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Good Grief Appeal
(UK, 1008753) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,665.93
(UK, 1008753) The Good Grief Appeal helps people to overcome the grief and sorrow that can follow a bereavement by providing a sympathetic ear every evening of the year (no exceptions!) by Freephone Helplines: General Helpline 0800 435 455 Asian Languages Helpline 0800 9177 416 If you are struggling with a bereavement - it can help!!
CRI
(UK, 1079327) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,645.00Addiction is an illness, not a choice. Every day, CRI provides essential treatment and support to 53,500 people on their journey into recovery, as well as supporting their family and friends, and the wider community. Please help us be there for everyone touched by addiction.
Somerset Counselling Centre
(UK, 1038975) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,628.00Somerset Counselling centre (SCC) was founded in 1990 to provide an affordable psychodynamic counselling service for all members of the community. The centre offers both long-term/ongoing work and brief/time-limited work. Counsellors work to very high standards of professionalism and adhere to the BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice. SCC is accredited by BACP and is an affiliate of the Westminister Pastoral Foundations (wpf) national network of counselling centres. The centre works with a diverse range of needs ranging from depression, relationship issues, addiction, anxiety, panic attacks, work related problems, bereavement, trauma, compulsive disorders, cultural and sexual difference. To enable the centre to continue to offer subsidised counselling sessions to people who would otherwise not be able to afford it we need to look for ways to raise funds. Your support will enable us to continue to provide an affordable counselling service to those people who would otherwise not be able to afford one.
Home-Start Herefordshire
(UK, 1113432) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,610.00
(UK, 1113432) Thank you for visiting our profile page on MyDonate. Home-Start believes that children need a happy and secure childhood and that parents play the key role in giving their children a good start in life and helping them to achieve their full potential. Home-Start Herefordshire is an independent charity which offers support, friendship and practical help to families who are experiencing stress and finding it hard to cope and have at least one child between 0-19Home-Start offers a unique service. We recruit and train volunteers who are usually parents themselves to visit families at home and offer them informal, friendly and confidential support.
Signpost
(UK, 801309) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,600.28Signpost is an independent voluntary organisation, registered with the Charity Commission, which offers free and confidential counselling, information and support to young people aged 11 - 25 years.
The Samaritans Of Great Yarmouth
(UK, 274174) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,600.00Great Yarmouth Samaritans is one of 200 Samaritan branches across the UK and Ireland. Together we are available 24 hours a day 365 days a year to help anyone to find the way through their troubles no matter how overwhelming they might seem. We make no judgements, treat everyone with respect and offer a totally confidential service. We would be very grateful for any contributions to help us run our branch.
Healthy n Happy Community Development Trust
(UK, SC032654) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,568.93Healthy n Happy is a local charity and the community development trust for Cambuslang and Rutherglen. We are a community owned organisation, run by local people, for local people.We want to make Cambuslang and Rutherglen the healthiest and happiest places to live in Scotland.We provide local people, families and communities in Cambuslang and Rutherglen with opportunities to take an active part in improving their lives and their future health and wellbeing.Here are only some of the range of activities and current services that weoffer:• Supporting Communities: Working with deprived communities to create opportunities, improve where people live and build community spirit and cohesion.• Mental and Emotional Health and Wellbeing: Stress Management services for all ages. Reducing stigma incl. Scottish Mental Health First AidTraining.• Promoting Healthy Choices: Education and health support for 12 –25 year olds in school and community settings.
Add+up
(UK, 1091461) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,546.81Add+up stands for "Attention Deficit Disorders: Uniting Parents". We are a registered charity, support and action group run by parents of children with ADHD
Root and Branch
(UK, 1143294) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,544.00We are a therapeutic garden and craft project, helping people to improve their mental health and well being. Root & Branch is a therapeutic gardening and rural craft project for people who experience mental health difficulties such as depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder.We are based on an organic farm in the Oxfordshire Vale of the White Horse.We offer a friendly, calm atmosphere where people are helped towards recovery. Through gardening, blacksmithing, woodwork, cooking and craft activities people learn new skills, regain health and well being, regain confidence and self-esteem, and begin to realise their potential.It costs around £60,000 a year to run our service. About half of this we have to raise ourselves through donations. The rest comes through the Oxfordshire NHS. Charity No: 1143294 Find out more Website http://www.rootandbranch.info
Teen Challenge Belfast
(UK, 298900) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,529.60Teen Challenge Belfast is a Christian charity which helps men & women who have developed life controlling problems. These range from alcohol addiction, drug addiction, depression, self harm and suicidal tendencies. We offer support and rehabilitation and restoration through the love of Christ.
Tadley and District Citizens Advice Bureau
(UK, XN89393) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,522.00The Citizens Advice service provides free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities. It values diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. The service aims to provide the advice people need for the problems they face, and to improve the policies and practices that affect people’s lives.
The Believe and Achieve Trust
(UK, 1157173) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,516.00Believe and Achieve Trust aims to promote and protect the physical and mental health of Meningitis sufferers in Tameside and surrounding areas through the provision of financial assistance, support, education and practical advice. The Trust also supports young people wanting to achieve in sport.
Swansea Mind Abertawe
(UK, 226732) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,503.02SWANSEA MIND WORKS WITH, AND FOR, PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS. WE PROVIDE DROP-IN SERVICES, SOCIAL ACTIVITIES, SELF HELP GROUPS, TRAINING AND INFORMATION.
