Browsing Charities
Shelter
(UK, 263710) Browse events
YTD Raised: £379,342.32
(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.
Sense - National Deafblind and Rubella Association
(UK, 289868) Browse events
YTD Raised: £239,623.14Sense 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.
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
Centrepoint
(UK, 292411) Browse events
YTD Raised: £164,929.32Centrepoint 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.
Martin House Hospice for Children and Young People
(UK, 517919) Browse events
YTD Raised: £134,075.76Martin 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.
SHP
(UK, 287779) Browse events
YTD Raised: £128,230.70SHP 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.
St Mungo's Broadway
(UK, 1149085) Browse events
YTD Raised: £112,372.76St 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.
SSAFA
(UK, 210760) Browse events
YTD Raised: £95,777.18SSAFA 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.
Alabare Christian Care Centres
(UK, 1006504) Browse events
YTD Raised: £87,092.05Alabaré 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.
Age UK
(UK, 1128267) Browse events
YTD Raised: £84,507.73The 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.
Passage 2000
(UK, 1079764) Browse events
YTD Raised: £79,504.68The 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.
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.
HARP
(UK, 1098126) Browse events
YTD Raised: £62,864.70HARP (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.
Porchlight
(UK, 267116) Browse events
YTD Raised: £48,262.27Porchlight 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 Vincent De Paul Society (SVP)
(UK, 1053992) Browse events
YTD Raised: £47,638.38The St Vincent de Paul Society ("SVP") is an international Christian voluntary organization dedicated to tackling poverty and disadvantage by providing direct practical assistance to anyone in need. Active in England & Wales since 1844, today it continues to address social and material need in all its many forms. The SVP runs a variety of projects including furniture stores, hostels, holiday schemes, children's summer camps and support centres.
Social Bite
(UK, SC045232) Browse events
YTD Raised: £42,145.11To 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.
CRASH
(UK, 1054107) Browse events
YTD Raised: £40,955.87CRASH 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.
Emmaus
(UK, 1064470) Browse events
YTD Raised: £37,465.22Emmaus communities provides a lasting solution to homelessness by offering formerly homeless people a home, work and the chance to regain self-respect in a supportive environment. Residents work full time on the community business, renovating and re-selling donated furniture.
The Connection at St Martin-in-the-Fields
(UK, 1078201) Browse events
YTD Raised: £34,798.59We 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.
Mary’s Meals
(UK, SC022140) Browse events
YTD Raised: £34,382.82Mary’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 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
Addington Fund
(UK, 1097092) Browse events
YTD Raised: £28,004.00The Addington Fund runs a housing scheme for tenant farmers retiring from or leaving their farm who find that there is no suitable housing available for them to move in to. It also supports farming families encountering short-term financial problems due to emergency situations. Every penny donated goes to help a farming family and is not used on running costs.
Hackney Winter Night Shelter
(UK, 1139183) Browse events
YTD Raised: £27,786.72Hackney 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.
Bethany Christian Trust
(UK, SC003783) Browse events
YTD Raised: £27,617.43Bethany Christian Trust aims to relieve the suffering and meeting the long-term needs of homeless and vulnerable people in Scotland. We work with individuals and families to transform lives and give hope and a future.
Wood Street Mission
(UK, 1078337) Browse events
YTD Raised: £25,923.30Founded in 1869, Wood Street Mission is one of the oldest charities in Greater Manchester. It provides vital practical help to children and families affected by poverty in Manchester and Salford. 1,000's of disadvantaged families are helped each and every year, completely free of charge.