Supporting families of children with cancer, leukaemia & brain tumours.


Emotional Support
Parent support groups, support at Hospital and helping put you in touch with other sources of support.


Financial Support
Helping to ease financial difficulties through the help of a one-off grant from our hardship fund.

Social Support
Organised days out and events for the whole family - bringing families and children together with others in a similar situation for a fun day out

Supporting families of children with cancer, leukaemia & brain tumours

Who we are

The Parents' Association for Seriously Ill Children provide practical, financial and social support to children and young people living with cancer, their family and carers. Based at Nottingham Children's Hospital we aim to give children and families the means to build support networks, reduce isolation and offer financial assistance, helping to make a positive difference to families whose children's lives have been impacted by cancer.

We are a parents led charity with direct experience of such illnesses and the difficulites faced. Our experienc working with families over the past 35 years has highlighted the issues that families face following diagsosis. We work directly with families, children and young people to offer support by:

Helping parents' deal with the financial hardships they often suffer as a result of needing to reduce, or give up work by providing access to PASIC grants;

Help the affected children and their parents deal with the diagnosis of cancer and the associated isolation of hospital stays, often long distances away from their family and friends;

Improve the wellbeing of the affected children and their families by arranging parties, social events and day trips, allowing them to forget their illnesses for at least a few hours, and enjoy quality family time together;

Provide practial support, advice and 'signposting' services to other sources of assistance

Financial Support

Helping to ease financial difficulties through the help of a one-off grant from our hardship fund

Emotional Support

Parent support groups, support at Hospital and helping put you in touch with other sources of support

Social Support

Organised days out and events for the whole family - bringing families and children together with others in a similar situation for a fun day out