I AM hoping that your readers can help us make a difference in Sussex.

It’s National Volunteers Week until Wednesday and we are asking people across the county to help us in our bid to save little lives.

We raise funds for desperately needed research to tackle the diseases that devastate the lives of so many of our children.

We have around 1,000 volunteers across the UK who currently help us throughout the year.

They are amazing and we honestly couldn’t function without them.

We organise such a diverse range of fundraising events and activities which offer a variety of opportunities to help.

Could you give a talk at a local school?

Perhaps help marshal at one of our many bike rides or even organise a fundraising event of your own?

You can find out much more information at action.org.uk/volunteers

We are a UK-wide children’s charity which funds desperately needed research to tackle the diseases that devastate the lives of so many of our children.

We have been funding medical breakthroughs since 1952 including helping to introduce the first polio vaccines in the UK, developing the use of ultrasound in pregnancy and testing the rubella vaccine.

The charity is currently funding research into conditions including asthma, prematurity, epilepsy, meningitis, cerebral palsy, brain cancer and some rare conditions.

  • Jane Charlton is the volunteer development manager at Horsham-based Action Medical Research