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Abbies Fund
(UK, 1119273) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,330.00
(UK, 1119273) Abbie was diagnosed with an aggressive form of adrenal neuroblastoma when she was 21 months old. She underwent an intensive treatment programme for over a year. In January 2004 everyone celebrated as she was declared to be in remission and free of disease. Unfortunately, a relapse was diagnosed in June 2005 and she had to undergo yet many more months of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and numerous other invasive and horrendous treatments to try and rid her of this despicable disease. Abbie’s family and friends were all devastated when she finally lost her fight for life in September 2006. Abbie won the hearts of hundreds of local people, in and around her home of East Horsley, who followed her courageous fight to the end. She was a truly beautiful, special, loving, funny, intelligent, determined, dignified, feisty and unique child. All these words were used in ‘A Tribute to Abbie’ by her father on the day of her funeral, but the word he finally chose to capture the essence of Abbie was an ‘Inspiration’. She certainly was that. Abbie’s Fund was set up by local mothers after Abbie relapsed with the aggressive childhood cancer, Neuroblastoma, in June 2005. To date Abbie’s Fund has raised over £150,000 and is delighted to be currently supporting two very worthy projects. The first is running at the Institute of Cancer Research based at The Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton over 2 years to develop a blood test to provide early diagnosis and monitoring of neuroblastoma. This test will make detection of the disease and the progress of treatment significantly easier to detect and monitor. It will also have a dramatic impact on the patient on a day to day basis as it will reduce the number of scans and tests which for young children can be scary, painful and often require general anaesthesia. The second project is researching the mechanism which makes a particular style of antibody therapy particularly effective at mopping up small amounts of residual disease. It is these minute levels of disease remaining undetected at the end of treatment that often ultimately lead to relapse and antibody therapy is one treatment under a lot of investigation at present to deal with this problem. Despite neuroblastoma being, after domestic accident, the second biggest killer and the most frequent cancer in children under five years of age funding for research into it is extremely limited and it is vital for Abbie’s Fund to continue to raise money to support these critical projects. For the full story of Abbie and her brave fight visit www.abbiesfund.com
Jake McCarthy Foundation
(UK, 1151542) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,327.18
(UK, 1151542) Jake McCarthy was a bright, talented,fit,beautiful 24 year old who recently died from a totally undiagnosed brain tumour. Emergency surgery was unable to save Jake. The Foundation aims to raise awareness of the symptoms & early diagnosis to prevent another family having to endure such a tragedy.
The Meath Epilepsy Trust
(UK, 200359) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,320.01The Meath offers modern support services for people living with epilepsy and additional challenging disabilities. Providing a 'pathway' from specialist residential through to domiciliary care, and access to a variety of training and other activities, we enable people to live happy, fulfilled lives.
MALARIA NO MORE UK
(UK, 1126222) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,315.00We exist to make malaria no more. We work tirelessly to save and protect millions of lives from malaria, mainly young children who are most at risk. Malaria affects almost half of the world’s population and claims the life of a child every minute... but with your help we can make malaria no more.
Victoria's Promise
(UK, 1156377) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,310.20Victoria's Promise is the realisation of a dream had by Victoria Van Der Westhuizen, a dream to help people that had been affected by cancer. Tragically Victoria lost her own battle to a rare and aggressive cancer before she had the chance to complete her vision. Victoria's Promise is her legacy.
Cam Sight
(UK, 201640) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,283.46Cam Sight provides support in Cambridgeshire for visually impaired people of all ages. We offer: support in people’s homes and communities; emotional support; technology and equipment; sport and leisure activities; volunteers; social groups; support for children and families.
Open Sight
(UK, 1055498) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,117.32Open Sight's mission is to support people with sight impairment, or who are at risk of sight loss, to reach their full potential and achieve their personal goals, independence and live a full life. All contributions help to ensure our vital work can continue.
Cancer Hair Care
(UK, 1145258) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,093.00Cancer Hair Care - Together let’s make hair loss one less worry for people with cancer. We offer free services & support for patients who are losing their hair due to cancer treatments. Teenagers need special headscarves for school, tiny tots need hats & adults need wigs, scarves & caring support.
East Kent Unit for Breast Screening
(UK, 278268) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,040.00Our highly subsidised service enables women over 40 to be screened for breast cancer earlier and more frequently than they would under the NHS programme. Costing just £35, mammograms are carried out at two hospitals in East Kent — the QEQM, Margate and the K&C, Canterbury.
Strongbones Children's Charitable Trust
(UK, 1086173) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,004.48S.C.C.T. is a national registered charity set up to help relieve the pain, suffering and financial burden of families who have children suffering from brittle bone disease, bone cancer, scoliosis, arthritis, and all other muscular skeletal conditions.
