2 February 2012
Scottish crime writers Caro Ramsay and Alex Gray will be guests at the annual Edinburgh lunch in aid of children’s charity Action Medical Research, to be held at new venue the George Hotel, from 12 noon on Friday 23 March.
Tickets are now on sale for this year’s event, called Cocktails and Conversations, which will also celebrate the charity’s 60th anniversary. The charity funds vital work to benefit sick babies and children and is currently supporting research projects based in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen.
31 January 2012
Registration is now open for RIDE24, the UK’s only 24-hour cycling endurance track event, to be held at Goodwood Motor Racing Circuit on 23 and 24 June.
Organised by children’s charity Action Medical Research and operated under British Cycling technical regulations, the event is open to relay teams of four as well as solo riders.
26 January 2012
This summer 31-year-old Helen Wiles will join a group of cyclists to take on a 300-mile, all-girl London to Paris bike ride in aid of children’s charity Action Medical Research. The four-day event would prove a big challenge for most women but for Helen it will be the latest achievement in a journey that has seen the human resources representative from Blackwater, near Camberley, lose more than half her body weight.
13 January 2012
West Sussex-based Action Medical Research – the leading UK-wide medical research charity dedicated to helping babies and children – has today announced grants worth more than £1.3 million for top researchers across the country.
The charity, in Horsham, has been supporting significant medical breakthroughs for nearly 60 years, and today announced its latest round of funding to top research institutes at universities and hospitals investigating conditions affecting babies and children.
13 January 2012
Leading research teams in Cambridge have been given over £300,000 in grants by children’s charity Action Medical Research, to carry out studies which aim to help reduce the suffering of sick babies and children.
The charity has been supporting significant medical breakthroughs for nearly 60 years, and has today announced the grants awarded to institutions in Cambridge totalling £323,581 for work on epilepsy in babies and understanding contractions in premature birth. (see below for full grant details)
