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The Running Charity
(UK, 1157501) Browse events
YTD Raised: £9,992.00
(UK, 1157501) Runner's united in the face of youth homelessness. We engage homeless and underprivileged young people in regular running-based activities led by qualified fitness professionals. Harnessing the underlying benefits of running as a powerful motivational tool, we aim to achieve positive, sustainable outcomes in all our participants.
Edinburgh Cyrenians
(UK, SC011052) Browse events
YTD Raised: £9,958.55Cyrenians is an independent Scottish Charity with an outstanding track record in pioneering creative solutions to the contemporary problems faced by people on the margins of society, such as; homelessness, poverty, unemployment and recovery from addiction.
Wood Street Mission
(UK, 1078337) Browse events
YTD Raised: £9,331.17Founded 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.
Amber
(UK, 1051388) Browse events
YTD Raised: £9,197.80
(UK, 1051388) At Amber’s residential centres unemployed homeless young people get the chance to put their past behind them, overcome personal barriers and gain the social, educational and practical tools to lead successful, fulfilling, independent lives and be valuable members of society – and 80% successfully do
Jersey Cheshire Home
(UK, AJC60) Browse events
YTD Raised: £8,949.90It provides a home for 25 people with all levels of physical disability enabling them to lead full and independent lives and to have access to events and activites that active people take for granted.
Style Acre
(UK, 1101626) Browse events
YTD Raised: £8,932.32Style Acre supports people with learning disabilities in many different ways. Each person we support is encouraged to make choices about his or her life, style of living and access in the community. We provide supported living for 56 individuals, enabling them to live in their own or rented accommodation within the community and empowering them to lead full and active lives. With two day centres, people can participate in a diverse range of activities, classes, skills development and events. We actively seek work-experience & volunteer opportunities in the community. A forward looking organisation and with an excellent reputation in the disability, charity and regional community, we are committed to seeking innovative and creative ways of enhancing the lives of people with learning disabilities. Your support will enable us to continue funding vital areas of personal development for people with learning disabilities, including communication, work development and IT for independence. Please follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Thank you. Jim (name changed to protect identity) is a man in his 50’s who has a diagnosis of autism and a severe learning disability. Until the summer of 2009, he had lived with his parents all of his life. As his parents were getting older, they approached Style Acre to discuss the possibility of supporting Jim. His parents were understandably concerned about Jim’s future as he had very specific support needs and undertook a very restricted range of activities. Style Acre worked with Jim, his parents and Jim’s care manager to very carefully plan his move into his own home sharing with two other men with similar needs. We also made sure that all of Jim’s wishes and needs were fully understood by the staff who would be supporting him. Jim moved to his house in the summer of 2009 and has made great progress. He now enjoys a much wider range of activities and life experiences than was previously the case. Staff are continuing to work with him to further expand his horizons and enrich his life with even more exciting and stimulating experiences. Jim’s mum and a close friend of his have both described his progress as “simply amazing”. Sharing for the first time In July 2009, four young people began to be supported by Style Acre in a new house which had been fully adapted to meet their needs. Two of the young people had experience of living away from home at a residential college, but the other two people had not until then moved away from their families. Although the group have very different needs, staff worked very hard to plan their support individually as well as to offer opportunities for each person to spend time with others in the group if they so wished and to undertake a range of new and exciting activities (both as a group where desired or individually). Feedback from the young people, their parents and care managers has been very positive, with observations such as the house has a wonderful atmosphere, the staff are great and one of the young people’s mum observing that, as a result of the support being provided, “...my daughter is now growing into the woman we always hoped she would become”. Style Acre Evenlode House Howbery Park Crowmarsh Gifford Wallingford Oxon. OX10 8BA Tel. 01491 838760 Fax. 01491 834663 www.styleacre.org.uk Style Acre Evenlode House Howbery Park Crowmarsh Gifford Wallingford Oxon. OX10 8BA Tel. 01491 838760 Fax. 01491 834663 www.styleacre.org.uk
Streets of London
(UK, 1155242) Browse events
YTD Raised: £8,536.79We fund specialist support for people who are homeless in London, and raise awareness about homelessness. Thank you for visiting our profile page on MyDonate.
