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Wirral Mencap
(UK, 1153742) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,445.00
(UK, 1153742) Wirral 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:
Home-Start Aylesbury
(UK, 1119763) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,420.00Home-Start Aylesbury supports families with young children throughout Aylesbury Vale who are struggling to cope with difficult circumstances. Volunteers visit families in their own homes, offering emotional and practical support until the family are back on track.
Socks And Chocs Group
(UK, 1163236) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,368.00Thank you for visiting our page. The aims or "objects"of Socks and Chocs Group are: To relieve hardship and distress among homeless people and among those in need who are living in adverse housing conditions. In particular but not exclusively by: The provision of essential items such as bedding, toiletries and clothing. Funding essential health needs which is not already readily accessible such as foot care; By funding short term emergency accommodation particularly (but not limited to) times of cold or otherwise inclement weather. The team do what they do because they can and because they want to. Lots of people doing a little is better than a few doing a lot! If you want to find out more details on how you can help, please visit our website www.socksandchocs.co.uk We look forward to hearing from you.
Stonepillow
(UK, 1000830) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,349.00Stonepillow is the homeless charity for the Chichester and Arun Districts. We offer shelter, information and support to empower homeless and vulnerable people to make positive changes in their lives.
The Purfleet Trust
(UK, 1037276) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,348.00The Purfleet Trust is a charity based in Kings Lynn providing support to individuals who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless in West Norfolk. We achieve our objectives through effective partnership working enabling us to deliver activities and services designed to tackle the causes of homelessness and reduce the risk of repeat homelessness. Our services include: A day centre providing access to showers and laundry facilities, hot food, telephone and internet access and access to housing advice, advocacy and education/ training. We have a supported volunteering programme and access to specialist support services including mental health, drug and alcohol and employment services. We also operate a rent deposit guarantee scheme and a flatshare scheme aimed at increasing access to the private rental sector to disadvantaged groups.
Hue Help
(UK, 1117116) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,346.06
(UK, 1117116) Hue Help works in central Vietnam to improve the health, education and future prospects of disadvantaged children. Working through local partners we support a children's shelter, run a drowning prevention programme and bring international volunteers to Vietnam.
The Nomntu Project
(UK, 1118577) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,340.00The Nomntu Project is a small charity, that works in the Eastern Cape, the poorest region of South Africa. It aims are: - to support women and girls particularly, to gain continuing access to education and - to help communities to become self-sustaining both economically and socially. For example, The Nomntu Project pays for education fees and materials for women and girls who would otherwise have no access to education. This means they have a better chance of employment. Recently, The Nomntu Project funded a shelter for orphans and provided money for the shelter to develop its own vegetable gardens. The Nomntu project is also helping the women who run the shelter to expand their chicken selling business. The Nomntu Project also supports a rural couple and their family who provide practical health support, both physical and mental, to the surrounding impoverished community. In supporting these small projects the charity's aim is to enable the wider community to take charge of their own development in ways they feel are right for them.
LegaCare
(UK, 1140040) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,330.25We provide legal advice to anybody diagnosed with a life limiting/life threatening illness (including carers). The service is free to anybody earning less than £30,000, Advice includes employment, guardianship + matrimonial, debt + mortgage, wills, LPAs and living wills
Harrogate Easier Living Project (HELP)
(UK, 1144758) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,324.40The Harrogate Easier Living Project (HELP) supports older and vulnerable people and those living with a disability to remain living independently within their own homes. Imagine the frustration of not being able to get out and about in the community or the anxiety caused by not knowing who to turn to for help around the home. Here at HELP, we support people to do what they want and need to do. With a dedicated team of volunteers, we provide a range of services designed to help people do just that: Help at Home - practical assistance with decorating, DIY, odd jobs and annual garden tidies. Opening Doors - one-to-one support and befriending to help clients attend social events and outings. Driving Force - a voluntary car driving service to help people get to medical appointments to make essential trips. As a charity, we rely heavily on the support of organisations and individuals like you for both fundraising and volunteering. Please give what you can to help us help local people in need. Thank you Charity No: 1144758 Find out more Website http://www.harcvs.org.uk/help Facebook https://www.facebook.com/HELP.Harrogate/?ref=hl Twitter https://twitter.com/@HELP_Harrogate
Emmaus Sheffield
(UK, 1085609) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,313.64Emmaus Sheffield is homeless charity with a difference. Emmaus offers people who were formerly homeless a place to live where they can feel safe and secure and where they can rediscover their dignity and self-pride through being part of a working community geared towards becoming self-sufficient through social enterprise.
