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THOMAS BEWICK SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS
(UK, 1013636) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,284.35
(UK, 1013636) Thomas Bewick School, a Specialist SEN College for Communication and Interaction, in Newcastle Upon Tyne. We are a specialist school for children aged 3 – 19 with a diagnosis of Autism. Thomas Bewick School is for children and young people with autistic spectrum disorder. It was set up by Newcastle Local Education Authority in 1999 as a specialist provision in the City although it also serves pupils from other local authorities. The school currently has 144 pupils on roll, all of whom have a Statement of Special Needs which identifies Austism as their principle special educational need. Our pupils have a range of learning needs; some will require a high level of adult support to access the curriculum, whilst others are achieving close to age related expectations in some areas.
Jonny's Journey
(UK, 1047600) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,259.13
We want to send one special 7 year boy, Jonny Maberley, to America for pioneering SDR surgery to treat his Cerebral Palsy & fund his intensive post operative physiotherapy. We operate within the registered charity Orleans Primary PTA (formerly called FOOI) the PTA for Jonny's school.
The North Halifax Grammar School Parents' Association
(UK, 1097637) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,135.00The North Halifax Grammar School Parents' Association raises around £20,000 a year, 100% of which is donated to the School to fund the purchase of educational resources and equipment that the School would not otherwise be able to purchase. Recent examples include a new minibus, state-of-the-art digital AV equipment for the hall and a baritone saxophone
Bethany School (Sheffield)
(UK, 327687) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,125.00Ella needs a platform lift so that she can have access to the second floor of our building and join her friends in the Senior Classroom. Our school receives no government money and does not charge fees. The school is funded through voluntary contributions. Please help if you can.Thank you.
The Thunder Foundation
(UK, 1159407) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,109.90The Thunder Foundation has opened a school in Nairobi for 150 of the poorest children, 35 of them are special needs children. Offering them Free Education, Food and Health Care. We also run a Football Academy for 160 homeless street children. Our founder, Raad Swais, a P.E.Teacher from East Sussex, moved to Nairobi in 2012 to teach at a private school. He was so appalled by the conditions in the slums he decided that he must try and help. Our first school opened January 2014 with 22 hand picked children, (from the poorest families.) The advantage of our charity is that Raad runs all our projects first hand. He still works full time at the private school but all his spare time is for The Thunder Foundation. Team Thunder fund raise in the UK and every penny we raise is spent on our projects in Nairobi.
Alamiyah Educational Foundation
(UK, 1158578) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,078.00The Alamiyah Educational Foundation was established as a not for profit organisation by a group of teachers, professionals and community members to address the pressing need for an education that is both balanced and spiritually nourishing whilst catering for the individual needs of each child.
Mapledown School
(UK, 295504) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,048.42Mapledown Barnet's secondary special school for pupils with Severe and Complex Learning Disabilities. Many of the pupils also have additional sensory and physical impairments and an increasing number are either on the Autistic Spectrum or have complex medical care needs
Oliver and Learn
(UK, 1163391) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,047.00Oliver & Learn is the charitable foundation of OLIVER group, a global integrated marketing agency. We have one mission: to alleviate poverty. We do this by supporting educational projects in disadvantaged communities around the world. Education leads to better lives. And we’re passionate about the benefits our grants provide. The students we support may not have otherwise been able to attend school. But through education, they are able to enhance their own lives, as well as that of their families and community. It's amazing how far a small amount of money goes - £120 pays for a student to attend school for an entire year. Attending school, also means they are guaranteed a daily meal, which otherwise might not be the case. All the money we raise goes directly to support schools and students. We work with local charities to ensure it goes to the most needy. We appreciate all the support that you are able to give and so do the kids, who really need this the most.
