Scottish Power is donating £4m to support work being carried out by Cancer Research UK (CRUK)’s centre to help prevent lung cancer.

The charity’s Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence will receive the money as part of its 12-year corporate link up with Scottish Power.

Since the partnership launched in 2012 Scottish Power has raised £40m for the charity.

This partnership has been extended for a further five years to take it up to 2029. Scottish Power aims to raise an additional £10m for the charity by then.

“We’re thrilled Scottish Power will support the CRUK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence and the broad work of the charity,” said CRUK chief executive Michelle Mitchell.

“It’s a privilege to have them as one of our longest standing corporate partners. We’re incredibly proud of what our work together has achieved over the last 12 years and we have big ambitions for what it will achieve in the future.

“In the past decade, the Cancer Research UK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence has united world-leading researchers, advancing treatment for this hard-to-treat cancer.

“With Scottish Power’s support over the next five years, we will sustain momentum and enhance research infrastructure to discover new methods for preventing, detecting and treating lung cancer.”

Scottish Power’s customer business chief executive Andrew Ward added: “I’m incredibly proud of what we’ve achieved for Cancer Research UK through our long-standing partnership.

“We started this journey with them in 2012 with the aim of raising £5million in three years and to have had our incredible employees, suppliers and customers go on since then to raise £40million for life-saving research is nothing short of phenomenal.”

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