AAC is a teenager!

Action Against Cancer is 13 years old this month! We would like to take this opportunity to thank every single fundraiser and donor that has supported our life- saving research in this time. Thank you!

In September 2011 our visionary late Founder and Chairwoman, Hilary Craft OBE, established Action Against Cancer to be a different kind of charity.

We are distinct because we lack bureaucracy and are able to support innovative new scientific research, providing crucial seed funding to projects that could not secure support from other sources.

Larger funders require existing data before providing finance for experiments, and this does not allow for brand new ideas - Action Against Cancer fills this gap.

Our fast-moving approach has been shown to work, with the discovery of a cancer- causing gene, and the identification of important molecules that suppress tumours and decrease the spread of certain cancer cells and much more.

We believe that cutting edge research that takes risks and pushes boundaries is the only way cancer will be beaten.

Funds given to Action Against Cancer are spent on scientists' salaries and the essential equipment that they need to make life saving breakthroughs, in laboratories at Imperial College London, the University of Sussex and Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge.

Over the last 13 years we have funded many postdoctoral scientists and PhD students - like those pictured here - researching ways to improve diagnostics and treatments for cancer patients.

We'd love it if you might make a 13th birthday donation to Action Against Cancer! To do so, please click here. Thank you so much.