Browsing Charities
Refugee Youth Project
(UK, 1139685) Browse events
YTD Raised: £8,320.19
(UK, 1139685) Refugee Youth Project is a voluntary organisation that works with community-based partners to provide support and activities for young refugees and asylum seekers. The organisation is run by a skilled and committed group of volunteers. We have projects in London, Lebanon and Nepal.
CAMFED
(UK, 1029161) Browse events
YTD Raised: £8,107.40
(UK, 1029161) When you educate a girl in Africa, everything changes. Educating girls is the single most powerful weapon in the fight against poverty & AIDS. Camfed supports girls in rural Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ghana, Tanzania & Malawi. More than 2,420,900 children have benefitted. Visit www.camfed.org for more info.
Plan International USA
(UK, 13-5661832) Browse events
YTD Raised: £7,875.00
(UK, 13-5661832) Plan International USA promises a better future for children and communities in over 50 developing countries, equipping them with the skills and knowledge to create their own solutions, which range from clean water and health care programs to education projects and child protection initiatives.
The One Foundation
(UK, 1118810) Browse events
YTD Raised: £7,396.59Thank you for raising money for The One Foundation. We are the charitable division of Global Ethics Ltd. We are a UK-based registered charity working with communities in Africa to address the most pressing needs, including clean water, sanitation, nutrition, health, education and poverty reduction.
Hackney Migrant Centre
(UK, 1122363) Browse events
YTD Raised: £7,022.94Hackney Migrant Centre is a volunteer-led charity that runs a weekly drop-in for asylum seekers, refugees and migrants. We offer free advice on immigration and housing and benefit problems. We also have a health advocate that can help with access to NHS services and GP registration. HMC was established in direct response to needs identified by local agencies and campaigning organisations such as Hackney Community Law Centre, Hackney Refugee and Migrant Support Group, and Hackney Refugee Forum. These were, particularly, asylum seekers’ lack of access to good immigration advice, and widespread housing and welfare problems including destitution, social isolation and unrecognised health problems. HMC aims to reduce poverty, mental distress and social isolation among recent migrants through the provision of high quality immigration and welfare advice and health advocacy. The service is open to any migrant, whatever their nationality, immigration status or present place of residence though almost all clients live in London. HMC also aims to encourage social interaction and mutual support by volunteers talking informally with visitors (clients), and by providing opportunities for interaction among the visitors themselves. We have a small hardship fund which enables us to make one-off payments to destitute visitors. All visitors receive a free lunch as well as support from our volunteers. Hackney Migrant Centre Aims 1. To provide advice and assistance to migrants on immigration, welfare or health issues 2. To offer a welcoming environment to migrants and help reduce social isolation 3. To publicise issues relating to migrants social and economic circumstances
CAFOD
(UK, 285776) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,803.30CAFOD works with local partners and communities in 40 countries across the world - responding to emergencies, promoting long-term development and raising public awareness of the causes of poverty. We work with people of all faiths and none for a safe, sustainable and peaceful world.
Build It International
(UK, 1115989) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,490.17Zambia is one of the world’s poorest countries and over two thirds of people live on less than £1 per day. We work directly with local people to help them transform their communities by providing skills training and essential education and healthcare facilities.
Cord
(UK, 1070684) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,287.25Cord is an international peacebuilding charity working for over 40 years in Africa and South East Asia to end poverty and build peace. Currently working in Chad, Burundi and Cambodia in partnership with local organisations and communities who are recovering from violent conflict. www.cord.org.uk
Re~Cycle (Bicycle Aid for Africa)
(UK, 1063570) Browse events
YTD Raised: £6,283.39
(UK, 1063570) Re~Cycle collects unwanted bicycles in the UK & ships them in containers of 450+ to partners in Africa. They are distributed to people as a low cost and environmentally friendly means of transport, improving access to water, health care, education & employment. Over 54,000 bikes + parts sent so far
Frank Water Projects
(UK, 1121273) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,892.43FRANK Water sets up sustainable, community-owned clean water projects in some of the poorest communities in India. To date, we’ve allocated funds for over 100 clean water projects, providing access to safe, clean drinking water for more than 180,000 people. Join us and be part of the solution.
Reach the Children UK
(UK, 1108058) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,684.391. TO RELIEVE POVERTY OF CHILDREN LIVING IN AFRICA WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS. 2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF SUCH CHILDREN.
