Behind every grant and bursary is a person, a project or a community moving forward. Here are just a few examples of the impact ROC’s charitable activities help to create.
Every penny ROC raises is reinvested for public benefit. We channel our support through three pillars — bursaries & funding, research, and education & outreach — that together strengthen the professions who diagnose and treat cancer, and improve care for the patients who depend on them.
ROC’s charitable work is organised around three complementary pillars. Each targets a different barrier to better cancer care — from the cost of professional development, to the funding gap in early-stage research, to the awareness and skills gaps in our wider communities.
£1.2m
Awarded in bursaries & grants*
140+
Research projects supported*
6,000+
Professionals reached each year*
100%
Of proceeds reinvested for public benefit
Cost should never stand between a talented clinician and the training, conferences and opportunities that help them grow. Our bursaries remove that barrier — funding congress attendance, course fees and travel for those who need it most.
Breakthroughs in imaging and cancer treatment start with well-supported research. We fund early-stage and pilot studies that struggle to find backing elsewhere — helping ideas become evidence, and evidence become better patient care.
Knowledge should reach everyone who can use it. We invest in education programmes, community engagement and public awareness — sharing expertise across the professions and beyond, so more people understand and benefit from advances in imaging and cancer care.
Placeholder story — how a bursary helped an early-career radiographer attend UKIO, present their work and build lifelong professional connections.
Placeholder story — how ROC seed funding gave a research team the evidence they needed to secure a major national grant.
Placeholder story — how an outreach programme raised awareness of early diagnosis and skills in communities that need it most.
