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SUFFOLK MIND
(UK, 1003061) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,418.87
(UK, 1003061) A 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.
Heads Up
(UK, 801391) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,269.00
(UK, 801391) Working 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.
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.
Centre 33
(UK, 1074974) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,006.19Centre 33 provides independent, free and confidential services to young people in Cambridgeshire. These include information, advice and general support, counselling, support to young carers and participation in peer education projects.
HEADWAY SURREY
(UK, 1046863) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,004.34HEADWAY SURREY Supports people who are affected by head injury. It provides information & support for the head injured, their families and carers. HEADWAY SURREY was started as a self help group in 1985, by carers and professionals and the charity has since grown to offer a range of support services.
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
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.
The Sandville Self Help Foundation
(UK, 517899) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,831.17Sandville Self Help Centre is open to all people suffering difficulties. We offer help in a very relaxed and happy atmosphere. Sandville Offers You a People Centered Service SANDVILLE MOTTO THE 8 L’s Listening Looking Learning Loving Laughter will enable you to Live a Longer healthier LifeThese are the most precious gifts in life, they cannot be bought or come on a doctors prescription, they come completely free of charge. We at Sandville, are convinced that “Laughter and Humour Kills Tumour”
Samaritans of Exeter, Mid and East Devon
(UK, 231074) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,812.32What do Samaritans do? We listen to people who are in distress. It's that simple. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week there is always someone there to listen to our callers. Samaritans of Exeter, Mid and East Devon was contacted over 42,000 times in 2012. This costs about £40K per year. Please help.
SCARD (Support & Care After Road Death & Injury)
(UK, 1081572) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,755.59SCARD are here to help relieve distress amongst people who have lost a loved one, been injured, or affected by drunk or reckless driving. We do this by providing emotional and practical support through a telephone help-line, personal support and offering free counselling at our offices.
Ability Bow
(UK, 1115595) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,694.90We help people with disabilities or long-term health conditions to take part in exercise. Through taking part in closely supported exercise programmes, we want to improve the health and fitness of people with disabilities and those with long-term health conditions. People with disabilities or long-term health conditions can face significant barriers to exercise. We provide one-to-one support, raising self-confidence and motivation, and encourage each individual to make healthy lifestyle changes (many of whom have never taken part in exercise before). Funding raised by our sponsors and private donors is crucial to the running of our service. We are currently raising money to get people off our waiting list and into the gym. Any sum is most gratefully received and not a penny wasted. Cathy used to have so much trouble with her breathing that when the lift went out in her block she wouldn’t be able to walk up the stairs to her home. On these occasions, Cathy would have to walk to a friend’s house or go and sit in a cafe and wait for the lift to be fixed.After 20 weeks at Ability Bow gym, things have changed dramatically. Cathy says “Before I came here I felt disabled. In fact I was applying for DLA (Disability Living Allowance). My Instructor Chantelle has helped me get fit enough to climb the stairs to my home and she’s taught me how to overcome the panic when my breathing gets difficult.It’s comfortable here; the staff are really welcoming. You can be yourself here and not be judged; the people listen to you and you feel really motivated to do your exercise. Before I came here I couldn’t walk properly because of the pain and the shortness of breath and I had almost given up trying to get better. It was enough effort to just manage the pain.Now I feel so good after each exercise session.If anyone was considering coming to Ability Bow gym, they should definitely give it a go. I would tell them to get in here now!” (Cathy Jones 2012) "Ability Bow was a godsend. I was referred to Ability Bow Gym by my OT at the Royal London Hospital and since attending regularly I have maintained my physical ability but also things are really looking up for my mental state. I love the interaction you get with other gym members and I feel like I belong to a club where there’s lots of laughter and encouragement. Working with my Instructor Patrick, I realised that life can get better. I get encouragement that makes me feel like ‘I can’. I can join in again." (Maria Albert 2012)
Guildford Action For Community Care
(UK, 1078721) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,662.00The next sponsored event, we will be putting a raft into the annual Guildford Lions Raft Race on 5th July @3.00pm. Guildford Action is an independent registered charity, which has been working within the local community for over 30 years helping homeless Individuals as well as isolated families. Our mission is to ‘Enhance the lives of all those we come into contact with’. We have seen a massive increase in numbers of those accessing the projects over the past year due to economic climate and social welfare reforms. The projects are: Issues faced by those we support may include debt, housing, mental health challenges, isolation, relationship breakdown, domestic abuse, parenting skills, employment and substance misuse.
