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Quest RDA
(UK, 1074057) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,678.42
(UK, 1074057) Quest Group of the Ruding for the Disabled Association provides riding for disabled young people and adults. It operates from Langshot Equestrian Centre, Chobham, Surrey.
Carlisle Mencap
(UK, 1115348) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,673.00We support children and adults with learning disabilities in north cumbria.We have 190 members and we provide support for over 300 people. We are raising funds to build a vital respite centre for children with disabilites it will be called the Grace Little Centre.Please support our fund raisers.
Soft Power Education
(UK, 1098936) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,654.66
Providing help through volunteers with the education of the children of Uganda.
Pan Asian Womens Association
(UK, 1148405) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,645.67PAWA is a UK registered charity set up in 2009 to support teenage girls’ education in Asia. We are professionally managed by volunteers with minimum overheads. Participation is open to all - women and men, Asian and non-Asian, and we cover 31 countries and regions from Iran to Japan, Indonesia to Kazakhstan. We donate to grassroots projects in Asia where sterling goes a far longer way. Projects proposed by individual PAWA supporters are carefully vetted by the trustees. Donations are targeted at individual girls or specific programmes, and focus on the crucial teenage years. Each donation is followed up and feedback monitored. PAWA Benefactors and Friends are encouraged to visit when they are in Asia and send us comments. Since our inception PAWA donations have benefited over 2,000 girls across 12 projects in 7 Asian countries including India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia and Korea. Each year we continue to receive more worthy proposals than we are able to support. Modest amounts targeted properly, changes lives, and PAWA is doing this. We just wish we could do more. Ways that you can help : As a thank you, you will receive PAWA monthly e-newsletters (10 per year), invitation to all PAWA free public events, access to PAWA private Friends/Benefactor events (Allowed to bring 1 guest) and an opportunity to propose projects for our Charity Submission and invitation to PAWA Charity presentation evening. As a thank you, you will receive all of the above plus access to PAWA private Friends/Benefactor events (Allowed to bring 3 guests), invitation to Benefactor only events and your name in our donor section on PAWA website (or remain anonymous) As a thank you we will list you as one of our donors and keep you informed of the projects that we are supporting. Your generosity will help these extraordinary girls take the next step toward a brighter future.
Acorn Villages Ltd
(UK, 263954) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,601.38Thank you for visiting our profile page on MyDonate.Acorn Village is a Charity for Adults with Learning Disabilities. Ourphilosophy since 1972 is 'Life is for Living' & that adults with a learningdisability are people first with their disability coming second.
Crackerjacks
(UK, 1146586) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,601.00Crackerjacks Children’s Trust, are committed to offer help and assistance to any child, or their family who have suffered a severe disability - to have the same choices, opportunities and experiences as other children; to make local friends, and to access, play, leisure and recreational Facilities.
Coleg Elidyr
(UK, 502742) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,578.28Coleg Elidyr provides residential educational and training services to people with learning difficulties and disabilities.
The Fawcett Society
(UK, 1108769) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,558.38The Fawcett Society is the UK’s leading campaign for women’s rights. We make a difference by campaigning for legislative change, influencing practice, and empowering women and men to effect change at a grassroots level.
Arrow Riding Centre for the Disabled
(UK, 291623) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,555.00The Arrow Riding Centre for the Disabled provides riding and carriage driving for disabled people of all ages with a wide spectrum of disabilities. The charity works with various educational bodies and individuals.
Kincardine & Deeside Befriending
(UK, SC032594) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,510.00Kincardine & Deeside Befriending aims to reduce social isolation in older people by matching them on a one-to-one basis with volunteer befrienders. Thank you for visiting our profile page on MyDonate.
Centre 404
(UK, 299889) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,503.40Centre 404 is working towards a world where people with learning disabilities and their families have the support they need to enjoy the same rights, freedom, responsibilities, respect, choices and quality of life as people within the wider community.
Heal Kids Foundation
(UK, 1124575) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,501.20HEAL Kids Foundation is a UK registered charity supporting orphaned, abandoned and disabled children in the most deprived regions of Southeast Asia, particularly in Burma (Myanmar). Our Mission: -To improve the lives of poor, orphaned and abandoned children -To support the building of schools and libraries -To provide healthcare, food and education for disadvantaged children -To provide regular care and medical treatment for the physically disabled -To fund life-saving and life-changing medical operations for children with serious medical conditions or deformities -To provide special needs education for those with learning and mental disabilities -To supply clean drinking water and sanitation facilities 100% of money donated goes directly to the projects as all administration costs are paid by the founder of the charity. We have a long waiting list of projects in desperate need of help.With increased funding we can change, or save the lives of many more children. To find out more information on all of our ongoing projects and future developments please visit our website.
iPartner India
(UK, 1114944) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,438.64iPartner India supports a wide range of exciting initiatives that bring about real change in India. Since inception, we have funded over 70 projects, directly improving lives of 450,000 disadvantaged children, women and men in some of the poorest regions of India. www.ipartnerindia.org
HVP UK
(UK, 1082685) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,428.00HVP UK is a registered charity supporting the work of the Hindu Vidyapeeth (HVP) movement in the Himalayan nation of Nepal. Through its schools and associated projects, the HVP movement aims to provide holistic education to children in Nepal and spread the ideals of peace, tolerance and international fellowship.
