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Student Section

The CLEFT Student Section is a national body of University Student Ambassadors who fundraise and help to spread the word of CLEFT through events in their local and regional areas. We are passionate about helping those who are born with cleft lip, palate and other craniofacial abnormalities around the world and believe that everyone should have an equal opportunity to appropriate treatment and care.

Meet our student team

Patricia Rorison to represent CLEFT at BLAPRAS Conference

Patricia Rorison to represent CLEFT at BLAPRAS Conference

Barts and the London Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgical Society National Undergraduate Conference 2024 on the 27th January 2024. Read more

Published: 11th December, 2023

Author: Emily De'ath

Meet the 2023 Central Team

Meet the 2023 Central Team

Our 2023 Central Team members are Harriet (Comms and Student Support), Yaqoub (Social Media), Zahra (Vice Chair) and Tanzil (Events). Find our more about them here! Read more

Published: 7th November, 2023

Updated: 9th November, 2023

Author: Melanie Baldwin

Student Events - All You Need to Know!

Student Events - All You Need to Know!

If you are planning on running a event, either to fundraise or to raise awareness of the work we do, we would love to hear what your plans are so please register your event here. If you'd like to sell tickets on the CLEFT website to your event, advertise on one of CLEFT's social media platforms or order extra merchandise for your event, we can also help you with all that too - find out more here! Read more

Published: 21st August, 2023

Updated: 13th September, 2023

Author: Melanie Baldwin

New Student Chair: Kaisha Patel

New Student Chair: Kaisha Patel

Kaisha will be taking over the role of Chair of the Student Ambassadors section for the 2023/24 academic year. Kaisha has been a student ambassador for CLEFT since 2022. Read more

Published: 14th June, 2023

Updated: 5th September, 2023

Author: Melanie Baldwin

Links with the British Dental Students' Associations

Links with the British Dental Students' Associations

CLEFT is very proud to have been elected the BDSA’s Chosen Charity for 2021/22. Not only does this mean that CLEFT has been the recipient of a generous donation of just under £3,000 but this new connection also helps spread awareness of the work we do to this important body of students. As possible cleft professionals of the future, we are delighted to forge a relationship with the BDSA. Read more

Published: 31st October, 2022

Updated: 9th February, 2023

Author: Melanie Baldwin

Share your ideas

Share your ideas

Are you bursting with ideas? Do you have some fantastic suggestions of how we can raise funds? If you do, please read further... Read more

Published: 3rd March, 2022

Author: Melanie Baldwin

Information Booklets

Information Booklets

All the information you need about your role as student ambassador and about fundraising can be downloaded from here. Two booklets are available digitally: the 'Student Section Information Booklet' and the 'Student Section Fundraising Booklet'. Read more

Published: 26th October, 2021

Updated: 19th September, 2023

Author: Melanie Baldwin

Newly elected ambassadors

Newly elected ambassadors

We ask all our newly elected ambassadors to provide us with a short bio and photo for the website. We'd love to send you a welcome pack with some goodies including a special CLEFT Ambassador t-shirt so please complete your registration process. Read more

Published: 20th October, 2021

Updated: 13th September, 2023

Author: Melanie Baldwin

Students - we need you!

Students - we need you!

We are always happy to hear from new students who would like to get involved and help fundraise and raise awareness. Find out more here about how to apply to be a student ambassador and how you can help. Read more

Published: 20th October, 2021

Updated: 13th September, 2023

Author: Melanie Baldwin

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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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