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The 2Simple Trust helps parents and families to raise funds to support the treatment of children suffering from neuroblastoma. The Trust has also commenced a programme to fund leading clinical research into the causes and treatment of neuroblastoma in recognised cancer centres.
This is a new initiative launched by the parents of Jack Brown and their friends and supporters to fund research that will permit UK based treatment for neuroblastoma.
The 3 Little Miracle Fund will raise money for life saving and life enhancing medical equipment for premature and sick babies cared for at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London. The Chelsea & Westminster Hospital is one of the leading surgical hospitals able to carry out complex medical procedures and care for very premature babies with 25% of the babies treated in the hospital being referrals. Prematurity and sickness affects 12% of all babies born nationally each year. In London alone, 11,000 babies born each year need special care. Funds raised by the charity will purchase equipment which can make the difference between a baby surviving or not
3rd World Hope concentrates on relief of poverty to disadvantaged communities around the world. This involves supplying sustainable resources such as a clean, safe water supply, land for growing food, shelter, educational material, clothes, mosquito nets, blankets and other life saving equipment.
The 948 Sports Foundation was established by the OA Sports Club, who gifted £500,000 to promote participation in sport by young people in the St Albans district. Launched in February 2003, to date the Trustees have made over 150 grants totalling in excess of £150,000.
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.
Aromatic Amino Acid Decarboxylase (AADC) deficiency is an extremely rare disease. So far, only 50 children worldwide have been identified with the disease. It has proved fatal for at least 3 of them. The AADC Research Trust is a children's charity dedicated to funding research, supporting affected families and promoting worldwide disease awareness.
Abbie’s Fund was set up by local mothers after Abbie relapsed with the lethal childhood cancer, Neuroblastoma, in June 2005. To date Abbie’s Fund has raised over £150,000 for research. Abbie’s Fund has to aim of making Neuroblastoma survivable and supporting those children already suffering from this horrendous childhood cancer
We are a small but passionate national UK charity that strives to offer much needed help and support to families affected by eating related issues including anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, over exercise and body image related problems. We offer a unique service to parents as well as help for sufferers.
Welcome to the Aberdeen Students' Charities Campaign. Every year thousands of students from the University of Aberdeen, RGU and Aberdeen College work tirelessly to organise fun events and collections to raise tens of thousands of pounds for charities, groups and projects across Aberdeen, the North-East and nationally.
ARK is an international charity, whose purpose is to transform children?s lives. ARK maximises its impact by funding and managing innovative programmes across three themes ? HIV/AIDS (South Africa, Mozambique), Education (UK, Asia) and Children in Care (Eastern Europe). ARK applies rigorous business principles to its work ensuring that its programmes are efficient, accountable and deliver measurable social returns.
Chefs Adopt a School is the Academy of Culinary Arts? charity and is about improving lives and changing habits. Professional chefs deliver food education sessions that are both fun and informative to children nationwide. The aim is to teach cooking as a life skill, but also to enthuse children about taste, food provenance and healthy eating.
ACE works in rural communities in Kenya and Tanzania giving training and support for caring for orphans and vulnerable children, their guardians or single parents and others infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. Its holistic approach includes agriculture and nutrition, income generation, schools health education, counselling, education for orphans, childs' rights and material support.
Acorns Children?s Hospice Trust cares for life limited children and their families from across the West Midlands. Acorns offers a network of care through its hospices in Birmingham, Walsall and Worcester and its community team who are on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The charity has helped over 1100 families but it is estimated that a further 1200 families still need the support that Acorns can provide.
Across is a recognised charity dedicated to helping sick adults and children enjoy the pilgrimage of a lifetime to the Christian shrine of Lourdes in Southwest France. We operate the Jumbulance® a unique vehicle, specially constructed to carry our unable pilgrims who are accompanied by lay helpers, nurses and doctors. Visit our website at www.across-uk.org
Action Duchenne is a national charity that aims to find a cure for Duchenne, a severe genetic muscle wasting disease. The condition affects mainly boys and without treatment most of these young men are completely paralysed by their early teens and die by their late teens or early 20s. To ensure we do not lose another generation of young people to this terrible disease we need more funding for research and treatment.
The Trust was set up in memory of Adam Rogers, who died of cancer, aged 13, in 2006. It aims to help children with cancer to have improved conditions of life, and also adults with learning difficulties (a cause close to Adam's heart as his brother has Down's Syndrome). It provides grants, funding and support to charities and organisations to achieve these aims.
Adam's Hats is a charity to honour the memory of Adam Hay who died of neuroblastoma at the age of 12. It seeks to improve the quality of time families have with their child undergoing treatment, by providing short breaks for families in a number of locations in the UK; it supports research into neuroblastoma in older children, the least-represented group.
The Scotson Technique is a unique, deeply restorative rehabilitation therapy for children and young adults with cerebral palsy, brain injury or brain abnormality. The Technique develops the pattern of recovery by addressing deep core weaknesses within the micro-circulation of the respiratory system which affects structure, metabolism and motor and cognitive function.
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 Africa Childrens Development Trust is a small charity based on the Isle of Wight dedicated to supporting vulnerable children in Uganda through a number of projects that encompass health, agriculture & education, in particular mosquito net distributions.
The Africa Foundation facilitates the empowerment and development of people living in or adjacent to protected areas in Southern and East Africa. We fund projects based on the needs within the communities specifically in the following three areas:
* _Education_ (http://www.africafoundation.org/) - school improvement, bursary schemes, conservation lessons
* _Healthcare_ (http://www.africafoundation.org/) - primary healthcare centres, HIV/AIDs awareness programmes, access to water, sanitation
* _Income Generating Activities_ (http://www.africafoundation.org/)
- agricultural projects, skills centres, entrepreneurial support A key Africa Foundation aim is to help break the cycle of poverty. We therefore seek to support projects that combine to provide a ?conveyor belt? of resources from pre-natal care, right the way through to university bursaries.
AfriKids is a grass roots child rights organisation working to improve life for Ghana's most vulnerable and disadvantaged children. Our philosophy is to:
* Listen to what a community knows it needs
* Empower them to make the necessary changes themselves
* Ensure absolute sustainability
Afrikids work ranges from the more traditional children's project including foster homes, schools and street child centres to more groundbreaking initiatives which tackle complex cultural issues including child trafficking, child labour and the spirit child phenomenon. Rather than spreading out work across a continent or focusing on a single 'headline' issue, AfriKids has invested time and resources in making real and fundamental change to the society and economy of one region. By doing this AfriKids has uncovered the extraordinary passion and ability of the local people there and is achieving something unique; genuine sustainability.
ALD Life is a charity dedicated to eradicating adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) and supporting the families involved. Adrenoleukodystrophy is a rare, terminal brain disorder which affects apparently healthy young boys. Onset of symptoms is followed by loss of all function within six months and death usually by teenage. There is no cure.
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.
To Build a Children's Hospice Service for Berkshire
The Alice Rose Trust is based in the south west of England and was established to commemorate and celebrate the life of Alice Rose Reuben and to raise money to support sick children with metabolic disorders and their families.
Ali's Dream charity was set up by Alison Phelan's family and friends in order to raise money to fund research into discovering the causes, advancing treatments and finding cures for childhood brain tumours. Sadly this was spurred on by the loss of Alison at the beginning of June 2001.
Amy?s Retreat provides holidays for families who have children with cancer. It was set up by parents who lost their little girl, Amy, to cancer and understand the importance of family life during these times. Amy?s Retreat provides fantastic holidays to Center Parcs. The ultimate aim is to build a retreat, and a campaign to get that started, the ?Buy a Brick? campaign, is soon to be launched.
Anna's Hope assists in the rehabilitation of children and young people who have suffered from a brain tumour or who have had brain surgery . It also will fund research into the causes , treatment and cure of childhood brain tumours
The Anthony Nolan Trust provides lifesaving donors for patients in need of a bone marrow transplant.
ARCADE is an innovative charity that visits primary and secondary schools in Berkshire presenting life-skills based interactive alcohol and drug education projects. We seek to empower young people to make their own decisions. We give young people time to think, weigh up and form their own opinions.
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.
A support group for people with all forms of glycogen storage disease, very rare genetic disorders of metabolism, including their families. Also promoting understanding of and research into these diseases which are often disabling and life-limiting.
It provides support, friendship, advice and information to children and young people with the debilitating illness, ME/CFS, and their families. It runs a national Helpline and has over 80 different sevices to met members' needs.
Autism Treatment trust is dedicated to helping individuals with autism reach optimum health and learning.
The charity's aims are to help children living with life limiting genetic disorders through the provision of practical support and information and treatment equipment and research. The first objective is to help raise money for piece of life saving equipment called the TMS for the Evelina Children's Hospital. The very hospital that the Charity's founder daughter died.
Aware Defeat Depression works in N.I. for people with the devastating illness of depression, cited in 75% of suicides.In 2007, 5 people a week took their life in N.I. Many of them were young & should have had a long & happy life. Instead they felt unable to ask for help when they needed it. Donations to the charity will save lives & help people to lead fulfilling lives again.
Baan Romjit is a small charity set up by Noi and Arlene Ramasut in the wake of the Tsunami . The aim of the project is to help children troubled by natural disasters and displacement. The first project undertaken by the charity was to support children in the Khao Luk area of southern Thailand most devastated by the tsunami. Baan Romjit provided funds for Ajarn ( Professor) Beow and her team of volunteers to seek out children in the more remote villages who had been traumatised by the loss of parents, close family and their homes Through regular visits ,small group counselling and therapeutic games, the children were gradually enabled to come to terms with what had happened and begin to look to the future. Baan Romjit provided small playgrounds for each of the four rural schools and also assisted in improving the toilet and washing facilities. Baan Romjit is now committed to helping displaced children from Burma in the Mae Sot area on the Thai- Burma border. Baan Romjit has provided funds for one small migrant school to repair the thatched roof before the rainy season and is now supporting the building of a brand new school to replace the old buildings.
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.
Banana Appeal is on a BIG yellow mission to feed ONE MILLION school meals of fresh fruit to hungry children in Zululand. As well as feeding malnourished children, we need to build homes for orphans, protect vulnerable families and empower the community. Please help us save these forgotten children.
It supports the work of HOTPEC Orphanage, Buea, Cameroon, West Africa. Support includes improving accommodation and facilities, staff training, education and the promotion of volunteering to work at the orphanage.
Barretstown provides a medically endorsed programme of arts, adventure and fun for children with cancer and other serious illnesses. Children aged 7-17 from all over Europe come to Barretstown to take part in our unique programmes, designed to help children recover from the emotional trauma of serious illness. They leave stronger, more independent and with a renewed sense of confidence in themselves.
A cancer diagnosis can come as an enormous shock to patients, their families and carers. They can feel anxious, fearful and often alone. Beechwood aims to provide psychological and emotional support through; one to one time, a range of complementary therapies, group sessions, a Family Therapist and Bereavement Counselling.
The Trust is set up in memory of Ben Williams who died aged 14. It aims to promote awareness and research into heart muscle disorders in children and to support those affected and their families. It also supports youth cricket projects with a particular emphasis on wicketkeeping.
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 Charity was formed and is run by parents who have all utilised the ward. The aim of the organisation is to preserve and protect the mental and physical health of parents, guardians and families of babies treated in Buscot Ward by the provision of information and support.
Reducing child head injury and disability caused through cycle related head injury through the education and promotion of cycle helmets and safe cycling. BHIT works in socially challenged areas. Child cyclists are at greater risk of injury. Head injury is the major cause of death and disability affecting them.
Set up in Bill's name, we invite you to establish the aims to develop the sport of rugby and its values, to encourage sporting opportunities for young people and to create an education centre which will include the Bill McLaren Archive
Birmingham Children's Hospital provides a wide range of general and specialist health services to children and adolescents in the West Midlands and beyond. The hospital enjoys a national and international reputation in areas including liver transplantation, cardiac surgery and neonatal surgery. Please help it continue to improve children's lives.
Black Diamond Trust (BDT), is a Christian charity focusing on assisting grass roots organizations in developing countries. Its purpose is to assist these organisations in the provision of improved and sustainable educational and health facilities for underprivileged children
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.
The Bobath Centre is world-renowned for the treatment of children with cerebral palsy. Our aim is to give children the opportunity to get the most out of life by improving their quality and range of movement. We treat 300 children a year and see the widest range of the condition in the UK.
Bobath Scotland is a Scottish registered charity providing intensive and effective therapy to children with cerebral palsy. They employ professional therapists skilled in the Bobath Concept. Children are referred to us through NHS paediatric consultants. Since opening in 1995, Bobath Scotland has provided this important Service to over 500 children
BODY & SOUL is a unique UK charity supporting children, teenagers and families living with or closely affected by HIV. The charity aims to counteract the devastation of an HIV diagnosis with positive strategies to reduce isolation and stress, improve health and well-being, resume active lives and create a voice for human rights.
Primary bone cancer occurs most commonly in children, teenagers and young adults. The Bone Cancer Research Trust is devoted to promoting and funding research into the causes and treatment of PBC, particularly osteosarcoma and Ewing's sarcoma, and to improving outcomes for patients; and providing information and support for patients and families.
It is the Boparan Charitable Trust?s mission to enrich the lives of children who are disadvantaged through poverty, disability and terminal illness.
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.
It educates children
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.
Established in September 2003, to raise funds toward providing equipment for the care and lifestyle specifically for teenagers with cancer in the East Midlands, supporting the development of a Teenage Cancer Unit, with the Teenage Cancer Trust. Also providing support to teenagers with cancer and their families.
Assisting children and their families to maintain a normal family life, whilst dealing with all of the disruptive aspects surrounding childhood cancer. Dedicated to donating funds to essential lesser-known organizations at the "coal-face" of cancer care, offering physical, social, intellectual and bereavement support.
Breakfast Club Tanzania is an NGO based in the Mtwara region of Southern Tanzania. It is committed to combating hunger amongst schoolchildren by developing sustainable school meal programmes. Breakfast Club Tanzania currently works in partnership with two rural schools, helping to provide daily porridge and fruit to hundreds of pupils.
Breathing Life provides treatment and relief for children suffering from breathing and lung disorders.We are currently fundraising to create The Breathing Life Lung Centre for Children in Cyprus, where it is vital , as there is currently no medical centre of excellence for treating lung diseases in children on the island. We hope the new centre will open in June 2009.
Breathtakers is the UK's only charity supporting Obliterative Bronchiolitis(OB)- a rare lung disorder. Breathtakers offers pratical and emotional support to sufferers and their families and raises awarenes of the condition amongst professionals.OB is life limiting, treatment is only supportive, lung transplant maybe an option in end stage disease.
It has a home for 60 leprosy colony, street and railway platform children. It has a home and hospice for 30 HIV/AIDS orphans. It gives food and medicines to HIV affected families. It gives medical care to leprosy sufferers and self help grants to poor people to start small business.
The Brompton Fountain is the parent support charity for families whose children are being treated for cardiac and respiratory conditions at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, and aims to provide practical and emotional support during this particularly stressful and traumatic time.
BT Buddies offers information, inspiration and hope to anyone affected by a brain tumour in the UK.
The Bubble Foundation UK supports the Children's Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at Newcastle General Hospital. The unit treats babies born without an immune system, who , without a bone marrow transplant would die before their first birthday. It also treats older children with other immune conditions.
Provides help, support and information to individuals, schools, youth and community settings affected by bullying. To raise awareness of and educate on the effects of bullying.
The Burma Children’s Fund supports orphanages and pre-schools in various parts of Burma in order to provide shelter, health care and education for orphans and children. Children in Burma cannot control their own destiny and this is why our goal is To Support their Future
The Burned Children's Clubs gives support to young burn survivors and their families. The Burned Children's club also have a sponsor from Children in Need to run a camouflage club which teaches young burn survivors to use creams to help cover their scares.
It assists 500 Kenyan children through their education from nursery school age to secondary school age and free medical treatment through sponsorship. It provides school uniforms and all materials. It has now launched a Building Programme for a Nursery School, Primary School and an Orphanage to be built on two acres of land just acquired in Bomani Village north of Mombasa, Kenya.
