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Think Amy
(UK, 1156530) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00
(UK, 1156530) Think Amy is a registered charity which promotes safe driving. We do this through education, partnership working and raising public awareness about the consequences of dangerous driving. We have a particular focus on educating new and young drivers, statistically most likely to cause death or serious injury on the roads. The charity was set up by Jane Hofmeister after her 13 year old daughter Amy was killed on 15 June 2011 whilst cycling on a cycle path in broad daylight in Taunton, Somerset. The driver of the car that killed Amy had been racing another at motorway speeds along a residential road. He overtook the car he was racing, lost control on a bend and struck the kerb, flipping the car into the air which hit Amy, killing her instantly. We want to remind the driver that their driving style is a choice they make themselves - the driver alone has the power and the choice to drive safely - we want to influence that choice. We want to encourage all drivers to drive safely and reduce the number of avoidable, unnecessary deaths and serious injury on the roads.
London Musicians Collective
(UK, 290236) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00
(UK, 290236) Resonance104.4fm is an art radio station run by volunteer musicians, artists, instigators and critics from London's kaleidoscopic cultural communities. Experimental, inclusive and pedagogical, it is a challenging model of community media once hailed as "the best radio station in the world".
FOCUS Friends of Children in Uganda Scotland
(UK, SC040564) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00FOCUS aims to build the capacity of extended families in Uganda to look after the children of their deceased relatives, thereby helping to keep children in their communities and prevent them from being sent away to orphanages. FOCUS supports the relief of poverty of orphans and vulnerable children and young people in Uganda and their extended family carers affected by HIV/AIDS through raising funds to support: - breakfast feeding centres, so that school-aged children will be better prepared to learn at school- after-school clubs that support the development of the children’s education, their social and emotional development, and widen their access to leisure opportunities FOCUS is run by a small group of volunteer trustees in Scotland who work to raise a minimum of £7000 per year to support the continued funding of the 2 breakfast centres (Breakfast Centres D at Bulindo & E at Kiwologoma) run by NFSC in Uganda. We have no running costs in Scotland so every penny raised goes to the projects in Uganda. We also promote volunteering opportunities and links between Scotland and Uganda. Strong links have been made between the community of Muirhouse in Edinburgh and Namugongo, with further exchanges planned. Our Annual Report for financial year 2009-10 is available.
Bookfeeding
(UK, SC046248) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00
(UK, SC046248) Bookfeeding Project is a non-profit organization aimed at shipping second-hand books and re-usable educational material to communities in need.We refurbish educational facilities in cooperation with local NGOs and organizations as part of already existing projects, but we also build libraries as independent projects. The initiatives aim at being self-sustainable, environmentally friendly and at creating fruitful and long-lasting projects that can create revenue to maintain the educational facility in good conditions and support the costs related to it. If you have any unwanted books you can send them directly to one of our libraries, drop them off at one of our collection points, or even bring them with you when visiting one of our projects. We are on a mission to prompt a conscious involvement in volunteering experiences. We want people to realize first the challenges of their own society before embarking in a project abroad, and to be fully aware of the environment they are going to work in. Volunteers are welcome to contribute either in their home country or to join the projects in field. In this case, they are asked to bring in their unique human skills and ideas to the projects. We believe in small fundraise, and huge impact through a conscious contribution. This is possible, are you in? Charity No: SC046248 Find out more Website http://www.bookfeeding.org Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bookfeeding/ Twitter https://twitter.com/BookfeedingProj YouTube https://vimeo.com/162937366
Holborn Community Development Project
(UK, 1110439) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00HCDP works with children and adults of all ages in south Camden providing community development and support through arts, education and other activities to those who may not otherwise have access for reasons of financial or social exclusion.
Read Dance and Theatre College
(UK, 1142899) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00"I am very impressed by the work of Read Dance and Theatre College, and am happy to be a supporter" - Dame Judi Dench Since being founded in early 2011, Read College has provided over £50,000 to support disadvantaged young people. The ethos of Read College is simple - The Arts should be accessible for everyone, not just those with money. We provide bursaries, mentoring and exceptional training to you people who have the raw talent to make a career in the theatre industry but lack the family or financial background to be able to pursue their dream. By giving them access to foundation training we enable these young people to go on to some of the top dance and drama schools in the UK, which in turn gives them the chance to have a career that otherwise would never have been possible. “I had nearly given up on any chance of succeeding………’Read’ gave me the confidence to believe I could make it.” - Student Testimony We don't save lives, we change them. Please help us to support these talented young people by giving them the opportunities that they deserve.
