Browsing Charities
The Limbless Association
(UK, 803533) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,655.01
(UK, 803533) Limbless Association is a national charity for individuals with limb loss, their family and their carers. We aim to help these individuals through their own talents and initiatives to become active members of their communities. LA enables amputees achieve rehabilitation and sustain independence at home, employment and in the community. LA is the only charity for individuals with limb loss of all ages and backgrounds. We run many programs that are unique to our organisation such as a national helpline devoted to amputee issues; our Football+ Project run in conjunction with Chelsea FC Football in the Community, and our Outreach Program, which co-ordinates our prominent Volunteer Visitors Network. This Network consists members who, using their experience as amputees, support people awaiting amputation or amputees experiencing difficulties since their operation. Limbless Association also played a key role in assisting victims who sustained limb-loss during the 7/7 London terrorist attacks.
Broadway Lodge
(UK, 269167) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,648.40Broadway Lodge is a residential rehabilitation centre, providing the highest quality of care and treatment for people suffering from addiction. Through the quality & professionalism of our staff, we aim to deliver services of the highest possible standard. To return lives addiction has taken away.
The Reader Organisation
(UK, 1126806) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,538.06The Reader Organisation works to bring about social change by sharing great literature, making it possible for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to engage with reading, improve wellbeing and build community. Through their ‘Get Into Reading’ project, where prose and poetry are read aloud in groups that meet each week, The Reader Organisation brings the pleasure of great literature to people of all ages across the UK. They have found that shared reading provides an appealing and holistic service to those most in need - the elderly, people suffering from mental ill-health, offenders, looked-after children - enabling them to develop the emotional apparatus to improve their personal happiness and social functioning. The Reader Organisation is an independent national charity. Its head office is in Liverpool and they have projects running across the North West, North East, London, the South West, Scotland and North Wales. They work with local health, education and social care authorities, as well as library services, community organisations, care home providers and the criminal justice sector to deliver over 200,000 hours of reading each year. Their Read to Lead training course has also enabled over 700 people (from nurses and librarians, to fire fighters and probation officers) to deliver shared reading groups in their part of the country.
Acacia Family Support
(UK, 1122831) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,474.29Acacia Family Support aims to improve the lives of mothers and families affected by Pre or Postnatal depression across Birmingham. We offer families a variety of support services including peer support and befriending, cognitive behavioural therapy and a unique dads project.
Gardiner Hill Foundation
(UK, 1146433) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,435.78The Foundation supports people with mental health issues in ways which empower them. It's principal aim is to encourage and support education and training, employment, and independent living.
Home-Start Cambridgeshire
(UK, 1106007) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,375.00
(UK, 1106007) Home-Start Cambridgeshire offers support and friendship to families across the County who are struggling to cope with a range of issues from postnatal illness, disability, family breakdown, bereavement, isolation and multiple births. We also help families living with domestic violence and suffering the effects of drug and alcohol related issues. Families are supported by our team of trained and dedicated volunteers who visit the families in their own homes respecting their privacy and dignity, providing non-judgemental practical and emotional support.
HEADWAY SURREY
(UK, 1046863) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,374.70HEADWAY SURREY Supports people who are affected by head injury. It provides information & support for the head injured, their families and carers. HEADWAY SURREY was started as a self help group in 1985, by carers and professionals and the charity has since grown to offer a range of support services.
BIG in Mental Health
(UK, 1166584) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,335.21BIG is based in Bury and is run entirely by volunteers.We provide support groups for adults experiencing mental health conditions.People can just turn up.We instil hope, aid recovery and empower people to improve their quality of life.We signpost to other services and hold awareness raising events.
