From an afternoon at the Artworker's Guild to a nomination for Charity of the Year, find out all our latest news here.
CLEFT trustee, David Sainsbury, and his brother Andrew, are preparing for a new challenge: to swim 18km across the length of Lake Windermere in the Lake District. We asked David a few questions about this impressive challenge so read here to see what he says... Read more
Students Ashley and Olivia, along with Jamie and Sam, climbed Snowden at the beginning of June and this is their story of their climb. The Birmingham City Uni student fundraising page has been a real success story thanks to the enterprising fundraising efforts of the whole team. Read more
Izzy is in year 9 at Warminster School and was invited to take part in a project called the FPQ. The objective of the project is to write an essay or create a product on any subject and present it at the end of the school year. Izzy's plan to make and sell candles for CLEFT has been a huge success and over £600 was raised. Read more
The new CLEFT student section was six months in planning and eventually launched in September 2021. We celebrate their enthusiasm and contribution here, Read more
Matt Fell and Brian Sommerlad presented at the Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and Ireland conference in September 2021 on Global Cleft Care. Read more
Our first live event since 2019 took place on the 27th September at Thorndon Park Golf Club in Brentwood, Essex. Read more
David Sainsbury is a Consultant Cleft and Plastic Surgeon in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and a CLEFT trustee and is interviewed by Rachel Lapham, a CLEFT volunteer, who also has a repaired cleft lip and palate. This fascinating podcast gives a really good insight into what cleft provision is like in the UK. Read more
Rosie O'Malley shares her story on video as part of CLEFT's launch week to celebrate its new, expanded CIO status. Read more
Bruce Richard shares his personal experiences of working and living in Nepal. Read more
Marie Pinkstone is the Lead Speech and Language Therapist for the North Thames Cleft Service. Throughout the pandemic, Marie and the speech and language therapy team have continued to provide a service to patients throughout the pandemic, adapting to telehealth. Read more
Yul Kahn Pascual: On becoming a CLEFT trustee Read more
CLEFT trustee, Matt Fell, looks at the problems of inequalities in access to cleft care in lower and middle income countries in a short video. Read more
Our plans to become a national charity have now been approved by the Charity Commission. Although we are still a small charity, we have big ambitions to help even more children born with cleft lip and palate than ever before. Read more
To celebrate the launch of our new and expanded CLEFT charity, we have put together a series of talks that have been recorded by our wonderful trustees and team members, covering a whole range of cleft subjects. Read more
To celebrate CLEFT's 14th birthday this May, we set a challenge to our supporters to do something around the number 14. Read more
CLEFT is supporting National Smile Month, a charity campaign all about championing the benefits of having good oral health and promoting the value of a healthy smile, run by The Oral Health Foundation. Read more
We received some good news from Dhaka last week - the anaesthetic machine is working again and the goods we sent have at last cleared customs! Read more
We are very excited to announce plans to expand both our research and overseas arms. CLEFT Chairman, Brian Sommerlad, explained on live Facebook stream what these changes will be. Read more
CLEFT took part in this year's Big Give Christmas Challenge for the first time. Thanks to our generous donors, we smashed our fundraising target. Read more
We were very lucky to have head chef Gemma Doherty run our Christmas Menu masterclass on Friday 4th December. Read more
This is a wonderful interview where the children ask the questions. Read more
We held our first online wine tasting event on Friday 13th and in spite of a technology glitch half way through, it was an enjoyable evening. Read more
Australia's best-selling children's author reads three of her books for CLEFT, including her number 1 book 'Possum Magic'. Read more
We held our first virtual masterclass at the end of August with Karen Horne instructing 23 participants in the art of dog grooming. Read more