Halsway Manor Society Limited
(UK, 247230) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Halsway Manor - National Centre for the Folk Arts - is a folk arts centre that provides courses, events and activities for everyone interested in traditional folk music, dance and song, storytelling, folklore and arts and crafts. Located in the Quantock Hills - an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty - in West Somerset, Halsway Manor has a fascinating history that goes back over 600 years. The Manor has a warm friendly atmosphere, tranquil woods and gardens, great food, a bar, a range of overnight accommodation and camping in the grounds. The Kennedy Grant Library contains thousands of books and recordings of folklore, customs, traditional folk music, dance and song - an excellent resource for research and study. 'Our Future' Development Fund The Board of Trustees have launched plans to develop the facilities so that people of all ages and abilities can access Halsway Manor more easily and learn about the folk traditions found in England and further afield. The Manor HouseConserve and repair the historic features (Halsway Manor is Listed as Grade II* by English Heritage). Make more of the building accessible to visitors by moving service and support facilities (ie. kitchen and offices) out to the rear of the Manor and refurbishing those spaces for learning, including increased space for the library and a new dining room. Activity CentreA timber-framed building, in the grounds behind the manor, designed to have a low impact on the environment and the natural and built heritage. It will provide new spaces for arts and crafts activities (for example, musical instrument making) while being an exciting space for use by schools, young people, families and the local community to do a wide range of folk activities. Performance SpaceA new building adjoining the manor for dances, concerts and celebrations as well as providing a larger teaching space for dance and music. More overnight accommodation, improved accessBuilding some new accommodation to the rear of the Manor. Improving access to the gardens, woods and grounds. More parking and better camping facilities.
Watford African Caribbean Association (UK, 1144021) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00The Watford African Caribbean Association is a small charitable organisation that uses local knowledge and decades of experience to transform the lives of the vulnerable, the elderly and children, whilst preserving African and Caribbean traditions. Established in 1976, the Watford African Caribbean Association is open to all. Our volunteer-led services include an award-winning Saturday Supplementary School for children aged between 5 and 16, a Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia Support Group and an activity, exercise and lunch project for the elderly called the United Friends Club. We also organise a range of cultural events each year with the support of local business, volunteers and others. Charity No: 1144021 Find out more Website http://www.wacas.org.uk/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Watford-African-Caribbean-Association-Limited-497192713677857/ Twitter https://twitter.com/WACASSOC Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/95801853@N07/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/WACASSOC
Underwood Challenge 10km Run and 4km Fun Run
(UK, 1116266) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00The Underwood Run has been raising money for national and local charities for 26 years. The 27th annual run is raising money for Asthma UK, Underwood Primary School and local clubs and groups around our area.
Wass Village Hall
(UK, 1104547) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Wass village hall has served the community for 90 years and is now in need of replacement. It is heavily used for dances,panto's ,bridge, WI and all other meetings and folk arts events. It is due for demolition in March 2009. We have raised about half the funds needed from a population of only 110.It is a vital community building for our area.
Friends Of The Potteries Museum And Art Gallery, Stoke On Trent
(UK, 507834) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00The Friends of the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery is a registered charity (507834) whose aims are to promote, support, assist and improve the Stoke on Trent Museums. Please help us raise much needed funds for the Staffordshire Hoard and the Spitfire Appeal by clicking: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/Staffordshirehoard http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/Spitfire Or you may prefer to to make single or monthly donation to our general fund that supports both the Staffordshire Hoard, The Spitfire Appeal and the the Stoke-on-Trent Museums, The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery and Gladstone Pottery Museum, please click the donate buttons opposite. Thank you for your kind donation The Museum Friends
IdeasTap
(UK, 1132623) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Please donate now to make a real difference to young people working in the arts. We rely on donations from people like you to help young talented people find jobs and take part in amazing artistic opportunities. IdeasTap helps young people find work in the creative industries through training, mentoring, seminars, CV clinics, paid internships and our extensive employment database. We work with leading arts organisations and creative businesses to provide career opportunities and paid commissions, and we offer facilities and support for start-ups through our Creative Space programme.
