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Socks And Chocs Group
(UK, 1163236) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,368.00
(UK, 1163236) Thank you for visiting our page. The aims or "objects"of Socks and Chocs Group are: To relieve hardship and distress among homeless people and among those in need who are living in adverse housing conditions. In particular but not exclusively by: The provision of essential items such as bedding, toiletries and clothing. Funding essential health needs which is not already readily accessible such as foot care; By funding short term emergency accommodation particularly (but not limited to) times of cold or otherwise inclement weather. The team do what they do because they can and because they want to. Lots of people doing a little is better than a few doing a lot! If you want to find out more details on how you can help, please visit our website www.socksandchocs.co.uk We look forward to hearing from you.
Hue Help
(UK, 1117116) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,346.06
(UK, 1117116) Hue Help works in central Vietnam to improve the health, education and future prospects of disadvantaged children. Working through local partners we support a children's shelter, run a drowning prevention programme and bring international volunteers to Vietnam.
The Nomntu Project
(UK, 1118577) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,340.00The Nomntu Project is a small charity, that works in the Eastern Cape, the poorest region of South Africa. It aims are: - to support women and girls particularly, to gain continuing access to education and - to help communities to become self-sustaining both economically and socially. For example, The Nomntu Project pays for education fees and materials for women and girls who would otherwise have no access to education. This means they have a better chance of employment. Recently, The Nomntu Project funded a shelter for orphans and provided money for the shelter to develop its own vegetable gardens. The Nomntu project is also helping the women who run the shelter to expand their chicken selling business. The Nomntu Project also supports a rural couple and their family who provide practical health support, both physical and mental, to the surrounding impoverished community. In supporting these small projects the charity's aim is to enable the wider community to take charge of their own development in ways they feel are right for them.
LegaCare
(UK, 1140040) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,330.25We provide legal advice to anybody diagnosed with a life limiting/life threatening illness (including carers). The service is free to anybody earning less than £30,000, Advice includes employment, guardianship + matrimonial, debt + mortgage, wills, LPAs and living wills
Shap Limited
(UK, 1075118) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,310.00SHAP exists to promote social justice, combat poverty and prevent homelessness. Our current fundraising focus is to support and care for teenage parents in Liverpool - the city's only resource offering 24 hour support to young mothers and their children. Any donation is very welcome.
Arlington Futures
(UK, 1097503) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,300.00“Providing accommodation, support, advice, training and job opportunities to the homeless and those in need”. Arlington Futures has been established to help tackle the challenging issues of homelessness by empowering those it affects to get back on track with their lives. We aim to break the cycle of homelessness in London by raising money to further Arlington’s training and employment programmes with the vision of replicating the Arlington model elsewhere in the capital. Arlington, based in Camden, North West London, offers 95 rooms for homeless people who are at various stages of their journey from homelessness back to independent living. We take a holistic approach to helping homeless people re-build their lives by providing a range of support and training programmes as well as placements, apprenticeships and job opportunities to help with their progression. The income raised through Arlington Futures will go a long way in ensuring that those in need continue to have access to support services and opportunities to help them move on to independent living, employment and a much more stable life. To find out more about Arlington Futures and Arlington’s work visit www.arlington.org.uk.
Greensleeves Homes Trust
(UK, 1060478) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,296.50Greensleeves Homes Trust is a highly innovative provider of care for older people. We have 17 residential & nursing care homes across the Midlands, Southern and Eastern England. We are constantly adapting to meet the needs of older people and have won a series of awards for our quality of care.
Robes
(UK, 1132622) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,295.00It provdes winter night shelter for homeless people in Southwark and Lambeth and works with them to access permanent accommodation
Action Homeless (leicester) Limited
(UK, 702230) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,275.00Action Homeless is a local charity dedicated to tackling the causes and consequences of homelessness in Leicester. We support around 350 people every year to leave homelessness behind and achieve and maintain independent living. As well as providing accommodation we offer a range of support services that can help who are experiencing homelessness to get their lives back on track. Please visit our website for more information www.actionhomeless.org.uk
Citizens Advice Craven and Harrogate Districts
(UK, 1130946) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,255.00Our volunteers and staff offer information, advice and representation to residents of Craven and Harrogate districts in a free, independent, impartial and confidential manner so that they can get the help they need and enforce their rights. We do research and campaigning into issues of social policy.
