We?re A Spoonful Of Sugar. We help seriously ill children in hospital. We do this by giving them the best medicine they can get. A laugh. Each week, we send a professional entertainer or artist into the wards to give the children a healing dose of fun. We try our best to give them something to look forward to - like arranging a post-treatment VIP trip to Hamleys. In all this, our aim is to help the children forget where they are, forget the suffering and forget the monotony of hospitalisation. If we can achieve any of that, even for a second, it?s all worth it. We already help the kids in the Carousel Ward of UCH in London. Now we need your help to get to the hundreds of children in 21 similar wards nationwide. Every penny you can spare will go directly into bringing some much-needed fun and laughter to all of them.

We are a charitable organisation that has been set up specifically to support projects designed to help alliviate poverty in Africa.

It improves the lives of mothers and families affected by pre or postnatal depression

ACET in the UK works to support the rapidly growing ACET International Alliance. The Alliance is a group of independent organisations currently working in 22 countries to reduce rates of new HIV infection, care for those affected by HIV/AIDS and support AIDS orphans.

Pre-eclampsia is the most common of the serious pregnancy conditions, affecting one pregnancy in 10 or 70,000 women each year. Action on Pre-Eclampsia aims to raise public and professional awareness, improve care and ease or prevent physical and emotional suffering caused by this potentially devastating condition.

Afghan Mother & Child Rescue is a small hands-on charity which concentrates on building specialised mother and child health clinics in Afghanistan. The clinics provide a safe, clean environment for births and are playing a crucial role in helping to bring down Afghanistan’s extremely high level of maternal and infant mortality.

The IMAGINE Appeal supports the pioneering work undertaken at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool. Donations help make a difference by enabling the hospital to research medical conditions, buy vital equipment, build a better environment, and provide dedicated facilities for children and their families.

Support for women and men struggling with unplanned pregnancy & pregnancy loss.

Every year 35,000 parents are told the baby they are expecting may have an abnormality. ARC gives parents information about antenatal testing and supports them and their families when an abnormality is discovered in their much wanted unborn baby. ARC is a lifeline for expectant and bereaved parents and also trains health professionals so they can to do a difficult job better.

This Fund was set up in 2003 with the aim of raising £250,000 to provide 3 additional intensive care cots for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. This was achieved in just two years with magnificent support from staff, families and the local community. Donated funds are utilized to purchase specialist equipment.

Our charity offers information, advice and support to women who suffer from post-natal depression and their families. We have volunteers who have had the illness and recovered who offer support by phone, e-mail or post. Our aim is to offer hope to sufferers and support them while they are ill.

A baby's nine month journey in to the world is hazardous and the last few hours and minutes crucial to life. It could be the life of your unborn child or grandchild. The NHS Capital Budget provides basic essentials only. Donating to The Baby Beat Appeal allows us to provide the very best in fetal monitoring equipment.

Baby Lifeline - the leading mother and baby charity, supports the care of pregnancy and birth. As well as providing vital technology for maternity and special care baby units, it also provides 'cutting edge', specialist training for health professionals.

It helps the people of africa and in particular the people of Mali help themselves by providing ambulances and medical equipment and funding for medical facilities and staff

Berkshire East & South Bucks Women's Aid provides support for victims of domestic violence throughout East Berkshire and South Buckinghamshire. One in four women suffer some form of emotional, mental or physical abuse, and it affects women of all ages, cultures, backgrounds and professions. Services include refuge space for women and children, resettlement for families leaving the refuge, and advice and support for families suffering from domestic abuse. Berkshire East & South Bucks Women's Aid is a registered charity, set up in 1976.

At Best Beginnings, our vision is of a future where all children enjoy excellent care from the very beginning, where families have the information and support needed to protect their children's health, and illnesses and deaths can be avoided. Our innovative work is unique in the UK, exploiting as it does the window of opportunity between birth and two years of age, where foundations for a healthy childhood can be laid. Times are very tough for small charities like us. We urgently need your support to enable us to continue our crucial work. Please consider making a regular donation ? even as little as £3 a month will help us make a difference to all Britain's babies. Join us online at www.bestbeginnings.info.

