Marie Curie Charity:
-Website: www.mariecurie.org.uk
Marie Curie (1867-1934) was a Polish scientist who discovered and studied the radioactivity, currently used in cancer treatments. In 2000, Melanie took part of the celebration for the start of new researches inside that charity named in honour of the scientist.
Melanie C admits that she is a bit afraid of getting cancer, as both her grandparents have died from the disease:
She says: "Some days I'm so worried that if I've got a pain in my stomach I think I've got cancer.” Mel confessed that during a certain time of her life, she was so scared that she wanted to go to the doctor to check her healthy: “I was convinced I was going to die. I had to stop and say to myself, 'Look Melanie, come on, let's be realistic, you're all right'."
"I want to use my celebrity in a very positive way to help raise awareness in the on-going fight against cancer."

Linda McCartney Centre:
59 year old Dave Williams who already has had bowel cancer, walked 235 miles from the Cavern Club to London's Abbey Road Studios raising money for a cancer centre in memory of Linda McCartney, Paul McCartney’s wife, dead from cancer. Dave and his fellow walkers began their journey in June 18th 2000 and in July 2nd they met up with Melanie C, who congratulated Dave and said it was vitally important to open the centre as soon as possible in order to help cancer sufferers throughout the country.
They hoped to raise £100,000 from the walk to be used towards a new centre of excellence for treatment of cancer in Merseyside - The Linda McCartney Centre.

Kandu Arts:
-Website: www.kandu-arts.com
Melanie wrote a song for the homeless people, If That were Me and released it as the fifth single from her debut solo album. The proceeds from the single were donated to the project No Place Home, from Kandu Arts charity. "When I originally wrote this song, it was from homeless people I actually was inspired, you know, I’ve witnessed a lot of that growing up in England and Liverpool, where I’m from and moving to London and then traveling all over the world with Spice Girls, it’s just a huge problem in most places in the world and you know, I always wanted to release this single for it to be a charity record. So it feels good to be able to do that and I just hope it’s a big seller, especially for the cause."
Motivated by the single, youngsters from Chippenham and Corsham helped Melanie to collect money. The 50 youngsters collected cash to help the homeless for the project No Place Home. She told the kids: "You have all been brilliant. I hope the single is the best one yet and it makes loads of money for the charity.''
Kandu’s director, Ed Deedigan, who is a friend of Melanie's, said
"What she is doing for us is fantastic and we really appreciate it. The money will make a difference to the work we are doing. It was great of her to invite us to the concert and meeting her afterwards was a real thrill for the young people.''
Mel performed a benefit set at London’s GAY club to celebrate the single’s release. All the profits went to Kandu charity.
“I've sold so many records now and I've had two No 1s so I've been very lucky” Mel told Worldpop. “Growing up in and around Liverpool and moving to London when I was 16 has made me very aware of the homelessness problem here. Traveling with the Spice Girls has made me realise that it's a huge problem all over the world as well. It's disgusting. We should all at least be able to have a roof over our heads.”
Mel explained why she chose Kandu after thinking through a variety of charities.
“Myself and my friends give spare change to homeless people but how's that going to help? We need to do something more constructive and help people have more pride in themselves. The charity I'm giving the money to, www.kandu-arts.com, is about getting people back on their feet, it's about music and TV, so they've got something to live for as well as somewhere to live.”