Browsing Charities
Oru Paanai
(UK, 1136376) Browse events
YTD Raised: £570.00
(UK, 1136376) Oru Paannai - feeding hungry children in schools in North East Sri Lanka. Oru Paannai Kaithdy - helping hearing impaired children. Oru Paannai Education - helping with the remedial classes for exam students. Oru Paannai - Emergency Flood Relief Fund. Please visit http://www.orupaanai.org.uk/
eikon
(UK, 1109190) Browse events
YTD Raised: £565.00
(UK, 1109190) Eikon exists to work alongside young people and families living in difficult or unhappy circumstances. We provide support, counselling and coaching in difficult cases from parents’ separation to suicidal tendencies. In all circumstances our aim is to support young individuals and families to restore their unity and stability to ensure a more positive future.
Peace Hospice Care
(UK, 1002878) Browse events
YTD Raised: £550.00
(UK, 1002878) Peace Hospice Care looks after people living with a life limiting illness and supports their families from across South West Hertfordshire. We provide inpatient care, a day service, an outpatient service, a hospice at home service as well as bereavement support, and all care that we provide is free.
Rennie Grove Hospice Care
(UK, 1140386) Browse events
YTD Raised: £530.00Our vision is that patients with life-limiting illness in our area can choose how and where they want to be cared for towards the end of life. We provide 24/7 responsive Hospice at Home care; Day Hospice care and support for all the family during the illness and through bereavement.
North London Cares
(UK, 1153137) Browse events
YTD Raised: £515.00North London Cares is a community network recruiting young professionals and students to offer a little extra time, practical support, social connection and human companionship to their older neighbours in Camden and Islington. We create one-to-one interactions to combat lonliness, and regular group activities for people to come together who may not normally interact, improving lives and health outcomes and bridging generational and social divides. Our Love Your Neighbour programme matches individual volunteers with just a little spare time to older neighbours who would benefit from a little companionship. Meanwhile, our Social Clubs - such as Film Nights, Storytelling Nights, Cooking Sessions, Concert Trips, Afternoon Tea Sessions and Games Clubs - provide a chance for people to share skills, experiences and cultural exchange. In 30 months, 700 North London Cares volunteers and 750 older neighbours have enjoyed over 325 Social Clubs, 20,000 interactions and 2,000 meals. A donation of £20 can help finance our next Social Club. £50 will help pay for a Cooking Session and meals for 10 isolated people. And a donation of £100 will enable us to host a major event for up to 40 of our neighbours to share time and new experiences with our volunteers.
Springhill Hospice (rochdale)
(UK, XN79812) Browse events
YTD Raised: £508.00The Hospice provides 16 in-patient beds and 16 Day Care places as well as respite, Hospice at Home, counselling and bereavement support for people with palliative care needs within Rochdale and surrounding districts.
West Norfolk Mencap
(UK, 226253) Browse events
YTD Raised: £489.76West Norfolk Mencap is an independent charity affiliated to the national Royal Mencap network. All the money we raise is used for the benefit of our charity - we do not receive any financial assistance from the national body nor do we pay anything to them apart from a small affiliation fee.We support people in West Norfolk who have a learning disability and their families/carers and we are entirely run by volunteers having no paid staff..
Sam Beare Hospice
(UK, 1115439SB) Browse events
YTD Raised: £475.00Sam Beare Hospice Weybridge, opened in 2006 to provide palliative care and support to patients and their families living with a life-limiting illness in the Boroughs of Elmbridge, Spelthorne and Runnymede Sam Beare Hospice aims to improve the lives of people whose illness may not be curable. We help people to live as actively as possible after diagnosis to the end of their lives, however long that may be. The highest value is put on respect and choice and support is also given to families and close friends, both during the illness and in bereavement. All care is provided for free and as a registered charity the Hospice relies on the support of the community to help fund their work.
Magic Moments
(UK, 1096180) Browse events
YTD Raised: £474.00The Magic Moments Charity Fund is dedicated to helping children suffering life limiting illnesses and their families. We achieve this by organising magic moments, to make youngsters' dreams come true. We also donate money raised to children's hospices across the UK so they can buy essential equipment.
Simeon Care for the Elderly
(UK, SC012239) Browse events
YTD Raised: £470.91Thank you for visiting our page! Simeon Care for the Elderly is a Camphill charity in Aberdeen providing a care home to older people with dementia, disabilities and age related frailties who can no longer manage in their own homes. Simeon’s philosophy of care, compassion and companionship supports older people to have an active, meaningful and purposeful life in a community of care. We opened up our doors in June 1984 and we have supported many older people since then. Today, we have 18 very special people living with us and we are building them a new home specificially designed for older people who need a high standard of care. The new development is being built on site and when its finished spring 2015, it will feature 23 en-suite bedrooms and a dementia-friendly garden. This project will enable Simeon to support more of our elderly community in an environment which promotes independence and well-being. It will also provide families with peace of mind knowing that their loved one is being cared for in a nurturing and loving environment by a charity renowned for its exceptionally high quality care.
