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The Road to Recovery Trust
(UK, 1144882) Browse events
YTD Raised: £30.00
(UK, 1144882) The Road to Recovery Trust is a network of individuals inspired by the transformative effects of 12 step recovery in their own lives. Its aim is to bridge the gap between those who have found recovery and those who still suffer unaware that a solution which is free to all exists.
Samaritans of Buxton & High Peak
(UK, 1078295) Browse events
YTD Raised: £30.00
(UK, 1078295) Samaritans provide confidential, emotional 24/7 support for anyone who is experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those that may lead to suicide. Buxton and High Peak is one of the smallest branches of Samaritans in the UK and has been active in the area for over 30 years.
ServeDirect
(UK, 1138282) Browse events
YTD Raised: £25.00
(UK, 1138282) ServeDirect works with local visionary projects and people in under-developed parts of the world to provide practical help. This includes; financial support, practical building skills, managerial experience, provision of equipment, teaching and medical support.
Samaritans of Medway, Gravesham and Swale
(UK, 249137) Browse events
YTD Raised: £25.00Medway Samaritans provides confidential non-judgemental emotional support, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by phone, email and in person. As an independent charity, we depend entirely on voluntary support and financial donations so we can continue to be there for our callers whenever they need us.
Mental Fight Club
(UK, 1158926) Browse events
YTD Raised: £25.00Our Mission is to put on imaginative events for people of all mental experience. All our events seek to connect our inner and our outerworld and ourselves to one another, whoever we may be. The Dragon Café is the UK’s first ‘mental health café’ and creative space, devised and delivered by Mental Fight Club, a London-based, service-user led, creative force for change. Based in the crypt of St George the Martyr’s Church in Borough High St, The Dragon Café is a weekly pop-up cafe with a packed programme of creative activities and events. It’s open from midday to 20.30 every Monday, including bank holidays. All are welcome but the VIPs at The Dragon Café are those who are struggling through vulnerability, mental illness and recovery. Charity No: 1158926 Find out more Website http://dragoncafe.co.uk Facebook https://www.facebook.com/thedragoncafe Twitter https://twitter.com/thedragoncafe
ThinkTwice
(UK, EW07352) Browse events
YTD Raised: £25.00ThinkTwice aims to eradicate the stigma of mental illness in the Church. We provide speakers, awareness resources and a variety of training options.
Independence Trust
(UK, 1083593) Browse events
YTD Raised: £21.67Independence Trust (IT) supports some of the most excluded people of all ages across Gloucestershire who have alcohol, drug or mental health problems. IT provides community interventions that support families. IT actively recruits and develops volunteers to play their part in people’s recovery.
SWR Mind
(UK, 1133509) Browse events
YTD Raised: £20.00We change lives! 39,000 people in Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale will experience loss, isolation and stigma TODAY just because they have a mental health problem. With your support our amazing volunteers can help them step on to the road to recovery and find happiness again.
Canterbury And District Samaritans
(UK, 259280) Browse events
YTD Raised: £20.00The objects of the charity are to work for the assistance of persons who are suicidal, despairing or in distress by providing a service intended for the benefit of persons in Canterbury and the surrounding area (but without specific limitations as to area) to enable such persons to receive immediate help, compassion and befriending from members of the charity selected and prepared for the purpose working under direction; and also where appropriate, in accordance with Samaritan procedure, referral to persons having specialist or professional skills.
Dementia Adventure
(UK, 1163163) Browse events
YTD Raised: £20.00Dementia Adventure is a multi-award winning registered charity with a simple mission: to enable people living with dementia to get outdoors, connect with nature, themselves and their community, and retain a sense of adventure in their lives. Exercise, fresh air and stimulation can help people retain their skills and interests for longer, improve overall health and wellbeing and have a positive impact of the lives of people living with dementia and their carers/families. Dementia Adventure is based in Essex but works nationally with an international following in over 130 countries. Often a person living with dementia finds that their life changes dramatically, they become socially isolated & often house-bound with little opportunity to enjoy activities they once would have enjoyed. They often feel that holidays, travel & outdoor activity are things that are no longer available to them. Yet keeping active can improve physical & emotional health & wellbeing & social interaction & can even slow down the symptoms of dementia.We provide a range of services – all with nature in mind. We focus on what people can do & not what they can’t;Dementia Adventure - small-group short breaks such as sailing, canal boat & walking holidays & other small bespoke group holidays as an alternative to traditional ‘respite’. Training & consultancy - for carers, conservation charities, care homes, health & social care, with the aim of increasing understanding & encouraging positive risk takingResearch - Into the benefits of outdoor activity for people with dementia. Charity No: 1163163 Find out more Website http://www.dementiaadventure.co.uk/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/DementiaAdventure Twitter https://twitter.com/DementiaAdv YouTube https://youtu.be/sNBSsDQ-SLM
The Samaritans of Cornwall at Truro
(UK, 262105) Browse events
YTD Raised: £20.00Cornwall Samaritans at Truro offers totally confidential, emotional support for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair.
Listening Post
(UK, 1013442) Browse events
YTD Raised: £15.00Listening Post is a professional counselling service, Christian in foundation. Through our team of volunteer counsellors, we provide vital counselling services to adult residents of Gloucestershire, many of whom would otherwise be financially excluded from accessing professional support.
