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Project Colt
(UK, 1098268) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,136.00
(UK, 1098268) Project Colt supports families and individuals affected by addiction. We support someone through detox, recovery and then into work via our social enterprise Colt Enterprise Mill Shop. We also support those affected by a family member's addiction. The shop takes donations of household items and gets them to people in need and on low incomes and is open to all. What we cannot reuse is recycled where possible. Work and team opportunities relate to shop work, recycling, renovation and upcycling. A BIG THANK YOU TO MEL WHO IS ATTEMPTING HER FIRST MARATHON AT LONDON 2016 TO RAISE FUNDS FOR PROJECT COLT.
The Iris Trust For Inspiration And Well-being
(UK, 1142847) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,131.45The Iris Trust supports the recovery of women who suffer from the effects of domestic violence by providing a mindfulness meditation programme. We have developed a domestic violence recovery programme based on mindful meditation. Mindfulness is a mind-body approach to well-being that can change the way an individual thinks about experiences to reduce stress and anxiety The Iris Trust's programme promotes awareness of unhealthy thought patterns and provides the tools to overcome them, boosting self confidence and self esteem.This is a six-week programme run across the UK. Please support the Iris Trust and help to empower women to recover from abuse.
Friends And Parents Of Pepenbury
(UK, 262161) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,115.00The "Friends" is an independent charity that exists to support the services provided by the Larkfield and Hill Park Autistic Trust (Pepenbury) by publicity, fundraising and practical help. Pepenbury has over 80 years' experience in helping people with learning disabilities to lead active & satisfying lives - by providing training, assisted living support and residential care.Although based in Kent, Pepenbury benefits people from all over the country.See website www.pepenbury.info
Age UK Southampton
(UK, 1122954) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,115.00Age UK Southampton is a local, independent charity providing a wide range of services and support to help improve the health and well-being and quality of life of all older people living in our City. We promote positive ageing, healthier lifestyles and encourage independent living. We inform people of their rights and choices and aim to help reduce isolation, poverty and health inequalities.
Stafford Samaritans
(UK, 233220) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,113.00The Stafford Samaritans are a charity that are open 24/7 to talk about peoples feelings and emotions withhout judging them. We are not a religious organisation, we are not funded by the government we are just ordinary people who care. All discussion are confidential and you can e-mail [email protected] or call us on 01785 243333 or 08457909090.The Stafford branch is now receiving about 31,000 calls per year and is also concerned with outreach projects. Each branch of Samaritans is an independent charity and as such is responsible for raising its own funds. It costs around £20,000 per year to keep the Stafford Branch going. Outreach Stafford Samaritans offer support to the Listener schemes in our local Prisions Drake Hall and Stafford. We also visit most of our secondary schools Samaritans are there when all your friends are asleep and you are alone in the world. When you're full of thoughts that you don't understand.It's good to get them out.
Penumbra
(UK, SC010387) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,111.32
(UK, SC010387) Penumbra is Scotland's most innovative mental health charity, working to improve mental wellbeing across the nation. We provide a wide range of services which offer hope and practical steps towards recovery, including support for people in their own homes, assisted accommodation, self harm reduction and youth services. Penumbra campaigns to influence national and local government policy, and to increase public knowledge and understanding about mental ill health.
Open Door
(UK, 1107869) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,110.00The Open Door Centre, based in Gorse Hill, Swindon, Wiltshire, provides a specialist day resource for adults with learning disabilities who may also have physical disabilities and/or mental health issues
Seed Eating Disorders Support Services
(UK, 1108405) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,105.00SEED supports families and friend and sufferes of eating disorders At the moment we are holding lots of different fundraising events and we need your donations and sponsorship Thank you for your support
SMIRA
(UK, 1022673) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,096.40SMIRA is a UK-based Registered Charity supporting families and health & education professionals involved in the upbringing of selectively mute children.
Town Break (Stirling)
(UK, SC020526) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,095.00Providing practical support for people with dementia and for their carers
Key Enterprises
(UK, 1011012) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,094.00Key Enterprises is a local charity based in Benton near Newcastle, dedicated to working with and supporting people with mental health problems and learning difficulties. We provide a wide range of practical training activities and social activities, both at Key Enterprises and in the Community.
