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CLIC Sargent is charity
Charitable organization
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 in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 that was formed by the merger of Sargent Cancer Care for Children and Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood in 2005. The charity specializes in providing support for children with cancer
Cancer
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.

Sargent Cancer Care for Children was founded in 1968 in memory of the conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent
Malcolm Sargent
Sir Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent was an English conductor, organist and composer widely regarded as Britain's leading conductor of choral works...

, who died a year earlier from pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer
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. Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood was founded in 1976 by Bob Woodward after his son died of cancer.

Virgin Trains
Virgin Trains
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 named a 390 class Pendelino train, number 390-047, CLIC Sargent in honour of the charity.

Notable CLIC Sargent patrons

  • Lady Helen Taylor
    Lady Helen Taylor
    The Lady Helen Taylor A first cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II, she is a great-granddaughter of King George V of the United Kingdom and is in the line of succession to the British throne....

    , CLIC Sargent Ambassador
  • Lucy Alexander
  • James Allen
  • Lord Richard Attenborough
    Richard Attenborough
    Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough , CBE is a British actor, director, producer and entrepreneur. As director and producer he won two Academy Awards for the 1982 film Gandhi...

  • Alice Beer
    Alice Beer
    Alice Beer is an English television presenter, and was educated at the North London Collegiate School, a girls' independent school in Edgware, Middlesex.-Career:...

  • Angellica Bell
    Angellica Bell
    Angellica Bell is a British television and radio presenter.-Early life:Born in 1976 of St. Lucian heritage, Bell was educated in Ealing, West London at Notting Hill & Ealing High School. She later earned her BA Honours degree in Politics.-Television career:2000–2006Bell joined CBBC in May 2000...

  • Nicola Benedetti
    Nicola Benedetti
    - Early life and the Yehudi Menuhin School :Benedetti was born in West Kilbride, North Ayrshire to an Italian father and a Scottish mother. She started to learn the violin at the age of four...

  • Cherie Booth
  • Sara Carello
  • Mark Chapman
  • Sir James Galway
  • Tim Henman
    Tim Henman
    Timothy Henry "Tim" Henman OBE is a retired English professional tennis player and former British Number One. Henman played a serve-and-volley style of tennis that suited the grass courts of Wimbledon. He was the first player from the United Kingdom since Roger Taylor in the 1970s to reach the...

  • Chris Hollins
    Chris Hollins
    Chris Hollins is an English journalist, presenter and sportsman, currently employed by the BBC and best known for being the sports correspondent for BBC Breakfast, and for winning Strictly Come Dancing 2009.-Early life:...

  • Emma Johnson
  • Marie & Eddie Jordan
    Eddie Jordan
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  • Gary Lineker
    Gary Lineker
    Gary Winston Lineker, OBE , is a former English footballer, who played as a striker. He is a sports broadcaster for the BBC, Al Jazeera Sports and Eredivisie Live...

  • Jackie and Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
    Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
    Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen is a successful homestyle consultant best known for his appearances on the BBC television programme Changing Rooms...

  • Julian Lloyd Webber
    Julian Lloyd Webber
    Julian Lloyd Webber is a British solo cellist who has been described as the "doyen of British cellists".-Early life:Julian Lloyd Webber is the second son of the composer William Lloyd Webber and his wife Jean Johnstone . He is the younger brother of the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber...

  • Sally Magnusson
    Sally Magnusson
    Sally Magnússon,, is a Scottish broadcaster and writer, currently working for BBC Scotland. She also presents Tracing Your Roots on BBC Radio 4.-Early life:...

  • Sandra and Barry McGuigan
    Barry McGuigan
    Finbarr Patrick McGuigan MBE , known as Barry McGuigan and nicknamed The Clones Cyclone, is a former Irish and British professional boxer who became a world featherweight champion.-Background:...

  • José Mourinho
    José Mourinho
    José Mário dos Santos Félix Mourinho is a Portuguese football manager and the current manager of Real Madrid. He is commonly known as "The Special One".Mourinho is regarded by some players, coaches and critics as the best ever coach in football....

  • Patsy Palmer
    Patsy Palmer
    Patsy Palmer is an English actress. Palmer made an early television appearance on the children's drama show Grange Hill, but is best known for playing Bianca Jackson in the popular British television soap opera EastEnders. Originally in the cast from 1993–1999, Palmer returned to EastEnders in...

  • Steve Rider
    Steve Rider
    Stephen Rider is an English sports presenter, and was the anchorman of ITV's football coverage, which included the Champions League, England Internationals, the FA Cup and the 2006 World Cup. He anchored ITV's Formula One coverage from 2006 to 2008, and football coverage from 2006 to April 2010...

  • Gaby Roslin
    Gaby Roslin
    Gaby Roslin is an English television presenter and actress. She rose to fame while co-presenting The Big Breakfast on Channel 4 between 1992 and 1996, and also presented the BBC's Children in Need charity appeal from 1994 to 2004....

  • Michelle Ryan
    Michelle Ryan
    Michelle Claire Ryan is an English actress.She is best known for portraying the role of Zoe Slater on BBC soap opera EastEnders. In 2007, she starred in the short lived American television series Bionic Woman...

  • Sharleen Spiteri
    Sharleen Spiteri
    Sharleen Spiteri is a Scottish recording artist and songwriter, best known as being the lead singer of Scottish rock/blues band Texas. Texas began their career in 1986, and shot to fame in 1989 with their UK Top Ten single, "I Don't Want a Lover" released from Southside...

  • The Archbishop of Canterbury - Dr Rowan Williams
    Rowan Williams
    Rowan Douglas Williams FRSL, FBA, FLSW is an Anglican bishop, poet and theologian. He is the 104th and current Archbishop of Canterbury, Metropolitan of the Province of Canterbury and Primate of All England, offices he has held since early 2003.Williams was previously Bishop of Monmouth and...

  • Richard Young

See also

  • Children With Leukaemia
    Children With Leukaemia
    Children With Leukaemia is a British charitable organisation, inaugurated by Diana, Princess of Wales on 12 January 1988, that provides funding for research into the prevention and cure of childhood leukaemia including acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and Acute myeloid leukaemia . It also supports...

  • Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research
  • The Neuroblastoma Society
    The Neuroblastoma Society
    The Neuroblastoma Society is a UK charity that helps families affected by neuroblastoma by funding research and running a befriending scheme for parents. The charity was set up in 1982 by a group of parents whose children had suffered from or died of neuroblastoma....

  • Neuroblastoma Children's Cancer Alliance UK
    Neuroblastoma Children's Cancer Alliance UK
    The Neuroblastoma Alliance UK is a UK charity that helps children and families affected by neuroblastoma, a type of childhood cancer. The charity helps families by helping them fundraise for their child's treatment abroad, offering support and funding research into the condition .-History:The...

  • Leonora Children's Cancer Fund
    Leonora Children's Cancer Fund
    The Leonora Children's Cancer Fund was a British registered charity that was registered on 14 September 1994. It was, until 11 March 2010, registered charity number 1040757, when it was removed from the register...

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