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Cwm Taf University Health Board
(UK, 1049765) Browse events
YTD Raised: £7,206.00
(UK, 1049765) Created via charity sign up service.
The Downright Special Network
(UK, 1128178) Browse events
YTD Raised: £7,205.92
(UK, 1128178) Downright Special is community based charity that helps children with Down syndrome. We offer support right from the start by providing antenatal support to expectant parents, visiting families at home and providing education packs to schools.We are the only charity of its kind in the Hull and East Riding region offering this kind of support and service. We also run Downright Special Fridays, a weekly Friday morning session for babies and pre-schoolers and a fortnightly Friday afternoon session for school aged children. Both sessions are ran during term time. We also have regular social events for the whole family and provide advice, advocacy and training services.
Osmani Trust
(UK, 1129282) Browse events
YTD Raised: £7,171.20Osmani Trust is a youth and community organisation based in Tower Hamlets and Newham. The Trust offers a wide range of community, health and sporting initiatives tailored to the needs of the community. It aims to provide a holistic service, which helps people, particularly those living in disadvantaged urban communities to re-engage with mainstream society and improve their quality of life. Through its provisions, Osmani Trust seeks to address issues impacting the community including substance misuse, racial tensions, criminality and anti-social behaviour, territoriality and gang-related violence, unemployment and overcrowding, lack of training and employment opportunities. It also places strong emphasis on the health and social welfare of the community. Osmani Trust works with ordinary people helping them to do extraordinary things!
Self Help Services
(UK, 1122063) Browse events
YTD Raised: £7,118.48Self Help Services is a user-led mental health charity, providing services across the North West. We believe in people having a choice in mental health care. We launched The Sanctuary to give people in emotional crisis a place to go during the night, when other mental health services are closed.
Dementia Forward
(UK, 1148225) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,823.97Dementia Forward was set up in April 2012 to provide local support to people living with dementia, and those who care for them. As well as offering services to keep people active and give respite to carers, Dementia Forward also provides home visits, wellbeing activities, social events and education programmes. The charity's work covers Ripon and Harrogate District, which includes Ripon, Harrogate, Knaresborough, Nidderdale, Boroughbridge and Wetherby. Around 3,000 people have been diagnosed with dementia in Ripon and Harrogate District. Every penny stays local.
Heads Together
(UK, 1132048HT) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,708.30The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry are spearheading a new campaign, Heads Together, to end stigma around mental health. It will be the biggest single project Their Royal Highnesses have undertaken together. The Heads Together campaign aims to change the national conversation on mental wellbeing and will be a partnership with inspiring charities with decades of experience in tackling stigma, raising awareness, and providing vital help for people with mental health challenges. The campaign has the huge privilege of being the 2017 Virgin Money London Marathon Charity of the Year. The Virgin Money London Marathon is the UK's premier charitable event and its energetic and positive fundraising and awareness platform is the perfect springboard for the Heads Together campaign. The team of charity partners working on Heads Together covers a wide range of mental health issues that are close to The Duke and Duchess and Prince Harry's passions. They are:
Ruils
(UK, 1127896) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,677.82RUILS is a user-led organistion (run and led by the individuals who use its services) that supports disabled people, older people, people with learning disabilities & people accessing mental health services to the life of their choosing - independently in their community.
Bedford and District Handicapped Riders Association
(UK, 1068678) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,653.30BDHRA is a charity which was formed 50 years ago to use horses and ponies as therapy to help to improve the co-ordination and health of mentally and physically handicapped children and adults. Riding helps to strengthen the limbs and the contact with the horses improves mood and many riders whom struggle to walk and are badly co- ordinated have the feeling of freedom and fun when riding. It takes 3 people to aid these riders, one leading and one either side and all these people are volunteers. Our aim is to improve the quality of their lives, give freedom and fun and to ensure that 'Riding days are always happy days'.
Catch22
(UK, 1124127) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,592.71Catch22 has more than 200 years’ experience of providing services that help people turn their lives around. We help troubled and vulnerable young people, families and offenders to steer clear of crime or substance misuse, do the best they can in education or employment, and play a full community.
Friends Of Asha (GB)
(UK, 1085071) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,549.00Friends of Asha (GB) raises money and awareness for the work of Asha Community Health and Development Society. Asha works in 50 slum colonies in Delhi, India. It improves health and provides support and education for over 400,000 slum dwellers, enabling them to make positive changes to their lives.
Stepping Stones DS
(UK, 1129201) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,546.88Stepping Stones DS provides support, advice and activities for families raising a child with Down syndrome. We are based in North Hampshire but provide support across Hampshire, Surrey and Berkshire. Our group is run by parents for parents, and we rely on fundraising and donations to provide the range of support services and family activities that are on offer to local families. Thank you for your interest in Stepping Stones!
