Browsing Charities
Frank Water Projects
(UK, 1121273) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,215.21
(UK, 1121273) FRANK Water sets up sustainable, community-owned clean water projects in some of the poorest communities in India. To date, we’ve allocated funds for over 100 clean water projects, providing access to safe, clean drinking water for more than 180,000 people. Join us and be part of the solution.
Walser's Tanzania Charity
(UK, 1126512) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,180.00Walsers Tanzania Charity is a small family run charity providing support to two rural communities in Tanzania. It focuses its activity on education;through a sponsorship programme and on water provision.
Hackney Migrant Centre
(UK, 1122363) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,175.49Hackney Migrant Centre is a volunteer-led charity that runs a weekly drop-in for asylum seekers, refugees and migrants. We offer free advice on immigration and housing and benefit problems. We also have a health advocate that can help with access to NHS services and GP registration. HMC was established in direct response to needs identified by local agencies and campaigning organisations such as Hackney Community Law Centre, Hackney Refugee and Migrant Support Group, and Hackney Refugee Forum. These were, particularly, asylum seekers’ lack of access to good immigration advice, and widespread housing and welfare problems including destitution, social isolation and unrecognised health problems. HMC aims to reduce poverty, mental distress and social isolation among recent migrants through the provision of high quality immigration and welfare advice and health advocacy. The service is open to any migrant, whatever their nationality, immigration status or present place of residence though almost all clients live in London. HMC also aims to encourage social interaction and mutual support by volunteers talking informally with visitors (clients), and by providing opportunities for interaction among the visitors themselves. We have a small hardship fund which enables us to make one-off payments to destitute visitors. All visitors receive a free lunch as well as support from our volunteers. Hackney Migrant Centre Aims 1. To provide advice and assistance to migrants on immigration, welfare or health issues 2. To offer a welcoming environment to migrants and help reduce social isolation 3. To publicise issues relating to migrants social and economic circumstances
Book Aid for Africa
(UK, 1118163) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,165.00Book Aid For Africa (BAFA) is a UK based charity dedicated to improving the educational resource needs of children in Africa. We do this by by sending them books and other educational resources. Every penny you donate is spent on making a difference to the lives of Africa’s children.
CHASE Africa
(UK, 1082958) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,165.00Welcome to CHASE (Community Health and Sustainable Environment) Africa. Our mission is to enable women and families to choose the number and spacing of their children and empower them to develop sustainable livelihoods.
WCM - World Christian Minstries
(UK, 1001691) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,160.00WCM works in India, Africa and the Philippines, helping children, women and communities overcome a life of poverty and neglect. Sefton Village and Women of Worth are specific projects working amongst the most destitute women & children.
Hope Health Action
(UK, 1163642) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,145.00HHA has been working in the developing world since 2006. Originally in Haiti alone but soon in South Sudan, Hope Health Action focuses its work on the most vulnerable groups in society to tackle poverty by reducing maternal and infant mortality and improving disability care and rehabilitation.
SYRIA RELIEF
(UK, 1143797) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,130.03Syria Relief is non-political, non-denominational and non-governmental. It co-ordinates charitable activities in the UK, providing help to Syrians in need, in Syria and outside it, irrespective of religion, geographic location or political persuasion.
Za Foundation
(UK, 1135748) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,130.00Za Foundation was established in 2010. Our primary focus is to support the needs of children and young people in the rural communities of the Nkomazi region of South Africa by building long term, sustainable and mutually beneficial connections between their community and our own in North Somerset. Nkomazi has an infection rate of over 40%- one of the highest in South Africa and the world. Unemployment is estimated to be around 70% and there are over 12'000 orphans and vulnerable children. We assist those affected by HIV/AIDS in South Africa by providing educational programmes that address healthcare issues and improve life skills. We believe that by improving education and knowledge we can relieve poverty and achieve social change. In the UK we promote a greater culteral awareness and understanding of HIV/AIDS seeking to achieve greater global awareness and social responsibility in young people locally. To find out more about our programmes in both the UK and South Africa please visit our website.
The Baca Charity
(UK, 1124569) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,129.91‘Investing Hope, Shaping Futures’ is fundamental to Baca.
