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Keeping Your Family Positive During Cancer Treatment

Discover simple ways to stay positive during your child’s cancer journey. Learn how to create a positivity plan that supports your whole family.

Is Camp Quality Right for Your Family? Here’s What to Expect

Wondering if Camp Quality is right for your family? Explore our programs, support services, and how we bring joy to kids facing cancer.

How Child Life Therapy supports children with cancer

Discover how play therapy helps kids with cancer. See how Camp Quality’s programs bring fun, resilience, and creativity to families.

How To Use The Kids Guide to Cancer App

Discover the Kids Guide to Cancer App! A fun, supportive tool for parents to help kids understand cancer. Dive in and make tough talks a little easier

10 Fun Activities to Keep Kids Smiling During Hospital Stays

Here are 10 fun activities and Camp Quality resources to keep kids smiling during hospital stays. From puppet playdates to storytime, find fun and laughter here!

Preparing Your Child for Surgery – What Might They Expect?

Kids having surgery may need to have tests beforehand – and will also need to fast for a few hours before the surgery itself. It’s a difficult time, but our guide aims to make it a little easier.

The benefits of laughing

The health benefits of laughter – what’s in it for you? We need more research to truly understand laughter’s benefits but studies so far suggest that laughter can be good for both body and mind.

Laughter IS the Best Medicine: 10 Ways to Laugh More

Laughter can boost our oxygen intake, improve artery function and increase the brain’s production of feel good chemicals called endorphins. Read 10 practical tips on how to bring more laughter into your life.

3 secrets to a healthier life

Laughing is even good exercise: it makes you contract your diaphragm and 300 other muscles in your body. It’s SCIENTIFIC.

Oncology and oncologists – how do they help?

What is oncology? It’s a type of health care that specialises in diagnosing and treating different kinds of cancer.

Talking to kids about cancer: 7 handy tips

A cancer diagnosis can be difficult to talk about. Talking about cancer to children can be particularly challenging. Here are seven handy tips for talking to kids about cancer.

What to say when someone has cancer

Finding out that someone you know has cancer is always difficult, especially if you don’t know what to say. Supporting them involves listening to what they have to say and being aware of cues in their behaviour.

What is cancer? (for kids)

Our bodies are made up of millions of tiny cells. Our bodies are making new cells all the time. Most of the time these are healthy cells that help us to grow and to heal.

Keeping family life on track through childhood cancer

Camp Quality asked parents with experience of childhood cancer what helped them keep going – the routines and boundaries that made everyday life more manageable during a deeply disruptive time.