The Association for Post-natal Illness
(UK, 280510) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,463.22Our charity offers information, advice and support to women who suffer from post-natal depression and their families. We have volunteers who have had the illness and recovered who offer support by phone, e-mail or post. Our aim is to offer hope to sufferers and support them while they are ill.
Joanna Leeds
(UK, 1138640) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,445.00We work with vulnerable, hard to reach, women who are trapped by life controlling addictions and who are often involved in street prostitution with all the exploitation and danger that involves.
Teen Challenge Belfast
(UK, 298900) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,435.41Teen Challenge Belfast is a Christian charity which helps men & women who have developed life controlling problems. These range from alcohol addiction, drug addiction, depression, self harm and suicidal tendencies. We offer support and rehabilitation and restoration through the love of Christ.
Penhaligon's Friends
(UK, 1053968) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,410.95It helps hundreds of children by offering bereavement support for young people & their families, in Cornwall. It organises family Bereavement Days, teenagers support groups & training for volunteers & professionals supporting children in the community. We rely entirely on generous support of individuals, groups, businesses, Trusts & grants.
footsteps counselling and care
(UK, 1152972) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,396.94Footsteps is an organisation dedicated to support anyone, men and women affected by a pregnancy related issue including miscarriage, still-birth, neonatal death, abortion, post/ante-natal depression, ectopic pregnancy, crisis pregnancy or infertility, recently or at any point in their lives.
Newport Mind
(UK, 1036964) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,375.08Newport Mind has been going for over 30 years. During this time we have helped hundreds of people experiencing mental health issues. Just by offering support at the right time we have reduced distress, avoided hospital admissions, and probably prevented suicide. For ongoing support we offer a wide range of services which all rely on charity funding. Go to www.newport-mind.org for further information.
You Raise Me Up Limited
(UK, 1147534) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,058.92The 'You raise me up charity' was founded by Fraser and Jane Brooks in June 2011 following the sudden, tragic loss of their seventeen year old daughter, Megan. The charity's purpose is to raise funds to help families that have suffered the loss of a child between the ages of 16 & 25, offering emotional and financial support.
Dorset Mind
(UK, 1108168) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,019.75We are an affiliate of national Mind but independent, especially financially. We provide support to local people with mental health problems by the provision of peer support groups and also the promotion of mental wellbeing and raising awareness in order to reduce stigma
The McPin Foundation
(UK, 1117336) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,963.92The McPin Foundation exists to transform mental health research by putting the lived experience of people affected by mental health problems at the heart of research methods and the research agenda. We are a small family foundation with big ambitions, registered charity number 1117336. Help us make a difference by supporting our work that addresses an issue that affects us all. 1 in 4 people experience mental health problems in their lifetime. We put people with mental health problems and families at the heart of research to ensure its focused on matters that really matter to people. Our work helps support people with mental health problems back into work. We help tackle the stigma of mental illness - so people are less afraid to seek help because of what others will say about them or how they will behave towards them. We evaluate the impact of new ideas and solutions to help keep people well - we need better treatments and support for mental health. Join us on our journey to transform mental health research. Help us fundraise so we can commission mental health research studies to progress user-focussed methodologies. Ensure we can fund the involvement of peer researchers in our research work. Make a difference by supporting us to grow as a charity so we can train, support, mentor and collaborate widely to develop user focussed mental health research across England. We are enormously grateful for all the support we receive. Thank you. More information can be found at www.mcpin.org
Vocal - Voice Of Carers Across Lothian
(UK, SC020755) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,875.61VOCAL offers information, advice, training, advocacy and counselling to carers in Edinburgh and Lothian. Our ‘Invest in Carers’ Appeal needs to raise £50,000 to secure the continuation of VOCAL’s carer support and counselling services. These services provide a lifeline to carers in greatest need.