DIVINE ONKAR MISSION
(UK, 1074527) Browse events
YTD Raised: £8,438.16D.O.M. works to empower those living in extreme poverty in two of the poorest states in India. Our projects provide sustainable solutions through free shelter, food, clean water, education, vocational training & health care with a commitment to help communities become self-sufficient.
Caledonian Foundation
(UK, SC042872) Browse events
YTD Raised: £8,070.00We are dedicated to provide debt-free housing solutions for all communities through our pioneering Micro Equity Home Ownership model, where tenants can buy their home one share at a time, without the need for debt. As tenants increase share holding, the rent payments reduce accordingly. Friends and family can also buy gift shres to help increase ownership. The objectives of the Caledonian Foundation are to: To achieve these objectives, the Caledonian Foundation will create or support self-sustaining community initiatives throughout Scotland in communities who would like to adopt the micro equity ownership model in order to increase their supply of affordable housing.
The Snowdrop Project
(UK, 1158856) Browse events
YTD Raised: £7,932.20Snowdrop Project is the first charity in the UK to provide long term community support to survivors of human trafficking. The charity helps to reintegrate survivors in to community, reduce the risk of re-trafficking or exploitation and to empower people to make a fresh start. Each person is supported through one-to-one, person centred support and the offer of community activities. Permanent houses are also renovated and furnished to give people a home to start a new and stable life. Snowdrop Project was awarded the Marsh Award (2013) for outstanding contribution to the fight against human trafficking.
MERU
(UK, 269804) Browse events
YTD Raised: £7,882.37MERU designs and manufactures specialised equipment for children and young people with disabilities. Some children have disabilities so complex that no available equipment meets their needs. We use our design and engineering skills to custom-make exactly what each child needs.
Shelter Cymru
(UK, 515902) Browse events
YTD Raised: £7,737.74Shelter Cymru is Wales' people and homes charity. We believe that everyone in Wales has the right to a decent home and that this is essential to the health and well-being of people and communities. We work closely with our sister charities in England and Scotland, but we are completely independent and focus solely on the needs of people in Wales. The charity’s vision is that everyone in Wales should have a decent and affordable home. Our mission is to improve people’s lives through our advice and support services and through training, education and information work. Shelter Cymru helps a wide cross section of people with a range of housing, debt and welfare related problems. We offer free, confidential, independent advice, advocacy and legal representation from community-based centres, in every local authority in Wales. Details are attached of how many people we helped in each area up until the end of March. We are aware that demand for our services far exceeds our capacity. In the past year nearly 100,000 visitors came to our website to view our advice online pages. We have improved our telephone advice service to ensure that the most urgent and complex cases receive the priority attention and face to face we have assisted nearly 16,000 people, preventing homelessness in 89% of the cases where it was threatened. Through our research, policy work and campaigning, we influence the Welsh agenda on housing and homelessness in terms of both the policy and legislative approach and in developing radical solutions to homelessness and housing problems in Wales.
Cambridge House
(UK, 265103) Browse events
YTD Raised: £7,665.46For 125 years, Cambridge House has worked to end the injustice of poverty in South London. Mitigating the effects and tackling the root causes of poverty by changing lives - one person, one family and one community at a time.
The Haven Wolverhampton
(UK, 1065427) Browse events
YTD Raised: £7,326.17The Haven Wolverhampton provides practical and emotional support to people affected by domestic abuse and homelessness.
UK HOMES 4 HEROES PRIDE & PASSION
(UK, 1138073) Browse events
YTD Raised: £7,249.69This Charity was founded on the 23rd April 2010 in response to the plight of homeless ex service personnel. It is estimated that over 4500 previously serving members of the British Armed Forces are sleeping rough in the UK today. With MOD due to be making cuts this figure is going to rise. UK Homes 4 Heroes objectives are: 1. To dedicate hostel style accommodation to our ex service personnel and only them. Providing a safe, clean living environment where they can feel secure and at home. 2. To help gain a permanent home through social housing, assisting through the application and bidding phases. 3. To provide counselling services for people with psychological disorders, i.e. Depression and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Over the short period in which this charity has formed the response we have had from the British Public has been overwhelming. We have had interviews on BBC Radio 5 Live, coverage in the Sun Newspaper and countless updates in our local Paper, The Southwark News. reaction to this Charity has been incredible, we still need more help, more donations, more awareness and above all more support. We have a 16 strong team of dedicated professionals team heading this operation and we will not give up until we succeed. We have the backing of the London Pearly Kings & Queens, one of the oldest charitable institutes in Britain today.
