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Sing for Joy choir Kentish Town
(UK, 1135175) Browse events
YTD Raised: £70.00
(UK, 1135175) Sing for Joy runs community choirs and workshops for those suffering from Parkinson’s disease and other chronic medical conditions, and their friends and carers. It runs weekly sessions of voice therapy and fun. Not-to-be-missed evenings for people coping with long-term illnesses.
The Rainbow Project
(UK, NI100064) Browse events
YTD Raised: £70.00The Rainbow Project is Northern Ireland's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender support and advocacy organisation. We provide a range of services, support, advocacy and research for LGB&/T people in relation to mental, physical and sexual health as well as emotional health and well-being.
Wigan and Leigh Carers Centre
(UK, 1138908) Browse events
YTD Raised: £60.00Wigan and Leigh Carers Centre offers practical and emotional support to Carers of all ages. A Carer is a person who looks after a family member, relative, partner, neighbour or friends who need help due to ill-health, old age, disability, drug or alcohol misuse or who has mental health issues.
The Oasis Partnership Uk
(UK, 1054524) Browse events
YTD Raised: £60.00
(UK, 1054524) The Oasis Partnership provides a range of support services to anyone whose life is affected by their own or someone elses drug or alcohol use. Our services in Buckinghamshire are provided from Oasis House in Wycombe and Unity House in Aylesbury as well as sattelite services in Chesham, Amersham, Buckingham and South Bucks. Our Harm Minimisation services in Oxfordshire are provided in partnership with Oxford Health NHS FT and are based at Rectory Road Oxford City, whilst our assessment and engagement service is provided in partnership with Lifeline and Probation from the Old Music Hall in Cowley Road. Oasis provides many different opportunities for individuals to aid recovery, support people and change lives. All fundraised money goes straight into the support and development of the Oasis Republic Recovery Network. Service user involvment ensures that funds are directed to where they are needed most. We are very happy to discuss different options and opportunities with you and could work together to make a real impact.
Developing Health and Independence
(UK, 1078154) Browse events
YTD Raised: £55.00
(UK, 1078154) Developing Health and Independence challenges social exclusion by supporting people to acheive their potential and contribute to the richness and wellbeing of their community. DHI is flexible, creative and person centred in its approach, valuing each individual and their circumstnaces as unique.
ARC Youth Counselling
(UK, 1043347) Browse events
YTD Raised: £55.00Established in 1988, ARC offers free counselling in Wokingham and Reading, including Wokingham's first rape crisis counselling service. ARC also works in schools with pupils and teachers. In 2010, ARC counsellors provided 6900 free sessions and 3800 school sessions. Please help us continue our work!
Nottingham Rape Crisis Centre
(UK, 1103071) Browse events
YTD Raised: £55.00Nottingham Rape Crisis Centre (NRCC) offers counselling and support to women over the age of sixteen who have experienced rape, childhood sexual abuse or sexual harassment. NRCC operates a telephone help line for 22 hours a week and provides face-to-face support and counselling service staffed by trained counsellors and Volunteer Support Workers.
Forest Of Dean Citizens Advice Bureau
(UK, 1091891) Browse events
YTD Raised: £50.95The Citizens Advice Bureau provides free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities. It values diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. The service aims to provide the advice people need for the problems they face, and to improve the policies and practices that affect people’s lives.
STAMP Revisited
(UK, 1048991) Browse events
YTD Raised: £50.00STAMP Revisited specialises in providing an advocacy service for people affected by mental health issues across Teesside.
Llanelli Mind
(UK, 1161335) Browse events
YTD Raised: £50.00Llanelli Mind provides support to those with mental health needs, their carers and their families. We offer a range of excellent drop in and befriending support services for people with mental health problems and we have supported local people in need since 1986.
Step 2 Young People's Health Project
(UK, 1161921) Browse events
YTD Raised: £40.00Step 2 Young People's Health Project works with young people across the Bradford District to help them make positive choices about their lifestyles, health and relationships. We do this by offering group work, sexual health services, individual support and counselling, in a wide variety of contexts.
Partnership For Children
(UK, 1089810) Browse events
YTD Raised: £40.00Partnership for Children helps children to be mentally and emotionally healthy, just as sport and good food help them to be physically healthy. We focus on young children, producing resources and training for their parents and teachers. We run Zippy’s Friends, one of the world’s most successful mental health promotion programmes, now helping children in schools from Surrey to Sao Paolo to Shanghai. We are trialling new resources for children with learning disabilities, and we also produce Good Books for Tough Times, recommending storybooks to help children facing bereavement, bullying or family break-up. In all our work, we help children develop the skills they need to deal with difficulties, so that they will be better able to cope with problems and crises as teenagers and adults. It’s great value for money - about £2 for each child who completes Zippy’s Friends - and while we’re big enough to be effective, we’re small enough for your support to make a real difference. Please help us to promote good mental health for children - for life.
