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Crawley Open House
(UK, 1048919) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,767.41
(UK, 1048919) Open House helps homeless and disadvantaged men, women, couples and young people (plus their pets) by providing Direct Access and High Support Hostels and a Day Centre open every day of the year. It provides help, support, understanding and empathy and is totally non judgemental, they help anybody.
Elmbridge Rentstart (UK) Ltd
(UK, 1156746) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,760.00
(UK, 1156746) Thank you for visiting our profile page on MyDonate.Elmbridge Rentstart is a small local charity based in Elmbridge Borough. We support people through all the stages of homelessness and vulnerable housing. We reach out to the street homeless and those who are hidden from view and continue to support them with training and advice, often for well over a year as they transition to permanent and stable housing. Every year we advise around 350 people and go on to provide housing and help to around 140 local people. We not only provide people with a place to call home but support them to move on with their lives - we give financial literacy, CV writing, tenancy responsibilities, interview practice and emotional support that means our clients can move on from our support and live successful independent lives. As the numbers of people unable to find a home and sleeping rough is increasing, your fundraising will help us help more local people find a place to call home. Charity No: 1156746 Find out more Website http://www.elmbridgerentstart.org.uk/index.shtml Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Elmbridge-Rentstart-942839055812367/ Twitter https://twitter.com/rentstart YouTube https://www.youtube.com/v/I12MH8JavnA
Rainbow Living
(UK, 1116067) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,750.00Rainbow Living is a Christian charity seeking to build solutions for learning disability. It provides housing and support, encouraging individuals to make their own choices, continue to learn and work towards achieving their full potential. Fundrasing for a third home accommodating disabled adults.
UK HOMES 4 HEROES PRIDE & PASSION
(UK, 1138073) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,746.60This 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.
The People's Kitchen Newcastle
(UK, 1036149) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,706.63It helps homeless and disadvantaged people on Tyneside
Simon On The Streets
(UK, 1088245) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,650.00Simon On The Streets provides emotional and practical support for people with complex needs who cannot or will not access other services. Within that group it focuses on people who are homeless and rootless, especially those with issues related to rough sleeping.
Richmond House
(UK, SC000685) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,600.00Thank you for visiting our profile page on MyDonate. We are a small friendly Independent Care Home for the elderly.
Fine & Country Foundation
(UK, 1160989) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,599.98The Fine & Country Foundation has been created to help combat one of the largest social issues in the UK – homelessness. Last year, the Government estimated around 2,414 people sleep on the street on any one night across England, a rise of 36% over three years. Often the reasons for homelessness are misunderstood, with many blaming the individuals for poor life decisions and carelessness. The reality is: people become homeless for a whole range of complex and overlapping reasons that cannot be avoided, such as family breakdowns, mental or physical health problems or debts. Solving homelessness does not only involve putting a roof over people’s heads, it is also trying to tackle the root of the problem and asking the question: why did they became homeless in the first place? The Fine & Country Foundation is dedicated to bringing together all Fine & Country agents in over 275 locations worldwide to raise awareness of the causes of homelessness whilst supporting homeless charities.
Guildford Number Five Project
(UK, 1015474) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,599.00The Number Five Project is Guildford's only direct access nightshelter for the homeless. Offering a hot meal, a hot shower, laundry and a bed to 14 males and 2 females every night, 365 days a year, the project also assesses each individual's needs, works with them to engage with local services & programmes and supports their efforts to move on with their lives.
Ypeople (formerly known as YMCA Glasgow)
(UK, SC017093) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,582.00A Scottish Charity which delivers support services to over 1200 vulnerable people whose lives have been affected by homelessness. These include young people at risk, young as well as older, homeless people, asylum seekers & refugees.
Cambridge Cyrenians Ltd
(UK, 261994) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,569.00Cambridge Cyrenians has for over 40 years provided accommodation and support to local homeless men and women. We currently provide accommodation for over 70 people in a variety of houses across the city. We also run a pottery workshop and an allotment and these activities improve the mental and physical health of our residents and are open to other homeless service users in the city.