Integrated Neurological Services (INS)
(UK, 1107273) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,988.26INS provides long-term rehabilitation and support for people with deteriorating neurological conditions such as Parkinson's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis or who have suffered a Stroke. We help people to maintain their independence and achieve the optimum quality of life for them and their carers.
Team Type 1 Foundation
(UK, 364570020) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,985.00We FIGHT for the RIGHT to LIVE through a global mission of education, empowerment and equal access to medicine, tools and education for everyone affected by diabetes. Team Type 1 foundation (TT1) exists because everyone with diabetes deserves the right to lead a healthy and productive life. In developing countries that means changing health care policies in order to save lives.
Headway East Northants
(UK, 1085311) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,976.13Headway East Northants provides support and care for people who are brain injured. They have an activity centre and a minibus and employ five paid members of staff and six volunteers. The charity needs to raise £140,000 per year to maintain this service.
The Hypermobility Syndromes Association
(UK, 1011063) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,813.21The HMSA aims to provide support and information to those affected by a Hypermobility Syndrome and to promote knowledge and understanding within the medical community and the public at large. We hope to assist sufferers to come to terms with their HMS and the distress that it can cause. The severity of the effects of a Hypermobility Syndrome varies with the individual: some have few symptoms others are severely affected. Hypermobility Syndromes are generally 'invisible illnesses' and because of this we can look well to the outside world but are often in severe pain. Moreover the nature of hypermobile joints combined with frail tissues means that we are prone to injury when performing simple everyday tasks. This opens us to skepticism, particularly by those in the medical profession who know little about HMS. The pain, stress and frustration can lead to depression: thus depression can often be mistaken as the cause of the illness, not a result of it.
autism west midlands
(UK, 517077) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,679.00
(UK, 517077) Join the Autism West Midlands Community. Autism West Midlands exist to enable all people with autism, and those who love and care for them to lead fulfilling and rewarding lives. Voluntary donations help fund a variety of our projects in the West Midlands that offer support, advice, information and training to adults and children. Donations also pay for equipment for our service users to enjoy and help families gain access to services in the community specifically for those with autism.
The Jigsaw Trust
(UK, 1075464) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,676.00The Jigsaw Trust aims to improve the lives of those affected by autism through the provision of high quality, accessible, educational, vocational and wellbeing services to children at the Jigsaw CABAS School and adults attending Jigsaw+.
Autism Guernsey
(UK, CH419) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,614.48An independent professional autism charity operating across the Bailiwick of Guernsey. We provide advice, guidance, training and direct services. This year we are focusing on developing the following services - Befriending, Outreach and Independent Living. Ensuring a positive future for autism.
Lymphoedema Support Network
(UK, 1018749) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,589.50The LSN is a national charity that provides information and support to people with lymphoedema. It runs a telephone helpline, produces quarterly newsletters and a wide range of fact sheets, and maintains an up-to-date website. It works to raise awareness of lymphoedema and campaigns for better national standards of care.
Breast Cancer Support
(UK, 1165394) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,577.49Breast Cancer Support is a UK breast cancer charity providing care, and helping people with breast cancer in world's poorest countries who can't afford medication or treatment. We believe that where people live with breast cancer shouldn’t determine if they live or die.
Lepra
(UK, 213251) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,569.16Lepra is an international charity fighting disease, poverty and prejudice. We focus on people affected by some of the world’s oldest and most neglected disease. Say 'Hi': www.facebook.com/LEPRAHealthinAction or twitter: @LEPRA_HinA
Bradbury Fields
(UK, 222798) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,555.05Bradbury Fields mission is to promote independence for blind and partially sighted people within the community, to promote the prevention of blindness agenda, and to value and embrace diversity in everything that we do. Thank you for visiting our page
Perth Autism Support
(UK, SC042875) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,458.41Perth Autism Support is the only autism specific charity in Perth & Kinross supporting children under the age of 16 diagnosed with autism and their families, through a programme of support, training, therapeutic interventions and social activities.
Race Against Blood Cancer
(UK, 1162696) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,395.04Race Against Blood Cancer's goal is to increase the volume and diversity of people who register as potentially life-saving stem cell donors.
Headway Thames Valley
(UK, 900591) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,385.03Provides advise support and slow stream rehabilitation to adults living with acquired brain injury and their families and carers. The charity aims to improve lives wherever it can by encouraging and enabling independence, hobbies, return to work, social integration and adjustment and acceptance.
The Haven
(UK, 1061726) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,259.00The Haven is the working name of Breast Cancer Haven. We are a national charity helping people through the experience of breast cancer. Havens offer a free programme of in-depth support to improve the quality of life of anyone affected by breast cancer. An outreach programme is also available.