Browsing Charities
Shelter
(UK, 263710) Browse events
YTD Raised: £286,732.29
(UK, 263710) Shelter works to alleviate the distress caused by homelessness and bad housing. We help people find and keep a home. We campaign for decent housing for all. Our work won’t stop until there’s a home for everyone.
Quintessentially Foundation
(UK, 1125055) Browse events
YTD Raised: £231,455.90Quintessentially Foundation supports charitable activity worldwide that improves the health, education and welfare of disadvantaged communities.In 2011 we are supporting four charities; The House of St. Barnabas,The Place2Be,Room to Read and SOS Children's Villages.www.quintessentiallyfoundation.org
Sense - National Deafblind and Rubella Association
(UK, 289868) Browse events
YTD Raised: £181,018.97Sense is the UK's largest organisation offering support to deafblind people and their families. Established in 1955 as a parent's support group, Sense now offers a range of services - including, advice, housing, education and practical help to children and adults who are both deaf and blind.
Centrepoint
(UK, 292411) Browse events
YTD Raised: £96,374.93Centrepoint is the UK’s leading charity for homeless young people. It provides housing and support for more than 1000 young people, aged 16-25, every year, helping them into work and a home of their own.
SHP
(UK, 287779) Browse events
YTD Raised: £75,287.65SHP provides accommodation and support to over 6,000 of London's most vulnerable people each year. Our mission is to reduce poverty, social exclusion and homelessness, and to make a lasting improvement to our clients' quality of life.
Streetwork
(UK, SC017802) Browse events
YTD Raised: £73,993.00Streetwork is about enabling a life off the streets. We focus on where people are most in need and at risk - on the streets. We don't wait for people to find us; we find them, with outreach teams spending at least 84hrs each week on the streets of Edinburgh helping the most vulnerable people.
Martin House Hospice for Children and Young People
(UK, 517919) Browse events
YTD Raised: £65,080.91Martin House provides care and support, free of charge, to families in which there is a child or children with a short life expectancy, throughout Yorkshire. Our aim is to provide a home from home with a lively friendly atmosphere where children and their families can enjoy the best quality of life.
St Mungo's Broadway
(UK, 1149085) Browse events
YTD Raised: £64,095.41St Mungo’s Broadway provides a bed and support to more than 2,500 people a night who are either homeless or at risk, helping about 25,000 people a year. We believe no one should be homeless and that people can – and do – recover from the issues that create homelessness.
Passage 2000
(UK, 1079764) Browse events
YTD Raised: £53,907.68The Passage helps homeless people in the Victoria area of London, providing basic care and the means to make a fresh start. Up to 200 people use the day centre each day; the 40 bed hostel is full every night. We depend on voluntary donations as less than half our income comes from statutory sources.
Age UK
(UK, 1128267) Browse events
YTD Raised: £45,675.89The over-60s is the fastest-growing group in society and there are more of us than ever before. Ageing is not an illness, but it can be challenging. At Age UK we provide services and support at a national and local level to inspire, enable and support older people.
HARP
(UK, 1098126) Browse events
YTD Raised: £43,948.31HARP (Homeless Action Resource Project) - Helping Southend's Homeless. We help people get off the streets and back into their own home. We house up to 72 people at one time in a number of bedsits, rooms and flats. Our emergency services ensure that people do not have to sleep rough on the streets.
St Vincent De Paul Society (SVP)
(UK, 1053992) Browse events
YTD Raised: £41,066.38The St Vincent de Paul Society ("SVP") is an international Christian voluntary organization dedicated to tackling poverty and disadvantage by providing direct practical assistance to anyone in need. Active in England & Wales since 1844, today it continues to address social and material need in all its many forms. The SVP runs a variety of projects including furniture stores, hostels, holiday schemes, children's summer camps and support centres.
SSAFA
(UK, 210760) Browse events
YTD Raised: £40,139.76SSAFA provides lifelong support for our Forces and their families. Every year we give life-changing support to more than 50,000 people. Thanks to our supporters, we are able to extend a helping hand to our servicemen and women and their families, doing whatever it takes to meet their needs.
Social Bite
(UK, SC045232) Browse events
YTD Raised: £30,426.69To donate a 'suspended item' to a local homeless person, please use the slider menu to the right to select a option. Or make a general donation to Social Bite. To find out more about the work of Social Bite please visit the site below.
Porchlight
(UK, 267116) Browse events
YTD Raised: £30,084.35Porchlight works across Kent with the most vulnerable and isolated people in the community - single homeless people. We are a forward thinking and innovative charity, passionate about helping people and communities. We aim to prevent homelessness and help people to change their attitudes to themselves and their lives move on to a positive future.
The Tang Ting Twinning Association Foundation
(UK, 1130073) Browse events
YTD Raised: £28,215.61We help the Nepalese Gurkha village of Tang Ting. We have built a Day Care Centre for the children, refurbished the electricity system and are raising money for an eco friendly tourist hostel to provide employment in the village
Addington Fund
(UK, 1097092) Browse events
YTD Raised: £28,004.00The Addington Fund runs a housing scheme for tenant farmers retiring from or leaving their farm who find that there is no suitable housing available for them to move in to. It also supports farming families encountering short-term financial problems due to emergency situations. Every penny donated goes to help a farming family and is not used on running costs.
