Case studies

Sunflowers is a sunny helpful place to be, everyone always has a smile and my exercise classes make me smile. Massage and reiki help me to relax. 

Sunflowers to me is everything positive for people living with cancer or who have family suffering from cancer and survivors too who are now cured. We have a series of relaxation therapies and classes. It is such a happy place where we can forget about our troubles, we support each other, and the art class […]

Last year when I started treatment for prostate cancer, I picked up a Sunflowers leaflet at the hospital. I was interested in the art group; I had been too busy to do any painting for years, so it seemed like a good way to kick start what had been a profitable hobby. A year on […]

Sunflowers has helped me on so many levels, it is a welcoming comfortable place where I can be myself and talk to people who understand my situation. I have had complementary therapies, yoga and mindfulness and have learned craft skills and met some lovely people. I always go home feeling better.

Hi everybody, my name is Maxine and I came to Sunflowers nearly a year ago to the support group due to losing my husband who died of cancer at age 50 years old. Sunflowers has helped me a lot by meeting new people who can relate to what I am going through, and the staff […]

In 2015, not long after I started working here, a lady called Karen literally shuffled through the front door at Sunflowers, looking very poorly, wearing a headscarf and using a walking aid. Karen told me her story as I registered her for the service. Karen had stage 3 breast cancer and was going through chemotherapy treatment. […]

“At the age of 36 I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I started using Sunflowers towards the end of 6 months of chemotherapy, I was bald, exhausted and pretty terrified. As a younger person with cancer my days were often spent on my own whilst everyone else was at work, I wasn’t able to socialise […]

Bobby and all the staff at sunflowers are amazing, the work they do is Just invaluable. It certainly has been vital to my recovery both physically and mentally. I Regularly attend Pilates, counselling and the fundraisers Bobby and the team organise. Admittedly, I was reluctant to enter into anything new during and after such a […]