The Stand Up To Cancer Care Package™

This bespoke package was developed because we have regularly been asked to put something together for someone going through cancer. Through our own experience and from talking with others, we know that cancer is intensely personal. Depending on diagnosis, treatment, circumstances and many other factors, what might offer some TLC or practical comfort varies greatly. One person might crave cold things while another can’t stand them; some people might want food as comfort while others lose their appetite; skin can be sensitive, some people feel the cold more and others suffer hot flushes. Some want to use their brain and others want a distraction.

We also know that it’s tough for those alongside the patient, and often friends and family want to look after that person too, so we wanted to make sure the loved ones were included in this package.

The Stand Up To Cancer Care Package has been developed with over 60 products to choose from so you can make it right for the recipient. It has been developed in collaboration with Stand Up To Cancer and Don’t Buy Her Flowers are proud to support the charity by making an annual donation to it’s ground breaking research.

With huge thanks especially to Deborah, Emma, Helen and Elizabeth – four brilliant women who took the time to provide insights and really think about the products that they received or wished they had during their own experiences.

Don’t Buy Her Flowers are proud to support Stand Up To Cancer by making an estimated donation of £1500 for each 12 month period from April to March annually to Cancer Research UK in support of the Stand Up To Cancer campaign. Stand Up To Cancer and Stand Up To Cancer Brand Marks are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Entertainment Industry Foundation. Cancer Research UK is a registered charity in England and Wales (No. 1089464), Scotland (No. SC041666), Isle of Man (No 1103) and Jersey (247).

Beauty, Skincare and Relaxing products.

These products have been selected because they are gentle on skin that might be sensitive.

• Skin & Tonic Naked Lip Balm; British, organic and comes in an easy-to-use stick for soothing dry lips.
• Skin & Tonic De-Stress Face Mask (20g) – A cooling powdered clay mask that will leave skin hydrated, plump and dewy, made with only six ingredients
• Skin & Tonic organic Calm Balm; uses Roman Chamomile, Lavender and Calendula oils to help skin and mood in moments of stress (20g)
• B Skincare Peppermint Foot Cooling Cream (60ml) – Handmade and natural, combines cooling peppermint, antibacterial tea tree and relaxing lavender essential oils
• Scentered De-Stress Balm – 100% natural, essential oil based Aromatherapy Balm that is mess-free. Used as a stress relief aid to promote relaxation and calmness
• B Skincare Lavender Hand Cream (60ml) – Made with soothing Cornish beeswax and relaxing lavender
• Neal’s Yard Remedies Foaming Bubble Bath (200ml) – A tranquil aromatherapy blend of lavender, Spanish marjoram and geranium essential oils for enhanced wellbeing, leaving skin feeling nourished and fragrant
• Neal’s Yard Remedies Men’s Hair & Body Wash (200ml) – 2-in-1 wash for hair and body with an energising aroma of organic grapefruit, bergamot and bay essential oils invigorates the senses
• Neal’s Yard Remedies Geranium & Orange Body Scrub (200g) – An energising citrus scrub that cleanses, smooths and softens dull and dry skin with Brittany sea salt and nourishing shea nut butter
• This Works Deep Sleep Pillow Spray (75ml) – With an award winning blend of lavender, vetivert and chamomile to calm mind and body
• This Works Morning Expert Shower Gel (250ml) – Wash away morning sleepiness with this sulphate-free body cleanser, with Peppermint & Rosemary
• Spacemasks Self Heating Eye Mask – For relieving tiredness, eye strain and many other earthly tensions
• Batiste Dry Shampoo – The UK’s number one dry shampoo, and a popular product for anyone unable to wash their hair (200ml).
• Nursem Caring Hand Cream – Developed with nurses to nourish, nurture, protect hands, and gentle on sensitive skin
• Nursem Caring Skin Fix (50ml) – Particularly brilliant for sore, dry hands. Uses naturally derived ingredients to provide immediate and targeted relief to all areas of persistently dry and sore skin
• Mum & You – 100% biodegradable baby wipes are made from naturally derived fibres, which breaks down quickly after throwing away, even in landfill conditions
• Love & Peace 8 hour tealight candles in recycled glass (3 tealights) – Subtly scented with essential oils citrus, geranium, patchouli and orange
• Love & Peace candle 180ml – Subtly scented with essential oils citrus, geranium, patchouli and orange
• Black Oud Candle 180ml – Citrus, pink pepper, cardamom, nutmeg, vanilla and musk. 100% natural plant wax.