The Big Heart Bike Ride is a series of cycling challenge events in aid of four British heart charities: British Heart Foundation, Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY), Tiny Tickers and HEART UK The Cholesterol Charity.

The donations you make to the Big Heart Bike Ride will be distributed equally between them. The events are organised by Action for Charity - www.actionforcharity.co.uk

Birmingham Women?s NHS Foundation Trust (also known as Birmingham Women?s Hospital) is a specialist teaching Trust which delivers services for the people of Birmingham and beyond, these are:

· Maternity and Fetal Medicine

· Neonatal care

· Gynaecology and Fertility

· Regional Clinical and Laboratory Genetics

· Imaging and Pathology

Your support will help us to care for women and sick or premature babies.

BirthLink supports maternal and neonatal healthcare in disadvantaged countries, where maternal and newborn care is severely compromised by lack of education and basic resources. Through workshops, seminars and 'hands-on' skills training, based on low-tech care, our aim is to improve outcomes for mothers and babies.

BirthTay helps the work of the assissted conception unit in Ninewells Hospital. We provide the finances for some of the staff training, scanners and other important equipment. We also do what we can to make the ward more comfortable for patients.

Bliss is the UK charity that cares for premature and sick babies. We are dedicated to ensuring that babies survive and go on to have the best possible quality of life. We provide practical and emotional support for families during an extremely difficult time, so they can give the best care to their babies. Our specialist study days and training supports doctors and nurses to develop their skills. We fund research to improve the care of all sick and premature babies. We raise awareness of the issues affecting special care babies and fight for essential change within government and the NHS.

BONNIE BABIES MAKES AND SENDS TINY PREMATURE CLOTHES, BLANKETS AND SADLY BURIAL OUTFITS TO U.K. SPECIAL BABY CARE UNITS, ALSO TO PARENTS WHO NEED THEIR SUPPORT. IN 2008 ALONE THE CHARITY SUPPLIED 80,739 ITEMS TO PARENTS EITHER DIRECTLY OR THROUGH OVER 130 HOSPITALS, PLEASE HELP TO CONTINUE THIS WORK.THANK YOU.

Born Too Soon was established in 1985 to offer information and support to parents of small pre-term babies and new born infants requiring specialist care on the Neonatal Unit at Kingston Hospital NHS Trust and also to raise money to purchase much needed equipment in the Unit.

BCT supports causes which make family life easier and are close to the hearts of Bounty Parenting Club members. Beneficiaries are nominated and chosen by our mums on a quarterly basis through Bounty.com. Recent recipients include The Rainbow Centre, Bristol and the Association of Children's Hospices.

Bridges is a centre for learning, care and support, health and wellbeing, community arts and entertainment, and a range of local services. It aims to build bridges between people of all ages and backgrounds living in Monmouth and surrounding areas.

Chauncy Maples is the oldest ship in Africa. Built in 1898 in Glasgow she was carried in pieces to Lake Malawi in Central Africa. The Government of Malawi is renovating her back into a hospital ship to provide free health services to 2 million people living around the lake. They will match every pound donated.

The Children's Air Ambulance is a new and vitally needed specialist retrieval air ambulance, specifically for children, which will be used for transferring seriosly ill or injured children from a local, regional hospital to a specialist children's units.

Children?s Relief Bethlehem is financing and managing the Caritas Baby Hospital in Palestine to ensure basic medical care for over 30,000 children each year. It is committed to improve access to medical assistance and supplies, and to fight poverty and disease through prevention and education.

CA offers evangelism training and discipleship for Christian students aged 16 - 25. They are encouraged to emulate the works of Christ in bringing relief and change to those who are disadvantaged or suffering around them.

Claire House cares for children aged 0 to 23 with life-limiting/life-threatening conditions from Merseyside, Cheshire, North Wales and the Isle of Man. The charity provides specialist respite care, palliative and terminal care and bereavement and family support for the whole family in a home from home environment where the needs of the children and their families come first.

Clapa is a support organisation for all those with and affected by cleft lip and palate. One in 700 children are born with this condition - about 1,000 a year in the UK. CLAPA provides information, advice and one to one support through its national network of branches. It also runs confidence-building camps for children and distributes bottles and teats for babies born with cleft lip and palate.

