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Take part in a charity fundraising event

Take part in one of the many fundraising challenges with CLEFT. Make a team and go running, cycling, golfing or even mountain climbing, or sign up on your own and go for your personal best. Achieve something amazing and raise money to help improve treatment for children born with clefts and to fund research into the causes of clefts and treatment techniques.

All the events we are currently registered with are at the bottom of this page. If you would like to hear about new events please sign up to our mailing list.

Join an event using your own place

If you are lucky enough to have your own place in an event, you can still join our team and help raise money for CLEFT. You'll get all the same benefits and support but you won't have a minimum fundraising amount to meet.

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Get Involved

We also have many suggestions for fundraising that can be done from the comfort of your own home. Whether it is setting up a birthday fundraiser, holding a bake sale, using online charity shop Thrift+, selling on Ebay for CLEFT or even taking part in our very own Come Dine With Me, there are many ways you can have fun whilst supporting CLEFT and raising some much needed funds. 

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Just click the button above for inspiration on how you can get involved.

Did you know you can set up a fundraising page on the CLEFT website?

Not only does this allow new people to find out about the brilliant projects we are involved with but it also means that we receive more of the money you raise for CLEFT as we do not need to pay fees for 3rd party fundraising sites.

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Fundraising events

Virtual CLEFT Quiz Night

Virtual CLEFT Quiz Night

Our annual quiz night fundraiser is happening again on Thursday 7th December 2023. Get a team together and join our fantastic quiz master, Anthony Cordey, for an evening of great fun, prizes and entertainment. Read more

Start: 7th December, 2023 at 7:30pm

End: 7th December, 2023 at 9:00pm

Published: 9th November, 2023

Updated: 28th November, 2023

Author: Melanie Baldwin

Location: Online

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Saigon to Angkor Wat Bike Ride 2024

Saigon to Angkor Wat Bike Ride 2024

Journey to amazing Vietnam! Register for an 11 day epic challenge with 3 departure dates available in February, October & November 2024 . Experience an adventure of a lifetime cycling open road following ancient historic trails from Saigon to Angkor Wat while raising funds for CLEFT. Read more

Start: 15th February, 2024 at 9:00am

End: 25th November, 2024 at 6:00pm

Published: 9th February, 2023

Updated: 25th April, 2023

Author: Lisa Povey

Location: Ho Chi Minh City , Saigon

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2024 Ford RideLondon-Essex

2024 Ford RideLondon-Essex

The iconic Ford RideLondon-Essex 100 returns in 2024 - one of the UK's most prestigious cycling challenges. We have limited places available on a first-come, first-served basis. Read more

Start: 26th May, 2024 at 7:00am

End: 26th May, 2024 at 6:00pm

Published: 11th October, 2023

Author: Melanie Baldwin

Location: Victoria Embankment, London

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Latest

  • Patricia Rorison will be representing CLEFT at the BLAPRAS National Undergraduate Conference.

    Patricia Rorison will be representing CLEFT at the BLAPRAS National Undergraduate Conference.

    Barts and the London Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgical Society National Undergraduate Conference 2024: 27th January 2024

  • BLAPRAS National Plastic Surgery Conference X CLEFT

    BLAPRAS National Plastic Surgery Conference X CLEFT

    We are a student society in which we are running a global plastic surgery conference. We will be running a cleft lip workshop and have a cleft lip talk by a cleft surgeon. We want to raise awareness of this subspecialty and also thought it would be a greta idea to introduce a fund-raising aspect to this event.

  • New Year, New CLEFT Challenge!

    New Year, New CLEFT Challenge!

    We are VERY excited to announce our January challenge - Give It Up or Take It Up! Are you ready to kickstart 2024? This January, we challenge you to either Give It Up, giving up something like chocolate, caffeine or alcohol, or Take It Up, starting a new activity, like walking, painting or yoga. The choice is yours with an activity that is personal to you, fits in with daily routine and is challenging yet achievable.

  • New microscope unveiled in Iraq

    New microscope unveiled in Iraq

    Brian Sommerlad recently returned from his tenth visit to the cleft centre in Sulaimania in the Kurdish region of Iraq where he was able to attend the unveiling of the new operating microscope, donated by CLEFT.

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  • Nawrin and the C-Arm

    Nawrin and the C-Arm

    This important piece of equipment was supplied by CLEFT and is used to see moving images of the cleft palate. Nawrin is a 13 year old girl who was experiencing speech difficulties and needed the C-Arm to show the cleft team if further surgery was required.

  • Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burns and Plastic Surgery

    Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burns and Plastic Surgery

    We are working with Bangladeshi specialists at the new Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burns and Plastic Surgery to create a sustainable centre to treat children with cleft lip and palate.

  • Our mission

    Our mission

    CLEFT was established in 2007 with one aim, to help improve the lives of children born with cleft lip and palate, either by funding research into the likely causes of the condition or by helping support teams in lower and middle income countries.

  • Donate

    Donate

    You can make a one-off donation today or sign up to giving a regular monthly gift. All donations, small or large, will help us to improve the lives of those born with cleft lip and palate both now and in the future.

  • The genetics of cleft lip and palate

    The genetics of cleft lip and palate

    Investigations into the genetics of cleft lip and palate to understand more about why cleft lip and palate occurs.

  • Brian Sommerlad, Consultant Plastic Surgeon and Chair of Trustees

    For over 40 years, I have been involved in operating on babies, children and adults who have been born with cleft lip and/or palate.

  • About us

    About us

    CLEFT was established in 2007 by cleft surgeon Brian Sommerlad - based at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, together with a former patient and a patient's grandmother.

  • MRI Speech Assessment

    MRI Speech Assessment

    This important research looked at using MRI to assess whether further surgery could improve speech for people with repaired clefts.

  • An interview with Brian Sommerlad

    An interview with Brian Sommerlad

    This is a wonderful interview where the children ask the questions.

  • Our research vision

    Our research vision

    At CLEFT, our vision is of a future where clefts are preventable. Until we get there, we want to improve the lives of those born with cleft lip and palate.

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