. 2) TO PROVIDE RELIEF OR ASSISTANCE TO SUCH PATIENTS RECEIVING SUCH CARE TREATMENT AND OTHER MEDICAL BENEFITS FOR BREAST CANCER OR MEMBERS OF THE FAMILIES OR DEPENDANTS OF SUCH PATIENTS OR DECEASED FORMER PATIENTS WHO ARE SICK, CONVALESCENT, INFIRM OR IN NEED OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE. 3) TO PROMOTE AND CARRY OUT RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES CURE CONTROL AND TREATMENT OF BREAST CANCER AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF. 4) TO CREATE AND TO IMPROVE FACILITIES AND TO PROVIDE EQUIPMENT TO CARRY OUT SUCH RESEARCH AND FOR THE TREATMENT OF SUCH PATIENTS AT THE HOSPITAL OR ANY OTHER HOSPITAL OR RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT WITHIN A 70 MILE RADIUS OF THE HOSPITAL. 5) TO PROVIDE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE RECREATIONAL FACILITIES FOR SUCH PATIENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES OR DEPENDANTS.