Each year 35,000 parents are told their unborn baby may have an abnormality. ARC provides information about antenatal testing and supports parents and their families when an abnormality is discovered in their much wanted baby. ARC is a lifeline for expectant and bereaved parents.
Lifelites empowers 9,000 children and young people in hospices with life-limiting, life-threatening illnesses and disabling conditions with assistive and inclusive technologies to create, communicate and take control. There is a Lifelites project in all 49 children’s hospices in the UK & Ireland.
Teesside Hospice Care Foundation based in Middlesbrough was established to enhance the lives of local people suffering from life limiting illnesses. The Hospice cares for over 3,000 people each year living in Teesside region. All services are free of charge. http://www.justgiving.com/teessidehospice
Rotary - the global network of community volunteers - supporting those in need and charitable causes worldwide. Through charity events fundraising sponsorship monies for Rotary supported causes; principally, Children's Hospice South West, North Devon Hospice, Shelter Box, and various local youth and sports causes.
Remember My Baby’ (RMB) is a UK registered charity that offer's remembrance photography free of charge to parents experiencing the loss of their baby before, during or shortly after birth.
The Palliative Transport Service (PTS) is a local service for local people in Fermanagh. PTS provides a comfortable door to door ‘transport for treatment’ service for individual patients travelling to Belfast, Derry and other locations, for cancer treatments.
Herriot Hospice Homecare works as a hospice without walls in Hambleton & Richmondshire. We aim to enable patients with life limiting illnesses to remain at home, by providing specialist palliative care workers, therapists, volunteers & bereavement counsellors to support them and their families.
The Cardinal Hume Centre supports homeless young people, badly housed families and people from the local community with little or no income. We aim to give people the skills, tools and confidence to break out of poverty and build better lives. People matter.Your support will make a difference.
We are improving facilities and support on the Isle of Man for teenagers and young adults with long term health needs.
The Brent Centre for Young People (BCYP) provides specialist help, support and treatment to vulnerable young people aged 14 to 24 with emotional and mental health difficulties.We aim to help young people achieve lasting change through innovative, age appropriate and effective services.
The National Maternity Support Foundation (NMSF) was set up following the tragic stillbirth of Jake Canter due to the nearest hospital maternity unit being closed. Our founding principles are to take a 'proactive educative approach' to maternity care occupying the 'sensible middle ground' of public opinion. Working in partnership with the Royal College of Midwives, the NMSF’s four key objectives are as follows:- 1. Campaign to help keep maternity services available, accessible, safe and well resourced 2. Ensure that prospective parents have all the information needed to make informed decisions 3. Being a resource for others to obtain information and support 4. Support and promote, in partnership with other organisations, further research into stillbirth and neonatal death
The declared aim of Children of Fiji is to advance education, health and welfare, and to relieve poverty of children in Fiji. It has no political or religious affiliation and strives to help all children in need, irrespective of their gender, ability, ethnic origin, or religious belief
A crisis pregnancy can happen to any woman and, whether they are 13 or 53, Amber CPC offers a quiet and safe place for her to explore the options. Partners are also welcome. Our aim is to give the opportunity to talk and to think more clearly about the circumstances involved, along with any useful information. We offer support with any struggles occurring as a result of the decision taken, whether that decision is abortion, adoption or to proceed with a pregnancy in difficult circumstances. We also offer help and support following the early loss of a baby through miscarriage or failed IVF. Our services are free and confidential.
Founded in Dec 2012 by Bethany Hare (aged 12) to support children with life limiting/life threatening illnesses & their families directly and to help support the funding of children’s hospices throughout the country. Bethany's Smile also aims to inspire & empower young people to become fundraisers.
The Clubhouse Project Limited was set up by three Weybridge families in 2011 to provide a day care facility for young learning disabled adults once they leave school or college. The charity's aim is to provide stimulating activities and to support further learning each weekday all year round and to thereby provide some relief to the families and carers of these young adults all of whom have a more severe learning difficulty. The centre is run by a young manager and clients are supported by an energetic staff team. Activities range from volunteering to zumba and from cookery to dramatic arts. We are fundraising to purchase transport for our growing numbers of clients and for specially adapted technology to support their learning.
Rotary Children's Hospice Holidays is a charitable organisation run by the Rotary Club of Medway to provide holidays for children's Hospice guests and their families. Each year since 2009, self-funding Rotarians take 6 families chosen by Demelza and Chyps Children's Hospices to EuroDisney Paris. Together with a sponsored medical support team and the self-funding Rotarians the holiday 'makes dreams real and provides family memories of a lifetime together'. Your donations to the Rotary Club of Medway Trust Fund will help us to continue the valuable work that is necessary to add real and lasting pleasure to the lives of families who otherwise would not be able to enjoy this shared experience. The holidays often come at a time when the family is going through a difficult patch, without any certainty of their future life together. We know from experience that the holiday adds real hope to their time together and the 'magic of Disney' works wonders for the special little guest around whom the trip is centred.
The Junction aims to make a positive difference to the lives of children, young people and their families in the Tees Valley area. We are built on twenty years experience and have a reputation of delivering high quality services to young people and put them at the “heart” of everything we do.
Heart of England Mencap are dedicated to supporting people with learning disabilities and to help them to live their lives the way they choose. We are committed to giving them the opportunity to access learning, employment, and leisure activities and to enable them to lead fulfilling lives.
Project PEARLS is a non-profit organization with a mission of helping the poorest of the poor children in the Philippines to have a better life through education, nutrition and health care and other various outreach programs.
It is in existance to support and enhance the services provided to babies and families who need special care in the Bromley area mainly. Help is provided in the form of some equipment and funding study days etc. for staff of the Special Care Baby Unit at the Princess Royal University Hospital near Bromley.
TimeNorfolk provides free face to face support through talking therapies to anyone affected by a pregnancy related issue in Norfolk. We offer support to women and men who have suffered a pregnancy loss due to miscarriage, still birth, termination or forced adoption. We help people to express their emotions concerning their loss, e.g. grief, anger, shame and that leads to sessions on acceptance, forgiveness and letting go.We offer a safe place where clients who find themselves with an unplanned pregnancy can talk through their situation and the different options, so that they can make an informed choice. We offer befriending and support through pregnancy, and can source free good quality second-hand baby clothes, if required. We can also provide a birth partner if needed.We offer support with other pregnancy related issues eg Pre & Post Natal Depression and infertility. Charity No: 1157905 Find out more Website http://www.timenorfolk.org.uk/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TimeNorfolk Twitter https://twitter.com/TimeNorfolk
NOAH is a Luton-based charity offering hope and support to people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Our support ranges from a hot meal and medical care to work experience, counselling and NVQ accredited training Although an important aspect of our work is finding permanent accommodation, simply putting a roof over someone's head is rarely enough to correct the chain of events that led them into homelessness in the first place. NOAH works with the whole person to find permanent and individually tailored pathways out of homelessness and we continue to provide this support long after permanent accommodation has been found.
Our Toy Library and facilities are open to all children with disabilities who live in the Hounslow Borough or nearby. It is a place where children with disabilities or their parents can borrow toys to take home. We also have stay and play sessions. Children need a great variety of toys not only to play with but also to develop skills. But their tastes are not predictable and toys are costly.
The primary aim of the charity is to give disabled people from all walks of life the chance to truly challenge themselves and realise their full potential through the medium of learning to fly a light aircraft.
Aimee's Fund supports Keech Hospice in its mission to provide outstanding palliative care for adults and children in the local area. The fund is a lasting memorial to Keech nurse Aimee Varney who died suddenly in June 2013, aged 21. This legacy continues Aimee's work at her beloved Keech.