Browsing Charities
Taunton Citizens Advice Bureau
(UK, 1050297) Browse events
YTD Raised: £505.00
(UK, 1050297) 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.
Central and South Sussex Citizens Advice Bureau
(UK, 1116660) Browse events
YTD Raised: £504.37Central and South Sussex CAB helps thousands of people in West Sussex every year. We advise people on their rights and responsibilities – on debt, welfare benefits, employment, housing, consumer problems, relationships and much more. Our advice is free, independent, confidential and impartial. We help everyone, from all backgrounds; we value diversity, promote equality and challenge discrimination. We also work to improve people’s lives by campaigning and by influencing policymakers. We gather evidence on issues and practices we believe are unjust, we raise these issues with those who are causing them, and suggest how they could be avoided. You can help us to continue to run our service by donating to us. Any amount, small or large, helps us give advice to the people who need us. You can choose to give a one-off donation, or to give us more regular support. You can do this by giving to us monthly; it’s easy to set up a direct debit, and is so valuable to our clients. We are a registered charity, and part of a nationwide network of Citizens Advice Bureaux. Thank you so much for your support. It means a lot to the people of West Sussex.
Age UK Herefordshire & Worcestershire
(UK, 1080545) Browse events
YTD Raised: £503.77
(UK, 1080545) Age UK Herefordshire & Worcestershire helps local older people, their families, friends and carers. We are committed to helping make later life a fulfilling and enjoyable experience and to enabling people to remain independent.
Cosgrove Care
(UK, SC013208) Browse events
YTD Raised: £503.00
(UK, SC013208) Cosgrove Care is a charity which provides vital services for adults and children in and around Glasgow who have learning disabilities and mental health issues.
Suffolk West Citizens Advice Bureau
(UK, 1144118) Browse events
YTD Raised: £500.00The Suffolk West Citizens Advice Bureau (SWCAB) is a local charity which offers free information and advice to all members of the local community across Bury St Edmunds, Haverhill, Brandon and Mildenhall. The aim is to provide the advice that clients need at the time they need it. The dual aim is to promote change locally and nationally through social policy work by utilising the experience of individuals across the country to lobby parliament and other organisations. Advice is provided in a holistic fashion to each individual client to ensure that any underlying issues that create barriers in their ability to resolve their problems, are addressed. Each bureaux are independent charities created by the local community, but work within the criteria laid down in the Citizens Advice membership scheme - quality of advice audit, management and organisational standards. Our strategic development is focused on reviewing our service delivery across Suffolk West, taking into account the changing needs of our clients, volunteers and core funders. This also includes seeking funding to develop services where we need to increase capacity; including plans for early intervention to curb the growth in key enquiry areas (this is often as a response to CAB social policy evidence e.g. poor financial capability leading to poor financial decisions). Over 80% of our work force are volunteers, who give their time to be receptionists, gateway assessors, advisers, administrative support, some specialist caseworkers and financial capability trainers.
Teen Challenge Strathclyde
(UK, SC022209) Browse events
YTD Raised: £500.00Teen Challenge Strathclyde is a charity which operates across central Scotland to help people who have developed life controlling problems, especially drug / alcohol addictions, and also to offer preventative help to those who may be in danger of doing so.
Rose Charitable Foundation
(UK, 1157176) Browse events
YTD Raised: £493.00The objects of the charity are to raise funds for charitable purposes to either directly grant or indirectly through the distribution to other charitable organisations, with the same or similar objects, to: a) Assist persons who are currently serving or who have served in the armed forces and to promote and protect the health of those that been wounded whilst serving in the armed forces by making grants to purchase equipment for their rehabilitation b) Promote the relief of people of all ages who have physical and mental disabilities and/or are suffering mental distress c) Promote healthy recreation in particular by the provision of facilities for the playing of sports d) To help young people, especially but not exclusively through leisure time activities, so as to develop their capabilities that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society e) To provide support and activities for young people which develop their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as mature and responsible individuals Every year, we take part in an extreme challenge as a charity. This year we cycled, kayaked and walked 1000 miles in and along the Thames. Very soon we'll be announcing our event for 2015. Follow us for more details @rosecharitable
Ipswich And East Suffolk Headway
(UK, 1075338) Browse events
YTD Raised: £491.00Ipswich and East Suffolk Headway’s aims are to provide rehabilitation, care and support for people with an acquired brain injury or neurological condition caused by an accident or a stroke, and to offer their families, friends or carers respite, support and advice. The services offered will assist in recovery and rehabilitation, help to develop social and daily living skills and help those who are able and wish to do so to progress on to other services. Aims of the service are to provide an environment where service users can learn, relearn and practice skills in the company of others with peer support and understanding of their needs. To provide varied participative rehabilitation activities and services geared to the individuals needs, to improve general quality of life, to provide respite for the relatives or carers of the service users, to reduce the development of higher levels of dependency or deterioration in the health of service users We provide specilised domiciliary care and support in the community to people with an acquired brain injury or neurological condition.
