Impact Report Year Ending April 2026

Momentum Children's Charity supports families of children with cancer or serious illness across London and the South East, working alongside eight NHS hospital partners. Their 2026 impact report covers the year to April 2026, detailing support for 2,829 individuals through family support workers, bereavement services, therapy, social work, respite breaks and special events.

Report snapshot
2,829 children, parents, siblings and grandparents supported; 506 families with a child in treatment Key Metric 1
220 bereaved families supported; 424 individuals on 93 boat trips; 692 individuals in 165 cabin breaks Key Metric 2
£71,935 unlocked in essential support; 1,320 social work hours; 188 creative therapy sessions and 271 counselling sessions delivered Key Metric 3
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📋About

Family support workers, bereavement support (Echoes), therapy services, social work, respite (canal boat and holiday cabins), special moments and events, hospital ambassador scheme Custom geography from upload: Surrey, Sussex, Kent

📊Key Metrics

2,829 children, parents, siblings and grandparents supported; 506 families with a child in treatment Key Metric 1
220 bereaved families supported; 424 individuals on 93 boat trips; 692 individuals in 165 cabin breaks Key Metric 2
£71,935 unlocked in essential support; 1,320 social work hours; 188 creative therapy sessions and 271 counselling sessions delivered Key Metric 3

Key Outcomes

  • Families show average 0.7 point improvement across five Mo's Outcomes after support begins; biggest gains in social participation and accessing emotional support
  • 93% of families experience financial strain after diagnosis; 100 families received over 1,320 hours of specialist social work support this year
  • 95% of parents experienced moderate to severe emotional health impact; 92% of children affected in social and leisure participation following diagnosis

📍Geography

London, Other

2025

Annual Report 2024/25

£20.8m raised in 2024/25 (up from £17.4m in 2023/24)
Key Metric 1
£9.6m raised from 176 legacy gifts; £14m committed to new Total Body PET-CT scanner
Key Metric 2
49,000 active supporters; 3,857 running participants (doubled in 3 years); 83p in every £1 goes directly to patients
Key Metric 3
MyChristie-MyHealth ePROMs system reduces clinician time on routine reviews by up to 23% and enables earlier symptom detection
2025

Closer to a Cure — 15 Years of Impact

£23.2m awarded to research since 2009; £18.2m directly to Centres of Excellence; Centres leveraged additional £23.2m — total £46.4m contribution to national investment
Key Metric 1
5 Centres of Excellence funded across UK; 39 PhD students supported; 260 research personnel supported; 167 publications underpinned
Key Metric 2
130+ research projects supported through Funded Initiatives; 23 novel therapies reviewed by BTR-NTA; BRAIN UK tissue bank holds 210,000+ cases and has supplied 26,000+ samples to 110+ studies
Key Metric 3
Blood test for high-grade brain tumours granted FDA Breakthrough Device Designation (2023); Barts Brain Tumour Centre grew from zero clinical trials in 2019 to running the most brain tumour clinical trials of any UK neuro-oncology centre in 2024