Help the Hospices is the leading charity supporting hospice care throughout the UK. We want the very best care for everyone facing the end of life. The majority of hospice care in the UK is provided by our member hospices. Care is given free of charge to the patient and their friends and family. It can be at home, in the hospice and in the community and can be for days, months or years.
bigmoose is a charity who's sole mission is to 'leave the world better than we found it'. we do this through a variety of ways and work to help people within our guidelines of our 3 point plan: 1. mental health 2. homelessness 3. prevention of suicide
Princess Alice Hospice is a charity providing all patient care and support free of charge. We give outstanding end of life care to adult patients, and support to their families and friends across a large part of Surrey, south west London and Middlesex. As a leading UK Hospice, learning, teaching and research are also central to our work, and we deliver innovative care programmes to both local and national audiences. Fundraising and community support are crucially important to our continued work as a charity and in supplementing our modest NHS grant.
Haven House Children's Hospice cares for children and young people from birth to 19 who have life-limiting and life-threatening conditions and who are unlikely to reach adulthood.
Pieta House, the centre for the prevention of self-harm or suicide opened its doors nearly a decade ago in Lucan, County Dublin. In the intervening years we have seen and helped almost 20,000 people in suicidal distress or engaging in self-harm, and opened up eight subsequent centres.
St. Catherine's Hospice provides specialist palliative care for the people of Chorley, Preston, Longridge and South Ribble. Care includes specialist community nurses, day care, in-patient care, family support, lymphoedema, complementary therapies etc.
Francis House is a very special children's hospice caring for over 230 children and young people with life limiting conditions and their families. We need to raise £3.3 million a year to keep Francis House open. Without your support this would not be possible.
The Charity IDEALS (International Disaster and Emergency Aid with Long Term Support) is dedicated to helping relieve poverty, distress & suffering in any part of the world affected by conflict or natural disaster. Usually, but not limited to, providing medical aid & humanitarian support.
Dove House Hospice provides specialist palliative care within Hull and across East Yorkshire. This care is provided by a multi-disciplinary team and includes In-Patient Care, and a Day therapy unit. Our services are provided free of charge to patients and their families. Without our support the local community would be without a vital service
Tŷ Hafan offers comfort, care and support to life-limited children, young people and their families helping them make the most of the time they have left together. For Tŷ Hafan to offer this unique service completely free of charge to families in Wales, it has to raise over £3 million every year.
We provide care and support for life-threatened children and their families across East Anglia and Essex - in their own homes, in the community or at one of our hospices in Ipswich, Milton and Quidenham. This year we need to raise almost £6 million from public donations to deliver our services.
St Christopher's Hospice provides free care to around 3,000 dying patients each year with a further 750 patients cared for at home each day. We must raise around £17.5 million each year to enable us to provide these services to patients and their families from Croydon, Bromley and South East London.
We exist to combat dementia. Founded by Sir Jackie Stewart, Race Against Dementia raises money to fund breakthrough research that aims to prevent and cure dementia.
Women V Cancer is a series of women-only cycle challenges in aid of three British charities – Breast Cancer Care, (RCN: 1017658), Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust (RCN: 113354/SCO41236) and Ovarian Cancer Action (RCN: 1109743) – raising vital funds to fight breast, cervical and ovarian cancers. The donations you make to Women V Cancer will be distributed equally between them. The Cycle Challenges are organised and managed by Action for Charity – Women V Cancer is established under the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), a charitable trust registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales under number 268369. The funds raised here are restricted to use for the Women V Cancer purpose and will not be used by CAF for any other purpose or as part of CAF’s general unrestricted funds.
Rainbow Trust Children's Charity provides emotional and practical support for families that have a child with a life threatening or terminal illness.
Headway (UK) - the brain injury association. Each year, approximately one million people visit A&E departments following a head injury, with 135,000 people admitted to hospital due to the severity of their injuries. Head injury is the foremost cause of death and disability in young people today.
ABF The Soldiers' Charity are for soldiers, for life; giving support to serving and retired soldiers and their families. They risk so much for us, but for them, it's "just doing their job". In return, The Soldiers’ Charity give them down-to-earth help and friendship, with no hassle or bureaucracy. We help in ways that make a big practical difference to individuals. For example a level access shower for an amputee from a current conflict or care home fees for an elderly veteran. That's what we've been here to offer for the past 66 years and will be here for as long as there is a need. http://www.soldierscharity.org
Isabel Hospice is a charity providing care for patients and their families living with cancer and other life-limiting illnesses in Hertfordshire in the Welwyn Hatfield & East Herts Districts and Broxbourne Borough, providing Home Care, Day Care, In-patient Care and Family Support. All the services are provided free of charge.
It helps fund research into Mitochondrial Disease and other metabolic disorders, the training of medical teams and support for families who are stricken with metabolic disorders.
Sobell House Hospice Charity supports Sir Michael Sobell House who at any one time help hundreds of patients with life threatening illnesses to live with dignity and freedom from pain in the time they have available. The focus is on the individual and their loved ones.
The BKPA helps adults and children throughout the UK affected by kidney disease, providing information and advice as well as grants for those in need. The charity also provides funding for renal units to improve facilities for kidney patients and adventure holidays for children and young people with kidney disease. Please help us with this vital ongoing work.
Oakhaven Hospice is a community based service providing specialist palliative care to patients facing the complex emotional, physical & spiritual difficulties arising from a life - limiting illness. It costs £3 million annually to run the Hospice, with only around 13% of these costs being met by NHS
Ovarian cancer is the biggest gynaecological killer in the UK claiming the life of a woman every 2 hours. Many women still do not know the symptoms leading to late diagnosis. We are determined to drive up survival rates by funding world-class research into causes, treatments and prevention.