A charity helping teenage cancer sufferers urgently needs a new home.

Pioneering organisation Laura Crane Youth Cancer Trust is to leave Turnbridge Mill in Huddersfield, where it has been based for the last five years, following the end of its tenancy agreement.

The charity had been renting its space from textile manufacturer, John L Brierley, which owns the building. The firm is now going to let the space, which it also used to house some of its own staff, to another company.

John L Brierley’s staff will move into another part of the building but the trust said that the alternative spaces offered to it was out of its price range.

The trust, which was set up in the memory of brave cancer sufferer Laura, a Greenhead College student, who died in 1996 aged only 17, needs to find a new affordable space before June.

Pam Thornes, the trust’s manager, said: “It’s a shame because it comes at the start of a very busy year for us and is going to cost us several thousand pounds in moving costs, which will use up money we obviously want to use to help teen cancer patients.

“It also comes just as we are bouncing back from a difficult two years in which I fought cancer myself.

“J L Brierley very kindly offered us a new space but unfortunately it is just out of our price range.

“But we are a forward looking charity and now just hope that some companies will be able to help us out.

“We are ideally looking for a space of 1,000 square metres which will have enough room for our staff and around 10 regular volunteers, although we accept it will be more compact than the space we have now.

“We’d also like it to be no more than one mile out of the town centre and on a bus route, so that we don’t lose these volunteers, who have given us such valuable help.

“We would also greatly welcome any support from companies to help save us from some of the moving costs and anyone who could help us with the move.”

Any help given will help the trust press forward with its major campaign to help improve the lives of those undergoing cancer treatment.

Pam said: “Our current mission is to get laptop borrowing libraries into the 43 hospitals where young cancer patients are treated.

“These would help combat the feelings of isolation faced by a lot of these teenagers, who have to spend a lot of time in the hospital away from their friends and make their lives as normal as possible.”

If they reach their goal, it will be added to their list of achievements, which includes providing funding research and creating several projects to help teen cancer sufferers, such as the creation of a chillout space at St James Hospital in Leeds.

Anyone who would like to offer the trust a new home or would like to help with the move should call 01484 510013 or email hello@lauracranetrust.org