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide (UK, 313015) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00The **** Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide is Britain's leading and most extensive archive on the Holocaust. Established in Amsterdam in 1933, the Library was originally founded as an information service to reveal the true nature of events in the Third Reich. Today, the Library holds an exceptional collection of over two million items including published and unpublished works, press cuttings, photographs and eyewitness testimonies, and it is this collection that lies at the heart of our work. The Library aims to serve scholars, researchers, the media and the public as a library of record, engaging people of all ages and backgrounds in understanding the Holocaust and its historical context. It provides a resource to oppose anti-Semitism and other forms of prejudice and racism. We reach out to audiences across the UK encouraging students, the media, writers, policymakers, educators, legal professionals, refugees, survivors and their descendants to use our wealth of materials in their search for the truth. The Library is committed to exploring innovative ways to promote study and engagement with source materials, and to enable connections and explorations with modern day issues. As a living memorial to the evils of the past, the Library is dedicated to verifiable truth, democratic accountability, openness and tolerance of ethnic and religious differences. The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide is Britain's leading and most extensive archive on the Holocaust. The Library holds an exceptional collection of over two million items including published and unpublished works, press cuttings, photographs and eyewitness testimonies, and it is this collection that lies at the heart of our work. You are welcome to visit us and study our books, documents and photographs in the Wolfson Reading Room. We aim to serve as a library of record, engaging people of all ages and backgrounds in understanding the Holocaust and its historical context. The Library is committed to exploring innovative ways to promote study and engagement with source materials, and to enable connections and explorations with modern day issues. We have an active Learning and Outreach programme of free lectures, book launches, workshops and seminars run by leading academics and educators. We also run a temporary exhibition programme throughout the year and our current First World War exhibition ‘The Kaiser’s Jewish Soldiers: Loyalty, Identity, Betrayal’ showcases objects, documents and artefacts from our extensive collections. Story of the Library The Library is named after Dr Alfred Wiener, a German Jew who after the First World War began to fight against the surge of antisemitism in Germany. In 1933, Dr Wiener and his family fled to Amsterdam where he established the Jewish Central Information Office, which collected information with the purpose of revealing the true nature of events in the Third Reich. In 1939 the JCIO was transferred to London, and throughout the Second World War Allied Governments as well as the BBC made extensive use of its collection, which was increasingly referred to as ‘Dr Wiener's Library'. After the war, the Library provided critical evidence to the Nuremberg Trials and later to the Eichmann Trial, and became a key source of information for survivors attempting to trace their families. Today, the Library’s collection continues to grow with more items added every year, including materials on other genocides such as Rwanda and Darfur. The Wiener Library is open to the public five days a week free of charge. Read more about our work and our history at www.wienerlibrary.co.uk
Greater Moulvibazar Welfare Trust UK
(UK, 1144065) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Greater Moulvibazar Welfare Trust is a UK based non profit organisation that raises money to help poor people living in Moulvibazar and other parts of Bangladesh enabling them to have a better quality of life. The organisation was established in 2009.
The Music Centre
(UK, 1079536) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Since 1992 Islington Music Centre has brought music tuition of the highest quality within the reach of all children and young people aged 6 - 18 in the Islington area of North London. Over two thousand children and young people have benefited from its provision, developing talent and confidence that has enabled them to excel.
Rosewell Development Trust
(UK, SC042673) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Rosewell Development Trust promotes the social, environmental & economical sustainability of the village of Rosewell in Midlothian. We are fundraising towards building a community hub in the centre of the village with a cafe, arts space, business units and a farm shop, and to run community events & activities.
Sang-ngak-cho-dzong
(UK, 1019886) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Sang ngak cho dzong is the charity that supports the Aro Buddhist tradition in the UK. The Aro Buddhist tradition wishes to establish a permanent centre in Britain to make this form of Buddhism more accessible to people. We intend to raise £500,000 to establish a centre capable of hosting events. People endeavour to improve the world in different ways: through improvements in diet, physical and mental health, housing, and education. Our approach encourages joyful interpersonal relationships. Happy marital relationships ensure that children grow up in an atmosphere free of mutual psychological damage. Although we are a Buddhist charity, our teachings are open to anyone. At heart, the logic of our tradition is simple: world peace begins in the family. If children have positive role models in terms of their parents’ relationship, they are more likely to grow up as kind balanced individuals. This provides a self-perpetuating positive influence upon the world. The centre will bear the Tibetan name ‘Drala Jong’, which means ‘Sparkling Meadow of Primal Iridescence’. Of this name Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Dechen write: ‘Drala Jong innately exists in human beings. ‘Drala’ is the appreciative faculty which exponentially enlivens people the more they engage with the world. Appreciation is the key to enjoyment and to the delighting in the enjoyment of others. When we learn to appreciate phenomena our sense fields ‘Jong’ begin to sparkle and a sense of generosity is born which connects us with others. Although Vajrayana Buddhism is by no means unknown in the West -the sense in which enjoyment and compassion are mutually interdependent remains unexpressed. We would like Drala Jong to be a place where human beings could discover the pleasure of existence - the pleasure that animates the sense fields and revitalises the Arts - and the art of living.’
Open Minds Theatre Company
(UK, 1107362) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Open Minds Theatre Company (OMTC), Rotherham's "groundbreaking" arts organisation, works across all art forms and is committed to using performance drama and other art forms as a means of opening peoples’ minds and combating bigotry and prejudice.
