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Sponsorship and donations - how your support can really make a difference

CLDF relies on your support to continue its vital research, education and support programmes.

CLDF's costs each year include:

• £20,000 to fund study days for healthcare professionals: We aim to run four study days per annum to help educate healthcare professionals including GP’s and midwifes, promoting early referral and diagnosis which helps save lives.
Individual cost: £27.10 for every new child diagnosed with a liver disease this year

• £45,000 for listening support: To many families CLDF is a lifeline, offering someone to listen who understands what they are going through.  This money helps us provide an effective support service for families and young people, including patients and their siblings.
Individual cost: £10 for every family who will make contact this year

• £50,000 for information support:  When a child is diagnosed with a liver disease, the families need for information is great.  CLDF is able to provide detailed information via our parents information packs, specific information on the disease itself, and what the family may expect in the coming months.
Individual cost: £12 for every family receiving information this year

• £150,000 to fund two CLDF phD fellowships: To simulate interest in research into childhood liver disease and support young researchers.
 Individual cost: £206 for every new child diagnosed with a liver disease this year

• £300,000 for research: to be effective, CLDF needs to fund two new research projects each year.  This is vital in helping us understand the reasons why liver diseases in children occur and how they can be effectively treated and, hopefully, one day finding a cure. 
 Individual cost: £410 for every new child diagnosed with a liver disease this year

The funds you, your organisation, club or employer are able to give really will make a difference to CLDF’s work and will help thousands of families affected by childhood liver disease:

£75 would provide a new family with essential literature – Many families are unaware of childhood liver disease until it happens to them.  At every step of the way, but particularly at diagnosis, the family has a desperate need for accurate, honest and up to date information. CLDF has an enormous role to play in ensuring parents have all the information they need. Knowledge offers empowerment; helping families feel more in control and dispelling some of the myths and fears. Providing such information at the right time is expensive and the demands are greater each year.

£200 would sponsor support for a family - For just £200 you can ensure that a new family can be sponsored for a full year.  This figure includes providing trained, professional listening support, ensuring there is a full range of up to date literature always available, ensuring hospital visits can be made and that there is a comprehensive administration system underpinning the service.

£250 would sponsor a support visit to a specialist liver centre  - To make just one visit to a specialist paediatric centre including preparation, travel and follow up costs CLDF £250.   These visits are essential, allowing the support team to offer support to new families whose child may have recently been diagnosed, or to continue to provide face to face support to families with children either on the hospital ward or who are attending a clinic.

£3,500 to sponsor a study day - CLDF organises study days for community healthcare professionals including midwives, doctors and health visitors.  These are essential in helping promote early diagnosis and referral, crucial to a child’s survival. 

For more information please call 0121 212 6022.

Thank you for your support.

For information on regular giving and gift aid , both essential to CLDF, please click on the relevant link.