Osmani Trust
(UK, 1129282) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,500.00Osmani Trust is a youth and community organisation based in Tower Hamlets and Newham. The Trust offers a wide range of community, health and sporting initiatives tailored to the needs of the community. It aims to provide a holistic service, which helps people, particularly those living in disadvantaged urban communities to re-engage with mainstream society and improve their quality of life. Through its provisions, Osmani Trust seeks to address issues impacting the community including substance misuse, racial tensions, criminality and anti-social behaviour, territoriality and gang-related violence, unemployment and overcrowding, lack of training and employment opportunities. It also places strong emphasis on the health and social welfare of the community. Osmani Trust works with ordinary people helping them to do extraordinary things!
The Pilion Trust
(UK, 1122628) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,496.86Helping people with different problems; drugs, drink; homelessness, mental health, learning disabilities; domestic violence etc. Offering training to charities working with people from different cultures living in our communities, supporting local government; councils in an advisory capacity.
Woking Mind
(UK, 1096503) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,491.00Woking Mind provides social support and assistance to adults who live within the Borough of Woking and have difficulties with their mental health. We provide a vital part to our members' well being and deliver high quality services that encourage self confidence, independence and interaction with the community. Our services are based on drop-in centres held at CornerHouse in Woking and St. Michael's Church. We run a programme of events from these centres including frequent day trips. We run a number of longer term projects aimed at improving both the mental and physical health of our members as well as improving their social and employment prospects. Woking Mind works in cooperation with the Statutory Authorities, and is supported by Surrey County Council Social Services, Primary Care Trusts and Surrey & Borders Partnership NHS Trust.
Stockport Mind
(UK, 1119317) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,485.70The aim of Stockport Mind is to support people with mental health problems who live in the local community; it is a voluntary, independent mental health service that offers friendly, accessible support and information for those in need and promotes wellbeing in the community.
The Venture Trust
(UK, 285891) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,473.00
(UK, 285891) Venture Trust transforms the lives of people who, because of their complicated or chaotic backgrounds, are experiencing disadvantage, vulnerability or marginalisation. "jsut back from VT, my time there was the most amazing and challening experience i have ever done in my life" - Participant In 2011, we worked with over 850 participants - people who were struggling with complicated life circumstances such as being looked after by the state, offending, homelessness, drug and alcohol misuse, caring responsibilities and other complications in their lives. We run intensive personal development programmes. What this means is we give people time, space and intensive support in wilderness environments. Here, we help people recognise what they need to change, then give them the confidence, motivation and tools they need to make those changes. "Completing this course has made me look at my life back home and has made me think about what I really want in life. I am now going home with a full tool box of skills that I never had previously" - Participant By tackling a range of physical, emotional and social challenges, participants are able to increase their aspirations, and to develop a range of skills for life, learning and work.
Mermaids UK
(UK, 1160575) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,451.34Mermaids is a support group for gender variant children and teenagers, and their families. Thank you for visiting our profile page on MyDonate. Our goal is to relieve the mental and emotional stress of all persons aged 19 years and under who are in any manner affected by gender identity issues, and their families, and to advance public education in the same. What we do:Offer support to parents, families, carers and others.Raise awareness about gender issues amongst professionals (e.g. teachers, doctors, social services etc.) and the general public.Campaign for the recognition of this issue and an increase in professional services. Charity No: 1160575 Find out more Website http://mermaidsuk.org.uk/
Bristol Mind
(UK, 1085171) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,443.00Bristol Mind aims to promote mental health and reduce stigma. Services include: advocacy services; Mindline, free phone, out-of-hours, listening support; phone and web site information; a service evaluation project and a Training Project offering mental health promotion courses. The organisation also supports self-help and user groups.
Friends of Chums
(UK, 1114896) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,432.00CHUMS supports bereaved children and families in Bedfordshire following the death of someone special in their lives. Death is an overwhelming experience and CHUMS responds by offering various interventions which help to build resilience and give children and young people hope for the future.
STAR Bereavement Support Service
(UK, 1113878) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,410.60Thank you for visiting our profile page on MyDonate.We are a Wakefield based bereavement charity, providing support to children, young people and their families when the worst happens and a loved one dies
Hertfordshire Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre Ltd
(UK, 299524) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,355.00Hertfordshire Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre Ltd's aim is to limit the progression of the disease, which affects approximately one in 800 of the population, and to alleviate the feelings of isolation and helplessness that often follow diagnosis. To do this it offers neuro-physiotherapy, high dosage oxygen therapy, remedial yoga, counselling, aromatherapy, reflexology, chiropody and dietary advice.
Headway North Staffordshire (Head Injuries Association) Ltd
(UK, 1077770) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,347.00Headway North Staffordshire promotes a wider understanding of all aspects of head injury and provides information, support and services to people with head injury, their families, carers,friends and professionals concerned with head injury. At Headway House we provide social interaction and day service facilities for adults with acquired, traumatic and stroke related brain injury 18 plus ,living in North Staffordshire. We also provide opportunities to participate in woodwork, computing, daily living skills, educational, leisure and social activities. Headway North Staffordshire promotes healthy living by encouraging members to use the gymnasium and take advantage of the service offered by our Sports Therapist
Sheffield Samaritans
(UK, 237180) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,346.89Samaritans is available 24 hours a day to provide confidential, non-judgmental, emotional support to anyone experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which may lead to suicide. The Sheffield branch receives over 30,000 calls a year - by phone, e-mail or visit - and is entirely reliant on voluntary support