Hyde Charitable Trust
(UK, 289888) Browse events
YTD Raised: £21,436.78HCT is dedicated to combatting poverty and disadvantage. Through practical advice, training and grants, our life-changing activities help vulnerable residents, families and communities fulfil their potential. We help people get in to work, online, out of debt and financially stable. Our award-winning grants programme for young people ensures all our young residents can build confidence and learn new skills. Our community grants programme helps residents design and deliver the activities they know will make their communities better places to live. Our residents say it best: "I am useless....I don’t have any hope of getting a job....and then we are told...I’ve changed personally...I was sad...but now I’m happy" “You’re really part of the world online...I don’t what I’d do without it...I rely on it so much now...” "My son was in year 2 of Primary School and could not read appropriate age books. A grant paid for a tutor who taught him to read. I would not have been able to afford a tutor. He now reads nearly all the time; even whilst walking." The majority of the people we support live in Hyde Housing Association Ltd homes across London and the South East.
St Martins Housing Trust
(UK, 802013) Browse events
YTD Raised: £21,324.01Addressing the needs of the homeless in Norwich and Norfolk St Martins Housing Trust is a registered charity. Our objects are to "provide food shelter and accommodation in the county of Norfolk for poor people having no other residence or the place to sleep" Our Mission St Martins Housing Trust strives to address the needs of homeless people in Norwich. We offer emergency direct access accommodation, residential care, support and development to enable everyone to achieve their full potential and a greater level of independence. How it all began…. St Martins Housing Trust started life as the Norwich Night Shelter Project. The original Night Shelter at St James Church on Barrack Street opened in 1972 in response to the growing problem of homelessness in Norwich. In spite of the very basic amenities, the Night Shelter was in ever increasing demand, and within a few years new premises were needed to cope with the swelling number of Night Shelter users. In 1976, the Shelter relocated to St Martin at Oak, a redundant church on Oak Street. From this point on the Trust developed a wide range of complementary services that responded to the needs and expectations of homeless people. In April 2002 the Night Shelter was replaced by a new, purpose-built Direct Access and Resettlement Hostel (Bishopbridge House) at Gas Hill, off Riverside Road, Norwich. THE TRUSTS SERVICES Bishopbridge House - A 30 bed Direct Access and Resettlement Hostel. 10 rooms provide direct access accommodation from the street. 20 rooms are used for move-on and resettlement. The aim is to provide routes out of homelessness. Highwater House - A 22 bed registered care home for people with mental health problems and with drug/or alcohol dependency (dual diagnosis). Carrow Hill Home - A 22 bed registered care home providing long term care for people with mental health problems and sometimes drug or alcohol dependency. Group homes - A number of shared houses, which act as a stepping-stone towards independent accommodation. Contact, Assessment & Prevention Service (CAPS) - provides ongoing support and assistance to address the difficulties faced by people who are either sleeping rough or in insecure accommodation and at risk of becoming homeless. This work includes a one night a week street-based shift that makes direct contact with rough sleepers in the city. Temporary Accommodation Project (TAP) - started as a pilot project in 2001, and now manages temporary accommodation on behalf of Norwich City Council for single homeless people whose homelessness applications are being investigated. The accommodation is in shared houses and is a more homely alternative to bed and breakfast. It also gives the Trust the opportunity to work with the individual on an appropriate support package for both the immediate and longer term. Under-1-Roof - The Trust’s training, education and employment preparation centre opened in February 2010, providing a welcoming environment for our service users where they can take part in training tailored to their specific needs by established local training providers. Facilities - in-house catering, domestic and maintenance services. Administrative Support - financial and administrative functions at the Trusts Head Office. THE BIGGER PICTURE The Trust works as a part of the broader movement in Norwich and the surrounding area. We work with other voluntary organisations, housing associations, community and church groups to raise awareness of homelessness as one of the principle contributors to social exclusion. The Trust aims to be a progressive and developing charity, adjusting to the needs of homeless people that are often very complex. Over the last few years, for example, the characteristics of homeless people have changed dramatically. We are now seeing a growing number of young people, women and people with mental health and substance misuse problems presenting at Bishopbridge House.
Bethany Christian Trust
(UK, SC003783) Browse events
YTD Raised: £21,141.45Bethany Christian Trust aims to relieve the suffering and meeting the long-term needs of homeless and vulnerable people in Scotland. We work with individuals and families to transform lives and give hope and a future.
Alabare Christian Care Centres
(UK, 1006504) Browse events
YTD Raised: £20,243.56Alabaré provides a range of homes and services including supported accommodation, drop-in centres, activities, advice and training services. We support homeless people, Armed Forces Veterans, young people, and adults with a learning disability - helping them to achieve independent fulfilling lives.
Mary’s Meals
(UK, SC022140) Browse events
YTD Raised: £20,195.83Mary’s Meals is an international movement that sets up school feeding projects in communities where poverty and hunger prevent children from gaining an education. The charity now feeds more than 890,000 children every school day and it costs just £12.20 / €14.50 / $19.50 to feed a child for a year.
National Zakat Foundation
(UK, 1153719) Browse events
YTD Raised: £18,073.46NZF is a ground-breaking initiative which aims to utilise Zakat funds and voluntary donations collected in the UK for the benefit of local, deserving recipients. This group includes some of the most vulnerable members of our community, including widows, orphans, the aged as well as the homeless.
Sullivan's Heroes
(UK, 1163021) Browse events
YTD Raised: £16,677.02Sullivan’s Heroes is a charity offering support and financial assistance for families raising much needed funds towards home adaptations for a disabled child, to improve their quality of life within their home environment. Please support us, to build brighter futures for disabled children.
The Manna Society
(UK, 294691) Browse events
YTD Raised: £15,493.96The Manna Society offers practical help to those who are homeless and/or in need. We do so via the Manna Day Centre. We are open 7 days a week, 51 weeks of the year. We provide, food, showers, clothing, housing advice, medical care, (all free of charge) and furniture to 150-200 people per day.