Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is the UK’s most common, life threatening inherited disease.

CF affects vital organs in the body, especially the lungs and pancreas, by literally clogging them with a thick, sticky mucus.

One person in 25 is a carrier of the faulty CF gene –more than 2.3 million people in the UK.

If both parents are carriers of the faulty CF gene, there is a one in four chance that the child be born with CF.

In the UK, five babies are born with CF every week.

Each week, three young people die from CF, usually as a result of lung damage.

Average life expectancy is around 30 years.

At present there is no cure for Cystic Fibrosis.

The CF Trust is the only national charity in the UK funding research aimed at understanding, treating and curing Cystic Fibrosis.

To fund our vital work, the CF Trust needs to raise at least £5 million every year.