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Quo Vadis Trust
(UK, 1116196) Browse events
YTD Raised: £830.00
(UK, 1116196) Quo Vadis Trust is passionate about promoting recovery from mental illness and believes that this is best achieved by proactively supporting clients to engage and participate with our staff and the wider community through therapy, activities, events, volunteering and employment.
Help! Counselling
(UK, 1103888) Browse events
YTD Raised: £830.00Help! offers low cost counselling to children and young people throughout the south west of England. Counsellors give their time without charging, but money is still needed to pay for premises, and supervision, vital to ensure that the counsellors work ethically and safely.
Just Good Friends
(UK, 1167124) Browse events
YTD Raised: £829.20
(UK, 1167124) Just Good Friends (JGF) provides solutions to loneliness and isolation
Glasgow Samaritans
(UK, SC007348) Browse events
YTD Raised: £825.00Glasgow Samaritans is available 24 hours a day to provide confidential emotional support for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which may lead to suicide. We also raise awareness through speaking to organisations, groups, schools and colleges.
Downright Excellent
(UK, 1120863) Browse events
YTD Raised: £824.00Downright Excellent provides educational sessions and quality play experiences for children with Down syndrome and their siblings, plus education and support for parents and carers. We run weekly speech and language classes, life skills and sensory processing sessions for children age 0-4 and 5-9.
Immigrant Counselling And Psychotherapy (icap)
(UK, 1079353) Browse events
YTD Raised: £823.00icap provides high quality psychotherapy to help people heal their lives and deal with emotional trauma, depression and risk of suicide. Founded to meet the needs of Irish immigrants resident in Britain. Irish immigrants in Britain have higher rates of mental distress than most migrant communities. Rates of suicide, attempted suicides and undetermined deaths for Irish men is double the rate for all men. Our psychotherapy is long-term intensive clinical work, that provides lasting benefits to some of the most fragile and isolated people in Britain. Our expertise in supporting Irish people who have experienced abuse and cultural loss mean we are also able to support people from other economic or conflict migration communities.
The Cogwheel Trust
(UK, 299228) Browse events
YTD Raised: £820.00Cogwheel was set up 24 years ago and since 1988 has successfully provided counselling and psychotherapy support for people in Cambridgeshire living on limited financial resources who cannot easily access counselling services. 1 in 4 people will suffer from mental health problems in the course of a year. Mixed anxiety and depression is the most common mental disorder in Britain. This may be as a result of a traumatic situation but sometimes the causes are less easily identified. Cogwheel is able to provide the early intervention which is shown by research be to be the most effective solution and prevents more complex health and social needs from developing, whatever the cause or reason for the disorder. Cogwheel has a large team of trained counsellors experienced in various psychotherapeutic disciplines and techniques. All counsellors receive regular supervision to ensure best practice. Our counsellors give their time on a voluntary basis or at subsidised rates so we are able to bring help to substantial numbers of people. In 2011 we provided approximately 3600 counselling sessions to vulnerable people in Cambridgeshire, 50% of whom were referred to us by their GPs. Even though participants are on limited incomes we do ask them to make a donation, whatever they feel able to give. This encourages participants to commit to attending sessions and to engage with the support made available. We have counselling rooms in a number of locations throughout Cambridgeshire.
Carers Oxfordshire
(UK, 1149577) Browse events
YTD Raised: £816.00Action for 'Carers Oxfordshire' is a charity that offers information, advice and support to unpaid adult carers across Oxfordshire.
Sage Counselling
(UK, 1088917) Browse events
YTD Raised: £815.00A home counselling service for adults of all ages who have difficulty getting out and who may be faced with emotional difficulties. Our confidential service provides an opportunity to explore problems, and is aimed specifically for those who are unable to access traditional counselling services.
South Lakeland Carers
(UK, 1142184) Browse events
YTD Raised: £815.00Supporting people of any age with caring responsibilities. South Lakeland Carers is a local independent registered charity (Charity No: 101 7463), covering the South Lakes area of Cumbria. In addition the organization is a network member of the Princess Royal Trust for Carers within the UK. Services and support is currently offered to around 700 people with caring responsibilities. Needs are assessed through the formal Carers Assessment process. SLC is contracted by Cumbria County Council to conduct these assessments on behalf of the local authority. Support is offered to both adult and young carers representing an age range form 5 years upwards. In response to needs a number of services may be offered: Contingency Planning, Relaxation Therapy , Counselling, on-going support form a Carer Support Worker, support groups in various locations, a weekly drop-in, monthly lunch club, away days and training. Almost all services are provided free of charge to carers.
Guernsey Mind
(UK, CH164) Browse events
YTD Raised: £810.00To promote positive mental health we work to raise awareness of mental wellbeing, campaign for positive change and provide inclusive services to the local community. We draw upon our research and campaigns to provide signposting and information.
