Winner, the Preston Road Women's Centre is a safe space run by women for women in the Preston Road and surrounding areas. We are here to help women of all ages, backgrounds, shapes and sizes. We aim to enable and empower women through confidence building, learning, support and volunteering so that they can make their own positive life choices
Our programme of activities is designed to raise self-esteem, reduce isolation and encourage people to care for the community. We have the chance to buy the building we use for £72,500. Please help secure this venue for the local community. Without the premises Chatterbox cannot continue its work.
Amani UK works in partnership with an NGO in western Kenya, resourcing and developing community groups, clinics and schools, with supporting infrastructure, in an area with a high level of HIV/AIDS and consequent high percentage of widows and orphans.
Junior Achievement believes in the boundless potential of young people and our aim is to help them to develop skills that will help them to get a job or to start their own business. Each year we need to raise £300,000 to support 5,000 students and 400 volunteers. Please help support our work.
Our mission is to relieve poverty, build communities and give hope to those in need, locally and internationally. We get involved in various projects like donating stationery to school children, building community centres, providing clothes, toys and bedding, giving backpacks to homeless people, etc
The Castlehaven Community Association (CCA), a registered charity (no: 295829) and company limited by guarantee (no: 2069107), was established in 1985 as a community charity that provides activities, classes and facilities across the age ranges. It is set in four acres of public open space which includes three buildings, two community gardens, with an enclosed children's play area, flood lit sport facilities for the local people and the wider Camden communities. CCA is a popular and successful community association and this is reflected in the wide use of its activities and facilities. The centre is open 9.30am to 9.30pm for projects, service and activity delivery during the week, and, during the weekend it is accessed by other organisations delivering services to the community. CCA aims to inspire and empower people of all ages, cultures and abilities to strive, both mentally and physically to achieve their full potential. CCA staff have worked hard to gain a reputation for delivering quality services to local people and a willingness to try something new by piloting new projects; these have included the first role out of the Sure Start Project, the Youth Inclusion Projects, work with vulnerable older people and many more one off locally responsive initiatives.
The primary aim of TourAid is to create long term social and economic benefits for children and young adults from disadvantaged communities throughout the world by creating links between these communities and schools or clubs in the UK. www.touraid.org
The ILEAP Charity provides people with a Additional Needs, opportunities to take part in inclusive leisure activities in their local community. ILEAP Colleagues assist our members so that they can have fun in community leisure provision, in a safe and positive environment.
Heeley Development Trust (HDT) is a small, charitable development trust, founded by local volunteers, business people & residents in 1996. We have delivered youth, community, environmental and economic development projects in and around our neighbourhood for the last 17 years.
Helensburgh & District Branch of Enable was formed in 1960. Our aims & objectives are to promote, support, advice & help people with learning disabilities to socialise and make friends in their local community. To achieve this we rely solely on public donations and continued support from volunteers.
We believe that communities can learn to self-develop, with responsible guidance and close collaboration. Many communities in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe rely on funding from charities in order to exist, but this is a fragile and insecure solution. As charity funds reduce, communities are disappearing.. The ethos of The Together Plan, is to unite communities with development partners in a way that is open, honest and transparent, so that we all work together to find solutions for a more sustainable and independent future.
Thanks to our Trustees, a small team of paid staff, and a host of volunteers, we aim to engage young and old, communities, churches, and organisations through a variety of activities including social action projects, schools’ relational work, youth work, chaplaincy, training, student support, and new expressions of spirituality in Guildford and the surrounding area.
Waverley is part of Kenilworth Community Care working to support the elderly and their carers in the community of Kenilworth and its surrounding area.
The aim of our charity is to undertake ventures where tangible benefits are experienced by entire communities. We endeavour to provide communities with the resources and abilities to improve and sustain their own well being and standards of living via our assistance. Our ethos is to direct our energies into projects aimed at health improvement, education and poverty reduction.
London Community Boxing is founded on a passionate belief in the power of boxing - in all its non-contact and competitive forms - as a pathway to a healthier community. We welcome everyone without exception, and work especially to reach the most vulnerable and marginalised parts of society.
Apple FM is a Not for Profit Community Radio Station that launched May 2013. Aimed at providing a service for the Care Community of Taunton Deane, we have a wide range of programmes suitable for all types and ages of people. Based locally in Taunton, we are passionate in serving the local community.
Christian Concern believes that we all can participate in our community. Supporting people on the margins of society regardless of ability through Furniture re-use, developing practical life skills in the wood workshop and learning zone, and creating space for local community groups and individuals.
SIFT is a Christian charity, committed to transforming the lives of the poor in Nicaragua. SIFT's projects include sponsoring children for education, supporting an orphanage, providing healthcare to local communities and building a new community for people facing eviction from their island homes.
Taste helps communities in Nigeria to help themselves. It has provided professional expertise and/or resources to develop water and sanitation projects but it will also consider other infra-structure help, such as helping with primary schooling or basic health care.
North Western Reform Synagogue - also known as Alyth Gardens Synagogue - is a vibrant community of around 3,000 members of all ages. It cares for the spiritual, cultural, social, learning and welfare needs of its members and the wider community.