Callander Youth Project aims to improve the quality of life of young people, aged 11 to 25, in Callander and the Surrounding rural area by providing and supporting recreational and educational activities.
Supports all local famillies who have a child with cancer or leukaemia. It is run solely by parents and volunteers and has no salaries or office accommodation to pay for.
The Cambodian Children?s Charity (?CamKids?) is a development and relief organisation, dedicated to providing direct aid to poor children in Cambodia. CamKids is administered by its Trustees and volunteers and is able to pass on more than 120% of the money you give (after recovery of Gift Aid). For more information, go to www.camkids.org or e-mail: [email protected].
Cambridge Family Mediation Service supports couples who are separating or divorcing to make arrangements for their children and separate their finances with the least possible conflict. It also provides counselling and group work for children and adults and parenting workshops to help people deal with issues arising from family change.
It provides nursing care for the terminally ill who wish to be nursed at home, within a7 mile radius of Chipping Campden, Glos
Helping children under five with Brain Tumours reach their potential.
Camp Quality UK is a non-profit organisation that is committed to giving children with cancer and leukaemia repeated opportunities to enjoy a positive, fun and inspiring childhood through quality recreational, play and creative activity programs. For over 20 years, we have given children with cancer the same opportunities their peer group take for granted. We exist not just to give hope, but to challenge, inspire and, above all, bring some much-needed fun and laughter into their lives.
When a child has a serious illness, unforgettable experiences have the power to lift spirits and to give vital strength and energy for the challenges that lie ahead. It's a simple goal and it's the reason Camp Simcha exists - to improve the quality of life of Jewish children with serious illnesses, such as Leukaemia, Muscular Dystrophy and Dysautonomia, and to provide them with the unforgettable experiences that they and their families deserve.
Facing cancer, whether as patient, carer or member of the family, is almost always a life-changing experience. CancerCare aims to work with people as they come to terms with and manage these changes, in particular by providing emotional, social, and psychological support, together with relevant information and practical support
The Candlelighters Trust (Candlelighters) is Yorkshire?s pre eminent children?s cancer charity, providing practical, emotional and financial support to children living with cancer in Yorkshire and their families. We also fund vital research into new treatments and cures. Our work is based at the regional children?s cancer and leukemia unit in Leeds, which is due to move from St James? Hospital to Leeds General Infirmary in 2010. As Candlelighters was founded by, and is still run by, parents of children who have or have had cancer, and the medical staff who treat them, we understand the trauma and the turmoil of that diagnosis. We can only continue to make a difference with the help of our supporters. Together we CAN fight children?s cancer. For more information on Candlelighters and how it helps, please visit www.candlelighters.org.uk
The Capital Kids Club - promoting the importance of adopting healthy lifestyles through exercise ( ice and street hockey), diet, and saying ?no to drugs? to young people within Edinburgh + the Lothians. Alongside working with the local youth, we aim to continue the support of our young British ice hockey players.
Hundreds of young people die unexpectedly of heart defects every year. CRY works to raise awareness of Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS) and campaigns for proactive screening of young people. It offers help and support to those who have suffered a loss, provides medical information, carries out Mobile Cardiac Screening and ECG Testing Programmes within local communities and contributes to medical research. For more information please go to www.c-r-y.org.uk
CRY is a Christian charity dedicated to caring for disadvantaged, destitute and suffering children, young people and their families. CRY aims to rescue and restore young lives broken by poverty, oppression, exclusion and abuse and to provide appropriate opportunities for a better future. CHANGING LIVES... SAVING FAMILIES... TRANSFORMING COMMUNITIES... MAKING A CHRISTIAN DIFFERENCE.
It funds ethical original non-animal tested research into the causes, early diagnosis, treatment, cure and prevention of Cancer. It also supports Cancer sufferers with amenities to improve their quality of life
Caudwell Children transforms the lives of sick and disabled children across the UK. The Charity provides equipment, treatment and therapies to individual children. Our Destination Dreams programme provides an organised holiday for children fighting life threatening conditions. The Charity has changed the lives of children with over 160 different medical conditions.
The CdLS Foundation exists to ensure early and accurate diagnosis of Cornelia de Lange Syndrome ; promote research into the causes and manifestations of the syndrome and help people with a diagnosis of CdLS to make informed decisions throughout their lifetime
Cerebra is a National charity which works to ensure that up to date, evidence based information is available to parents and carers of these special children. Cerebra have 4 main aims To fund research, share information, support parents and carers and offer direct financial support and help to brain injured children through the grants scheme. All of Cerebra's services are free.
CFK provides children with Cystic Fibrosis and their families in the Portsmouth area with equipment that can improve their quality of life and that the NHS cannot provide.
The CGD RT is:- caring for affected people/ their families, generating funds for research into improved treatments and a cure, disseminating clinical/ scientific knowledge, raising awareness among the medical professionals, tackling problems common to other genetic conditions and primary immune deficiencies. It is the founder partner of Jeans for Genes
CAF priority is to establish and maintain an orphanage for homeless and sick children in Western Kenya.Our project is unique to the area we want to support those suffering from extreme poverty and bad health.CAF hopes to be the new foundation for these children,by providing a home,care and education. Lake Victoria,Kisumu.Which requires renovating to become a children's home.
A charity that helps improve the mental wellbeing of our society.
A parent run group providing support and information to families where there are children born with CHARGE Syndrome or to individuals with the condition also to professionals who work with these families or individuals.
The Trust supports sick children/young people with a life limiting illness or permanent disability, and their families, by awarding grants. They help with funding towards educational / medical equipment, travel costs, and towards much needed holidays and many other things that enhance their lives.
The Charlie Ramsey Research Fund supports and sponsors research that will benefit babies and children with a Single Ventricle Heart Condition (half a heart). The Charity provides and sponsors medical equipment to assist in the research and development of surgery for Single Ventricle Heart Disease. The charity promotes and raises awareness of the importance of saving lives through organ donation, the gift of life.
CHASE hospice care for children provides nursing, practical, and emotional support to families with children who are not expected to reach their 19th birthday, across South West London, Surrey and Sussex.
CHAT has been set up to support children within the Vale of Aylesbury who have individual health needs. CHAT raises funds to pay for additional toys and items of equipment for which no NHS funding is currently available.
To provide safe water in Malawi particularly at Chembe Village at Cape Maclear to help eradicate sickness and death especially amongst children.
Chequers Youth Facility was founded in 1993 to offer young people a safe alternative to underage drinking and drug misuse. It offers diversionary activities and training to combat anti social behaviour which can be personally damging to young people.
CCIN supports children affected by radiation from Chernobyl. By respite care in the UK or Belarus, child sponsorship, humanitarian aid inc permissible medical goods, building and improvement projects and support an Orphanage, Special Needs School, Kindy & 5 Main Schools in the Kalinkovichi District.
Chestnut Tree House, the only children's hospice in Sussex, cares for life-limited children and young adults aged 0-19, and provides support for their families.
Chiks provides for needy children in S. India - from the rehabilitation of street children to respite care. Apart from totally funding its own home the charity supports others with anything from capital projects to running costs, health care, education and independence training.
Child Concern Consortium is a group of five charities supporting children who need help throughout the UK. So, your gift works five times harder, helping children with disabilities; those waiting for hospital treatment; children needing new permanent or temporary families, and those who need safe places to go after school.
The CGF is the UK's leading charity seeking to ensure that every child's growth is regularly assessed and every identifiable growth-related abnormality is immediately referred to an endocrine specialist. Conditions within the CGF: Growth Hormone Insufficiency&MPHD/Turner Syndrome/ Russell Silver Syndrome&IUGR/Sotos Syndrome/Bone Dysplasia/Premature Sexual Maturation.
CHILD OF LEBANON'S MISSION IS TO ASSIST SELECTED CHILD CARING NGOS ACCROSS LEBANON IN THEIR EFFORT FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SUFFERING AND THE PROTECTION OF THE GOOD HEALTH AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF CHILDREN IN NEED
ChildFlight provides:- Holiday's in Florida children with potentially life threatening illnesses, together with their families. Santa Flight`s for disadvantaged and deserving children. Flights for Children requiring medical treatment aboard. ChildFlight is operated and administered by volunteers only, admin costs are usually less than 1p in each £ donated
The UK Charity for Children with Eye Cancer has three aims: 1. Supporting families affected in many emotional and practical ways. 2. Funding key research projects into this potentially fatal disease. 3. Raising awareness with health professionals and the public.
Childlife is a consortium of four children's charities - the National Deaf Children's Society, Acorns Children's Hospice, Ataxia UK, and the National Children's Bureau. The Childlife charities support children from all walks of life across the UK who face constant challenges in their daily lives from disability, serious illness or exceptional social circumstances.
Climb is the National Information and Advice Centre for Metabolic Diseases and is the only charity in the UK to provide advice, information and support to children, young adults, families and professionals affected by metabolic diseases. Climb also funds research into these devastating diseases.
The Children of Sri Lanka Trust's aim is to help relieve poverty, sickness, hardship and distress among children of Sri Lanka
Children with AIDS Charity was set up to help the youngest of those affected by HIV and AIDS. It is a national charity with the simple aim of working towards a future without prejudice.
CWCF was set up in 1998 by Ursula & Chris Downton with Kirsty (Ursula’s sister) & James Denny. Now with the help of other friends and family we still go out having fun raising funds to grant wishes to local children and their families who have had or are suffering from cancer that live in East Sussex, Brighton & Hove.
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.
The Childrens Arthritis Trust supports Great Ormond Street Hospital and University College Hospital London to improve the care and treatment of children and young people with arthritis. Our goal is to strengthen the medical team by the provision of dedicated specialists in nursing and physiotherapy; and support staff to enable doctors to administer new and novel treatments to better manage the disease.
It is committed to providing psychosocial care and support for burn and scald injured children and their families. In parallel, it runs education and public awareness programmes designed to prevent these injuries. It is the only UK charity, working both nationally and internationally, who are devoted solely to these areas.
Established in 1992 the CCAA is a national charity which provides a support network for children with arthritis and their families. The CCAA's family weekend brings together medical professionals and families from all over the UK to share information and advice through workshops, talks and fun activities.
The Children's Foundation raises essential funds for medical and lifestyle research to combat childhood diseases and conditions such as cerebral palsy and autism. It supports NHS service delivery and a number of innovative, community-based projects designed to improve and protect the health and well-being of children and young people. Through its partnership programmes, it strives to help children in North East England but ultimately children everywhere.
Barts and The London Children's Hospital cares for over 45,000 children each year. We are the general hospital for east London and the City as well as a regional and national centre of excellence for a number of paediatric medical conditions and specialist treatments. Every year, The Children's Fund raises money for medical equipment, building projects, patient and family amenities and research. Donations help us enhance the work of children's hospital and to offer excellent care to our young patients, whether newborn or teenagers. The Children's Fund is a special fund held by Barts and The London Charitable Foundation.
It aims to raise money to help improve the facilities and the services available to all children and young people, both in hospital and at home.
Formed in the UK in 1973, the Children's Heart Association (formerly known as The Association for Children with Heart Disorders) is a support group run by families and friends of cardiac children for families with , or who have had, children with heart disorders.
1 in every 125 children is born with a heart defect. Our vision is of a society in which all children with congenital heart disease can live life to the full because their medical, educational and social needs have been met.
The Children's Heart Surgery Fund enhances patient facilities and support, provides the latest medical equipment and funds world renowned research dedicated to babies, children and teenagers with heart defects.
Working with slum children in Bangladesh whose joint family income is less than £0.70p per day. We provide each child full financial support for school, college or university, school uniform, books, nutritional assistance, and comprehensive basic health care for the entire household. Average cost is about £20 per month per child.
At Children?s Hospice South West we help and support children and their families who are living with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions and we are the only organisation in the South West to provide vital hospice care to these families. Some families come to us for palliative care, some for emergency care and many for planned respite and a rare opportunity for a break away. But there?s more to it than that. We provide a loving and caring place for every member of the families who stay with us. A place where everyone can begin to forget their worries for a while, be a family again and find expert help and support in facing an uncertain future.
Our services are free to the families who need us because we believe that nothing should get in the way of very sick children receiving the very best care. So, with little government funding, we rely on the generosity of our supporters to deliver our promise to ?make the most of short and precious lives?.
Children?s Hospice South West has two purpose-built hospices in the South West. Little Bridge House in North Devon and Charlton Farm in North Somerset. A third special home from home for life-limited children in Cornwall and Plymouth, is due to open in 2011 called Little Harbour.
To find out more please visit www.chsw.org.uk or call 01271 325270
Children?s Hospices UK is the charity that gives voice and support to all children?s hospice services. There is an estimated 20,000 children in the UK who are not expected to reach adulthood. Our vision is for all these children - and their families - to have awareness of, and access to, the highest standards of hospice care and support in the location of their choosing. Children's Hospices UK is the working name of the Association of Children's Hospices which is a charity registered in England (1103795).
Raising funds for sick children
the charity aims to suport the setting up of an immunology base at the sick kids hospital in edinburgh - to fund reasearch at the childrens bone marrow transplant unit in newcastle upon tyne and to support the brothers and sisters of long term and terminally ill children in both hospitals.
Helping children with kidney problems or who need a transplant, Providing Financial and emotional support, home visits and family respite time.
Children's Liver Disease Foundation is the UK's leading organisation dedicated to fighting all childhood liver diseases. From funding pioneering research giving children a future to providing an essential and tailored information and support service, CLDF is here for every family, child and young person. CLDF picks up the pieces and gives them hope for the future.
Children's Medical Care Malawi aims to improve healthcare for children throughout Malawi. It works in partnership with Malawian healthcare providers to support healthcare worker training and improve local facilities, providing key skill and equipment needed to save the lives of sick children.
Children's Miracle Network is an international charity dedicated to improving the health of children by raising funds and public awareness for children’s hospitals. Children’s hospitals provide specialist medical care, conduct life-saving research and preventive education that help children overcome illnesses and injuries of every kind.
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.
Children's Transplant Research: Funding research to improve outcomes for paediatric transplant patients.
The Children?s Trust is a national charity that provides the best possible care, therapy and education for children with multiple disabilities and complex health needs, in partnership with their families and other carers.
Child's i Foundation aims to build a transitional home in Uganda to provide a safe haven and life saving medical care for abandoned, orphaned, vulnerable babies with the aim of resettling children back into loving families.
The Chilli Children of Rukungiri (Uganda) Trust is a very small, registered UK charity (no. 1106601) which was set up to help orphaned and disabled children in rural Uganda. The Children's Project helps 3,000 orphans and 2,000 disabled children in the rural areas around Rukungiri.
The Charity’s objects are for the advancement of education and the preservation and protection of good (mental, physical and sexual) health of young people resident or working within the Bucks County Council administrative areas of Chiltern District and South Bucks District, in particular by the provision of information and support.
The Butterfly Home (in Changsha, Hunan) is the first Chinakidz Children's Hospice and the first hospice and community palliative care service specifically for children in China .
It is part of an initiative in partnership with the local government - Civil Affairs, to prevent abandonment of babies in China. Alan & Lyn Gould have been working in China for over 14 years, this new work will be both challenging and groundbreaking and we cannot do it without your help. Thank you for supporting this work, to learn more see us at www.chinakidz.org.
The Chiswick Park Communities Trust aims to help young people up to the age of 21 by relieving poverty and sickness, promoting education and supporting people with disabilities.
CHIVA Africa is acharity, which provides affordable, sustainable, on the ground support to help local healthcare professionals develop the practical skills they need to use antiretroviral medication in children and manage HIV as a chronic disease.
The Chris Lucas Trust helps Children and Young Adults by Cancer Research and aims to find a cure for Rhabdomyosarcoma cancer by world-class research. It is the UK's leading Rhabdomyosarcoma cancer charity. Its funds are raised by annual events: Great North Bike Ride, Jingle Bell Walk, Charity Golf, remainder entirely through voluntary donations.
