Browsing Charities
Cvqo Ltd
(UK, 1115234) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,371.70
(UK, 1115234) CVQO helps people to achieve not only what they want, but what they thought they could never have. For many people, whatever their age, education is often the catalyst that enables them to change their lives and their future. Whether it's a young perosn who needs a different way of showing what skills and talents they have, or an adult who simply wants to better their work and life prospects, CVQO provides training and development that helps them all achieve valuable, internationally recognised qualifications, helping to create a brighter and more positive future. As a charity CVQO relies on the generosity of it's volunteers who give their time, expertise, support and money to help it deliver real learning and real benefits to thousands of people each year. They see it as an investment in the future of the individual and in their local community. Now you can help too by supporting CVQO in whatever way you can. £50 will help provide resource materials for our learning programmes £100 could enable a 13-16 year old to complete the BTEC level 1 certificate in teamwork and citizenship £350 can support a 16-19 year old achieve a BTEC Level 2 qualifications in Public Services, Music or Engineering
Wind-Up Penguin Theatre Company
(UK, 1161255) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,331.00Musicians, actors, and stage designers creating new musical theatre to perform to underprivileged children in hospitals, orphanages, special needs centres, and schools in developing countries and in the UK.
Big Picture Charity Films
(UK, 1148438) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,270.48
(UK, 1148438) Big Picture Charity Films are a UK Registered Charity working exclusively within the charity and voluntary sector. Through producing short promotional films, viral campaigns and documentaries, we aim to raise awareness of those who suffer with poverty, disability, illness or various forms of social deprivation. By highlighting these people and those who do such fantastic works supporting them, we are trying to educate others and thereby engender support and empathy. We are a charity with Christian values that relies entirely on funding and donations to operate. We offer our service, without cost, to causes we feel can benefit from our service.
Royal Devon And Exeter NHS Foundation Trust General Charity
(UK, 1061384) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,205.31The Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust General Charity provides charitable funds for one of the South West’s largest hospitals which delivers healthcare services to a core population of around 420,000. Charitable donations really help support the services provided by the Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust by improving patient experience and staff wellbeing as well as enabling the purchase of equipment and additional research. The Trust has national and internationally recognised excellence in specialist fields and prides itself on being a forward-thinking healthcare provider with a commitment to improving the quality of patient care. To find out more about what we do, click here
Create
(UK, 1099733) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,201.00Create uses the power of the creative arts to transform lives. We design and deliver projects that enable those who are excluded through disability, disadvantage, ill-health, imprisonment, poverty or social isolation to participate in high quality creative arts experiences. All projects enable participants to develop creativity, learning, social skills and self-esteem. Some bring different groups of people together to breakdown barriers and develop shared understanding; others enable them to explore social concerns. Every project aims to help to create a society that is fairer, more caring and more inclusive. To see Create in action, please visit our website here.
Sandblast Ltd
(UK, 1115288) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,179.92We are a London-based charity working with the Saharawi refugees to tell their story, promote their own culture & earn a living through the arts. Our current music project Studio-Live provides training & resources for Saharawi youth to build a local music industry & develop their creative skills.
Jubilee Debt Campaign
(UK, 1055675) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,113.00Jubilee Debt Campaign UK is part of a global movement demanding freedom from the slavery of unjust debt for impoverished countries. We campaign for a financial system where debt is not a tool of control for the rich, and people do not have to pay the price for reckless lending. Break the chains!
Design Museum
(UK, 800630) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,076.36The Design Museum is the leading museum devoted to contemporary architecture and design in the UK. Through its engaging exhibitions, learning programme and events, the museum aims to inspire everyone to understand the value of design and the vital contribution it makes to society and the economy.
New Future Collective
(UK, 1153729) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,054.00We place ourselves at the heart of urban and suburban communities, developing people’s creative capacity and enriching their cultural lives through creative and cultural activity. In 2015 we launched Hackney Showroom, a warehouse theatre and performance space set in a 4,000 former print works.
