Stand Up to Cancer 2015

22 September 2015

Channel 4 is delighted to announce a week of Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) programming from Monday 5th October.

We’re thrilled to confirm a brand new episode of First Dates for SU2C. But this is no ordinary First Dates; for one night only; it’s Celebrity First Dates! Who will be brave enough to sign up? Programming also includes special editions of both Chatty Man and The Last Leg.

SU2C is a joint national fundraising campaign from Cancer Research UK and Channel 4 designed to accelerate new cancer treatments and tests to UK patients and ultimately save more lives. SU2C launched in the UK in 2012 and has already raised over £23.8m. 

There are loads of ways for the public to Stand Up To Cancer with fundraising events throughout October .including the 3Peaks endurance challenge on Sunday11th October.

Davina McCall, Alan Carr and Dr Christian Jessen presented 2014’s star-studded event which raised an incredible £14m. Last year’s live event featured Gogglebox cameos from Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell and Noel Gallagher, celebrity auditionees for ‘Andy Murray: The Movie, a bake-off between Taylor Swift and Jamie Oliver and even an on stage proposal and we’re confident that a raft of famous faces crossed with some of our best loved shows will help substantially add to that amount this year.  

Throughout the whole of 2015, SU2C supporters have been continuing to help scientists process important cancer information by playing the award-winning game, Reverse The Odds. The game, which has collected a huge number of awards on its travels, including an online Innovation award at Edinburgh 2015, a Digital Emmy, and two Broadcast Digital nods, is a fun and unique puzzle adventure where the further you progress, the more you are helping to beat cancer sooner.

Ed Havard, Channel 4’s Head of Live Events said, “The success of the partnership between C4 and CRUK on Stand Up To Cancer has been remarkable and we have raised many millions of pounds to fund ground breaking cancer trials. We are hugely grateful to all the talent and production companies involved in this campaign and of course to the public who have donated so generously." 

Claire Rowney, director of Stand Up To Cancer, said: “We’ve made amazing progress against cancer in the past few decades but one in two of us in the UK will develop cancer in our lifetime so we can’t afford to stand still. Our partnership with Channel 4 has seen us raise more than £23.8 million so far which will have a huge impact on our aim to beat cancer sooner.”

 

NOTES TO EDITORS

Stand Up To Cancer is a joint national fundraising event from Channel 4 and Cancer Research UK

• The 2014 campaign raised more than £15.5 million which will fund translational research across the UK. Translational research means translating lab discoveries into life-saving treatments and tests – and this means funding more clinical studies and trials
• Stand Up To Cancer raises vital funds to support scientists working in NHS hospitals, cancer centres, universities and institutes, speeding up research to get treatments and tests to patients who so desperately need them
• The Stand Up To Cancer live event will return in 2016
• Visit Standuptocancer.org.uk or channel4.co.uk/SU2C for further information

 

About Stand Up To Cancer (U.S. programme and show)

• SU2C is a programme of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organisation, and utilises the assets of this industry to engage the public in unique ways
• In 2008, SU2C launched its first national fundraising telecast in the USA on 3 major networks—the first ever non-emergency fundraiser to be simultaneously broadcast across several major networks, which has become a biennial event
• Over $260m was pledged to SU2C for collaborative cancer research in connection with the first three SU2C telecasts, in 2008, 2010, and 2012

 

About Cancer Research UK:

• Cancer Research UK is the world’s leading cancer charity dedicated to saving lives through research.
• Cancer Research UK’s pioneering work into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer has helped save millions of lives
• Cancer Research UK receives no government funding for its life-saving research. Every step it makes towards beating cancer relies on every pound donated
• Cancer Research UK has been at the heart of the progress that has already seen survival rates in the UK double in the last forty years
• Today, 2 in 4 people survive cancer. Cancer Research UK’s ambition is to accelerate progress so that 3 in 4 people will survive cancer within the next 20 years
• Cancer Research UK supports research into all aspects of cancer through the work of over 4,000 scientists, doctors and nurses
• Together with its partners and supporters, Cancer Research UK's vision is to bring forward the day when all cancers are cured

 

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