Cots for Tots supports the vital work of the neo-natal intensive care unit at St Michaels Hospital in Bristol. Our aim is to ensure the babies and their families from Bristol and throughout the Southwest have the very best possible care and facilites available.

Donations are gratefully received for all areas we also have our special funds which are:

Little Buds Fund helping to provide the best special care for babies.

Cancer Fighting Fund to help with the diagnosis and treatment of all cancers.

Lollipop Fund to benefit very sick children

Heartbeat Fund supporting our award winning heart team.

We aim to provide comprehensive medical care to some of the worlds most vunerable and poor, to work on long term projects, we are not in it to make a name, to do something quick and easy, its all about developing a sustainable project, something that will have benefit for generations.

The ECHO Trust gives people the chance to make an immediate and dramatic difference to the lives of sick children across the country. Making waves across the medical profession, ECHO ensures the availability of cash for children's hospitals and health projects which has never before been possible. Echo delivers money where it's wanted most.

The Ectopic Pregancy Foundation (EPF) is a charity organisation set up by a group of National Health Service (NHS) doctors to help give advice about this distressing condition that affects up to 1 in 100 pregnancies. We provide advice for both the medical profession and the general public, in the form of the website and a 24 hour telephone advice line.

The EPF needs funds to support its activity and ambitions. Funding is required for hosting the website, providing the 24 hour patient helpline, mailshots to A&E departments, equipment to train gynaecologists in managing ectopic pregnancies and administrative support to run the organisation. All the trustees, faculty and international resident advisors are honorary and receive no financial reward and give their time freely.

We do not have any governmental support.

Mr Laurie Montgomery Irvine, founder and honory chief executive.

EMMS International is involved in primary healthcare programmes in Malawi, India and Nepal, as well as supporting the Nazareth Hospital and helping other mission hospitals in many countries.

Supporting sick and premature babies cared for in the neonatal unit at St George's Hospital in Tooting. The charity raises funds for vital medical equipment and patient welfare.

FSID is the UK's leading baby charity working to prevent sudden infant deaths, also known as cot death. We fund vital research, support bereaved families and promote safe baby care advice. Please support us and help us to give babies the chance of a lifetime. www.fsid.org.uk

FORWARD works to promote action to bring about positive social change to enhance the well being & protect the dignity of African girls & women globally. FORWARD is committed to eliminating harmful gender-based discriminatory practices that violate the sexual and reproductive health & rights of girls & women, such as female genital mutilation (FGM) & child marriage.

The Freedom From Fistula Foundation helps women in Africa who are suffering from obstetric fistula caused by obstructed childbirth by providing free surgeries and access to healthcare during pregnancy and childbirth. The charity helps thousands of women every year and with your help it can do more.

Its aim is to relieve sickness and promote the good health of the people of Kanungu district in Uganda by raising funds for the maintenance and development of the Bwindi Community Health Centre with a view to reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat hiv/aids, malaria and other diseases and improve the provision of clean water and sanitation.

The mission of Friends of Colombia for Social Aid is to help improve the lives of the most disadvantaged children in Colombia. FOCSA fulfills its mission by donating medical, educational and other necessary equipment to hospitals and other institutions that have been set up to help these children.

Friends of Wonersh Surgery is a charity that helps fund essential equipment and services at Wonersh Surgery that the practice would otherwise be unable to afford. The charity needs your help more than ever before, to help kit out the minor surgery unit.

The aim of the Charity is to purchase equipment and provide goods or services to enhance a patient's stay; provide support for training and development of staff; buy additional equipment not normally provided by the Trust and to provide support for medical research projects whilst respecting the wishes of donors.

To raise funds to purchase equipment for the ante-natal units for hospitals in Devon & Cornwall.

Group B streptococcus (GBS) is the UK’s most common life-threatening infection in newborn babies. Without preventative medicine, GBS infects approximately 700 babies annually –75 die and 40 survivors suffer long-term problems. Most GBS infections are preventable. Help GBSS inform pregnant women and health professionals how to do this and save tiny lives.