Go Kids Go! (Association of Wheelchair Children)
(UK, 1057894) Browse events
YTD Raised: £465.00Go Kids Go! (Association of Wheelchair Children) provides UK wide wheelchair skills training to enable independent mobility for young wheelchair-users and advice, advocacy and support for them and their families. Their courses are both practical and fun and families are always encouraged to join in.
Nelson Mandela Children's Fund
(UK, 1055899) Browse events
YTD Raised: £460.52Founded by Nelson Mandela in 1994, NMCF works to improve the lives of vulnerable children in South Africa with programmes that address HIV and Aids, disability, and that build confidence, self esteem and prepare young people for a healthy and productive future.
Nepal Appeal
(UK, 1161898) Browse events
YTD Raised: £450.00The Live The Adventure ‘Nepal Appeal’ was started as a result of the Major Earthquake that devastated Nepal on 25th April 2015. We are raising funds specifically for the long term redevelopment of rural communities. Whilst vital aid and support after the disaster has been essential, the reality is that the people of Nepal will require financial support for a long time to come to recover from something of this scale.
Norfolk Deaf Association (NDA)
(UK, 1146883) Browse events
YTD Raised: £445.00Norfolk Deaf Association (NDA) is dedicated to improving the lives of young people and adults with all degrees of hearing loss. This is achieved by providing hearing aid maintenance, advice on assistive listening technology and communication methods, befriending, and support and information on hearing loss and other related conditions.
ARCOS
(UK, 1007416) Browse events
YTD Raised: £445.00ARCOS exists to improve life for children and adults who have communication and/or swallowing problems, their families and others involved. Many clients have complex, life-long disabilities. Its goal is to enable them to benefit from the latest advances in knowledge, understanding, skills and technology.
Age UK Norwich
(UK, 1094623) Browse events
YTD Raised: £428.31Later life should be a positive time for everybody, but for too many people it is a time of poverty, isolation and a struggle to get by. We work with the community in Norwich to make later life rewarding through: providing timely advice and support, helping volunteers to really make a difference, supporting local groups to create social networks for older people and by lobbying and campaigning with older people themselves. All of these services are free and our 20 staff are strengthened by over 200 volunteers, so every pound we receive goes a long way. Any donation you can make will make a difference. We promise.
Chilli Children of Rukungiri (Uganda)
(UK, 1106601) Browse events
YTD Raised: £420.00The Chilli Children Trust supports a project for children with disabilities in Rukungiri, Uganda. This Project was set up in 1995 by the North Kigezi Diocese of the Church of Uganda as a Christian response to the problems faced by orphaned and disabled children and their families. Regular surveys are carried out in remote areas to identify disabled children and provide them with access to: A chilli growing scheme which provides much needed income for families; Monthly clinics for children who need physio or occupational therapy, providing support for parents and carers, and teaching them to help their child develop sitting, feeding and walking skills; Surgical help for children with cleft palates, burn injuries, orthopaedic conditions and neurological conditions; Clinics for children with club foot, epilepsy, and visual problems; Support with education for deaf and disabled children, and sign language training for families.
Kanzi-Kibera Friends
(UK, 1136258) Browse events
YTD Raised: £408.94The charity aims to assist the life chances of disadvantaged children living in Kibera, Nairobi by: • Funding a lunch programme, • Improving primary schools academically and structurally, • Establishing a secondary school scholarship programme, • Building self-sustaining secondary schools.
Royal National Children's Foundation
(UK, 310916) Browse events
YTD Raised: £405.00Royal National Childrens Foundation helps vulnerable children between the ages of 7 and 18 who have suffered seriously through no fault of their own, or are seriously at risk. RNCF enables these children to attend boarding or independent day schools where they have a real chance of making a new start and achieving success in their lives. Many thanks for supporting our work.
Special Care Baby Fund
(UK, 298587) Browse events
YTD Raised: £398.98It 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.
Joni's Army
(UK, 1167774) Browse events
YTD Raised: £388.79We help young people and children access treatments and equipment that fall outside the NHS funding umbrella. It is our mission to spread Joni's love and courage to all those who need a helping hand.
Friends of the Family (Winchester) Limited
(UK, 1143462) Browse events
YTD Raised: £386.01It provides support to vulnerable families with children aged 0-13 years in the Winchester area through two projects. The Under 5s Project is a theraputic support group for mothers and their pre school children and the 5s to 13s Project offers a befriending service for families in their own homes.
STARS Children's Bereavement Services
(UK, 1122625) Browse events
YTD Raised: £373.36STARS provides support and counselling for any young person, aged 0-19 who has experienced the death of someone close to them. We also provide support for young people when someone close to them is dying. The service is available to all children and young people living in Cambridgeshire.
The Pars Foundation
(UK, sc043970) Browse events
YTD Raised: £365.00The Pars Foundation (Reg Charity NO: SC043970) were established and registered as a charity with OSCR in May 2013, responsible for the running of DAFC’s community programme. The structure of the charity allows The Pars Foundation to grow and develop programmes to benefit the community of Dunfermline focusing on Children’s Health and Well Being, Elderly, Disability, Community Deprivation and other causes in the West Fife area.