Charity Box

Charity Box

Charity collection box for 'Action for the Crippled Child' [now Action Medical Research/ Action Research] in the form of a figure of a young boy wearing a grey shirt leaning on a walking stick with his right arm, carrying a white collecting box and standing on a square red base.

Inscription

[Plain white, probably originally: ACTION FOR THE/ Crippled Child]
Action Research
[Paddington bear] Action Medical Research

Production date

1960

Associated organisations

The Nursing History Group Collection

Associated place

cheddleton

Labels

This charity collection box was intended to help raise money for research to help physically disabled children. The charity is now “Action for Medical Research” having changed its name a number of times to reflect changing language and research priorities.