It helps children around the world, from backgrounds of abject poverty break the cylce of poverty and become self-sufficient contributing members of society through education, regular meals, healthcare, love and nurture.
Christian Lewis Trust, Children's Cancer Charity aims to improve the quality of life for children with cancer and offers support to families and individuals affected by a child with cancer. It is a national charity that complements and adds value to the services provided by medical professionals and statutory authorities.
CHORF raises money to fund research into Osteosarcoma a rare form of bone cancer that effects mainly young people and kills between 150 & 200 young people in the UK each year.
creative counselling service
Cirdan provides opportunities for disadvantaged young people to experience the challenge and adventure of life at sea on large sailing vessels to promote self-discovery and enhance social interaction; this not only benefits individuals but in turn benefits local communities and society as a whole.
The Charlie and Kathleen Dunnery Children's Fund (CKDCF) was formed in 2002 with the sole aim of raising funds for children's health, wellness and educational needs in and around the Cumbria area. The CKDCF is a unique organization in that it has no paid members.
To raise funds for desparately needed new research into bone cancer in children and teenagers.
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.
To relieve the suffering and promote and protect the physical and mental health of patients affected by cleft lip and palate both in the UK and in developing countries worldwide.
CLIC Sargent is the UKs leading children?s cancer charity, supporting children, young people and their families through cancer every step of the way. Caring for children and young people with cancer through: * Nurses * Social Workers * Play Therapists * Home from Home * Research * Financial support and advice * Holidays
Clowns in the Sky is dedicated to the research and treatment of childhood brain tumours and to the welfare of affected children and their families. It's aim is to bring a smile to the face of a child and their family, by granting them a wish, which will provide distraction from their treatment. Clowns in the Sky offers discretionary support grants to enhance the quality of life for those who have been affected by childhood brain tumours.
Coaches across Continents works in developing countries to create leaders in those regions. Through an innovative educational soccer curriculum, volunteers train local coaches, educate children and work with local organizations that also use soccer to develop life and leadership skills.
Cobra Foundation is an independent charitable trust, founded by Cobra Beer Ltd in 2005. The Foundation provides donations to charities and good causes which focus on improving the life and outlook for disadvantaged children, primarily in India.
The Cog-wheel Trust (established in 1988) offers individual counselling and family and play therapy with a sliding scale of fees to enable disadvantaged people to access services in Cambridge, Soham and Sawston . It offered 3554 sessions in 2007 and its annual fund-raising challenge is at least 70,000.
Colombia ChildCare supports the poorest people in Colombia. It educates, feeds and provides medical help for the children. It supports deprived families with real solutions such as improving living conditions and supplying medical help. Fresh water wells, farming independance and community education are some of the ongoing projects developed and sustained by Colombia ChildCare (UK)
Colombian Happy Faces is a small charity committed to fighting child poverty in Colombia, South America. Often working directly with street children, past projects have included getting orphaned and abandoned children into a care centre when they had previously been forced to work and beg at traffic lights just to survive.
Our current project is co-funding a residential home and care centre for children with AIDS in Neiva, south-west Colombia. The building structure has now been completed but funds are urgently needed to complete the fit-out and provide the specialist equipment that is essential to help care for these sick children.
Colombian Happy Faces is run on an entirely voluntary basis so every penny of your donation goes directly to helping some of the most disadvantaged children in South America.
Contact a Family is the only UK-wide charity providing advice, information and support to parents of all disabled children - no matter what their health condition. We enable parents to get in contact with other families through a family linking service, both on a local and national basis. We have a freephone helpline offering a one-stop-shop for families of children with disabilities, offering advice on welfare rights, community care issues, education needs and a listening ear with access to interpreters. We also have a number of local, regional and nation offices plus volunteer family workers around the UK. Contact a Family's vision is that all families with disabled children are empowered to live the lives they choose to live, and achieve their full potential, for themselves, for the communities they live in and for society.
The Cornwall Down's Syndrome Support Group is run by parents to help families affected by Down's syndrome living in Cornwall. We offer families a chance to meet, socialise and share information, friendship and support. We organise fun days out, trips away and challenging fund raising activities.
COSMIC was founded in 1994 to raise money for the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at St Mary?s Hospital in Paddington, London, which now treats around 500 desperately sick children every year. COSMIC raises money through a number of events each year, and is heavily supported by families whose lives have been touched by the PICU. All funds are used to provide life saving equipment, to provide support and accommodation to parents and to fund training, education and an internationally significant research programme at Imperial College London looking at the causes, effects and treatment of childhood diseases.
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.
TO SUPPORT:- INDIVIDUAL TRANSPLANT CHILDREN DURING ILLNESS & TREATMENT. VARIOUS ORGANISATIONS PROVIDING TRANSPLANT CHILDREN'S TREATMENT. PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL EQUIPMENT, FACILITIES & SERVICES. VARIOUS HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE PROFESSIONALS BY ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF SPECIALIST TRAINING WITH REGARD TO THE CARE OF TRANSPLANT CHILDREN.
The CRASAC Vision project believes that every child is entitled to a happy childhood. Through its work, the project aims to help empower those young people who have been affected by sexual abuse and rape, and to provide them with the chance to come forward and get the help they deserve
3C's raises funds to promote and advance public education and research into Crohn's and Colitis and related disorders, particulalry in childhood.
CICRA is dedicated to raising funds for research and creating a wider understanding of the effects Crohns Disease and Ulcerative Colitis have on children. CICRA sponsors approved medical research projects in hospitals and universities nationwide. It also provides information, support and understanding for all sufferers and their families.
The Croydon Playcare Company (Gingerbread Corner) provides quality childcare for children 3 months to 16 years. Our main aim is to alleviate poverty and distress in one-parent families or other disadvantaged groups. Their main activities include childcare, access to parenting information, family support and outreach health services.
Cyclists Fighting Cancer awards shiny new bikes, tandems and specially adapted trikes to children and young people who have been affected by cancer throughout the UK and Northern Ireland. We encourage cycling as the best form of exercise based rehabilitation for those children undergoing and recovering from cancer treatments. To encourage them further we also give bikes to their siblings and in many cases their parents in order that they can take part in an activity as a family once again after what can be years of hospitalisation and disruption. Every penny raised goes into achieving these objectives. www.cyclistsfightingcancer.org.uk
This charity assists those with the life threatening disease Cystic Fibrosis up to age 25 by contributing towards the costs of a holiday or break away from their normal surroundings providing them with something positive to boost their moral and ease the intensive treatment and disciplines they must follow
The Cystic Fibrosis Trust funds research into a cure for Cystic Fibrosis, the UK's most common life-threatening inherited disease.
TO PROVIDE SUPPORT TO ANYONE DIAGNOSED WITH CYSTINOSIS, AS WELL AS THEIR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS. TO HIGHLIGHT THE DISORDER TO MEMBERS, THE MEDICAL PROFESSION AND THE WIDER COMMUNITY. TO ASSIST IN THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH INTO THE TREATMENT OF CYSTINOSIS. TO WORK ALONGSIDE OTHER SIMILAR ORGANISATIONS IN UNDERSTANDING MORE ABOUT METABOLIC DISORDERS IN GENERAL
The trustees, and friends, passionately care for others less fortunate; in particular children, which yielded the creation of the DABW Foundation. The charitable trust was formed to develop and support projects, where there was significant need, by carefully considering then financially supporting them, hence the current activity in Africa.
Our rotary organisation in Chertsey has decided to focus its fund raising efforts on the Daisy Appeal which is raising money for the neonatal unit St Peters Hospital. We are hoping to raise in excess of 100,000 in order to purchase dependency cots for the hospital
Family run National charity providing active support for children with epilepsy and their parents/carers. One of their key activities is to provide NHS hosptials with ketogenic dietitians - a medically recognised and accepted way of treating drug resistant epilepsy. This diet is not widely available on the NHS due to lack of funding.
Retinoblastoma, a treatable eye cancer, kills 7,000 youngsters each year. We fund clinical research and professional development programs, and assist families in accessing specialist medical care that is unavailable locally to their children. Our ultimate goal is to establish sustainable, locally managed treatment centres in under-served regions of the world.
The Dancing Eye Syndrome Support Group was formed in 1988 with the principal aim of providing a link for parents of children with D.E.S. both locally and nationally. The Dancing Eye Syndrome Trust provides support and information to families of children with Dancing Eye Syndrome.
Dandelion Time is a charity for children struggling with complex emotional and behavioural difficulties. These children may be socially isolated and many have been excluded or have withdrawn from school. Dandelion works with the whole family in a therapeutic programme of activities around the farm. Children discover their abilities in a practical, stimulating way, building confidence and self esteem and helping them to re-engage at home and at school. www.dandeliontime.org.uk
EB - Epidermolysis Bullosa - is a genetic condition where the skin breaks at the slightest touch, causing painful, open blisters and wounds. EB can mean a life of extreme pain, disability and, at its worst it is fatal in infancy. People with severe EB are likely to contract a fatal skin cancer. DebRA provides specialist EB nursing, funds extensive medical research and provides counselling, welfare, respite and advocacy.
Demelza Hospice Care for Children cares for life-limited children and their families across Kent, East Sussex and South East London. The services combine Demelza House, an eight-bedded hospice in Kent; Demelza Community, a hospice-at-home service based in East Sussex and Demelza South London, a new six-bedded hospice opened in April 2009 in Eltham. You can find us on facebook or follow us on twitter at demelzahospice. We also have a blog at http://demelzahospice.blogspot.com/
Providing specialist care and support for children with a terminal or life threatening illness. The hospice is open 365 days a year offering support to children and their families, yet as a charity only receives statutory funding for just 5 weeks. With more than £1.7 million needed each year it remains almost totally reliant on voluntary funding.
PRESERVE & PROTECT THE GOOD MENTAL & PHYSICAL HEALTH OF PEOPLE IN HERTFORDSHIRE BY PROVISION OF COUNSELLING, ASSOCIATED THERAPEUTIC SERVICES & LIFE SKILLS COACHING TO PERSONS WHO MAY BE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED BY REASON OF ONE OR MORE VARIOUS FACTORS
To help people in developing countries through projects which create jobs and opportunities, and give breadwinners the dignity of earning a living and not rely on handouts. Current flagship project - The Mali Children's Village
with only 125 known cases in the UK it is an information lifeline for parents because doctors rarely know enough about the condition. it organises annual conferences for families to meet.
Dolphin House is a natural health charity providing a range of therapies for babies, children and young people irrespective of their families’ ability to pay. Its children’s clinic and outreach work has improved the quality of life of children with chronic conditions such as asthma, eczema, behavioural and digestive problems.
The Donna Louise Children's Hospice Trust provides respite for children with life threatening conditions and support for the whole family at the hospice and in their own home. Our hospice called Treetops, is based in Trentham, on the outskirts of Stoke-on-Trent. Here we provide respite and end of life care for children from all over Staffordshire and South Cheshire that are between the ages of 0 and 19 years and have a life-threatening illness. We provide a safe, caring environment where children and families can truly feel at home.
A community nursing team provide respite and end of life care to children and families within their own homes.
Currently the Trust cares for 160 children from South Cheshire and Staffordshire. Its annual running costs of £2 million are obtained mainly from public donations.
Provides free holidays for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families, and recently bereaved siblings
It helps to raise funds to provide wells for fresh water and latrines to improve the health and sanitation for communities in Tanzania
Our mission is to raise money for the thousands of disadvantaged children in Northern Ireland who are counting on our support. Funds raised will directly benefit children and young people aged 0-17 with a focus on alleviating disability, combating illness, improving quality of life, encouraging personal development and aspirational...
IT RELIEVES THE SUFFERING OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH LIFE LIMITING OR TERMINAL ILLNESSES OR SEVERE DISABILITIES BY GRANTING WISHES AND DREAMS IN ORDER TO BRING HAPPINESS AND JOY. FOR EXAMPLE IT PROVIDES TOYS AND GAMES, ORGANISES MEETINGS WITH A FAMOUS PERSON, AND CAN ARRANGE A TRIP OR A PARTY.
Founded in Scotland in 2007, Dreamz4u is a charity dedicated to granting the wishes of ill and long term disabled children. Help us make a dream come true.
Dumfries and Galloway Health Board Endowment Fund is a charity of over 240 funds for the benefit of patients and staff in Dumfries and Galloway. Each hospital and most wards, units, departments and speciality has its own individual fund. These individual funds are managed by senior staff working in that specific area and are used to enhance patient care. The charity funds are used for the purchase of equipment, patient comforts and amenities, research and training together with the provision of extra facilities and opportunities not available from government funding.
An example of one of our individual funds is the Alexandra Unit which is a specialist palliative care unit. The principle aim of the unit is to enhance quality of life on a day-to-day basis. Care is provided by a multi-disciplinary specialist team, encompassing medical, nursing, social work, physiotherapy, psychology and spiritual care specialities.
The unit is bright and airy comprising of eight single bedrooms, a common room, outside terrace and ward kitchen. The emphasis is on offering comfort and flexibility in a warm and friendly atmosphere where patients can live as if they were at home whilst receiving specialist care.
Based in Plymouth, the study aims to unravel the factors that lead to diabetes and its complications. The seeds of diabetes are sown in childhood, and the charity's mission - Stop diabetes in childhood - declares the need to act early if the epidemic of diabetes is to be prevented.
East Anglia's Children's Hospices (EACH) has three children's hospice care services based at Milton in Cambridge, Quidenham in Norfolk and Ipswich in Suffolk, which also serves North Essex. EACH is a registered charity that relies on public support for the majority of it's income. There are an estimated 23,500 children in the UK who are not expected to reach adulthood. Caring for a child or young person with a life-threatening illness, often for 24 hours a day, seven days a week, can put a huge strain on family life. Life can become governed by the timetable of nursing and medical needs. Careers may have to be put on hold, healthy brothers and sisters can feel left out and regular family activities and holidays can be rare. During all of this, families are going through a process of grieving.
EACH's three multi-disciplinary care teams help local children with life-threatening conditions and complex healthcare needs, and their families with the emotional and physical challenges they face, helping them to make the most of life. They welcome the whole family for a short break together or time to themselves in a home-from-home environment or in the comfort of their own home. They offer a diverse range of supportive care including: short break care, specialist play, music therapy, care at end of life, telephone support, practical help and bereavement support for all family members, including siblings and grandparents.
The East Kent Hospitals Charity is an independent, registered charity working with the NHS in East Kent. Donors can choose to benefit a particular Hospital, department or specialism. We purchase equipment not readily available from NHS Funds, provide extra comfort for patients, support the hospital staff and improve facilities for visitors.
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.
Door of Hope operates humanitarian aid to destitute children living in ghetto villages of Bulgaria and the Ukraine. It provides feeding facilities, education, dental assistance, hygiene, teacher training, as well as a code of Christian values and a moral framework for the children's furture.
The Foundation was set up by Ed Evans in 2006 after he had been diagnosed with a brain tumour.Unfortunately Ed lost his battle against the disease in October 2007 .It's main aim is to raise money for Cancer Research in Wales , Brain Tumour Research and for local worthy causes
Eden Valley Hospice provides specialised palliative care for terminally ill patients and their families along with a wide range of vital supporting services, free of charge throughout North Cumbria. It also operates a Children's Hospice that cares for life-limited children and their families across Cumbria and the South of Scotland.
Edirisa UK supports primary school education in SW Uganda and is committed to improving the living conditions of the local population and increasing local employment.
Education For The Children Foundation educates extremely poor children in Central America and is also currently expanding its social programme.
The Edward Starr Charitable Trust exists to improve the lives of children in the UK and around the world by providing project based funding. The Trust aim to support initiatives that give benefit to children through education, healthcare, development or simply fun.
Edward's Trust provides a wide range of support services to bereaved families and children. We also offer specialized training for Professionals. 2009 is our 20th Anniversary; please visit www.edwardstrust.org.uk for further details.
The Trust makes grants to fund the work of El Shaddai Street Child Rescue in Goa, India. The Goan Charity provides Homes, Day Care/Night Shelters, Education, Feeding Programmes and Medical Care to children working and living on the streets or slums in India.
