Browsing Charities
Shelter
(UK, 263710) Browse events
YTD Raised: £500,012.18
(UK, 263710) Shelter works to alleviate the distress caused by homelessness and bad housing. We help people find and keep a home. We campaign for decent housing for all. Our work won’t stop until there’s a home for everyone.
Quintessentially Foundation
(UK, 1125055) Browse events
YTD Raised: £231,455.90Quintessentially Foundation supports charitable activity worldwide that improves the health, education and welfare of disadvantaged communities.In 2011 we are supporting four charities; The House of St. Barnabas,The Place2Be,Room to Read and SOS Children's Villages.www.quintessentiallyfoundation.org
Sense - National Deafblind and Rubella Association
(UK, 289868) Browse events
YTD Raised: £193,173.74Sense is the UK's largest organisation offering support to deafblind people and their families. Established in 1955 as a parent's support group, Sense now offers a range of services - including, advice, housing, education and practical help to children and adults who are both deaf and blind.
Martin House Hospice for Children and Young People
(UK, 517919) Browse events
YTD Raised: £139,617.14Martin House provides care and support, free of charge, to families in which there is a child or children with a short life expectancy, throughout Yorkshire. Our aim is to provide a home from home with a lively friendly atmosphere where children and their families can enjoy the best quality of life.
Centrepoint
(UK, 292411) Browse events
YTD Raised: £136,385.09Centrepoint is the UK’s leading charity for homeless young people. It provides housing and support for more than 1000 young people, aged 16-25, every year, helping them into work and a home of their own.
SHP
(UK, 287779) Browse events
YTD Raised: £82,449.23SHP provides accommodation and support to over 6,000 of London's most vulnerable people each year. Our mission is to reduce poverty, social exclusion and homelessness, and to make a lasting improvement to our clients' quality of life.
Streetwork
(UK, SC017802) Browse events
YTD Raised: £73,993.00Streetwork is about enabling a life off the streets. We focus on where people are most in need and at risk - on the streets. We don't wait for people to find us; we find them, with outreach teams spending at least 84hrs each week on the streets of Edinburgh helping the most vulnerable people.
SSAFA
(UK, 210760) Browse events
YTD Raised: £70,117.85SSAFA provides lifelong support for our Forces and their families. Every year we give life-changing support to more than 50,000 people. Thanks to our supporters, we are able to extend a helping hand to our servicemen and women and their families, doing whatever it takes to meet their needs.
Passage 2000
(UK, 1079764) Browse events
YTD Raised: £66,013.86The Passage helps homeless people in the Victoria area of London, providing basic care and the means to make a fresh start. Up to 200 people use the day centre each day; the 40 bed hostel is full every night. We depend on voluntary donations as less than half our income comes from statutory sources.
Porchlight
(UK, 267116) Browse events
YTD Raised: £61,537.21Porchlight works across Kent with the most vulnerable and isolated people in the community - single homeless people. We are a forward thinking and innovative charity, passionate about helping people and communities. We aim to prevent homelessness and help people to change their attitudes to themselves and their lives move on to a positive future.
St Mungo's Broadway
(UK, 1149085) Browse events
YTD Raised: £58,182.77St Mungo’s Broadway provides a bed and support to more than 2,500 people a night who are either homeless or at risk, helping about 25,000 people a year. We believe no one should be homeless and that people can – and do – recover from the issues that create homelessness.
Age UK
(UK, 1128267) Browse events
YTD Raised: £57,585.02The over-60s is the fastest-growing group in society and there are more of us than ever before. Ageing is not an illness, but it can be challenging. At Age UK we provide services and support at a national and local level to inspire, enable and support older people.
Charlie House
(UK, SC042643) Browse events
YTD Raised: £56,869.16We are fundraising to build a specialist residential care centre in the North-east for children and young people with life limiting conditions and complex needs. Charlie House would provide 24 hour care and support for children to have some fun with their families and experience new activities.
Social Bite
(UK, SC045232) Browse events
YTD Raised: £42,249.66To donate a 'suspended item' to a local homeless person, please use the slider menu to the right to select a option. Or make a general donation to Social Bite. To find out more about the work of Social Bite please visit the site below.
