Ireland Air Ambulance hope to launch Ireland's first Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS). Based in Northern Ireland, but aiming to cover the border counties of the Republic as well, this free-to-user service is being funded entirely by donations received from the general public and local businesses.
The BRC is a small charity which provides antenatal and postnatal classes, information and emotional and practical support to women and their families through pregnancy, birth and early parenthood. We have a lending library and several free support groups including breastfeeding, international women and homebirth in a warm welcoming environment!
The Breakaway Foundation is the only UK wide charity offering support to children with bladder and/or bowel diversions/dysfunction and their families. The Breakaway Foundation takes children and their families out of isolation and help them to realise that they are not on their journey alone.
At Best Beginnings, our vision is of a future where all children enjoy excellent care from the very beginning, where families have the information and support needed to protect their children's health, and illnesses and deaths can be avoided. Our innovative work is unique in the UK, exploiting as it does the window of opportunity between birth and two years of age, where foundations for a healthy childhood can be laid. Times are very tough for small charities like us. We urgently need your support to enable us to continue our crucial work. Please consider making a regular donation – even as little as £3 a month will help us make a difference to all Britain's babies. Join us online at www.bestbeginnings.info.
Every day, people living with terminal illness are given the choice to stay at home by Helen's Trust. By responding to the needs of individuals and their families we help people stay at home, bringing comfort and support at the end of their lives.
The Friends provides support and care for the patients of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and the wider community. Its regular fundraising activities enables the Friends to grant donations to the hospital for essential equipment not provided by the NHS. Patient services include mobile library, craft and shop trolley and hairdresser.
The Edwin van der Sar Foundation supports people with brain damage. Through sport- and physical projects we aim to improve care and rehabilitation. Our involvement is both financial and substantively. We use the Foundation’s brand to create awareness and highlight the challenges they face.
Seeing is Believing is a global initiative to help eliminate avoidable blindness. We help bring affordable eye-care to some of the poorest communities in the world. We’re a collaboration between Standard Chartered Bank and the International Agency for Prevention of Blindness (IAPB).
It provides support and help for Cystic Fibrois sufferers at The Knight Centre at Frimley Park Hospital.
Delivering gifts and smiles for children receiving treatment on Cystic Fibrosis and Oncology wards.
Promoting awareness and prevention of group B strep disease in babies before birth through early infancy
SWINDON STROKE SUPPORT GROUP = FUN, FRIENDSHIP & A HELPING HAND a.. The Group aims to improve the quality of life of stroke survivors and their carers. b.. To prove that there is a life after a stroke. c.. Keen to make the best of what life has to offer.
Our vision is that patients with cancer and other life-limiting illnesses in our area can choose how and where they want to be cared for towards the end of life. We provide 24/7 responsive Hospice at Home care and support for all the family during the illness and through bereavement.
We aim to create a hospital in Bangladesh for the prevention, detection and treatment of cancer. The Charity has a long term plan for total cancer care for disadvantaged people living in Bangladesh and surrounding areas.
SIMCAS provides trained volunteer medical staff to any incident in the South East at the request of the South East Coast Ambulance Service.
Newcastle Healthcare Charity is an NHS dedicated charity who support local hospital services at the RVI, Newcastle General and Walkergate hospitals (general & specialist care); St Nicholas & St George's hospitals (mental health services) and Hunters Moor hospitals (neuro-rehabilitation). The charity enhances patient care, treatment and experience through a wide variety of grants; supports innovative research and development and facilitates additional training and support for NHS staff
Working with children in Bangladesh slums. Among other we provide full educational expenses, uniform, transport, books, nutrition and comprehensive medical care to the entire family members. Average cost is about £22 per month. Our long term goal is to unlock the cycle of poverty.
Cambridge Breastfeeding Alliance (CBA) is a small charity set up to provide much needed skilled help, support and information for families in and around Cambridge who want to breastfeed their babies. We run a free weekly drop-in staffed by breastfeeding counsellors and IBCLC lactation consultants for mothers and babies, and their families, offering support and encouragement. We are dependent on donations to pay our running costs including room rent. Please support us! "If it weren’t for the support, practical advice and reassurance I got there I don’t think I’d have kept on breastfeeding, and I’m really glad I did! This caring place is exactly what is needed to help people to get going and keep going with breastfeeding." Claire "Without the welcoming, non-judgemental support I received here I doubt I would have succeeded in breastfeeding beyond three weeks. Due to the expertise, patience and care of the staff and volunteers, my daughter received the benefits of breastfeeding for over a year " Rachael
We are a small charity that provides the sickest children of Queen Alexandra Hospital, Cosham and their families a FREE short break away at a local Haven Caravan Park. We need £38,000 to make this dream come true and £10,000 each year after to continue to offer these breaks away.
Safe surgery and obstetrics is impossible without safe anaesthesia. This charity delivers education on anaesthesia and intensive care to health care workers in Malawi. 43 courses have been delivered to Malawian anaesthetic clinical officers since 2006. The charity is funded by grants and donations.
The Charity provides medical equipment, facilities and services for additional benifit of patients and staff. You can donate easily to the Hospital Ward, Clinic or area of your choice or to our specific Target Fund which has been set up to raise £3million for a new Children’s Unit. To be done in 3 phases – An Outpatient Department £700K, a new ward £2million and an Educational and Outdoor Play Area £300K.
None shall be turned away is the pledge of LAMB hospital in rural North West Bangladesh. We raise money for a poor fund so that no-one is turned away from treatment because of their poverty. It is well known locally that LAMB treats people first and deals with finance later, and so the poor come to LAMB. Every penny of donations received by LHCF goes to LAMB; as our small administrative costs are borne by our Trustees. The LAMB project runs a network of 25 clinics and safe delivery units, and a 150 bed hospital. They help an average of 460 outpatients a day. It also provides health care to the 1. 5 million poor in the surrounding villages, using more than 400 trained village health volunteers to raise awareness of how illness can be prevented. One of its proudest achievements is to decrease the number of mothers and children dying in childbirth to half the national level in this area, but there is much more to be done! In addition to clinical services LAMB’s work includes: community dvelopment; working to improve women’s rights and to reduce violence against women; training community midwives; and improving the health and education of children with disabilities.
Making your hospitals even better.... Colchester Hospitals Charity works to provide many extras that cannot be supplied by the NHS alone, making a real and positive difference to patient care in North East Essex.
The Cynthia Spencer Charitable Trust funds staff & equipment at the Hospice that are not funded by the NHS, currently funding fifteen members of staff including Macmillan Nurses, In-Patient Nurses & the Chaplain. It also administers funds for the county-wide Hospice@Home & Occupational Therapy teams
LoveQuiltsUK is a charity that makes quilts for life-long and terminally ill children.