The Carers Centre
(UK, 1043956) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,319.71Carers of Leicestershire provides advice and emotional support for unpaid family carers living in Leicestershire and Rutland. Carers provide help 24/7 for their sick or disabled relative often giving up their jobs and social lives to look after a parent, spouse or child who has fallen ill or had an accident. Anyone can become a carer without warning or training. The change in lifestyle and role can be extremely distressing, and there are often financial hardships as well. We can help carers with advice and training, we can be an informed friend and hold carers' hands when they battle with 'the system'. We give carers a chance to be themselves again.
Friends Of Asha (GB)
(UK, 1085071) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,307.00Friends of Asha (GB) raises money and awareness for the work of Asha Community Health and Development Society. Asha works in 50 slum colonies in Delhi, India. It improves health and provides support and education for over 400,000 slum dwellers, enabling them to make positive changes to their lives.
Grampian MS Therapy Centre
(UK, SC007647) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,290.00It provides therapies including Hyperbaric Oxygen, physiotherapy and reflexology to people with MS from its centre in Dyce. This is supported entirely by voluntary donations and fundraising activity.
KIND
(UK, 518985) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,272.00KIND aims to help disadvantaged children and families from across the most deprived areas of Liverpool and Merseyside. We help by offering a range of educational activities, projects and support that improves their confidence, education, health, skills and experience and tackles discrimination.
Age UK Solihull
(UK, 1055887) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,271.64Welcome to Age UK Solihull's Virgin Money Giving page. We are celebrating our 30th Anniversary in 2013. To commemorate this we have launched our Pearl Donor Appeal. Please visit our Pearl Donor Appeal page to pledge your support in our 30th Anniversary year. Our mission is to help improve the lives of older people living in Solihull. Age UK Solihull is a local charity that reaches out to the Solihull community to offer support, help and kindness wherever it is needed. We make sure older people aren’t forgotten or left to struggle on their own. In Solihull, we have one of the fastest growing populations of older people in the West Midlands, and as the older population continues to grow, our services will become increasingly more important. Our clients tell us how much the “sympathetic interest” we take in their worries and concerns means to them, and how it is “so reassuring to know that Age UK Solihull is always there to give independent help and advice”. In the last year, Age UK Solihull’s Information and Advice Service has received over 30,000 contacts in Solihull with and for older people. With your generous donation, however big or small, will make a very positive difference to secure our services to local older people. We rely on the generous support of our donors to help us to continue providing these services and countless others. Thank you visiting our page. We hope you are able to support us today.
Heads Together for Contact
(UK, 1132048C) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,251.20The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry are spearheading a new campaign, Heads Together, to end stigma around mental health. It will be the biggest single project Their Royal Highnesses have undertaken together. The Heads Together campaign aims to change the national conversation on mental wellbeing and will be a partnership with inspiring charities with decades of experience in tackling stigma, raising awareness, and providing vital help for people with mental health challenges. The campaign has the huge privilege of being the 2017 Virgin Money London Marathon Charity of the Year. The Virgin Money London Marathon is the UK's premier charitable event and its energetic and positive fundraising and awareness platform is the perfect springboard for the Heads Together campaign. The team of charity partners working on Heads Together covers a wide range of mental health issues that are close to The Duke and Duchess and Prince Harry's passions. They are: Contact is a collaboration of leading military charities, support organisations, the NHS, the Ministry of Defence, UK Psychological Trauma Society and top academics working together to make the most effective mental health support easily accessible to Service personnel, Ex-Service personnel and their families. “Bringing together our collective knowledge, expertise and understanding to work together collaboratively is the best way to improve mental health support to the military sector. Our aim is to create a more accessible pathway to support by promoting evidence-based treatments, tackling stigma and making it easy for each individual to identify the most effective, convenient and appropriate support for them.” Chairman of Contact, David Richmond
Leeds Irish Health and Homes Ltd
(UK, IP28320R) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,229.86Our purpose is to enable people to live as independent a life as possible. We offer a variety of services and support, not just to Irish people, but to the wider community as a whole. We have an Outreach and Supported Housing team that work one to one with people, enabling them to make more positive lifestyle choices and meet their own personal aspirations. Everyone who walks through our door is welcomed with a smile and a cup of tea. We tailor our support to meet the needs of the individual. We also have a full time Dementia Support Worker who offers guidance and support for people for people who have Dementia and their carers. We run a number of activities to help people overcome social isolation like luncheon clubs, walking groups and days out.We have an excellent Volunteer Programme and are always looking for new people to get involved with the organisation. Please visit our website to find out more about what we do. www.lihh.org
Family Support Work
(UK, 285337) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,211.31FSW is pioneering work with families across Sussex, working intensively through activities; home visits, support groups, drop-ins and supported breaks with the Community Workers at the Knowles Tooth Centre. The free and confidential service is offered to parents, carers and their children.
