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Our Core Values
Our work will be underpinned by our values of:
Empathy: We care deeply about people who are experiencing cancer. Compassion and empathy are the core of our services. Upholding the dignity of whatever we help matters the most.
Support: Everyone who accesses our services is unique. Personal support ensures everyone is cared for fully and respectfully.
Kindness: Positivity, hope, love.
Patient Voice: Ensuring that patient voice is central to everything we do, we will always listen, try to understand and do all we can to represent your views and respond to your needs.
Collaboration: Partnership, sharing and teamwork are at the heart of MKF to provide our services and outcomes for patients, survivors & families.
Open: Our services are accessible to everyone and our footprint covers 26 counties. Ensuring we are there for all, even the most remote and underserved communities is a priority for us.
Trust: We hold the trust of our donors, supporters and ambassadors dear. Our work is underpinned by integrity, honesty and transparency.
Accountability: We continue to hold the highest standards in charity governance. We take the responsibility given to us by our supporters seriously and ensure we are as efficient, while still being effective, as possible.
Professionalism: All our work is underpinned by evidence meaning the public can trust our information and advice.
Our Services
We provide a wide and varied array of services to help provide support, information and advice to people at every step of their cancer journey. Our services focus on cancer prevention and education, or support and community for those already on a cancer journey.
Mobile Information Units
Staffed by a specialist MKF nurse, the mobile information units visit community groups, workplaces, organisations, and public places to bring cancer information straight into the heart of communities nationwide.
The mobile information units are stocked with take-home information leaflets and packs on the various cancers to let you process this important information at home, in the comfort of your own home. Our nurses travel all over the country providing information on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle and how best to reduce your risk of cancer.
For more information on our mobile units dates and how to book a visit, click here.
Schools Programme
The Marie Keating Foundation Schools Cancer Awareness Programme aims to help secondary school students and adult learners learn how to reduce their risk of cancer and how to spot the signs and symptoms early. The programme makes cancer ‘less frightening by enlightening,’ by engaging students with age-appropriate, interactive, and informative material.
Click here for more information on our school talks.
Corporate Wellness Workshops
The Marie Keating Foundation’s Corporate Wellness Workshops is a programme offered by our specialist nurses, bringing workshops and presentations on how to spot cancer and on healthy lifestyle choices to reduce your risk of cancer into the workplace. These can be general presentations or bespoke for the specific audience. These workshops aim to help give employees the tools they need to spot the sign and symptoms of cancer early while also helping to reduce their risk of developing cancer and maintain good health. For more information on the workshops available to your business, click here. . To help support those working from home to stay healthy and aware of the signs and symptoms of cancer our nursing team offers our corporate wellness workshops via webinar, bringing our vital information and advice to you from the safety and comfort of your own home. For more information on how to book a wellness webinar for your company, email info@mariekeating.ie
Comfort Fund
A cancer diagnosis can place a huge strain on the person diagnosed both physically and emotionally, but with the inability to work, and the additional costs associated with treatment, cancer survivors can experience a lot of financial strain during this period. Our Comfort Fund was designed to try and meet this need and provide grants for those experiencing financial difficulty as a result of cancer treatment. In 2019 alone, we were able to provide financial assistance to 660 families coping with cancer treatment. Over the years, the numbers applying for this fund have grown exponentially.
Our Comfort Fund has been put under immense strain and as we receive very little government funding, we rely heavily on the generosity of the public.
If you'd like to donate to our Comfort Fund, please click here.
BRCA Peer To Peer Support
For men and women diagnosed with a positive BRCA gene mutation, it can be difficult to find support and advice from people that understand the journey you are undertaking. Our MKF BRCA peer to peer supporters are a group of BRCA positive volunteers that have learned to navigate their diagnosis and are here to help you, and answer any questions you have related to your BRCA experience.
To get in touch and send your questions or queries to one of our supporters, visit our BRCA Support page. You can also get to know our peer to peer supports by reading about their experiences here.
Survive and Thrive Programmes
Our Survive and Thrive workshops and seminars have been running since 2014 and were created to help men and women who have finished cancer treatment to adapt to the ‘new normal.’ Our meetings include advice from nurses, as well as peer to peer advice from other survivors on issues that cancer survivors often face such as fatigue, nutrition and fear of recurrence.
Survive and Thrive programmes currently run online and are free to attend. To keep up to date with all seminars running , click here.
Positive Living Meetings
Being diagnosed with an advanced cancer can be a lonely and isolating time filled with complicated emotions and questions. To support those diagnosed with stage four cancer, a community who have their own set of emotional, physical, and practical needs separate to other cancer patients, we established our Positive Living programme. This programme is led by local experts that provide resources and support to group members and their families.
Meetings are held in a hybrid approach with in person events being held 2-4 times a year for the community to meet in person.
For more information or to sign up, click here.
How You Can Help
Our five year strategic plan is a very ambitious guideline, one that we can't achieve without your help. It is estimated that 1 in 2 people will be affected by cancer at some point in their life, and as this figure grows, so too must our services, but we can not do this without your help.
By volunteering your time
Setting up a fundraiser
Making a one-off donation or becoming a regular giver to the Foundation
You are helping us to continue to support those diagnosed with cancer and their families at every step of their cancer journey.
For more information on how we plan to achieve our aims, you can read a full copy of our three year strategic plan here.