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Trust
(UK, SC005503) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,000.00The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is a globally-acclaimed centre of excellence for the performing arts. The only institution of its kind in Europe, RCS offers a specialist and world-class education in dance, drama, music, production and screen, all within one creative and collaborative place. We are incredibly proud of our students and their achievements as artists, performers and positive contributors both to the arts and to society here in Scotland and across the world. We are committed to working with students of the greatest potential, regardless of their financial circumstances. This commitment is supported through the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Trust which manages funds donated by individuals, trusts, foundations and bequests to offer scholarships which enable students to nurture their skills and talents in the performing arts – regardless of background or personal circumstances. Our goal is to enable students of exceptional potential in the performance arts to be part of RCS. We want to make the education opportunities we offer as inclusive, diverse and wide-reaching as possible. We offer scholarships to students in all disciplines, from the Junior Conservatoire to research degree level. We value every donation we receive and all funds will go directly to support and enable our students to fulfil their ambitions and make the most of their potential. By supporting us, you are helping the next generation of creative talent flourish.
AMREF
(UK, 261488) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,920.51AMREF, the African Medical and Research Foundation, is African's health development organisation. Headquartered in Nairobi, AMREF runs innovative health programmes across sub-Saharan Africa, fighting disease, training health workers, and strengthening health systems. For more information, visit or follow us on Facebook at
Birmingham Repertory Theatre
(UK, 223660) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,904.00Birmingham Repertory Theatre is one of the UK’s leading theatres producing exciting work for audiences across the region. But we don’t just create theatre - our stages, staff and productions provide endless opportunities to open doors and minds. Learning and participation is central to The REP, our innovative work with schools and communities driven by our commitment to lifelong learning is bringing actors and audiences together, transforming lives and encouraging us all to learn about theatre and through theatre.
Friends of Baphumelele
(UK, 1148140) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,830.00Friends of Baphumelele Ltd was set up as a UK registered Charity in July 2012 to relieve the needs of adults and children who are poor, sick, disabled, old or living in poor conditions in South Africa. The Charity provides annual and longer-term grants to well-established locally-managed projects with good track records of impact, accountability, leadership and effective community action. Any project selected is carefully assessed and monitored to ensure that funds are spent wisely and as intended.
Polka Theatre
(UK, 256979) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,829.95Polka was the first, and continues to be one of the very few theatre venues dedicated to creating and showcasing inspirational productions and creative learning programmes for 90,000+ children every year. From now until June 2014, all donations will be doubled by Arts Council England. Thank you.
Impact Arts (Projects) Limited
(UK, SC032430) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,769.38Impact Arts is a national community arts organisation. The main aim of Impact Arts is to use the arts as a catalyst for positive lasting change in peoples lives.
Robert Eaton Memorial Fund
(UK, 1092631) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,654.94The Robert Eaton Memorial Fund wishes to help Children from the ages of 5 and 16 to play football or other sports in the name of Robert Eaton.
The Art Fund
(UK, 209174) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,611.00The Art Fund is the national fundraising charity for art - supporting museums and galleries in acquiring works of art, and helping the public to enjoy them. For over 100 years we have been raisng funds to assist the aquisition of art in all forms and media, from Old Masters to the contemporary. We do this by mobilising art lovers across the country, whose contributions, large and small, provide our income. Today, more than 100,000 members that continue the philanthrophic spirit of our founders, believing that by coming together inidiviuals can achieve great things. Find our more at artfund.org
Ayrshire Fiddle Orchestra
(UK, SCO33435) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,589.33The Ayrshire Fiddle Orchestra aims to encourage the performance and development of fiddle music by young people throughout Ayrshire. Our talented young players perform regularly throughout Ayrshire, Scotland and abroad giving highly entertaining concerts.
