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What types of charities are on the "DO TEST" list?

Health charities that conduct or fund experiments on animals are included on the "DO TEST" list. These organisations deal with human health issues ranging from lung cancer to drug addiction to blindness. While some do have relevant and effective projects that help improve lives, all of them drain money away from these projects and into cruel experiments on animals. They starve, cripple, burn, poison and slice open animals to study human diseases and disabilities. Such experiments have no practical benefit to anyone. They are unnecessary, unreliable and sometimes dangerously misleading. "Enormous variations exist among rats, rabbits, dogs, pigs and human beings, and meaningful scientific conclusions cannot be drawn about one species by studying another," says Dr Neal Barnard, "Non-animal methods provide a more accurate method of testing and can be interpreted more objectively."

What can be done to stop charities from experimenting on animals?

Many charities know that we can improve treatments through modern non-animal methods, and they fund only non-animal research, leading to real progress in the prevention and treatment of disease. The next time you receive a donation request from a health charity, ask if it funds animal tests. Let charities know that you only give to organisations that alleviate suffering, not contribute to it.

Please note that most colleges and universities have laboratories that conduct animal experiments for health and other purposes. If you would like to know whether a specific school has an animal laboratory, please contact PETA. For information on the experiments being conducted and to voice your opinion, please contact the school. The following health charities and service organisations DO conduct or fund animal experiments.

For more information on the programmes and activities of an organisation, please contact the organisation or PETA.

    Action Research
    Vincent House
    North Parade
    Horsham
    West Sussex
    RH12 2DP
    01403 210406

    Alzheimer's Society
    Gordon House
    10 Greencoat Place
    London
    SW1 1PH
    020 7306 0606

    Arthritis Research Campaign
    Copeman House
    St Mary's Court
    St Mary's Gate
    Chesterfield
    S41 7TD
    01246 558033

    Association for International Cancer Research
    Madras House
    St Andrews
    Fife
    KY16 9EH
    01334 477910

    Backcare (members AMRC)
    16 Elmtreet Road
    Teddington
    Middlesex
    TW11 8ST
    020 8977 5474

    Brain Research Trust
    Bloomsbury House
    74-77 Great Russell Street
    London
    WC1B 3DA
    020 7636 3440

    Breakthrough Breast Cancer
    6th Floor, Kingsway House
    103 Kingsway
    London
    WC2B 6QX
    020 7405 5111

    British Heart Foundation
    14 Fitzhardinge Street
    London
    EC1N 8LD
    020 7935 0185

    British Homeopathic Association (members AMRC)
    15 Clerkenwell Close
    London
    EC1R 0AA
    020 7566 7800

    British Lung Foundation
    78 Hatton Garden
    London
    EC1N 8LD
    020 7831 5831

    Brittle Bone Society
    30 Guthrie Street
    Dundee
    DD1 5BS
    01382 204446

    Cancer Prevention Research Trust
    Cobden House
    231 Roehampton Lane
    London
    SW15 4LB
    020 8785 7786

    **Cancer Research Campaign
    10 Cambridge Terrace
    London
    NW1 4JL
    020 7224 1333

    Children's Nationwide Medical Research Fund
    8 Dorset Square
    London
    NW1 6PU
    020 7724 5727

    Cystic Fibrosis Research Trust
    11 London Road
    Bromley
    Kent
    BR1 1BY
    020 8464 7211

    DEBRA
    13 Wellington Business Park
    Crowthorne
    Berks
    RG45 6LS
    01344 771961

    Defeating Deafness
    330-332 Grays Inn Road
    London
    WC1X 8EE
    020 7833 1733

    Diabetes UK
    10 Queen Anne Street
    London
    W1G 9LH
    020 7323 1531

    Digestive Disorders Foundation
    3 St Andrew's Place
    London
    NW1 4LB
    020 7486 0341

    Epilepsy Research Foundation
    PO Box 3004
    London
    W4 1XT
    020 8995 4781

    Imperial Cancer Research Fund
    61 Lincolns Inn Field
    London
    WC2A 3PX
    020 7269 3611

    Institute of Cancer Research
    Royal Cancer Hospital
    123 Old Brompton Road
    London
    SW7 3RP
    020 7352 8133

    Iris Fund for Prevention of Blindness
    2nd Floor, York House
    199 Westminster Bridge Road
    London
    SE1 7UT
    020 7928 7743

    Lepra
    Fairfax House
    Causton Road
    Colchester
    Essex
    CO1 1PU
    01206 562286

    Leukemia Research Fund
    43 Great Ormond Street
    London
    WC1N 3JJ
    010 7405 0101

    ME Association
    4 Corringham Road
    Stanford le Hope
    Essex
    SS17 0AH
    01375 642466

    Marie Curie Cancer Care
    89 Albert Embankment
    London
    SE1 7TP
    020 7599 7777

    Migraine Trust
    45 Great Ormond Street
    London
    WC1N 3HZ
    020 7831 4818

    Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain
    372 Edgeware Road
    London
    NW2 6ND
    020 8438 0700

    Muscular Dystrophy Campaign
    7-11 Prescott Place
    London
    SW4 6BS
    020 7720 8055

    National Society for Colitis and Crohn's Disease
    4 Beaumont House
    Sutton Road
    St Albans
    Herts
    AL1 5HH
    01727 830038

    National Asthma Campaign
    Providence House
    Providence Place
    London
    N1 0NT
    020 7226 2260

    National Heart Research Fund
    Suite 12D, Joseph's Well
    Leeds
    LS3 1AB
    0113 234 7474

    National Kidney Research Fund
    Kings Chambers
    Priestgate
    Peterborough
    PE1 1FG
    01733 704650

    National Meningitis Trust
    Fern House
    Bath Road
    Stroud
    GL5 3TJ
    01453 768000

    Parkinson's Disease Society of the UK
    215 Vauxhall Bridge Road
    London
    SW1V 1EJ
    020 7931 8080

    Research Into Aging
    4th Floor, York House
    207-221 Pentonville Road
    London
    N1 9UZ
    020 7843 1550

    RNIB
    224 Great Portland Street
    London
    W1N 6AA
    020 7388 1266
    RNIB do not currently test on animals, but PETA has deep reservations about them because of the use of body parts from abattoirs.

    Scope
    6 Market Road
    London
    N7 9PW
    020 7619 7100

    Tenovus
    43 The Parade
    Cardiff
    CF24 3AB
    029 2048 2000

    Wellcome Trust
    183 Euston Road
    London
    NW1 2BE
    020 7611 8888

    World Cancer Research Fund
    19 Harley Street
    London
    W1G 9QU
    020 7343 4200

Health Charities List Addendum

The following health charities DO NOT currently fund animal research but have not ruled out doing so in the future.

Please write to the health charities on this list urging them to make a commitment never to fund animal experiments and say that you will not be lending them your support until they do so.

    MENCAP
     123 Golden Lane
    London
    EC1Y 0RT
    020 7454 0454

    National Reyes Syndrome Foundation
    15 Nicholas Gardens
    Pyford
    Woking
    GU22 8SD
    01932 346843

    Primary Immunodeficiency Association (members AMRC)
    Alliance House
    12 Caxton Street
    London
    SW1H 0QS
    020 7976 7640

    Royal Association in Aid of Deaf People
    RAD London
    St Bedes Centre for Deaf People
    412 Clapham Road
    London
    SW9 9DA
    020 7627 1716

    Stroke Association (members AMRC)
    Stroke House
    Whitecross Street
    London
    EC1Y 8JJ
    020 7566 0300

Additionally, those marked with an * are members of the AMRC (Association of Medical Research Charities) who support the use of animals in research.
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