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
A place to add your wonderful fundraising ideas! Read more
Join in with CLEFT on the 25th May as we celebrate our 14th birthday. Read more
We are delighted to update you on the launch of the [email protected] website – a unique online cleft therapy and parent training resource for children with cleft articulation difficulties. Read more
What started off as a simple wardrobe clear-out ended up being an amazing fundraising success thanks to Gwyneth and Alice's effort and generosity. Read more
We have a small group of committed members who give up their valuable time to support CLEFT in fundraising. 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
Sulaimania's troubled past means that there are many children and adults with untreated clefts or with clefts that have been operated on inadequately. Click the link above to read further and watch our new film by Paul Whittaker to see what the situation is there and how the team copes. Read more
The pandemic has been hard on everyone, especially so when patients are unable to be seen. With Covid levels low enough, the cleft team in Bangladesh has been able to resume clinic. 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
The American Cleft Palate Craniofacial Journal reviewed literature on palate re-repair for the treatment of velopharyngeal insufficiency (VPI) and cited the Sommerlad Protocol and Palate Repair technique of VPI as being very beneficial to patients with an 84% success rate. Read more
An online coffee morning is the perfect way to catch up with your friends and family whilst raising vital funds for CLEFT. Read more
Research that CLEFT funded shows how a pioneering surgical technique results in a very low rate of secondary speech surgery and very good speech outcomes in children aged 5 years of age, with less need for speech therapy. Read more
Two teams ran, cycled and walked the distance between London and Bangladesh in support of our overseas centres. This was a huge challenge and took 28 weeks to complete. Read more
We are delighted that the website [email protected] is now available. Read more
Early on in his career as plastic surgeon, CLEFT Chairman Mr Brian Sommerlad realised that operating techniques could be improved upon and in 1993, he started to use a microscope for surgery. Read more
A USB stick containing 7 complete lip or palate surgical procedures is available on request and FREE to surgeons. Read more