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Winston's Wish
(UK, 1061359) Browse events
YTD Raised: £213,329.98
(UK, 1061359) At Winston's Wish we help children and young people rebuild their lives after the death of their mum, dad, brother or sister. This support enables them to face the future with confidence and hope. This includes: - National Helpline - Individual, family and group work - Training for professionals
CAP Foundation
(UK, 1150092) Browse events
YTD Raised: £120,524.33CAP Foundation is an UK-based international relief and development agency. CAP aims to alleviate the suffering of the less fortunate within the UK and Asia. As well as responding to emergencies, it also looks at developing longstanding programmes to enable our cliental to stand on their own feet.
Mencap
(UK, 222377) Browse events
YTD Raised: £99,670.65
(UK, 222377) Mencap wants a world where people with a learning disability gain an equal right to choice opportunity and respect. The charity believes that people should have equal opportunities in education, work and in playing a full part in the community. They believe that support for the families and carers of people with a learning disability is vital to achieving their vision
Canon Collins Educational and Legal Assistance Trust
(UK, 1102028) Browse events
YTD Raised: £74,061.92About Our vision is of an open and just society free from discrimination, where all people can meet their needs and realise their potential. Our mission is to create opportunities for people in southern Africa to develop their full potential through education and the assertion of human rights. Alumni Since 1981 we have awarded over 3000 postgraduate scholarships to southern African scientists, human rights lawyers, civil servants, educationalists, doctors and other professionals. Our regional network of 3000 alumni is sustained by our conferences, retreats and alumni associations. Many of our scholars have gone on to become leaders in government, the private sector and civil society. They include Peter Katjavivi (1985), who set up Namibia's first university, later becoming the Namibian Ambassador to the EU; Zubeda Dangor (1996), Executive Director of the NISAA Institute for Women's Development, a South African women's and children's rights NGO; and Grace Chipalo-Mutati (2005), Consultant Orpthalmologist and Head of the Eye Unit at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia. Projects We also support community-based projects in southern Africa to increase access to education. Our project partners share our commitment to education as a tool of empowerment. They include the Adolescent Girls' Literacy Project in Malawi, which reintegrates young school dropouts into the secondary school system; the Small Project Foundation, which trains community health workers in the Eastern Cape; and the Giyani Science and Careers Centre, which strengthens science and IT education for thousands of rural South African students. For more information please visit: www.canoncollins.org.uk
Molly Olly's Wishes
(UK, 1145312) Browse events
YTD Raised: £62,581.54Molly Olly's Wishes aim to support emotionally and financially, where appropriate, the lives of children with terminal and life threatening illnesses throughout the Midlands and UK.
Kisharon
(UK, 271519) Browse events
YTD Raised: £57,153.60Providing education, support and opportunities for Jewish children and adults with learning difficulties.
The Seashell Trust
(UK, 1092655) Browse events
YTD Raised: £55,032.65Seashell Trust (formerly the Royal School for the Deaf & Communication Disorders) provides highly specialist education and residential care for those with severe learning disabilities combined with complex communication difficulties which include hearing and visual impairments, physical disabilities, medical needs and autism spectrum disorders. Our aim is to equip them with the confidence, self-esteem and the communication skills they need to reach their full potential in life.
Magic Breakfast
(UK, 1102510) Browse events
YTD Raised: £54,094.81Up to 700,000 children arrive at school too hungry to learn every day. Magic Breakfast works with primary schools across the UK with the aim to make sure every child has access to the right fuel for learning to reach their full potential. Go to www.magicbreakfast.com for more details.
The Hall School Charitable Trust
(UK, 312722) Browse events
YTD Raised: £39,105.83The Hall is one of London’s leading independent IAPS day prep schools for boys aged 4 to 13. Established in 1889 in the Belsize Park area, the school has 450 pupils spread across its Junior, Middle and Senior Schools. The Good Schools Guide says that The Hall ‘remains confidently the top north London prep school for those looking towards the country’s top academic secondary schools'.
The Foundation for Conductive Education
(UK, 295873) Browse events
YTD Raised: £32,195.94The Foundation for Conductive Education based at the National Institute of Conductive Education provides education and rehabilitation services to children and adults with neurological motor disorders such as cerebral palsy, dyspraxia, Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, stroke and head injury.
Playskill
(UK, 1122745) Browse events
YTD Raised: £30,125.55Thank you for visiting Playskill on MyDonate. Playskill provides pre-school parent and child playgroups in Watford and Hemel Hempstead for children with physical difficulty or delay.
Reed's School
(UK, 312008) Browse events
YTD Raised: £29,773.09Reed's School provides a boarding school education and pastoral care for children who have had the misfortune to have lost one or both parents through death or a family tragedy. Support and encouragement is given to help them recover and achieve their full potential.
Broomwood in Ethiopia
(UK, 1153346) Browse events
YTD Raised: £29,762.43Broomwood in Ethiopia has built a school, St George's, in Gondar, NW Ethiopia to provide free education for disadvantaged children. St George's opened in Mar '14 with 100 children and aims to continue to build & provide education for 1000 children who otherwise would not have such an opportunity.
