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September 2008	£2M FOR HEALING FOUNDATION CLEFT RESEARCH CENTRE - Following a £2m donation by the Vocational Training Charitable Trust, the Healing Foundation will shortly begin the process to select a UK University/Hospital to host the Healing Foundation UK Centre for Cleft Research supported by VTCT. This 10 year research investment, worth up to £5 million from the Foundation, will explore the genetic, clinical and broader therapeutic issues of cleft lip and palate in order to improve understanding of the condition and offer better treatments and support for patients and their families. With a major ‘Cleft Gene Bank’ and a substantial ‘Clinical Research Programme’ envisaged, the programme will the largest of its kind anywhere in Europe. Institutions are currently being encouraged to express interest in hosting either or both elements of the investment and a formal application pack will be available in the new year. Click here for further information.

March 2007	MEDIA ANNOUNCEMENT - New members join the Healing Foundation’s Executive Appeal Team. Four new members have recently joined the Executive Appeal Team, chaired by Sir Stuart Rose: Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP Group, Mr David Ross, Chairman of National Express Group and Co-Founder of The Carphone Warehouse, Mr Andrew Grant, Founder of Tulchan Communications and Mr Jeremy Darroch, Chief Executive of BSkyB Ltd.

October 2007	MEDIA ANNOUNCEMENT - The Healing Foundation are pleased to acknowledge the generous support of Baugur Group, who have pledged £450,000 over three years towards the area of disfigurement and visible loss of function. Baugur Group is an international investment company, with investments primarily in retail but also in property and media, in Scandinavia and the UK.

October 2007	MEDIA ANNOUNCEMENT Beauty therapy charity donates £1 million for burns research in Wales. Vocational Training Charitable Trust’s first donation is largest to the Healing Foundation UK Centre for Burns Research.

September 2007	HEALING FOUNDATION VIDEO PREMIERED Healing Foundation Video premiered at Marks and Spencer Reception.

September 2007	New Funding Available - The Healing Foundation/Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Fellowship - The Healing Foundation in partnership with the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh wish to support a two year research fellowship in the area of "Disfigurement and visible loss of function." The closing date is 3 December 2007.

September 2007	New Funding Available - The Healing Foundation/British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons Research Project Award – The Healing Foundation, in partnership with BAPRAS, wish to make £50,000 available to support ‘Research Project Awards’ in the area of “Disfigurement and Visible Loss of Functions”. Closing date: Tuesday 6th November 2007.

July 2007	MEDIA ANNOUNCEMENT This three-year patient-focused research project, commissioned by the Healing Foundation, conducted by the Picker Institute, and funded by the GUS Charitable Trust has found that patients affected by disfigurement are not getting the information they need to help them deal with the psychological and social aspects of their condition. For further details on the findings of this study click here.

June 2007	SYMPOSIUM - The Healing Foundation Centre at the University of Manchester Opening Symposium will be held on the 13th and 14th of September 2007 at The University of Manchester. It will feature a series of talks on wound healing and tissue regeneration from a wide variety of international guest speakers. For registration details and a preliminary schedule please click here.

January 2007	New Funding Available - The Healing Foundation/Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Fellowship - The Healing Foundation, in partnership with the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, wish to support a two-year research fellowship in the area of "Disfigurement and Visible Loss of Function". Closing date: 30 March 2007.

January 2007	New Funding Available - The Healing Foundation in partnership with the British Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (BAPRAS) wish to offer awards up to £1200 each, to enable undergraduate medical students to undertake a 6-8 week supervised research project in the area of “disfigurement and visible loss of function”. The research must be carried out in the UK or Ireland.

November 2006	November 2006 HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE COUNTESS OF WESSEX, Patron of the Healing Foundation kindly attended a reception hosted by new Appeal Chairman, Stuart Rose at the Marks & Spencer Headquarters.

November 2006	NEW AWARD - Dr Husam Bella has been awarded a two year 'Healing Foundation' Research Fellowship in Aesthetic Surgery. Dr Bella will investigate susceptibility genes in keloid scarring, a severe form of human skin scarring causing significant aesthetic, physical and psychosocial problems and posing major clinical challenges. His work will take place at the Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research (CIGMR) in Manchester.

November 2006	NEW AWARD - Mr Ves Agrawal has been awarded a project grant to investigate a new treatment for cancer using gene therapy. Based within The Institute of Cancer Research in London, he will also work alongside colleagues at The Royal Marsden Hospital.

November 2006	MEDIA ANNOUNCEMENT - New award to Cardiff University and Morriston Hospital Swansea to establish UK's first and only major academic Centre for Burns Research.