Mahamevna Bhavana Asapuwa Meditation Centre - UK
(UK, 1129621) Browse events
YTD Raised: £35.00MAHAMEVNAWA MONASTERY Mahamevnawa is an organization of monasteries established for the purpose of mind and spiritual development of human beings through the teachings of the Buddha. The aim is to provide spiritual help and training in meditation in order to make one’s mind pure. It has established 44 branch monasteries in Sri Lanka as well as 6 overseas monasteries in Canada, Australia, USA, UK, Germany, and India to provide people of all faiths and all walks of life an opportunity to practice meditation and spiritual life. In this purpose, countless number of people has joined the organisation to practice this joyful spiritual life together.What the Buddha taught over 2600 years ago is been practiced in many forms today. It could be in a way, broadly classified in to two sects. One is the Buddhism taught and practiced in the temples, which is more suitable for the busy people, to lead a righteous life and the other, taught and practiced by the Forest Monasteries. We belong to the Forest Monastic Sector and concentrate more on the ultimate goal to attain Nirvana. Our Mission: To promote happiness, peace, harmony, tolerance, kindness, love and compassion through the education and practice of Buddhism. We thus aim: - To serve as a base for Dhamma learning,- To promote the application of Dhamma in daily life,- To nurture fellowship through Dhamma-Based activities- To initiate Dhamma awareness among all individuals- To disseminate Dhamma through various media- To promote practice and application of Buddhist meditation in daily life, Four Principles include; - Promoting public interest in the original teachings and meditation practices of the Buddha- Promoting the five percepts (Not to kill, not to steal, not to engage in adultery, not to engage in false speech and to refrain from taking intoxicants)- Promoting non-violence, kindness, compassion, non-racism, equal opportunities & peace,- To care for, conserve and protect the environment,
Birmingham Citizens Advice Bureau Service Ltd
(UK, 519639) Browse events
YTD Raised: £35.00We are the Charity for the Community. We help people from all walks of life by providing advice on many issues; employment, consumer, debt, benefits, health, tax, housing and immigration. This year is our 75th Anniversary - we were established the day after World War Two broke out. In those days, we helped to trace missing relatives, and gave advice on rationing. Our volunteers pulled together to help neighbours and friends, and we operated from a horse box, as there was nowhere else available! This commitment still remains today. From the debt issues in the 1980’s, to the complex benefit systems today, we are always on hand to assist the community with the issues that matter most. We are the first place people in Birmingham go when they do not know where to turn. Many of our clients are in crisis, and can be at risk of losing their homes, jobs or families. Our advice can mean the difference between putting food on the table, or going hungry. We also help sections of society in special need - people affected by cancer come to us for advice on how to financially adjust, people with mental health issues come to us for help with complicated forms and procedures. We provide advice at a time when people need it most, and empower them so that they can lead a better quality of life. Our advice changes lives. We are: independent, impartial, confidential and free. Last year, we helped over 30,000 people, which was achieved with the help of our 230 passionate volunteers. We value diversity, promote equality and challenge discrimination. Our mission is to provide free, accurate, relevant and helpful advice, to all those who seek our assistance, in a safe, non-discriminatory environment.
Gowrie Care
(UK, SC034261) Browse events
YTD Raised: £30.00Gowrie Care is a charity who improves the quality of life of everyone we work with. We work throughout Scotland offer varying levels of support to people in different settings, but in each case we are there to make a difference to people and to support them to make the most of their lives.
Wincanton Community Venture
(UK, 1080719) Browse events
YTD Raised: £30.00The work of the Balsam Centre (Wincanton Community Venture) focuses on reducing health inequalities, working with individuals and families who are disadvantaged, vulnerable and have little or no support. We are particularly successful at working with people of all ages and backgrounds to improve their own and their families' life chances. There is a focus on mental health support for people with low to moderate depression, anxiety and associated conditions.
The Road to Recovery Trust
(UK, 1144882) Browse events
YTD Raised: £30.00The 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.
Relate
(UK, 207314) Browse events
YTD Raised: £30.00Relate is a national charity working to promote health respect and justice in couple and family relationships face to face, online and via phone and text. Everyone deserves happy, healthy relationships. We can support that, with your help. Why should I donate to Relate? Relationship breakdown ruins lives and families can be torn apart by the aftermath of a divorce or separation. Relationship breakdown can lead to: Relate helps to prevent relationship breakdown and when things go wrong we are there to help people pick up the pieces of their lives and build happy, healthy relationships. We do this through counselling, sex therapy, advice and guidance and training courses both face to face and via the internet. By donating to Relate you could be changing someone’s life – help us give the gift of a healthy relationship. What will happen to my money? Any donation you choose to make to Relate will be used to support development and delivery of services for people in distress. Your help could provide a distressed caller to our helpline with the friendly, reassuring response they need, allow us to help people online and face to face to prevent relationship breakdown and its devastating impacts. Can I fundraise for Relate? We would love for you to raise money for the work we do with people who suffer the distress of relationship breakdown. It could be anything from a coffee morning, sponsored walk or a special birthday where you ask the guest to donate rather than buying you a present. If you would like any information about supporting Relate please call 0300 100 1234 and ask to speak to someone in the fundraising team or email us on [email protected]
National Activity Providers Association
(UK, 1070674) Browse events
YTD Raised: £30.00"The days are very long when the walls are the same" A resident Our charity supports frail older people, living in care , to have meaningful and enjoyable lives. We have specialist knowledge in the field of activities and we use this to train, support and advise all those that work in care. All monies raised will help us develop further opportunities to improve the daily lives of older people living in care. We ALL need people to see, things to do and places to go.
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
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.
Headway Somerset
(UK, 1097407) Browse events
YTD Raised: £25.00Headway Somerset is a unique organisation helping people to live as independent a life as possible after brain injury, providing specialist support and therapy at its 3 Brain Injury Outreach Units. It provides essential respite care for family members who may end up being full-time unpaid carers.
ServeDirect
(UK, 1138282) Browse events
YTD Raised: £25.00ServeDirect 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.
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.