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Calman Trust (UK, SC027878) Browse events

YTD Raised: £420.00

Calman Trust offers support and training to young people in the Scottish Highlands who experience difficulty around the time of leaving school or leaving home so that they can have a good future, avoiding unemployment or homelessness.

The E C Roberts Centre (UK, 1066611) Browse events

YTD Raised: £420.00

The EC Roberts Centre is a unique child focused Charity in Portsmouth with a range of services offering support and assistance to families in addressing their situation of homelessness or dealing with the issues of relationship breakdown.

Two Saints (UK, 26511) Browse events

YTD Raised: £415.00

Rebuilding Lives For A Brighter Future. We offer good quality accommodation with support and resettlement services for people who are homeless.We also help people to develop skills to break the cycle of homelessness, poverty, and exclusion. We work across Hampshire, West Berkshire and Oxford. We provide support for as long as it takes to restore a person’s self confidence and help them to live independently. Through our employability and learning services we work with individuals to build self reliance esteem and confidence, resulting in positive change in the lives of some of the most marginalised people in our communities. 

Eastbourne And District Mencap (UK, 1125686) Browse events

YTD Raised: £410.00

Established in 1948, Eastbourne and District Mencap is a charity that is dedicated to helping people with learning disabilities to live a full and fulfilling life. This is achieved by the provision of 24-hour care homes, Day Service, and leisure workshops in supporting our people.

The MUKTI Project (UK, 1091469) Browse events

YTD Raised: £400.00

MUKTI was created by the TYA to support street children and abandoned widows in India. We also help charities for the homeless in the UK. We are holding an afternoon of sponsored Sun Salutations on 22 June 2014 to raise money for the three Care homes in India which we are currently supporting.

Age UK West Cumbria (UK, 1122049) Browse events

YTD Raised: £391.20

We are a local independent charity. Every penny we raise is spent in West Cumbria to provide information, advice and a wide range of services and activities to inspire, enable and support older people to lead fulfilling and independent lives and to influence the way people think about ageing.

HARC Homeless And Rootless at Christmas (UK, 1049438) Browse events

YTD Raised: £391.00

We are a Sheffield based charity committed to providing a safe and warm day shelter, which is open to all vulnerable men and women between Christmas Eve and New Years Day each year. We provide a cooked breakfast, a large lunch and a suppertime meal along with hot and cold drinks and snacks. Guests are welcome to spend the whole day with us. During the project we are visited by a hairdresser, health workers and a variety of entertainers. We also run a clothing store throughout the project. We are staffed entirely by volunteers, working on a shift system. Our thanks go to everyone who gives up their time during this busy period of the year. All of this is funded entirely by generous donations and various fundraising events.

Upendo Children's Home (UK, 1142091) Browse events

YTD Raised: £390.00

Upendo Children's Home aims to provide a loving, stable and sustainable home to orphaned children in north-west Tanzania. We provide a hand-up and not a hand-out through the development of locally rooted development projects (such as agriculture and solar-power) which will contribute to Upendo from within our local community of Buswelu, Mwanza.

Lancaster & District Homeless Action Service (UK, 1093016) Browse events

YTD Raised: £377.19

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Marsha Phoenix Memorial Trust (UK, 1063698) Browse events

YTD Raised: £375.00

Marsha Phoenix Trust is a project providing support and housing for young homeless women . The Trust has helped hundreds of young women overcome a negative start in life to fulfil their full potential. This is achieved through education, personal support and learning the skills to be independent within a caring environment.

Greensleeves Homes Trust (UK, 1060478) Browse events

YTD Raised: £370.00

Greensleeves 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.

Home-Start Butser (UK, 1140692) Browse events

YTD Raised: £367.30

Home-Start Butser is based in Petersfield in East Hampshire. We provide a unique service for local families - recruiting and training volunteers from the community to support parents with young children through a critical time in their lives.

The Jermain Defoe Foundation (UK, 1152125) Browse events

YTD Raised: £367.27

The Jermain Defoe Foundation has been founded by the Spurs and England striker to support homeless, vulnerable and abused children in his family’s home country of St Lucia, working in partnership with the government and other charitable organisations.

