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Glasgow Simon Community
(UK, SC003076) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,288.28
(UK, SC003076) Our mission is to combat the causes and effects of homelessness.
Headway Salford and District Limited
(UK, 1120377) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,260.00Headway House Salford & Trafford is a voluntary day centre where those who have suffered a severe traumatic brain injury can meet with others who have experienced similar problems in a friendly environment where social and recreational activities are available and organised by experienced Headway House group members and professional volunteers.
Wycombe Homeless Connection
(UK, 1156211) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,235.79WHC helps homeless or at-risk people in High Wycombe, Bucks to rebuild their lives by assisting them not only to find or keep accommodation but also to develop skills to achieve a stable lifestyle. Homelessness has a variety of causes, including family breakdown, unemployment, drug or alcohol abuse and poverty. It’s been said we are all two pay-checks away from homelessness. WHC is a community project of local churches. WHC’s first initiative was the Wycombe Winter Night Shelter (WWNS), which provides over 800 bed-nights to around 50 individuals annually. Since then, WHC has added year-round advice and resettlement services. WHC helps over 250 single homeless adults annually – largely those for whom the local authority has little responsibility. In the year to April 2012, WHC helped 87 find accommodation and prevented the eviction of 15 others. In over a thousand one-to-one support meetings each year, WHC’s housing crisis intervention team provides benefits and housing advice, referrals to specialist agencies, advocacy with official bodies, mediation with families and introductions to landlords or therapeutic communities. They help clients achieve outcomes relating to health, purposeful activity, resolving benefits issues and tackling harmful behaviours. WHC works in partnership with the local council, probation service, accommodation providers and other specialist agencies. The charity has about 300 committed volunteers who help run its services efficiently. There were over 2700 attendances at day sessions by around 240 people. It costs about £140,000 per year to provide WHC’s services. Please help if you can: donations of any size are welcome, but regular donations are especially valuable as they help with planning ahead. The photos in the gallery show aspects of WHC's work and a couple of shots to promote its forthcoming sleep-out event... More information about WHC’s work, current events and volunteering opportunities is available on the website.
Age UK Blackburn with Darwen
(UK, 1143809) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,074.52Age UK Blackburn with Darwen is a local and independent charity providing services and support for local older people.
The Meeting Room
(UK, 1165351) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,058.05The Meeting Room runs daytime drop-in centers in Mole Valley & Epsom & Ewell. The Meeting Room runs daytime drop in centers for homeless, socially isolated and unemployed people living within our community. We offer them a warm, safe and friendly environment where they are made to feel welcome and have a chance to eat, relax and socialise. A hot nourishing mid-day meal sustains the body, while talking, playing games and activities helps to break isolation. By listening to our clients and gaining their trust, we help them by signposting them to agencies or professional bodies for help. Results don’t always happen overnight, or sometimes at all, but our goal is to continue being there to offer support and friendship. Charity No: 1165351 Find out more Website http://www.themeetingroom.biz Facebook https://www.facebook.com/The-Meeting-Room-1147868418560027/?ref=bookmarks
Fountain of Peace
(UK, 1117909) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,992.34The Fountain of Peace is currently raising funds to construct 14 bungalows each housing 10-12 destitute and orphaned children living in Kyenjojo, Uganda. Our homes are set within a village community and will include a school and health clinic. Help us to build today in order to change tomorrow.
Romilly Forshall Foundation
(UK, 1082605) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,973.88Romilly cares for homeless children in Africa. Life on the street where they are exposed to disease, malnutrition and every kind of abuse is terrible. Since Romillys death in 1999 her charity, thanks to generous donations, has built 3 dormitories, two class rooms and sunk a borehole, at Naivasha in Kenya, Kawaza in Zambia and Kitwe in the Zambian Copperbelt. Funds are urgently needed to continue the work of caring for the two shelters for homeless children at Naivasha in Kenya and at Kitwe in Zambia that Romilly helped to set up. For more information about Romilly go to www.romilly.org
Colchester Youth Enquiry Service - y.e.s.
