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The Hotcourses Foundation
(UK, 1104396) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,573.19
(UK, 1104396) The Hotcourses Foundation was set up in 2004 to help fund the education of children in the developing world whose access to education was limited or non-existent. Its objective is to make a measurable, tangible difference to the lives of children in some of the poorest parts of the world. Initially it has focused on AIDS-orphans in Kenya and HIV positive young adults in Uganda.
Heartswell South West Limited
(UK, 1092779) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,511.25Heartswell South West is a charity which is committed to supporting heart patients, their carers and families in the Westcountry. Donations help Heartswell to provide funding towards life saving cardiac equipment for local hospital's, counselling, cardiac nurses and nurse training.
Starfish Greathearts Foundation
(UK, 1093862) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,431.18
(UK, 1093862) Starfish Greathearts Foundations supports children who have been orphaned or made vulnerable by the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Southern Africa. Starfish believes in bringing life, hope and opportunity to these children…helping each child, one child at a time.
Brighter Futures Zambia
(UK, 1162851) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,391.97Brighter Futures Zambia is a charity founded by sisters Katie & Jennie to provide orphaned and vulnerable children in Zambia (especially those affected by HIV/AIDS) a happier, healthier and safer present and a more secure and fulfilling future.
Lepra
(UK, 213251) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,379.16Lepra 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
Craighalbert Centre
(UK, SC008428) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,352.60The Craighalbert Centre's services and facilities are exclusively funded by donations, and would not exist without the generous support of our donors. Services supported by fundraising include the Siblings Group, the hydrotherapy pool and the Centre’s provision for children under the age of two.
DI
(UK, 1049002) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,344.35Disability Initiative (DI) supports vulnerable adults with complex physical disabilities and neurological conditions such as stroke, brain injury, MS and cerebral palsy. DI is an inspirational charity that helps its beneficiaries achieve things they never thought possible. Be Inspired!
Abbies Fund
(UK, 1119273) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,330.00Abbie 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: £4,327.18Jake 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.
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.
Headway Leicester
(UK, 1074011) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,285.00Est. in 1990, Headway Leicester provides top notch support services for adults with acquired brain injuries, their families & carers. They help people come to terms with the devastating effects of brain injury; at their day centre in Leicester & their outreach services across the county & Rutland.
Cerebral Palsy Plus
(UK, 1070079) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,226.14Cerebral Palsy Plus is a Bristol charity caring for and working with children and adults with Cerebral Palsy, their families and their carers. There is no cure for Cerebral Palsy and our aims are: to enhance the quality of life of those with Cerebral Palsy to enable them to live as independently as possible, to provide companionship for isolated disabled people in the community and direct support for families to help alleviate the pressures of caring for a family member with Cerebral Palsy at home. Our motto is “listening to individuals” and since established in 1960’s we have worked with thousands of people with Cerebral Palsy. Our services are free to anyone with Cerebral Palsy living in Bristol, Sth Gloucestershire, Nth Somerset and Bath and are designed to meet the emotional and practical needs of our members by offering companionship, support and encouragement. This is achieved through a range of free services including impartial information and advice line, activity clubs, family trips to local attractions, one to one outreach support, help with form filling, hardship grants scheme, access to a holiday home which caters for disabled or just a friendly ear. We also support local organisations involved in the care and education of those with Cerebral Palsy.
Believe - Organ Donor Support
(UK, 1167626) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,194.79The charity was set up in memory of Stuart and Fraser Bates to promote and support Organ Donation in Wales, the rest of the UK and beyond. The charity encourages and educates families to discuss their wishes on organ donation and helps provide appropriate support at the necessary time.
PACT for Autism
(UK, 1148170) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,170.00PACT for Autism is run by a group of volunteer parents and professionals. We support parents of children with autism and other disabilities by providing services such as a helpline, monthly meetings, email & social networking, family leisure activities and sign-posting to partner agencies.
South East Cancer Help Centre
(UK, 1011509) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,135.00South East Cancer Help Centre aims to give people affected by cancer and their family and friends an opportunity to explore ways which may help them to cope with their situation. The Centre supports people in the choices they make and provides individual and group support, complementary therapies and information.
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.
Autistic Society Greater Manchester Area
(UK, 1089527) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,989.44The Autistic Society Greater Manchester Area (ASGMA) provides a range of support services to people affected by Autism - including parents and carers support groups, telephone support, Parent Resource Information Packs, awareness events and Training. The Aspirations Project provides individual support and social engagement to people with Asperger Syndrome / Higher Functioning Autism.
Race Against Blood Cancer
(UK, 1162696) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,987.33Race Against Blood Cancer's goal is to increase the volume and diversity of people who register as potentially life-saving stem cell donors.
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.
NORSACA
(UK, 517954) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,981.02Helping people affected by autism from across the East Midlands.
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.
M S Action Ltd
(UK, 803187) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,750.83It is a disability therapy centre, helping adults and children who have Multiple Sclerosis, Cerebral Palsy, Autism, Brain Injury and other Neurological conditions. It provides complementary & mainstream therapies to it's members & their carers.
Second Chance Headway Centre
(UK, 1121645) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,720.00The charity provides a day resource service for adults with an acquired brain injury in the Wakefield and surrounding areas. We believe in the right of everyone to an acceptable quality of life and that disability should not be a barrier to obtaining the skills, knowledge and understanding required to achieve a better quality of life. We would like to offer the best available services to our members.