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Open Door, Young People's Consultation Service
(UK, 299707) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,735.90
(UK, 299707) Open Door offers free confidential counselling and psychotherapy to young people aged 12-24 living in Haringey. Our services are offered in welcoming, accessible, non-stigmatising premises in Crouch End and Tottenham. We aim to: Open Door works with young people experiencing difficulties including depression, self-harm, eating disorders, drug and alcohol misuse. Many have endured abuse, trauma, violence and family breakdown. Some are facing early pregnancy and parenthood whilst others are striving to manage their adolescent development with the additional challenges of disability. They are often marginalised and reluctant to access statutory services. Last year we worked with 220 young people , offering over 3,000 appointments. Open Door also delivers services to parents and carers of your people aged 12-21 across London.
Oxford Samaritans
(UK, 232427) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,708.13
Samaritans is available 24 hours a day to provide confidential and emotional support for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which may lead to suicide.
Mary Frances Trust
(UK, 1055113) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,698.79
(UK, 1055113) Mary Frances Trust is a charity established in 1994 to support people who experience mental ill-health.Our main base is a comfortable and homely house in the Leatherhead town centre where we provide some of our services. These include a day programme, groups and activities to promote recovery and improve health and well-being, and individual advice and support for people to achieve their own particular goals and aspirations.We also provide our services in other locations within the Borough of Epsom & Ewell and Mole Valley District. Please visit our website for more information. Thank you.
Open Road
(UK, 1019915) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,695.20Open Road helps people affected by drugs and alcohol in Essex, Suffolk & Norfolk.We support individuals, families and communities to recover from their addiction. We provide the SOS bus in Colchester on Friday and Saturday evenings to give practical support and advice to clubbers.
Samaritans Of Portsmouth And East Hampshire
(UK, 243227) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,693.06Samaritans offer a free 24 hour confidential helpline to all who call. The service is available to all without limitation of age, social class, gender, race or religion. Samaritans offer emotional support and anonymity to all who may be in despair, distress or suicidal. Samaritans' Vision is that fewer people die by suicide.
Parents Against Child Sexual Exploitation
(UK, 1092560) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,680.00About Pace Parents Against Child Sexual Exploitation (Pace) is a national charity, based in Leeds, that works alongside parents and carers of children who are – or are at risk of being – sexually exploited by perpetrators external to the family. We offer guidance and training to professionals on how child sexual exploitation affects the whole family. Our Work When a young person is groomed for sexual exploitation, the whole family unknowingly become victims of this devastating and vicious form of child sexual abuse. Parents need relevant and timely advice, information and support in order to respond to the effects of child sexual exploitation on their family and in order to get their child free of their abusers. For over 15 years, Pace has set out to: Your Impact Your support to Pace goes towards parents and carers like those in the video below who have a child affected by this abuse. "I rang up Pace and spoke to a lovely lady called Sarah who became a rock all the way through it." - Parent Your Donation Your donation supports our services for parents affected by this terrible abuse. £5 pays the expenses for a volunteer to visit a distressed parent. £30 enables a parent to attend a network day and meet other affected parents. £100 pays for a month’s specialist support to parents. £400 allows us to provide expert training for up to twenty professionals on best practices for supporting affected parents. Help us be there for families so that they can rebuild.
Invictus Trust
(UK, 1143954) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,667.98Invictus Trust supports good teenage mental health by reducing the stigma through Facebook, Twitter and the website with educational films and by visiting schools in Cornwall to discuss mental health. We are trying to distribute our website card to every teenager in Cornwall! We are also campaigning for a Youth Mental Health Unit so our young people can be cared for in Cornwall rather than at least 200 miles from home.
Sheffield Health International Partnerships
(UK, EW00711) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,666.38Sheffield Health International Partnerships (SHIP) will promote a quality health service for people in Low Income Countries through the provision of financial assistance, support, education and practical advice to staff and service user organizations.
Good Grief Appeal
(UK, 1008753) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,665.93The 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!!
Touchstone
(UK, 1012053) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,657.95Touchstone vision is to inspire communities and transform lives. We make a difference to peoples lives, working with them to improve their mental health and wellbeing. Touchstone supports a really diverse mix of people from our base in Leeds.
Dyslexia Scotland
(UK, SC000951) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,655.00Dyslexia Scotland is the voluntary organisation representing the needs and interests of dyslexic people in Scotland.
Shropshire Mind
(UK, 1003117) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,650.50Shropshire Mind was established almost 40 years ago and provides a diverse range of quality services, across the County for the one in four people and their families acknowledged to be affected by mental or emotional distress.We help to bridge the gap between illness and full independence for service users. Some people need support in many areas of their lives, others in just a few, some for long periods of time, others for only a short while.Respect for users, with justice and equality of access to services are part of our vision that everyone has the right to live equally with others and to enjoy a good quality of life. We try to enable service users to play the fullest possible part in the communities in which they live. We work in partnership with clients to ensure their right to make choices is preserved. We are also striving to reduce the debilitation, alienation, stigma and social isolation experienced by vulnerable people living in rural areas. Our work includes group work based at our Shrewsbury premises and also at venues in Ludlow, Whitchurch, Bridgnorth and Market Drayton, with the aim of establishing additional groups across the county. Shropshire Mind has an established and trained volunteer base and a small number of paid staff who run specific projects. The charity has a board of trustees who meet as the Executive Committee and of those trustees there are elected officers – Chair, Treasurer and Secretary.
The Willows Support Group
(UK, EW11035) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,631.75The Willows Support Group is there to help support you through the devastating experience of the death of a baby.
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: £2,610.00Thank 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
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.
Sheffield Mind Ltd
(UK, 276108) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,507.83Sheffield Mind is a leading provider of mental health and wellbeing services in Sheffield.
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!