Browsing Charities
Pancreatic Cancer Action
(UK, 1137689) Browse events
YTD Raised: £62,840.44
(UK, 1137689) Set up by a pancreatic cancer survivor, we aim to improve survival for pancreatic cancer by focusing on early diagnosis. We raise awareness among the public and medical communities, fund research to improve early diagnosis, provide information for patients and educational courses for clinicians.
Down's Syndrome Scotland
(UK, SC011012) Browse events
YTD Raised: £61,898.37Down's Syndrome Scotland works to improve the quality of life and maximise the potential of everyone with Down's syndrome in Scotland by offering advice, support and information from a team of specialist staff. Down's Syndrome is the most common form of learning disability occurring in about 1 in 1000 births.
Lynda Jackson Macmillan Centre
(UK, 1053338) Browse events
YTD Raised: £61,330.94The Lynda Jackson Macmillan Centre supports people affected by cancer. At the drop-in centre at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, people will find a friendly face, a listening ear and answers to their questions about cancer and its treatments. Services also include complementary therapies and counselling.
Lingen Davies Cancer Fund
(UK, 1160922) Browse events
YTD Raised: £60,256.86The Lingen Davies Cancer Fund has pledged to raise £750,000 by the end of 2016 to help fund an additional world class Linear Accelerator for the Cancer and Haematology Centre at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.
King’s College Hospital Charity
(UK, 1165593) Browse events
YTD Raised: £59,501.82King’s College Hospital provides a full range of high quality services. We are also a major centre for heart and brain surgery, liver disease and foetal medicine. With your help we can invest in new ways of delivering services, improving the hospital environment and funding world-class research.
Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals Charity
(UK, 1053584) Browse events
YTD Raised: £59,223.10We raise money to help Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals provide world-class care to thousands of heart and lung patients each year, and to support the hospitals' pioneering work in heart and lung disease diagnosis, treatment and research.
Saint Francis Hospice
(UK, 275913) Browse events
YTD Raised: £58,670.54Saint Francis Hospice is a leading provider of palliative care for people living in Havering, Brentwood, Redbridge, Barking & Dagenham. We care for people from 18 years of age, of any race or religion, who have a life limiting illness due to cancer, heart disease, motor neurone disease or respiratory disease and we provide physical, spiritual and emotional care and support to patients and their families.
British Kidney Patient Association
(UK, 270288) Browse events
YTD Raised: £57,156.02The BKPA helps adults and children throughout the UK affected by kidney disease, providing information and advice as well as grants for those in need. The charity also provides funding for renal units to improve facilities for kidney patients and adventure holidays for children and young people with kidney disease. Please help us with this vital ongoing work.
Weston Hospicecare
(UK, 900328) Browse events
YTD Raised: £54,535.33Weston Hospicecare provides specialist care free of charge to the 1 in 100 local people with life-limiting illnesses such as cancer, motor neurone disease and heart or lung failure. We touch the lives of thousands more. We rely on the generosity of the local community to help raise £3m every year.
Weldmar Hospicecare Trust
(UK, 1000414) Browse events
YTD Raised: £54,380.22Weldmar Hospicecare Trust provides specialist palliative care in north, south and west Dorset. We support people affected by cancer and other life-limiting diseases, and work with their families. We also provide respite services. Our services are free of charge. 75% of our funds are raised locally.
The Institute of Cancer Research
(UK, The Institute of Cancer Research - N/A) Browse events
YTD Raised: £53,081.04Tragically, 1 in 3 of us will develop cancer in our lifetime. And even if we are not directly affected, almost all of us will be moved by the pain and suffering cancer causes to a relative or friend. Our mission is to make the discoveries that defeat cancer.
Children's Heart Surgery Fund
(UK, 1148359) Browse events
YTD Raised: £52,576.24The Children's Heart Surgery Fund enhances patient facilities and support, provides the latest medical equipment and funds world renowned research dedicated to babies, children and teenagers with heart defects. Just Giving cannot be used to raise money for the Save Our Surgery campaign.
Multiple System Atrophy Trust
(UK, 1137652) Browse events
YTD Raised: £52,285.27The Multiple System Atrophy Trust is the only UK charity dedicated to providing specialist support to all those affected by MSA; a life-limiting neurodegenerative brain disease. We provide MSA nurses, a telephone helpline and regional support groups. We also fund research into both a cause and cure.