Just Drop In
(UK, 1081416) Browse events
YTD Raised: £490.00Just Drop-In offers free, counselling by appointment, to anyone aged 12-24. We also run a Drop-In information and support service which is open 6 days a week where volunteers offer a friendly and supportive environment. At the heart of our services is a desire to help young people find their feet.
Age UK Wandsworth
(UK, 1069406) Browse events
YTD Raised: £490.00Thank you very much for visiting our Age UK Wandsworth charity page. Age UK Wandsworth is celebrating 50 years of helping local older people this year, having started life as The Wandsworth Older Peoples’ Network in 1963. Age UK Wandsworth is an independent local charity helping older vulnerable people at grass roots level across our borough (which includes Wandsworth, Balham, Tooting, Putney, Roehampton and Battersea) to live happier, healthier lives. http://www.ageuk.org.uk/wandsworth/ We help thousands of older people every year in so many ways and these include: Be-a-Friend – Home visits and telephone befriending, supporting lonely and isolated older residents of Wandsworth. Carers’ Support Service – Providing assistance and help to the carers of older people when they need it most. Other services provided include home visits and Telephone Befriending. They also work with the Alzheimer’s Society SW London on the Poppy Café and Sunflower Café (monthly gatherings where people with dementia and their carers can meet, socialize and share experiences). Garden Partners – Gardening and befriending; pairing a volunteer gardener with an older person with a garden in order for them to garden for them and become a friend. Help and Care at Home – Information, help and support to older people who want to arrange help at home privately. First Stop Information – Older people can come into their offices on Old York Road during the week (mon-thurs between the hours of 10 and 4) and be given information on relevant services delivered by other organizations in our borough and be helped with information and advice. Practical Help at Home – Offers practical help with minor repairs and assistance. Information & Advice – Older people can drop in or make appointments to get help from our highly skilled advice workers on issues such as benefits and housing. Shopping Online – The placing of online food shopping orders with supermarkets on behalf of older people (who phone their orders through to the Age UK Wandsworth office for processing). These orders would then be delivered directly to the home of the older person. Out and About – Offers trips out with volunteers to those who are housebound or at risk of becoming housebound. Your Care, your Choice – Volunteers help older people who are in receipt of personal budgets. As an independent local charity every penny really counts to Age UK Wandsworth! Thank you very much for choosing to support us!
Age UK Essex
(UK, 1091058) Browse events
YTD Raised: £490.00Age UK Essex is an independent registered charity which puts older people at the heart of its work so that no one has to face the challenges of later life alone. With demand for our support growing, we strive to ensure that older people feel safe, warm and can remain independent as they wish, free from the debilitating effects of social isolation. Our priorities deliver access to advice and information, offer services or give practical help that will make life easier at home or in the local community for you, a friend or a loved one. Old age will come to us all but no-one knows how or when it will affect us, and last year we supported over 40,000 older people across Essex. Join us and help us meet the challenge to raise over £400,000 each year to match current demand, and help us be there to provide the right support at the right time for thousands more.
Medic Alert
(UK, 233705) Browse events
YTD Raised: £485.00MedicAlert is an independent charity dedicated to protecting and saving lives in an emergency … because every moment matters. With your help we can continue to provide peace of mind to members, giving many an independence and confidence they might not otherwise experience.
Earthworks St. Albans
(UK, 1067139) Browse events
YTD Raised: £480.00We offer training in horticulture and outdoor activities to people with learning disabilities and/or mental health issues. Established for 20 years we have a beautiful 3 acre site with various projects including an organic market garden, apple orchards, woodworking areas, polytunnels and more. Some indoor craft making is carried out in our stunning sustainably sourced and built oak building. With electricity from solar panels A small staff team work with our trainees and we also are lucky enough to have wonderful volunteers supporting our trainees.
Paperweight
(UK, 1146302) Browse events
YTD Raised: £480.00Paperweight - A weight off your shoulders. We are here to help you take control of your domestic administrative affairs. When you are feeling stressed and vulnerable, and you just can’t cope, the simplestadministrative tasks feel insurmountable; often leading to unwelcome, additional pressure and intrusion in this increasingly bureaucratic and impersonal world.We offer a free service, cross communally around London. Paperweight deal with bureaucracy, welfare and benefits, with banks & buildingsocieties, with the taxman, councils, utilities, probate, insurance, divorce and legal issues. We maintain a proactive approach to debt management and household expenditure and will intervene with creditorsstabilising precarious situations. We will act as advocate and help review and complete documents and if necessary, draft in expert opinion in a range of matters.We offer guidance, confidentiality, experience and a common sense approach.We aim to give our clients the confidence to carry on with their lives. Charity No: 1146302 Find out more Website http://www.paperweighttrust.com
Samaritans of Taunton and Somerset
(UK, 271224) Browse events
YTD Raised: £478.59Samaritans provides confidential non-judgemental emotional support, 24 hours a day for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide. Samaritans have had a Branch in Taunton for over 40 years. The doors are open from 9am to 9pm every day to visitors and, nationally, telephones are manned 24 hours a day, every day of the year. We have approximately 100 volunteers, taking over 40,000 calls a year. We also respond to e-mails and texts. In addition, our speakers give talks to schools, colleges, clubs and other groups. We accept third party referral calls from many organisations, including our local hospitals and various other agencies. Samaritans can be contacted by telephone, by letter, by email and text or by visiting the branch in Wood Street, Taunton. All our members are volunteers but we need your donations to keep our branch running and our phone lines available. Your support will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Mayfield Nurseries
(UK, 1128592) Browse events
YTD Raised: £476.08A plant nursery in Mayfield Park, Southampton. Selling a range of award winning plants at affordable prices. Every penny we make is ploughed back into helping people with mental health issues at our nursery. People with mental health issues and learning disabilities come to develop new skills and be part of a supportive, friendly community. We have seen dramatic improvements in people’s mental health, confidence and self esteem.