Shap Limited
(UK, 1075118) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,310.00SHAP exists to promote social justice, combat poverty and prevent homelessness. Our current fundraising focus is to support and care for teenage parents in Liverpool - the city's only resource offering 24 hour support to young mothers and their children. Any donation is very welcome.
Arlington Futures
(UK, 1097503) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,300.00“Providing accommodation, support, advice, training and job opportunities to the homeless and those in need”. Arlington Futures has been established to help tackle the challenging issues of homelessness by empowering those it affects to get back on track with their lives. We aim to break the cycle of homelessness in London by raising money to further Arlington’s training and employment programmes with the vision of replicating the Arlington model elsewhere in the capital. Arlington, based in Camden, North West London, offers 95 rooms for homeless people who are at various stages of their journey from homelessness back to independent living. We take a holistic approach to helping homeless people re-build their lives by providing a range of support and training programmes as well as placements, apprenticeships and job opportunities to help with their progression. The income raised through Arlington Futures will go a long way in ensuring that those in need continue to have access to support services and opportunities to help them move on to independent living, employment and a much more stable life. To find out more about Arlington Futures and Arlington’s work visit www.arlington.org.uk.
Robes
(UK, 1132622) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,295.00It provdes winter night shelter for homeless people in Southwark and Lambeth and works with them to access permanent accommodation
Action Homeless (leicester) Limited
(UK, 702230) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,275.00Action Homeless is a local charity dedicated to tackling the causes and consequences of homelessness in Leicester. We support around 350 people every year to leave homelessness behind and achieve and maintain independent living. As well as providing accommodation we offer a range of support services that can help who are experiencing homelessness to get their lives back on track. Please visit our website for more information www.actionhomeless.org.uk
Mission Direct
(UK, 1107824) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,265.82Mission Direct is an Christian charity that offers short-term overseas volunteering trips. It takes volunteers from the UK to work on community development projects in four continents. Projects include helping to build and decorate school classrooms, low cost homes and refuges.
Citizens Advice Craven and Harrogate Districts
(UK, 1130946) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,255.00Our volunteers and staff offer information, advice and representation to residents of Craven and Harrogate districts in a free, independent, impartial and confidential manner so that they can get the help they need and enforce their rights. We do research and campaigning into issues of social policy.
Croydon Citizens Advice Bureaux Limited
(UK, 298761) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,250.00The Citizens Advice service provides free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities. It values diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. The service aims to provide the advice people need for the problems they face, and to improve the policies and practices that affect people’s lives. The first Croydon CAB opened in September 1939, and we have been providing advice, information and help to clients ever since. We are an independent charity, relying on funding from grants and donations. In the year 2013 we saw 7,259 clients and dealt with 12,489 issues. Generally clients came to us with more than one issue (showing that we are a trusted provider of advice on many subject areas). All areas of advice are covered to a general level with dominant enquiry areas including debt, welfare benefits, housing and employment. We have two main bureaux, in New Addington and South Norwood and run the advice service from both bureaux. We also have a help desk in the foyer of the new Croydon Council offices. As well as general advice, we offer in-depth casework to those living with cancer (thanks to Macmillan funding) and we also run financial capability classes which have provided over 300 Croydon residents with information on how to draw up a household budget, manage money and choose cheap utility packages. The aim of these sessions is to give people the knowledge they need to avoid debt becoming a factor in their lives. We are raising funds in order to continue to provide advice and improve access to our services for people who live and/or work in Croydon. Rachel Dickenson, one of our Trustees is running the Huntingdon 10k run on Sunday 15th June to raise money for Croydon CAB. Please sponsor her - the link to her fundraising page is: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/RachelD
Bishop Creighton House Settlement
(UK, 1059084) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,215.00Since 1908, Bishop Creighton House has provided a range of community and social support services for residents of Hammersmith & Fulham. Our aim is to help people to live healthy, safe and independent lives and to maximise their potential. We run a community centre; employment and mentoring services for young learning disabled people; home safety and security projects for older and disabled people, for families with children under five and victims of domestic violence and hate crime; a home improvement agency, providing major adaptaions to the homes of older, vulnerable people; and befriending services for older people, including daily phone calls and home visiting. More detailed information can be found on our website, www.creightonhouse.org
Home-Start in Waverley
(UK, 1119141) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,200.00Home-Start in Waverley supports and mentors any family in the Borough of Waverley with a child under the age of 5.
