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Swindon Talking Newspaper Association
(UK, 284665) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00
(UK, 284665) Swindon Talking Newspaper gives blind and visually impaired listeners the independent means of keeping in touch with what's going on in the local community through the delivery of a 90 minute audio cassette. This year, it changed over to Digital master recording and is now working towards providing local news in a variety of electronic media.
The Morgan Foundation
(UK, 1087056) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00
(UK, 1087056) Our aim is to provide funding for small to medium sized organisations who are addressing specific needs in these regions. We are particularly keen to support those who have already begun to make an impact, but need a helping hand to expand their work and increase their effectiveness. We focus our help mainly on those who work directly with children and families but we recognise that many wider issues may also affect their welfare, so we are interested in any project which contributes to the quality of life of the people in our region.
KIM
(UK, 1104186) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00
(UK, 1104186) KIM is a voluntary organisation that provides positive support to women through group work. Our aim is to help you recognise and develop your positivity, strengths and skills. We provide a variety of social opportunities that aim to increase your confidence, self awareness and motivation. You can choose to go to different groups, courses, workshops, drop in’s, access support to ‘branch out’, train to support others, become a KIM volunteer, get involved in decision making and much more! All the activities, courses and social events are relaxed and informal.
Age Concern York
(UK, 500792) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Age Concern York promotes the wellbeing of the older people in York and district. We provide a wide range of services giving personal and practical support including information, advice, helping people after a stay in hospital, day activities, carers support, small jobs around the home, outings, holidays and activities.
Age Concern Swindon
(UK, 800056) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Poverty, disadvantage, ill-health and discrimination can prevent older people from living their lives with dignity, security and opportunity. Age Concern Swindon exists to promote the well-being of all older people in and around the borough and helps make later life a fulfilling and enjoyable experience.
Baillieston Community Care
(UK, 026213) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Baillieston Community Care is a registered charity and community care organisation which has been established since 1992. Our organisation provides a variety of services aimed at maintaining individuals independence at home.Currently we have three separate services; Private Care at home for adults with disabilities. Creative Breaks Respite Care for adults with Dementia & Dementia Day Care.
The Cassel Hospital Charitable Trust
(UK, 1081677) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00This therapeutic community offers support to adults, young people, and children with mental difficulties either as in- or outpatients. Whole families can be treated here with psychotherapy combined with psycho-social nursing. The Children's Centre includes a nursery and school.We also offer education, training and consultancy services to professional networks.
Relate North East
(UK, 1080334) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Relate North East help people with relationship problems - we offer relationship counselling for couples or individuals, family counselling, young people's counselling and sex therapy. We are an independent charity and we recieve no funding from either Central Government or local authorities so we have to ask clients to pay for the service they recieve from us. We do have some small support from other charities eg Northern Rock Foundation but the number of sessions we can deliver are limited. All of the money raised via VirginMoneyGiving is used to help us offer affordable counselling sessions to clients who cannot afford the full amount of cousnelling - it costs Relate North East £50 to offer every counselling session and all of the money we raise helps us to reduce the amount we have to ask clients to contribute.
Leeds Counselling
(UK, 1057908) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Leeds Counselling aims to help anyone experiencing emotional distress make positive changes in their life. We provide a range of talking therapy services for adults and young people in West Yorkshire and want to extend our services so everyone who could benefit can.
BEACON
(UK, 1119463) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Working with asylum seekers in Bradford. The Beacon projects include McKenzie Friends, Hosting and Chat. During Refugee Week 2010, Beacon is organising a sponsored walk from the city centre to Waterside Reporting Centre in Leeds. Your support is appreciated.
Making Space
(UK, 512907) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Making 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
The Fircroft Trust
(UK, 802456) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00
(UK, 802456) The Fircroft Trust is a local charity working in Surbiton, Kingston upon Thames with adults living in the community with severe to moderate mental health problems and/or learning disabilities.
Maya Foundation
(UK, Maya Foundation - N/A) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00The Maya Foundation is a UK based charity that provides support for the mind to improve physical and mental wellbeing. It was set up in loving memory of artist and graphic designer, Maya Shamji.