The Ellen MacArthur Trust takes young people aged between 8-18 sailing to help them regain their confidence, on their way to recovery from cancer, leukaemia and other serious illness. Sailing is perfect for these children; it gives them a chance to test themselves in a safe and supportive environment. Simply the experience of going out on the water for the first time is an adventure. Each child has the challenge of helping sail the yachts throughout the voyage and takes part in all aspects of the trip from sailing the yacht to the washing up! The children come from all over the country, including Northern Ireland, London, Essex, Sheffield, Dorset, Wiltshire, Hertfordshire, Hampshire, Kent, Nottingham & Ellen?s birthplace, Derbyshire.
It helps children who are suffering from leukaemia and cancer. It also helps members of the family who are in need, hardship or distress while supporting such children.
The fund was set up in memory of Emma Maltby who died aged 38 from Ewings Sarcoma, a rare form of cancer found in young adults. The fund has been set up to employ a support worker for teenagers at the Teenage Cancer Trust unit at St James Hospital, Leeds.
ERIC (Education and Resources for Improving Childhood Continence) is a national charity providing information and support to families and health professionals relating to childhood wetting and soiling problems.
Edss exsists to promote awareness on all aspects of Down's syndrome. We aim to bring together families and professionals in a social enviroment without any pressure.
The Ethan Perkins Trust provides grants for children with brain tumours, within Wales. The Trust donates funds to childhood glioma research projects. Named after 11 year old Ethan, who fought a brave 8 month battle against dipg. .
ECHO supports children with Congenital Heart Disease who are treated at the Evelina Children's Hospital and their parents/carers. We provide information, friendship and support at times when parents feel alone and desperate, or when they need guidance or advice. We also support the children themselves as they grow into their teenage years and beyond, to help them take the first steps towards independence in dealing with their heart condition.
The Evelina Children's Hospital, at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, provides everything from routine care to life saving treatment for over 100,000 children every year. It is ?a hospital that doesn?t feel like a hospital? and includes intensive care, neurology, and specialist heart and kidney units. Patients come from London, Southern England and much further a field for life threatening illnesses. While the children receive world-class care and treatment, NHS funding can not meet all the hospital?s needs. This is where the Evelina Children's Hospital Appeal steps in by raising money to buy the very best equipment and facilities.
Ex Cathedra is a leading UK choir and Early Music ensemble, and runs a number of highly-acclaimed education and community projects. Projects include: Singing Medicine at Birmingham Children's Hospital and John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford; and Singing Playgrounds in primary schools across the country.
Fairplay supports children and young people with disabilities and additional needs, and their families, across North Derbyshire.
Fairy Box is national children?s charity supporting ill boys and girls in hospital, their families, and staff involved in their care. We provide gift boxes filled with toys, games, and gifts to lift ill children's spirits any time of the day as often as they need it.
Falcons Community Foundation is the registered charity of Newcastle Falcons, helping thousands of young people and community groups access sport and healthy living. By harnessing the power of rugby, Falcons Community inspires, motivates and educates people in the local community who access the charity.
Family Care offers a full range of services in adoption, including the recruitment and preparation of potential adopters, family finding and adoption support. It provides emotional and practical support to children experiencing bereavement, domestic violence, parental divorce and separation. Family Care works in the City of Nottingham, the County of Nottinghamshire and the surrounding areas.
Family Focus is a unique support group which has provided practical help over the past 12 years to over 600 families facing serious difficulties. We rely solely on donations and face closure at the end of the year - this would leave at least 20 families without support. Please help us. For more information please visit www.familyfocusonline.org.uk
Fanconi Hope is a charity set up to sponsor research and support families affected by the rare genetic disorder Fanconi Anaemia that affects young children, leading to bone marrow failure and bone marrow transplantation, with very high subsequent risk of leukaemia and head & neck cancers.
Fatboy's raises money to purchase Xmas gifts for children suffering with Cancer & Leukaemia. We also donate to other worthy causes related to children and or Cancer care
The Fight for Life children's cancer fund (part of UCLH Charity) raises money to treat children at the new University College Hospital Euston Road, London. In addition to equipment we provide a play area and a wonderful play therapist help to make the unit 'kid friendly' and much less scary.
The Fund raises money and awareness for children's charities and other deserving causes in the north of England.
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.
The Five of Hearts is a fundraising consortium allowing donors to support five amazing Birmingham charities - Acorns Children's Hospice, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham Foundation, Focus Birmingham and St Basils.
The Five Stars Scanner Appeal is raising One Million Pounds for a much needed Magnetic Resonance Scanner for the new Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. Over the past 30 years this charity has raised over £3m to provide life saving equipment for the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, helping save children's lives.
FoCT provides education, social and medical care and support to orphans, vulnerable and disabled children in Tanzania. We are a small charity, entirely voluntary. 100% of all contributions are directed at the projects in Tanzania ? we have NO OVERHEADS.
From small beginnings in the year 2000 FOMO now looks after over 5000 children through a network of 13 centres covering over 85 villages in Mulanje district of Malawi. FOMO Provides Health Care, Formal and Informal Education, Food Security and Daily Activities. Everything raised will go to Malawi to Help the children.
The Footprints Mission To create a home that can give parental care, love, understanding,security and happiness but above all the sense of belonging to family life that every child deserves.
Footsteps Foundation provides support to families attending the Footsteps Centre, Warborough, Oxon. The Footsteps Centre provides intensive therapy for disabled children with neurological disorders such as Cerebral Palsy and genetic disorders. These children will often be unable to sit, stand, crawl and walk without intensive therapy to maximise their physical & mental abilities.
The Forever Friends Appeal at the Royal United Hospital Bath raises urgently needed funds for state-of-the-art diagnostic equipment and facilities - over and above those provided by the NHS. Please do all you can to support the Appeal and help us give a better, brighter future to our patients - and even help save lives.
The Foundation for Paediatric Osteopathy, formerly known as the Osteopathic Centre for Children, seeks to ensure that paediatric osteopathy - a gentle, efficient therapy - is established as the first recourse for parents and carers concerned for their child's health. We accomplish this by raising awareness of paediatric osteopathy, participating in research, training paediatric osteopaths and offering over 30,000 free treatments to babies, children and pregnant and post-partum women each year. We receive no Government funding, so are entirely reliant upon the generosity of the public to fund our services.
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
The aim of the Free Kicks Foundation is to provide football-related activities for ill, bereaved and deserving children, to give them a day to remember with their favourite football club.
IT HELPS PROMOTE THE REHABILITATION AND THE RELIEF OF THE SUFFERING OF BURN INJURED CHILDREN AND CHILDREN WITH OTHER DISFIGUREMENTS (AND THEIR FAMILIES) WHO HAVE BEEN TREATED AT THE SOUTH WEST'S REGIONAL BURN UNIT CURRENTLY AT FRENCHAY HOSPITAL AND/OR LIVE IN THE CATCHMENT AREA FOR THE BURNS UNIT.
FSF supports vulnerable children and communities who are living in poverty in The Gambia. FSF's main focus is to provide access to education and health care, provide resources, food provisions, clean water and sanitation.
To relieve the suffering of children affected by the radiation explosion from the Nuclear Plant at Chernobyl. To provide family placements for children/orphans, from the Mogilev and Gomel regions of Belarus, for at least one month each year and to meet the full costs of these visits, which will include optical, dental and health checks, and lots of tender loving care.
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.
It supports orphaned and abandoned children many suffering from HIV/AIDS in South Africa. It builds houses in the Townships employing local labour and local women as house mothers to care for six children to each house . A Creche for 60 children. It provides the children with a home medical care and education
Friends of Lyndon House raises money to support the work of the staff at Lyndon House - a home offering short respite breaks to children with profound learning and health needs. Friends of Lyndon have recently provided funds to refurbish the playground and to secure a new Variety Club Sunshine Coach.
Friends of O.S.C.A.R is a national charity that supports children diagnosed with brain and/or spinal tumours and their families. It provide days out weekends away and help with sourcing holidays and insurance, wigs etc. Friends of O.S.C.A.R also provides written information for families as well as a family conatct service.
We fund raise to buy equipment, fund major projects and help towards buying a new ambulance for the Childrens Intensive Care unit at Southampton General Hospital. Caring for critically ill children from the south of England and Channel Islands.
It supports the work of the Nigel Hunter Nursery, a therapy centre named after the first specialist paediatrician to work in Gloucestershire. This offers to support to infants with disability, from birth to 3 years, through multi-professional therapy, assessment, play and family support.
The Funzi and Bodo Trust (FAB) exist to try and change things for the better. Working with local people we are creating the conditions for a better environment where people can reach their true potential and where at least the basics of life are available affording a decent quality of life for all.
Futures for Kids raises funds on behalf of the futures and options industry for charities which work to provide better lives and futures for children internationally.
It raises funds for organsations and individuals that don't have the abilities. All funds go directly to beneficiaries without administrative costs. Our events last year enabled us to send 100 very poorly children to lapland and over 400 children and young adults to partake in special sporting events.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
Following his death on 25th November 2005 and his funeral on 3rd December 2005, George?s sister Barbara and her husband Norman were completely overwhelmed by the unprecedented amount of support which was displayed by the fans to George and ultimately his family. They quickly decided that George?s death would not be in vain and on 26th April 2006 the George Best Foundation was born.
THE FOUNDATION AIMS TO:
?Promote and encourage a healthier lifestyle among young people through football in particular, but sport in general;
?Support groups working with young people and/or adults who are already experiencing alcohol or drug problems either on a personal level or within their immediate family; and
?Support vital medical research into illness particularly associated with alcohol misuse.
TO ACHIEVE THESE AIMS THE FOUNDATION WILL:
?Promote a healthy lifestyle through football/sport based initiatives;
?Provide education and advice on drug and alcohol misuse through youth and community initiatives;
?Provide education and advice on diet and nutrition through youth and community initiatives; ?Advocate for the benefits of a healthy lifestyle at events and initiatives and through the media; and
?Provide funds to assist with medical research into illness particular associated with alcohol misuse through universities and other medical establishments.
The Foundation is committed to providing charitable funds to everyone.
Georgie's Fund was set up primarily to research into new treatments and a cure for Neuroblastoma, a rare and aggressive childhood cancer. Around 80-100 children are diagnosed in the UK each year. Once a child is diagnosed, the survival rate is just 1 in 5.
The project to fund a National Memorial for Organ Donors to be based at the National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire and to fund regional memorials across the UK. Part of the Donor Family Network and supported by the Department of Health
it helps children in Glasgow and west of scotland who have cancer or any other illness which means they are not expected to live to become adults.it aims to give help at home and give the option of a childrens hospice in central Glasgow
Founded in 2006 the Global Children's Foundation has already received tremendous support from many people who give their time and skills voluntarily. The Foundation has already helped raise funds for orphanages and youth projects in Poland, Bosnia, Romania and Sierra Leone and we are establishing networks with other organisations to reach out and help children in South America, Africa and Asia.
A local medical charity dedicated to making life better, one step at a time, for the 80,000 people in Gloucestershire with Arthritis.
Good Food Matters runs healthy cookery courses for disadvantaged young people in Croydon. We are currently fundraising to build a Community Food Learning Centre that will give our target groups and their families access to affordable, healthy, organic, food and help them to achieve long-term outcomes that will have a positive impact on their health, wellbeing and future prospects in life. To find out more visit our website: www.goodfoodmatters.org.uk
GRACE HOUSE APPEAL is a charity raising funds to build a children's hospice to serve children and their families across the North East. There are over 1200 children in the region who have life-limiting and terminal conditions. These children cannot be cured and are not expected to reach adulthood.
Grandma?s is a Christian charity that gives practical support to children and families affected by HIV (regardless of their race, religion, gender, sexuality or any other factor). We have branches in London, Dublin and Bristol as well as 2 projects in India.
Help keep the magic alive for thousands of children
Every year we need to raise over £50 million to help replace cramped, outdated wards with new modern facilities, provide essential equipment and fund essential research to find treatments and cures for complex and difficult illnesses. Amazing things happen at Great Ormond Street Hospital every day. With your help we can keep the magic alive for the thousands of children and their families who need our help.
The Greenfingers Charity creates and enhances gardens at UK Children's Hospices, which care for children not expected to live beyond 18. Gardens offer vital opportunities for peace and reflection, experiencing the outdoor environment and play. Children's Hospices cannot afford to make gardens a priority. But with your help, Greenfingers can.
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.
GUCH Patients Association helps young people and adults who were born with a heart condition. It provides information and advice services and organises conferences and events to educate, raise awareness and combat isolation.
It works with vulnerable children and adults at risk to develop skills and coping strategies and services and strategies to meet their needs.
Cash for Kids is the new name for Help a Hallam Child. We are the official Charity of Hallam FM & Magic AM. Set up in the 1970?s, we have raised Millions to help disabled and disadvantaged children in the local area! By supporting us you are actually supporting 100?s of charities, community groups and individual children. Cash for Kids supports local sick and needy children by providing grants to individuals, other charities, groups and the health sector. We also fund 50 Teaching Assistants in schools where children are struggling to learn to read.
This is a charity that assists street children in Kenya by giving them either a safe house in which to live or in Foster Care (whichever is appropriate). It also ensures they are fed, cared for mediacally and receive an education to help them become valued members of society. The charity works closely with local people who are respected and have a heart for these deprived children
Assist those residents of Hambleton and Richmondshire with any addiction problem whether that be alcohol, drugs, gambling etc
Have a Heart (Formerly known as Q103 Kids) Is Heart 103?s registered charity. The radio station has been running a charity for over 10 years - in that time, over £340,000 has been raised and distributed to community projects ranging from the purchase of minibuses for the disabled to funding play equipment for disadvantaged children. The charity's aims are simple: to assist community projects and young people by offering support, expertise and influence. All money raised in Cambridge, Newmarket, Ely, Haverhill, Saffron Walden, Royston and Huntingdon stays in the area and is spent on community projects making a real difference to disadvantaged young people in the area.
HUNGER NEVER TAKES A HOLIDAY - SO NEITHER DOES HAZON YESHAYA
The business of hunger in Israel is sadly booming, and the number of meals we provide for is a staggering 400,000 per month, with numbers constantly rising. At Pesach, this humanitarian network ensures that the destitute do not miss a meal. Seders will be held to benefit our needy recipients, Kosher for Pesach food parcels will be distributed to over 16,000 families. This equates to feeding over 100,000 people. Each family food pack costs approximately £100 and includes all the Kosher for Pesach necessities. Unfortunately this Pesach we are expecting a 40% increase in applicants for food aid.
Whilst preparing your own home for Passover this year please think of our brothers and sisters in Israel. Please donate a food parcel to one or more families in need.
We thank you in advance for giving generously and offering a brighter future to thousands of men, women and children.
Haven House Children’s Hospice is a charity providing on-going holistic care for children and young people with life-limiting conditions. It embraces the needs of the child’s family from the point of diagnosis through to post death care. Their commitment is to enable children to live life as fully as possible in a warm and caring environment.
Headlines offers information, leaflets, advice, support and contact for anyone (including their families) having or dealing with Craniosynostosis and associated conditions (including Apert, Crouzon, Pfeiffer, Cloverleaf, Saethre-Chotzen, Craniofrontonasal and Muenke Syndromes and Single or Multi-Suture Craniosynostosis). A Newsletter is produced three times a year.
Headstart4Babies is a small charity raising awareness of plagiocephaly and brachycephaly, two little-known skull conditions which can affect young babies. It also provides help and advice to families face with the condition and raises money to assist families on low incomes to proceed with treatment.
Heal is committed to providing shelter,support,education and healthcare for needy children and is involved in a number of projectscaring for orphaned children in India.
Health Initiatives (HI) aims to empower young people under 27 living with HIV/AIDS. We provide tailored services & trainings with accurate, age appropriate information and counselling that motivates young people to take control of their lives when testing and living with HIV/AIDS
Heart Link, was originally formed as a support group for parents and families who have a child suffering from a heart defect. Since 1981 we have collected over £2.5 million pounds. This has been used to fund projects large and small
HeartLine provides information and support to children with heart disorders and their families and friends. Packs of information are sent to hospitals that treat Heart Children. It can arrange one-to-one contact for particular types of heart defects, for people whose babies won't feed, for Grandparents and for those expecting a baby with a heart condition.