Friends of Newick House
(UK, 306356) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,254.27The Friends of Newick House are supporting Trek China 0907 which is raising funds for Newick House School and the National Autistic Society. The Trek will raise awareness of the challenges faced by children with autism, build friendships and establish links with a school for special needs children in Beijing.
Croydon Citizens Advice Bureaux Limited
(UK, 298761) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,250.00The Citizens Advice service provides free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities. It values diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. The service aims to provide the advice people need for the problems they face, and to improve the policies and practices that affect people’s lives. The first Croydon CAB opened in September 1939, and we have been providing advice, information and help to clients ever since. We are an independent charity, relying on funding from grants and donations. In the year 2013 we saw 7,259 clients and dealt with 12,489 issues. Generally clients came to us with more than one issue (showing that we are a trusted provider of advice on many subject areas). All areas of advice are covered to a general level with dominant enquiry areas including debt, welfare benefits, housing and employment. We have two main bureaux, in New Addington and South Norwood and run the advice service from both bureaux. We also have a help desk in the foyer of the new Croydon Council offices. As well as general advice, we offer in-depth casework to those living with cancer (thanks to Macmillan funding) and we also run financial capability classes which have provided over 300 Croydon residents with information on how to draw up a household budget, manage money and choose cheap utility packages. The aim of these sessions is to give people the knowledge they need to avoid debt becoming a factor in their lives. We are raising funds in order to continue to provide advice and improve access to our services for people who live and/or work in Croydon. Rachel Dickenson, one of our Trustees is running the Huntingdon 10k run on Sunday 15th June to raise money for Croydon CAB. Please sponsor her - the link to her fundraising page is: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/RachelD
Jubilee House Care Trust Ltd
(UK, 298074) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,242.00Jubilee House Care Trust is a well established charity that provides care and support for children and adults with disabilities, including learning disabilities, in and around Welwyn Garden City. The services we offer for adults include two residential homes, a Supported Living scheme and a short break project. We also have an additonal short break project for children and young people. Alongside these serivces we have our ‘Stepping Stones’ projects; these can be anything from an after school activity, dance group, sibling group, 1:1 support, work experience programmes and many more. Our Mission statement: ‘To provide a diverse range of quality care services and support which is designed to empower individuals and their families’. Help us to enable people to live their lives their way by supporting us to raise vital funds and awareness.
Bedfordshire Housing Link Limited
(UK, 268639) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,237.00Bedfordshire Housing Link (BHL) is a Bedfordshire based homelessness charity. We were established in 1974 to enable homeless people to find a place in which to live, achieve their potential and integrate into the community. Our mission is to support single homeless people to acheive and sustain an independent life, and to reduce the causes of homelessness. In 2011 alone Bedfordshire Housing Link Provided Accommodation for 163 Individuals and specialist Education & Employment support for 222 Individuals. This support was along side that given to all residents, through the use of Personal Development Plans, to work towards and achieve the five government target areas (Achieve Economic Wellbeing, Enjoy and Achieve, Be Healthy, Stay Safe, Make a Positive Contribution in Society)
Nightingale Hammerson
(UK, 207316) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,235.00We provide residential,nursing,dementia and respite care for older Jewish people. We are largely dependent on the generosity of friends to run Nightingale House and Hammerson House. The running costs, coupled with extensive building projects to enhance the care we provide, means your help is vital.
Bishop Creighton House Settlement
(UK, 1059084) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,215.00Since 1908, Bishop Creighton House has provided a range of community and social support services for residents of Hammersmith & Fulham. Our aim is to help people to live healthy, safe and independent lives and to maximise their potential. We run a community centre; employment and mentoring services for young learning disabled people; home safety and security projects for older and disabled people, for families with children under five and victims of domestic violence and hate crime; a home improvement agency, providing major adaptaions to the homes of older, vulnerable people; and befriending services for older people, including daily phone calls and home visiting. More detailed information can be found on our website, www.creightonhouse.org
Home-Start in Waverley
(UK, 1119141) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,200.00Home-Start in Waverley supports and mentors any family in the Borough of Waverley with a child under the age of 5.
#HHCP Hull Homeless Community Project
(UK, 1166893) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,198.75Our mission is to assist the roofless community of Kingston upon Hull in reaching their full potential in regards finding shelter, advice, assistance with finances, mental and physical health and family support. To unite existing services, the community, local business and the homeless population.
