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Medical Justice
(UK, 1132072) Browse events
YTD Raised: £670.00
(UK, 1132072) Medical Justice is a voluntary network of medics, lawyers, ex-detainees and others which challenges medical abuse in immigration detention and facilitates access to legal representation. Independent medics visit detainees and document their scars of torture and/or other medical conditions.
Rangers Charity Foundation
(UK, SC033287) Browse events
YTD Raised: £660.00
(UK, SC033287) The Rangers Charity Foundation helps to make the world of difference to thousands of lives through its charitable work. During season 2013/14 we will be working with The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice and ENABLE Scotland whilst continuing our long-standing partnership with UNICEF.
Samaritans Of Luton, South Beds And Harpenden
(UK, 254432) Browse events
YTD Raised: £655.00Samaritans Luton, South Beds and Harpenden is an important part of the local community. It is now one of the biggest and oldest charities in the area, with 88 volunteers. Last year, Luton Samaritans answered 24,432 calls for help. Samaritans was the first 24-hour telephone helpline in the world and has answered over 115 million calls for help since it took its first call in 1953. The charity now has 20,980 volunteers across the UK and ROI who answer more than five million calls every year. We need your help to survive another 60 years. We are available 24 hours a day, 356 days a year to provide confidential, emotional support to people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which may lead to suicide.
Halo Children's Foundation
(UK, 1166863) Browse events
YTD Raised: £650.00
(UK, 1166863) Halo Children's Foundation supports children and their families with bereavement support after the loss of a loved one. We hold a monthly Expressive Arts & Play session for children & our aim is to open a bereavement centre to provide ongoing counselling, behaviour management & therapy to families
Vale House Oxford
(UK, 299766) Browse events
YTD Raised: £615.00Vale House, in Oxford, is an independent care home for 40 people who suffer from dementia and gives support to their families. Donations buy vital equipment such as hoists for those who can no longer walk. Gifts improve their daily lives, help brighten their day or bring in some specialist help.
The Rainbow Centre Sri Lanka
(UK, 1114933) Browse events
YTD Raised: £610.86The Rainbow Centre works to address the serious problem of child poverty in Sri Lanka. It provides, education, welfare, medical assistance and loving support to children who live on the street, in slum housing and in conditions that threaten their survival.
Friends of the Family (Winchester) Limited
(UK, 1143462) Browse events
YTD Raised: £610.00It provides support to vulnerable families with children aged 0-13 years in the Winchester area through two projects. The Under 5s Project is a theraputic support group for mothers and their pre school children and the 5s to 13s Project offers a befriending service for families in their own homes.
Autism Bedfordshire
(UK, 1100722) Browse events
YTD Raised: £585.00Autism Bedfordshire is an independent charity that provides practical and emotional support for children, young people and adults with Autistic Spectrum Conditions , their parents/carers, and associated professionals throughout Bedfordshire. We aim to: break down barriers to participation that children, young people and adults with autism experience; provide a range of meaningful social, educational and leisure activities in the community for children, young people and adults with autism; provide support for siblings (having a sibling with autism often has a profound effect on their wellbeing); support parents/carers who become emotionally distressed by the whole experience of supporting their child, fighting for the right services and trying to provide a normal home for other members of the family; allow disabled children and their families to benefit from easily accessible, well run services that provide high quality specialist social, educational and leisure experiences.
For Life
(UK, 1143950) Browse events
YTD Raised: £582.53For Life brings LIFE to disabled abandoned children in Thailand. It supports four daycare centres, a residential home for up to 50 children, and a project that works with 600 children in rural communities. Its vision is to see hope restored for these forgotten children of Thailand.
Pendragon Community Trust
(UK, 1090185) Browse events
YTD Raised: £574.21The trust aims to develop high quality accommodation which would provide both care and a supportive environment for adults who experience both profound and moderate special needs.
YWCA Yorkshire
(UK, 1080111) Browse events
YTD Raised: £557.00Thank you for visiting our profile page on MyDonate. YWCA Yorkshire’s primary business is the delivery of support packages to young women and families that are robust, thorough, person centred and focused on the delivery of positive outcomes. YWCA does this through structured, holistic, whole family plans that are executed by tenacious, practical and highly skilled key workers. The mission of the YWCA Yorkshire is to make a positive difference in the lives of women and families, primarily through professionally supported accommodation and support services. Through supportive one-to-one relationships with caring, qualified staff, the YWCA Yorkshire will assist women and families to achieve their full potential as resilient and confident individuals, skilled and competent parents and fully informed and engaged community members. Charity No: 1080111 Find out more Website http://www.ywcayorkshire.co.uk Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ywcayorkshire/ Twitter https://twitter.com/YWCAYorkshire
Friends of the Leeds Centre for Leukaemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma
(UK, 509071) Browse events
YTD Raised: £555.00Assists 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.
Friends Of Park Lane Special School
(UK, 1006563) Browse events
YTD Raised: £533.00FOPLSS helps the very special children at Park Lane Special school. All the money we raise benefits the children directly. Park Lane is a school of approx 80 children between the ages of 2 and 19 with varying special needs and disabilities. We help to fund some very important projects from mini bus upgrades to sensory and light room refurbs. Be sure to know that your donations and kind support are helping to put a smile on the faces of some very deserving kids.