HHLG is a charity for children and young people with special needs. Donations are needed to fund the annual trip to Lourdes and other events throughout the year.
Helen & Douglas House is a registered charity providing respite and end of life care for children and young adults with life-shortening conditions, as well as support and friendship for the whole family. The two hospice houses are bright, vibrant and positive places, where the emphasis is on living life to the full, even when that life may be short.
Help A Local Child, the very own charity of Southern FM awards grants to groups working with children in the local area. HALC raises money by holding events throughout the year in association with the radio station, including Film Premiere's, Fundraising Dinners, sponsored abseils, and sponsored running events.
Help a London Child was founded in 1975 by Lord Attenborough CBE, as 95.8 Capital FM's charity to assist and give opportunities to thousands of London?s children and young people experiencing abuse, homelessness, disability, poverty and illness. Over the last 34 years the charity has raised in excess of £20 million and awarded that amount to over 10,000 small groups across the Capital, directly helping over 1 million children.
Help A South Wales Child, the very own charity of Red Dragon FM awards grants to groups working with children in the local area. HASWC raises money by holding events throughout the year in association with the radio station, including Film Premiere's, Fundraising Dinners, sponsored abseils, and sponsored running events.
The Helping Friends Foundation's purpose is to support a variety of cancer-related projects that have helped and will help a broad network of family and friends. It focuses on fulfilling entire projects, which although extremely important in nature, can often be overlooked with regards to funding.
Helping Hand was established by the medical staff at The Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children with the single aim of improving healthcare for children attending the hospital which is the regional referral unit for most of the paediatric specialties in Northern Ireland.
Hilton in the Community Foundation is a grant-making organisation which fundraises throughout Hilton Worldwide properties in Europe to support disadvantaged children and young people. By the end of 2009, grants totalling £7.4million have been made, benefiting over 2 million young people through a variety of education, health, and disaster relief projects. Hilton Worldwide funds the core costs of the Foundation, so every net £1 and ?1 goes directly to projects helping young people.
It helps children in the UK and Kenya to reach their full potential
Homerton Hospital Charitable Fund is a registered charity which sources vital funding for additional project, training and equipment needs that complement core services provided by the NHS. We rely on gifts to enable the best possible care to be delivered to one of the most vulnerable patient populations in the UK. Homerton Hope is the operating name for our current fundraising projects.
With your support we really can make a difference to a broad range of people who come to Homerton Hospital from Hackney, the wider east London region, and across the UK. Past donations have enabled us to:
* Buy an infant resuscitator for the Special Care Baby Unit which treats premature babies from east London and across the UK
* Purchase equipment for our Regional Neurological Rehabilitation Unit including a 'Tellus' communication aid for patients who have little or no speech and a 'Theravital' exercise bike for patients to exercise from their wheelchair
* Fund our Arts Programme which ensures art is displayed in our wards, corridors and courtyards to create a warm and welcoming environment for everyone who comes to the Hospital
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or find out more
about fundraising for Homerton Hope at www.homertonhope.org
Home-Start Elmbridge offers support to parents, with young children, in the local community. Through a network of volunteers we visit parents and children in their homes and provide help in a variety of situations including isolation, bereavement, multiple births, illness, disability.
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.
Provide support services to families with at least one child under the age of five.
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 Warrington is a part of the UK's leading family support charity. Through a network of trained parent volunteers Home-Start Warrington supports parents who are struggling to cope. Our families need support for many reasons including post-natal depression, the illness of a parent or child, disability, bereavement or social isolation. Parents supporting other parents: it's a simple idea that really works. Home-Start Warrington trains parent volunteers who then befriend and support families with at least one child under five. They help to give children the best possible start in life by supporting the whole family. They work to prevent difficult times from creating permanent problems.
Home-Start Watford & Three Rivers is a charity offering families with at least one child under five, informal, friendly and confidential support in their own homes. Support is provided through a team of carefully selected volunteers who visit families once a week for two to three hours for as long as needed.
Hope House is a children's hospice organisation providing care for terminally ill children and support for their families. Hope House has two hospices - at Oswestry, Shropshire and Conwy, North Wales - and also offers care in the family home. Support and counselling is offered to parents and other family members for as long as necessary.
Enabling children and young people to make drug-free choices. Hope UK achieves this by training suitable volunteers as Drug Educators for their local communities throughout the UK, as well as by providing drug awareness talks and training for youth workers, parents and others with responsibility for children and young people. Each Educator costs £1,200 to train with an Open College Network accredited course and £540 per year thereafter for support and updating training.
Hope4China aims to create hope, build relationships & provide oppurtunity for China's poorest children through Foster Care, Education, Medical help & support for children with special needs.
Hopes & Dreams is a voluntary registered charity, whose aim is to turn the hopes and dreams of chronically, seriously or terminally ill children into reality. Whether it's a trip to Disneyworld, a ride in a helicopter or to meet a favourite footballer, they will do all they can to make a sick child's dream come true.
Hopscotch Kidney Fund for Children is a charity dedicated to helping children with kidney disease. It helps by offering fun and exciting events and activities for children. It also offers financial grants to parents for specific items needed at home to help their child and grants for parents in times of medical emergencies.
The charity's work centres on helping people who suffer from heart disease - the biggest killer in the community. It supports NHS hospitals across Yorkshire by raising money to buy the latest generation of medical equipment to aid the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of heart patients.
The Hotcourses Foundation was set up in 2004 to help fund the education of children in the developing world whose access to education was limited or non-existent. Its objective is to make a measurable, tangible difference to the lives of children in some of the poorest parts of the world. Initially it has focused on AIDS-orphans in Kenya and HIV positive young adults in Uganda.
The Hugo Halkes Charitable Trust was set up in memory of Hugo, a 12 year old boy who tragically died following a road accident in September 2007. Hugo had a great generosity of spirit and the aim of his charity is to support young people and other good causes.
Hull Children?s University provides learning experiences to raise the achievements and aspirations of local children, supporting schools in their delivery of the national curriculum and the government?s aims outlined in ?Every Child Matters?.
The Hull KR Education & Sport Trust has been formed with the aim of developing the Club?s highly successful community programme in the city. We aim to educate young people and their families, providing accessible and exciting sports opportunities that promote health & well being.
It provides underprivileged children from remote areas of the Himalayas with quality education, in a clean caring environment. We give them the skills necessary to participate in the development of their country and to support them in the preservation of their families and native culture.
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.
The Idea League UK funds medical research into Dravet Syndrome and other related sodium channel epilepsies. It works to advance the education of the medical community in the subject of Dravet syndrome and supports families affected by Dravet syndrome through financial assistance, emotional support, education and practical advice.
In-Community Care for Orphans (I-CCO) is a charity registered in Zambia and the UK which works with orphans in Lusaka, Zambia. These are mostly children who have become orphans as a result of the AIDS crisis and the aim of the charity is to educate and train them so as to give them and the communities in which they live the hope of a better future.
Aspen proudly supports The ISIS Foundation (UK) in making a positive difference to children’s lives, through educational & health projects. Among other projects, Aspen’s generosity is funding the rebuilding of a Neonatal ICU at a bush hospital in Uganda, and supporting AIDS orphans into education. See www.isis.bm, registration #1098152.
Provision of travel and accommodation expenses for families resident on Islay and Jura who have children hospitalised on the mainland.
It provides quality, inclusive care & education for children aged 2 to 5 years.
Jamie's Wish Trust helps all aged between 0-25 with life threatening illnesses, such like cancer. With granting them their wishes or to help them financially.
Jane's Appeal was established by the late Jane Tomlinson CBE to raise funds for children's and cancer charities nationwide. To date over £3million has been raised and Jane's family led by Mike Tomlinson is determined to continue the great work started by Jane and work towards the charities next target of £5million. Jane was determined to help others and we at Jane Tomlinson Appeal are committed to keeping her inspirational leadership and determination alive for the benefit of others. www.janetomlinsonappeal.com
Jeans for Genes
One in 33 babies in the UK is born with a genetic disorder - that's equivalent to one in every school class. Although individually these conditions are rare, together they account for more than half of all childhood deaths. The money raised by Jeans for Genes funds care and support services for children and families affected by genetic disorders, as well as research into the causes and potential cures of these conditions. Our major fundraising event is Jeans for Genes Day, when millions of adults and children across the country throw out their uniforms and make a small donation to wear their jeans to work or school.
Wish One of the Jellybean Kids' Appeal for a child-friendly A&E area is complete, with the new Children's Emergency Department up and running. Wish Two, for extra equipment for sick and premature newborn babies in the Neonatal Unit, has also been recently completed with the provision of £80,000 worth of extra high-tech equipment ensuring that every baby has the best possible start in life. And we are pleased that Ronald McDonald House Charities have agreed to fund a seven-bedroom parents accommodation unit at a cost of £750,000 completing Wish Three, but the appeal still has one more wish to achieve.
The Jellybean Kids' Appeal is now raising funds for Wish Four? child friendly elements and equipment within a new Child Assessment Centre, especially for children with complex needs. The Multi Disciplinary Team assesses the development of over 400 children each year, and having a great, child-friendly environment will put children at ease - and with the children, parents, brothers & sisters all happier, successful assessments are easier too.
It supports bereaved children and their families in and around Plymouth. The charity mainly offers support through a group programme which uses creative activities to encourage healthy grieving and happy memories. In the last year it has supported over 100 children who have had someone special to them die.
The Jessie May Trust provides nursing care at home for children with a terminal illness in the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire areas. The charity receives no statutory funding and so relies totally on voluntary contributions to fund its service.
Jigsaw4u is a UK-based charity that has worked for 10 years to support children, young people, and their families, who have experienced loss and trauma. Jigsaw4u empowers young people to have a voice in decision making about their lives, about the development of Jigsaw4u and in the development of policy and practice locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.
The Joely Bear Appeal has three main aims. The Appeal was originally set up to provide facilities to make stays in hospital more comfortable for young cancer patients and their families. The Appeal now also makes grants for research into the treatment and detection of cancer on children. It also promotes the importance of giving blood and of registering on the Bone Marrow panel.
The Jordan Jay Trust has been established to raise funds for research into the treatment of late Infantile Battens - also known as CLN2. The development of therapies will directly benefit 500 children that are diagnosed with this devastating disease throughout the world and could be a potential cure for another 40 genetic disorders, saving the lives of thousands of children.
The Joshua Tree is a charity that aims to build a holiday house and support centre for families who have a child with a life threatening illness, where the treatment makes social interaction with the general public difficult because of the risk of infection.
Josie died in Feb 2007 aged 16 having touched the Nation with her Strength Courage & Happiness. The Charity provides Crafts & Activities to 23 Childrens Cancer Hospitals across the UK and a Cash Gift of 500.00 to Children & Teenagers where their Cancer treatment is no longer Curative.
Kids in Sport sets out to help both able and disabled childrens without the means to take part in sport on a regular basis. We thank you in anticipation of your support. Helping us put lasting smiles on childrens faces.
Julia's House, the Dorset Children's Hospice, provides respite care and support to children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions and their families through a dedicated team of community carers, nurses and other professionals working within the families own homes or at Julia's House in Corfe Mullen.
The Junction is a safe, friendly, confidential centre which offers lots of health related services, education, advice and support for young people in Leith and North East Edinburgh aged 12-21.
The Juniper Trust began by supporting small sustainable projects in Nepal, helping mainly children and schools with Education and Health. Since those early days it has evolved, supporting similar projects across the globe, in countries such as Peru, Ecuador, India, Tibet, Kenya and many more.
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) exists to find the cure for type 1 diabetes and its complications, and is the world's leading charitable funder of type 1 diabetes research.
Long term support and Expert Advice for self-sustainable projects in Educational, Medical, and Humanitarian fields; £180,000 invested to date for Drinking water, Scholarships to poor children regardless of race or religion, Emergency Ambulance in India; Lymphoma Cancer research in Britain.
Karis Kids is a charity working to set the homeless in families. Working with families in the UK and the Anglican church in Kampala, the charity enables families in the slums to take in orphans who are relatives, providing healthcare, education and basic necessities for the whole family.
To help with food, education, medication, shelter to orphans affected by the earthquake. To provide financial help to victims of the earthquake in Pakistan.
It aims to feed 1500 primary schoolchildren in Western Uganda, for 3 years. They walk many miles to school, without food till evening. A daily mug of porridge costs £15.00 a year per child, so our target is £67,500. Then, we will help the community buy land to become self-sufficient.
The Trust wants to help children with a Diffuse Pontine Glioma by supporting patients & parents, providing access to healing/alternative therapy & investigating/ supporting research & provide financial assistance to dancers in the Scottish Borders.
The KCFM Smile Foundation exists to positively change the lives of people within Hull & East Yorkshire, by providing support and grants to organisations in need who meet our charitable objectives. We will work with our partners within the corporate community to provide resources to make a visible difference to the organisations we work with.
Keech Hospice Care is the new name for The Pasque Charity and its two hospices - The Pasque Adult Hospice and Keech Cottage Children's Hospice. Its aim is to help patients with life-limiting illnesses enjoy the highest quality of life, while providing vital support for their families and friends. All its services are provided free of charge, 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year.
Provides assistance and relief to sick children and/or their families in Kent & East Sussex, by way of financial support for travel to and from hospital,accomodation costs, or relief by way of short term breaks etc. It works only through referrals from local social services and children's hospices.
Kenya Children Centres provides refuge, health care, food, clothing, counselling and education to meet physical, emotional and psychological needs of orphan girls in Kenya. Many of who are abandoned, abused, sick and malnourished. We are building a second Centre for 100 girls and a Medical Centre for the local community.
The KCT is raising money to build a nursery school for infants and homeless orphans of Gataka (a Kenyan slum) and help set up community projects to help the local people create an income so that they can meet the running cost of the school in future years on their own.
The goals of the Trust are to relieve poverty, hardship or the distress of families with children. to improve the lives of individual families with children and children's groups living in the North Hampshire area.
It's a home for orphaned and abandoned children of all ages, located in the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania.
Kids Integrated Cancer Treatment is a unique charitable organisation that is dedicated to providing support to families with children who are fighting cancer and other serious illnesses.
We were founded in July 2000 with the specific aim of helping Scottish children with renal illness and their families. We support hospitals all over Scotland by supplying them with much need machinery and by funding posts. For information about fundraising events held by our charity please visit our website.
The Kids? Cookery School (KCS) is a unique cookery school for children and young people. At KCS, students learn to prepare healthy and delicious dishes from fresh ingredients in an environment which is challenging, supportive and inspiring. KCS welcomes students with special needs and students who are socially or economically disadvantaged.
Kids Kidney Research funds vital research into the prevention and cure of kidney disease and children at the Institute of Child Health and the Renal Unit of Great Ormond Street Hospital. Kidney failure has no cure, making research and your support so important. Please help them now.
Kids Who Care is a project managed by the charity ?Unite - Carers in Mid Devon?, and it helps young carers by providing respite trips to fun places during weekends and school holidays, club nights and mentoring/befriending.
The ?KidsCan? Children?s Cancer Research Centre is working hard to promote and support research into the causes, prevention, treatment and cure of cancers in children. No other charity researches into specifically children?s cancers which makes their work both unique and vital. With your help it can make the future brighter for children with cancer.
The Kindu Trust supports some of the poorest families in northern Ethiopia. Through gifts and child sponsorship we are able to ensure young people receive improved nutrition, education and healthcare. Thank you for supporting!
Kingston Bereavement Service is a charity providing support and counselling to adults, children and young people in Kingston upon Thames. We also give advice and raise awareness about bereavement in the community. Visit www.kingstonbereavementservice.org.uk or www.sayinggoodbye.org.uk
KISS works in Uganda to support vulnerable children, their families and their communities. It does this by providing funding for education; medical treatment; families that care for orphaned children or are in difficult circumstances; support for young mothers and social outreach projects.
helps young children and teenagers while suffering with long term illness. cancer,and to create a more relaxed area for teenagers and young children while in hospital. to send families for day drips. to donate memory boxes.
