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Ipswich And East Suffolk Headway
(UK, 1075338) Browse events
YTD Raised: £491.00
(UK, 1075338) Ipswich and East Suffolk Headway’s aims are to provide rehabilitation, care and support for people with an acquired brain injury or neurological condition caused by an accident or a stroke, and to offer their families, friends or carers respite, support and advice. The services offered will assist in recovery and rehabilitation, help to develop social and daily living skills and help those who are able and wish to do so to progress on to other services. Aims of the service are to provide an environment where service users can learn, relearn and practice skills in the company of others with peer support and understanding of their needs. To provide varied participative rehabilitation activities and services geared to the individuals needs, to improve general quality of life, to provide respite for the relatives or carers of the service users, to reduce the development of higher levels of dependency or deterioration in the health of service users We provide specilised domiciliary care and support in the community to people with an acquired brain injury or neurological condition.
Age UK Wandsworth
(UK, 1069406) Browse events
YTD Raised: £490.00
Thank you very much for visiting our Age UK Wandsworth charity page. Age UK Wandsworth is celebrating 50 years of helping local older people this year, having started life as The Wandsworth Older Peoples’ Network in 1963. Age UK Wandsworth is an independent local charity helping older vulnerable people at grass roots level across our borough (which includes Wandsworth, Balham, Tooting, Putney, Roehampton and Battersea) to live happier, healthier lives. http://www.ageuk.org.uk/wandsworth/ We help thousands of older people every year in so many ways and these include: Be-a-Friend – Home visits and telephone befriending, supporting lonely and isolated older residents of Wandsworth. Carers’ Support Service – Providing assistance and help to the carers of older people when they need it most. Other services provided include home visits and Telephone Befriending. They also work with the Alzheimer’s Society SW London on the Poppy Café and Sunflower Café (monthly gatherings where people with dementia and their carers can meet, socialize and share experiences). Garden Partners – Gardening and befriending; pairing a volunteer gardener with an older person with a garden in order for them to garden for them and become a friend. Help and Care at Home – Information, help and support to older people who want to arrange help at home privately. First Stop Information – Older people can come into their offices on Old York Road during the week (mon-thurs between the hours of 10 and 4) and be given information on relevant services delivered by other organizations in our borough and be helped with information and advice. Practical Help at Home – Offers practical help with minor repairs and assistance. Information & Advice – Older people can drop in or make appointments to get help from our highly skilled advice workers on issues such as benefits and housing. Shopping Online – The placing of online food shopping orders with supermarkets on behalf of older people (who phone their orders through to the Age UK Wandsworth office for processing). These orders would then be delivered directly to the home of the older person. Out and About – Offers trips out with volunteers to those who are housebound or at risk of becoming housebound. Your Care, your Choice – Volunteers help older people who are in receipt of personal budgets. As an independent local charity every penny really counts to Age UK Wandsworth! Thank you very much for choosing to support us!
Age UK Essex
(UK, 1091058) Browse events
YTD Raised: £490.00Age UK Essex is an independent registered charity which puts older people at the heart of its work so that no one has to face the challenges of later life alone. With demand for our support growing, we strive to ensure that older people feel safe, warm and can remain independent as they wish, free from the debilitating effects of social isolation. Our priorities deliver access to advice and information, offer services or give practical help that will make life easier at home or in the local community for you, a friend or a loved one. Old age will come to us all but no-one knows how or when it will affect us, and last year we supported over 40,000 older people across Essex. Join us and help us meet the challenge to raise over £400,000 each year to match current demand, and help us be there to provide the right support at the right time for thousands more.
Medic Alert
(UK, 233705) Browse events
YTD Raised: £485.00MedicAlert is an independent charity dedicated to protecting and saving lives in an emergency … because every moment matters. With your help we can continue to provide peace of mind to members, giving many an independence and confidence they might not otherwise experience.
Imagine Independence
(UK, 1010203) Browse events
YTD Raised: £482.68
(UK, 1010203) Imagine Independence is a charity with a positive approach to mental health and works to promote opportunities for people to live a full and independent life. Imagine Independence has spent the last four decades working within the mental health sector to improve the lives of its service users.
Earthworks St. Albans
(UK, 1067139) Browse events
YTD Raised: £480.00We offer training in horticulture and outdoor activities to people with learning disabilities and/or mental health issues. Established for 20 years we have a beautiful 3 acre site with various projects including an organic market garden, apple orchards, woodworking areas, polytunnels and more. Some indoor craft making is carried out in our stunning sustainably sourced and built oak building. With electricity from solar panels A small staff team work with our trainees and we also are lucky enough to have wonderful volunteers supporting our trainees.
Paperweight
(UK, 1146302) Browse events
YTD Raised: £480.00Paperweight - 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.
Centre for Mental Health
(UK, 1091156) Browse events
YTD Raised: £464.79Centre for Mental Health aims to help to create a society in which people with mental health problems enjoy equal chances in life to those without.
Mind in Croydon
(UK, 1073880) Browse events
YTD Raised: £464.00Mind in Croydon is working to promote good mental health. It seeks to empower people to lead a full life as a part of their local community. Mind in Croydon: educates, provides services, campaigns, works in partnership, values diversity, focuses on quality, involves users and other volunteers in its work
Sheffield Young Carers Project
(UK, 1140105) Browse events
YTD Raised: £461.02Sheffield Young Carers Project (SYCP) is a registered charity that reaches out to young carers between the ages of eight and 21 from all over Sheffield. Young carers provide a substantial amount of unpaid care to a family member (usually a parent) due to illness, disability, a mental health problem or substance misuse issues. We support young carers by offering them one-to-one support, group activities and residential breaks, as well as providing a voice for young carers across the city.
Headway Cardiff
(UK, 1063221) Browse events
YTD Raised: £451.50Headway Cardiff provides support and services to people with an acquired brain injury, their families and carers in south east Wales. It offers information, advice, support, counselling, a carer's group, a specialist day centre and a young persons' community based social reintegration programme.
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
AWA
(UK, 1127921) Browse events
YTD Raised: £450.00The Army Widows' Association was formed by a group of Army widows in 2004.It aims to offer support and friendship to those who have sadly lost their husband/wife or recognised partner at any stage of their bereavement through mutual empathy, experiences and by signposting new members to other sources of help at such a difficult time in their lives. The AWA offers its support to all widows bereaved since 1981, death can have been as a result of many reasons: illness, RTA, conflict, suicide, training accidents. We hold an annual weekend and other events where widows can meet up, meet others who are in the same situation as themselves, find out lots of information, raise issues and are developing a network of smaller Regional meetings to improve our support.
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.
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
Mind In The Vale Of Glamorgan
(UK, 1066411) Browse events
YTD Raised: £441.50Mind in the Vale of Glamorgan is a Charity that works with and for people with mental health problems. We aim to develop services; which are based on the wishes, needs and rights of the people who use the service
Gordon Moody Association
(UK, 1124751) Browse events
YTD Raised: £440.00Founded as a charity in 1971 The Gordon Moody Association has over 40 years' experience of providing specialised support and treatment to acutely addicted gamblers. This has allowed us to develop treatment interventions that are purely gambling focused and address the extremes of associated behaviours.
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.