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High Peak Women's Aid (UK, 1134679) Browse events

YTD Raised: £1,548.00

High Peak Women's Aid provides a range of domestic abuse services to support adults and children experiencing domestic abuse. We have community based services including Outreach support, IDVA support, Children's support and counselling and a refuge giving safe accommodation and support.

PRS FOR MUSIC MEMBERS BENEVOLENT FUND (UK, 208671) Browse events

YTD Raised: £1,547.23

The PRS for Music Members Benevolent Fund offers assistance to songwriters, composers and their dependants, who are suffering financial hardship due to illness, accident or problems associated with old age.

ABTA LifeLine (UK, 295819) Browse events

YTD Raised: £1,535.25

Abta LifeLine is ABTA’s charitable trust. Previously called the ABTA Benevolent Fund, it was set up to help people in the travel industry who need it most. The charity provides financial assistance to anyone who works or has ever worked for an ABTA Member, and their families.

Franciscan Aid (UK, 285413) Browse events

YTD Raised: £1,489.60

Franciscan Aid works through local Franciscans across the developing world to relieve poverty and advance education in the world’s poorest countries, involving First Order brothers and Tertiaries working outside the UK in some of the poorest parts of the world, particularly Africa, Palestine, SE Asia, Melanesia and South America. All office holders give their time freely to keep costs to a minimum.

The Kilimatinde Trust (UK, 1063397) Browse events

YTD Raised: £1,485.79

The Kilimatinde Trust (est 1997) assists the poorest region (Singida) in Tanzania in education, health and development. Thanks to the generosity of Grundfos a solar pump installation will assist the drought stricken village of Londoni in 2010. In 2009 the Sunderland Royal Hospital donated 140 beds and other generous supporters have enabled the hospital to be solar panelled so half the wards can be lit at night. The Trusts 2010 priorities are: install a water purification unit, complete the hospital infusion unit, solar panel the remaining wards, support poor patients through a food fund, support HIV/AIDS orphans through a health insurance scheme and renew many outdated pieces of hospital equipment.

BASICS-Hertfordshire (UK, EW41253) Browse events

YTD Raised: £1,475.00

We are a group of volunteer doctors, paramedics and nurses, who attend the scenes of serious accidents, or go to the critically ill, and provide life-saving care at the scene. We are called by East of England Ambulance Service to augment the care given by the ambulance crews. We carry life-saving equipment, and travel to the scene in our own cars, fitted with blue lights and sirens. It costs about £10,000 to fully equip and train a BASICS-Herts doctor.

Women And Children First (UK) (UK, 1085096) Browse events

YTD Raised: £1,450.59

Women and Children First (UK) helps stop mothers and babies from dying.  More than 98% of mothers and babies who die during preganacy, childbirth or in the first few days of life, live in the world's poorest countries. They die from conditions that are treatable or prevenatable and which aren't typically life-threatening in the UK.   Our simple model of women's self-help groups run in local communities is highly effective in saving the lives of mums and babies. 

Aviation Without Borders (UK, 1117373) Browse events

YTD Raised: £1,437.58

Aviation Without Borders (AWB) is an exciting UK aviation charity dedicated to providing humanitarian assistance through aviation services irrespective of politics, religion, race or nationality.

Swift Medics (UK, 1133797) Browse events

YTD Raised: £1,430.00

Wiltshires Emergency Response Doctors Charity SWIFT Medics are a registered charity providing emergency medical care in Wiltshire at the scene of incidents or sudden severe serious medical conditions such as heart attacks, severe asthma or meningitis. SWIFT Medics have 10 doctors across Wiltshire who respond to calls from the South Western Ambulance Service to support the ambulance crew in incidents where a Emergency Response Doctor is required.  Incidents range from road traffic accidents on the M4 or country roads, to attending to heart attack victims or children with breathing difficulties.  Calls can come any time of day or night, 7 days a week.  Doctors can be dispatched to incidents further afield and in 2005 two SWIFT Medics doctors attended the London bombings. SWIFT Medics receive no funding from the NHS or emergency services sector and rely solely on donations to fund its operation.  All staff at SWIFT Medics give their time purely on a voluntary basis so money raised for SWIFT Medics goes directly towards the specialist training of doctors and medical equipment needed to attend medical emergencies across Wiltshire. Registered Charity 1133797

Freewheelers EVS (UK, 1001067) Browse events

YTD Raised: £1,410.04

Freewheelers EVS is a free emergency medical courier service operating in the South West of England. Our volunteers use motorcycles to carry blood, samples, breast milk, drugs, x-rays and notes for hospitals in the area. We do not charge hospitals for our service.

RFL Benevolent Fund (UK, 1109858) Browse events

YTD Raised: £1,403.89

The RFL Benevolent Fund provides relief for people who have been injured whilst playing or training for rugby football league.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) South Africa (UK, NPO060840) Browse events

YTD Raised: £1,394.16

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation providing medical assistance to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion, natural and man-made disasters - irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation.

Harry & Co (UK, 1142756) Browse events

YTD Raised: £1,363.00

Raising funds for maternity bereavement services in Warrington hospital.We aim to create a network of support by using funds raised through our organised events to develop services that do not yet exist in the local community.Also create a greater public knowledge & understanding of the potential risks of baby loss either before, during or post birth.

