WellChild is the national charity for sick children. We provide essential practical and emotional support for seriously ill children, young people and those who care for them across the UK to ensure they receive the best possible quality of care.
John Taylor Hospice's purpose is to ease the personal and financial cost of illness and death just a little every day. Every day, alongside the people of Birmingham and the West Midlands, we find new ways to raise a smile and make every moment matter.
Women V Cancer is a series of women-only cycle challenges in aid of three British charities – Breast Cancer Care, (RCN: 1017658), Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust (RCN: 113354/SCO41236) and Ovarian Cancer Action (RCN: 1109743) – raising vital funds to fight breast, cervical and ovarian cancers. The donations you make to Women V Cancer will be distributed equally between them. The Cycle Challenges are organised and managed by Action for Charity – Women V Cancer is established under the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), a charitable trust registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales under number 268369. The funds raised here are restricted to use for the Women V Cancer purpose and will not be used by CAF for any other purpose or as part of CAF’s general unrestricted funds.
The Lord Mayor’s Appeal 2014 is supporting four community based charities Beating bowel cancer, Princess Alice Hospice, Raleigh International and Working Chance. With your support the Appeal aims to raise over £2 million to allow the charities to expand their programmes to transform even more lives.
ABF The Soldiers' Charity are for soldiers, for life; giving support to serving and retired soldiers and their families. They risk so much for us, but for them, it's "just doing their job". In return, The Soldiers’ Charity give them down-to-earth help and friendship, with no hassle or bureaucracy. We help in ways that make a big practical difference to individuals. For example a level access shower for an amputee from a current conflict or care home fees for an elderly veteran. That's what we've been here to offer for the past 66 years and will be here for as long as there is a need. http://www.soldierscharity.org
The James Wentworth-Stanley Memorial Fund was set up in memory of James Wentworth-Stanley in order to address the huge problem of youth suicide and depression
We work in schools to improve the emotional wellbeing of children and their families. Children today have all sorts of worries, like bereavement, domestic violence and bullying. By supporting children now we give them the chance to grow up with prospects rather than problems. www.place2be.org.uk
Get Kids Going! helps disabled children take part in sport by providing specialist sports wheelchairs, sports grants and year round support. They can then compete in marathons, triathlons, tennis, athletics, skiing, rugby, basketball etc. With your help, many could become Paralympic champions and world record holders.
Trinity Hospice and Palliative Care Services and Brian House Children's Hospice provides specialist palliative care to the adults and children of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre and much needed support for their families. Our services are available free of charge, however the Hospice only received limited government funding and therefore approximately £4m needs to be raised each year from the community. Your support is greatly appreciated.
Pieta House, the centre for the prevention of self-harm or suicide opened its doors nearly a decade ago in Lucan, County Dublin. In the intervening years we have seen and helped almost 20,000 people in suicidal distress or engaging in self-harm, and opened up eight subsequent centres.
We are a parent-driven charity working to accelerate treatments and cures for Rett Syndrome and related MECP2 Disorders. Since our inception in 2010, we've delivered over $3 million of the funds you've raised to research.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Charity is the official charity of the Queen Elizabeth & Selly Oak hospitals in Birmingham, including the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine where military patients are treated from around the world. Find out more at www.qehb.org. Your support is much appreciated.
The charity exists to relieve sick and injured people in South East England and surrounding areas by providing a Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) and Air Ambulance Service for the benefit of the community. For more information, visit us: www.kssairambulance.org.uk
Leukaemia Care provides vital support, information and advice to anyone whose life has been affected by a blood cancer. We not only support patients, but carers and families too whose lives are impacted when someone they know and loves receives a diagnosis.
Yorkshire Cancer Research is Yorkshire’s very own cancer charity, helping the people of Yorkshire avoid, survive and cope with cancer by funding world-class research. We fund research that focuses on specific cancer problems in the region and contributes to the global fight against the disease.
The Lynda Jackson Macmillan Centre supports people affected by cancer. At the drop-in centre at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, people will find a friendly face, a listening ear and answers to their questions about cancer and its treatments. Services also include complementary therapies and counselling.
We conduct world class medical research projects. We diagnose and treat thousands of people with epilepsy every year. We do this and much more. We are the UK’s national medical epilepsy charity. With Epilepsy Society, you don’t have to deal with epilepsy alone.
Every day 100,000 people in Scotland struggle to breath due to chronic chest illness. Every 22 minutes someone in Scotland will have a heart attack or stroke. Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland supports people living with these conditions in Scotland through research, advice, support and action.
Pulmonary fibrosis is a fatal disease with no cure affecting 15,000 people in the UK. Most survive less than 5 years from diagnosis. It gradually destroys the lungs and makes breathing impossible. Your donation will help us to support patients and research into new, effective treatments.
HDA exists to support anyone who is affected by Huntington's disease. It pursues the best possible care; provides training & advice to families and professionals; raises awareness; and promotes research towards better treatment and ultimately a cure.
Oakhaven Hospice is a community based service providing specialist palliative care to patients facing the complex emotional, physical & spiritual difficulties arising from a life - limiting illness. It costs £3 million annually to run the Hospice, with only around 13% of these costs being met by NHS
Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention is the only charity in the UK entirely dedicated to the prevention of breast cancer. Currently, 1 in 10 women and 1 in 1000 men will develop breast cancer in their lifetime, through the funding of vital medical research, Genesis aims to make 1 in 10, none in 10.
For almost 50 years Action Cancer, our supporters, and the community we serve, have faced challenges & come through them all by supporting each other. Because of the current crisis, our donations, the lifeblood of the services we offer, have been reduced. This is an urgent one-off appeal.
Just4Children is passionate about the relief of sickness and preservation of health of children in the UK and Ireland by providing and assisting in the provision of grants to enable them to obtain medical treatment, therapies, living environments, equipment and holidays which would not otherwise be available to them.