Friends of Asha (Ireland)
(UK, NIC101268) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,042.43Friends of Asha (Ireland) is the Ireland support group partnering the Asha Charity in Delhi India and are involved in all the issues that keep poor people, in the slum colonies there, trapped in poverty. Its programmes help gain access to healthcare, financial services and education, and equip the slum residents with the tools to make long-term, positive changes to their lives. Asha is currently supporting over 500,000 people in 55 slum colonies in Delhi through its programmes but it is in education that the most amazing things are happening. In 1988 less than 50% of children attended school. Today 96% of children in Asha’s slums attend school and Asha has been successful in removing obstacles to allow slum children gain places in colleges, leading to internships and ultimately into the workplace. Since 2008 over 1,200 students from slums have attended university. They are leading the way for thousands to follow.
Halow Project
(UK, 1116773) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,965.00halow'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.
Rural Africa Children's Education Trust (RACET)
(UK, 1127759) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,940.00RACET works to provide high quality secondary education to underprivileged children in Ntrigom, Nigeria. We currently sponsor 37 children and will soon introduce pioneering technology and online resources in a newly constructed school building to improve the prospects of the students and community.
Lotus Caring Hands
(UK, 1132258) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,922.00Lotus Caring Hands provides free education for impoverished young people to engage in educational activities. LCH aims to give the most disadvantaged young people a second chance in life, by giving them the skills, confidence, support for higher education and to find a job and live independently.
The Queen's University of Belfast Foundation
(UK, NIC102044) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,822.84The primary function of The Queen's University of Belfast Foundation is to generate financial support for the University's capital development programmes, academic initiatives and projects that enrich the lives of people in Northern Ireland & across the globe. Charity Registration No: NIC102044
Shepherds Down School Fund
(UK, 298561) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,815.24Shepherds Down School Fund was set up to support Shepherds Down School, an infant and junior school for students with special needs in the Winchester area, Hampshire. The students, aged 4-11, have a variety of special needs including autistic spectrum disorder, severe learning difficulties, profound and multiple learning difficulties and physical difficulties. Whilst the school is funded by the local authority to deliver the students statutory education, the school is constantly looking at ways to add to and enhance every student’s school experience, with the intention that this will raise self-esteem, boost self-confidence and ultimately give each student the greatest opportunity to achieve once they have left the school. Such activities and projects of course cost money, and this is where the school’s registered charity looks to play its part. This, in practice, means working with the students, parents, staff and governors to look at projects that will provide the most benefit and impact to as many students as possible. Hence, the charity has raised money for projects large and small, a few examples of which are: Buying Christmas presents for students each year Purchase of two minibuses to take students on educational visits. Refurbishment of two sensory rooms within the school. Building canopies outside classrooms to provide a dry play area. Purchase of IPADS and eye gaze technology to enable pupils to experience and get involved in the new technology that is in the market. We are now hoping to raise money to complete our aim of having one IPAD for each class, a replacement minibus and converting a grass area into an all-weather play area. We are also going to have to upgrade our Light and Sound room and this project will be underway if we can secure funding.
National Literacy Trust
(UK, 1116260) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,697.44The 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.
United World Schools
(UK, 1129537) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,657.81United World Schools builds schools and trains teachers in some of the world's poorest regions. Piloted in Cambodia and now working in Burma and Sri Lanka, UWS has built 14 primary schools providing an education for 3000+ children. Our aim is to work in 20 countries supporting 500,000 children.
Cardiff City FC Community and Education Foundation
(UK, 1128443) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,650.00A registered charity since 2009 the mission of Cardiff City FC Community & Education Foundation is to use the brand of Cardiff City FC to deliver a first class, engaging and innovative service tackling the Health, Education and Inclusion agenda's for all members of society.
Royal School For The Deaf Derby
(UK, 1062507) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,632.00Royal School for the Deaf Derby is a non-maintained special school which provides education for deaf learners aged 3 to 19 in an environment which values British Sign Language as well as written and spoken English.
The Brickworks
(UK, 1127606) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,607.00The Brickworks was set up to support projects in South Sudan. We sponsor Sudanese health students to gain further qualifications; we build primary schools; we support the Martha Eye Clinic and the Martha childrens ward. We also limited financial support to the Diocese of Yei.