AfriKids
(UK, 1141028) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,416.17AfriKids is a child rights organisation working in northern Ghana to alleviate child suffering and poverty. Listen to what a community knows it needs Empower them to make the necessary changes themselves Ensure absolute sustainability
RAY (Refugee Action York)
(UK, 1154065) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,387.00RAY's original purpose was to raise awareness of the needs of refugees and asylum seekers and of the contribution they make to the local community. It now also provides a signposting and advocacy service, and runs a week-in drop in centre for refugees and asylum seekers in York.
Jubilee Sailing trust
(UK, 277810) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,370.00
(UK, 277810) Our tall ships the LORD NELSON and TENACIOUS benefit both able-bodied and disabled people. Any help you are able to give will enable us to continue to make a difference, not just on our ships but in the homes, workplaces and communities of all our voyage crew.
Downe Residential Project
(UK, NIC102444) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,331.68Mainstay DRP is a charity providing care and support services for people with a learning disability, their families and carers in Co Down. 'Building The Dream' is their new fundraising project. £3million is needed to create a purpose built development in Downpatrick for their older service users.
Nugent Care
(UK, 222930) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,325.00Nugent Care works across North West England to address issues of social inclusion, welfare and justice for children, older / vulnerable adults and communities. Its care homes, schools, volunteers and community projects provide support and care for hundreds of children and adults with a range of needs all year round.
Ummah Hands
(UK, 1141198) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,323.08"None of you believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself." (Tirmidhi)Ummah Hands is a UK-based charity establishment with a vision to transform the lives ofthe disadvantaged members of our global society.In UK our aims are:To organise, educate and enhance the development of British Muslim communities, to encourage positive contribution to British society and the promotion of social justice.In Bangladesh we are devoted to giving the large disadvantaged population access to basic rights to clean water, food, and education. We aim to facilitate a better lifestyle for people so they become self-determining,and prosperboth materially and intellectually. This is why our leading projects are education-based; these facilities are to empower men, women, and children with education and key skills that will allow them to become independent and confident members of their local communities. Ummah Hands puts equal effort to provide help towards the less able and elderly members of our community, hoping to fulfil the rights they have upon us.Ummah Hands seeks to offer a lasting effort, and reach out a helping hand that builds our global community.We are a non-profit organisation, working solely for the pleasure of Allah.We are guided by trusted scholars to ensure the funds of Ummah Hands are spent in accordance to the standards of Islamic Law.Ultimately, we are accountable to Allah, and we aspire to be working solely for His pleasure. Charity No: 1141198 Find out more Website http://www.ummahhands.org Facebook https://www.facebook.com/halalsweets.hmc
Bromley Mencap
(UK, 800685) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,305.77Bromley Mencap provides a range of services and activities to improve the life chances of people with disabilities, of all ages, their families and carers. They are a user-led independent organisation with over 1500 members. They represent their views and campaign on their behalf for equality. Their range of services include: They are currently running an anti-bulling and hate crime campaign. They work closely in partnership with a range of organisations both statutory and voluntary. In addition they organise a Disability Awards event. They need to raise approximately £750,000 per year to keep their services and activities running.
The Book Trade Charity
(UK, 1128129) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,303.89The Book Trade Charity (BTBS), established 1837, is the trades own welfare charity, offering help to anyone who has worked in the trade for more than one year (employed, self-employed or freelance) in a range of roles across publishing, distribution and bookselling and who has a problem, whether personal, financial or health related. The Charity offers direct financial assistance to individuals in need through its Grants programme, giving one hundred thousand pounds in 2012 and subsidised housing for some three dozen at Kings Langley in Hertfordshire. BTBS helps around 200 people a year, in circumstances which include disability, long-term illness, redundancy, debt including rent arrears, poverty, carer situations. If you would like to see a film about our work please follow the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy_X5irIANY Pavillion Books' A Night in the Cells If you would like to lock up your favourite - please click below: Thank you to our 2014 London Marathon Runners - all their pages are open for a bit longer so if you feel like showing them your support! Mitchell Stevens - 3:39 http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/MitchellStevens Alison Baverstock - 4:57 http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/Baverstock Sarah Whitby - 5:08 http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/SarahWhitby Rachael Wing, Alison Manning - 6:36 http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/TheWallingfordBookshop Ellie Irving - 5:13 http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/EllieIrving Kate Whitby - unfortunately had to pull out at the last minute - but hopes to run next year FOR LONDON MARATHON 2015 Thomas Whitcomb - From Blake Friedmann http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/twitcomb For Women In Publishing Donations http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/WiPProject
Crossroads Care Richmond upon Thames
(UK, 1053224) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,292.00Richmond Crossroads Care service provides individually tailored support to Carers and people they support. Most of us juggle busy lives, but if you also look after a relative or friend who is ill, frail or disabled, you probably find it extremely difficult to have a full life of your own. Richmond Crossroads provides Care support workers to take over the caring tasks, giving the Carer a much needed break thus providing care for people in their own homes or take people out into the community. They run The Caring Cafe where Carers and people affected by dementia can meet for a light lunch in the company of others in a similar situation. They also run two Saturday Clubs for children with special needs giving parents a break and the children the opportunity to have fun in their own club and environment. In addition they have a Young Carers with special needs project called "Time Out' for children who need to take a break from their caring role.
Leeds Mencap
(UK, 1091809) Browse events
YTD Raised: £2,273.00Leeds Mencap works to improve the lives and opportunities of children and adults with a learning disability and their families and carers. Although affiliated with Royal Mencap we receive no funding from them, so we rely entirely on donations, grants, sponsorship and the generosity of the local community.