The Royal Theatrical Fund (UK, 222080) Browse events

YTD Raised: £1,330.00

The Royal Theatrical Fund provides financial assistance for members of the entertainment profession and their dependants. We help members of the profession of all ages who have experienced illness, accident, bereavement or other personal misfortune. Support includes grants, advice and friendship.

MCKS Charitable Foundation UK (UK, 1148680) Browse events

YTD Raised: £1,323.00

The aim of the MCKS Charitable Foundation UK is to raise funds for the first MCKS UK Pranic Healing Centre.The MCKS Charitable Foundation UK is run by volunteers.

Life Bridging Works (UK, 1122649) Browse events

YTD Raised: £1,313.32

Life Bridging Works exists to bring life in all its fullness to some of the worlds' poorest people. Currently most of the work is in Northern Uganda (Lira District) and more recently South Sudan. It runs a sponsership scheme for 28 sudanese children, supports a primary and secondary school, funds a HIV/Aids support group and provides funding for healthcare provision.

Communicare in Southampton (UK, 1110427) Browse events

YTD Raised: £1,298.00

Communicare in Southampton is a registered charity based in Southampton. What is Communicare's purpose/mission? Our aim is to enrich the lives of those in need in our community by providing emotional and practical support. We do this through our wonderful team of volunteers, who express their care for those in the local community by offering their time for activities including visiting and befriending, taking people shopping, DIY, garden clearance, transport to hospital and doctors appointments etc.   Why should I give to Communicare? We do not charge our clients a penny for the services they recieve, and therefore are dependent on donations and grants to meet our essential outgoings. Although we use volunteers wherever possible, expenses such as transport and office admin are unavoidable, so your support to help us meet these costs is greatly valued and appreciated. Please consider whether you could give a small amount per month to Communicare, as this helps us to plan for the future and ensure we can open up the service to as many people as possible. Where is Communicare based? We are a local charity operating in the City of Southampton. We have two offices - one in Woolston, and another in Shirley. These two offices serve the whole city, and are open Monday to Thursday. Want to know more? Visit www.communicareinsouthampton.org.uk for more information about us.

London Mark Masons Charity Appeal (UK, 1016963) Browse events

YTD Raised: £1,294.39

The Mark Province of London Benevolent Fund operates a two pronged approach. Firstly, the fund provides emergency financial assistance to its members, members’ widows and dependants. Secondly, the fund makes single payment grants to other Masonic Bodies, Charities and other worthy causes.

Rape Crisis (Wycombe, Chiltern & South Bucks) (UK, 1051611) Browse events

YTD Raised: £1,277.00

We are a voluntary organisation, run by women for women; independent from Police and Social Services. All staff and volunteers have specialist training in supporting women who are survivors of any kind of sexual violence. We provide an equal opportunities service to all women. WE LISTEN & BELIEVE

St Joseph's African Aid (UK, 1087768) Browse events

YTD Raised: £1,272.52

St Joseph's African Aid (SJAA) is a small charity funding achievable projects in DR Congo, Cameroon and Gabon. Our efforts have thus far been concentrated in three areas: the Kasai, a remote and impoverished area of DR Congo with little infrastructure and poor transport links, and the extreme north of Cameroon, another remote area with an impoverished population and which is currently threatened by Boko Haram incursions. Gabon is a more stable country than these two: nevertheless there are considerable needs and we have been able to offer support to educational projects there. Charity No: 1087768 Find out more Website http://www.sjaa.org.uk

Barry & Martin's Trust (UK, 1062629) Browse events

YTD Raised: £1,265.00

Barry and Martin's Trust was established in 1996 to support Aids education, prevention and care in China. It was established in memory of the late Barry Chan.

Portadown Cares (UK, HMRCregistered) Browse events

YTD Raised: £1,254.95

Portadown Cares provide Christmas hampers to those in severe need within our local community, as well as practical help such as furniture. We have also been asked by Portadown Pikers to officially support the fundraising for the families of both David Warnock & Daryl Burke.

Rise Foundation (UK, 1041311) Browse events

YTD Raised: £1,247.44

Thank you for visiting our page. The Kurdish Aid Foundation, a UK-registered charity for 20 years, have teamed up with Rise Foundation for their Winter Campaign. Rise Foundation is a registered NGO providing tailored support to the most vulnerable and recreational projects for the refugee and internally displaced people (IDP) populations within the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

Marina Dalglish Appeal (UK, 1111193) Browse events

YTD Raised: £1,246.20

So far we have raised:- £1.5m for a Chemotherapy Centre at Aintree & Fazekerley Hospital £3.1m towards a Radiotherapy Centre also based at Aintree. £0.5m towards a new Chemotherapy Centre at Southport & Formby Hospital. Our new challenge is to raise £2m for an iMRI scanner to treat brian tumours.

Karen Woo Foundation (UK, 1137580) Browse events

YTD Raised: £1,240.00

The Karen Woo Foundation provides grants to provide healthcare to Afghans, in particular women and children, to train healthcare providers (eg doctors and midwives), to provide medical supplies to healthcare providers particularly in rural areas and to provide healthcare education to Afghan women.