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Edinburgh & Lothians Health Foundation
(UK, SC007342) Browse events
YTD Raised: £79,819.05
(UK, SC007342) The fund, consisting entirely of voluntary donations, is used to improve the quality of patient amenities & staff welfare by paying for the provision of 'extra' facilities and amenities, research etc. As well as the General Fund we also hold various specific funds covering many wards and dept's.
Grace Belgravia Foundation
(UK, 1154755) Browse events
YTD Raised: £79,573.76The Gynaecological Cancer Fund is raising money to fund research at The Royal Marsden and to raise awareness of gynaecological cancers. The research aims to develop more personalised treatments for women with these cancers. For more details please visit our website www.gcfund.co.uk
Southend Hospital Charity
(UK, 1057266) Browse events
YTD Raised: £79,570.49Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust cares for more than 380,000 patients each year. It’s the local hospital for the Southend area and beyond, providing a wide range of acute services and specialising in cancer care. Southend Hospital Charity works on your behalf to make sure all the money you donate benefits the specific ward or department you have designated – helping to provide state-of-the-art medical equipment, improve patient and staff amenities and fund vital research.
Down's Syndrome Association
(UK, 1061474) Browse events
YTD Raised: £79,227.65Two babies are born every day with Down's syndrome. Through information and support for people with Down's syndrome, their families and professionals, the Down's Syndrome Association helps these people live full and rewarding lives.
SADS UK
(UK, 1113681) Browse events
YTD Raised: £79,152.63SADS UK Helps Save Lives, informing the public and health professionals of symptoms of Heart Conditions that can cause a Sudden Arrhythmic Death (SADS) if not detected and treated. The charity donates cardiac equipment and defibrillators in the community and supports research into SADS. Thankyou
AMMF
(UK, 1091915) Browse events
YTD Raised: £78,934.46AMMF is the UK's only cholangiocarcinoma charity. Our main aims are to raise the awareness of cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer), to provide information, and to support specialised research teams in their work to find the causes, methods of earlier diagnosis and treatments for this disease.
Football For Cancer
(UK, 1155194) Browse events
YTD Raised: £78,453.02Football for Cancer (FFC) is all about bringing people together to raise awareness and much needed funds for all those affected by cancer through sporting events. Established in 2008 as a fundraising organisation, now a charity in our own right looking to grow and grow to build for a great future
Hope Against Cancer
(UK, 1091480) Browse events
YTD Raised: £77,947.98
(UK, 1091480) We have raised over £3 million and funded over 30 research projects tackling many forms of cancer. We opened a clinical trials unit at Leicester Royal Infirmary, where patients take part in trials on new drugs and treatments to find the cures of tomorrow and we fund a HOPE nurse there.
PASIC
(UK, 1163662) Browse events
YTD Raised: £73,548.66We provide financial, practical and social support to families of children and young people diagnosed/receiving treatment for childhood cancer at the NUH. We deal with isolation experienced following the diagnosis of cancer, the associated financial difficulties and physical and mental wellbeing
CW+
(UK, 1169897) Browse events
YTD Raised: £72,696.43We exist to make care better for patients & their families. From our base at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital we bring together pioneering research, innovation, art & design to transform the experience & outcomes for thousands of people every day - in our hospital, wider community & around the world.
Salisbury District Hospital Stars Appeal
(UK, 1052284) Browse events
YTD Raised: £65,693.43We are Salisbury District Hospital’s charity. We help local people across all wards and departments, with particular focus on cancer, cardiac care and children & babies. Find out more at www.starsappeal.org. Please specify if you wish to support a specific ward, department or cause. Thank you.
Salford Royal Hospitals
(UK, 1049226) Browse events
YTD Raised: £65,396.93The Charity supports the wellbeing of patients and staff at the hospital by providing vital equipment, supporting staff through education and supporting both patients and staff through a range of welfare activities. It also provides funds for medical research which benefits the entire community.
Prostate Scotland
(UK, SC037494) Browse events
YTD Raised: £65,093.84Prostate Scotland aims to inform, support, campaign and advance on prostate disease in Scotland. The initial goals is to raise awareness of the disease so that men know how to recognise signs of problems. In the longer term the charity will influence treatment developments and promote research.
Coeliac UK
(UK, 1048167) Browse events
YTD Raised: £64,725.81Coeliac UK is the only charity in the UK, which supports those with coeliac disease and dermatitis herpetiformis. It receives no government funding and is dependent on the generosity of the public to fund practical support, awareness raising and research into the condition.
Saint Catherine's Hospice (Scarborough)
(UK, 284701) Browse events
YTD Raised: £64,700.06Saint Catherine's Hospice is an adult hospice, based in Scarborough, serving the Scarborough, Ryedale and East Yorkshire areas- with specialist palliative care for adults, with progressive, incurable diseases such as cancer, multiple sclerosis, motor neurone disease, & heart failure.