Northumbria Sport Foundation
(UK, 1111675) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,588.08ENGAGES Northumbria Univeristy students, staff, alumni & partners in fundraising INVESTS the funds into sport activities & initiatives IMPACTS upon the potential of students & the community
Children First International
(UK, 1057811) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,586.73Children First International (CFI) is a small independent organisation that supports groups and individuals in developing countries by providing funds and other material items that help them help themselves. The charitys motto is Opening new horizons and it promotes the ethos that: if everyone cared enough and everyone shared enough, everyone would have enough. CFI believes that small is beautiful and one of the co-founders visits projects personally, at his own expense, to both support the project(s) and meet the people who are being encouraged to help themselves. There are no employees and no deductions for administration charges; thus funds raised go to the person or group being supported. Projects being financially supported include initiatives in Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone and the UK (Reading). CFI liaises with Rotary International and Lions Clubs International organisations to ensure that funds are managed and monitored appropriately when CFI personnel are not available on site.
Scene & Heard
(UK, 1077836) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,559.90Scene & Heard is a unique mentoring charity that partners the children of Somers Town, London with volunteer theatre professionals, to give the children an experience of quality one-on-one adult attention and to improve their self-esteem through the writing and performing of their own plays.
Lord Williams's Association
(UK, 274213) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,550.00Supporting Lord Williams's School in educating our children Through fundraising to provide extras to which the school budget does not stretch. For example, in 2007 we raised enough money to buy photovoltaic panels for the new Science facility and this year we are supporting the Phoenix Appeal to rebuild a better Performing Arts facility after the fire of 2007.
Fund For Action Through Education
(UK, 1125401) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,520.00It's FATE's 3rd Birthday! Help us to celebrate! Fund for Action Through Education (FATE) helps underprivileged children in developing countries by providing them access to a good education. By supporting FATE, you can change a child’s life, giving them the opportunity to realise their dreams and break the cycle of poverty. We have a fantastic group of sponsors who each sponsor a particular child, or group of children. In return, they receive regular school reports and letters from the children...and our neverending gratitude! In addition to this, we raise money for other essential school items, such as school uniforms and text books, which is where this site comes in - please support us! £5 will buy a school child a shiny new pair of school shoes. £6 will buy a vital mosquito net to help protect a child from malaria. £10 will buy a set of text books, allowing a child to study at their own pace. £15 will buy a rechargeable light so that homework can continue when it gets dark. £20 will buy a school bag stuffed with essential school stationery. £35 will buy a smart school uniform. £50 will pay a childs school bus fare for a year. Whatever you can afford, you can be assured that we will put it to the best use possible, enabling a child to excel at school and improve their life! 100% of the money we raise goes directly to the children that we support with any administration costs (which we keep to an absolute minimum) being paid for with the gift aid that we claim.
African Village School Fund (AVSF)
(UK, 1140971) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,515.90WORKING IN THE AREA KNOWN AS EKUDZENI, SWAZILAND TO PROVIDE SUPPORT AND RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP TO ORPHAN'S AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN THROUGH PROJECTS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,- PRE SCHOOL AND PRIMARY EDUCATION, FEEDING, LIVESTOCK AND AGRICULTURAL PROJECTS, PROVISION OF EMERGENCY ACCOMMODATION, USING SPORT AS A TOOL FOR CHANGE/HIV AWARENESS. AVSF supports orphans/ vulnerable children inSwaziland We've built a primary school, pre-school , Home of Hope, commenced 2 feeding & sustainable agricultural/livestock programs &clean water supplies. We have 250 children in school & 17 in pre-school. 100 children are fed daily. We're now using sport as part of an holistic, integrated approach to HIV awareness/ behaviour change. We need funds to build football changing facilities - we have land donated, &, football boots / kit from UK clubs. This grass roots project directly touches & changes the lives of our children. 1:4 are HIV positive but our children have ALL tested negative. This project can ensure they remain well & enable them to identify & shun risky behaviour, gain life skills & increase future employment chances giving a new outlook, encouragement & focus on life. Football has changed the direction of many youngsters giving them the foundations & tools to go into the world & contribute to their community & beyond. Charity No: 1140971 Find out more Website http://www.africanvillageschool.org.uk Facebook https://www.facebook.com/LynnandRobertNestor Twitter https://twitter.com/AVSchoolFund YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=prqtpjaxD4Y