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Art Refuge - Uk
(UK, 1114353) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,000.00
(UK, 1114353) Art Refuge; the place for spirits to soar! The Art Refuge Programme provides Tibetan refugee children with a protected time and space in which to play and make art. After making the arduous journey across the Himalaya's in search of an education and a brighter future, the children arrive at a reception centre in Nepal. These centres provide a safe and nuturing space in which they can simply be children again. Within the Art Refuge programme they are supported by adult facilitators who have undertaken the same journey into exile and therefore can understand and relate to the children’s fears, anxieties and need for comfort. For these children, whose lives have been disrupted, playing and making art is an essential therapeutic activity which can help to reduce stress and establish normalcy. Clearly, play and art activities of and in themselves, cannot change stressful circumstances. What such activities can do, however, is enable the children to engage in meaningful interactions, thereby helping them to cope with stressful experiences through shifting the balance of social, environmental and psychological factors in a positive direction. Art Refuge is the only organization officially working with the children in the reception centres in this way, and we therefore have a unique role to play in their transition from Tibet. Currently, we depend entirely on donations. All of the contributions recieved go towards ensuring the centres and the local tutors are enabled to support the Tibetan refugees. This means providing the required supplies for the activities, maintaining the classrooms and most importantly paying for the local tutors to work with the children.
Home-Start CHAMS
(UK, 1132506) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,947.52Home-Start CHAMS (Crawley, Horsham & Mid-Sussex) are a family support charity dedicated to helping local families build better lives for their children. We help ordinary families who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, through trained volunteers visiting them in their own homes.
The Ayrshire Hospice
(UK, SCO11390) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,880.00
(UK, SCO11390) The Ayrshire Hospice, located in Ayr, provides Specialist Palliative Care for people with cancer and other life limiting illnesses and support for their families and carers across Ayrshire. All Hospice services are free of charge and as a registered charity we rely on the support and generosity of our supporters without whom the Hospice could not exist.
Slide Away
(UK, 1136331) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,857.28Slide Away provides support for children and young people in West Kent, who have been bereaved of a relative or friend. Bereaved children and young people have told us that, following the death of someone important to them, they sometimes feel anger, grief, numbness, relief, fear, confusion, despair, shock, denial, sadness, anxiety, depression, guilt. Slide Away offers two-day therapeutic workshops, which enable children to explore and express their emotions, to find ways of coping with their grief and to help them start the process of moving on through creative activities. A typical workshop will start with the children getting to know each other and telling their own story, if they are able, through whatever medium they feel comfortable, be it words, pictures or models. They write down their emotions on paper, which they use to build a feelings volcano. They are encouraged to talk about their fears and worries and to make a model of something of which they are frightened, usually a spider, to help them face those fears. The children decorate a photo frame and memory box, in which to keep any treasured items. On the second day, the group will discuss the things that help them get through a particularly bad day, typical examples of which are talking to friends, listening to music, playing on the computer, and they can then make their own “first aid kit” containing the things that they find particularly supportive. The final activity gives the children the opportunity to write a final message to their special person, which is then attached to a helium balloon and released. Prior to the children’s workshop, parents/carers are invited to a one day workshop to sample the activities in which their child will participate. This day aims to help adults understand their child’s grief and to encourage communication within the family. Following on from the workshop, Slide Away also holds further therapeutic days, where the children and young people can meet up again with the friends they made at their workshop. These take the form of music therapy, creative writing, art therapy, drama or outdoor pursuits. We also host two annual family events – our Advent Candle day, which helps families to prepare for Christmas and remember their special person at a difficult time, and a kite flying day, at which the children build, decorate and fly their kites in memory of the person who has died. Slide Away take all referrals through schools and we maintain a network of volunteer School Bereavement Contacts in the Maidstone, Tonbridge and Malling areas, all of whom are given awareness training to give them the confidence to support a bereaved pupil and make contact with their family. School can feel like a safe haven and a place of continuity for a bereaved child, especially if their home circumstances have become difficult or changed dramatically, and it is important that there is a member of staff, who is aware of their situation, to whom they can talk. Our vision is for all children in Kent to have access to a bereavement support service, which acknowledges their grief and experience of loss following the death of a close relative or friend.
NCT
(UK, 801395) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,846.36We are the leading charity for pregnancy, birth and early parenting in the UK with over 100,000 members supporting over 1 million new & expectant parents every year. We offer accessible information through our publications and our antenatal and postnatal courses as well as counseling and telephone support through our Breastfeeding, Early Days, Enquiry and Pregnancy and Birth Lines. Our 314 volunteer led branches provide community based services to new & expectant parents throughout the UK.
Jewish Deaf Association
(UK, 1105845) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,810.35The JDA is a world where there are no barriers to communication & understanding between D/deaf and hearing people; a world with respect, inclusion and equality. The JDA is a charity which provides innovative, high quality, professional services to Jewish D/deaf and hard of hearing people.
Bedford Daycare Hospice
(UK, 1001614) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,807.53Bedford Daycare Hospice cares for people in Bedfordshire with life limiting illness, from diagnosis through investigations and treatment, to remission or palliative care. Local support is vital. You can make the difference!
Bens Heroes Trust
(UK, 1146468) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,776.81Ben's Heores Trust was setup on the 10th December 2011 in memory of Ben Loyns, and other brave children like him, to relieve sickness in children with cancer under the age of 18 and treated within the UK by providing financial aid and support to assist them with accessing new treatments and drugs not otherwise available on the NHS. They also, when financially practical, ease the suffering of children with cancer by offering support and funding for projects which improve the quality of the child's life whilst they are being treated.