Leicester Masaya Link Group
(UK, 1088684) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00The Leicester Masaya Link Group is a non-governmental organisation which manages the town-twinning link between Leicester and Masaya in Nicaragua (Central America). established in 1987, the LMLG aims to - help to reduce poverty in Masaya through partnerships for sustainable development. - raise public awareness of global issues in both Leicester and Masaya. In Leicester, the LMLG raises public awareness of the link and related global issues across all sectors of the community. We use our experience of development and knowledge of Nicaragua to provide a rich source of materials and programmes for schools, youth and community groups. Learning from our Nicaraguan partners is integral to our educational work, helping us to promote social inclusion, active citizenship and education for sustainable development. We have a well-stocked resource centre based in Southfields Library and throughout the year we hold a number of public events that showcase our project work and celebrate the culture and diversity of our respective cities. The LMLG develops and maintains an exchange of contacts that foster friendship, mutual understanding and enrich the lives of people in both cities.
Charlton Musgrove Memorial Hall
(UK, 304732) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Please help our Memorial Hall renovation. The hall, the focal point of our community was constructed in 1950 in memory of those who died in both wars. We are a small community of 150 households and need to raise £250,000 for a major overhaul before it becomes unusable. Find out more at www.justgiving.com/charltonmusgrove
Society of Scottish Artists
(UK, SC009586) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00The Society of Scottish Artists (SSA) was established in 1891 to ‘represent the more adventurous spirit in Scottish Art’. Its aims and objectives have evolved since those beginnings to include the representation of art from other countries and a more open arena for contemporary art activity across Scotland. SSA is an artist-led membership organisation governed by an elected President and elected Council consisting of around twelve members of the Society. Specialist professionals are co-opted onto Council to assist on particular projects. SSA continues its tradition of holding an Annual Contemporary Open Exhibition in the Royal Scottish Academy Gallery (RSA) in Edinburgh. Installation, video, computer and performance art alongside a strong core of works in traditional media result in challenging and invigorating shows. In an art-world where the divide between "new genres" and "traditional media" has rarely been wider, the SSA plays a unique and vital role in bridging the gap. Each year the SSA selects a number of graduating students from the Scottish art college degree shows to exhibit in the Annual Exhibition. SSA recognised the benefits of an integral education programme in its formative years and this groundbreaking policy has continued and strengthened to the present day, involving school groups, artist talks, workshops and gallery tours. Please visit our website to find out more, or email us at [email protected]
Staines Preparatory School Trust
(UK, 296691) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Staines Prep is a fantastic non-selective, independent, co-educational school. Its aim is for every pupil to achieve their potential within a secure, happy and stimulating environment that allows them to grow in confidence and flourish as individuals. The School has a reputation for high standards of education and pastoral care and for producing pupils who are thoughtful, courteous and considerate of the needs of others. An exciting £3m project to build new state-of-the-art teaching and performance facilities is currently in progress and includes a new Multi-Functional Hall, Art Design and Technology and Science suites, Music Room, five extra classrooms plus new changing rooms and toilet facilities. The initiative is consistent with the School's ethos and long-term strategy to enhance its curriculum and provide the widest range of opportunities to its pupils. Its Fundraising Appeal target of £350k is to fully fit out the new areas with high quality, specialist equipment, including acoustic screens, tiered seating, lighting and sports equipment to enable the pupils and the local community to use the facilities as soon as possible. All donations, large or small, would be really appreciated. Everyone at Staines Prep is very excited and we look forward to sharing our new facilities with you in Spring 2013.
Docklands Sinfonia
(UK, 1147781) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Docklands Sinfonia is a young and exciting new symphony orchestra which has become a major cultural force in London’s dynamic Docklands. Since its formation in January 2009 by musical director Spencer Down, the orchestra has enjoyed incredible success with performances at Buckingham Palace for the Queen, the Royal Albert Hall with Grammy-award winner Imogen Heap and the House of Lords. The orchestra has worked with high profile artists from renowned trumpeter Alison Balsom to cello virtuoso Leonard Elschenbroich as well as organisations including the English National Ballet, Royal Opera House and National Youth Theatre. Docklands Sinfonia has appeared on BBC1 and BBC Radio 3, as well as performing regular sell-out concerts with world-class soloists at St Anne's, Limehouse. The orchestra is particularly proud of its educational parternship with young musicians in the London Borough of Hackney. Over the coming year, we are looking to expand our educational projects in the area.
Stepping Out Theatre Company
(UK, 1117912) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00We are the country's leading mental health theatre company working with mental health service users and theatre professionals to create exciting, entertaining theatre productions and bring the joyous and healing power of theatre to our participants and audiences.
The Welsh Sinfonia
(UK, 1122525) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Classical music is important in itself, and to the health and mental well-being of adults and children. As a small orchestra, we champion music which is part of the fabric of our culture and we demonstrate to audiences in schools and concert halls the thrill of live orchestral performances. .