Help more babies make it home for Christmas
Support vital research to help prevent premature birth and save lives, like Elsie's.
Funding vital research
We’re on a mission to save and change children’s lives through medical research, developing treatments, vaccinations and cures.
Fighting rare disease
30% of children with a rare disease will lose their lives before their fifth birthday. With your help we can develop treatments and cures to tackle rare diseases that devastate children’s lives. Help fund vital research.
Premature birth and pregnancy complications
Some women experience complications during pregnancy which can involve the mother’s health, the baby’s health or both.
Childhood cancers
In the UK almost 4,000 children and young people under 25 are diagnosed with cancer every year. We are funding research to try and improve the chances and treatment for children with brain tumours and cancer.
Successes
With the help of all our supporters we have played a significant role in many medical breakthroughs for 70 years, starting with the development of the first UK polio vaccines.
Leave a gift in your will to change children’s lives forever
Race the Sun Chilterns
10 July 2027
Can your team beat the sunset?
Register to Race the Sun throughout the rolling Chiltern hills and tackle a thrilling multi-activity challenge to save and change children's lives, and all just an hour from London.
Cycling Events
With cycling challenges both in the UK and abroad, there's definitely a challenge waiting for you. From beginners to the very experienced and with routes ranging 20 miles to hundreds of miles, come and join us in the fight for little lives.
Race the Sun
2027 series now LIVE!! Our triathlon-style Race the Sun series pits teams against each other in a race against the setting sun, competing to bike, hike and paddle around some of the UK's most beautiful locations.
Running
Whether you’re looking for your first challenge or you’re a seasoned runner we’ve got an event for you. We have places in the world’s greatest and best-known events and races.
Hattie’s story
Coarctation of the Aorta
Latest news
Cycling challenge for the construction industry raises £260,000 for Action
More than 70 riders joined Ziggurat, a tour of the Basque region of Spain to the bustling capital of Madrid, to fund research to help sick and disabled babies and children.
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A very special 50-year relationship: A bear, breakthroughs and a bond that endures
From one conversation to a lasting legacy spanning five decades, Karen Jankel, daughter of Paddington Bear’s creator and author, Michael Bond, shares her earliest memories of how Action Medical Research became Paddington Bear’s favourite UK charity.
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