Snacks, Treats and Meals

For ingredients details, see FAQs

• COOK Food Delivery Voucher £40, £55, £75; The recipient chooses from the extensive menu on COOK’s website, selects a delivery slot to suit them and receives delicious meals to the door ready for when they need them. COOK cater for family meals, kids meals and special dietary requirements. As a guide, £40 buys 4-5 meals for two (prices vary depending on the meals chosen).
• Queasy Drops Plus for Dry Mouth and Nausea Relief – Developed by healthcare professionals, Queasy Drops are a natural way to ease a queasy stomach and also help with dry mouth and provide a nice energy boost.
• Montezuma’s Giant Chocolate Buttons (180g) – Choose from smooth milk, deliciously rich dark or creamy white chocolate
• Salted Caramel Brownie Sharing Slice – An extra big slab of delicious, gooey chocolatey brownie
• Traybakes Caramel Shortcake with Belgian Milk Chocolate
• Cartwright & Butler Butter Fudge (175g) – Rich and creamy and made with real butter from an age-old Scottish recipe
• Triple Choc Chunk Biscuits (200g) – Cartwright & Butler’s chocolate biscuits with white, milk and plain chocolate chunks
• Cartwright & Butler Biscuits (200g) – Choose from Demerara Shortbread Rounds or Gluten Free Butter Oat Crumbles (200g)
• Salted Caramel Popcorn (30g) – Delicious hand-popped popcorn by Kitchen Popcorn
• Sweet & Salt Popcorn (30g) – Delicious hand-popped popcorn by Kitchen Popcorn
• Brown Bag Crisps (40g) – Choose from Sea Salt & Malt Vinegar, Cheddar & Onion, Tiger Prawn Chilli & Lime or Oak Smoked Chilli (Vegan)

Drinks & Refreshments

• Cosmopolitan Cocktail (100ml) – A modern classic with Ketel One, the tangy-sweet orange of Cointreau, cranberry and lime, from Nio Cocktails. Needs Ice Only, single serving
• Old Fashioned Cocktail (100ml) – Crafted with Bulleit Bourbon and aromatic bitters, from Nio Cocktails. Needs Ice Only, single serving
• Tommy’s Margarita Cocktail (100ml) – A refreshing twist on the Margarita that allows the Jose Cuervo Tequila to shine, from NIO cocktails. Needs Ice Only, single serving
• Gin Sour Cocktail (100ml) – A perfect balance of sugar, bitter lemon and Dry Tanqueray Gin, from NIO cocktails. Needs Ice Only, single serving
• Lemongrass Citrus Cocktail (Alcohol-Free) (100ml) – Fragrant lemongrass stars in this refreshing tropical non-alcoholic cocktail. Needs Ice Only, single serving
• Virgin Bitters Cocktail (Alcohol-Free) (100ml) – A delicious take on an alcohol-free Negroni, with notes of spice, citrus and bitters. Needs Ice Only, single serving
• White Wine, El Coto, Blanco Rioja (375ml) – Made from macerated Viura grapes with slow fermentation. Offers an intense aroma of flowers and green apples and is full tasty and fruity on the palate.
• Red Wine, Villa Montes Cabernet Sauvignon (375ml) – Deep, ruby red in colour. On the nose, the wine has blackberry and blackcurrant aromas. The palate is medium bodied, with soft tannins, crisp acidity and a lingering finish
• Organic Craft Beer & Craft Cider (330ml each) – A refreshing pale ale from Stroud Brewery paired with a Dunkertons cider, organic and suitable for Vegans
• 2 x 330ml Organic Craft Beers by Stroud Brewery – 1 x Alederflower and 1 x Nelson. Organic and Vegan
• 2 x Beard & Sabre Hopped Ciders 33cl – Two 33cl bottles of this medium cider from West Country producers Beard & Sabre, ‘Dolores’ is a smooth drinking cider with notes of pineapple and lychee
• 2 x Bloom Gin (275ml) – 1 x Gin with Tonic and 1 x Gin with rose lemonade. Light and floral flavours perfeclty mixed Perfectly prepared and ready to serve
• Bei Tempi Prosecco (200ml or 750ml) – Brilliant light colour, zesty with citrus fruit and flowery features and a light fresh finish
• Teapigs Tea – choose from Everyday Brew, Super Fruit, Lemon & Ginger or Honeybush & Rooibos. Lemon & ginger is good for sickness while Honeybush & Rooibos can be drunk with or without milk. Both Lemon & Ginger, Super Fruit and Honeybush & Rooibos are caffiene free (15 temple bags).
• Rave ‘The Italian Job’ Coffee – this blend is roasted just a hint darker with a splash of high quality Robusta. The result is a coffee that punches through milk and delivers a welcomed kick of caffeine.