The Living Room St Albans
(UK, 1080634b) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00The Living Room provides quality treatment for those with addiction to drugs, alcohol and addictive behaviours such as eating disorders and self-harming. We also support their affected families, children and friends. Addiction is an illness damaging not just to individuals, but harms families and children too. Addiction can lead to communities bearing the cost of antisocial or criminal behaviour and increased health and social welfare costs. At The Living Room St Albans we work through structured group therapy, lead by two qualified counsellors, themselves in long-term recovery. Each year we see many lives transformed and clients leaving our service abstinent from their addiction.
LODGING HOUSE MISSION
(UK, SC017283) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00The Lodging House Mission (LHM) has operated in Glasgow for over 100 years and provides essential support to homeless and vulnerable people. Our approach is inclusive and person centred, ensuring that individuals have food, warmth and companionship during the day from Monday to Friday each week of the year, no one is turned away. Our non exclusion policy and range of facilities make the LHM the busiest service of its kind in the city with an average of 120 individuals coming thorough our doors each day. Those who use the LHM are affected by severe and enduring mental health issues, addiction to drugs and or alcohol and in many ways are socially excluded.
PIPS Charity
(UK, XT23768) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00We train people in suicide prevention skills so that people at risk of suicide are identified and linked to the professional help that in most cases will save their life. We have five programmes and we never charge people for attending our programmes. Our Preventing suicides in Your Community Programme was the first accredited suicide prevention training in the UK or Ireland. Our newest programme is Mind Your Mate - it gives 16 - 24 year olds the skills to save their friends from suicide - it was developed because of the dramatic increase in young people taking their own lives. We also provide outreach support to those at risk of suicide - calling to peoples houses who are too distressed to travel to help. We will accompany suicidal people to the hospital and medial appointments so that they get the help they need - too many at risk people do not attend appointments because their depression stops them. We provide free counselling to suicidal people, depressed non-suicidal people, children bereaved through suicide and adults bereaved through suicide. We do not receive one penny from the government in core grants.
Llyfrau Llafar Cymru Cyf
(UK, 11443024) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00During the last 35 years we have recorded and distributed over 2000 titles to more than 500 people in Wales and beyond. It is a free service to the recipients and often their only access to Welsh and Anglo- Welsh books. It is a life changing service. Our aim is to increase circulation.
Monifieth Befriending Scheme
(UK, SC030685) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00We 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.
The Hope Centre
(UK, The Hope Centre - N/A) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00The Hope Centre aims to BE ACKNOWLEDEGED AS A CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE PROVIDING HIGH QUALITY COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES WHERE PEOPLE OF ALL AGES CAN BE, INCLUDED AND EMPOWERED FOR DAILY LIVING
Equipmen
(UK, SC042434) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00EquipMen is an organisation that focuses on the health and wellbeing of men in Scotland. Through practical training and strategic campaigning we aim to support men in understanding and becoming the best of themselves to positively impact 1st themselves, 2nd their families and thus society!
Torridge, North, Mid and West Devon Citizens Advice
(UK, 1068496) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00The Citizens Advice Bureau provides free, independent, confidential & impartial advice to everyone on their rights & responsibilities. It values diversity, promotes equality & challenges discrimination. It aims to improve the policies & practices that affect people’s lives by campaigning for change.
St Georges Pop-In
(UK, 1120538) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00St George's Pop-In provides stimulating social, educational, therapeutic and physical activities for adults in Southwark with severe learning disabilties.
Wandsworth Citizens Advice Bureaux
(UK, 1040303) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00The 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.
Arty-Folks
(UK, 1107757) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Arty-Folks supports adults in Coventry and Warwickshire who feel at a low point in life or struggle with stress, depression and mental ill health through the Visual Arts and Peer support.
York & District Citizens Advice Bureau
(UK, 1133516) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Established in 1941, York & District Citizens Advice Bureau provides free, confidential, impartial advice and information to residents of York to help them resolve their problems. The general advice service is staffed by a team of professionally trained volunteer advisers and where appropriate clients are referred to specialist advisers in particular areas of debt, welfare benefits and employment law.In addition the Bureau seeks to influence the development of social policies and services, by collecting evidence of issues affecting people’s lives, campaigning both locally and nationally, and contributing to public debate. Charity No: 1133516 Find out more Website http://www.yorkcab.org.uk