HAPIS IS A SUPPORT NETWORK BOTH INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP FOR MOTHERS AND FAMILIES IN THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS AFFECTED BY POSTNATAL DEPRESSIONIT IS A TOTALLY VOLUNTARY GROUP RUN BY RECOVERED MOTHERS AND RELIES HEAVILY ON DONATIONS AS IT HAS NO STATUTORY SUPPORT

The appeal's aim is to raise funds to provide equipment for the neonatal unit and the maternity unit, and to support the services and facilities provided for bereaved parents, or parents of poorly babies and children at Wythenshawe hospital, Manchester.

The charity helps fund medical equipment throughout the trust, and enhances the level of care by financing many courses and education days. It helps improve both patient and staff environments and holds many different funds reflecting the sheer size of the trust

THE RELIEF AND PREVENTION OF SICKNESS IN GHANA THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF HOMEOPATHY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LOCAL COMMUNITIES, HEALTH EDUCATION IN CONJUNCTION WITH LOCAL HEALTH WORKERS, SUPPORT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF HOMEOPATHIC EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING TOGETHER WITH LOCAL PARTNERS

Its aim is for all young children in East Hampshire to have the best possible start in life. It trains volunteers to support families who are going through difficulties (such as post-natal depression, disability or bereavement) by offering regular practical and emotional support.

Home-Start Guildford helps parents build better lives for their children. Trained volunteers provide practical and emotional support to parents with at least one child under 5, who are struggling and who may be suffering from post-natal depression, illness, disability, bereavement, isolation, multiple births... or just not coping.

With your help, we can give parents the strength they need to do what has to be one of the toughest, but most rewarding jobs anyone can do. We can help them to be the mums and dads their children need them to be.

Parents supporting other parents: a simple idea that really works!

Home-Start has worked with in Kingston for 14 years recruiting and training volunteers to support parents experiencing difficult times due to many issues such as family breakdown, mental illness, multiple births, bereavement, disability of parent or child, isolation or exhaustion.

Providing support to families with young children in Stockport. Volunteers visit the family home to offer support, friendship and practical help to families experiencing stress or difficulties in some way.

Home-Start Wandsworth is a charity providing support to families with at least one child under five by volunteers whom we also recruit and train. Through weekly home visits they are able to respond to the problems of struggling families with both practical and emotional help.

Hope City Enterprise is the charity initiative of The Megacentre. It exists to equip, inspire and launch people into greatness. Projects include: City Hearts, a residential facility for young women with life controlling issues; Buzz Schools, a programme working in schools across Sheffield, Liverpool and Leeds and Hope Families, an initiative working with parents and families across Leeds. You can donate to each individual charity through each projects General Appeals pages or by a direct donation to Hope City Enterprise.

Iain Goodwill trust is working hard to highlight the dangers of young children around motor vehicles - particularly at home. In addition it is trying to make cars impossible for children to start.

The charity provides vitally needed medical care at its new medical centre in a remote disadvantaged village in Bihar, India. An experienced UK team of doctors help provide child and maternity services, treatment of TB, malaria, blindness and tropical disease where no other medical facilities exist.

The Ickle Pickles helps Neonatal units provide incredible levels of care to premature and sick babies. The charity focuses on purchasing specialist equipment, improving facilities for families and providing online channel and marketing collateral to enable future fundraisers to raise money for neonatal units around the UK.

Inter Care (licensed by the Enviromental Agency) sends unused UK NHS prescription medicines, for Humanitarian Aid to over 100 remote health centres in 7 countries in Africa.

The vision of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance is a world in which people do not die of AIDS. The Alliance supports community based organisations to respond effectively to prevent the spread of HIV and enable fair access to treatment for those who desperately need it.

Provision of travel and accommodation expenses for families resident on Islay and Jura who have children hospitalised on the mainland.

Childbed fever is an infection of the womb in new mothers which can lead to septicaemia.

Infections are rare, but they can happen to anybody, and can be fatal: 14% of maternal deaths in the UK are due to septicaemia.

Jessica's Trust would like every parent, every midwife and doctor to know that childbed fever (also called puerperal fever or puerperal sepsis) is still a very real threat to a mother's life and to know how to recognise the symptoms.

Just 1 Life is a charitable organisation dedicated to raising lifesaving funds for premature baby units across the UK.