Hackney Winter Night Shelter
(UK, 1139183) Browse events
YTD Raised: £40,809.13Hackney Winter Night Shelter (HWNS) exists to support and shelter people experiencing homelessness and empower them to help themselves intolonger term, sustainable accommodation. HWNS is a project of Hackney Doorways.
HARP
(UK, 1098126) Browse events
YTD Raised: £39,372.79HARP (Homeless Action Resource Project) - Helping Southend's Homeless. We help people get off the streets and back into their own home. We house up to 72 people at one time in a number of bedsits, rooms and flats. Our emergency services ensure that people do not have to sleep rough on the streets.
Mary’s Meals
(UK, SC022140) Browse events
YTD Raised: £38,764.35Mary’s Meals is an international movement that sets up school feeding projects in communities where poverty and hunger prevent children from gaining an education. The charity now feeds more than 890,000 children every school day and it costs just £12.20 / €14.50 / $19.50 to feed a child for a year.
The Connection at St Martin-in-the-Fields
(UK, 1078201) Browse events
YTD Raised: £37,064.23We are the Uk's busiest homelessness centre, running Outreach 7-days/week and providing unique free accommodation in our Night Centre. Our open-door policy assists rough sleepers with practical services such as canteen, laundry, showers and GP. We also provide Housing Advice and Employment Training.
CRASH
(UK, 1054107) Browse events
YTD Raised: £29,946.63CRASH is a practical charity addressing homelessness by harnessing the skills, products and goodwill of the construction industry to improve buildings and premises for frontline homelessness agencies working with homeless people, throughout the UK.
Jimmy's Cambridge
(UK, 1058737) Browse events
YTD Raised: £28,491.34Jimmy's is a Cambridge-based charity that welcomes 22 homeless men &women providing accommodation, support and resettlement. It is a place of hope where change is not just a possibility but a reality. We strive to enable people to regain confidence and independence and develop a settled lifestyle.
The Tang Ting Twinning Association Foundation
(UK, 1130073) Browse events
YTD Raised: £28,215.61We help the Nepalese Gurkha village of Tang Ting. We have built a Day Care Centre for the children, refurbished the electricity system and are raising money for an eco friendly tourist hostel to provide employment in the village
Hyde Charitable Trust
(UK, 289888) Browse events
YTD Raised: £21,436.78HCT is dedicated to combatting poverty and disadvantage. Through practical advice, training and grants, our life-changing activities help vulnerable residents, families and communities fulfil their potential. We help people get in to work, online, out of debt and financially stable. Our award-winning grants programme for young people ensures all our young residents can build confidence and learn new skills. Our community grants programme helps residents design and deliver the activities they know will make their communities better places to live. Our residents say it best: "I am useless....I don’t have any hope of getting a job....and then we are told...I’ve changed personally...I was sad...but now I’m happy" “You’re really part of the world online...I don’t what I’d do without it...I rely on it so much now...” "My son was in year 2 of Primary School and could not read appropriate age books. A grant paid for a tutor who taught him to read. I would not have been able to afford a tutor. He now reads nearly all the time; even whilst walking." The majority of the people we support live in Hyde Housing Association Ltd homes across London and the South East.
Alabare Christian Care Centres
(UK, 1006504) Browse events
YTD Raised: £18,883.08Alabaré provides a range of homes and services including supported accommodation, drop-in centres, activities, advice and training services. We support homeless people, Armed Forces Veterans, young people, and adults with a learning disability - helping them to achieve independent fulfilling lives.
National Zakat Foundation
(UK, 1153719) Browse events
YTD Raised: £17,775.93NZF is a ground-breaking initiative which aims to utilise Zakat funds and voluntary donations collected in the UK for the benefit of local, deserving recipients. This group includes some of the most vulnerable members of our community, including widows, orphans, the aged as well as the homeless.
West London Churches Homeless Concern
(UK, 1083203) Browse events
YTD Raised: £17,646.77Our aim is to combat poverty among homeless people in West London. We operate London’s largest Night Shelters, accommodating up to 100 people a night throughout Winter. This project is backed-up by year-round day services, including full-time advice workers and laundry and shower facilities.