Browsing Charities
PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide
(UK, 1070896) Browse events
YTD Raised: £478,694.27
(UK, 1070896) PAPYRUS is the national charity for the prevention of young suicide.We operate HOPELineUK - 0800 068 41 41 a freephone national confidential line staffed by trained professionals providing practical advice, support and information to anyone concerned that someone they know is feeling suicidal.
Samaritans
(UK, 219432) Browse events
YTD Raised: £461,975.37Samaritans is available round the clock, every single day of the year providing a safe place for anyone struggling to cope, whoever they are, however they feel, whatever life has done to them. For more information please visit www.samaritans.org
Sue Ryder
(UK, 1052076) Browse events
YTD Raised: £459,846.42Sue Ryder provides incredible care for people with life-changing illness. Whether it’s bringing comfort to someone’s final days or enabling them to make the most of their life, we are here for them and their loved ones.
Alder Hey Children's Charity
(UK, 1160661) Browse events
YTD Raised: £454,931.19Alder Hey Children's Charity needs to raise £30m for life-saving medical equipment, research and facilities to make the brand new Alder Hey in the Park a truly world-leading hospital for families across the UK when it opens in 2015. Alder Hey is the UK's biggest children's hospital.
Sarcoma UK
(UK, 1139869) Browse events
YTD Raised: £454,564.87We are the only charity in the UK focusing on all types of sarcoma. Our mission is to increase knowledge and awareness of sarcoma through ground-breaking programmes to transform the landscape for everyone affected by sarcoma. Charity reg no. (1139869) Company limited by guarantee (7487432).
Sohana Research Fund
(UK, 1158672) Browse events
YTD Raised: £450,653.98Sohana Research Fund exists to find a cure for Epidermolysis Bullosa -a very painful genetic skin blistering condition that leads to malignant skin cancer in young adulthood. Take the #EBtonguetwister challenge and fund vital research into a condition that leaves children and adults in constant pain
Cardiac Risk in the Young
(UK, 1050845) Browse events
YTD Raised: £449,016.63Each week at least twelve young people in the UK die suddenly as a result of undiagnosed heart conditions. At Cardiac Risk In the Young we aim to save young lives & to help those affected by the sudden cardiac death. We do this by providing support, information & screening those affected.
Abu Zahra Foundation
(UK, 1181727) Browse events
YTD Raised: £443,439.03Established in June 2001, Abu Zahra Foundation (www.abuzahra.org) is an educational institute providing relevant and effective courses in all the traditional Islamic Sciences for children and adults.
Action Medical Research
(UK, 208701) Browse events
YTD Raised: £441,475.51Action Research can genuinely claim to have touched the life of every single person in the UK. Through vital research into the polio and rubella vaccines, hip replacement and ultrasound, the charity has been at the forefront of many important medical advances.
The Duchenne Children's Trust
(UK, 1147094) Browse events
YTD Raised: £422,329.28Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is the most common fatal genetic illness in children. It is 100% fatal. There is no cure. But recent scientific breakthroughs mean that for the first time there is hope that a cure and treatments are within reach - within a decade. Help us to End Duchenne in Ten.
Cystic Fibrosis Trust
(UK, 1079049) Browse events
YTD Raised: £387,845.28Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a life-shortening inherited disease, affecting almost 10,000 people in the UK, clogging vital organs with thick sticky mucus. There is presently no cure. We are the UK’s only national charity working for families with CF and to find a cure. www.cysticfibrosis.org.uk
Alzheimer Scotland
(UK, SC022315) Browse events
YTD Raised: £382,912.92Alzheimer Scotland offers care, information and support to people with dementia and carers in Scotland. Our services include our 24 hour Freephone Dementia Helpline (0808 808 3000), our Dementia Advisors, Dementia Nurses and medical research. We believe no one should go through dementia alone.
Jigsaw Charity
(UK, 1192402) Browse events
YTD Raised: £382,788.65Jigsaw is an entirely volunteer run charity that aims to alleviate the suffering of the world's poorest people. As well as responding to disasters and emergencies, it promotes sustainable economic and social development by working with local communities - regardless of race, religion or gender.
Refuge
(UK, 277424) Browse events
YTD Raised: £381,152.59Refuge is a national charity for women and children who experience domestic violence, providing emergency accommodation and emotional and practical support. Since opening the world's first women's safe house in London in 1971, Refuge has grown to become the UK's largest organisation of its kind, helping and supporting women and children experiencing domestic violence and acting as a national 'lifeline' for up to 80,000 victims of domestic abuse every year.