Elifar Foundation Limited
(UK, 1152416) Browse events
YTD Raised: £52,119.30The Elifar Foundation Limited aims to help improve the quality of life of disabled children and adults by making grants for specialised equipment which cannot be funded by statutory means.
The Lullaby Trust (formerly FSID)
(UK, 262191) Browse events
YTD Raised: £51,761.07The Lullaby Trust is the new name of FSID, the charity dedicated to saving babies’ lives. We support families shattered by the death of a baby; promote expert advice on safer baby sleep; support research into why babies die suddenly and unexpectedly and campaign to prevent sudden infant death.
The Dinosaur Trust
(UK, 1156233) Browse events
YTD Raised: £49,366.37The Dinosaur Trust is a charity committed to saving and improving the lives of children who suffer from Pulmonary Hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases. Having experienced the devastation that PAH can cause first hand, we felt that more needed to be done to help speed up research into better more personalized therapies and hopefully one day a cure for the disease. We are supporting the work of British institutions such as Cambridge University and GOSH. These teams
Prostate Scotland
(UK, SC037494) Browse events
YTD Raised: £48,702.98Prostate Scotland aims to inform, support, campaign and advance on prostate disease in Scotland. The initial goals is to raise awareness of the disease so that men know how to recognise signs of problems. In the longer term the charity will influence treatment developments and promote research.
The Eve Appeal
(UK, 1091708) Browse events
YTD Raised: £47,689.47The Eve Appeal funds ground-breaking research into the 5 gynaecological cancers, focused on developing effective methods of prediction, detection, treatment and improved care. Help us to break down the embarrassment surrounding these illnesses, and to save women's lives from these cancers.
Chain of Hope
(UK, 1081384) Browse events
YTD Raised: £46,380.60Chain of Hope provides children suffering from life-threatening heart diseases with treatment to which they do not have access and we aim to develop paediatric cardiac facilities in developing countries. Chain of Hope provides cardiac care in two ways: · By sending out medical teams to treat children in-country and by setting up training programmes for local surgeons and medical staff in-situ. · By bringing children to the UK for open and closed heart operations as an interim measure.
Tree of Hope
(UK, 1149254In) Browse events
YTD Raised: £46,343.21Tree of Hope offers hope to the families of sick children in the UK who need specialist medical surgery, treatment, therapy and equipment in order to free them from suffering, giving a better quality to their young lives. England & Wales 1043092 Scotland SCO4261 http://www.treeofhope.org.uk
Liverpool Women's Charity
(UK, 1048294) Browse events
YTD Raised: £46,150.70The aim of Liverpool Women's Charity is to raise funds to improve the care and support given to the patients and their families. Money raised helps to provide services and facilities above what is normally provided through NHS funding"
PASIC
(UK, 1163662) Browse events
YTD Raised: £43,269.54We provide financial, practical and social support to families of children and young people diagnosed/receiving treatment for childhood cancer at the NUH. We deal with isolation experienced following the diagnosis of cancer, the associated financial difficulties and physical and mental wellbeing
Cancer Research Wales
(UK, 1167290) Browse events
YTD Raised: £42,524.04Cancer Research Wales funds cutting edge research in Wales into the early diagnosis, better treatment and preventatives of cancer. It's world leading, and it's local. We give hope to cancer patients and their families.
Cancer Focus Northern Ireland
(UK, Cancer Focus Northern Ireland - N/A) Browse events
YTD Raised: £40,788.96Cancer Focus Northern Ireland -your local cancer champion, here to help you and your family if you have cancer. Helping you take steps to a healthier life, to lower your risk and determined to bring a more hopeful future by funding ground breaking research
Echo (Evelina Children's Heart Organisation).
(UK, 1146494) Browse events
YTD Raised: £40,788.45ECHO supports children who are treated at the Evelina Children’s Hospital (part of Guys & St. Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, London), principally for Congenital Heart Defects but sometimes with more complex health problems as well as their parents/carers and close family. We provide information, friendship and moral support at all times, but particularly when parents may feel alone, isolated and desperate, or when they have immediate worries and concerns and need guidance or advice. We also support, befriend and empower the children themselves as they grow into their teenage years and beyond, to help them take the first steps towards independence in their lives and in their attitude towards their heart condition. Our advocacy provides vital patient voice to help the Trust shape its services for children with heart disease both at the Evelina and within the Adult Congenital Heart Disease service at St. Thomas.