The KGH Charity Fund helps to improve the lives of patients, their families, visitors, and staff at the Kettering General Hospital. Every donation is gratefully received and makes a big difference to the individual services and care the hospital provides. By helping the KGH Charity Fund today, you may well be helping a loved one tomorrow. Thank you for your support.

Supporting Kubuneh Health Centre, The Gambia. Providing money for medicines, medical equipment and vital structural needs.

Life After Loss is a charity set up to help those who have experienced the devastating loss of a baby, either during pregnancy or early in life. The charity started out in 2006 as an online support forum, and since then has grown from strength to strength, reaching out to bereaved parents in many different ways.

Little Treasures is a small charity that supports specialist neonatal and children’s units at Barnet Hospital to continue their life saving work. These dedicated units have skilled staff but often have difficulty providing the quality of care they would like for lack of equipment.

The Luton & Dunstable Hospital provides a wide range of general and specialist services to over 300,000 people. These include one of the country?s largest Breast Screening centres and a neonatal intensive care unit which is responsible for treating the most premature babies in the whole of Beds and Herts. In 2006 the L&D became an NHS Foundation Trust and the Health Service Journal Awards voted us ?one of the Top 5 Best Performing Hospitals? in the UK. The hospital has remained out of debt since 1999 and this enables us to spend all donations on providing additional equipment, supporting staff and enhancing patient care.

Maternity Worldwide is working to reduce mortality associated with childbirth in developing countries. This is through deployment of medical and midwifery staff, subsidy of patient care for those most in need and advocacy within the developed world.

It currently helps address the problems of death in childbirth by providing modern multimedia teaching aid materials to health care workers in developing countries including video, films, animations and pdfs. The material is distributed in the format of DVDs and mobile phone messages and via the charity web-site.

Medical Missionaries of Mary are Catholic Sisters who work with people in places of great need to improve their health care and development in a cost-effective way.

Milton Keynes Pregnancy Crisis Centre provides confidential support for those affected by any issues surrounding pregnancy. This includes men as well as women. We also actively support young families in need.

The Miscarriage Association is a national charity offering support and information to those affected by the loss of a baby in pregnancy.

The charity helps mothers to survive childbirth through educating healthcare workers in the poorest countries in Africa. It is based in the Department of Anaesthetics at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.

The National Maternity Support Foundation (NMSF) was set up following the tragic stillbirth of Jake Canter due to the nearest hospital maternity unit being closed. Our founding principles are to take a 'proactive educative approach' to maternity care occupying the 'sensible middle ground' of public opinion. Working in partnership with the Royal College of Midwives, the NMSF?s four key objectives are as follows:- 1. Campaign to help keep maternity services available, accessible, safe and well resourced 2. Ensure that prospective parents have all the information needed to make informed decisions 3. Being a resource for others to obtain information and support 4. Support and promote, in partnership with other organisations, further research into stillbirth and neonatal death

Our mission is to help the mountain people of Nepal with primary health care, education and the provision of basic utilities in order that they lead better, healthier and more enriched lives. We have no religious or political affiliation.

Christian Medical Mission to the people of the Niger Delta, providing medical, water, vaccination and cataract surgery programs

Newcastle Healthcare Charity is an NHS dedicated charity who support local hospital services at the RVI, Newcastle General and Walkergate hospitals (general & specialist care); St Nicholas & St George's hospitals (mental health services) and Hunters Moor hospitals (neuro-rehabilitation). The charity enhances patient care, treatment and experience through a wide variety of grants; supports innovative research and development and facilitates additional training and support for NHS staff

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The Trust is a voluntary organization which is supported by the hospital's medical team, its purpose is to purchase essential equipment and family facilities that will enable these special babies and their parents/family to feel more comfortable during their stay on the unit.

The main aim of Opt In is to promote global healthcare and to try and break the vicious cycle of poverty and poor health. Opt in links with hospitals in developing countries, develops partnerships and enhances healthcare provision through training and education for the local population by sharing the skills and knowledge of NHS staff.

The Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals (ORH) Charitable Funds is the umbrella charity for over 700 funds supporting projects across the ORH NHS Trust that enhance services and facilities for patients and staff. These range from support for particular wards, at the John Radcliffe, Churchill and Horton Hospitals, to larger fundraising campaigns to support major developments such as the new Oxford Cancer Centre, the Oxford Children's Hospital, the Geratology Appeal and the Oxford Heart Centre expansion. As one of the foremost teaching trusts in the UK, the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals enjoy a national and international reputation in fields such as cancer and cranio-facial surgery. Please give generously - your support enables us to provide the best possible healthcare in the best possible setting, to a standard far higher than the NHS alone would be able to afford.

Please note: If you wish to donate to a specific area within ORH Charitable Funds you will be able to specify this at the end of the donation process. Thank you.

It helps people with the painful and often debilitating condition of Pelvic Girdle Pain(PGP). PINS offers advice and support and its objectives are to provide current, accurate information and to get early diagnosis and effective treatment for everyone affected. Its work covers the UK and overseas.

Donations supplement the funds received by the government as the numerous and forever increasing health needs cannot be entirely met by the NHS. The donations help enhance and extend the quality of care, treatment, services and facilites for patients and in so doing continually improve health standards. Their other purpose is to benefit staff, promote education, training and research. If you would like to support our current fundraising campaign please go to: www.justgiving.com/specialcarebabyappeal

Founded by parents who lost twin boys in 1993 to Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome, the Trust funds research into this and other placental disorders by funding the employment of a full time Research Fellow. Funds are also made available for neo natal unit equipment.

Training African health workers to ride/drive and maintain motorcycle and four wheel vehicles, Riders also provides technical support and cost-per-kilometre calculations that keep vehicles running efficiently and cost-effectively. The result - 10.8 million people in isolated rural communities accessing vital health care, often for the first time ever.

Ronald McDonald House, Bristol is an independent charity which provides Home from Home accommodation, free of charge, to the families of critically ill children receiving care at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children. When a child is very ill, they may need to travel away from home to receive the treatment that they require. Our aim is to keep families together during what is probably one of the most stressful times of their lives. We accommodate over 800 families each year, providing all the comforts that you would expect to find in your own home, with spacious en-suite bedrooms, kitchens and communal living areas. Bristol is the only dedicated children?s hospital in the whole of the South West of England and Wales which means we support families across the entire region. We are always at full capacity and have long waiting lists of families desperately needing our help.

S.P.R.I.N.G was set up to provide support to parents and relatives who have experienced the death of a baby during pregnancy, at, or just after birth. This includes miscarriage, stillbirth and termination for foetal abnormality. S.P.R.I.N.G. supports in a number of ways, through counselling, befriending and during a subsequent pregnancy.

SafeHands for Mothers is a young and dynamic international charity, founded in 2003, dedicated to reducing maternal and infant mortality. SafeHands' focus is on producing films that support national efforts, in developing countries, to create community awareness on making pregnancy safer and drawing attention to stigmatized topics such as Female Genital Mutilation, Child Marriage and Fistula. The charity has carved out a niche by using its own innovative portable solar-powered DVD players to take the training and awareness creation to where it is most needed-remote and isolated villages.

Sands offers support for parents and their families whose babies are stillborn or die during or soon after birth.

Save the Baby is a small registered charity based at St Mary's Hospital London, that funds research into infertility, miscarriage, pregnancy and newborn complications. Its research teams devise pioneering treatments that are used worldwide to help childless people become parents and vulnerable newborn babies survive.

A baby dies every nine days of cot death in Scotland and the majority of families will never know why their healthy baby has died, for no apparent reason. The Scottish Cot Death Trust is the only cot death charity in Scotland trying to find the answers through funding research. The Scottish Cot Death Trust also provides a wide range of support for bereaved families and educates the public and professionals about cot death and how to reduce the risks. By supporting the Scottish Cot Death Trust you can help us make a difference.

SAfH is a community development charity, which works alongside marginalised local people and their communities towards justice, equality, better health and wellbeing.

Southampton Hospital Charity aims to complement and enhance services and facilities for patients and their families in the care of Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust. The NHS Trust supports the needs of half a million people living in the city and south west Hampshire, and also provides specialist services to more than three million people in central southern England, the Channel Islands and further afield. With your help the Charity can help to provide a hospital environment that exceeds expectations.

If you would like your donation or fundraising activity to benefit a particular area or The Red & White Appeal, please specify this on your fundraising page or, if making a donation, in the free text box.

