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Amantani
(UK, 1131489) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,913.61
(UK, 1131489) Our inter-cultural boarding houses in Southern Peru have transformed the lives of 64 Quechua children who previously walked up to 8 hours daily to get to school.
Roundabout
(UK, 1061313) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,534.19
(UK, 1061313) Roundabout provides shelter, support & life skills to homeless young people. Their hostel provides emergency accommodation & they support young people to live independently in secure bedsits & shared housing. They teach the life skills needed to live independently & break the cycle of homelessness.
Southwark Irish Pensioners Project
(UK, 1088387) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,336.87We provide a lifeline to hundreds of elderly,vulnerable & isolated Irish people in the boroughs of Southwark,Lambeth & Lewisham. Since 1994, we have helped Irish people who emigrated here in the 1950's & 1960's to get the essential support they need to enjoy a comfortable & decent retirement.
Martineau Gardens
(UK, 1092364) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,320.97Martineau Gardens is a Community Garden that provides educational opportunities in environmental issues, supports and trains vulnerable people via therapeutic horticulture activities and manages a precious landscape for its wildlife habitat needs for all to enjoy. www.justgiving.com/martineaugardens
Mellor Country House
(UK, 241153) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,227.40The charity provides much needed self catering breaks for a whole range of people such as the less well off, those on hard times, adults and children with learning difficulties, pensioners, teenage mums, youth groups from deprived areas etc. Personal on site disabled facilities allow full integration.
The House of St Barnabas
(UK, 207242) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,561.73The House of St Barnabas is a Soho based charity supporting London's homeless back in to work through an Employment Academy which operates at the heart of a not-for-profit private members' club housed in the charity's Grade I listed building. The club is a creative hub for social pioneers.
Style Acre
(UK, 1101626) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,493.42Style Acre supports people with learning disabilities in many different ways. Each person we support is encouraged to make choices about his or her life, style of living and access in the community. We provide supported living for 56 individuals, enabling them to live in their own or rented accommodation within the community and empowering them to lead full and active lives. With two day centres, people can participate in a diverse range of activities, classes, skills development and events. We actively seek work-experience & volunteer opportunities in the community. A forward looking organisation and with an excellent reputation in the disability, charity and regional community, we are committed to seeking innovative and creative ways of enhancing the lives of people with learning disabilities. Your support will enable us to continue funding vital areas of personal development for people with learning disabilities, including communication, work development and IT for independence. Please follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Thank you. Jim (name changed to protect identity) is a man in his 50’s who has a diagnosis of autism and a severe learning disability. Until the summer of 2009, he had lived with his parents all of his life. As his parents were getting older, they approached Style Acre to discuss the possibility of supporting Jim. His parents were understandably concerned about Jim’s future as he had very specific support needs and undertook a very restricted range of activities. Style Acre worked with Jim, his parents and Jim’s care manager to very carefully plan his move into his own home sharing with two other men with similar needs. We also made sure that all of Jim’s wishes and needs were fully understood by the staff who would be supporting him. Jim moved to his house in the summer of 2009 and has made great progress. He now enjoys a much wider range of activities and life experiences than was previously the case. Staff are continuing to work with him to further expand his horizons and enrich his life with even more exciting and stimulating experiences. Jim’s mum and a close friend of his have both described his progress as “simply amazing”. Sharing for the first time In July 2009, four young people began to be supported by Style Acre in a new house which had been fully adapted to meet their needs. Two of the young people had experience of living away from home at a residential college, but the other two people had not until then moved away from their families. Although the group have very different needs, staff worked very hard to plan their support individually as well as to offer opportunities for each person to spend time with others in the group if they so wished and to undertake a range of new and exciting activities (both as a group where desired or individually). Feedback from the young people, their parents and care managers has been very positive, with observations such as the house has a wonderful atmosphere, the staff are great and one of the young people’s mum observing that, as a result of the support being provided, “...my daughter is now growing into the woman we always hoped she would become”. Style Acre Evenlode House Howbery Park Crowmarsh Gifford Wallingford Oxon. OX10 8BA Tel. 01491 838760 Fax. 01491 834663 www.styleacre.org.uk Style Acre Evenlode House Howbery Park Crowmarsh Gifford Wallingford Oxon. OX10 8BA Tel. 01491 838760 Fax. 01491 834663 www.styleacre.org.uk
Wintercomfort For The Homeless
(UK, 1003083) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,464.22It is a charity that helps homeless people and people that are vulnerably housed in Cambridge. It offers basic amenities, opportunities for educational development and recreation through a day centre that is open every day of the year.
DENS - Action Against Homelessness
(UK, 1097185) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,446.72DENS is on the frontline, tackling homelessness and poverty, by giving people the chance to build a better future. We make this possible by providing a Foodbank, Day Centre, Night Shelter, Move-On Accommodation, Rent Guarantee Scheme and innovative social enterprise ventures.
St Petrock's (Exeter) Ltd
(UK, 1090155) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,406.94St Petrock’s is a local charity helping people who are homeless, or inadequately housed, lead more settled and fulfilling lives. Open-access sessions in our centre provide a range of emergency, support and prevention services for some of the most vulnerable people in the area. These include basic survival services, advice on housing, benefits, health, employment and addiction issues, referrals to accommodation providers and to other services. Our specialist teams in HMP Exeter and in the community provide housing and resettlement support for offenders and homeless clients upon release. St Petrock’s also hosts a partnership Engage Community Hub to help those with complex needs integrate within the community.
