Welcome to The Thalidomide Trust
The aim of the Trust is to provide relief and assistance for those people born, in the United Kingdom, damaged as a result of their mothers having taken the drug Thalidomide (as manufactured by Distillers Biochemicals Limited) during their pregnancy.
We currently support 470 individuals each in the main between 47 and 53 years of age who, for the most part, have two or four limbs missing. These are a most remarkable group of people some of whom have made outstanding achievements in their lives despite living with extreme levels of disability, which in some cases also include loss of hearing or sight.
We are not a scientific or medical foundation and we do not conduct any scientific research. We are solely concerned with dealing with the effects of this one pharmaceutical product that was marketed in Britain from April 1958 until December 1961.
Latest News
Rare Disease Day 2013
February 28, 2013 marks the sixth international Rare Disease Day coordinated by EURORDIS and organised with rare disease national alliances in 24 European countries. Continue reading
Thalidomiders and their Trust receive announcements on the government grant
For those 18 or so Thalidomiders gathered in the gallery of the House of Commons on Thursday 20 December 2012, it was a momentous occasion. We heard Norman Lamb, the Minister for Care Services state the UK government’s commitment to … Continue reading
Health Grant News
The Department of Health is working on the basis that they will be able to continue the Health Grant funding for longer than a three year period, and are agreeing the final stages with Treasury. Continue reading