How your donations shape our year of research
Making 2025 an impactful year.
Whether you took part in double donations, or generously gave as part of our 2024 Christmas Appeal, thank you for your ongoing support.
Thanks to your generosity, a whopping £71,219 was raised during the first week of our appeal. Everyone who was able to donate via the Big Give had their donations doubled, thanks to incredible generosity from our supporters Harry Hampson, and The Reed Foundation.
We even had some more donations over Christmas and into the New Year!
The support we receive shapes the work we do. Alongside championing research, celebrating our Ambassadors, raising awareness, and hosting collaborative events, we have key focus areas for 2025.
- Children and burns
- Burns come with complications, but paediatric burns come with a unique set of challenges. From improving awareness of burn prevention, to psychological help, to seeking advances in burn care, we’ll be improving outcomes for kids and their carers.
- Conflict related sexual violence
- HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh, the Scar Free Foundation’s Royal Patron, initiated a collaboration between Swansea University and Panzi Hospital in the DRC. Using 3D surgical training models, Swansea experts hope to improve survivor outcomes, and to train local surgeons to teach others in techniques to ease severe injury.
- Conflict wounds
- 2025 will see the launch of the first ever Scar Free Foundation Defence Medical Services PhD, which will investigate the man-made substance Bioglass and whether its newer formulas can provide rapid, sterile, life-saving treatment in military settings.
- We’ll also be looking to 2027, and our role as a Legacy Partner for the Invictus Games, and launching a major fundraising campaign to deliver a new programme of research into conflict wounds.
- Discovery science
- We’re dedicated to deepening our understanding of scarring by investing in innovative research and cutting-edge technologies, with the ultimate goal of achieving scar-free healing and transforming patient outcomes.
Without your support, we could not continue to fund pioneering research, run student electives with our Partner Member Organisations, support work with a global impact, and bring the leading experts in scarring together from around the world.
Thank you, from all of us at the Scar Free Foundation!