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HOPE Connections (UK, SC028928) Browse events
YTD Raised: n/aHOPE Connections brings together a connected community supporting individuals and families suffering from trauma, poverty, addictions, homelessness, poor mental health, and those with experience of the Criminal Justice System. We jump in and walk with those in pain - our small outreach team takes a holistic, person-centred approach and considers individual needs, offering practical & emotional support. We link people with supportive communities and services, supporting people into recovery and as they return into the community from rehabilitation facilities, prison and hospital/mental health facilities.
Uganda Conservation Foundation (UCF)
(UK, 1087295) Browse events
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(UK, 1087295) Achieving the balance – between human development and wildlife and habitat conservation – in a country with the world’s third highest population growth rate is critical. This is the aim of the Uganda Conservation Foundation. Working with the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA), UCF aims to sensitise communities and demonstrate through practical projects how people can gain financial benefits from conservation. UCF’s current challenge is assisting UWA in the recovery of the 400km² Dura sector north of Lake George, where wildlife has literally been wiped out by poaching. The Dura project is an extension of the successful Waterways project, which is combating ivory poaching, bushmeat smoking, live animal trafficking and illegal fishing across Lakes Edward, George and Albert. Other successful projects include measures to reduce elephant crop raiding. Since the excavation of 30km trenches and erection of 13 elephant fences no retaliatory killings of elephants have been reported. Farmers are now harvesting their crops, allowing children to attend secondary school rather than guard crops, proving that simple low-tech solutions can make a massive difference to rural communities’ quality of life. To read more about how UCF works to improve the lives of communities and protect wildlife visit www.ugandacf.org
Parenting Mental Health
(UK, 1188036) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00At Parenting Mental Health, we believe parents have a vital, often overlooked role to play in supporting their children to strong, resilient and positive mental health, and this happens when we as parents change our own behaviours and expectations to meet the different demands of mental illness. But how do we cope with something none of us are experienced at or expect to have to deal with? When your child experiences poor mental health, the whole family is impacted. Life is not the same as it was before - it is uncertain, full of challenge, and overloaded with emotion and expectation. And no one seems to get it or talk about it - which is why we offer a safe, judgement-free space for parents to explore how they feel about this experience and reduce isolation by connecting with others in similar situations. Parenting Mental Health supports parents to understand their child's illness and that mental illness offers an opportunity to reflect on their behaviour, communication and emotions. We offer the kind of understanding that can be so hard to find when the family you knew and loved is shaken up by poor mental health. Parents who complete our training and follow our methodology model better behaviours around acceptance, communication, consistency and self care, which lead to better relationships. In time, when the next generation become parents, we hope they will model the positive behaviours of their parents and be more understanding of mental health.