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Age Concern Hampshire
(UK, 290874) Browse events
YTD Raised: £305.10
(UK, 290874) Our vision is that getting older is a positive experience where all older people are respected, valued, and able to make informed choices. We work towards making this a reality by providing services and support to people over 50 in Hampshire.
Radiomarathon
(UK, 1065089) Browse events
YTD Raised: £300.00
(UK, 1065089) Supporting people with learning difficulties! The aim of Radiomarathon is to support people with special needs and their families and carers, and highlight the issues they face, increasing insight and awareness.
Coffee4Craig
(UK, 1167146) Browse events
YTD Raised: £300.00
(UK, 1167146) When one of the founders' brother Craig passed away on the streets due to mental health and substance addictions Risha knew it was time to do something... Coffee4Craig was created as a result and we are all proud to say; There is now more awareness around homelessness and a dedicated team of regular volunteers who feed hundreds every Sunday, Monday and Tuesday by Manchester Cathedral without fail, week in week out come rain or shine... C4C volunteers are there.We also work with exsisting partner organisations to provide the best service, housing options and support packages... One person at a time... Coffee4Craig has gone from strength to strength and we have always aimed to move with the need, always offering a unique service and not duplicating efforts. We like to take a fresh approach and gain our experience from research with the community and stake our reputation on a good service and supporting those most vulnerable to regain some dignity. Charity No: 1167146 Find out more Website http://www.coffee4craig.co.uk/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Coffee4Craig/?fref=ts Twitter https://twitter.com/Coffee4Craig YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTWljDMy0EjtSzhD-gj1tiw
Climb Any Mountain
(UK, 1149311) Browse events
YTD Raised: £296.40Climb Any Mountain is an organisation established to provide support and empowerment to those in need, by reason of learning disability and mental illness in South Africa. Climb Any Mountain is committed to fostering the independence of all people with learning disabilities and mental illness.
Lincolnshire Rape Crisis
(UK, 1154562) Browse events
YTD Raised: £295.00Lincolnshire Rape Crisis is a specialist support service for women and girls in Lincolnshire who have experienced any form of sexual abuse at any time in their lives. We provide support and information for women and girls through our helpline, email, one to one support sessions, group sessions, and counselling. We listen and believe.
The Dove Service
(UK, 1086625) Browse events
YTD Raised: £295.00The Dove Service provides counselling, group support, training and awareness around issues relating to bereavement, loss and life-changing/terminal illness. We offer a national counselling phone line and in some areas, face-to-face counselling and groups.
Richmond Citizens Advice Bureaux Service
(UK, 1085878) Browse events
YTD Raised: £295.00We help our clients with the issues that are important to them, whatever they may be. We provide financial and money management training in schools and across community groups. We campaign for change to improve the policies and practices that affect people’s lives.
Home-Start Daventry and South Northants
(UK, 1105831) Browse events
YTD Raised: £290.00Home-Start Daventry and South Northants supports parents that are experiencing difficult and stressful situations such as isolation, bereavement, multiple births, disability and illness. Volunteers help to build the family's confidence and ability to cope
Herts & Beds COUNSELLING FOUNDATION
(UK, 1014988) Browse events
YTD Raised: £290.00The Counselling Foundation in Luton provides a low-cost counselling service, which aims to support the emotional well-being of those in our local community and surrounding areas. We offer long-term and short-term counselling, depending on the issues to be explored and the needs of the individual.
3D Drumchapel
(UK, SC025820) Browse events
YTD Raised: £285.503D Drumchapel makes a difference in the lives of children and families in Drumchapel and surrounding areas by providing support, strengthening relationships and empowering families to make positive change. The organisation delivers a range of activity that focuses on developing parenting skills, promoting health and well-being, and continued personal and social development. Current services and activities include parent & toddler activities, learning & development workshops, issue-based workshops, parenting programmes, pre-birth support programme, baby massage, Mums nights, drop-in’s, family trips and residentials, male carers and their children activity programme, home visits, support plans, Children’s programmes and volunteer development. 3D currently supports over 250 families.