Entertainment & Stationery

• Luxury Lined A5 notebook – Perfect bound, 140 pages (70 sheets) lined notebook in green with gold foil print lettering. Exclusively designed for Don’t Buy Her Flowers by Martha Brook
• Choice of Magazine – choose from Red, Living Etc, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Empire, GQ, Gardeners’ World, Today’s Golfer, Men’s Fitness
• YesMum REBEL Affirmation Cards – when we experience the effects of cancer in our lives, the feelings that manifest can exhaust our minds and hearts to leave us feeling overwhelmed by life’s daily requirements. The yesmum® rebel affirmation cards act as a daily fist bump to help start each day with strength and self-assurance.
• Fiction Book – Choose from the following:
  • Away With The Penguins by Hazel Prior – A heart-warming and uplifting story with an unlikely heroine who is capturing hearts; Richard and Judy’s Book Club Pick
  • The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley – Described as ‘the feel-good novel we all need right now’, the story centres around six strangers with one thing in common: their lives aren’t always what they make them out to be. What would happen if they told the truth instead?
  • Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid – Set within the backdrop of the heady haze of the 70s music scene, which ‘reads like a Netflix documentary meets A Star is Born’. The Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller
  • This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens – A sparkling and unashamedly romantic, funny debut described as ‘a hug in book form’, and a New York Times bestseller. Two glorious characters bought back together by fate 30 years after being born at the same hospital
  • The Heatwave by Kate Riordan – Atmospheric psychological thriller, set in Provence during a heatwave
  • The Midnight Library by Matt Haig – An incredibly uplifting, poignant and bestselling novel about regret, hope and forgiveness – and a library that houses second chances.
  • Agent Running in the Field by John le Carré – A British spy thriller from the master espoinage novelist, in a tense and chilling portray of today
  • Just My Luck by Adele Parks – A gripping story of greed, lies and dark family secrets, centered around a lottery win
  • The Undoing by Jean Hanff Korelitz – A twisty, turny psychological thriller; main character Grace appears to have the perfect life, however everything changes when a gruesome murder takes place. Recently adapted for a TV series starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant
  • Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid – A much-acclaimed, captivating debut about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both
  • The Second Sleep by Robert Harris – A historical thriller and #1 Sunday Times Bestseller, which poses challenging questions about the idea of progress and the stability of civilisation
  • The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume Two by Phillip Pullman – A fantasy novel and the second chapter in Philip Pullman’s epic series, this is a powerful story about the truths that underpin our world, the divisions that lie between love and responsibility and what it truly means to grow up.
  • Death in the East by Abir Mukherjee – An award-winning gripping historical crime novel set in Raj-era India, with a return of the Calcutta police detective Captain Sam Wyndham
  • Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens – A painfully beautiful first novel that is at once a murder mystery, a coming-of-age narrative and a celebration of nature, and a huge Number One New York Times bestseller
  • The Guardians by John Grisham – The latest gripping crime thriller, in Grisham’s signature, easy style
  • Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan – A Sci-Fi novel set in the 1980s in an alternative history timeline in which the UK lost the Falklands War, Alan Turing is still alive and the Internet, social media and self-driving cars already exist
  • Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson (Hardback) – A tender and emotionally complex debut about the relationship between two young Black British artists. Ideal for anyone missing the tentative, raw depiction of love in Normal People
  • The Eve Illusion by Giovanna & Tom Fletcher (Hardback) – The Eve Illusion is the second book in the bestselling Eve of Man trilogy from The Fletchers; a love story set in a dystopian future 
  • The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy – Beautiful sketches following four unlikely friends and their most important life lessons; a book that has captured millions of hearts
• Non-Fiction Book – Choose from the following:
  • Straight Outta Crawley by Roman Ranganathan – Memoirs of a Distinctly Average Human Being. The hilarious and irreverent autobiography from comedian Romesh Ranganathan
  • Tall Tales and Wee Stories by Billy Connolly – The Best of Billy Connolly, this Sunday Times Bestseller brings together the very best of Billy’s storytelling for the first time, with fifty years of belly-laughs, energy and outrage.
  • Failosophy by Elizabeth Day – An essential handbook for turning failure in to success, looking at all the lessons learned from the award-winning How To Fail podcast, and distilled in to seven principles of failure
  • What Doesn’t Kill You by Rachel Haynes – The Highs, Lows and Unexpected Gifts of Surviving Cancer’; author Rachel, who has survived bowel cancer twice, tells her story with humour and honesty. Looks at the psychological impact of cancer and the realisation that the end of treatment is not the end of the story.
  • The Boy On The Shed by Paul Ferris – A remarkable sporting memoir, written with depth and humanity, tracking success and disappointment, and winner of multiple Sports Book awards
  • Done Deal by Daniel Geey – An Insider’s Guide to Football Contracts, Multi-Million Pound Transfers and Premier League Big Business
  • Three Ingredient Baking by Sarah Rainey – Incredibly simple treats with minimal ingredients. 100 fuss-free family recipes for cakes, biscuits, breads, desserts, savoury bakes and frozen treats.
  • The Self-Care Cookbook by Gemma Ogston – Over 60 plant based recipes to boost energy, help sleep and lift moods
  • Untamed by Glennon Doyle – Part inspiration, part memoir, Untamed: Stop Please, Start Living explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet the expectations of the world, and instead dare to listen to and trust in the voice deep inside us
  • Good Hair by Charlotte Mensah (Hardback) – An essential, practical guide to caring for Afro, textured and curly hair, from the legendary Black British hairdresser
  • I Am Not Your Baby Mother by Candice Brathwaite (Hardback) – I Am Not Your Baby Mother; Part memoir and part manifesto, a thought-provoking, urgent and inspirational book on what it’s like to be a black British mother from popular influencer Candice Brathwaite
  • The Happy Health Plan by David & Stephen Flynn – Simple and tasty plant-based food to nourish the body inside and out.
  • The Roasting Tin Around The World by Rukmini Iyer – The greatest dishes from all corners of the globe, reworked into quick and easy one-tin meals; perfect for weeknight dinners, lunch breaks and family favourites
  • Gardening Through the Year by Ian Spence – Packed with essential gardening advice, RHS Gardening Through the Year is the must-have book for new gardeners and a trusty reference for old hands
• Penguin Pocket Sudoku – contains 201 brainteasers, ranging from easy to mind-bogglingly difficult
• Richard Osman’s House of Games – 101 new & classic games from the hit BBC series
• The Times Jumbo Crossword Book – A super-sized challenge for crossword lovers, selected by the Times2 Crossword Editor John Grimshaw
• Large Print Wordsearch – 100 Easy to Read Puzzle Book all presented in easy-to-read, large print type
• Mindfulness Colour By Numbers – A calming colour-by-numbers book with over 60 designs
• Meditation Colour By Numbers – A calming colour-by-numbers book with over 60 designs to help unwind and focus
• Stib Jumbo Colouring Pencils – Pack of 12 vibrant colours, each of which has a ‘positive’ word embossed on it. Includes double sharpener. Recommended age 5+
• Animal Activity Book (6-12) – Activity book from The Future Teacher Foundation
• ‘COOL’ Colouring Book (6-12) – Colouring book from The Future Teacher Foundation
• Animal Colouring Book (3-8) – Colouring book from The Future Teacher Foundation
• Colouring book for toddlers ABC (preschool) – Colouring book for preschoolers from The Future Teacher Foundation
• Football Activity book (6-12) – Activity book from The Future Teacher Foundation
• Quick Crafts Book: For Parents Who Think They Hate Craft – by Emma Scott-Child