The SYC supports all children through the practice of yoga, with an emphasis on special needs. Yoga develops emotional and physical well being enabling children and adults to reach full potential. They are dedicated to making yoga accessible to all regardless of age, disability, economic status, ethnic background or religion.

Established in 1998, Standing Together Against Domestic Violence coordinates the ground-breaking multi-agency response to domestic violence. Standing Together influences national policy and practice by initiating and driving innovation, providing safer options for women and their children and holding perpetrators accountable. Standing Together builds and supports effective multi agency partnerships throughout the UK to meet the needs of survivors of domestic violence.

Standing Together believes that that domestic violence is a serious and high volume crime which no one agency can deal with effectively if acting alone. It destroys families and damages society. The facts about domestic violence are shocking and all communities, classes and ages are affected. 1 in 4 women experience domestic violence. Two women are murdered in the UK by their current or former partner every week.

Standing Together trains all agencies to deal with domestic violence effectively and consults with survivors to inform improvements in services.

The Special Care Baby Unit at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne specialises is saving babies lives. Every year, 600 premature or ill newborn babies are admitted to the hospital from across the North East, with up to 34 babies being looked after at any one time. Many of these tiny babies can be extremely ill or require intensive care. Tiny Lives was set up to support the Newcastle Neonatal Service by helping raise funds to buy extras not provided by the NHS.

Tommy's funds medical research into the causes of premature birth, stillbirth and miscarriage, and provides an information service about health in pregnancy.

The United Kingdom Association for Milk Banking charity supports human milk banking in the UK. Our motto is Every Drop Counts and we believe that the provision of safe and screened donor breastmilk makes an important contribution to the care of the premature and sick infants who receive it.

The University of Nottingham is currently running an appeal to raise funds towards Neonatal MRI Research within the specialist neonatal units at the Queen's Medical Centre and Nottingham City Hospitals. This research will help us understand brain development and build on our existing research to reduce disability in vulnerable very premature children.

OUR AIMS & OBJECTIVES To raise awareness about vasa praevia. To bring about the introduction of clinical protocols in the UK for the routine diagnosis and treatment of vasa praevia. To support and assist those who have experienced or those who are experiencing vasa praevia.

Verity is a self help group set up in 1997 to help women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). The charity is completely self funded and is the only national charity for women with PCOS. PCOS affects millions of women in the UK and worldwide (approximately 5–10 per cent) .

It provides resources for those in the community most in need.

Wellbeing of Women is the only UK charity dedicated to solving the health problems that affect women by funding medical research and training into all aspects of reproductive health.

Over the past 40 years, we have invested millions of pounds into funding the very best in medical research and training, resulting in some remarkable progress. In fact, every woman living in the UK since 1964 will have benefited from advances in healthcare made possible by Wellbeing of Women.

Half of all women in the UK still experience a reproductive health problem during their lifetime, be it trouble conceiving, intensely painful periods or gynaecological cancer. Wellbeing of Women is the only charity dedicated to changing this by funding medical research that will benefit these women and the professionals who diagnose and treat them.

Wellbeing of Women is working hard to improve women's health. Yet, despite our best efforts, we still receive more research grant applications than we are able to fund. With your help, we could support more research projects and together discover solutions that will enable women to get more out of life.

Wish For Rwanda's mission is to raise funds to deliver projects in Rwanda that will promote health, education and reconciliation following the horrific genocide that raged for 100 days across this beautiful country, when as many as one million people were brutally murdered.

Funds raised by Women for Women will support women scientists and clinicians - empowering more women to lead in this field. They will specialise in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of a range of devastating conditions, which cause cancer, miscarriage, infertility and genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis or muscular dystrophy. Their fundamental aim is to improve women's ongoing good health throughout their lives and to ensure that more women have a normal pregnancy with a healthy baby.

World Medicine is a charitable organisation which provides complementary and alternative healthcare to people around the world suffering the effects of trauma, disaster and poverty. Since its inception in 2005, it has run projects in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Palestine, as well as running an ongoing sustainable project in an orphanage in India.

We help provide support to York SCBU through the provision of specialised medical or surgical equipment and improved amenities and facilities including education and vocational training