Falkirk's Mental Health Associaton (FDAMH)
(UK, sc011889) Browse events
YTD Raised: £12.00We all know someone struggling daily with their mental wellbeing: someone who used to be able to cope but now finds simple daily tasks frightening and overwhelming. You may not know how to help them, but here at FDAMH we do.
HHI
(UK, 1078353) Browse events
YTD Raised: £10.00Health Help International aims to help improve the health of the less fortunate - young and old - in those parts of the world where poverty and local conditions adversely affect them, in India and Zambia. All UK Administration expenses are met by Trustees and committee members.
Samaritans Of Derby And District
(UK, 218064) Browse events
YTD Raised: £10.00The Derby & District branch of Samaritans opened in January 1961 and ever since it has operated as a self-financing, independent charity.Samaritans are available 24 hours a day to provide emotional support for people who are experiencing feelings of emotional distress or despair, including those which may lead to suicide. The recession is likely to have contributed to the first increase in suicides in a decade. Without action, research predicts that suicides will continue increasing. At a time when the service is needed more than ever, all money raised will help to ensure that Derby & District Branch can continue its vital work in the local community.http://www.samaritans.org/branches/samaritans-derby-and-districthttp://www.facebook.com/DerbySamaritanshttp://www.facebook.com/derbysamfriendshttps://twitter.com/#!/DerbySamaritans
Future Living Hertford
(UK, 1155145) Browse events
YTD Raised: £10.00Abstinence based addiction day care service and domestic abuse champion. Future Living Hertford was founded to fill a gap in the market in Hertfordshire for a non 12 step abstinence based addiction service that was free to access for all. We support clients in recovery from addictive behaviours and offer not only group therapy and one to one counselling but also skills training, volunteering and paid for work opportunities. Our staff are all volunteers, something rare in this day and age, and all qualified and committed to our work. We have psychologists, counsellors, therapists and great admin staff. Alongside this service we run a programme for female survivors of domestic abuse to support them in rebuilding their self esteem and lives.Our newest pilot programme is for young people between 14 and 19 years of age supporting them with drugs and alcohol issues and moving forward in life. Charity No: 1155145 Find out more Website http://www.futurelivinghertford.co.uk Facebook https://www.facebook.com/futurelivinghertford/ Twitter https://twitter.com/LivingHertf
The Joseph Salmon Trust
(UK, 1123322) Browse events
YTD Raised: £10.00The Trust aims to help parents bereaved of a child in the Huddersfield, Halifax and Mirfield areas. We aim to assist parents in paying for headstones and funeral expenses, with other financial issues being addressed on an individual basis.
Key Changes
(UK, 1103774) Browse events
YTD Raised: £10.00Key Changes provides music services in hospitals and the community for people experiencing severe psychiatric illnesses. We specialise in providing services for young adults (16-35) in acute, early intervention and forensic treatment, and work in partnership with NHS Foundation Trusts across London.
Portsmouth Counselling Service
(UK, 1124104) Browse events
YTD Raised: £10.00Portsmouth Counselling Service is a locally based charity providing counselling support to people in Portsmouth and the surrounding areas. The aim of the charity is to provide professionally affordable counselling to anyone in need of counselling, especially those in poverty or at risk of exclusion and whose lives are marginalised and outside mainstream. We are a multi-cultural service supporting and celebrating the diversity of clients accessing the service. The charity provided over 5000 hours of counselling in 2014. PCS is the only counselling service that provides long term counselling on an affordable fee basis. The issues dealt with in counselling may include relationship issues, bereavement, abuse, depression, anger, stress or disability. PCS receives funding to provide a free counselling service to Portsmouth residents for drug and alcohol issues. We also offer free counselling sessions to family members of substance misuse users and for witnesses and victims of domestic abuse.
ARC (Axminster)
(UK, 1127001) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5.00ARC enhances the local provision of counselling and support in the Axminster area. It aims to support anyone seeking emotional help through a difficult time.
Carers Bromley.
(UK, 1067889) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5.00Carers Bromley provides support to people in the London Borough of Bromley who, unpaid, provide care for others who, due to disability, long term illness (mental or physical) or frailty, are unable to cope on their own without assistance. 1 in 3 people become carers. Becoming a carer can happen to anyone at any time and affects people from all cultures and of any age. We currently support over 4,000 carers, approximately 800 of these are young carers aged 4-18 years. We offer emotional support, information, advice and advocacy, respite and sitting services, stressbusting and lots more. Charity No: 1067889
Flying Scholarships for Disabled People
(UK, 1070281) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00The inspiration that marks the charity is that of Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader. Losing both his legs was a hindrance but it wasn't going to stop him from climbing back into a cockpit. FSD is a charity dedicated to helping physically disabled people discover their true potential through the mental and physical stimulation of learning to fly a light aircraft.
The Counselling and Family Centre
(UK, 506814) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00The Counselling and Family Centre helps anyone under stress by means of a telephone helpline staffed by trained volunteers, face to face counselling, and a Family Centre offering support to local parents and pre school children.
SIC UK
(UK, 1113718) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Focusing on awareness, peer-education, mobile counselling and testing we are helping tackle HIV across Tanzania. Our tanzanian community health workers help those with HIV to access treatment while tackling stigma in their communities - Every penny you donate makes a huge difference.
Augment (Scotland) Limited
(UK, SC027225) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Augment (Scotland) Ltd is a user-led mental health charity. It has the aim to ensure that everyone in Angus attains equal citizenship regardless of any prevailing mental health problems. It helps people with mental ill-health in their recovery and aims to enable them to get back into employment.