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Action For Ingwavuma
(UK, 1164898) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,970.36
(UK, 1164898) Action for Ingwavuma is a UK registered charity which works in a remote part of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. Every day the people who live in Ingwavuma, struggle to survive, dealing with extreme poverty and the full impact of the HIV Aids pandemic. The life expectancy here is 39 years. Action for Ingwavuma helps this community to help itself, working with a women's group and an educational charity. We set up and support community gardens, sponsor orphans, undertake extensive help with water and sanitary projects, fund marketing initiatives for the self-help women's group called Fancy Stitch, buy high nutrient food supplements, have bought an essential vehicle for the women's group etc. All the funds we raise here in the UK go to the charity, all the workers in the UK are volunteers and pay for all their own expenses. We are in constant contact with our charity partners in Ingwavuma and visit regularly to ensure that all the money raised is correctly spent.
Bedford Hospitals Charity
(UK, 299250) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,934.66
The Bedford Hospitals Charity was founded in 1988 to raise money to fund projects at hospitals in Bedford. Since then it has raised over £6.5million. The latest appeal, the Gamma-Plus Appeal, aims to raise £600,000 to buy and install a Gamma Cameral with integral CT scanner to greatly aid diagnosis.
RN & RM Children's Fund
(UK, 1160182) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,920.99Provides help to the children of serving and ex-serving personnel when they are in need, hardship or distress. We support around 2000 children up to the age of 25 annually, most of whom have special needs or physical disability, with help ranging from specialist equipment to respite care.
Pennine Acute Hospitals Charity
(UK, 1050197) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,907.00Your donations really do make a difference to our hospitals in Bury, North Manchester, Oldham and Rochdale supporting patients and staff and enhancing services to help us meet the specific healthcare needs of approximately 800,000 people in our catchment areas. Thank you for supporting our charity.
The Graham Layton Trust
(UK, 290464) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,831.93
(UK, 290464) We aim to eliminate curable blindness by supporting our sister charity LRBT (Layton Rahmatulla Benevolent Trust) in Pakistan. LRBT provides eye treatments completely FREE OF CHARGE at its network of hospitals and clinics throughout the four provinces of Pakistan.
Yeovil Freewheelers
(UK, 299434) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,806.96The Yeovil Freewheelers operate a FREE out of hours and weekend service in support of Yeovil District Hospital (YDH). Running three Blood Bikes, we offer a fast, efficient and safe means to transport urgently needed medical items. Riders are volunteers with costs covered by charitable giving.
Dumfries & Galloway Blood Bikes
(UK, SC045453) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,802.60DGBB is run by volunteers who deliver essential blood and urgent medical supplies between hospitals and healthcare sites in South West Scotland and beyond. DGBB is dependent purely on charitable donations, and run entirely by volunteers who receive no compensation for their time.
Cambridge Women's Aid
(UK, 1137602) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,767.30Cambridge Women's Aid supporting women and children since 1977 We provide advice, support and safe accommodation to hundreds of women and children affected by domestic abuse every year. We rely heavily on donations to provide practical support to the women and children who are experiencing financial hardship due to their circumstances. Many of the women and children arrive at the refuge with nothing. Donations are vital in setting up a family to keep safe and move them on to independence. Almost all of our families are on or waiting for benefits and greatly value this additional support during this time of crisis in their lives. Any donation is much appreciatedFor further information please email or call 01223 350764 Charity No: 1137602 Find out more Website http://www.womensaid.org.uk
Friends of Kiwoko Hospital
(UK, Friends of Kiwoko Hospital - N/A) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,740.00FOKH is a registered UK charity (HMRC Ref XN77395) supporting the work of Kiwoko Hospital, Luweero, Uganda. It helps with running costs & distributing information. See http://www.kiwokohospital.org or for further information email [email protected].
Wolverhampton MS Therapy Centre
(UK, 701791) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,632.38To make a donation click on the make a donation button on the right. Many thanks. The Centre is open each weekday, and on three evenings, to provide treatment by appointment with professionally qualified staff and a team of trained voluntary workers supervised by our Susan Husband & Kate Jones Joint Care Managers. Patients and Carers can drop in at any time for a cup of tea or coffee and a chat.
RoR
(UK, 1084787) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,542.70Retraining of Racehorses (RoR) is British Horseracing’s official charity for the welfare of horses who have retired from racing. Retraining of Racehorses.
BRDC Benevolent Fund
(UK, 1084173) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,493.62The BRDC Benevolent Fund, founded in 2000, provides financial support, advice and information to those involved in motorsport, and their families who are facing hardship.
