The Breast Cancer Survival Trust’s “sole purpose is to raise funds and then distribute these in the form of small grants to those suffering the effects of breast cancer”. In an undated letter, this charity states: “I can assure you that we do not give our funds to abortion services,…

In a letter dated 11/12/2018, this charity stated: “Breast Cancer UK has never supported research that uses embryos nor is it our intention to do so in the future. We would not give grant funding to other organisations for projects that use this type of research.”

This is a “community-based organisation providing frontline services to Deaf communities”. In a letter dated 17/10/2018 this charity’s fundraiser stated: “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 experimentation or research involving human…

In a letter dated 28/11/2018, the Fundraising Manager of this charity 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 26/6/2019, this charity stated: “… abortion, assisted dying and research using human embryos … are of no relation to the work we do at the Fellowship and therefore we hold no policy on the matter.”

In a letter dated 4/1/10, this charity stated: “we do not currently use and have never used human embryo for scientific research, and we do not have any plans to do so in the future.”

In a statement on their website this organisation states:”The use of human embryonic stem cells remains an ethically contentious issue due to the potential destruction of the embryo to retrieve the inner cell mass. In recent years there have been great advances in reverting adult specialised cells back to an…

In a letter dated 29/5/2019 this charity stated: “The bottom line is that we conduct no research using human embryos and nor would I ever see a scientific reason to do so. Our charity is focussed on tackling antibiotic resistance, the world’s biggest medical issue we are currently faced with.”

In a letter dated 30/5/2019 this charity stated: “As our work is related to arthritis we do not knowingly get involved with:Abortion services for women or girlsResearch using human embryosCampaigns to promote assisted dying”

This charity stated in a letter dated 4/6/2019: “Aspire is a charity that offers advice to people who have sustained a spinal cord injury and helps them move from injury to independence. To this end we have no connection with medical experimentation of any sort and so any donation would…

In a letter dated 30/5/2019 the Discover Lead at Autistica stated: “I can confirm Autistica do not currently fund nor do we have any plans in our pipeline to fund projects in full or in parthership that involve experimentation on human embryos.”

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.”

The BigKid foundation “equips young people at risk of social exclusion and youth violence to take control of their lives, find, develop and act on their own potential”. In a letter dated 2/6/19, this charity stated: “I can confirm that we do not and will never offer or take part…

In a letter dated 23 /11/2018, this charity stated: “In response to your question about human embryo experimentation, our position is negative. We focus on allergy management and we don’t support any research or experimentation beyond the diagnosis and treatment of allergies and allergy-related illness”.

Action Cancer, Northern Ireland’s leading local cancer charity stated in a letter dated 17/1/2019: “We do not fund scientific research so do not have any policies around research using either animals or human embryos.”