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Healing Foundation (The)
c/o The Royal College of Surgeons
35-43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
London
WC2A 3PE
Tel: 020 7869 6920
Fax: 020 7869 6929
Web: www.thehealingfoundation.org
The Healing Foundation is a national fundraising charity established to champion the cause of people living with disfigurement and visible loss of function by funding research into pioneering surgical and psychological healing techniques. Through research they also raise awareness about the cause and provide information about the sources of support.
The Healing Foundation objects are for the relief of sickness and for the preservation and protection of public health by:
- Carrying out and funding research into the improvements of treatments for the benefit of people who suffer from physical, psychological, social, or emotional disadvantage as a result of physical disfigurement or functional impairment present at birth or acquired through accident, disease, or illness and into the prevention of accidents which may cause such conditions.
- Disseminating the useful results of such research and to help train health workers in appropriate treatments throughout the world.
- Informing people about the availability of such treatments.
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