Bristol Drugs Project Limited
(UK, 291714) Browse events
YTD Raised: £475.00BDP is an independent charity committed to reducing drug and alcohol related harm and promoting recovery in Bristol. With over 25 years experience the charity provides services to over 2,500 people each and every year. All our services are free and confidential
Making Space
(UK, 512907) Browse events
YTD Raised: £474.89Making Space is a UK charity providing high-quality care, support and enablement services for people with a range of physical and/or mental health conditions, including learning disabilities and dementia, and for their families and other carers. The full story is at www.makingspace.co.uk
QCCC
(UK, SC021833) Browse events
YTD Raised: £470.00
(UK, SC021833) QUEENSFERRY CARE provides quality support services to older people and their carers in Rural North West Edinburgh
Get Connected Helpline
(UK, 1081840) Browse events
YTD Raised: £470.00Get Connected is the UK's free, confidential helpline for young people under 25 who need help and don't know where to turn. Our service is available 365 days a year by phone, webchat, email, text and our online directory, WebHelp 24/7.
Carers First
(UK, 1085430) Browse events
YTD Raised: £467.00Carers FIRST provides information, advice, support, advocacy and short breaks (respite) to carers in South West. We support all family/friend carers and have specialist projects for young carers, carers of those with additional mental health needs, and older carers of people with learning disabilities. We run adult Drop Ins in Edenbridge, West Malling and Cranbrook as well as the Tunbridge Wells Gateway Centre. We also run a Drop In for carers of people with additional mental health needs at Highlands House. We run young carer Drop Ins at Angley, Mascalls, Hayesbrook, Hillview, Skinners Kent Academy and the Weald schools. We also run young carer support groups in Edenbridge, Hawkhurst, Cranbrook, Sevenoaks, Southborough, Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells. In addition, Carers FIRST offers carer training. We are a host site for the Caring with Confidence sessions and offer emotional support groups. Support groups include parent carer groups such as our group for parents of children with autism and aspergers, a monthly group for carers of people with additional mental health needs and an adult carer support group that we run in partnership with the MS Society. We run a quarterly SAT group for older carers of older carers which meets at different restaurants throughout the area for a talk and a light lunch. We also partner with b-eat to run an eating disorder group and host "A Sigh of Relief" - a group for parents of children with autism and ADHD and similar behaviours. Our Respite service is offered in Swanley as well as South West Kent and our project for older carers of those with severe or profound learning difficulties is offered in Dartford and Gravesend in addition to South West Kent.
Dyslexia Foundation
(UK, 1080330) Browse events
YTD Raised: £466.00Dyslexia Foundation began in 1999 as a resource and support agency for adults with dyslexia. The aim of the charity is simple - to help people with dyslexia no matter what their circumstances are. We continue with the same ethos today, offering free advice, guidance and support. The organisation has a hands on approach offering free screenings and assessments to those most disadvantaged. We are the only organisation in the UK to deliver free screenings and assessments aswell as dyslexia training. The charity likes to offer support and solutions and focuses on ability rather than the disability.
Centre for Mental Health
(UK, 1091156) Browse events
YTD Raised: £464.79Centre for Mental Health aims to help to create a society in which people with mental health problems enjoy equal chances in life to those without.
Sheffield Young Carers Project
(UK, 1140105) Browse events
YTD Raised: £461.02Sheffield Young Carers Project (SYCP) is a registered charity that reaches out to young carers between the ages of eight and 21 from all over Sheffield. Young carers provide a substantial amount of unpaid care to a family member (usually a parent) due to illness, disability, a mental health problem or substance misuse issues. We support young carers by offering them one-to-one support, group activities and residential breaks, as well as providing a voice for young carers across the city.
Ride High
(UK, 1138260) Browse events
YTD Raised: £460.00Ride High helps some of Milton Keynes most disadvantaged children by teaching them to ride and care for horses. In addition to teaching them equestrian skills we work with the children on a range of social, personal and educational skills that they may not be acquiring through conventional learning channels, for example at school or at home. The children we deal with may be in foster care, depressed to the point of suicide, living in an environment dominated by alcohol, violence or drugs, be caring for parents or siblings or come from very deprived backgrounds. We offer children regular access over months and years believing that providing long term consistent support will help them cope with the challenges of daily life and improve their prospects in life.