Blackhall Nursery
(UK, SC029338) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,090.35Blackhall Nursery aims to provide a happy, caring environment for children who are encouraged to develop and learn at their own pace. The nursery works in partnership with The City of Edinburgh Council; however, the nursery relies heavily on fundraising to support its day to day activities.
Westminster Mind
(UK, 292708) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,079.17Westminster Mind provides services and support to people recovering from mental health problems. We have developed a wide range of services to meet a variety of needs including counselling, a treatment programme for people with agoraphobia, supported housing, befriending, a workscheme which builds up peoples work related skills and teaches IT skills, help to obtain voluntary work, and a drop in centre with a choice of activities, information and support. We welcome help from volunteers. Please look at our website www.westminstermind.org.uk Our workscheme designs and sells cards and can offer businesses design and printing services. Please take a look at their website www.portugalprints.org.uk
Age UK Solihull
(UK, 1055887) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,075.51Welcome 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.
Paul's Place
(UK, 1065033) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,075.00We are the only charity specifically supporting adults with physical and cognitive impairment in the Bristol area – this includes Bristol, south Gloucestershire, North Somerset and Bath
Mind In Salford
(UK, 1156625) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,072.00Mind in Salford is an independent, user focused charity providing quality services to make a positive difference to the Mental Health of the people of Salford. Our core services are Advocacy, Advice, Mindfulness and our wellbeing Garden Centre that gives people with mental health problems a place to learn, make friends and rebuild their confidence. All of our services are free to access.
The Green House Bristol
(UK, 800806) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,072.00The Green House provides counselling to children, young people, women and men who have experienced sexual abuse or rape at any point in their lives. Over 40 people a week receive free counselling to help them cope and recover. We have been providing counselling for over 30 years and have a team of highly qualified and experienced counsellors who are specialists in working with trauma.
MCCH
(UK, 1156486) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,066.86We support people with a learning disability, autism or mental health needs in the South East. Our vision is a world where everyone is valued for who they are and can live the life they choose. We provide creative services that are designed around the needs of each person.
Birchwood Highland
(UK, SC003198) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,066.00Birchwood Highland is a charity providing support for people experiencing mental ill health. We aim to improve their quality of life by promoting recovery, inclusion and independence. We provide residential and outreach support covering Inverness, Easter Ross, and Lochaber..
Headway Hurstwood Park
(UK, 1084715) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,060.00We exist to provide improvement after acquired brain injury We provide advice, information, support and rehabilitation to anybody who is affected - this includes carers, families, professionals We provide: community support, support groups, a counselling service, a centre for rehabilitation, outreach support workers who work with people in their own homes.
The Peaceful Place
(UK, 1127072) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,040.74The Peaceful Place provides a unique service in Essex offering specialist day care for people under 65 with dementia. It also advises and supports their carers giving them a regular break from their full-time caring roles, seeking to make a real difference to quality of life in the local community. The Peaceful Place is currently fundraising to build a permanent facility to provide all aspects of age appropriate care for people of a working age diagnosed with Early Onset Dementia. The new centre will be dedicated to continuous care by offering a Day Centre, respite, residential and nursing care all under one roof in a peaceful environment.
Ty Elis Porthcawl Counselling Service
(UK, 1098986) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,037.00To help people in emotional distress through counselling and psychotherapy and to train the next generation of counsellors and psychotherapists. We believe that there should be no barrier to people receiving counselling and psychotherapy if an individual is ready to take steps to improve their personal well-being. We have over 30 volunteer counsellors and psychotherapists and help people across South Wales. Our service is free to our clients.
Relate London North West
(UK, 1053223) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,035.00Relate London North West is a part of the nationwide Relate federation of charities which work to promote healthy relationships. Relate offers a wide range of services to support people who wish to improve their relationships and make life better for themselves and their families. Relate London North West offers counselling, mediation and training in the boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Harrow and Hillingdon.