Help the Child
(UK, 297790) Browse events
YTD Raised: £810.00A Somerset charity supporting mentally and physically disabled children and their families
Time Together
(UK, 1050035) Browse events
YTD Raised: £809.58Time Together is a Charity that provides personalised, one to one support to adults with learning disabilities, physical disabilities and brain injuries in the local community. We work closely with the individual and their families, and carer’s, to provide packages of support to enable them to live the lives that they choose, and to be active members of their local community. We support people to go to work, to take part in leisure activities, to make new friends and anything else that will enrich there quality of life. The individual that we are providing the support for is always at the centre of the work that we do.
Eating Disorder Service
(UK, 1057424) Browse events
YTD Raised: £798.10
(UK, 1057424) Eating Disorder is a serious condition that has the highest death rate amongst all types of mental illness. Eating Disorder Service (EDS) has been offering a comprehensive range of care to sufferers in our local communities since 1995. We are a registered charity funded by local health commissioning groups to support those with a recognisable eating disorder. EDS is the only integrated community service in S Devon that offers short to medium-termed psychotherapy plus specialist dietetic input for people age 18+. In order to improve access for localities outside Plymouth, we also see clients in 3 outposts in various S Devon locations. EDS work closely with statutory health services to provide safe & thoughtful packages of care for our clients & their carers/families. We process around 300 referrals per year and work with 50 - 60 clients per week offering different levels of therapy input tailored to individuals' needs.
Newmarket Day Centre CIO
(UK, 1160955) Browse events
YTD Raised: £790.00We provide care and support to anyone over the age of 50. It tries to replace the services that were once provided by local government,and has been around for the last 34 years. We are reliant on external fundraising to enable us to continue our much needed services to the lonely and less fortunate.
Richmond Carers Centre
(UK, 1092459) Browse events
YTD Raised: £789.00We are a local charity supporting unpaid carers & young carers. Caring for someone else can seriously impact a carer's health and sense of independence, often leading to feelings of isolation and loneliness. We offer free confidential advice, information & support to carers in Richmond upon Thames.
Havant And East Hants Mind
(UK, 1116301) Browse events
YTD Raised: £785.64Havant and East Hants Mind work to promote good mental health within our locality. We seek to support and empower people to lead a full life as part of their local community.
Nicky Alliance Day Centre (Manchester Jewish Community Care)
(UK, 257238) Browse events
YTD Raised: £785.00The Nicky Alliance Day Centre is for people who are socially isolated, are frail or have physical disabilities, including loss of sight and hearing and have mild to moderate dementia. Most members are over 65.Transport is available to and from the Centre. A three course nutritious lunch is served.
Parents of Oldham in Touch
(UK, 1161596) Browse events
YTD Raised: £785.00POINT Founded in 2010 with just 45 members, POINT Forum now has over 850 members and is Oldham’s Established Parent Forum for Parents and Carers of Children and Young People aged 0-25 with Additional Needs, who live in or access Services in Oldham. We aim to pro-actively represent our families, ensuring that parents and carers have greater choice and control to meet their current needs and have a voice in shaping future services.
Corby Mind
(UK, 1072415) Browse events
YTD Raised: £785.00Thank you for visiting our profile page on MyDonate. Please donate to support our cause. Charity No: 1072415
Youthline
(UK, 1096248) Browse events
YTD Raised: £760.86Youthline provides free and confidential one-to-one counselling to young people, aged between 8 and 25 years old, in the Bracknell Forest area at the Lodge and through outreach programmes in local schools. Issues concerning youn people include bullying, depression, low self esteem and family relationships.
The Friends of St Cross
(UK, 218485) Browse events
YTD Raised: £748.25We support the Hospital of St Cross and the Community and Mental Health Services in Rugby We have over 200 volunteers and no paid staff. Since we were founded in 1955, we have raised over £3.5 million.All monies donated are spent on extra equipment and projects which really do make a difference. Charity No: 218485 Find out more Website http://www.fsx.org.uk Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheFriendsOfTheHospitalOfStCross/
Triumph Over Phobia (TOP UK)
(UK, 1034932) Browse events
YTD Raised: £745.44TOP UK is a charity which helps sufferers of phobias, OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) and other related anxiety to overcome their fears. We do this through a network of weekly self-help groups. Groups are warm and supportive and use behaviour therapy to help people overcome their fears.
The SWAN Project
(UK, 1122634) Browse events
YTD Raised: £745.00SWAN provides counselling for young people and adults who feel that alcohol is affecting their lives detrimentally. SWAN offers a non-12 step programme that focuses on harm reduction and relapse prevention. The mix of services offered to each client is unique, according to their needs. SWAN never turns away anyone it feels it can help.