The Livery and Freeman Fund
(UK, 1069124) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,584.82The Merchant Taylors’ Company's charitable activities are education, with a particular emphasis on its own “family of schools”; to the relief of poverty, disadvantage and homelessness; the provision of assistance to those who are elderly and infirm; and support for people with disabilities
Gordonstoun School
(UK, SC037867) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,556.26Gordonstoun School International Community Service Projects around the world in Egypt, Romania and Thailand and Ethiopia. If you would like to make a donation to one of these projects please tag your name with the project.
Together Trust
(UK, 209782) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,538.88The Together Trust provides care, education & support for those experiencing emotional, physical & learning disabilites & autism. Services include residential homes, fostering, domiciliary care & special schools & colleges. Every penny we receive makes a difference - thanks for your support.
Ardingly College Kenya Project
(UK, 1076456) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,519.00More than half of Kenyans live in POVERTY –approximately 22 million people. 13% are unable to read; less than 30% of people living in rural areas have access to a toilet and only half of the rural population have access to clean water. Our desire is simple: to HELP and make a difference. The Ardingly – Ndogo School Partnership To mark the 150th Anniversary of Ardingly College we decided to raise enough money to help build a new primary school in Kenya through the Charity ‘The Kariandusi School Trust’, set up by Old Ardinian, Harry Vialou Clark. Ndogo is the thirteenth school he has built. Ndogo Primary School was mainly a mud hut school, situated in a very remote part of Kenya. It sits at the bottom of the northern edge of the Eburru Hills some two hour’s drive north of Nairobi in a semiarid area of the Great Rift Valley. The hills are the result of now extinct volcanic action. The tribes who live in the area rely on condensing steam that spurts from holes in the hillside for drinking water. To the north, stretching as far as the eye can see, are square miles of wild emptiness that not so long ago were inhabited by teaming animals of all types. Sadly, much of these have been hunted for meat and profit. The area has been described as being ‘at the epicentre of Black Africa’. Yet, for all that, the Rift Valley is strikingly beautiful and the children you encounter are always neatly dressed in their school uniforms and invariably cheerful in the face of considerable adversity. They are desperate to improve their lot by gaining the best possible education. Neither political intervention nor massive foreign investment will solve Kenya’s problem. The answer instead lies in educating the country’s children; indeed the more immediate issues of Aids and ecological degradation can only be tackled effectively if the next generation understands the problems and is taught how to deal with them. The Ardingly College community raised £80,000 to build new classrooms, a library and water harvesting system and tank at Ndogo and last summer we introduced a lunch-time feeding programme for the all Ndogo pupils (for some this will be the only main meal they will have). The building work has now been completed and we have converted the old colonial railway station which is on school land and built in 1903 at the edge of the infamous ‘badlands’, into accommodation for four teachers and their families. Because of the remoteness of the school staff have long distances to travel and sometimes didn’t arrive at work at all. We anticipate that this unique addition to our work will greatly increase the teacher/pupil contact and that learning will be greatly improved. At the last count there were 160 Luo, Kikuyu, Masai and Turkana children at Ndogo Primary School but there is no doubt that many more will wish to be educated there now the project is completed so we have built a school suitable for 320 children and due to increasing pupil numbers we will have to raise more money for the feeding programme. The fact that children from the main tribes in Kenya are represented at Ndogo was one of the reasons that attracted us to the project as it reflects the multi-cultural community we have here at Ardingly. Last year the group built a playground at Ndogo which was a resounding success. It’s an amazing privilege to see a 16 year old sit on a swing for the first time in their life (see pictures below). This year we plan to raise money to decorate the newly constructed nursery as well as build a large adventure playground at a nearby centre for street children. The Kenya Equatorial Challenge Fundraising Page: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserProfilePage.action?userUrl=ardinglyinkenya Please click here to see some footage from previous years' trips>>