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EK Dementia Carers Group
(UK, SC018844) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00
(UK, SC018844) Formed in 1991 by the Carers of people with dementia, it provides high-quality personalised care for people with dementia, and support for carers. It also provides information, advice and training to the general public and other organisations.
ActivLives
(UK, 1147615) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00ActivLives is a small, grassroots charity, working in Ipswich and across Suffolk, to support and motivate people to improve their own health and well-being; keep people connected with their communities to reduce social isolation and loneliness and provide access to learning, training and volunteering opportunities to enable people to gain skills and employment. ActivLives provides a wide range of opportunities for people to get involved, including, community gardening, Men in Shed projects, singing and physical / sport activities such as walking football, Boccia, Kurling, seated and standing exercise, health walks and social activity. These activities bring people together to enable them to meet and make new friends, build support networks in the community and learn and share skills. Our activities help to build confidence and self-esteem, maintain good physical and mental health, reducing stress and preventing the onset of depression and anxiety. Our members value being able to speak to staff and volunteers about issues and problems and if we can’t help ourselves, then we signpost people to other support networks, quickly and efficiently or introduce people to local services, projects and leisure facilities.
Dartford Gravesham and Swanley Mind
(UK, 1103790) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00
Dartford, 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.
Brigitte Trust
(UK, 288923) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Brigitte 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.
King Alfred's Project Nepal 2009
(UK, 1057062) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00A group of adults from King Alfred's - teachers, support staff, parents and friends. The team travel to some of the poorest areas of the world to support health and education based projects. All money donated is spent directly on the people who need it most and none is spent on administration.
Home-Start Omagh District (UK, Home-Start) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Home-Start Omagh provide practical and emotional support to young families struggling to cope with the demands of family life. Home-Start Omagh offers free, confidential, non-judgemental home-visiting support to young families in the Omagh district, helping parents build better lives for their children by helping to increase their confidence, coping skills and independence. Our support can include help with parenting skills, budgeting, healthy cooking/eating/shopping, play, reading and friendship for children, managing the daily running of the home, signposting, transportation to appointments, emotional support and friendship. At the heart of our work is the needs of the children and we believe that early intervention helps prevent family breakdown and ensures positive outcomes for the family and local community. Find out more Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Home-Start-Omagh-District-870537803003280/ YouTube Please click here to visit our YouTube page
Age UK Lambeth
(UK, 1063497) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00We support and work alongside older people, helping them to achieve a full and enjoyable quality of life. We provide information and advice while the handypersons do small jobs in older people's homes. Our older persons' activity centre in Brixton has a regular programme of activities for its users.
Young Persons Advisory Service (YPAS)
(UK, 1002706) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Young Persons Advisory Service (YPAS) is a leading Liverpool mental health charity that provides support and therapeitic services for children, young people and families. Counselling and Psychotherapy Service provides therapy that allows children and young people to address a variety of issues: bereavement, self-harm, sexual abuse, domestic violence, depression and anxiety etc. Support Service provides practical support that allows young people to address their wider needs. Group support includes: self esteem, parenting, employability, life skills, anger management, family work, drop-in facilities and LGBT projects.
Way of the Goose
(UK, 1075173) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00The key objectives of the Way of the Goose, via a Christian support network, are to provide help to members of the local community who are in hardship or distress, to support those who suffer from compulsive disorder and to provide training and support to the long term unemployed.