Huddersfield Samaritans
(UK, 258377) Browse events
YTD Raised: £276.20Samaritans Vision is that fewer people die by suicide. We work to achieve this vision by making it our mission to alleviate emotional distress and reduce the incidence of suicide feelings and suicidal behaviour.
York Samaritans
(UK, 253333) Browse events
YTD Raised: £270.00Samaritans provides confidential emotional support 24 hours a day for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide. We don't make judgements, and we don't offer advice. The York branch was founded in 1967 and is one of 202 branches nationwide. We aim to have two telephone lines manned 24 hours and day, 365 days a year, and are open 12 hours a day to visitors. All of this is made possible by over 120 volunteers who take 1400 calls and respond to 500 emails and texts a month. This dedication is supported by generous public donations which are our sole source of income. Your support in helping us keep open is greatly appreciated.
Walton Lea Partnership Limited
(UK, 1094989) Browse events
YTD Raised: £265.00We are a local charity that provides supported employment and enrichment for adults with learning disabilities, mental health problems, mobility issues and the early onset of Alzheimer’s. We develop skills and support our beneficiaries into work through gardening, woodwork, floristry, conservation work and working in our shops and farmers’ market. In order to finance our work we need to be inventive and rely on support from the community and our volunteers.
HoneyRose Foundation
(UK, 1109867) Browse events
YTD Raised: £265.00The HoneyRose Foundation helps people who are terminally ill (aged 40 years and above) to do something special before the end of their life. We have numerous fundraisers each year. We are the only charity in the country to help this age group in this way.
Hana's Gift
(UK, 1142625) Browse events
YTD Raised: £260.00Hana's Gift provides financial assistance for headstones and memorial plaques to bereaved parents in of babies & young children lost through late miscarriage, stillbirth or up to the age of 5 years old, in Norfolk & Suffolk. We also provide memory boxes & offer emotional support to parents.
Radio City Cash for Kids
(UK, 1122062RC) Browse events
YTD Raised: £251.00Cash 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 Radio City Cash for Kids region.
The Red Lipstick Foundation
(UK, 1159195) Browse events
YTD Raised: £250.00Promotingthe charity 'The Red Lipstick Foundation started by our family in June2014 following the death of our much loved daughter, sister, twin,auntie,granddaughterand friend. We are based in Hampshire. Brittany took her life the day before her 20th birthday and left our world in chaos. We named our charity the ‘RedLipstickFoundation’ as Brittany was such a make up fanatic. She loved her bright red lipstick and it suited her vivacious and crazy personality. She was a stunning, hilarious and quirky member of our big family. Her death was extremely unexpected as to everyone she was the life and soul of the party with a permanent cheery smile. None of us will ever know what that smile concealed and we have now made it our mission to try and help other families in our situation and to raise awareness of mental health issues.
Headway Wearside
(UK, 1140910) Browse events
YTD Raised: £250.00Headway Wearside is a challenging and visible charity established in 2010 in Sunderland and surrounding areas. Our aim is to promote understanding of all aspects of Acquired Brain injury , to provide information, activities and support services to survivors of brain injury their families and carers. Headway Wearside Commitments We are a service user lead project that promotes independence, empowerment, social inclusion and re integration with our members planning twice monthly social activities and events. We work with Families and carers and help to ensure that families that take most of the strain have support and guidance that may help to relive the pressure when they need it most.
Home-Start Richmond Upon Thames
(UK, 1108975) Browse events
YTD Raised: £245.00Who we are We are Home-Start Richmond, the local branch of the national family support charity which currently supports 1 in 237 families in the UK. Parenting young children can be difficult at the best of times but when you have other issues or problems to cope with as well, it can become overwhelming. This is where Home-Start can help. What we do Last year we supported 250 families with over 500 children in the borough of Richmond upon Thames. We have about 100 home-visiting volunteers who are trained to support families (with at least one child under 5) who are experiencing difficulties such as post-natal depression, isolation, disability of parent or child, bereavement or a combination of factors that impact on their children’s development. Help us to support parents to give local children a better start in life. For more information, please visit www.homestart-richmond.org.uk.
Imagine Independence
(UK, 1010203) Browse events
YTD Raised: £239.00Imagine 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.
