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Headway Cardiff
(UK, 1063221) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,242.50
(UK, 1063221) Headway Cardiff provides support and services to people with an acquired brain injury, their families and carers in south east Wales. It offers information, advice, support, counselling, a carer's group, a specialist day centre and a young persons' community based social reintegration programme.
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.
Relate West Surrey
(UK, 1079270) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,054.97Relate West Surrey helps individuals, couples, families and young people with their relationships. Relateen is a free counselling servive for young people aged 10 - 18 who have been affected by the breakdown of their parents relationship.
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.
South Lakeland Carers
(UK, 1142184) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,727.73Supporting people of any age with caring responsibilities. South Lakeland Carers is a local independent registered charity (Charity No: 101 7463), covering the South Lakes area of Cumbria. In addition the organization is a network member of the Princess Royal Trust for Carers within the UK. Services and support is currently offered to around 700 people with caring responsibilities. Needs are assessed through the formal Carers Assessment process. SLC is contracted by Cumbria County Council to conduct these assessments on behalf of the local authority. Support is offered to both adult and young carers representing an age range form 5 years upwards. In response to needs a number of services may be offered: Contingency Planning, Relaxation Therapy , Counselling, on-going support form a Carer Support Worker, support groups in various locations, a weekly drop-in, monthly lunch club, away days and training. Almost all services are provided free of charge to carers.
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.
Hector's House
(UK, 1165588) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,508.75Set up in honour of Hector Giles Henry Stringer, who took his own life in 2011 at the age of 18. His friends and family would do anything to have him back and to prove to him and others in crisis that things can and will get better, suicide is preventable and there is help, we are here to help.
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.
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.
Youthline
(UK, 1096248) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,275.19Youthline provides free and confidential one-to-one counselling to young people, aged between 8 and 25 years old, in the Bracknell Forest area at the Lodge and through outreach programmes in local schools. Issues concerning youn people include bullying, depression, low self esteem and family relationships.
Washington Mind
(UK, 1156010) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,238.50Washington Mind’s mission is to work in partnership with our community to promote recovery and improve mental health and wellbeing. We offer a range of mental health and wellbeing services and training to respond to the needs of local people and rely on a variety of funding and donations to do the work we do.
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.
Darren Wright Foundation
(UK, n) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,864.86Every child with a disability or life limiting illness has a different need. The whole family is affected in many different ways. We take the time to understand every child and their family we help to ensure the support they receive is tailored to their unique and individual needs.
STEM4
(UK, 1144506) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,793.76STEM4 supports the mental health of young people in an ever more challenging world by targeting the early identification of commonly occurring mental illnesses. STEM4 educates teenagers, their friends, families or carers and their schools to recognise early signs of Eating Disorders, Depression, Self Harm and Addiction and, as a consequence, to know what appropriate action to take. STEM4 works directly with schools and through its comprehensive website. STEM4 provides: schools workshops; help for teachers with school policy and guidelines; comprehensive handouts which are downloadable from our website; supervision for school staff and health team; annual school conferences. STEM4’s comprehensive website for young people, their friends and families offers information on signs and symptoms to look out for, practical advice on steps to take and where to go for help.