Acting Up (Matchbox Theatre Trust Project)
(UK, 281428) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Multi-media for a change! Acting Up helps people with communication difficulties take greater control of their lives. Isolated older people, people with learning difficulties, mental health service users and others use the power of multi-media to get involved and make community care services more aware and more responsive to their needs. If you would like more information, please visit our website: http://www.acting-up.org.uk
Dementia Club UK
(UK, 1168397) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00We run Dementia Club sessions at 4 venues in the Borough of Barnet. People suffering from Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia are welcome to attend with their carers, friends and families. Each session aims to provide you with professional advice and information, gentle exercise to music and fun activities in a social atmosphere with cups of tea/coffee and lovely cakes. Various speakers will attend the sessions and also a GP and nurse are available to answer any medical concerns. Charity No: 1168397 Find out more Website http://dementiaclubuk.org.uk Facebook http://www.facebook.com/DementiaClubUK Twitter http://twitter.com/dementiaclubuk
Home-Start Bracknell Forest
(UK, 1160447) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Home-Start in Bracknell Forest offers free, confidential support, friendship and practical help to parents in all areas of Bracknell Forest Borough Home-Start Bracknell Forest offers support which is free, confidential and friendly, with fully checked and trained volunteers visiting a family for 2 hours each week. In addition, we run a Family Group during term time, to support both parents and children.We provide practical and emotional support to families when they need it most. Home-Start volunteers help families by reducing isolation, allowing parents to 'offload', helping them to access other services such as dentists and toddler groups and signposting them to other agencies with specialist areas of support. Our volunteers also enhance their own skills and experience through their role and many who want to, go on to gain paid work with children, in social care careers, or in a wide variety of other roles. Charity No: 1160447 Find out more Website http://homestartbracknellforest.org.uk/ Twitter https://twitter.com/homestartbrack
The SPOH Charitable Trust
(UK, The SPOH Charitable Trust - N/A) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00The trust was established to promote & protect the physical & mental health of car accident victims by providing & assisting in the provision of facilities & equipment.
Southampton Voluntary Services Young Carers Project
(UK, 1068350) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00The Southampton Voluntary Services Young Carers Project provides respite and support for all young carers in Southampton between the ages of 8 and 16 years. We are linked to the Next Steps Poject which supports our leavers at 16 up until they are 25 years old. We provide fortnightly evening groups, regular activities and workshops, support in all secondary schools in Southampton as well as offering residentials to give our service users that all important break from their caring roles. We have been told we are a vital lifeline of support for our service users.
The Therapy Garden
(UK, 1076055) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00The Therapy Garden provides gardening and horticulture therapy to teenagers and adults with learning difficulties and physical disabilities.
Anxiety UK
(UK, 1113403) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Anxiety UK works to relieve & support those living with anxiety disorders by providing information & support via an extensive range of services. To access support, visit www.anxietyuk.org.uk.
Lambourn R.D.A
(UK, 1073694) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00It helps adults and children with physical or mental disabilities either to improve their mobility or help their learning ability through association with the horses.
JAMI
(UK, 1003345) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00
(UK, 1003345) JAMI (The Jewish Association for Mental Illness) is the only Jewish charity concerned exclusively with serious/enduring mental illness and the devastating impact it has on the lives of those who are ill, their families and all who care for them.
Maldon (Essex) Mind
(UK, 1047965) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Maldon (Essex) Mind is working to provide a wide range of caring support for individuals in mental distress wherever and whenever it is needed. Our aim is to raise positive public awareness of mental health issues and campaign for better mental health services. http://www.maldon-essex-mind.org.uk/
UKAPWA
(UK, 1136005) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Working globally to promote the mental, physical, sexual and emotional health of Pakistani men and women, to promote equal opportunities. To advance the education of Pakistani women.
The Bridge for Social Communication
(UK, 1105557) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Sponsor our marathon runner, Sally, who is helping us raise money to help children with social communication difficulties. We develop the social skills and confidence of chldren with Autistic Spectrum Disorders, Attention Deficit Disorders and other conditions and support their families.
Kickstart Community Programmes Ltd
(UK, 1092796) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Since 1995, Kickstart has worked with over 14,000 people and their families who have been affected by substance misuse. Clients attend a 5 day wk, 12 wk programme which includes group work, training and 1-2-1 sessions. 91% clients who complete the our programme remain clean from substances for life.
Mirus - Wales
(UK, 517149) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Every day someone supported by mirus achieves a life goal. We’re proud of this because it’s what we do. We enable people with a disability to turn a possibility into a reality. mirus is a not-for-profit charity providing specialist support to children and adults of all ages with disabilities, autism, physical disabilities, dementia, mental health, complex health and complex need associated with behaviours that challenge.
Services for Independent Living
(UK, 1099020) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Services for Independent Living is a user controlled charity providing services to over 350 disabled people in Herefordshire and Torfaen (south Wales). Our services support people to remain in their own home, living life the way they choose. Our vision is for disabled people to be valued citizens.