DRUM Watford
(UK, 10448369) Browse events
YTD Raised: £237.00DRUM is a small registered charity and user led service based in Watford. We provide day services to adults with physical and/or sensory disabilities. DRUM was first formed in October 1994 by a small group of disabled volunteers who wanted to meet up with like-minded people and pursue art activities within the local community. Nearly 20 years on and DRUM now supports over 60 disabled members and 100+ carers. Most of our members were not born with a disability and most had led busy lives, working hard and bringing up their families, when their lives were suddenly turned upside down by illness. Many first come to DRUM with feelings of depression and isolation. Many rely on care and support from a relative or friend. Some carers just need a couple of hours in order to do some shopping, meet friends or get some sleep but others may be juggling paid work with their unpaid caring responsibilities at home.
VSA
(UK, SC012950) Browse events
YTD Raised: £230.00Do you want to change lives in your local community? VSA changes lives for thousands of the most vulnerable people in Aberdeen city and shire, helping them to live the most independent and fun-filled lives possible. You can too. Join forces with us to help make the north-east strong and inclusive. And remember, what’s raised in the north-east stays in the north-east! There’s so much you can do with VSA, whether you want to donate, volunteer, hold an event or contribute in some other way. You could be changing lives for: Children with additional support needs, like Down’s Syndrome. Maisie’s Children’s Centre is one of a kind. It pioneers full-time integrated care for mainstream children and additional support needs children. “The most important thing about it is that the kids don’t even notice a wheelchair or oxygen tank.” Children with complex learning disabilities. Linn Moor School is a very special place. Here, children with autism and other complex needs reach goals they didn’t know they had. Young families. Richmondhill House is the only service of its kind in Scotland. It creates bonds between babies and their families, guiding them through the maze of parenthood. Adults with mental health problems. We want to create positive effects on health, confidence, independence and responsibility. Re-Connect helps adults who suffer from mental health problems and social exclusion feel at ease. Adults with learning disabilities. Adults with learning disabilities are nurtured at Easter Anguston Farm, Peterculter. Employment here aims to make service users confident in the intimidating mainstream job market. Separated families. The Family Contact Centre is a happy, relaxed place where children with separated parents can meet the mum or dad they no longer live with. Think what that means to the child. Older people. We’ll all grow old one day. Our care homes have varying levels of support. It’s all about respecting dependence while promoting independence. Young and adult carers. One in eight people in Aberdeen have an unpaid caring role. This includes more than 2,000 children. Some are as young as five years old. For both adult and young carers, it’s normal. It’s life. They don’t know any different. You can support these people. And all those we haven’t told you about yet. Our services will be your services too. We’d love to you to visit to see where your funds could go. But most of all, you’ll know your efforts will be going right back into making your local community a better place.
CO-Gas Safety, The Carbon Monoxide And Gas Safety Society
(UK, 1048370) Browse events
YTD Raised: £230.00CO-Gas Safety is an independent registered charity that works to try to prevent unintentional deaths and injuries from carbon monoxide and other gas dangers, including all products of combustion. The charity also helps victims and their families. The charity also lobbies government and industry with regard to prevention. We run a schools poster competition to raise awareness of the dangers of carbon monoxide etc. for ages 10-11 in North England, South England, Scotland and Wales. We would prefer prime time public health warnings on TV but we can’t afford these. We also collect, collate and publish data on unintentional deaths and injuries and have been doing this since 1995. We have probably the best data in the UK. We try to check every death with the Coroner concerned and we are the only body to have had its data independently validated by a statistician.
BAND
(UK, 1060822) Browse events
YTD Raised: £230.00BAND is a voluntary mental health organisation supporting people within the Borough of Bolton who live with mental health problems to reach their full potential as defined by themselves.
Northampton Samaritans
(UK, 259631) Browse events
YTD Raised: £225.00Northampton Samaritans were founded in 1968 and is now based at 2 St Michaels Avenue. Samaritans are always here, round the clock every single day of the year so that people can talk to us about whatever is getting to them. A safe place - as volunteers we're ordinary people who keep what you say between us. You can be yourself, whoever you are, however you feel, whatever life's done to you. We're a charity and it's with your kind donations that we keep our service open to people who are struggling to cope.