North London Cares
(UK, 1153137) Browse events
YTD Raised: £515.00North London Cares is a community network recruiting young professionals and students to offer a little extra time, practical support, social connection and human companionship to their older neighbours in Camden and Islington. We create one-to-one interactions to combat lonliness, and regular group activities for people to come together who may not normally interact, improving lives and health outcomes and bridging generational and social divides. Our Love Your Neighbour programme matches individual volunteers with just a little spare time to older neighbours who would benefit from a little companionship. Meanwhile, our Social Clubs - such as Film Nights, Storytelling Nights, Cooking Sessions, Concert Trips, Afternoon Tea Sessions and Games Clubs - provide a chance for people to share skills, experiences and cultural exchange. In 30 months, 700 North London Cares volunteers and 750 older neighbours have enjoyed over 325 Social Clubs, 20,000 interactions and 2,000 meals. A donation of £20 can help finance our next Social Club. £50 will help pay for a Cooking Session and meals for 10 isolated people. And a donation of £100 will enable us to host a major event for up to 40 of our neighbours to share time and new experiences with our volunteers.
Springhill Hospice (rochdale)
(UK, XN79812) Browse events
YTD Raised: £508.00The Hospice provides 16 in-patient beds and 16 Day Care places as well as respite, Hospice at Home, counselling and bereavement support for people with palliative care needs within Rochdale and surrounding districts.
West Norfolk Mencap
(UK, 226253) Browse events
YTD Raised: £489.76West Norfolk Mencap is an independent charity affiliated to the national Royal Mencap network. All the money we raise is used for the benefit of our charity - we do not receive any financial assistance from the national body nor do we pay anything to them apart from a small affiliation fee.We support people in West Norfolk who have a learning disability and their families/carers and we are entirely run by volunteers having no paid staff..
Sam Beare Hospice
(UK, 1115439SB) Browse events
YTD Raised: £475.00Sam Beare Hospice Weybridge, opened in 2006 to provide palliative care and support to patients and their families living with a life-limiting illness in the Boroughs of Elmbridge, Spelthorne and Runnymede Sam Beare Hospice aims to improve the lives of people whose illness may not be curable. We help people to live as actively as possible after diagnosis to the end of their lives, however long that may be. The highest value is put on respect and choice and support is also given to families and close friends, both during the illness and in bereavement. All care is provided for free and as a registered charity the Hospice relies on the support of the community to help fund their work.
Nepal Appeal
(UK, 1161898) Browse events
YTD Raised: £450.00The Live The Adventure ‘Nepal Appeal’ was started as a result of the Major Earthquake that devastated Nepal on 25th April 2015. We are raising funds specifically for the long term redevelopment of rural communities. Whilst vital aid and support after the disaster has been essential, the reality is that the people of Nepal will require financial support for a long time to come to recover from something of this scale.
Norfolk Deaf Association (NDA)
(UK, 1146883) Browse events
YTD Raised: £445.00Norfolk Deaf Association (NDA) is dedicated to improving the lives of young people and adults with all degrees of hearing loss. This is achieved by providing hearing aid maintenance, advice on assistive listening technology and communication methods, befriending, and support and information on hearing loss and other related conditions.
Nelson Mandela Children's Fund
(UK, 1055899) Browse events
YTD Raised: £423.22Founded by Nelson Mandela in 1994, NMCF works to improve the lives of vulnerable children in South Africa with programmes that address HIV and Aids, disability, and that build confidence, self esteem and prepare young people for a healthy and productive future.
Chilli Children of Rukungiri (Uganda)
(UK, 1106601) Browse events
YTD Raised: £420.00The Chilli Children Trust supports a project for children with disabilities in Rukungiri, Uganda. This Project was set up in 1995 by the North Kigezi Diocese of the Church of Uganda as a Christian response to the problems faced by orphaned and disabled children and their families. Regular surveys are carried out in remote areas to identify disabled children and provide them with access to: A chilli growing scheme which provides much needed income for families; Monthly clinics for children who need physio or occupational therapy, providing support for parents and carers, and teaching them to help their child develop sitting, feeding and walking skills; Surgical help for children with cleft palates, burn injuries, orthopaedic conditions and neurological conditions; Clinics for children with club foot, epilepsy, and visual problems; Support with education for deaf and disabled children, and sign language training for families.
Royal National Children's Foundation
(UK, 310916) Browse events
YTD Raised: £405.00Royal National Childrens Foundation helps vulnerable children between the ages of 7 and 18 who have suffered seriously through no fault of their own, or are seriously at risk. RNCF enables these children to attend boarding or independent day schools where they have a real chance of making a new start and achieving success in their lives. Many thanks for supporting our work.
Winchester & District Young Carers
(UK, 1155854) Browse events
YTD Raised: £390.00Winchester & District Young Carers improves the lives of children and young people with caring responsibilities by providing safe, quality support to individuals and offering an inclusive, wide ranging, and holistic approach which considers the needs of the whole family.
Joni's Army
(UK, 1167774) Browse events
YTD Raised: £388.79We help young people and children access treatments and equipment that fall outside the NHS funding umbrella. It is our mission to spread Joni's love and courage to all those who need a helping hand.