DrugFAM
(UK, 1123316) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,432.74DrugFAM was established by Elizabeth Burton-Phillips who lost one of her twin sons, Nick, to Heroin. We are open to anyone who is affected by someone else's use or misuse of drugs or and alcohol. We run a telephone helpline, a weekly support group, one to one counselling, advice and information. Please call 0845 8838 53
Take Heart Mercy Mission
(UK, 1144347) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,358.16Take Heart Mercy Mission was developed and launched by its three trustees Gillingham FC Chairman Paul Scally, The Evelina Children’s Hospital’s Paediatric Heart Surgeon Dr Conal Austin and Paediatric Cardiology Consultant Dr John Simpson in 2012 The newly formed charity encompasses the work of Mercy Mission which was started in 2001, and acquired charity status in 2005. It is solely funded by donations and sponsorships, emerging as the leading British based Sri Lankan Charity in the UK. Take Heart Mercy Mission is a charity with two main goals: 1. To save the lives of babies and youngsters in Sri Lanka - Performing intricate and complicated operations on children who would otherwise die from various heart conditions, by funding visits for a dedicated group of surgeons, doctors and nurses from the Evelina London Children's Hospital. 2. To pass on the expertise gained in British hospitals to medical teams in Sri Lanka, so that doctors and surgeons there can carry out similar operations throughout the year and therefore save many more lives in the future. In 2012 Kent’s only Football League team Gillingham Football Club adopted Take Heart Mercy Mission as their Official Club Charity, working in partnership with the team from the Evelina Children’s Hospital to help bring hope, life, love and happiness to the children of Sri Lanka. Click here for all the latest news from Take Heart Mercy Mission Click here to visit Gillingham Football Club
Friends of Taunton's Musgrove Park Hospital
(UK, 250797) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,160.00The League helps to provide better equipment and facilities for those using Musgrove Park. Support in 2013 included a spinal microscope and digital mobile X ray equipment. Our current project is to raise £340k towards refurbishment of the A&E department. Donations for specific projects also welcome.
East Sussex WRAS
(UK, 1108880) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,144.22East Sussex WRAS was established as a voluntary group in 1996, but founder Trevor Weeks has been rescuing wildlife since 1985. The charity was set up to provide a front-line rescue & hospital service for people finding wildlife casualties as well as offering advice and information.
BMCRC Benevolent Fund
(UK, 213308) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,142.66The Benevolent Fund helps fallen riders and their families in cases of need. It also raises funds to go towards medical equipment for use at BMCRC Race Meetings.
Nottinghamshire Women's Aid Ltd
(UK, 513843) Browse events
YTD Raised: £5,087.96Offering Choices, Improving LivesNottinghamshire Women's Aid Ltd endeavours to empower women and their dependants by sustaining a high level of support within our services to provide a safe environment with ongoing support, advice, counselling and learning opportunities together with emergency refuge accommodation, an outreach service for women, young people and children, a supported housing scheme and a Women's Centre in order to enable women to effect change in their lives.
Friends Of Brighton & Hove Hospitals
(UK, 209414) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,986.23Friends of Brighton & Hove Hospitals fundraise to provide innovative new equipment as well as patient comforts. Your donation will support BSUH patients at the Royal Sussex County Hospital (including ICU and MASU), Sussex Eye Hospital and in health facilities across Brighton, Hove and Newhaven.
St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital Group
(UK, 1139527) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,851.99The work of the St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital Group relieves poverty and brings hope to more than 111,000 Palestinians every year. Services provided by our Hospitals, Clinics and Mobile Outreach Unit revive education and employment prospects, and contribute to economic growth and rebuilding the fractured infrastructure. We treat patients regardless of ethnicity, religion or ability to pay. Our work changes lives. Core activities now include: • The East Jerusalem Eye Hospital• The Hebron Eye Hospital• The Gaza Clinic• The Anabta Clinic• Mobile Outreach Programme• Training local Doctors and Nurses. Although 80% of all blindness is preventable, much of it caused by poor diet, diabetes and cataracts, the people of the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) have a rate of blindness ten times higher than in the West. Poverty levels are high. The West Bank is home to some 700,000 refugees and 51.8% of all families live on less than US$3.15 per person per day. Your support of this very worthy cause is vitally important to us. Thank you!
Bromley Brighter Beginnings
(UK, 1162113) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,835.50We distribute prams, clothes, highchairs, nappies and toiletries to families in need living in the London Borough of Bromley. Most of our items are donated by local parents. Families, many of whom are fleeing domestic violence, are referred to our service by health professionals in the area.
Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade
(UK, 1093237) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,773.68We are a coastal rescue service that is a declared facility to HM Coastguard
The Insurance Charities
(UK, 206860) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,676.80The charity provides financial support and advice to those who are or have been employed in the insurance industry and their dependent relatives. Help in excess of £1 million per annum is given to individuals and families in need of support.
The Ameca Trust
(UK, 1121240) Browse events
YTD Raised: £4,655.70AMECA believe that healthcare in Africa can only be effectively addressed by an improvement in both the training and the retention of healthcare professionals. We also firmly believe that our initiatives should be sustainable over the long term, rather than provide a well intentioned but unsustainable “quick fix” approach. We are fundraising to build a new primary healthcare clinic in southern Malawi; one of the most deprived areas in one of the most deprived countries. For more information, please visit our website at www.ameca.org.uk Visit AMECA's Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ameca/189723837738595