Action Medical Research needs to raise £15m for medical research by the end of 2014. This means we can double the amount that we have been able to spend on research for children, and fund around 100 new medical research projects.
This ambitious challenge is one that we must meet, because we know that medical research can save and change children’s lives, but we need your help to make this a reality.
Action Partners give a minimum of £5,000* a year for three years. This helps us to focus funds where they are needed. Of course, the more you can donate, the more we can do; the average Action Partner gift is closer to £8,000 a year.
Becoming an Action Partner, as an individual, corporate or a Trust, means you will have a direct impact on the success of your chosen area of research. You’ll become a real partner in the medical breakthroughs we’re aiming for, helping us achieve so much more.
Be there at the breakthrough.
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The lives that have already been saved through the breakthroughs that Action Medical Research has helped deliver demonstrate that your gift to the charity has a real chance of achieving something very special.
Your commitment
Each of the three areas of work has been specifically chosen because important advances have already been made in working towards effective treatments and with your help we can drive this vital research through to the next stage and help make major medical breakthroughs a reality.
Your support over three years could change the lives of countless newborn babies and children.
And as an Action Partner, you’ll be kept up to date with the latest developments in the medical work you are funding – so you can be there at the breakthrough.
Our commitment
Action Partners are free to choose their own level of involvement. We can offer you newsletters providing feedback on the programmes, plus exclusive reports and updates on each specific project area and its progress.
We can arrange visits to universities or hospitals to meet with leading researchers, as well as giving you opportunities to attend specific research presentations. In addition, Action Partners are invited to our annual Action Partners reception and other Action Medical Research events.
We identify the very best medical research to help save and change children’s lives. Our research covers three vital areas of unmet medical need to help children of all ages.
Tackling premature birth and treating sick and vulnerable babies
We aim to reduce the unacceptably high rate of premature birth, prevent pregnancy complications that threaten babies’ lives, and find the best ways to care for sick and vulnerable babies.
Helping children affected by disability, disabling conditions and infections
Many of our projects aim to support children facing a life-time of challenges caused by disabilities such as cerebral palsy; help children dealing with the impact of disabling conditions like juvenile arthritis, diabetes, epilepsy, stroke and multiple sclerosis; and prevent potentially deadly infections like meningitis, septicaemia and pneumonia.
Targeting rare diseases that severely affect many forgotten children
Our vital work aims to develop cutting-edge therapies for rare and devastating diseases for which there is currently no cure including the severely disabling genetic condition Rett syndrome, rare forms of blindness and rare brain diseases, as well as brittle bone disease in children.
Current Action Partners
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