KNIGHTS YOUTH CENTRE PROVIDES A WEEKLY SERVICE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AGED BETWEEN 8 - 24. IT WORKS WITH YOUNG PEOPLE IN AND AROUND THE CLAPHAM PARK ESTATE, LAMBETH, LONDON, AN AREA OF HIGH SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC NEED.
We work with local community based initatives in Kenya and Uganda that support orphans and children of poor families. This includes nutrician programmes in slum areas, schools for poor kids, rural based orphan support programmes. NO KOFUP DONATIONS ARE USED FOR CHARITY ADMINISTRATION ALL GO DIRECT TO AFRICAN CHILDREN.
L.A.T.C.H Listening And Talking Can help is a vital community support Charity based in Northern Ireland. LATCH is dedicated to enhancing the lives of young people, creating a better understanding of the core role mental health plays in personal well being to reduce levels of self harm and suicide.
LATCH, the Welsh Children's Cancer Charity, is a voluntary organisation set up to support the special requirements of the children's oncology centre at the Children's Hospital for Wales, to help affected families and promote research in childhood cancer.
We provide aid to underprivileged children in Brazil and the Amazonian Region by way of food distribution and education.
LEC provides healthy lifestyle choices information for primary school age children, including obesity, drugs and alcohol and contemporary issues such as bullying
The Lennox covers projects that enable children with cancer and leukaemia, and their families, the opportunity to live the same quality of life we would hope for ourselves. It aims to make the terrible fight to recovery as easy as possible, for not just the suffering child but, for the whole family.
Leo House supports life-limited children and their families
Let's Hike or Bike for Children is a series of challenge events in aid of four leading children's charities: Barnardo's, Dreams Come True, Kith & Kids, and MedEquip4Kids. The donations you make to Let's Hike or Bike for Children will be distributed equally between them. The events are organised by Action for Charity - www.actionforcharity.co.uk
Levi's Star is in memory of Levi Ringer aged 6½. It is the only children's brain tumour charity in Yorkshire. It supports children with brain tumours providing grants/financial assistance. It works with LGI, Jimmys & Sheffield Childrens Hospital. It provides money for research and raises awareness of brain tumours.
Here at the Liberty Rose Trust we are dedicated to raising awareness about childhood Brain Tumours, its also our goal to have the word benign removed or replaced when it is involved with a tumour of the brain which can be a lot different to having a tumour elsewhere in the body!
Life Education Centres is the UK's leading health and drug education charity. The organisation works with local communities that want to help their young people make positive health choices. The charity provides inspirational and memorable learning experiences in health education for children and young people from the ages of three to 15.
The Lifetime Children?s Trust works closely with The Lifetime Service, a unique Bath-based community nursing and support programme for children with life threatening or long term illnesses and their families. It funds the provision of equipment, facilities and support services not normally provided by the statutory authorities.
An opportunity to help underprivileged African communities in a variety of ways. Proceeds, too, are used to sustain the livelihoods of our artists, and to further develop their skills and talents. And Support children affected by HIV/Aids in Africa
The Link Foundation supports disadvantaged children locally. It partners with health visitors, schools and nurses to identify where support is most needed. It provides clothing, food, bedding and many essential items to help improve thousands of children's lives. Low overheads mean that over 95% of funds raised go to those in need.
Working with disadvantaged children.
Little Hearts Matter is a national charity offering support and information to anyone affected by the devastating diagnosis of a single ventricle heart condition, children born with half a working heart. It works to raise awareness of the needs of these children and their families.
The Little Princess Trust provide real hair wigs to children suffering hair loss due to cancer treatment and alopecia.
The charity has a free clinic in Luxor that helps disabled children to walk and deaf children to speak. It provides wheel chairs and walking aids and has a food distribution programms plus a family sponsorship scheme.
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.
It helps to support the whole family of a child diagnosed with cancer in a variety of ways. Regular newsletter, drop-in centres, regular parent meetings. Telephone be-friending Treats, trips & holidays for the children and their families. Caravans for hire.
Nearly half of London's children say they do not play out as much as they would like. London Play wants to change this, making the capital a place where all children can play, both in staffed playgrounds and in open spaces. Our Street Play and Natural Play projects are ground-breaking.
The aim of our Foundation is to use the "power of sport" to inspire, educate and motivate thousands of young people within our region.We focus our activities on five areas; grassroots sport, health, education and social inclusion.All projects are built up in partnership with other community stakeholders.
Love for Life is a local Northern Ireland charity, passionate about helping to create a society where children and underage young people can be alcohol, drug and sex free.
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.
Every year thousands of children are injured in preventable accidents at home and on our roads. At the LV=Streetwise indoor life-sized safety village they learn about everyday dangers and what to do in an emergency in a fun and memorable way ? gaining both knowledge and the confidence to cope.
We send doctors to North America to learn the latest techniques to help children with heart disease.
Cash for Kids aims to support local children under the age of 18, who are financially, socially, emotionally or physically disadvantaged. Also to encourage healthy lifestyle options by promoting physical, mental and general wellbeing of children and adolescents within the Magic 105.4 region.
The parent Company of the Bauer Radio Group of Charities, which all operate under the name of Cash for Kids. It has 32 radio stations which raise funds for local children suffering mental, physical or sensory disabilities, behavioural or psychological disorders, live in poverty or suffering distress, abuse or neglect
We provide advice and support by caring knowledgeable staff for families who have children with an autistic spectrum disorder. By offering home visits, support groups, website/internet access, a resource library, a unique social club for children aged 12-19, workshops & seminars, enabling parents/carers and professionals the opportunity to increase their knowledge and understanding of autism.
Make-A-Wish Foundation® UK aims to grant magical wishes to children and young people fighting life-threatening illnesses. A wish granted is truly magical and provides memories that last a lifetime.
The Daniel Courtney Trust aims to raise money to fund research into Microvillous Atrophy - a devastating condition of the bowel. It also aims to provide equipment and facilities for Great Ormond Street Hospital, Birmingham Children's Hospital and Edward House. Finally it aims to increase awareness of organ donation.
Our charity aims to improve healthcare in the southern region of Zanzibar by renovating a delapidated small hospital and managing it using a sustainable financial model. When completed this will make a huge difference to the lives of around 80,000 local residents.
Competitors brave the uncertain winter weather, deep mud and the cold river Blackwater. They are well supported by the local community. The Maldon Mud Race has for many years raised funds for local charities. Supporting
Many of the sickest children in the North West receive life saving care in the Critical Care Unit of Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. We want these children to receive the very best care possible. The money we raise will be used to provide the staff with access the very latest equipment and training in order to achieve this aim.
MWB supports Children, Teenagers and Young Adults with Leukaemia and Other Cancers. The Charity aims to raise awareness, undertake research into the Causes of Leukaemia and support the new Teenage Cancer Trust Unit at Birmingham Childrens Hospital. Please visit our website for more information www.mwb-leukaemia.org.uk
Martin House provides care and support, free of charge, to families in which there is a child or children with a short life expectancy. Its aim is to provide a home from home with a lively friendly atmosphere where children and their families can enjoy the best quality of life.
MCAI is a small international charity dedicated to improving the healthcare and survival rates of babies, mothers and children in developing countries. The charity helps poor communities by training the doctors, nurses and local health providers in emergency life saving skills, refurbishing children?s wards and providing essential equipment.
MATTDOTCOM provides teenagers suffering from long term or terminal illnesses access to computers, enabling them to continue their education, maintain school and peer contact and as a distraction tool during painful treatment. The equipment supports teenagers educationally; social and therapeutically so they cope with the pain of treatment and isolation.
Matthew's Friends raise awareness and promote the use of the ketogenic diet for babies and children with uncontrolled, drug-resistant epilepsy. They provide a phone support line, up to date website, annual conferences and local workshops for both parents and professionals. Working with their Medical Board of UK leading experts they have produced a DVD on the ketogenic diet.
Max Appeal supports families affected by DiGeorge syndrome, VCFS and 22q11.2 deletion
MedEquip4Kids is the charity that helps sick and injured children in and out of hospital. The Charity works in partnership with hospitals to improve the care available to children when they suffer illness or have been involved in accidents, by providing paediatric specific medical equipment and funding for projects that enhance the hospital environment for the benefit of children and their families. In many cases this reduces the time spent by children in hospital. MedEquip4Kids also supports community health projects that enable children whenever possible to be treated at home. This helps to reduce stress for children and their families that can surround a stay in hospital
The Medical Foundation is the only human rights charity in the UK which works exclusively with adult and child survivors of torture and organised violence. Using a holistic approach it provides psychological and physical therapy, counselling and medical treatment to engage torture survivors in a process to assert their human dignity
The aims of this foundation are fundamentally the alleviation of suffering using all healing medicines. We hope collectively to be a grass roots organization. Our focus is primarily healing medicines applied to areas and groups in need of medical aid. We are especially focused on the preservation, practice and education of Tibetan Medicine - the oldest medical system in the world.
MOAM facilitate projects in 2 areas of Ethiopia. Drought stricken Langano and the growing town of Debre Zeit. It is currently building a school for children with special needs, providing housing, education, food and clean water for widows & orphans. Every penny counts. No admin costs.
Meningitis UK's vision is a vaccine to eradicate all forms of meningitis.
Every week, six families have to face the sudden tragedy of losing a loved one to this devastating disease.
Because it can kill in under four hours and the symptoms are notoriously difficult to spot, we believe a preventative vaccine is the only way to spare people this heartache.
Our Search 4 a Vaccine Campaign aims to raise £7million to help fund cutting-edge research to help us achieve this goal and save thousands of lives in the future.
Mercy Rescue Trust runs a baby rescue centre in Kitale, Kenya. Babies who would otherwise be left to die are rescued, nursed back to health, and re-homed with local families. The centre is staffed by Kenyan nationals, maintaining the local culture and providing local employment.
MYA creates positive and lasting change in the lives of Merseyside?s young people. It works with young people (7-25), offering activities and projects in areas including Alternative Education, Arts, Youth Work, Disability Equality, Sports, Health, Infrastructure Support and Support Services.
The charity objectives are to assist children and young people in the alleviation of poverty and the relief of sickness. Since it was established in 1994, it has helped a number of individuals with the provision of medical equipment and funded medical treatment. It has also made grants to other children's charities.
The Centre provides a specialist service for children and young adults aged 2-18 who stammer in all parts of the UK. It gives advice and support to youngsters who stammer and their families, offering individual or group therapy programmes where no such specialist help is available locally.
It helps aids orphaned children in a remote village in Kenya to improve their life chances through the provision of financial assistance, support and education and practical advice
Momentum aims to improve the quality of life for children who have cancer or other life threatening conditions in Surrey; by improving local facilities and providing support for families. Momentum is run by volunteers and is reliant on kind donations and support of individuals and companies to further its work.
We help youngsters who suffer from sickness or disability by providing care equipment; terminally ill youngsters to acheive ambitions; children who have suffered from abuse and / or domestic violence. If we can improve the quality of a youngster's life or put a smile back ona face, then The Moore Foundation is succeeding.
The Moorfields Eye Hospital Development Fund?s focus over the last few years has been a multi-million campaign to develop a centre of excellence dedicated to the treatment, research and prevention of eye disease in children. Since the opening of this award-winning centre in February 2007 by Her Majesty The Queen, the charity is focusing on supporting i) cutting-edge research ii) improving the patient experience and iii) the purchase of the most up-to-date specialist medical equipment. All of which allows Moorfields to continue to provide its patients with world-class treatment and care. When making a donation or creating a sponsorship page please specify which of the above areas you would like to support.
Mosac exists to support all non-abusing parents and carers of children who have been sexually abused. The charity aims to enable parents and carers to rebuild confidence, alleviate isolation and improve quality of life following the discovery of abuse. This is achieved through a range of services meeting individual needs.
Mosaic is a Dorset wide charity offering a pathway of support for bereaved children, young people and their families.
MRSA Action UK is an organisation run by volunteers supporting people affected by MRSA and other healthcare associated infections. Its work involves raising awareness through supporting training programmes and providing literature and an online resource for the public and care providers.
MUKTI raises money to assist some of the 300,000 homeless children of New Delhi. MUKTI currently supports two children's homes: Karm Marg for street children, and the Naz Care Home for abandoned HIV Positive babies and children. Everyone working for MUKTI does so on a voluntary basis.
Myasthenia Gravis is an auto-immune disease which is characterised by fluctuating and sometimes fatal, muscle weakness. It affects all ages and both genders. The charity aims to aid the discovery of improved diagnostic techniques and better treatment - ultimately to find a permanent cure for Myasthenia Gravis and similar disorders of the nerve-muscle junction.
It supports families of children and adolescents with cancer and Leukaemia from anywhere in the UK. NACCPO helps to ease the desolation that families feel when their child is diagnosed with cancer through a network of support groups. The charity provides advice and information on all aspects of childhood cancer.
The aim of the Trust is the promotion and the development of quality children's play provision.
Naomi House is a purpose-built children's hospice for central southern England. Respite and terminal care are offered to children with life-threatening conditions and their families at no charge to them.
National Playbus provides the back-up and support to over 200 mobile play, youth and community projects around the UK. It helps new projects every year take to the road and provide essential community services in both urban and rural settings.
We are the leading charity for pregnancy, birth and early parenting in the UK with over 100,000 members supporting over 1 million new & expectant parents every year. We offer accessible information through our publications and our antenatal and postnatal courses as well as counseling and telephone support through our Breastfeeding, Early Days, Enquiry and Pregnancy and Birth Lines. Our 314 volunteer led branches provide community based services to new & expectant parents throughout the UK.
The trust raises funds to build a school in Kikambala mombasa Kenya. We want to help this very poor community and provide free education for the children too poor to attend state school.
We provide long term, effective, sustainable support to 30 physically disabled children at the New Life Centre in Nepal and with virtually no administrative costs. The children usually come from remote and mountainous areas where life for a disabled child is particularly difficult and there is very little medical help or access to education. Disability may occur due to a variety of reasons but often because of untreated accidental injuries and severe burn injuries as a result of babies and young children being left unattended with open cooking fires while their parents work the land.
We work closely with the children and staff at the centre assessing their needs and liaising with the local board members of the centre about the best way we can help. The main focus of our support is a commitment to provide a new home which will help the centre save a third of its budget for rent to use for other important expenses. We also help with other essential day to day costs. We liaise with other Nepali and foreign donors of the centre to ensure a web of integrated support that minimises reliance on any one agency alone, thus guaranteeing on going medical care, a caring home, a healthy diet, good education, as well as post school training and further study where appropriate.
Neuroblastoma is a rare aggressive childhood cancer. About 100 children are diagnosed in the UK each year. The Society works exclusively for these children in raising funds for British research into the disease, and offering information and support to families affected by neuroblastoma.
It provides safety,love,education, healthcare & security to street children and orphans in Uganda,until they can provide for themselves. It pays for school fees and all their scholistic,personal and healthcare requirements.
The aims of The Newborn Appeal, launched in April, 1992 are to purchase more specialised equipment, support research and maintain a unique research programme to help the special babies cared for in the Neonatal Unit at the Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Unit is a referral Unit and cares for babies from a wide geographical area.
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
Newcastle United Foundation uses passion for football to make a real difference to the lives of local children, young people and families. In its first year, the Foundation worked with 10,000 individuals, resulting in 62,000 attendances across all its sports, health, education and youth projects.
Newlife Foundation for Disabled Children offers a unique range of services to support disabled and terminally ill children and their families. Across the UK, Newlife delivers: Specialist Support Services - a Nurse led helpline and publications service which provides dedicated information and support; Our Equipment Grants Service provides grants to buy vital equipment such as wheelchairs, beds, communication aids, seating systems and specialist car seats. Our research scheme provides pioneering research to improve child health and diagnostic techniques; Our Campaigning and Awareness department act as a voice for disabled children and their families to campaign for key improvements in policy and delivery. Newlife receives no Government funding and can offer donors the opportunity to choose exactly where and how they would like to their gift to be spent. Make Your Donation Today.