Char Bhanjyang
(UK, 1151044) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,768.00We support the poor and vulnerable in the field of health and education in the remote parts of Nepal. We provide health care through a telemedicine link, saving many lives and give better education to children. We believe by helping these disadvantaged people we can make this world a better place.
Children in Distress
(UK, 1001327) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,759.90Children in Distress is a UK registered charity caring for Europe's forgotten children abandoned, terminally ill, in need of care and support. Our hospices,children's centre's and therapy centres offer " Hope and Hospice Care" we exist simply "To Cure Sometimes, To Help often, To Comfort Always.
The Pepper Foundation
(UK, 1056823) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,756.15The Pepper Foundation funds a team of six Children's Nurses providing at home palliative care to children and young people across the Chilterns with a life-threatening or life-limiting illness,. Available 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year, Pepper makes no charge for its service.
The Kindu Trust
(UK, 1069574) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,743.00The Kindu Trust is a UK and Ethiopian registered organisation dedicated to improving the livelihoods of children and their families in Ethiopia. Since 1998, we have worked alongside community stakeholders so more children are becoming healthier, are succeeding at school and are being offered brighter prospects for their futures. At the centre of our work is our Child Sponsorship Programme. Through financial, medical and educational support, the Child Sponsorship Programme is aimed at improving the lives of poor Ethiopian children from their early childhood to their young adulthood. This enables sponsored families to afford food, water, fuel and shelter, and most importantly, it goes a long way in helping to ensure that the children do not have to work to supplement their household income. Since 1998, we have worked alongside community stakeholders so more children are becoming healthier, are succeeding at school and are being offered brighter prospects for their futures. Additionally, we administer and manage several important projects designed to benefit our sponsored children and families, ranging from community recreation activities to income-generating initiatives. You can find out more about our history, projects and achievements on our website. www.kindutrust.org Thank you for supporting us to affect such positive change in the lives of children and their families in Ethiopia!
Lifelites
(UK, 1115655) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,646.00Lifelites empowers 9,000 children and young people in hospices with life-limiting, life-threatening illnesses and disabling conditions with assistive and inclusive technologies to create, communicate and take control. There is a Lifelites project in all 49 children’s hospices in the UK & Ireland.
The Junction
(UK, 1125578) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,529.00The Junction aims to make a positive difference to the lives of children, young people and their families in the Tees Valley area. We are built on twenty years experience and have a reputation of delivering high quality services to young people and put them at the “heart” of everything we do.
Rotary Club Of Bideford Bridge Trust Fund
(UK, 1029875) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,505.68Rotary - the global network of community volunteers - supporting those in need and charitable causes worldwide. Through charity events fundraising sponsorship monies for Rotary supported causes; principally, Children's Hospice South West, North Devon Hospice, Shelter Box, and various local youth and sports causes.
Palliative Transport Service (Fermanagh)
(UK, The) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,435.00The Palliative Transport Service (PTS) is a local service for local people in Fermanagh. PTS provides a comfortable door to door ‘transport for treatment’ service for individual patients travelling to Belfast, Derry and other locations, for cancer treatments.
Angus Lawson Memorial Trust
(UK, 1117735) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,421.00The ALMT makes targeted grants to organisations working towards its shared mission to mitigate the suffering of children Worldwide. The trust also provides a grief and bereavement support service.
Magic Moments
(UK, 1096180) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,412.00The Magic Moments Charity Fund is dedicated to helping children suffering life limiting illnesses and their families. We achieve this by organising magic moments, to make youngsters' dreams come true. We also donate money raised to children's hospices across the UK so they can buy essential equipment.
Friends of the Leeds Centre for Leukaemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma
(UK, 509071) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,401.37Assists in the relief of persons suffering from leukaemia and other blood disorders by promoting research into such disorders and by assisting in the furnishing, equipping and maintaining a ward in Leeds for the use of people suffering from these disorders from wherever they may come. The additional aim is to give added value to the services already provided by the NHS.
The George Oliver Foundation
(UK, 1135701) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,380.00The George Oliver Foundation was founded in loving memory of a little boy George who died in 2009. George's Foundation works to support disadvantaged children, funding projects with a range of charities including War Child, Sick Children's Trust and Volunteer Reading Help. www.georgesfoundation.org
Herriot Hospice Homecare
(UK, 1151298) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,374.00Herriot Hospice Homecare works as a hospice without walls in Hambleton & Richmondshire. We aim to enable patients with life limiting illnesses to remain at home, by providing specialist palliative care workers, therapists, volunteers & bereavement counsellors to support them and their families.
BRIDGEtheGAP
(UK, 1167) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,345.00We are improving facilities and support on the Isle of Man for teenagers and young adults with long term health needs.
Brent Adolescent Centre
(UK, 1081903) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,335.00The Brent Centre for Young People (BCYP) provides specialist help, support and treatment to vulnerable young people aged 14 to 24 with emotional and mental health difficulties.We aim to help young people achieve lasting change through innovative, age appropriate and effective services.
The Pavement
(UK, 1110656) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,330.03The free monthly magazine for homeless people, containing news, advice columns and a directory of homeless services. Distributing in London, the West Midlands and Scotland, for many it's a vital resource, as well as a source of humour.
Peace Hospice Care
(UK, 1002878) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,296.00
(UK, 1002878) Peace Hospice Care looks after people living with a life limiting illness and supports their families from across South West Hertfordshire. We provide inpatient care, a day service, an outpatient service, a hospice at home service as well as bereavement support, and all care that we provide is free.