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ASD Family Help
(UK, 1135718) Browse events
YTD Raised: £480.00
(UK, 1135718) The ASD Family Help charity is a 'User Led' independent and voluntary group that offers free support and advice to individuals on the autistic spectrum, their parents, carers and professionals within Wokingham Borough, Berkshire UK. We aim to: help improve services for children and adults with ASD, provide support to parents/carers, provide free advice and information, provide training across the Borough and raise awareness of ASD.
Paperweight
(UK, 1146302) Browse events
YTD Raised: £480.00
(UK, 1146302) Paperweight - A weight off your shoulders. We are here to help you take control of your domestic administrative affairs. When you are feeling stressed and vulnerable, and you just can’t cope, the simplestadministrative tasks feel insurmountable; often leading to unwelcome, additional pressure and intrusion in this increasingly bureaucratic and impersonal world.We offer a free service, cross communally around London. Paperweight deal with bureaucracy, welfare and benefits, with banks & buildingsocieties, with the taxman, councils, utilities, probate, insurance, divorce and legal issues. We maintain a proactive approach to debt management and household expenditure and will intervene with creditorsstabilising precarious situations. We will act as advocate and help review and complete documents and if necessary, draft in expert opinion in a range of matters.We offer guidance, confidentiality, experience and a common sense approach.We aim to give our clients the confidence to carry on with their lives. Charity No: 1146302 Find out more Website http://www.paperweighttrust.com
Samaritans of Taunton and Somerset
(UK, 271224) Browse events
YTD Raised: £478.59Samaritans provides confidential non-judgemental emotional support, 24 hours a day for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide. Samaritans have had a Branch in Taunton for over 40 years. The doors are open from 9am to 9pm every day to visitors and, nationally, telephones are manned 24 hours a day, every day of the year. We have approximately 100 volunteers, taking over 40,000 calls a year. We also respond to e-mails and texts. In addition, our speakers give talks to schools, colleges, clubs and other groups. We accept third party referral calls from many organisations, including our local hospitals and various other agencies. Samaritans can be contacted by telephone, by letter, by email and text or by visiting the branch in Wood Street, Taunton. All our members are volunteers but we need your donations to keep our branch running and our phone lines available. Your support will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Mayfield Nurseries
(UK, 1128592) Browse events
YTD Raised: £476.08A plant nursery in Mayfield Park, Southampton. Selling a range of award winning plants at affordable prices. Every penny we make is ploughed back into helping people with mental health issues at our nursery. People with mental health issues and learning disabilities come to develop new skills and be part of a supportive, friendly community. We have seen dramatic improvements in people’s mental health, confidence and self esteem.
Bristol Drugs Project Limited
(UK, 291714) Browse events
YTD Raised: £475.00BDP is an independent charity committed to reducing drug and alcohol related harm and promoting recovery in Bristol. With over 25 years experience the charity provides services to over 2,500 people each and every year. All our services are free and confidential
QCCC
(UK, SC021833) Browse events
YTD Raised: £470.00
(UK, SC021833) QUEENSFERRY CARE provides quality support services to older people and their carers in Rural North West Edinburgh
Get Connected Helpline
(UK, 1081840) Browse events
YTD Raised: £470.00Get Connected is the UK's free, confidential helpline for young people under 25 who need help and don't know where to turn. Our service is available 365 days a year by phone, webchat, email, text and our online directory, WebHelp 24/7.
Dyslexia Foundation
(UK, 1080330) Browse events
YTD Raised: £466.00Dyslexia Foundation began in 1999 as a resource and support agency for adults with dyslexia. The aim of the charity is simple - to help people with dyslexia no matter what their circumstances are. We continue with the same ethos today, offering free advice, guidance and support. The organisation has a hands on approach offering free screenings and assessments to those most disadvantaged. We are the only organisation in the UK to deliver free screenings and assessments aswell as dyslexia training. The charity likes to offer support and solutions and focuses on ability rather than the disability.