The Aims of Nicolas Fund... To improve the quality of life for Children with Cancer To provide support and help for the families of Children suffering from Cancer
1) The relief of poverty, sickness and distress and to advance education and integration amongst children and young people in Cernavoda and the surrounding areas; 2) The relief of poverty, sickness and distress amongst the disadvantaged families in Cernavoda and the surrounding areas by the provision of support and resources.
It supports young people in Reading by providing a free and confidential counselling service.
The Noah's Ark Appeal was set up to build, equip and further support the first dedicated children's hospital for Wales. After having raised over £12m to support phase one of the hospital, we are now looking ahead to the day phase two is open and are now aiming to raise a minimum of £4m. This will buy vital state-of-the-art equipment in the new critical care unit for children needing intensive and high dependency care. It will also purchase a special 'open' MRI scanner that allows parents to lie by the side of their child; this machine has lights, colour and music to distract the child. We really appreciate your support in helping us continue our work. Please see our website for the latest news and more details on how we have helped sick children to date.
Noah's Ark Children's Hospice aims to provide practical support to life-limited children and their families within the communities of North London and South Hertfordshire, making the difficult times a little easier to bare. With no statutory support, every penny takes the Charity a step further towards achieving this goal.
Over the last 30 years, we've worked with thousands of people to help them overcome their addiction or dependency to alcohol, drugs or gambling. And with the valuable support of our funders, donors and partners, we're able to continue providing greatly needed services to change more people's lives
It is grounded in the belief that everyone can respond to music, no matter how ill or disabled. The unique qualities of music as therapy can enhance communication, support change, and enable people to live more resourcefully and creatively. We work from three bases in Lasswade (Midlothian), Crosshill (Fife) and Glasgow.
To support staff delivering high class clinical care for patients; to purchase equipment for the comfort, treatment, and care of sick people; to investigate causes, prevention, treat and cure illnesses including cancer; to fund the advancement of research.
Chrysalis provides information, counselling and support to families who have a child diagnosed with a life threatening, life limiting or terminal illness. Chrysalis also provides bereavement counselling to families who sadly lose a baby, child or young adult through illness, accident or stillbirth.
NICFC helps children with cancer in Northern Ireland and their families by providing emotional support through its Youth and Family Programmes and practical support through its Road Miles and Home Heating schemes. At Shimna Valley,near Newcastle, NICFC has a holiday house for families and Narnia, a purpose built Log Cabin for young people.
At Northern Ireland Children’s Hospice, caring is at the heart of everything we do. We care for over 250 Children and young people with life-limiting and life threatening conditions. Our services are available 24 hours a day, every day of the year and there is no charge. Your support is important to us as we rely heavily on legacies and donations to fund our services.
At Northern Ireland Hospice, caring is at the heart of everything we do. We care for over 3,000 adults, children and young people living in the shadow of a terminal illness both in Hospice and in the community. We look after every patient's nursing, medical, social, spiritual and emotional needs with support for the family continuing into bereavement. Our services are available 24 hours a day, every day of the year and there is no charge. Your support is important to us as we rely heavily on legacies and donations to fund our services.
The centre provides a range of alternative therapies to people with MS, other neurological conditions, and sports injuries. These include Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment [HBO], physiotherapy, massage and reflexology. It also provides a range of information and support to its members.
THE UMBRELLA CHARITY OF NORTHERN LINCOLNSHIRE & GOOLE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST COVERS DIANA PRINCESS OF WALES HOSPITAL CHARITY, SCUNTHORPE GENERAL HOSPITAL CHARITY, GOOLE DISTRICT HOSPITAL CHARITY, NORTH LINCS PCT CHARITY AND NORTH EAST LINCS PCT CHARITY. FUNDS ARE USED FOR THE BENEFIT AND WELFARE OF OUR PATIENTS AND STAFF.
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O2e encourages and supports ordinary people to achieve extraordinary sporting and physical challenges. In so doing O2e aims to raise substantial sums of money to support terminally ill children and their families.
Off Centre works with vulnerable 13-25 year olds from Hackney. It offers free & individually tailored services using counselling, art therapy, groupwork, advice and information. It is unique in providing a free service to vulnerable young people in an evironment they describe as welcoming and friendly.
The Oliver Curd Trust is a charity which has been set up by Oliver's parents in memory of their son who sadly lost his own brave fight aged 9 in 2007. The Trust offers holiday accommodation for families affected by childhood cancer.
One 4 Kids helps raise awareness, support and monies for disadvantaged children of the world. Its main aim is the completion of an orphange in Tanzania.
OneSight is dedicated to improve vision for the hundreds of million adults and children in need who can not afford basic eye care. Volunteers travel to developing countries around the world to hand-deliver free eye care and recycled eyewear through organized optical clinics. Since 1988, OneSight has provided free vision care and eyewear to more than 6 million people around the world.
In OPEKA we work to help children suffering from life-threatening diseases: Childhood and other cancers, Congenital Heart Defect, Cystic Fibrosis in need of urgent and emergency rehabilitation and treatment, in cases where they are not provided by the statutory authorities, through the provision or assisting in the provision of the following:
? Medical check ups, examinations, tests, therapies, procedures, operations and treatment in their home countries and abroad;
? Acquisition of medicines and consumables; We support children of any age, nationality, place of registration and citizenship, residing temporally or permanently within borders of the following countries: Russian Federation, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.
Operation Smile U.K is a leading medical services charity dedicated to providing free reconstructive surgery to children with facial disfigurements in the developing world. Each year thousands of children are born with facial deformities, with the rate of incidence in developing countries at approximately one in 500. Without appropriate medical care, these children suffer both physical and emotional trauma - many have difficulty breathing, speaking and eating. Our philosophy is simple; Change children's lives forever through a simple operation. Since 1982, Operation Smile has changed the lives of over 117,000 children and young adults suffering from facial deformities. However, at Operation Smile we do so much more than just operations - our goal is to give our local partners the sustainable foundations including all the tools and training they need to continue treating children once the Operation Smile medical team has left. To find out more, contact www.operationsmile.org.uk
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.
Oxfordshire Playbus is a big blue double decker providing a mobile service to children and families in rural Oxfordshire where there are few parks and playgrounds and limited public transport. Everyone can come and have fun on the Playbus!
A charity which provides Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for adults and children in Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. Ilnesses that benefit include MS, Autism, Cerebral Palsy, MND, rheumatoid arthiritis and many others.
It supports families of children being treated for cancer or leukaemia at Sheffield Children's Hospital. It provides trips and treats for the families, two holiday caravans and accommodation near the hospital.It also supports research projects at the hospital and provides equipment for the ward, clinic and community nurses.
PAPYRUS is a national charity dedicated to the prevention of young suicide. Helpline, HOPELineUK - 08000 68 41 41, calls are free from BT landlines, other networks and mobile rates may vary. The helpline is staffed by trained professionals providing practical advice, support and information to anyone concerned that someone they know is feeling suicidal. PAPYRUS publishes useful resources, which can be downloaded free-of-charge.
PARC aims to provide play and recreation facilities for children with disabilities in Essex and respite care for their families and carers. PARC believes that every child has a right to play and children with disabilities need play opportunities which allow for individuality and ability whilst ensuring safety, freedom and choice.
Parley helps parents and relatives who have children born with, or who develop long or short term medical conditions. Based online Parley provides links that are checked and specifically chosen to help. Patroned by Tim Loughton - MP and Shadow Minister for Children
Peach is a small national charity that supports and informs parents of children with autism, gives advice on a whole range of issues and advocates the use of early behavioural intervention programmes. Peach also raises awareness of autism and the benefits of early intervention.
The Pepper Foundation funds the Pepper Children's Nursing service, managed by Iain Rennie Hospice at Home. The nursing team provide care for seriously ill children throughout the Chilterns area, as well as support for their families. Pepper fundraises through various events but is particularly famous for the annual Pepper Show.
The Pied Piper Appeal is making a difference for sick children in Gloucestershire by providing child friendly equipment to aid their recovery.
The money that you raise gives some of the poorest orphans in Africa a chance to improve the standard of living the Point Foundation look to support specific orphanages that require the simplest of items such as food, water, clothing, shelter and education.
Poole Hospital Wish List raises funds to purchase equipment and facilities over and above those provided by the NHS. Each ward or department has a “wish” list of equipment which would help them to give the best possible patient care. Thank you for supporting us.
Positive Action on Cancer provides free, professional counselling to adults and children affected by cancer and other life threatening illnesses. We help relieve the emotional suffering of patients, their families and carers and those who have been bereaved.
We are a voluntary youth organisation in Rossendale. We provide information, activities, training and support to young people particularly from BME and disadvantaged backgrounds throughout Rossendale.
The PRDF supports the research of the paediatric and adolescent rheumatology clinical teams at Great Ormond Street and University College Hospitals, and research teams at UCL Institute of Child Health and Windeyer Institute.
The Priority Trust transforms the lives of physically disabled children, giving them the independence and opportunity to be who they want to be. By funding mobility equipment, Priority offers a simple, effective way to make a real visible change to the lives of these children.
The Puffin Appeal has been set up to create a world-class childhood respiratory unit in the North of England and to care for youngsters with cystic fibrosis (CF), asthma and other lung diseases. With your help we can conduct this research into respiratory diseases which will help to make a real difference in the day-to-day lives of young patients., The Puffin Appeal has been set up to create a world-class childhood respiratory unit in the North of England and to care for youngsters with cystic fibrosis (CF), asthma and other lung diseases. With your help we can conduct this research into respiratory diseases which will help to make a real difference in the day-to-day lives of young patients.
The main purpose of The Queen Elizabeth charitable funds is to enhance and support the care given by the hospital to their patients. The charity has achieved a great deal and during 2005/2006 has supported a new relatives room in ITU & a court yard area for patients who have had strokes to have access to.
96.3 Radio Aire and Magic 828's Cash for Kids is dedicated to helping sick, disabled and underprivileged children in West Yorkshire. All the money raised stays local and the charity is unique in that it helps individuals as well as children?s charities and charitable projects. Radio Aire and Magic 828's Cash for Kids raised £189,000 in 2008 and with your support aim to raise even more in 2009 to help local children.
Cash for Kids raises money to support children and families facing physical, emotional and financial challenges, especially at Christmas. During the 2008 appeal, the charity raised in excess of £1.2 million helping 117,000 children across Glasgow and the West of Scotland. Charity Registration No SC0003334
It helps children with special needs in Edinburgh, Lothians and Fife. All the money raised goes to groups, schools and individual children in Edinburgh, Fife and the Lothians. Children from disadvantaged areas, children with learning disabilities, with mobility challenges, and other physical needs have all benefited in diferent ways.
Each year Cash for Kids reaches in to the darkest corners and turns on the lights. With your help we can light up the lives of even more children in our area. Your effort can turn tears into laughter, your generosity can rescue dignity from despair and your support can break down barriers to create a brighter future for all our young people
The Rainbow Centre offers free and professional help for children affected by cancer, life threatening illness and bereavement. The children and their families are supported through play, music and art therapy, counselling, homeopathy, massage, aromatherapy and group work. The Rainbow centre relies entirely on the generosity of donors to survive..
Rainbow Trust Children's Charity provides practical and emotional support to families when their child has a life threatening illness. Immediate help is available for families and for 24 hours a day when needed. Support is offered from diagnosis, through treatment and should a family become bereaved, we continue to support them for as long as they need us. We help families members cope with the present and prepare them for the future.
It costs Rainbows £2.8 million each year to provide care for life-limited children. We receive very little government funding, so any support you give is vital.
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Alternatively, you can send donations to: Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People, Lark Rise, Loughborough, LE11 2HS. Please make cheques payable to Rainbows Hospice.
For more information on Rainbows, please visit www.rainbows.co.uk
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Just like everyone else, our children need a place to play, laugh and love life. A place where they and their families are cared for and supported. Welcome to Rainbows - the East Midlands' hospice for children and young people.
Sadly, some children simply don't live long enough. Since 1994 we've opened our doors and hearts to those children and the people who love them most. And now more than ever, we need your help to keep on bringing hope and happiness to our children and families. As the East Midlands' only hospice for children and young people, Rainbows is a place where life-limited children and their families can take a break from life's worries and heartaches. Our incredible team of people help relieve symptoms, improve quality of life, support parents and siblings through the darkest of bereavements and care for children until the end.
Rays of Sunshine Children's Charity exists to fulfil the wishes of children, between the ages of 3-18 in the UK, of any race or gender who are terminally or seriously ill. It also buys equipment for these children and support the hospices, hospitals and specialist schools that care for them.
1. 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.
Red Balloon Learner Centre Merseyside will provide a memorial for James Bulger, who was murdered in 1993 at the age of 3. Red Balloons provide an ‘intensive care’ full-time education for children and young people aged between 10 and 17 who have stopped going to school as a result of bullying.
Relate West Surrey helps individuals, couples, families and young people with their relationships. Relateen is a free counselling servive for young people aged 10 - 18 who have been affected by the breakdown of their parents relationship.
The Rhema Partnership provides education and welfare for 130 orphan and semi-orphan children, two projects for children with disabilities, and a growing primary health care ministry.
The Rhys Daniels Trust provides 'Home from Home' style accommodation close to specialist children's hospitals throughout the UK. These 'Homes' enable families to stay together during the distressing time when their child is receiving long-term life saving treatment. There is no discrimination towards the child's illness and can be used FOC.
Supporting underprivileged children around the World - one life, many changes.
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.
Richard House, London's first children's hospice, provides care and support to children who are not expected to live into adulthood, as well as to their families. Its team of nurses and care staff make the time children spend at the house fun, active and therapeutic.
The charity raises funds to benefit children in West Lothian by providing specialist equirment to improve quality of life. The charity is currently raising funds for
1. The West Lothian Children's Toy Appeal The toy appeal provides toys at Christmas and on special occasions for those children recommended by the authorities as children in need. In 2009, over 6,000 toys were distributed to West Lothian children.
2. West Lothian Disabled Children's Appeal This appeal aims to provide additional facilities, equipment and activities to enhance the lives of individual children.
3. West Lothian Gifted Child Appeal This appeal aims to provide support for individual children who have demonstrated outstanding ability to maximise their potential.
4. West Lothian St John's Hospital Children's Appeal Now we have the state of the art play area, we need to maintain it and support the children unfortunate enough to have to stay at the hospital, whilst providing a welcome distraction for younger visitors.
Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) is an independent Charity which aims to provide free 'home away from home' accommodation at hospitals, enabling families to stay close to their child and maintain a degree of normal family life. There are currently 14 Ronald McDonald Houses and 29 set of Ronald McDonald Family Rooms across the UK, providing 400 bedrooms every single night of the year.
Robbie set up this charity just before he died, to improve the quality of life for young people affected by cancer, particularly teenagers. Its aims: To provide entertainment and comforts for these young people and working with the Teenage Cancer Trust, create a dedicated Teenage Unit at Leicester Royal Infirmary.
Romanian Relief have been actively working in Romania since January 2001, we work towards the prevention of children being abandoned, and also caring and homing underprivileged children in Romania.
The Ronald McDonald at Guy's is an independent children's charity providing free accommodation and caring support for families whose children are in hospital. Their stay can be from a few days to many months. The House provides a 'home from home' for parents with kitchen's playroom and a secluded garden.
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.
The Aims of Rosies Rainbow Fund To provide music therapy and expression through music, art, and play for sick or disabled children in hospital, school ,or wherever needed. To fund research into childhood diseases with special emphasis on respiratory and cardiac diseases. To fund support for families who have children in hospital and where necessary to provide bereavement support
The relief of the poor and needy
Rotherham Hospital Charity is a registered charity that exists to support the provision of enhanced services and facilities at Rotherham Hospital.
TSJT was founded in 2004 by the friends and family of Samantha (16) who lost her battle with leukaemia in 2002. They aim to relieve the sickness and distress of children and families suffering from Leukaemia by promoting research into the causes and its prevention, and the provision of financial and material support.