Emmaus
(UK, 1064470) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,333.42Emmaus communities provides a lasting solution to homelessness by offering formerly homeless people a home, work and the chance to regain self-respect in a supportive environment. Residents work full time on the community business, renovating and re-selling donated furniture.
Camphill Milton Keynes
(UK, 283556) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,283.38Camphill Milton Keynes (CMKC*) provides support and a meaningful working life for adults with a wide range of learning difficulties. The community is formed of over one hundred people living on several sites on the neighbouring housing estates of Pennyland and Willen Park.
Al-Mizan Charitable Trust
(UK, 1135752) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,242.00Al-Mizan Charitable Trust is a UK funder that supports disadvantaged individuals and families living in poverty through small grants and interest-free loans of up to £500.Recently we funded 24 year old Layla, who is a refugee from war-torn Congo, where she was raped by a militia group at the age of 15 years. She fled her home country, with her grandmother, after her family were killed. Settled in the UK, she married a few years ago, but her husbance was violent towards her. After becoming pregnant, she fled her husband’s home, afraid that her husband’s regular beatings would harm her unborn child. She now lives in a hostel, sharing a room with a crack addict. Layla works 25 hours a week on minimum wage as a cleaner, earning just £152 per week (gross), struggling to meet her basic living costs. She is also paying back the loan for her grandmother’s funeral costs, who passed away last year. She wants to go to college, to improve her English, but government subsidies for ESOL classes have now been cut. She applied to the Trust for £200.Although the UK benefits from a welfare system, the sheer reality is that many fall through the gaps, or simply do not have enough to survive. We need your help to give needy individuals and families, the chance to break the vicious cycle of poverty.
HACT
(UK, 1096829) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,235.00HACT believes that the provision of housing must be about more than just bricks and mortar. We are a national charity that works with the housing sector, government, civil society and communities to develop and share innovative approaches to meeting changing housing need. www.hact.org.uk
Digartref Ynys Mon
(UK, 1076680) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,095.10Digartref Ynys Mon is a charitable organisation supporting homeless people on Anglesey with a Day Centre, a Supporting Accommodations Project, a Floating Support service and a Homeless Prevention team.
Simon Community Northern Ireland
(UK, N/A) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,055.68
(UK, N/A) We are a voluntary organisation which provides emergency accommodation, advice and community support for people who are homeless or are at risk of becoming homeless. We have developed services to meet a variety of needs associated with being homeless, for more details click www.simoncommunity.org.
CATH
(UK, SC021740) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,994.33Churches Action for the Homeless (CATH) is a charity which supports, encourages and promotes the development and delivery of projects to relieve homelessness and poor housing, improve the conditions of life and generally aid the development of persons who are homeless in the Perth and Kinross area.
Rainbow House
(UK, 1111579) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,935.00Rainbow House, near Malindi in Kenya, is a Childrens home that cares and educates orphaned and destitute kids. We believe that every child is a gift from God, so in addition to caring for their physical needs we also share the hope we have in the Good News of Jesus and his ultimate rescue.
Emmaus Cambridge
(UK, 1064473) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,890.57Emmaus Cambridge provides home and work for previously homeless people and those people choosing to live in a community environment. We collect and sell second-hand items and all proceeds support our work with homeless and marginalised people. We are part of the worldwide Emmaus Movement.
58i
(UK, 1110176) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,843.0358i is a Nottingham based charity that seeks to provide holistic restoration for those experiencing acute hardship. Our heart is to offer transformational services that lead to long term change and development in those we work with. We specialise in homelessness, debt and addiction.
Llamau
(UK, 701772) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,813.63
(UK, 701772) Imagine having nowhere to live? Where would you go? Who would help you? In South Wales, hundreds of young people and women are homeless, frightened and alone. Your support will help Llamau deliver specialist advice, accommodation & education, enabling vulnerable people to rebuild their lives.
KCAH
(UK, 1075890) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,714.44is a registered charity set up by 55 churches in the Borough of Kingston upon Thames. It aims to relieve the distress of homeless and potentially homeless people by the provision of services and resources and to promote awareness of the issues surrounding poor housing and homelessness in our area.
Home-start Epsom, Ewell And Banstead
(UK, 1156539) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,706.98WHAT IS HOME-START? Home-Start offers support, friendship and practical help to parents with young children, in local communities throughout the UK and with British Forces in Germany and Cyprus. Home-Start offers a unique service, recruiting and training volunteers who are usually parents themselves, to visit families at home who have at least one child under 5 and offer informal, friendly and confidential support. To help give children the best possible start in life, Home-Start supports parents as they grow in confidence, strengthen their relationships with their children and widen their links with the local community. Whilst all Home-Start schemes are guided by the same principles, each is an autonomous unit, individually registered with the Charities Commission, and with their own local management committee responsible for their own funding. Home-Start, Epsom Ewell and Banstead has its office in Great Tattenhams and supports over fifty volunteers who visit and support local families in need.
Watford Mencap
(UK, 1004431) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,621.27Watford Mencap supports adults and children with learning disabilties in SW Herts, through a range of services including Advice & Information, Residential Services, Community Support and our Children's Centre in North Watford. Although affiliated with National Mencap, we receive no funding from them
Exaireo
(UK, 1125402) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,620.63We exist to help homeless people to rehabilitate themselves, by providing accommodation, education and skills training, advice and support, plus some practical work experience. We operate in the East Midlands, and our base is in Loughborough