LAUNCHING AUTUMN 2026

STRONGER FOUNDATIONS: CANCER REHAB

Evidence-informed, exercise-led cancer rehabilitation programme helping people rebuild strength, confidence and capacity through individualised movement, practical education and ongoing support.

LAUNCHING SEPTEMBER 2026

Stronger Foundations

Cancer Rehab

Evidence-informed, exercise-led cancer rehabilitation programme helping people rebuild strength, confidence and capacity through personalised movement, practical education and ongoing support.

You Are Strong, And Together,

We Can Be Stronger!

Build a stronger foundation

Cancer treatment and recovery can change your energy, strength, confidence and relationship with your body. Knowing how much to do — without doing too much or too little — is not always straightforward.

Structure when you need it most

Stronger Foundations gives you a structured and supported place to begin. Over eight weeks, you will receive individualised exercise guidance, practical education and ongoing support to help you move safely, understand your energy and rebuild confidence at a pace that is appropriate for you.

Support in everyday life

Whole-person rehabilitation and education alongside clinical care. Supporting the parts of treatment and recovery that happen between appointments.

With you on the journey

Stronger Foundations is there for you whether you are preparing for treatment, undergoing treatment, recovering from treatment or adapting to life beyond cancer. Hosted at The MAT Clinic, Ampthill, Bedfordshire.

Why Stronger Foundations?

Stronger Foundations helps you build around the care of your medical team, with safe movement, practical support for fatigue and recovery, and tools for the parts of daily life that happen between appointments. It is about giving yourself the strongest possible foundation for treatment, recovery and life beyond a diagnosis.

Supported by Ampthill vs Cancer

Ampthill vs Cancer is funding the first pilot of Stronger Foundations as part of our commitment to turn community fundraising into practical support for people affected by cancer locally.

After identifying a gap in specialist cancer rehabilitation provision, AVC secured NHS Local Integrated Care Board funding to enable two local professionals to undertake Level 4 Cancer Rehabilitation training. Stronger Foundations was subsequently developed independently, building on that specialist training.

Many of us at AVC have personal experience of cancer and know how daunting it can feel to understand what your body is capable of during or after treatment. We have also experienced first-hand the positive impact that appropriate exercise and movement can have on physical and mental wellbeing.

By funding places on this pilot, we want to help more local people access specialist, personalised support before, during and after cancer treatment – and feel more confident about moving forward.

Because support shouldn’t stop with treatment, and nobody affected by cancer should have to navigate what comes next alone.