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Sardar Zaman Welfare Trust
(UK, 1122334) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,970.00
(UK, 1122334) SZWT help to rebuild homes and support poverty stricken displaced families in Kashmir as a result of the devastation caused by the major earthquake in 2005.
Homeless Link - Street Link
(UK, 1089173) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,937.00StreetLink is a telephone line and website available across England which enables the public to alert local services about rough sleepers in their area. The service is run by the charities Homeless Link and Broadway. Text STRE33 £10 to 70070 to donate to StreetLink. Thank you for your support.
Housing & Support Alliance
(UK, 1092587) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,929.00The Housing & Support Alliance is a charity & membership organisation. We give free independent advice and information on housing, supported living and rights to people with learning disabilities and families. We campaign for better housing, support and rights for people with learning disabilities.
Romilly Forshall Foundation
(UK, 1082605) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,840.00
(UK, 1082605) Romilly 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
Off the Fence Trust Ltd
(UK, 1108777) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,839.20
(UK, 1108777) Resisting poverty.Empowering people.Restoring hope,Off The Fence helps the socially excluded in Brighton & Hove.The charity offers:emergency outreach to homeless individuals and a homeless day centre;a schools programme for 6-18 year olds and a women’s centre supporting women in crisis.
Wirral Mencap
(UK, 1153742) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,837.50Wirral Mencap is a small, independent charity that supports people with a learning disability and their families across Wirral. Our aim is to ensure that people with a learning disability and their families are listened to, understood and included as equal members of society, and that they get the right support to access services and opportunities that can lead to a better quality of life. We provide:
Petrus Community
(UK, 510904) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,835.00The Petrus Community is a registered charity providing residential and day support services for people in housing need throughout the Borough of Rochdale (including Heywood and Middleton), Rossendale and Oldham. Petrus believes people should have access to safe, secure, quality housing. We exist to support a wide range of people in housing need and develop their skills, independence and choice. We have a strong commitment to actively involving the people who use our services in shaping how we work. Our vision is of local communities where people in housing need live in secure accommodation, free from stigmatisation and prejudice. People in housing need will be active members of those communities and valued for what they bring to them. Support services will enable people in housing need to lead healthy and fulfilling lives, achieve their aspirations, and move closer to economic independence.It is our purpose to provide the most appropriate accommodation solutions for people in housing need and back that up with support and opportunities that really make a difference to people's health, wellbeing and independence. Charity No: 510904 Find out more Website http://www.petrus.org.uk Facebook https://www.facebook.com/petrus.456 Twitter https://twitter.com/petrus_cmty YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsIX2zSiThxHxXX1oqJ3kug
Little Johns House
(UK, 1156332) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,788.79'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
Alliance Homes
(UK, 29804R) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,775.00The Alliance Homes Group is a community-based social enterprise providing a range of services within the West of England and is made up of three areas: Alliance Homes provides housing management services. See Alliance Homes for more information. Alliance Living provides care and support services. See Alliance Living for more information. Alliance Ventures provides repairs, maintenance and green energy initiatives, including our PV panel project. See Alliance Ventures and Green Zone for more information.
Ealing Churches Winter Night Shelter
(UK, 1152768) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,772.26We provide emergency dormitory style accommodation in church properties for up to 14 guests from those who are sleeping on the streets, are at immediate risk of rough sleeping locally and the ‘hidden homeless’. Our shelter is open during the winter months.
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.
Independent Age
(UK, 210729) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,745.78Founded 150 years ago, Independent Age is a growing charity supporting older people across the UK and Ireland through the ‘ABC’ of advice, befriending and campaigning.
FirmFoundation
(UK, 1143823) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,718.00FirmFoundation is a charity working to end homelessness in Harrow. FirmFoundation has grown in response to the rising number of homeless in Harrow. Our services include: Year round work with rough sleepers; Advice drop-in, Hope Place our move on accommodation and Local government consultation through Harrow's 'Single Homelessness Forum'. Charity No: 1143823 Find out more Website Please click here to visit our website
Chelmsford Chess
(UK, 1093901) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,699.86Chelmsford CHESS seeks to relieve homelessness and related hardship and distress amongst single adults in Chelmsford and Essex, through the provision of support services and temporary accommodation that helps them move on in their lives.
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.
Southwark Irish Pensioners Project
(UK, 1088387) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,639.87We provide a lifeline to hundreds of elderly,vulnerable & isolated Irish people in the boroughs of Southwark,Lambeth & Lewisham. Since 1994, we have helped Irish people who emigrated here in the 1950's & 1960's to get the essential support they need to enjoy a comfortable & decent retirement.
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.
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.
Nightwatch
(UK, 274925) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,593.33Nightwatch 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.
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/
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.
City of Chelmsford Mencap
(UK, 245421) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,500.00City Of Chelmsford Mencap supports adults and children with learning disabilties in Essex.It does this through a range of services including educational services, community clubs and our Day Centre in Chelmsford. Although affiliated to them,Chelmsford Mencap receives no funding from National Mencap.
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/