ACTION MEDICAL RESEARCH

Registered charity 208701 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ACTION FOR THE CRIPPLED CHILD, ACTION RESEARCH, ACTION RESEARCH FOR THE CRIPPLED CHILD, ARCC, NATIONAL FUND FOR POLIOMYELITIS RESEARCH, NATIONAL FUND FOR RESEARCH INTO POLIOMYELITIS AND OTHER CRIPPLING DISEASES · also registered in Scotland as SC039284 (OSCR)

Action Medical Research is a charity whose objects are to promote medical research into the prevention, management and cure of disabling diseases and conditions. We are a UK-wide charity saving and changing children's lives through medical research. We fund a broad range of cutting-edge medical research most likely to deliver real benefit to babies, children and young people.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £1.21m for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds to £6.7m. Although the charity held net current liabilities of £3.9m, the trustees confirmed the organization has sufficient resources to meet liabilities and continue as a going concern. Free reserves stood at £4.56m, exceeding the stated policy target of £3.3m.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Action Medical Research (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 63.6% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/07/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (31/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Luke George Batchelor Bordewichchair
• Bhavin Patel
• CLARE JOANNA ELIZABETH FERGUSON
• Karen Ann Last
• Professor David Edwards · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Stephanie Schorge
• Richard Duncan Wild
• Richard Jonathan Stoneham-Buck

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ASSOCIATION OF MEDICAL RESEARCH CHARITIES.

• ASSOCIATION OF MEDICAL RESEARCH CHARITIES income £1.3m
• MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION income £3.7m
• ACTION AGAINST MEDICAL ACCIDENTS income £1.4m
• AMR Action UK income £407k
• Bowel Research UK income £1.6m
• EPSOM MEDICAL RESEARCH income £432k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.