There are lots of different ways to support Action Medical Research. See below for some ideas of what you can do to help.

• Recycle
• Money box
• Share giving
• Cream teas
• Affiliates

More than 350 million printer cartridges and 80 million mobile phones are thrown into landfill sites each year in the UK.

Why not do the environment a favour, and raise money for cutting-edge research into childhood conditions and diseases at the same time, by recycling them?

Action Medical Research is working in partnership with The Recycling Factory to generate valuable funds for vital research from recycled printer cartridges and mobile phones.

Through the scheme Action Medical Research will receive £1 for every recyclable inkjet cartridge received and up to £10 for a mobile phone.

Supporting Action Medical Research by recycling will cost you or your company absolutely nothing as all materials and postage are entirely free.

If you would like to be involved in the scheme, would like supplies of the recycling envelopes, a display box - containing 200 envelopes - or a toner display box, simply email
amr@trf-uk.com (quoting Action Medical Research), ring 0800 091 0696 or you can order direct.

Action Medical Research is totally reliant on voluntary donations and by recycling used printer cartridges and mobile phones you can help us create a healthier future for our children.

Unfortunately, due to the technology, TRF cannot recycle the majority of ink tanks manufactured by Epson and Canon.

Do you wish to be involved with this scheme?

Telephone 0800 091 0696

Email amr@trf-uk.com (quoting Action Medical Research)

Give Paddington pride of place in your home and watch the money mount up for life-changing medical research.

Put one of our home money boxes where you keep your keys, bag or wallet and feed it with your loose change. In no time it’ll be full of coins that Action Medical Research can put to good use to help fund potentially ground-breaking research projects.

Home money boxes are a great way to teach children the value of saving, especially to help a good cause. Every now and then we’ll send you a gentle reminder to empty the box and send us a cheque for the amount inside. And make no mistake; these boxes really do make a difference.

To start collecting today, give us a call on 01403 210406 or request one online and we’ll send you your very own box.

Combine benevolence with business by making a gift of shares or share dividends to Action Medical Research.

You can help transform children’s lives and make a substantial tax saving - it has never before been so tax efficient to make a charitable gift.

Income Tax Relief

The relief from Income Tax is available for the full market value of the shares on the date of disposal. In other words, you will not pay Income Tax on the equivalent amount of your annual income in the tax year that the gift is made.

For example, if you are a higher rate taxpayer and made a gift of £1,000 worth of shares to Action Medical Research you would receive Income Tax relief of 40 per cent of the full value, i.e. £400. This effectively means the donation has cost only £600. Or, if you pay tax at the standard rate, the relief would be £220. You can claim this on your self-assessment tax form, or by contacting your local tax office.

Capital Gains Tax relief

Normally, if you sell shares for more than what they were valued at when you acquired them, this is known as making a Capital Gain. You can make Gains up to an annual limit without having to pay tax on this money, but anything above that will be subjected to Capital Gains Tax (40 per cent). When donating shares to Action Medical Research there is full relief from Capital Gains Tax, meaning that in our hands the gift is worth more than if you had sold the shares yourself. The extent of the difference depends on how much Capital Gains Tax you would have paid.

What will Action Medical Research do with my shares?

It is Action Medical Research’s policy that, when it receives gifts of shares, they are sold as soon as is practicable. This is because if we held on to them their value might change and we believe that we should not speculate with gifts entrusted to Action Medical Research, but use them as soon as possible.

What you could do with a smallholding of shares

The administration involved in Action Medical Research transferring and selling a smallholding of shares may outweigh the financial return. However, if your shares are worth under £100, you can dispose of them charitably by donating them to the specialist charity ShareGift (registered charity 1052686).

ShareGift has been set up specially to accept donations of small amounts of shares that cannot otherwise be sold. They collect donated shares until they have enough to sell and use the funds released by their work to support a wide range of UK charities, including Action Medical Research. For more information about ShareGift please visit www.sharegift.org

If you have any queries about your tax position

If you need advice on personal tax issues we recommend that you speak to a financial advisor or contact the Inland Revenue helpline on 0845 900 0444, or visit their website www.hmrc.gov.uk

Visit the company giving page.

Who can resist a traditional English cream tea? No one, we hope! That’s why they’re a perfect way to help raise funds for vulnerable mothers and babies.

There are lots of peckish, hard-working business-people out there who would welcome an afternoon break and a chance to enjoy scones, jam and cream. We can supply everything that you and a friend need to box up cream teas that you can deliver to your local community or businesses.

Each cream tea box contains two scones, jam, clotted cream, a tea bag, knife and napkin. Some areas can also supply strawberries.

All the proceeds from the sale of the boxes go towards the Action Medical Research Touching Tiny Lives appeal, which raises funds for research into pregnancy and birth complications.

If you would like to run a cream tea event in your town or village call us on 01403 210406 or e-mail us at info@action.org.uk for more details.

Help us raise more money for important medical research by selling our events through your websites, intranets, blogs and Adwords.

• Commission paid on all sales you make
• Special promotions and incentives for our affiliates
• Free to join
• Quick and easy to become an affiliate

How does it work?

It is simple to sign up. Once you have signed up to our affiliate programme you can select a banner to publish on your site, intranet  or blog. You can also link your Adwords campaigns to our pages.

Each time someone successfully signs up to an event by clicking through your page or Adword advert, you will receive a percentage of the registration fee as a commission.

You can log in to our affiliate system to monitor your sales and upload new banners. You will also hear about special incentives which can earn you even more.

So if you think that your online audience may like the events that we do then sign up today and start earning!

Join the Action Medical Research affiliate programme

Do you want to advertise your company on this website?

You can help Action Medical Research in other ways too. Our supporter tools page has images, banners and other useful tools, all designed to help you spread the word and aid your fundraising.