Our latest appeals
Help to fund vital medical research that can lead to new treatments, cures and medical breakthroughs
We currently have a number of appeals funding groundbreaking research to help the countless families and children affected by premature birth and pregnancy complications, disabilities, and rare and devastating diseases.
Our most recent appeal aims to raise over £1m to fund research to better understand how COVID-19 affects children.
Covid-19 Children's Research Appeal
Help fund research to better understand how COVID-19 affects children
How does COVID-19 affect our children? The honest answer is that we don’t know exactly. We know that COVID-19 threatens us all in some way, including children, but we don’t know enough.
Other appeals
Emergency Appeal
Whilst the world continues to be turned upside down by COVID-19, we need your help now more than ever before. Please support our work and help us continue to fund vital medical research for sick and vulnerable babies and children – now and always.
Niemann-Pick disease
Transform the lives of children born with the cruel genetic disorder Niemann-Pick type C by playing a crucial part in driving forward research that has the power to help fight this devastating disease.
Protect vulnerable babies
Bronchiolitis is a distressing lung infection that affects around one in three children before their first birthday every year in the UK. Support research that could help protect vulnerable babies from this potentially life-threatening infection.
Rare Disease Day
In the UK, there are thousands of children living with a rare and devastating disease for which there is no cure. We’re fighting back against these rare diseases – join us and together we can help fund medical breakthroughs that could save children's lives.
World Prematurity Day
60,000 babies are born prematurely each year in the UK. Globally, premature is the biggest killer of children under 5. Will you stand with us and help end the devastation caused by premature birth?