Amaudo UK
(UK, 1084963) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,506.39
(UK, 1084963) Amaudo UK works in partnership with Amaudo Itumbauzo which is located in South Eastern Nigeria. Together the two organisations focus on creating accessible, affordable and sustainable solutions for people experiencing mental health problems and learning disabilities in Nigeria. We do this in a number of ways both out in the community with a network of over 100 psychiatric clinics each staffed with a fully trained community psychiatric nurse, and residentially with two Centres which provide rehabilitation and support. Amaudo UK supports this work by providing funding, training, practical support and awareness raising. Charity No: 1084963 Find out more Website http://www.amaudo.org Facebook https://www.facebook.com/amaudo Twitter http://amaudo.org
LIVING WELL WITH DEMENTIA
(UK, SC005674) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,452.02Thank you for visiting our profile page on MyDonate. We are a group of mental health nurses who are driven to remove stigma, reduce inequalities, and improve the quality of lives of people with dementia and their carers.
SUFFOLK MIND
(UK, 1003061) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,418.87A committed organisation to ensuring that people with experience of mental ill health are able to fully participate in the communities in which they live and in the services, which they receive.
Downright Excellent
(UK, 1120863) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,390.69Downright Excellent provides educational sessions and quality play experiences for children with Down syndrome and their siblings, plus education and support for parents and carers. We run weekly speech and language classes, life skills and sensory processing sessions for children age 0-4 and 5-9.
Taylor Made Dreams
(UK, 1158174) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,371.72Taylor Made Dreams enables children with life limiting illnesses to achieve their dreams. We also source and finance holistic therapeutic support, counselling and offer a wheelchair access transport service for our service users.
Mermaids UK
(UK, 1160575) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,305.13Mermaids is a support group for gender variant children and teenagers, and their families. Thank you for visiting our profile page on MyDonate. Our goal is to relieve the mental and emotional stress of all persons aged 19 years and under who are in any manner affected by gender identity issues, and their families, and to advance public education in the same. What we do:Offer support to parents, families, carers and others.Raise awareness about gender issues amongst professionals (e.g. teachers, doctors, social services etc.) and the general public.Campaign for the recognition of this issue and an increase in professional services. Charity No: 1160575 Find out more Website http://mermaidsuk.org.uk/
Heads Up
(UK, 801391) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,269.00Working together towards independence and recovery.Heads Up is an independent local charity working with individuals affected by mental health issues and other difficulties across the Mendip and Sedgemoor areas of Somerset.
Sport in Mind
(UK, 1161323) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,185.53An independent charity based in Berkshire, providing sport and exercise sessions to improve the well being of people experiencing or recovering from mental health issues. 1 in 4 people in the UK are diagnosed every year and your funds will really help sufferers regain their lives and self worth.
Dementia Services development Trust
(UK, SC016905) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,167.34It funds work to develop services for people with dementia and their carers, through the Dementia Services Development Centre, which provides training for nurses, people working in nursing homes, home care workers, psychiatrists of old age, social workers and voluntary sector personnel and has unrivalled resources for understanding dementia better.
Reality Gives
(UK, 1136529) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,141.36We help underprivileged communities in Dharavi (largest slum in India) and beyond by running and supporting local development projects and by connecting them to socially minded individuals & organisations.
The Lucy Rayner Foundation
(UK, 1152243) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,900.97To promote and raise awareness of the physical and mental health of persons suffering from depression, in particular, but not exclusively young adults by such means as the trustees in their absolute discretion think fit. To raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of depression in young adults To work alongside other charitable organisations who have the same objectives as The Lucy Rayner Foundation To fundraise to support our endeavours to meet the objectives laid out by the Lucy Rayner Foundation To work with other charities & organisations who also have the similar objectives as The Lucy Rayner Foundation To keep the memory of Lucy Rayner alive
MQ Transforming Mental Health
(UK, 1139916) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,889.91
(UK, 1139916) MQ: Transforming Mental Health is a charity formed to support research into mental health and mental illness. We believe that by supporting research, we will be able to improve current treatments, identify new ones and ultimately improve the quality of life for those suffering from mental illness.
Grampian MS Therapy Centre
(UK, SC007647) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,878.85It provides therapies including Hyperbaric Oxygen, physiotherapy and reflexology to people with MS from its centre in Dyce. This is supported entirely by voluntary donations and fundraising activity.
Headway Somerset
(UK, 1097407) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,836.01Headway 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.