Hand in Hand
(UK, 1069976) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,438.12Hand in Hand is passionate about giving children born in poverty a hope for the future. Our ultimate aim is for each child's life to be transformed and the cycle of poverty to be broken.
The Friends of Butoke
(UK, 1140094) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,163.70The Friends of Butoke supports Butoke, an NGO in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Butoke looks after orphans, provides basic healthcare and feeds the malnourished and starving. Its agronomists help farmers who abandoned their fields during the civil war to re-establish their crops.
Karen Refugees - Scottish Support
(UK, SC033290) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,119.32The trust supports Karen refugees from Burma who have been forced to take refuge in the border area of Thailand. Most of the assistance is provided through support for the Mae Tao Clinic run by Dr Cynthia Maung.
Rainbow Development In Africa
(UK, 1087744) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,099.00Rainbow Development in Africa is a grassroots charity working with farmers and farming communities in southern Mauritania and northern Senegal in West Africa. Working always through local partners, our objective is to help people improve their livelihoods through their own efforts and without creating dependance. Improved farming practices, micro-credit, well digging and organisational development are some of the activites we are involved in amongst some of the most marginalised peoples in the world in a region suffering the devastating effects of climate change.
One To One Children's Fund
(UK, 1086159) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,937.50Pioneering projects which relieve the suffering of children and foster tolerance, peace and understanding in areas of conflict and spearheading groundbreaking projects in Kosovo, South Africa & the Middle-East, aiming to create centres of excellence and models of best practice.
Afrika Tikkun UK
(UK, 1101556) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,792.71Afrika Tikkun aims to transform communities in South Africa by supporting vulnerable children and equipping them with the skills needed to succeed in life. This award-winning NGO currently helps thousands of families every week. Their Patron, Nelson Mandela, hails their programmes as 'A Miracle'
Grow Peace-Path out of Poverty
(UK, 1091687) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,773.26Promoting education to help poor rural African children escape grinding poverty.
Village Education Project Kilimanjaro
(UK, 1041672) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,591.99Village Education Project Kilimanjaro (VEPK) has worked in Tanzania since 1994. The charity was set up by Katy Allen who was awarded an MBE for her services to education in Tanzania in 2001. VEPK works extensively in the primary education sector and also in vocational skills training.
Friends of Della and Don
(UK, 1129751) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,161.57Providing help and assistance to the villagers of Ratmalana, Sri Lanka who were devasted by the Boxing Bay Tsunami 2004
Education for Democracy in South Africa EDSA
(UK, 1003795) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,828.47EDSA supports Saturday Schools and other educational initiatives which give disadvantaged young people living in the poverty-stricken townships and informal settlements around Cape Town the chance to fulfil their potential. EDSA believes that education is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty and crime, the abiding legacy of apartheid.
Make My Day Better
(UK, 1139533) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,637.47Make My Day Better is the charity arm of DialAFlight and the Lotus Group which supports a variety of projects around the world. Activities range from providing fishing boats for Sri Lankan fishermen devastated by the Tsunami, to supporting a number of projects involving children in Africa.
Clowns Without Borders UK
(UK, 1156987) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,585.65Clowns Without Borders aims to improve the lives of children who live in areas of crisis including refugee camps, conflict zones and natural disaster. Through a combination of performances and workshops we enable "children to be children" and create moments of laughter and play when it is needed the most. In areas of crisis children are often the first group in any population to lose their rights; the right to be a child. We create opportunities for children (and communities) to play and relax. Our work doesn't stop there. We know the best way for children to understand anything is to make it fun and so we ensure our performances and workshops deliver and strengthen relevant messages regarding children’s social welfare, education, health and Human Rights.
APT Action on Poverty
(UK, 290836) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,578.99Action on Poverty builds livelihoods for vulnerable people. Based in Cropthorne Worcestershire, we deliver programmes with partners in Africa & S.Asia providing practical help to the poorest victims of climate change, war and disease while enabling people to transform their communities.
Kyaninga Child Development Centre
(UK, 1164706) Browse events
YTD Raised: £3,479.80Kyaninga CDC Trust raises funds to help children with disabilities living in extreme poverty in western Uganda. We train and support local community health workers to provide rehabilitation, health care, health education and essential mobility equipment to help children gain essential skills, independence and to reach their true potential.