First Light provides young people with opportunities of filmmaking and media creation. Enabling them to stretch their creativity and develop their skills in a practical and focused way, following a model of best practice and professional filmmaking standards. First Light works with a diverse range of young people from wide social and economic backgrounds with varying abilities. Since launching in May 2001, First Light has enabled almost 12,000 young people between the ages of five and 19 to write, act, shoot, produce, edit and screen more than 900 films with National Lottery cash through UK Film Council funding. The films, ranging from documentaries to animations, are made under the guidance of professional filmmakers with youth agencies, schools, colleges and film clubs across all the UK regions. First Light inspires and facilitates young people from all backgrounds to make films and media projects to ensure that their stories, views and experiences are seen and heard whilst providing professional industry support to encourage creativity, quality of content and future opportunity.
MDAC-UK seeks to help children and adults with psycho-social and intellectual disabilities, to promote access to healthcare, social integration and education, and to promote the human rights of people with such disabilities.
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Slough Mencap exists to enrich the lives of people with Learning Disabilities, their families and carers in the Slough area.
StandProud provides: Medical Services (surgeries), Leg Braces, Rehabilitation and Education to children and youth living with disabilities in the Democratic Republic of Congo. See our website for further information: www.standproud.org.uk
Promise Foundation promotes the potential of young people by offering them direction and broadening their horizons. The charity was inspired by Promise, who at the age of twelve was transformed by her relationship with a mentor and achieved far beyond her own expectations.
Samaritans provides confidential emotional support for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those with suicidal thoughts. Money is raised to support telephone, face-to-face, email and text-message support as well as outreach and education activities. The Ealing, Hammersmith & Hounslow branch has around 120 volunteers and answers over 20,000 calls annually.
At last, a voice for kids caught in the middle of family splits! A place where they can get support, particularly from young people who have been through it. Funded entirely by young people. Backed by the Agony Aunts from the national media and by professionals working with separating families.
Sugar Free is a charity run by parents of children with diabetes. We raise funds to support work to find a cure for diabetes and also support drives to alleviate the burden of living with diabetes including the complications which are many.
We organise events throughout the year and in February we hold our RAG week. This year our charities are: Giving to George's Leonard Cheshire Disability Trust Cancer Research UK Great Ormond Street Hospital Cardiac Risk in the Young (won a poll held among St. George's Students)
We distribute essential life items Eg. clothes & toiletries & distribute them to the 1m families living in deprivation in the UK. This year 40,000 more children will fall below the poverty threshold in the UK. We need to raise £27,494 to keep one goods bank open to alleviate their poverty.
It seeks to further charitable missionary work in the U.K and Overseas.
Mercy Mankind is a British charity providing humanitarian help, AIDS awarenes, free education, health-care and much more for poor people currently in Bangladesh and Pakistan and also helps Burmese refugees. Runs monthly projects and all photos are updated monthly on it's website for you to see.
Safe in Tees Valley is an independent community safety partnership that uses social approaches to deliver safer communities. The Charity brings people of all ages together from local communities and organisations to make a lasting difference in the areas they live, work, or spend their time.
Helping to inspire people of all ages to develop the reading habit. We are raising money for our 40 Oxfordshire book groups - 20 Lunchboox Clubs in Primary Schools and 20 TeaBooks gorups in residenial, day care and sheltered accommodation for older people.
.We are working in Bulgaria to prevent trafficking of women and children by creating employment opportunities to combat poverty and helping to increase self-sufficiency.
supplying Scouting to the Young People of Charlton, Woolwich, Plumstead, Abbey Wood and Thamesmead
Founded in 1966, Clare Hall is a College for Advanced Study in the University of Cambridge. It is a community that welcomes graduate students and Visiting Fellows from all over the world. It is a place to think and a centre where interaction is valued, rather than hierarchy.
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Volunteer Studio is working to help people create better urban environments, spaces and communities. With the assistance of trained volunteers, we support local people's involvement in design and regeneration, initiating innovative architecture projects in the UK and Europe.