Accessories

• Cashmere Eye Mask – beautifully soft, from the London Cashmere Co
• Large Delicate Printed Scarf – Light and delicate scarf available in a choice of styles. Grey Lace 200x70cm, Green Stripe 180x50cm, Blue Daisy Print 180x70cm.
• One Green Bottle Curvy Stainless Steel Canteen (500ml) – In Bright Green with classic sports cap with better flow so it can be used on the go
• 100% Lambswool Blanket 130 x 100cm – In Grey Chevron with Mustard Trim or Monochrome Leopard Print
• Love/Strength Necklace – Designed in collaboration with Don’t Buy Her Flowers. 18 carat gold-plated, made from stainless steel, lead and nickel free. Necklace length is approx 18 inches plus 2inches extension.
• Chunky Knit Midi Hot Water Bottle – Super Soft, Chunky and incredibly Cosy
• Pantherella Cashmere Women’s Socks in Pink or Light Grey.
• Pantherella Multi-Stripe Merino Wool Women’s Socks – Multicoloured women’s socks made from Merino Wool. One Size UK 4-7
• Pantherella Merino Wool Women’s Socks in Navy Striped
• Pantherella Men’s Socks in Striped or Chevron Navy, available in 7.5-9.5UK and 10-12UK
• Men’s Luxury Cotton Socks in Blue Contemporary Houndstooth – Quality socks from The London Sock Co made with Scottish Lisle Thread Cotton available in 8-10UK and 11-13UK
• Men’s Luxury Cotton Socks in Fine Green Stripe – Quality socks from The London Sock Co made with Scottish Lisle Thread Cotton
• Grey Stainless Steel Thermal Mug 300ml