Crohn's Disease Support
Inform, Empower and Awareness!
Te Sunt Non Solus
Current Fund Raise for Crohn's & Colitis in Childhood
3C's raises funds to promote and advance public
education and research into Crohn's and Colitis and related disorders, particularly in childhood.
This is our first fund raising event, we will be
doing much more, any suggestions for other
related charities, just drop us a message, by
email via our members sign on
or contact us page.
Notice
Please do not send any payment direct to us, please use the JustGiving links, the money will go directly to the charity on my just giving page, Thank you.
Crohn’s & Colitis in Childhood – 3C’s is a registered charity formed almost 20 years ago. Each member of the committee has a child or children suffering from Crohn’s or Colitis and we work very closely with the research teams to ensure that monies donated can bring real benefits to those suffering from these two incurable complaints.
We are a small committee but have raised over £800,000 since we started. All monies raised have been donated to St Mark’s Hospital, Harrow, The Royal Free Hospital, London and University College Hospital, London and Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. In each case our funds are donated to their research departments dealing specifically with Crohn’s & Colitis. As a charity we have no expenses as the time of all committee members is given free and there are no overheads other than costs which may be incurred in connection with our fundraising activities.
Over the last 12 months 3C's have funded the following projects:
St Mark's Having funded the first stage research we funded a further £20000 to continue the research into gut cells. The research is identifying differences between cells found in normal gut cells and those from patients suffering from Crohn's and Colitis. We hope that this research will provide a significant lead into why cells react so differently in sufferers from the disease. UCH We continue to sponsor a research fellow at UCH with further work on the fat content of Crohn’s sufferers intestines. This is now developing into an important research area and we have received encouraging feedback from the research team. The team has been joined this year by Jack Broadhurst who has also raised funds for us by participating in a bike ride. We have recently donated £22,000 for the purchase of Motility capsule equipment. This is not an alternative to a colonoscopy but provides vital information by way of a non-invasive scanning. Addenbrooke's This is a research unit which has recently been extended to cover paediatric gastroenterology and has a very experienced, dedicated team. We have provided initial funding of £10000 to assist the research into bacteria in the intestines of Crohn's and Colitis sufferers. After the very successful results from our initial funding, with important research papers, we are now providing a further £25,000 to fund laboratory time and new research which is genetics based and opens up a very exciting new avenue.
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