Herefordshire Mind
(UK, 701260) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,206.14The only specialist voluntary sector mental health organisation in Herefordshire; With 25 years experience of working and campaigning: - to improve the mental health and wellbeing of the people of Herefordshire - to fight the stigma and low expectations often associated with mental health problems.
CRUMBS
(UK, 1151926) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,189.31Established as a disability training charity, CRUMBS has, since 1997, developed a workplace, pre-employment programme of learning.Training is undertaken through dedicated baking/ cooking/ service delivery programmes, which is accessed by a mixed-disability workforce - unique in this area.All of our trainees are local adults with mental illness, learning disabilities, stabilised addiction and acquired head injury. Emphasis is on skills and confidence: improving health and employability. CRUMBS sprung from the need for those in long-stay care to have a pattern to their day: a skill at their finger tips and something to talk about. Charity No: 1151926 Find out more Website http://www.crumbs.org.uk/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/The-Crumbs-Project-151305528262386/info?tab=overview
The City and East London Bereavement Service
(UK, 1071282) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,134.94Death and bereavement bring many changes which are often difficult and painful. Some people find it helpful to talk to a volunteer who is trained to support you and help you talk about all that has happened. We have supported the bereaved since 1982. All our services are free and confidential and are offered to people who live in Tower Hamlets or whose families are or have been patients of any of the hospitals within Barts and the London NHS Trust. We offer different kinds of bereavement support: Bereavement Counselling which includes Counselling for Couples after the death of a child. We also provide a Bereavement Befriending Service and a Muslim Visiting Service.
Gordon Moody Association
(UK, 1124751) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,101.78Founded as a charity in 1971 The Gordon Moody Association has over 40 years' experience of providing specialised support and treatment to acutely addicted gamblers. This has allowed us to develop treatment interventions that are purely gambling focused and address the extremes of associated behaviours.
Phoenix Health and Wellbeing
(UK, 1154273) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,029.79We support people with mental and/or physical health issues by offering subsidised counselling and complementary therapies.
Tameside Oldham and Glossop Mind
(UK, 1123549) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,016.34TOG Mind are an independent charity, our Mission is to provide a range of activities and services that promote psychological and physical well-being of clients. We do this by: delivering counselling services, well-being training, drop ins, horticultural activities and one to one support.
The Samaritans of Tyneside
(UK, 242810) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,952.90Samaritans' vision is that fewer people die by suicide. We work to achieve this by being available 24 hours a day to provide emotional support to people experiencing feelings of emotional distress including those which may lead to suicide. We reach out to high risk groups to reduce the risk of suicide, work in partnership with other organisations, and seek to influence public policy and raise public awareness
West Berkshire Mencap
(UK, 1076658) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,949.00West Berks Mencap provides high quality services for people with learning disabilities, their families, carers and professionals. We have been awarded the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service for outstanding work in our local community. Our vital services are extremely varied and are cradle to grave.
The Ways and Means Trust
(UK, 255074) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,945.00We help adults with learning & physical disabilities, or poor mental health. We provide social & practical skills for independent living, and training, education & work experience to assist adults working towards open employment, in a safe empathetic environment. Visit our website for more...