CHANGES Community Health Project
(UK, SC025130) Browse events
YTD Raised: £463.00Changes is a charity that provides free support to people experiencing mild to moderate mental health issues in East Lothian.
SWEDA
(UK, 1056441) Browse events
YTD Raised: £455.00Having an eating disorder, or supporting someone who has, can be a distressing and bewildering experience. Somerset and Wessex Eating Disorders Association (SWEDA) offers a range of services throughout Somerset and the surrounding area. Based at Shepton Mallet in Somerset, in the Southwest of England (UK), we provide support to anyone affected by eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, compulsive eating, binge eating disorder and all related conditions. Our services include Counselling Services, a monthly Self help Support Group, Training and Presentations for Health Professionals and GPs, and an Outreach and Community Support programme, working with young people in Secondary Schools and four of the major Colleges in the county. We are here to support and listen to you, wherever you are on your journey.
Town Break (Stirling)
(UK, SC020526) Browse events
YTD Raised: £455.00Providing practical support for people with dementia and for their carers
Daisy's Dream
(UK, 1067739) Browse events
YTD Raised: £451.48Daisy’s Dream supports children & families facing & following bereavement throughout Berkshire. Advice & support is available to over 500 children each year. • Phone advice/support • Email/online support • Direct support for children • Group events • Information/advice & support for professionals
Camden Psychotherapy Unit
(UK, 1112967) Browse events
YTD Raised: £450.00The Camden Psychotherapy Unit (CPU) is a community based mental health organisation providing a free confidential psychoanalytic psychotherapy service to adults over 18 years old living in London. The organisation offers short term, long term, Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) and group therapy.
PCI (Project Concern International)
(UK, 1098703) Browse events
YTD Raised: £450.00PCI’s mission is to prevent disease, improve community health and promote sustainable development worldwide. We envision a world where resources are shared, communities can provide for the health and well-being of their members, and families can live with hope, good health and self-sufficiency.
Age Concern In Cornwall And The Isles Of Scilly
(UK, 900542) Browse events
YTD Raised: £449.42Age UK Cornwall & The Isles of Scilly, the new name for Age Concern Cornwall & The Isles of Scilly, was established in 1972. Our mission We have five basic purposes: 1.To provide support, products and services to older people that promotes independence, control and choice. 2.To provide support to local communities so that they might offer sustainable solutions to individuals and families. 3.To improve public understanding of older people by providing opportunities for older people to have their voices heard and by transmitting the needs and views of older people. 4.To explore and promote new and creative ways of meeting established and newly identified needs affecting people in later life. 5.To work in partnership to promote the interests of older people. We are the leading independent charity in Cornwall and The Isles of Scilly working to improve the wellbeing of people in later life. Offering Services Such as: * Information helpline - Our dedicated, local information line is staffed by trained and experienced advisors who have a wealth of knowledge about solutions for people in later life. * Carers helpline - We recognise just how important carers are and how difficult the job of being a carer can be. Our carers helpline offers help and support to carers and their families. * Promoting Independence in People - PIP (Promoting Independence in People) is a trained support team who can visit you in your home. They can help you to lead an independent, healthy and happy lifestyle. * Advocacy - Our advocates can help you with completing forms, contacting official organisations, and sorting out a range of problems. * Budget planning - Did you know that more than £5 billion in means-tested benefits go unclaimed every year by people in later life? We can help you to claim what you're entitled to. * Nail cutting - We offer a clinic-based affordable toenail cutting service in various locations across the county. * Homecare - We can help with domestic tasks such as cleaning and shopping, or simply stay with someone to allow their carer to go out.* Social Centres - Our social centres in St Austell, Falmouth, Truro and Newquay are great places to make friends and try new things. * Befriending - We can pair you up with a volunteer befriender who can visit you or telephone you on a regular basis for a friendly chat. * Memory Cafes - People with concerns about their memory, and their carers, can come to a Memory Cafe for a cup of tea and a chance to have some fun together. To Names Just a few, please visit our website: www.ageukcornwall.org.uk for further information.