Emmaus Bristol
(UK, 1071538) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,182.00Emmaus Bristol provides home and work for formerly homeless people who are called “Companions”. Companions work 40 hours a week and are involved in the Community and social enterprise recycling and selling household items. Uniquely Companions are involved in helping others who are in greater need.
Deptford Reach
(UK, 1086143) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,142.50Join us to make Deptford Reach’s Homes for the Homeless Project a reality. Deptford Reach has been granted planning permission to develop the current site in Deptford, South East London to create a self-sustainable building including 21 units for accommodation. These 1 bedroom flats will provide much needed accommodation as we support and prepare our clients to move on, whilst helping to reduce rough sleeping within the borough. The project has been estimated to cost £3m and there is no better time to start fundraising than now! Pictures of Future Plans for Deptford Reach A message from the Trustees of Deptford Reach Deptford Reach is not a wealthy charity. At the beginning of each year we face the prospect of having to raise around £250,000 just to keep our doors open and services running. A small portion comes from statutory sources but the vast majority is raised from charitable trusts and foundations and from individual donations. The need to find this sort of money year in year out puts great strain on the organisation and in the longer term it is not sustainable. However we have one significant advantage over other charities in similar positions in that we own our own building and our own land. The Trustees of Deptford Reach have been considering the development of our site for some years. Our building is old and in need of considerable modernisation. It is also too small and restrictive. As a consequence we are now ready to proceed with an exciting project not only to give Deptford Reach long term financial stability but also to provide vital affordable housing and a stepping stone to help homeless people improve their lives. Our plans will give us a brand new day centre to continue providing our core services but also, on 3 upper floors, 22 one bedroom flats. 21 of these will be homes for homeless people and one for our new caretaker. The Deptford Reach Homes for the Homeless Project will take genuinely homeless people off Lewisham’s streets or out of their squats and provide them with safe, secure, affordable accommodation at Deptford Reach. Our aim is to limit any individual’s stay to around 6 months but during this vital period they can stabilise their lives, access our services and receive our help to move on into education, work and ultimately their own accommodation in the private rented sector. At the same time Deptford Reach will receive the rental income from 21 flats and this will provide vital income towards our annual running costs. We estimate that the rebuilding project will take 18 months to complete and cost £3m. Plans are already underway to raise the capital needed from a number of different sources and during the building of the new centre we will relocate to another local site and ensure that most of our vital services can continue uninterrupted. We urge you to support our Homes for the Homeless Project. It will undoubtedly help improve the lives of thousands of people in the coming years, it will give Deptford Reach financial security and it will address some of the most critical social issues facing Britain today. The Trustees of Deptford Reach About Deptford Reach Deptford Reach is a drop-in centre for adults over 16 years of age. We help people rebuild lives that have been affected by homelessness, mental illness, drug or alcohol abuse and social exclusion. From our centre in London SE8, we offer a wide range of support, advice, training and practical help. We believe in respect and individual support. Deptford in South East London is one of the most deprived districts anywhere in the UK with very high levels of social exclusion. Video 1 (Clients and volunteers of Deptford Reach) Video 2 (BBC Inside Out documentary 2013)
Bridge Priory Trust
(UK, 1125780) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,115.00Providing housing for adults with learning disabilities, in their local area.
The Field Lane Foundation
(UK, 207493) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,109.25Field Lane is a Christian charity that is committed to providing innovative accommodation and day centre support services for families who are homeless, older people and people with disabilities. Field Lane provides care and opportunity for people in need and enables people in need to live with dignity and fulfilment.
Gisda
(UK, 1068325) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,100.55We support vulnerable young people in North Wales to live independent lives. We support them in hostels, houses and flats. We also provide counselling, personal advisers, mediation, anger management, alternative education along with advice on housing, education, work, budgeting and more.
Caris (Islington)
(UK, 1057737) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,091.00It helps bereaved adults and children in Islington by offering free confidential counselling visits to anyone bereaved and runs a cold weather shelter for homeless people during the winter months, offering a warm venue, a hot meal and a bed for the night.
Mull And Iona Community Trust
(UK, SC025995) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,080.00The Ulva Ferry Housing Project is the result of an extensive community consultation which found affordable housing to be a top priority for the Ulva Ferry area on the Isle of Mull. MICT are supporting the Ulva School Community Association (USCA) in building two affordable homes for local families.