National Autistic Society
(UK, 269425) Browse events
YTD Raised: £378,667.53We are the leading UK charity for people with autism (including Asperger syndrome) and their families. We provide information, support and pioneering services, and campaign for a better world for people with autism. Our work relies on your support, so please get involved or donate today.
Crohn's and Colitis UK
(UK, 1117148) Browse events
YTD Raised: £376,444.15Crohn’s and Colitis UK are bowel conditions which can devastate lives and have no known cure. 260,000 people in the UK are affected, many of them young. Help us to search for a cure while improving lives in the meantime through our wide range of support services and research into better treatments.
The Myton Hospices
(UK, 516287) Browse events
YTD Raised: £370,084.52We touch the lives of almost 4,000 people each year in Coventry & Warwickshire, in our hospices, via our patient & family support services and in the community with Myton at Home. We have to raise almost £8 million each year to continue providing our care. We can’t do it without people like you.
Save the Children
(UK, 213890) Browse events
YTD Raised: £369,444.54Save the Children works in more than 120 countries. We save children’s lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential.Our vision is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. We run world class programmes to save children's lives and challenge world leaders to keep their promises to give children a brighter future. Save the Children works in more than 120 countries. We save children’s lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. Our vision is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. We run world class programmes to save children's lives and challenge world leaders to keep their promises to give children a brighter future.
Make-A-Wish Foundation UK.
(UK, 295672) Browse events
YTD Raised: £367,751.23Make-A-Wish Foundation UK grants magical wishes to children and young people fighting life-threatening conditions. The charity was founded in the UK in 1986 and since then we have granted over 8,600 magical wishes to children and young people aged between three and seventeen years old. There are over 20,000 children in the UK living with a life-threatening conditions and we believe that every one of them deserves to experience the magic of a Make-A-Wish wish. Anyone can refer a child to us. This year alone, around 1,400 children will turn to Make-A-Wish to have their special wish granted. Our wishes are truly magical. A small and dedicated team of professional wishgranters works alongside hundreds of volunteers to turn our children’s wishes into reality. Whether a wish is to be a princess or a train driver for the day, own the latest TV or computer equipment, meet a favourite celebrity or just enjoy some special time away from home with their family, a wish come true brings so much to a child’s life and provides memories that last a lifetime for the whole family. Make-A-Wish needs to raise over £7 million in 2013 in order to continue granting these magical wishes. We receive no government funding or lottery grants, relying on the generous donations of the public - and that’s why, for our charity, every donation really counts.
Myeloma UK
(UK, SC026116) Browse events
YTD Raised: £356,328.86Myeloma UK is the only organisation in the UK dealing exclusively with myeloma. We provide information and support to patients and their families and help myeloma patients live longer, with a better quality of life by accelerating the discovery, development of and access to new treatments.
Crisis
(UK, 1082947) Browse events
YTD Raised: £354,055.43Crisis is the national charity for single homeless people. We are dedicated to ending homelessness by delivering life-changing services and campaigning for change. Our innovative education, employment, housing and well-being services address individual needs and help people to transform their lives. We are determined campaigners, working to prevent people from becoming homeless and advocating solutions informed by research and our direct experience. We have ambitious plans for the future and are committed to help more people in more places across the UK. We know we won’t end homelessness overnight or on our own. But we take a lead, collaborate with others and, together, make change happen.
Breathing Matters
(UK, 1165398) Browse events
YTD Raised: £353,914.99Breathing Matters aims to raise awareness and find a cure for pulmonary fibrosis and lung infection, supporting UCL Respiratory centre at UCL/UCLH
Yorkhill Children's Charity
(UK, SC007856) Browse events
YTD Raised: £347,103.21Yorkhill Children’s Charity provides and supports excellence in paediatric, obstetric and neonatal healthcare enhancing the treatment, care and wellbeing of children and their families through The Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill and other hospital and community based services.
Muscular Dystrophy Campaign
(UK, 205395) Browse events
YTD Raised: £340,495.36The Muscular Dystrophy Campaign leads the fight against muscular dystrophy and related muscle-wasting conditions in the UK. We fund world-class research, provide free information and support, give grants towards equipment and campaign to raise awareness and bring about change.
St Andrews Hospice Lanarkshire
(UK, SC010159) Browse events
YTD Raised: £340,250.57St. Andrew's Hospice provides specialist palliative care services to the people of both North and South Lanarkshire - the total care of patients who require complex symptom management and or end-of-lifecare. The Hospice is Lanarkshire's Centre of Excellence and provides vital multidisciplinary support for patients, their families, and carers to help them with the traumas and challenges they face.