In a letter dated 19/11/2018, this charity wrote: ‘…the research undertaken at Anthony Nolan does not use, or perform, any experimental work on human embryos. We are fortunate to be able to work with stem cells from voluntary unrelated donors and from cord blood stem cells collected from the placent...

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Believes ‘that every parent should have access to non-directive information and support through antenatal testing and its consequences’. This organisation offers support to parents who decide either to continue with a pregnancy or abort because of ‘problems detected’ in their unborn baby. In SPUC’s...

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This is an umbrella group with over 140 member charities which are involved in medical research. All members of the AMRC are required to ‘support the principle of using animals in research’.  https://www.amrc.org.uk/Pages/Category/research The AMRC is less explicit about its support for the use of...

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This organisation states on its website: ‘Asthma UK understands and appreciates that people do have concerns about medical research involving human embryos, and charities providing funding support for it. Asthma UK does not currently fund any projects that require human or hybrid human embryos but a...

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BBC Children in Need is an umbrella organisation, whose function is to give grants to a large number of smaller charities across the country. According to the BBC website, in 2018 Children in Need supported over 2,700 projects in communities across the UK. The list of projects is broken down by regi...

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BIG C – Norfolk’s Cancer Charity In a letter dated 19/12/2019, the Chief Executive of this charity stated: ‘I can categorically confirm that we would not offer grants or support researchers who use human embryo experimentation and please take this letter as a statement of fact.’

This charity stated in a letter dated 22/11/2018 that it ‘has not funded research involving experiments on human embryos’. Bloodwise keeps its research ‘under regular review including developing new policies when a need arises’.  The Head of Research Funding stated: ‘We work with several research fu...

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In a letter dated 28/11/2018 this charity stated: ‘We do not have a written policy regarding human embryo experimentation as we have never funded any research that involves human embryos and are very unlikely to, as research of the nature is tightly governed and not directly relevant to our field.’ ...

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In a letter dated 5/12/2018, this charity stated, ‘human embryos are not commonly used in research for the benefit of people with bowel cancer.  Were we to receive requests for funding in this area, this would have to be considered carefully by our Trustees and Medical Advisors.’ Member of the AMRC....

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In a letter dated 9/1/2019, this charity stated: ‘We don’t have a specific policy on human embryo experimentation. However, we have no record of ever having funded any research using human embryos, and we think that they likelihood of funding any such research in the future is slim. ‘To date we hav...

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In a letter dated 25/10/2018 stated that it does not ‘currently fund any projects that require the use of human embryos or human embryonic stem cells’. ‘Overall, having been funding ground-breaking research into breast cancer for over 25 years … we haven’t received any research application proposin...

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In a letter dated 4/12/2018, the organisation stated: ‘We only fund research into blindness prevention, and I can confirm that we do not fund any research using human embryos and we do not support organisations who use human embryos’. Member of the AMRC.

This is a ‘community-based organisation providing frontline services to Deaf communities’. In a letter dated 17/10/2018 this charity’s fundraiser: ‘I can confirm that the British Deaf Association (BDA) does not undertake nor funds any form of medical research, and more specifically, any form of expe...

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This charity stated in a letter dated 28/11/2018 the Fundraising Manager stated: ‘I can confirm that we are not currently funding, not do we have any plans to fund, any research that involves human embryos’.

In a letter dated 29/11/2018 this charity stated: ‘To date we have not funded research that involves the use of embryos and we do not receive research funding application that involve their use. In addition, we are not currently planning to fund work in this area. At present we don’t have a specific...

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The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (the Federation), of which British Red Cross is a part, promotes ‘reproductive health care as a basic human right for every woman’ in disasters.  As part of their Minimum Initial Service Package of Care, the Federation guarantees ...

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Brook -Sexual health & wellbeing for under 25s Brook supports women’s right to choose legal and safe abortion and believes abortion should be available to women in all parts of the United Kingdom.’ https://www.brook.org.uk/about-brook/brook-position-statement-abortion   ‘Brook values every young ...

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Runs a Mother and Child Health programme which counsels all post-natal women about contraception. In a letter dated 2/11/2018 this charity stated that it promotes ‘the advantages of limiting family size’ and provides oral contraceptives and condoms. In addition, ‘Women who request termination of an ...

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In a letter dated 28/11/2018 this charity stated: ‘Cancer Focus Northern Ireland does not hold a specific position on human embryos experimentation. We do not carry out laboratory based research ourselves, although we do carry out social research projects. We fund academic social science and laborat...

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In a letter dated 16/11/2018 stated: ‘Of the thousands of research projects we currently fund, only one involves human embryos … The embryos used in this research are left over from patients’ fertility treatment and donated by patients’. This project is being undertaken by Kathy Niakan at the Franci...

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