Sullivan's Heroes
(UK, 1163021) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,536.20Sullivan’s Heroes is a charity offering support and financial assistance for families raising much needed funds towards home adaptations for a disabled child, to improve their quality of life within their home environment. Please support us, to build brighter futures for disabled children.
WBMS
(UK, 1163865) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,530.00There is a growing Muslim community across Newbury and Thatcham, who need your help to raise money for purchasing a facility to be used as a Masjid, Education Centre & for Community Initiatives, currently, we are renting a sports hall to hold Jumma and various other facilities to carry out other initiatives. This community has over 600 Muslims and the community hasbeen rapidly growing over the past few years with a lot more people now settling with their families. The great thing is that thereis such diversity in nationalities (Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Indian, Egyptian,Moroccan, and many more), however the challenge we face is that we have anurgent need to ensure we establish solid foundations for the future for thesake of our children. Our Vision is to have a facility where we can establish thefollowing services:·Prayer facilities·Ramadan activities·Eid Celebration·Islamic, Maths and English education for our children·Community activities (Peace & Integration forum, homeless projects, community Iftar events, Muslim mentoring)·Youth Club (football, cricket etc.)·Social Activities (women’s circle, Family One dish event, Iftar events open to the wider communities)·Representation within statutory services (police, ambulance, fire, NHS,housing associations, town council etc.)We are looking to raise at least £400,000 so that we are ina position to purchase either a building or acquire suitable land upon which tobuild. Therefore we need everyone’s support and engagement to help us achievethis objective. Charity No: 1163865 Find out more Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WestBerkshireMuslimSociety/ Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/149947085@N05/
Windsor Street Angels
(UK, 1154308) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,527.00Windsor Street Angels patrol the town centre on Friday and Saturday nights providing help to anyone who may be vulnerable or in need of support. From water bottles and flip flops for revellers to hot soup and a listening ear to the homeless they are there to provide assistance to anyone on the streets of Windsor. The Angels are also trained in basic first aid so provide assistance or in extreme circumstances call the ambulance. In a typical year we help over 4000 people, distribute 1000 pairs of flip flops, 600 bottles of water, make 47 referrals to other agencies and calm 73 situations. Street Angels operates under the umbrella of Windsor Christian Action (WCA) a local charity operating social projects in Windsor.All three Projects are dependent upon the kind charitable giving from individuals and organisations. The projects depend almost entirely upon the time and energy given by volunteers, who are an awesome team of caring and committed individuals, all of whom are passionate about the aims of the projects and are willing to commit themselves to help the vulnerable and those at risk of vulnerability within our community. We are immensely proud and humbled by the work they do! Charity No: 1154308 Find out more Website http://streetangelswindsor.org Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WindsorStreetAngels Twitter https://twitter.com/windstreetangel
Recycling Lives
(UK, 1116562) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,523.44Commercial recycler and social welfare charity, Recycling Lives aims to help the disadvantaged members of our society to change their lives for the better. The homeless, workless, welfare dependent, socially excluded and educationally disadvantaged come to Recycling Lives with the desire to change their circumstances and secure an alternative future; through education, training and work experience. We help anyone over the age of 18, who is facing an uncertain future. Recycling Lives offers a home, qualifications, training, work experience and a future. Currently, training opportunities are predominantly in the environmental and recycling sector creating a skilled workforce ready to combat environmental issues. People come to Recycling Lives with the desire to change their circumstances. By giving the right opportunities and motivation, we give people the key to turn their lives around. Recycling Lives is a charity that, with your support, changes a person’s life.
Unique Home
(UK, 1127531) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,523.20We 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
Simon On The Streets
(UK, 1165317) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,516.00Simon On The Streets provides emotional and practical support for people with complex needs who cannot or will not access other services. Within that group it focuses on people who are homeless and rootless, especially those with issues related to rough sleeping.
