| Epilepsy Action | |
| Services: | Epilepsy advice and information |
| Formation: | [1] |
| Type: | Charitable organisation |
| Registration Id: | 234343 |
| Headquarters: | Yeadon, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom |
| Coords: | 53.8644°N -1.6941°W |
| Membership: | 7,494[2] |
| Membership Year: | 2023 |
| Leader Title: | President |
| Leader Name: | Margaret Ford, Baroness Ford |
| Leader Title2: | Chair |
| Leader Name2: | Jane Riley[3] |
| Leader Title3: | Chief executive |
| Leader Name3: | Philip Lee |
| Revenue: | £2.77m |
| Revenue Year: | 2023 |
| Staff: | 75 |
| Staff Year: | 2023 |
| Founder: | Lady Cynthia Colville |
| Former Name: | British Epilepsy Association (1950-2002) |
Epilepsy Action is a British charity providing information, advice and support for people with epilepsy.
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 also has a website that includes information about epilepsy.
It undertakes and encourages non-laboratory research into epilepsy and the issues surrounding living with the condition.
Since 2008, the charity has organised the annual Bradford 10K athletics race which in 2019 attracted 3,000 runners.[4]
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.