(UK, 1058420) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,965.98Colchester y.e.s. supports young people between the ages of 11-25. It provides a range of services including debt management, homelessness, housing and welfare benefits information and support, benefits reviews,teenage pregnancy and young parent support work.
Emmaus South Lambeth
(UK, 1069610) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,826.07Emmaus tackles the problems of homelessness through self-supporting communities, where people are offered a home, work and a sense of belonging. Emmaus residents ("companions") live and work together, refurbishing and selling donated goods. In an atmosphere of practical support, companions have an opportunity to gain skills and regain their self-respect.
Commonwealth Housing Trust
(UK, 1102126) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,797.00It helps people in poorest countries to have decent homes and to meet special needs. Ongoing projects: the building of a hostel for disabled children attached to a special teaching unit in Gilgil, Kenya, and rebuilding damaged homes of the poorest class in Sri Lanka resulting from the tsunami.
Nightwatch
(UK, 274925) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,776.46Nightwatch is a charity that has been caring for homeless people in the London Borough of Croydon for more than thirty years. We are an entirely voluntary organisation with more than 100 volunteers who are out, in teams, every night of the year. We help people at evey level of homelessness, including the street homeless through those in hostels, bed and breakfast and unsatisfactory accommodation. We also help former homeless poeple who are still vulnerable and whose main point of contact is via the homeless community. An important part of our work is not only the physical but the emoitional and spiritual wellbeing of the people we see. We are involved in supplying food, clothing, household goods and in the resettlement of former homeless people into new accommodation. We have no paid staff and the charity does not own property (a church allows us a kitchen and storage areas at a low rent). Our adminsitrative costs are therefore very low so a high proportion of money donated to us goes directly to people in need.
Sparkes Home Sri Lanka
(UK, 1128189) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,770.00The Sparkes Home Sri Lanka houses 40 girls and is situated on the east coast of Sri Lanka. The girls are either victims of the 2004 tsunami, victims of the recent civil war or from families who are so poor they cannot afford to keep their children.
MHA (Methodist Homes)
(UK, 1083995) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,756.17MHA (Methodist Homes) cares for vulnerable older people of all faiths and none. Our services include residential, nursing and dementia care, sheltered housing and community schemes. We aim to provide the highest possible standards of care and housing to the 16,000 people we support around the UK.
Extern
(UK, NI00263) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,570.65As one of Ireland's leading charities we work directly with children, adults and communties affected by social exclusion throughout the Ireland. We run over 40 local projects including refugee & homelessness services and provide support to children, young people and their families and carers.
Bradford Nightstop
(UK, 1159365) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,547.56We provide a warm safe place to stay for young homeless people of the Bradford district and surrounding areas on a one night at a time basis, within the homes of volunteers. On over 7000 occasions we have offered a bed in one of our homes. It isn't posh, it isn't for long but it is safe and it is really appreciated...
bibic - Changing Children's Lives
(UK, 1057635) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,498.50bibic is a national children's charity giving practical, life-changing help to children with disabilities and learning difficulties. Established in 1972 have been helping thousands of families ever since. Join us to keep helping make a difference to children with disabilities.
Little Johns House
(UK, 1156332) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,460.50'Orphan Aid - Little John's House' raises money on behalf of its Romania NGO 'Fundatia little John's', which directs the workings of Little John's House, a secure and loving home for abandoned Romanian children with special needs. Orphan Aid - Little John's House also attracts volunteers for the annual summer school held at the home. For more information about Little John's House, please visit www.littlejohnshouse.org
Homeplus NI Ltd
(UK, NIC100730) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,455.00Homeplus is a homeless charity, which was established in September 2000. We have a Street Outreach project for the rough sleepers of Belfast 365 nights a year. We also have a daily Drop-In and Advice Centre for destitute Migrant Workers, Refugees and Asylum Seekers.
