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The Aspergillosis Patient Support and Aspergillus Websites' rely on charitable donations to our parent charity the Fungal Research Trust. We also receive small donations from Shering-Plough, Pizer, Gilead and Astellas.

The Aspergillus site and the Patients' website aim to provide information and education for patients, doctors and scientists in their quest for understanding and treating aspergillus infections. The website also provides two online support groups for patients to interact and gain information.
A monthly newsletter and twice weekly blogs - targeting the latest published information relating to aspergillus and the illnesses it causes, are available to you by email and online.
But we need your help - we need funding to maintain this level of information and support and to continually improve our services. Can you help to organise a fundraising event - or do you have a suggestion to help raise funds? The sites are run by only a couple of staff members - hence we need the people who benefit from this resource to each give a little time to help fund raise for us.
If you can do this, any funds raised, can be paid directly into our new Virgin Money Giving account dedicated to our fundraising which can be used for all donations and give us tax free status. Virgin Money Giving also has ideas for fundraising events and helpful suggestions for fundraisers.

We also operate as part of an active research group participating in Aspergillus research and a National Aspergillosis Centre. The Fungal Research Trust funds and supports research into fungal diseases around the world. Over 99% of all income (2008 figures) to the FRT is spent on research into fungal diseases and support for people suffering from fungal diseases. Administration spending is kept to an absolute minimum. So please help to support Aspergillus Research.

£25 keeps the patient support groups running for a day
£50 will keep the Aspergillosis for Patients website running for a day
£100 will pay for a Research Assistant for a day
£125 will pay for a Postdoctoral Researcher or Clinical Research Nurse for a day
£200 will keep the Aspergillus Website running for a day
£1000 keeps the University of Manchester Research Team running for one day
£14 000 keeps the National Aspergillosis Centre running for one day

These amounts are a guide, any donation of any amount would be gratefully received.

Fundraise right now:

Use the buy.at service available for dozens of high street retailers - buy through this link and the retailer will make a payment to us (usually 2-3%) every time someone shops online. There is no cost to you to use this service so please try to make it a habit whenever you shop online - there are hundreds of shops participating! Participants include Amazon, M&S, Thorntons, Asda, ebay, and Waterstone's. Link

Christmas cards We are selling handmade greetings cards (Christmas & birthday) which are made for us by a patient volunteer. 75% of the price you pay goes to the FRT.

How to donate

UK taxpayers should use Virgin Money Giving as their first choice as this increases your donation by 25% as we can reclaim the tax paid on your donation.

For your convenience we also accept donation payments via PayPal.
This enables us to accept payments in the local currencies of any of 190 countries and regions of the world. Payments are secure.
This does NOT mean that you need to have a PayPal account as you can pay with any of the credit or debit cards listed below: