Our Goal

Through The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation, Sir Bobby's Big Goal is a campaign (hopefully the first of many) to support the new Early Cancer Trials Unit at the Northern Centre for Cancer Care, currently being built at the Freeman Hospital and to be named The Sir Bobby Robson Cancer Trials Research Centre.

The money is urgently needed to fully equip the unit with treatment beds, treatment rooms, a state-of-the art laboratory, consulting rooms and offices (the building costs are being met by the NHS Trust and many of the staff in the unit will be funded by Cancer Research UK).

This unit will operate at the practical end of the battle against cancer, trialling new drugs which the people of the north east will be the very first to benefit from. It will be a fantastic facility and many of us will have cause to be thankful for it - either for ourselves or for the people we care about most in the world.

Sir Bobby would be the first to say that he has been lucky in the care he’s received, lucky that early detection helped him to get the right treatment, lucky that he caught it in time. He also knows that many people are not so lucky.

Once the Foundation has raised sufficient funds to set up the Centre, all additional money will go towards cancer related projects in the North East.