OSCAR's Paediatric Brain Tumour Charity
(UK, 1159063) Browse events
YTD Raised: £63,318.47OSCAR’s PBTC (Ongoing, Support, Care and Research into Paediatric Brain Tumours Charity) was formed in the summer of 2014 by the parents and friends of Oscar Hughes, a 9 year old boy who died of a Medulloblastoma on the 3rd of May 2014. The journey Oscar went on for a year to try and be free of cancer was both heartbreaking and inspiring to see. The treatments involved to fight Brain Tumours have devastating effects on a young body and mind. This is unacceptable and the only way to change this is by researching these cancers and find better treatments. The charity aims to fund critical research into paediatric brain tumours with the hope to find a cure and less devastating treatments. The Charity works closely with other charities.
The Urology Foundation
(UK, 1128683) Browse events
YTD Raised: £63,102.81Our Vision: Urology care in the UK & Ireland is the best in the world. Our Mission: To develop world-class urology professionals and urology care in the UK & Ireland. We achieve these aims by funding full-time research scholarships, sponsoring training for urologists in excellence in the UK & abroad
Wellbeing of Women
(UK, 239281) Browse events
YTD Raised: £62,373.39Wellbeing of Women is dedicated to improving the health of women and babies to make a difference to everybody’s lives today and tomorrow. We raise awareness of health issues to keep women and babies well today. We fund research and training, to develop better treatments and outcomes for tomorrow.
The Lewy Body Society
(UK, 1114579) Browse events
YTD Raised: £60,477.83Virtually unknown but not uncommon, Lewy Body disease is the second most frequent cause of age-related neurodegenerative dementia. Accurate diagnosis is essential for successful treatment. The purpose of the Lewy Body Society is to raise awareness of this terrible disease amongst the public and the medical profession.
Katharine House Hospice - Stafford
(UK, 1011712) Browse events
YTD Raised: £60,181.02We provide free care services for local people faced with an illness that cannot be cured. Our aim is to enable our patients and those close to them to live as fully as possible. It costs £2.7million to provide all of our services and we rely heavily on donations to raise these funds.
The Ehlers-danlos Support Uk
(UK, 1157027) Browse events
YTD Raised: £60,119.92EDS UK was set up in 1987 to support, advise and inform those living with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. We aim to help them live a full, active and positive life. Over 25 years later, we remain the only UK based charity that exclusively represents and supports people with all types of EDS. We run regular events and conferences to bring our community together, and produce literature and merchandise to increase understanding and improve management of the condition. We have over 30 support groups around the country to provide our members with a local peer support network and we hope to expand this and create more groups in the coming months. We run a freephone helpline which is available to everyone, including people with EDS as well as friends, families, carers, and healthcare professionals. The helpline is run by a Registered Nurse with a specialist interest in EDS. EDS UK strive to educate the medical community, promote continuity of care, improve accurate diagnosis and provide information on specialist treatment and management of the condition.. We also fund vital research to further understand EDS, including searching for the gene responsible for the hypermobility type and working towards a cure. We are a charity and rely on fundraising and donations to continue our work. Your support is greatly appreciated and is essential to ensure we can continue to make our invisible, visible
Macular Society
(UK, 1001198) Browse events
YTD Raised: £57,408.96The Macular Society is the national charity for anyone affected by central vision loss. We provide free information and support to improve lives today. We fund research so that one day we can overcome macular disease.
40tude curing colon cancer
(UK, 1160500) Browse events
YTD Raised: £56,504.7240tude curing colon cancer is a rapidly expanding group of people who have decided to take action against the second biggest cancer killer in the Western world. Since it was founded in 2011, 40tude has raised over £700,000 for St. Mark’s Hospital Foundation, supporting the development of pioneering techniques to treat colon cancer. So far 40tude has successfully sponsored the FLEX project - a new surgical technique to remove colon cancer. We are now supporting the Artificial Bowel Project, a programme to engineer new bowel tissue from patient's own stem cells and have begun funding the PERFECTS programme: to improve and monitor the quality of CT colonographies across the NHS. To find out more about these programmes we're helping to fund, please visit www.40tude.org.ukJoin us for our fundraising Challenges: our annual London SUP Marathon on the River Thames, and our 2016 Cycle Challenge from 5th-9th October, when we will be tackling the hills and routes ridden by the pros in Catalonia, northern Spain. For more information about 40tude and our events and challenges, please contact Kate at [email protected] Charity No: 1160500 Find out more Website http://www.40tude.org.uk Facebook https://www.facebook.com/40tude-curing-colon-cancer-166595366735375/?ref=hl Twitter https://twitter.com/curebowelcancer YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzyEghCBx1Mn6G_9xQUAzsg
Down's Syndrome Scotland
(UK, SC011012) Browse events
YTD Raised: £53,478.76Down's Syndrome Scotland works to improve the quality of life and maximise the potential of everyone with Down's syndrome in Scotland by offering advice, support and information from a team of specialist staff. Down's Syndrome is the most common form of learning disability occurring in about 1 in 1000 births.
LATCH Welsh Children's Cancer Charity
(UK, 1100949) Browse events
YTD Raised: £53,093.24LATCH, the Welsh Children's Cancer Charity, is a voluntary organisation set up to support the special requirements of the children's oncology centre at the Children's Hospital for Wales, to help affected families and promote research in childhood cancer.