Home-Start Southern Oxfordshire (UK, 1113941) Browse events

YTD Raised: £365.00

Home-Start Southern Oxfordshire is a voluntary home-visiting scheme. We recruit and train volunteers to offer support and friendship to vulnerable families. We want to see a society in which every parent has the support they need in order to give their child the best start in life.

Community Health Education And Reconstruction Training (UK, 1052817) Browse events

YTD Raised: £365.00

Community H.E.A.R.T. (Health Education And Reconstruction Training) was set up in 1995 to support the people of Southern Africa, particularly South Africa, in their struggle to overcome the awful legacy of apartheid. We support self-help projects based on the hopes, aspirations and initiatives of local people and communities. The first democratic elections in South Africa ended apartheid, but apartheid left a legacy of poverty and deprivation for the majority population who had little or no access to proper health, education, housing and utilities. Reconstruction and development to eradicate the causes of inequality, discrimination and poverty started in 1994 but due to the enormity of the task support for this will be required for the foreseeable future. We work with local people and organisations focussing on: providing greater access to educational resources HIV/AIDS projects which raise awareness and support those affected by the pandemic supporting those affected by violence against women and challenging gender violence access to health care community arts projects helping build local peoples’ self confidence and sense of achievement housing projects addressing the need for formal housing

Caritas Anchor House (UK, 1147794) Browse events

YTD Raised: £364.80

Caritas Anchor House is a nationally acclaimed residential life skills centre for single homeless people. Based in East London, we provide accommodation and support for over 200 homeless people each year, addressing their problems through education, training, rehabilitation and volunteering.

Article 25 (UK, 1112621) Browse events

YTD Raised: £360.00

1 in 6 people do not have decent or safe housing to live in. Article 25 provides the expertise to make buildings safe, suitable and sustainable. By working with local communities we ensure each building is a community owned and maintained project, sharing skills and creating livelihoods.

Scottish Love In Action (UK, SC030516) Browse events

YTD Raised: £355.36

SLA supports destitute children in Andhra Pradesh S.E. India. We feed,clothe,house, educate and provide medical care for over 500 children who are either orphans or whose relatives cannot support them. We do this by funding a Home and School in Tuni.

St Pauls Hostel (UK, 1043921) Browse events

YTD Raised: £355.00

St Paul’s Hostel charity operates three projects within Worcester aimed at targeting homelessness and its causes. The mission is not to intervene in individuals’ private lives, but to provide the support and care necessary for clients to gain the level of independence for which they can take responsibility.

Harrogate Homeless Project Ltd (UK, 1011337) Browse events

YTD Raised: £355.00

The Harrogate Homeless Project is the only direct access hostel in Harrogate and the District, providing emergency accommodation and support for those who are homeless. Only 65% of our running costs are met through statutory funding and other grants, so we constantly need to raise money in order to continue.

Julian House (UK, 19305R) Browse events

YTD Raised: £350.00

Julian House operates more than 10 projects across BANES addressing the problems of homelessness & the underlying reasons why men & women are forced onto the streets. Every day over 100 clients are being supported by projects which include access to training & preparation for employment.

Ben View Centre (UK, SC024093) Browse events

YTD Raised: £349.65

Is a community centre that offers a range of services to the community of West Dunbartonshire. These include, a daily lunch club for older people supported by 20 volunteers: a community bathing service for 90 adults per week: a meeting place & office base for community & voluntary groups

Home-Start Central Bedfordshire (UK, 1109262) Browse events

YTD Raised: £349.50

We believe that children need a happy, secure childhood and that parents play the key role in giving their children a good start in life and helping them achieve their full potential. Home-Start Central Beds offers friendship & support services to local families who are going through hardship.

Cheltenham Open Door (UK, 1063434) Browse events

YTD Raised: £340.00

Emmaus Gateshead (UK, 1131408) Browse events

YTD Raised: £339.15

Please help us to develop the first Emmaus Community in North East England, where formerly homeless people ("Companions") will be able to live, work and find the support they need to rebuild their lives. We urgently need to fund a van for our Gateshead shop and aim to start building works in 2014.