Browsing Charities
Root and Branch
(UK, 1143294) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,544.00
(UK, 1143294) We 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
Town Break (Stirling)
(UK, SC020526) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,531.32Providing practical support for people with dementia and for their carers
Tadley and District Citizens Advice Bureau
(UK, XN89393) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,522.00
(UK, XN89393) The 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.
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.
Open Road
(UK, 1019915) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,442.81Open 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.
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.
Gardiner Hill Foundation
(UK, 1146433) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,419.00The 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.
Crossways Counselling Service
(UK, 275053) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,415.53Crossways offers affordable counselling in the Haslemere area. We offer 1200 sessions a year with qualified counsellors who work voluntarily. Overheads mean we have to raise money to operate. Help us to continue to offer this service to those in need in our community.
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
Monifieth Befriending Scheme
(UK, SC030685) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,410.00We provide befrienders for socially isolated older people and recently bereaved people, of any age in our community &. care homes. Volunteers visit weekly, sharing up to two hours of quality time with their clients, increasing confidence, reducing isolation & improving overall health & well being.
Brigitte Trust
(UK, 288923) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,398.52Brigitte Trust volunteers offer a free service of emotional support and practical help at home to people and their families facing the enormous challenge of life-threatening illness. 208 families were supported last year. Please help us reach out to even more.
Touchstone
(UK, 1012053) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,379.00Touchstone 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.
MS Therapy Centre (Tayside) Ltd
(UK, SC020217) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,375.00A self-help group receiving no statutory funding provides advice and support for people with MS and their carers in Tayside and Fife in a friendly non-clinical setting. Members choose from therapies; hyperbaric oxygen, counselling, physio, chiropody, aromatherapy, reflexology, yoga and swimming
Aurora Health Foundation
(UK, 1119145) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,368.82The Aurora Health Foundation is a specialist therapy centre that helps people abused in childhood recover from their past trauma by offering a range of talking therapies (counselling, psychotherapy) and bodywork therapies (massage, reflexology, reiki).
Dartford Gravesham and Swanley Mind
(UK, 1103790) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,364.93Dartford, Gravesham & Swanley Mind is a mental health charity providing services for people in the Dartford, Gravesham, Swanley and surrounding areas of Kent. The Charity has been working with people with mental health problems since 1967. We provide the following services: Community Services, including drop-in activity sessions and coping with life groups, mentoring and agoraphobia service, supported housing, low cost counselling service and Talking Therapies on the NHS. We also provide numerous opportunities for people to volunteer with our organisation to learn new skills and to gain the confidence to move on to paid work.
The Anthony Seddon Fund
(UK, 1157871) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,360.00We set up our charity in Anthony's memory to support projects in Tameside and Oldham in all areas relating to mental health and wellbeing, in particular those for children and young people.
Mind in Tower Hamlets and Newham
(UK, 1006927) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,355.00We are Mind in Tower Hamlets and Newham, a community mental health charity. We're here to make sure anyone with a mental health or emotional issue has somewhere to turn for advice and support. We believe that "Without Mental Health there is No Health".
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.
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