Crisis Centre Ministries
(UK, 298528) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,565.89It is one of the ways in which the churches in Bristol work together to help homeless people, people who used to be homeless, and anyone with life-disrupting problems
Oxford Homeless Pathways
(UK, 297806) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,467.02Oxford Homeless Pathways provides a range of services for people who have been homeless in the Oxfordshire area. Principally direct access, emergency accommodation for 56 homeless people aged 25+ at O'Hanlon House. Resettlement support and advice is given, to enable clients to move successfully to sustainable accommodation. Oxford Homeless Pathways also runs Julian Housing, a second stage move-on project providing 87 former homeless people with accommodation in dispersed housing with support. All money fundraised will go towards emergency welfare items and a variety of training, education and activities for homeless people.
Bristol Citizens Advice Bureau
(UK, 1012557) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,344.97Bristol Citizen Advice provides advice and information to people who need help resolving the problems they face involving debt, welfare rights, housing, discrimination, employment, immigration, consumer and other issues. Our comprehensive and holistic service is free, confidential, impartial and independent. We also aim to improve the policies and practices of organisations that affect people’s lives and campaign to drive change and raise awareness of local and national issues. Our office has a number of projects and services including: Money Advice West - Debt advice project funded by the Money Advice Service Macmillan Project - benefits advice for clients diagnosed with cancer Good Tenants Scheme - housing and money advice to prevent homelessness Southmead - drop in advice service at Southmead Community Centre GP Outreach - Benefits advice at Charlotte Keel, William Budd and Hartcliffe Health Centres St. Monica Trust - welfare benefits advice to St. Monica Trust residents Immigration drop-in service - every Wednesday afternoon at our Bristol Advice Point To find out more, please visit our website: www.bristolcab.org.uk
Unique Home
(UK, 1127531) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,340.50We support Unique Home in Punjab, India. Helping the Home to raise unwanted or abandoned girls. Full information is on our website www.uniquehomeforgirls.co.uk
The Rock Trust
(UK, SC018708) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,286.82The Rock Trust aims to prevent youth homelessness and to support young people to build better futures. We work across Edinburgh and the Lothians with young people aged 14-25 who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless, this includes young people who are in transitions.
Mellor Country House
(UK, 241153) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,227.40The charity provides much needed self catering breaks for a whole range of people such as the less well off, those on hard times, adults and children with learning difficulties, pensioners, teenage mums, youth groups from deprived areas etc. Personal on site disabled facilities allow full integration.
Caring in Bristol
(UK, 1151645) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,006.00Caring in Bristol delivers and develops vital support to homeless and vulnerable people all year round in the city of Bristol through effective, volunteer driven projects including Caring at Christmas and Bristol Nightstop
Aylesbury And District Citizens Advice Bureau
(UK, 1126825) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,870.11The Aylesbury and District Citizens Advice Bureau offers practical, up-to-date information and advice on a wide range of topics, including: debt, benefits, housing, employment, immigration, consumer and other problems. Our advice is available to anyone living and working in Aylesbury and the surrounding villages regardless of race, gender, sexuality, age, nationality, disability or relgion.
Emmaus Norwich
(UK, 1136584) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,843.45Emmaus supports formerly homeless people by giving them a home, meaningful work in a social enterprise and an opportunity to get back on their feet again. For many who ever experience homelessness one of the biggest obstacles they must overcome is a loss of self-esteem. Emmaus provides people with a stable home and the opportunity to regain their self-worth, making a real contribution to their community. Research shows that for every £1 invested in a community, there is an £11 social, environmental and economic return, with savings to the benefits bill, health services and a reduction in crime reoffending.
SHARE - Supporting Homeless Assisting Refugees Everywhere
(UK, 1166530) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,790.62Share - Supporting Homeless Assisting Refugees Everywhere. We are a charity based in Chester and North Wales. We help refugees abroad and people who are homeless within the UK. We provide aid, volunteers and funds to help in whatever way we can regardless of race, religion or location. Charity No: 1166530 Find out more Website http://www.shareaid.co.uk