Tzedek
(UK, 1016767) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,127.80Tzedek is a Jewish overseas development and educational charity based in the UK and founded in 1990. Tzedek works regardless of race or religion with some of the poorest communities of the world providing direct support to sustainable self-help development projects for the relief and elimination of poverty.
Global One 2015
(UK, 1158310) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,114.63Global One is the UK's only Muslim women led international development NGO focusing on the key areas of Global Health, Agriculture, WASH and Livelihoods. We use a unique faith-based approach to create smart and sustainable solutions to global poverty at the grass roots and policy levels.
The Refugee Council
(UK, 1014576) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,075.00The Refugee Council is the leading independent charity working with refugees in the UK. We provide vital support and specialist care to enable refugees rebuild their lives in safety. We speak out for the rights of refugees and challenge government policy, the media and hostile public attitudes.
Goodwill And Growth For Africa UK
(UK, 1092028) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,070.00Hello and welcome to GAGAs - Virgin Money Giving page, Goodwill & Growth for Africa UK (GAGA) - works, funds and partners with organisations delivering solutions which aim to alleviate the effects of poverty, disease (HIV/AIDS) and violence on African children and the greater communities that they live in. Africa is facing some of the biggest challenges of this century. It is a Continent of complete diversity, rich in culture and heritage but torn apart by issues which in the future can be prevented. Poverty strikes at the heart of thousands of communities and its effects relate to health, education, stability and growth. Goodwill & Growth for Africa UK - aims to work alongside organisations at different levels of development to encourage stable growth reflecting the ethos of ‘hand-ups’ rather than ‘hand-outs’. We believe in forging strong relationships and no matter the size of the organisation we work with, expect and ensure complete accountability, credibility and transparency. We believe in being pragmatic and flexible in our approach to our work and ensuring that donors/supporters are always aware of what their contributions are achieving. By the same token we strongly and wholeheartedly believe in the empowerment of the communities, organisations and individuals that we work with in Africa, thus creating a sustainable future. Our current and primary focus is South Africa, but from time to time we also have projects in other African countries. Thankyou for your support,
CARE International UK
(UK, 292506) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,061.39
(UK, 292506) CARE International is one of the world’s leading aid agencies - we fight poverty and injustice. In the last year, we worked in 84 countries, supporting 1015 poverty-fighting projects that reached more than 122 million people.
Action In Africa
(UK, 1072661) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,030.00The objects of the charity are the relief of poverty, sickness and distress in Africa and in particular in the Nyaishozi and Mtandika areas of Tanzania and the advancement of education. The beneficiaries are all the people of the area irrespective of race, religion or gender.
You Touch Africa
(UK, 1123085) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,010.00You Touch Africa arises from a group of friends who are passionate and committed to bringing about profound changes in the lives of the African poor.
The Good Shepherd Project
(UK, 1076035) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,000.00The Good Shepherd Project aims to break the cycle of poverty, violence and despair that traps children from the shanty towns of Brazil through the provision of education, skills-training and healthcare. We work in areas of social deprivation protecting children and tackling root causes of poverty.
APT Action on Poverty
(UK, 290836) Browse events
YTD Raised: £990.49Action on Poverty builds livelihoods for vulnerable people. Based in Cropthorne Worcestershire, we deliver programmes with partners in Africa & S.Asia providing practical help to the poorest victims of climate change, war and disease while enabling people to transform their communities.
Books To Africa International
(UK, 1152599) Browse events
YTD Raised: £973.50With classrooms that do not have desks or computers & libraries without books, the quality of education in Africa is poor. We work in the poorest communities, building & equipping libraries that become centres of learning & enterprise. We believe education can defeat poverty in Africa.
Xaverian Missionaries
(UK, SC012905) Browse events
YTD Raised: £965.00We are an international catholic missionary order with members from 20 nationalities based in some of the world's most deprived countries in Asia, Africa and South America. We work to promote faith development, education, health, social justice and all aspects of integral human development.
Workaid
(UK, 1041574) Browse events
YTD Raised: £890.00WORKAID tackles poverty by helping people to help themselves. We supply refurbished tools and equipment to vocational training projects, enabling thousands of people each year to build better lives for themselves and their families. We operate through partner organisations, mainly in East Africa.
Mission Morogoro
(UK, 1152814) Browse events
YTD Raised: £885.00We are working to improve health, education and economic well-being in Morogoro Tanzania.