Aokrucksackappeal
(UK, 1160281) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,513.47AOK Rucksack Appeal is a charity founded in early in 2015 by Sally Harvey and recognised by the Charity Commission on 2nd February. Sally worked with the homeless for over 10 years but had to take early retirement because she had Parkinson’s disease. Her passions for the homeless lead her and her Trustees to form the charity. Between them they have a wealth of experience. Sally’s lies with drug and gambling addictions and mental health; Roger has decades of financial experience; and Juliette has a degree in Psychology and other 25 years experience with addictions, mental health and domestic violence. This expertise does not stop there because there is an abundance of experience within the Advisory team. This includes a psychiatric nurse, two addiction counsellors, a solicitor on housing law, a people developer, a journalist with experience of prisoners, a nurse, and alternative therapists. In addition we have a very worthy patron, Stephen Young, Lord of Westbury. We are a unique charity in that we work with the major homeless agencies in getting homeless people OFF the streets, into accommodation, and back into the community using a philosophy based on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. The objective of the Charity is the relief of the needs of homeless people by the provision of funds, assistance, facilities, goods, services and other means of support in the Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch and surrounding areas. To meet our objective we have the following aims: 1. To provide practical help and hope to new homeless persons by providing, via Agencies, rucksacks filled with essential items such as clothes, toiletries, and other useful items. 2. To provide practical help and hope to newly housed ex homeless persons by providing, via Agencies, baskets, bowls, and buckets filled with essential items such as healthy food, new clothes, toiletries and household items. 3. To work with and through the Agencies to empower and re-establish confidence and self worth to existing or ex rough sleepers through voluntary work, creative arts and life skills. 4. To integrate communities with the homeless and reduce the stigma of homelessness, and to create caring communities to assist with our mission of helping the homeless by bringing together people of all ages, abilities, beliefs, nationalities, and walks of life. The agencies that we help and the demands on our offerings continue to grow. We also provide, or have provided, the following services: * Clothing that is donated to us but unsuitable for our Rucksack and “Move In” pack offering, such as coats and trousers, but which is suitable for homeless people are passed to the Agencies. * Sleeping Bags that are donated to us are passed onto the Agencies. * We work with the Red Tent organisation in providing feminine products for Homeless Agencies and Women’s Refuges. They collect and we deliver. * Other items that are donated to us that we or the homeless cannot use, such as books, children’s clothing and toys, we pass onto charity shops and charity organisations. We have made reciprocal arrangements so if they receive goods that are not appropriate for them, but are for us, they will pass them on. * We can produce advice ant training to build confidence, interview techniques and CV writing. * We can lend out suits, shirts, ties and shoes if required for interviews. * We have produced a poetry book on homelessness containing poems written by the homeless and ex-homeless. This book has been commended by Bournemouth’s Poet Laureate, featured on his website, and with his assistance details of the book are displayed in all of the area’s libraries. It inspired him to write his own “homeless” poem. * We have arranged an Art exhibition for homeless artists. * We have arranged for a hairdresser to provide hair cutting, currently on a monthly basis or ad hoc basis for interviews. * We can give talks to organisation in an attempt to reduce stigma. * We have donated children’s books to libraries to raise awareness amongst children. * We have provided 20 Sleeping Bags to CRI (Outreach Team) for homeless people brought inside out of the cold during the early hours of the morning. * We have purchased and donated kitchen equipment to the YMCA to help them set up a Training Kitchen, so their people can learn basic cooking skills to help themselves, and possibly a start to a career in Catering. To help with the empowerment we are encouraging those soup kitchens that are held indoors to have the homeless involved in the preparation, serving, and clearing up. * We have just started a Suspended Coffee scheme. A customer in one of the participating cafes can pay for an additional cup of coffee and these credits will be passed on by us to the local agencies for use by their clients. This will enable them to socialise and make new friends. * We have just started giving “Move On” packs to those moving from hostels to independent living. Items include saucepans, pillows, duvets and covers and anything else that we may have in “stock”. We always try to meet special requests. * We recently asked for, and received, a donation of 250 Christmas Gift Sets from Lush which we passed onto the three main agencies as Christmas presents for their clients. What we did not asked for, but received, were numerous packs of Lush products. These have been passed on to other homeless organisations and charities. * We have arranged for an Artist to provide art lessons and art therapy to interested clients of the agencies. We would like to organise a regular meeting place where the ex-homeless can meet and make new friends rather than mix with the old ones that are still on the streets. We would like to open a shop or have a room somewhere, opening say once a week or fortnight, which would hold a large range of donated clothes, where homeless people could be referred by the agencies, to choose the clothes they require, hopefully in the right sizes. Other empowerment events are planned and we are constantly looking for ways to improve our offerings and thus provide further and better help to the agencies and the homeless. Although we get a good and positive response from the Agencies when we make deliveries, now that we have reached our first anniversary of achieving Charity status we are asking both Agencies and Clients to complete a simple questionnaire on our responses to their needs. Once we have their feedback we can use it towards reviewing and improving our service.