United Response
(UK, 265249) Browse events
YTD Raised: £445.95United Response is a UK charity that supports people with learning disabilities, mental health needs and physical disabilities to live in the community, across England and in Wales. We provide person-centred services to people so they can be as independent as possible. We work with families and carers, local authorities, and other partners to provide people with the best possible package of support, tailored to the individual needs of those we support. follow us on twitter:
Dartford Gravesham and Swanley Mind
(UK, 1103790) Browse events
YTD Raised: £445.00Dartford, Gravesham & Swanley Mind is a mental health charity providing services for people in the Dartford, Gravesham, Swanley and surrounding areas of Kent. The Charity has been working with people with mental health problems since 1967. We provide the following services: Community Services, including drop-in activity sessions and coping with life groups, mentoring and agoraphobia service, supported housing, low cost counselling service and Talking Therapies on the NHS. We also provide numerous opportunities for people to volunteer with our organisation to learn new skills and to gain the confidence to move on to paid work.
Concern For Mental Health
(UK, 1098307) Browse events
YTD Raised: £444.00We promote positive attitudes toward mental illness , reducucing stigma We providefree innovative mental health service imporovement in South Asia and UK, including consultation and help to ailing institutions serving chronically mentally ill patients .We promote rehabilitation . We educate and train mental health professionals
Crossroads Care Skye & Lochalsh
(UK, SC015158) Browse events
YTD Raised: £437.79Life can be very hard for a carer. Crossroads Care - Skye and Lochalsh provide short respite breaks for carers by arranging for trained Care Attendants to go to the individual's home on a regular basis to do the tasks normally carried out by the unpaid carer.
Westminster Mind
(UK, 292708) Browse events
YTD Raised: £437.00Westminster Mind provides services and support to people recovering from mental health problems. We have developed a wide range of services to meet a variety of needs including counselling, a treatment programme for people with agoraphobia, supported housing, befriending, a workscheme which builds up peoples work related skills and teaches IT skills, help to obtain voluntary work, and a drop in centre with a choice of activities, information and support. We welcome help from volunteers. Please look at our website www.westminstermind.org.uk Our workscheme designs and sells cards and can offer businesses design and printing services. Please take a look at their website www.portugalprints.org.uk
SCB (Special Needs) Ltd
(UK, 1079534) Browse events
YTD Raised: £435.00Our aim is to provide a therapeutic workshop facility for people in the locality with special needs / learning difficulties who wish to explore the world of work in a safe and controlled environment. Through instruction and supervision service users learn basic work and life skills, gain an understanding of the world around them, interact and form friendships, grow in confidence and gain a sense of well being. The structured routine also offers parents and carers respite and the opportunity to organise their own time.
Open Age
(UK, 1160125) Browse events
YTD Raised: £430.00Open Age works with older Londoners to create chances to get together, find work, learn new skills and develop new interests. By doing this we help people stay healthy in both mind & body to keep living life to the full. We aim to combat loneliness & isolation and improve health & well-being.
Telford Mind
(UK, 516444) Browse events
YTD Raised: £426.66Telford Mind offers support to people in emotional or mental distress and helps people to improve their wellbeing. The Wellbeing Centre is open to all who wish to improve their wellbeing. Telford Mind Promotes Wellbeing. Thats Telford Mind’s Mission.
Downtown Radios Cash for Kids
(UK, 1122062DR) Browse events
YTD Raised: £426.26Cash for Kids aims to support local children under the age of 18, who are financially, socially, emotionally or physically less advantaged. Additionally to encourage healthy lifestyle options by promoting physical, mental and general wellbeing of children and adolescents within the Downtown and Cool FM Cash for Kids region.
SFRS Family Support Trust
(UK, SC043924) Browse events
YTD Raised: £425.00SFRS Family Support Trust helps serving & retired Service personnel & their families, in times of need. Assistance includes financial grants, information, support and provision of a Spanish respite facility, for rest, following illness, injury or bereavement etc. www.sfr-familysupport.org.uk