St Finian's Building Our Children's Future - The Next Chapter for St Finian's
(UK, 246871) Browse events
YTD Raised: £27,512.00St Finian's Catholic Primary School The Ridge, Cold Ash, Berkshire, RG18 9HU St Finian’s has been caring for local children and teaching them in the Catholic faith for generations. The Franciscan Missionaries of Mary first started St Finian’s convent here on this wonderful site in 1915 and our sisters have lived and worked alongside the school ever since. Sadly, their Trustees can’t sustain the convent here any longer. We have to move on, the property will be sold and a new school must be built. That’s why our community needs to invest in the future of our children now so the next chapter can begin and the family of St Finian’s can journey on together, learning and living the Christian values of faith, love and justice. Please support our wonderful Community in the various events they have planned to raise the £210,000 we need for our new school. You can donate directly, make a pledge or sponsor one of our events.
Greggs Foundation
(UK, 296590) Browse events
YTD Raised: £26,021.67The Greggs Foundation aims to alleviate hardship by donating £1.3 million to local charities each year through a range of grant programmes. The Breakfast Club Scheme provides funding to allow disadvantaged primary school children to get a free, nutritious breakfast before the start of the school day
University of Strathclyde
(UK, SC015263) Browse events
YTD Raised: £23,686.76We're a leading international technological University located in the heart of Glasgow, Scotland. Our commitment to useful learning guides our research, our learning and teaching and the way we work with businesses and organisations.
The Wellington College
(UK, 309093) Browse events
YTD Raised: £23,107.77As a tribute to Jimmy Higham, teacher, colleague and friend, Wellington College is establishing the Jimmy Higham Bursary Fund. The award is dedicated for a pupil from the N W of England who exhibits the same dedication to learning, hard work and achieving excellence that Jimmy came to personify.
University Of Glasgow Trust
(UK, SC008303) Browse events
YTD Raised: £22,326.97The University of Glasgow Trust is the main vehicle for philanthropic donations to the University of Glasgow. The Trustees are responsible for disbursement of grants from gifts made to University of Glasgow priority fundraising projects. These include; the Medical Fund, Chancellor's Fund, Scholarships Fund, Paul O'Gorman Leukaemia Research Centre, The Scottish Centre for Ecology and the Natural Environment (SCENE), the Small Animal Hospital Campaign and the Beatson Pebble Appeal. The Trust also receives and administers unrestricted gifts and bequests for the benefit of the University.
Friends Of Valence School
(UK, 275686) Browse events
YTD Raised: £20,833.94The Friends Of Valence support Valence School which is a local authority maintained special residenntial and day school for children and young people with physical disabilities, complex medical needs and associated learning difficulties. At Valence our children and young people give life and learning everything they have got and they deserve every opportunity we can give them. Whilst core funding is provided by Kent County Council, we rely on the fundraising efforts of many supporters and well-wishers to make a real and positive difference to the lives of our wonderful students.
Abingdon School
(UK, 1071298) Browse events
YTD Raised: £19,565.96Abingdon is a leading independent day and boarding school in the south of Oxfordshire with 925 boys aged 11-18 enrolled at Abingdon School and 250 boys aged 4-13 and girls aged 4-7 at Abingdon Preparatory School. As well as encouraging academic achievement, the Schools provide extensive extra-curricular opportunities, including sport, music, drama, art, and community service.
National Literacy Trust
(UK, 1116260) Browse events
YTD Raised: £19,263.03The National Literacy Trust aims to create a society in which everyone has the reading, writing, speaking and listening skills that they need to fulfil their own and, ultimately, the nation’s potential.
University of Sussex - Development and Alumni Relations Office
(UK, XN1306) Browse events
YTD Raised: £18,594.94The Development and Alumni Relations Office at the University of Sussex
Halow Project
(UK, 1116773) Browse events
YTD Raised: £18,362.82halow's objective is to secure a rewarding future for young adults with learning difficulties based on the simple but passionate belief that they have the right to enjoy the same quality of life as any other person. halow will seek to provide them with the help and assistance required to allow them to live and work as independently as possible and with a good social life in their local communities.
Al Quran Academy London
(UK, 1135391) Browse events
YTD Raised: £17,911.66Al Quran Academy London is a UK based International Quranic Dawah Charity, set up in 2010 with the mission of Quran Distribution Worldwide and Creating awareness by spreading the word of Allah to help eradicate misconceptions and superstitions stemming from lack of knowledge.
Dulwich College
(UK, 1150064) Browse events
YTD Raised: £17,456.49Dulwich College is an academically selective but socially inclusive boys' school with a long history of philanthropy and social responsibility and with charitable status. Founded as Alleyn's College of Gods Gift at Dulwich in 1619 by the famous actor-manager, Edward Alleyn's foundation sought to provide 'good learning' for 'twelve poor scholars'. Under today's leadership of the Master and Governors, we are profoundly conscious of our historic responsibility to provide an excellent education for bright boys regardless of their parents' means. We are looking to build a community of benefactors to help us develop our bursary programme and to undertake a number of capital projects across the campus that will support excellent teaching and learning through the 21st century.