MK ACT
(UK, 1011284) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,445.54MK ACT gives free confidential advice, support and information to anyone in Milton Keynes experiencing domestic abuse and provides emergency refuge accommodation for women and children. Your donation helps fund personal development for residents and emergency essentials like nappies and toiletries.
The Rock Trust
(UK, SC018708) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,377.84The 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.
1625 Independent People
(UK, 23964R) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,320.06
(UK, 23964R) Independent People provide housing, support and advice to homeless children and young adults in the SW. For some, we're all the support they've got. We're working in schools to prevent future homelessness. Our service works because young people help us run it. They need our support. We need yours.
KCAH
(UK, 1075890) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,285.00is a registered charity set up by 55 churches in the Borough of Kingston upon Thames. It aims to relieve the distress of homeless and potentially homeless people by the provision of services and resources and to promote awareness of the issues surrounding poor housing and homelessness in our area.
Basset Rescue Network GB
(UK, 1166291) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,225.00We are a small registered charity who rescue and rehome basset hounds in England, Scotland and Wales..
Friends of Newick House
(UK, 306356) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,150.00The Friends of Newick House are supporting Trek China 0907 which is raising funds for Newick House School and the National Autistic Society. The Trek will raise awareness of the challenges faced by children with autism, build friendships and establish links with a school for special needs children in Beijing.
Women's Housing Action Group
(UK, 1081032) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,140.59Who are we? Women’s Housing Action Group (WHAG) is a charity that supports and empowers vulnerable women to find and sustain safe and suitable accommodation and supports men experiencing Domestic Abuse. Yvonne Cossins (One of our students mums) is taking part in the Bupa Great Manchester Run on the 18th May 2014, to raise funds for WHAG, to sponsor Yvonne please click on the link below or the events tab to the left. http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/yvonnecossins Kirsty Rhodes our CEO is running the Bupa Great North Run on the 7th September 2014 to raise funds for WHAG, to sponsor Kirsty please click on the link below or the events tab to the left. http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/KirstyRhodesDawson About our services WHAG supports women aged 16+ facing issues such as domestic abuse, drugs, alcohol, debt, mental health and managing a tenancy. We work with women who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless and need help to find and settle into accommodation. Whilst our services are predominantly to support women, we also support women with children and men experiencing domestic abuse. WHAG supports women living in the boroughs of Rochdale and Bury including, Littleborough, Middleton, Heywood, Milnrow, Whitefield, Prestwich, Radcliffe, Totting ton and Ramsbottom. WHAG offer group work sessions in the community and is involved in awareness raising events in school s where resources allow (by arrangement ). We also currently run the Recovery Toolkit and Freedom Programme in Bury and The Recovery Toolkit in Rochdale. For dates please see our website. www.whag.info BURY SERVICES Domestic Abuse Floating Support Housing related support for women and men (16+) who have their own tenancies and have experienced or are experiencing domestic abuse. To refer contact CAP: 0161 253 5940 or WHAG: 0161 761 5266 ROCHDALE SERVICES Domestic Abuse Accommodation Supported accommodation for single women (18+) and women with children who are fleeing domestic abuse. Domestic Abuse Floating Support One to one support for women (18+) living in the community that are experiencing or have experienced domestic abuse. Support can be provided for up to 9 months. Rose Court Supported Accommodation Supported accommodation for single women (18+) who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Support can be provided for up to 1 year. Rose Court Emergency Accommodation Support for single women (18+) who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Support to help them find suitable accommodation, provided up to 12 weeks Resettlement Service Support for single women (18+) or women with children to obtain, move and settle into a new tenancy. Support can be provided for up to 8-10 weeks. For the above services please refer via Shelter Tel: 0344 515 1850 Email: [email protected] Male DV Service One to one support for men (18+) living in the community that are experiencing or have experienced domestic abuse. To refer contact WHAG on 01706 658 171