Epilepsy Action provides freephone and email helplines and a wide range of information booklets, web pages and e-learning courses.
It has around 100 local support groups across England, Wales and Northern Ireland and a network of volunteers working in the community.
It also organises conferences for people with epilepsy and health professionals with an interest in the condition.
It undertakes and encourages non-laboratory research into epilepsy and the issues surrounding living with the condition.
[5] The charity has received international media coverage on a number of occasions due to its work in highlighting bad practice in online videos in relation to photosensitive epilepsy.