This Christmas, Jaxon is hoping you’ll help him to beat epilepsy.
Your gift this Christmas could help us fund more pioneering research so we can make the breakthroughs we need and give children like Jaxon hope for the future.
Only research can give children like Jaxon the future they deserve
Jaxon’s mum, Taylor, says: “He tends to have a big seizure during the night about once or twice a month, as well as having absence seizures that last between three and 10 seconds throughout every day”
Taylor never knows just how serious Jaxon’s next seizure will be so Christmas is likely to be an anxious time for her in case he ends up in hospital, like he has before.
We want children like Jaxon to enjoy Christmas – and every other day of the year - without having seizures. We believe our pioneering research can lead us to the answers we need to beat epilepsy. But we can’t do it without you. If you are able to send a gift this Christmas you could give Jaxon, and many other children, hope of a future without seizures.
“So I walked 100 miles to raise funds for the Epilepsy Society”
Jaxon loves dressing up. Some days he walked as an astronaut, other days as a dinosaur. He didn’t like the rainy days much but he made the best of it by donning his raincoat and wellies and having fun jumping in puddles!
Our world-leading team of doctors and research scientists are bringing together their findings from four pioneering research areas – genomics, neuroimaging, neuropathology and neuropsychology. This will help us build a detailed picture of an individual’s epilepsy so we can devise how to target our treatments more effectively. This research is slow, painstaking work but the more we can do now, the more likely we are to find the answers we need before children like Jaxon grow up.
Epilepsy support
£20 could help to ensure that someone who desperately needs to talk about their epilepsy can call our helpline.
Cutting edge research
£50 could help forward our world-leading research projects, leading to more accurate, personalised treatment.
Better seizure control
£100 Could help our research team to analyse genomics data, which will lead to better seizure control.