Soldiers Off The Street
(UK, 1137594) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,510.00We are a registered Charity (charity number 1137594 ) with a dedicated group of people determined to help the forgotten ex service personnel whose lives have been affected by homelessness. We all think they deserve better after going through the traumatic experience of war in far off lands, what they have been through for the country they love, to be forgotten and homelessness is a national disgrace. That we intend to put right for as many as we can The charitys objects are the relief of charitable need of homeless ex-service personnel, in particular but not exclusively by the provision of clothing, food and rehabilitation, including advice on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, alcoholism, drug abuse, housing and employment. Why not just give the price of a pint if we met in a pub you would not think twice about buying me a pint would you, it all helps.There is no one within Soldiers off the street (S.O.T.S) receiving any wage whatsoever. 100% of all donations goes into the running of S.O.T.S and helping the homeless ex service personnel. Thank you from all those that cannot thank you themselves!
Age UK Richmond upon Thames
(UK, 1084211) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,509.00Age UK Richmond upon Thames aims to improve the life of older people who live in the borough of Richmond upon Thames.
Mother of Peace Community (UK)
(UK, 1109058) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,495.00The survival of Mother of Peace Community depends on donations from well-wishers and supporters. With up to 150 resident orphans to care for and providing on-going support for children who have been re-integrated into their wider families, MOPC needs substantial support to meet the running costs. Mother of Peace Community UK is a charity set up in 2004 to support and provide funds and materials for the orphanage read more...
Atherton & Leigh Shelter for HoPe
(UK, 1169858) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,490.00Atherton & Leigh Shelter for HoPe is a homeless shelter that aims to provide emergency night time accommodation and a hot meal to people who have nowhere else to sleep. Your donation will help us achieve this so thankyou. We were set up to give homeless people a safe and warm place to sleep during those cold winter months. Starting in Jan 2015 with a pilot,2 nights per week for 8 weeks it was clear that this was a service that is needed and that gave us the encouragement to do it all again in 2016. We opened at the start of Jan but this time for 4 nights per week and for 16 weeks during which time our amazing volunteers looked after 83 different guests, providing them with a hot meal, hot drinks, conversation and of course over 400 good night`s sleep, for people who may well have ended up on the streets in freezing conditions, plus a breakfast to see them on their way. In 2017 we hope to open for 5 nights to start with and will be looking to go full time in the very near future and for that we need to try and raise some funds in order that we can get the right building, set it up so we can provide a safe, warm environment for guests plus feed what we fear will be even more people than ever before. Charity No: 1169858 Find out more Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ALshelterforHoPe/
The Bridge Trust
(UK, 1050291) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,470.00The Bridge Trust is a local charity providing support for single homeless adults across Kent. We work closely with statutory/other voluntary organisations to provide a bridge between both. It works for the needs of homeless people and to find real solutions for the provision of affordable housing.
'Nyumba Ya Thanzi' - House of Good Health
(UK, 1100977) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,465.70Nyumba Ya Thanzi - The House of Good Health - is a UK based charitable trust working in Malawi to support locally designed development initiatives. Nyumba works with Malawians who have ideas about how to improve the lives of people in their country but often lack the resources to put their plans into action. They work with people who are passionate, committed and have realistic, workable plans.