#HHCP Hull Homeless Community Project
(UK, 1166893) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,198.75Our mission is to assist the roofless community of Kingston upon Hull in reaching their full potential in regards finding shelter, advice, assistance with finances, mental and physical health and family support. To unite existing services, the community, local business and the homeless population.
Ben View Centre
(UK, SC024093) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,166.28Is a community centre that offers a range of services to the community of West Dunbartonshire. These include, a daily lunch club for older people supported by 20 volunteers: a community bathing service for 90 adults per week: a meeting place & office base for community & voluntary groups
Deptford Reach
(UK, 1086143) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,142.50Join us to make Deptford Reach’s Homes for the Homeless Project a reality. Deptford Reach has been granted planning permission to develop the current site in Deptford, South East London to create a self-sustainable building including 21 units for accommodation. These 1 bedroom flats will provide much needed accommodation as we support and prepare our clients to move on, whilst helping to reduce rough sleeping within the borough. The project has been estimated to cost £3m and there is no better time to start fundraising than now! Pictures of Future Plans for Deptford Reach A message from the Trustees of Deptford Reach Deptford Reach is not a wealthy charity. At the beginning of each year we face the prospect of having to raise around £250,000 just to keep our doors open and services running. A small portion comes from statutory sources but the vast majority is raised from charitable trusts and foundations and from individual donations. The need to find this sort of money year in year out puts great strain on the organisation and in the longer term it is not sustainable. However we have one significant advantage over other charities in similar positions in that we own our own building and our own land. The Trustees of Deptford Reach have been considering the development of our site for some years. Our building is old and in need of considerable modernisation. It is also too small and restrictive. As a consequence we are now ready to proceed with an exciting project not only to give Deptford Reach long term financial stability but also to provide vital affordable housing and a stepping stone to help homeless people improve their lives. Our plans will give us a brand new day centre to continue providing our core services but also, on 3 upper floors, 22 one bedroom flats. 21 of these will be homes for homeless people and one for our new caretaker. The Deptford Reach Homes for the Homeless Project will take genuinely homeless people off Lewisham’s streets or out of their squats and provide them with safe, secure, affordable accommodation at Deptford Reach. Our aim is to limit any individual’s stay to around 6 months but during this vital period they can stabilise their lives, access our services and receive our help to move on into education, work and ultimately their own accommodation in the private rented sector. At the same time Deptford Reach will receive the rental income from 21 flats and this will provide vital income towards our annual running costs. We estimate that the rebuilding project will take 18 months to complete and cost £3m. Plans are already underway to raise the capital needed from a number of different sources and during the building of the new centre we will relocate to another local site and ensure that most of our vital services can continue uninterrupted. We urge you to support our Homes for the Homeless Project. It will undoubtedly help improve the lives of thousands of people in the coming years, it will give Deptford Reach financial security and it will address some of the most critical social issues facing Britain today. The Trustees of Deptford Reach About Deptford Reach Deptford Reach is a drop-in centre for adults over 16 years of age. We help people rebuild lives that have been affected by homelessness, mental illness, drug or alcohol abuse and social exclusion. From our centre in London SE8, we offer a wide range of support, advice, training and practical help. We believe in respect and individual support. Deptford in South East London is one of the most deprived districts anywhere in the UK with very high levels of social exclusion. Video 1 (Clients and volunteers of Deptford Reach) Video 2 (BBC Inside Out documentary 2013)
Mull And Iona Community Trust
(UK, SC025995) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,130.00The Ulva Ferry Housing Project is the result of an extensive community consultation which found affordable housing to be a top priority for the Ulva Ferry area on the Isle of Mull. MICT are supporting the Ulva School Community Association (USCA) in building two affordable homes for local families.
Bridge Priory Trust
(UK, 1125780) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,115.00Providing housing for adults with learning disabilities, in their local area.
Women's Housing Action Group
(UK, 1081032) Browse events
YTD Raised: £1,107.00Who 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