September 2006	MEDIA ANNOUNCEMENT - Stuart Rose, Chief Executive of Marks & Spencer, has become the Appeal Chairman of disfigurement research charity, the Healing Foundation. Rose, who has led the M&S turnaround since May 2004, takes on the fundraising role following the retirement of David Jones, former Chairman of NEXT plc, who has overseen the charity's appeal since 2002.

March 2006	NEW AWARD - Mr Joseph Hardwick, SHO plastic surgeon, has been awarded a two year 'Healing Foundation/WORD (Wales Office for Research & Development)' Fellowship to investigate cellular responses in impaired human wound healing. Based within the Wound Biology Group in the Cardiff School of Dentistry, he will also work alongside colleagues at the Centre for Polymer Therapeutics at the Welsh School of Pharmacy, also in Cardiff.

March 2006	NEW AWARD - Dr Tammy Boyce and Dr Clare Wardle, from the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, have been awarded a two year 'Healing Foundation/WORD (Wales Office for Research & Development)' Fellowship to investigate how people with disfigurement and/or visible loss of function are represented on British television.

February 2006	MEDIA ANNOUNCEMENT – The Healing Foundation has announced £5 million funding for a Chair of Burn Injury study within the UK. This will be the largest single amount ever awarded to a British project of this type and the post will be the only one of its kind in the UK. It is an ambitious project that will emulate the work of the prestigious Shriners Units for Burned Children in the USA. The research centre will be established at a leading University, in partnership with a hospital that has a major Plastic Surgery Burn Centre. Institutions interested in hosting this post are currently being invited to submit a formal application to the Healing Foundation, with the deadline for receipt of proposals being the end of March 2006. A decision will be reached regarding the successful applicant by November 2006. Press Coverage (click the publication titles to view full articles) BBC News

January 2006	PROJECT UPDATE - Major psychology of disfigurement Project - The first stage of The Healing Foundation Major Psychological Project is now underway at the Centre for Appearance Research in Bristol, with recruitment in Sheffield, Bradford and Warwick scheduled to start soon. Dr James Daniel and Liz Payne, two members of the research team co-ordinating the project at the Centre for Appearance Research, University of the West of England, have begun to attend clinics at local hospitals recruiting patients, and a comprehensive protocol for recruitment from the general population (via a number of GP surgeries) is being implemented. For information about taking part in this study, visit the Centre for Appearance Research website or contact Dr James Daniel on James.Daniel@uwe.ac.uk, telephone 0117 328 3975 or Liz Payne on Elizabeth3.Payne@uwe.ac.uk, telephone 0117 328 3913.

January 2006	NEW AWARD – Darryl Dunn, Healing Foundation Michael Brough Research Fellow based at the University of Bristol, begins work on an innovative research project investigating the spread of Malignant Melanoma.

October 2005	MEDIA ANNOUCEMENT –Enrique Amaya has been appointed the UK’s first Professor of Tissue Regeneration to lead a pioneering £10million initiative at the University of Manchester investigating wound healing and tissue regeneration. The Healing Foundation Centre marks the beginning of a 25 year commitment between the Healing Foundation and the University of Manchester’s Faculty of Life Sciences. Press Coverage (click the publication titles to view full articles) The Guardian / The Times / The Telegraph / BBC News / Daily Express / The Sun / Daily Mail / Evening Standard

September 2005	MEDIA ANNOUNCEMENT – the Healing Foundation has awarded a record-breaking half a million pounds to the Centre for Appearance Research (CAR) at the University of the West of England, Bristol to fund a new study into the psychology of disfigurement. This is the largest single investment in a study of this type that has ever taken place, not only in the UK, but in Europe. The study will provide valuable insights into why some people cope with disfigurement better than others. Press Coverage (click the publication titles to view full articles) BBC News / The Telegraph / The Times

June 2005	NEW AWARD – Chris Baldwin, Healing Foundation Research Fellow based at the RAFT Centre (Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, Middlesex) begins work on the development of a new synthetic skin replacement for the treatment of wounds.

June 2005	NEW AWARD – Chris Milner, Healing Foundation Surgical Research Fellow, at the University of Leicester begins a two year project investigating the prevention of blood vessel leakage in severe wounds.

May 2005	HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE COUNTESS OF WESSEX - Patron of the Healing Foundation, kindly attended a Reception at Buckingham Palace on 18th May 2005.

March 2005	PROJECT COMPLETE - Mr Parbinder Sahota, Healing Foundation Surgical Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield, completes his research on developing new ways of growing blood vessels in skin grafts.

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