We support and help abandoned and orphaned girls and also those considered by them to be at the ?highest risk?.Some of the little girls that come to us have not only lost Mother,Father and Family have also in some cases been abused in different ways.
The Saracens Sport Foundation's mission is to inspire communities and change lives through the power of sport. Through the Saracens brand, professional players and high quality staff, we engage and challenge children and young people to lead an active, healthy and rewarding lifestyle.
Established in 2000, the Foundation has grown substantially and now employs 14 full time and 30 part time coaches. This has enabled us to broaden and increase dramatically the scope and scale of our services. Using the power of sport we are tackling a broad range of issues such as childhood obesity, social exclusion and educational attainment.
During the 2008/09 season around 60,000 children and young people engaged in our services throughout Hertfordshire, Luton and North London. The Saracens Sport Foundation has received considerable recognition for its work, winning the 2008/09 Parliamentary Citizenship Club of the Year Award, acknowledging our outstanding contribution to our community, and the SportBusiness: CSR Award for our hugely successful Community Dance Programme.
Since 1986 Save a Child has helped give many deprived Indian children this second, better chance. Today, as you read this, we are helping several hundred. Now Campaign 1000 aims to raise that number to 1000. That's one thousand children given a better chance at life!
The purpose of Save Babies Through Screening Foundation UK is to increase awareness of the benefits of newborn screening to detect Krabbes disease and other Leukodystrophies at birth, to promote immediate life saving treatment and to be a support group to families with children suffering from these rare genetic diseases.
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.
Schoolchildren for Children promotes fitness in UK schools and clubs whilst benefiting disadvantaged children worldwide. It encourages young people to exercise and raise sponsorship for their school or club and at the same time helps to fund disadvantaged children in educational projects overseas.
Scoo-B-Doo works alongside Gloucester Royal Special Care Baby Unit to buy the best and most advanced equipment available to help save babies in need of special care. Through it's fundraising efforts for advanced equipment for example - ventilators, incubators and monitors, Scoo-B-Doo helps to give its tiny patients the best possible chance of life.
We offer support and understanding in everyday care and welfare to parents and families of children with heart disorders. We help fund research, equipment for hospitals and homes, and family support grants as well as providing weekend breaks for young adult, teenage and family groups.
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.
Scottish Epilepsy Initiative works in Scotland for people with epilepsy. Each week another 50 Scots will be diagnosed with the disorder. Epilepsy is a distressing, debilitating condition which in many cases seriously affects quality of life. There are approximately 40,000 people in Scotland living with epilepsy.
We are currently raising funds for our Valentine Appeal, helping young people with epilepsy.
St Valentine is the patron saint both of epilepsy and of young people. Our Appeal will encourage teenagers with epilepsy to lead as normal a life as possible by providing the knowledge, skills and positive examples that will help them to cope better with the condition and so integrate better within their peer group.
?I feel like this will not only help young people but other ages of people who have epilepsy, and it will help others understand more about living with epilepsy and not just the medical side?, (female, 17).
There are an estimated 8550 children and teenagers with epilepsy in Scotland. The needs of young people are currently somewhat under-represented within the epilepsy community. There is a real need for emotional and social support. Teenagers with epilepsy may experience significant day to day problems that can prevent them from living ordinary lives. In particular, the stigma attached to the diagnosis can be almost as debilitating as the disorder itself.
For more information please contact us on 0141 248 9972 or [email protected]
Nine year old cancer victim Sebastian Gates' last wish was to help other children by creating a holiday home where families could spend precious time together in spite of an uncertain future. The Trust aims to provide holiday homes and practical support for families with children suffering from life-threatening illnesses.
SeeSaw provides grief support for young people in Oxfordshire, especially when a member of their family is dying or has died. Through tailored, individual support and advice, information and training to the adults around them, SeeSaw helps bereaved youngsters face the future with hope.
SERV provides an out of hours(7pm to 6am) emergency courier service conveying blood and blood products, medical records and other related items free of charge to NHS establishments in the South East of England.
FPA is a sex and relationships charity who educate, inform and support people by giving them practical help on such things as developing confidence, self esteem or negotiating healthy relationships. They offer practical facts and information on all aspects of sex and relationships.. They believe in empowering people so they can then make the best choices for their own health and wellbeing. They do a lot of community work, particularly with teenagers and parents as well as producing resources, running training courses, running an interactive web service, answering calls to a confidential helpline and campaigning in government for people?s sexual rights.
The Children's Hospital Charity exists to support and enhance the services of The Children's Hospital in Sheffield and its reputation as a centre of excellence for the research, prevention, care and cure of childhood illnesses.
Shine A Light is a voluntary charity based in Belfast who try to give children living with cancer a better standard of life.
The Shooting Star Children's Hospice provides care, support and advice for children and young people with life-limiting conditions and their families. These care services are offered free of charge to families, 365 days a year.
Shooting Star opened in 2005 and now supports 250 families. The care services are based around the needs of the whole family, so as well as caring for the children and young people, there are activities and support groups for siblings, parents and other relatives. This makes a real difference to families who find themselves in unimaginable circumstances - helping them live life to the full by providing opportunities for fun and laughter, as well as helping them through the tougher times.
Families benefit from Shooting Star's care services in the community, in their own homes and at Shooting Star House, the purpose-built facility based in Hampton, Middlesex. These services include Short Breaks (respite care), Day Care, Outreach Care, Family Support and Therapies and End of Life Care.
It costs £3 million every year (£8,000 a day) to maintain these care services and with no long-term statutory funding, the majority of this comes from voluntary donations.
The Charity turns over close to £1m each year as a result of the continued donations received from former patients and members from the local communities of Shropshire and Powys. Such donations enable the Charity to invest in additional equipment and facilities to enhance the comfort of patients and staff.
The Shropshire and Mid-Wales Head and Neck Charity has been set up with the aim of providing facilities suitable for the 21st century to treat patients with conditions ranging from hearing problems or cataracts to major head and neck cancer.
The Sick Children's Trust provides Home from Home accommodation for the families of sick children whilst they receive vital medical treatment in hospital often far from home. Families are able to stay together close to their child and offer each other essential support during a difficult and distressing time.
The Sick Kids Friends Foundation provides support for families at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh. It provides extra comforts for children, extra child & family-friendly facilities, extra medical equipment, extra support for sick children who are cared for in the Community and extra training and research.
Sickle Cell & Young Stroke Survivors (SCYSS) supports and encourages children, young people and their families affected by Sickle cell disease and Stroke. It provides Saturday/Youth club for children, workshops and counselling. In Africa, we provide information, advice, medicines and awareness to cut down sickle cell births and deaths.
Signpost is an independent voluntary organisation, registered with the Charity Commission, which offers free and confidential counselling, information and support to young people aged 11 - 25 years.
To relieve hardship or distress throughout the world, in particular but not exclusively, by: providing financial assistance to persons in need for the purposes of providing healthcare, education; housing; financial; and other assistance at times of human made or natural disaster.
SCCS campaigns to improve dermatology services for all people with skin diseases.
SNAC aims to support families of children affected by arthritis. It will link up children and provide support through local, phone and internet contact. It will provide family education days, have a web site and fundamentally improve family?s experiences of living with this chronic condition.
The Snowdrop Trust cares for children in their own homes, from birth to nineteen who have a life threatening or terminal illness. The Trust provides specialist paediatric nurses and the support team offers, practical, emotional and financial support for their families.
Sophie Cameron, aged 17 was diagnosed with encephalitis lethargica in 1999. The SCT was established to increase awareness and understanding of this devastating illness. Sophie died in 2006 but the Trust continues in her name to support studies at the Institute of Neurology in London and elsewhere throughout the world.
The Sophie Barringer Trust raises funds for support, treatment and research in childhood cancer care.
Our achievements include: Sophie?s Place ? a dedicated children?s assessment area which helped over 3,500 children in the first year.
Sponsorship of dream holidays for terminally ill children and their families, Funding research into future treatments for childhood cancers and Sponsorship of New Forest holidays for sick children and their families.
Working very closely with the Ambulance Service,the Charity supports local Responder Groups in Berkshire and Hampshire.These are trained volunteers, who give first on scene,initial care,support and life saving skills. It also supports other aspects of the Ambulance service eg stations and equipment.
It supports wards throughout the hospital site.
The Heart Circle supports children undergoing cardiac care at the Bristol Children's Hospital, and their families. It covers an area from Cornwall to South Wales. The charity provides support from parents who have had similar experiences, social events, a caravan for short breaks and equipment to make the children's lives easier.
Youth organisation supporting youth clubs,many of which are in disadvantaged areas providing a chance to meet new friends in a supportive environment&take part in events and activities.We provide opportunities which give young people confidence and self esteem
Founded in 1999 to raise money for sick and disadvantaged children, the annual Sparkle Ball provides major contributions to nominated charity projects such as The Shooting Star Hospice for Children, "Home from Home" apartments for The Rhys Daniels Trust & Royal Marsden Children's Hospital, a facility at The Outward Bound Trust and The Cystic Fibrosis Trust.
Sparks is a unique children's charity dedicated to funding research into the prevention, treatment and cure for conditions and illnesses affecting children, babies and expectant mothers. Sparks aim is for ALL babies to be born healthy and stay healthy. Since 1991, Sparks has committed over £18 million to fund research into conditions such as childhood cancer, childhood arthritis, meningitis, club foot, cerebral palsy, spina bifida and all the risks associated with premature birth. www.sparks.org.uk
It is in existance to support and enhance the services provided to babies and families who need special care in the Bromley area mainly. Help is provided in the form of some equipment and funding study days etc. for staff of the Special Care Baby Unit at the Princess Royal University Hospital near Bromley.
Special Kids in the UK offers contact, information and support for families of children with special needs throughout the United Kingdom. This includes the provision of an informative website including secure online forums for parents, professionals and siblings, organised regular get-togethers and useful information including a quarterly newsletter.
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SPoCC offers support to children treated at Birmingham Children's Hospital suffering with cancer; and their families. This includes - regular outings & days out; peer support for newly diagnosed families; a refreshment area in clinic manned by members; a mini-bus to help out with transport problems and flowers for bereaved families.
Springboard's vision is to provide work experience and training for young people interested in working and gaining skills under the Job Creation Programme.
Sri-Lanka-Child-Care helps to feed, clothe and educate disadvantaged deprived,homeless and orphaned children of Sri-Lanka.Their long term aim is to establish good health,independence and financial security through education.
St. James's Place Foundation is the charitable arm of St James's Place plc, a wealth management group. The Foundation raises and distributes in excess of £1.5m each year. The focus of the Foundation's efforts is towards children and young people with special needs, and the hospice movement.
St. Philip's and St. James' church has organised the highly successful Dorridge Fun Run for the past 5 years. It is a family orientated event which offers the choice of 3 and 8 mile courses and the ability to run, walk or cycle. This year the Fun Run is on the 13th June and is fund raising for Marie Curie Cancer Care and Troop Aid.
Starlight Children's Foundation works to brighten the lives of seriously and terminally ill children by granting their wishes and providing entertainment in hospitals and hospices throughout the UK.
Our aims for this service are to co-ordinate and provide a bereavement service for children, young people and their families who have experienced the death of a significant person, pre-bereavement support is also offered. The Service caters for all children & young people, aged 0 -19 years resident within Cambridgeshire Primary Care Trust.
A registered charity providing group work for young people with specific needs e.g. managing anger, building confidence.
It improves the quality of lives of children and young people affected by poverty and disadvantage by providing an innovative range of services including free, independent and confidential information, advice, counselling and personal development activities. Encouraging them to raise their expectations, develop independent living skills and reach their full potential.
The Steve Redgrave Fund uses the power of sport and sporting activity to bring about positive change in the lives of disadvantaged children, young people and their communities. Money raised by the Steve Redgrave Fund will also be shared equally with Sport Relief, which harnesses the power and passion of sport to change the lives of vulnerable people living in the UK and in the world?s poorest countries.
STOP International provides relief of poverty, sickness and distress of orphans and abandoned children, to educate them up to the age of 16 and provide vocational training opportunities for these children over 16.
S.C.C.T. is a national registered charity set up to help relieve the pain, suffering and financial burden of families who have children suffering from brittle bone disease, bone cancer, scoliosis, arthritis, and all other muscular skeletal conditions.
SKIP (Students for kids international projects) is a student led, registered charity, working to support child welfare and the personal and professional development of future healthcare students. Our ultimate aim is to not be needed; for vulnerable children to be well supported and cared for by their communities.
Suffolk Family Carers provides information and support for Family Carers. A Family Carer is someone who, without payment, provides help and support to a partner, child, relative, friend or neighbour, who could not manage without their help. This could be due to age, physical or mental illness, addiction or disability.
A project accessable to all young people (12 - 25) where they feel safe and secure. Based in Ipswich to provide and co-ordinate services which will improve young people's health and well being. Working together offering advice and support, programmes of activities, specific projects, training, counselling and group and one to one work.
Provides funding to support the treatment of patients on the charity ward "Hope Ward" at International Hospital Kampala, Uganda. Also funding for a new physio clinic at the hospital. Provides funding to pay for the treatment of charity patients attending the health clinics in Lira and Pader, N. Uganda.
SWAN provides counselling for young people and adults who feel that alcohol is affecting their lives detrimentally. SWAN offers a non-12 step programme that focuses on harm reduction and relapse prevention. The mix of services offered to each client is unique, according to their needs. SWAN never turns away anyone it feels it can help.
Tamil Aid is a small charity with an aim of reliving poverty and distress in the war and tsunami affected areas of SriLanka. Tamil Aid is raising funds to help the children in the IDP camps in the north of Sri Lanka to get their lives back by identifying specific projects aimed at education. These children are engaged in a fight for survival within these camps and they need help to create a future for themselves and their families. Currently the charity is trying to provide funds to help local schools take responsibility for some children under the age of 10 to be released form the displacement Camps and be sent to schools that can accommodate them and provide education facilities.
TOG is a pre-school for children with a wide variety of additional physical and learning needs. It designs play based individual learning programmes for children and provides help and support for parents and carers.
Every day in the UK, six teenagers are diagnosed with cancer. At Teenage Cancer Trust, we understand that cancer doesn?t stop these teenagers being teenagers. We know that young people have a much better chance if they are treated by teenage cancers experts, in an environment tailored to their needs. So we have created specialist units that aren?t like ordinary cancer wards. Everything about them has been designed to give teenagers the very best chance of a positive outcome. And we want every young person with cancer in this country to have that chance.
Teens Unite Fighting Cancer has been established to help young people build on their low self esteem, self confidence and to reduce the feeling of isolation, realising that others are facing similar challenges.
We are a childrens cancer charity, caring and supporting children, young people and their families suffering through cancer, with practical, emotional and financial support. We cannot always improve the quantity of a childs life, but we can do everything we can to try to improve the quality of their life.
The Foundation's aim: Encourage Potential / Ease Distress
The Theodora Children's Trust trains, funds and sends clown doctors to bring music, magic, laughter and fun to children in hospitals throughout the UK. We visit more than 26,000 children per year, bringing small moments of joy to both patients and their families during often very distressing times.
our objectives: ? To advance the education of Tibetan refugee children ? To preserve and promote the cultural heritage of Tibet through study, research and publications ? To relieve poverty and hardship amongst Tibetans in exile
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.
Our team of therapists provides free complementary treatment to children and young people with a range of disabilities, health problems and special needs. the focus is on treatments that are either not available to children on the NHS or affordable to their families in the private sector.
TinyLife is Northern Ireland's premature and vulnerable baby charity dedicated to reducing premature birth, illness, disability and death in babies. TinyLife provides families with emotional and practical support, fund vital research, breast pump loan and hire service, parent support groups and a resource and information library.
To Transplant and Beyond was established to give hope, encouragement and support to transplant patients, their families, friends and carers during a very traumatic time in their lives. It conveys the positive side of transplantation, by showing what can be achieved and by encouraging as many people as possible to join the donor register, so that many more lives can be saved.
TOFS offers support and information to the families and carers of children born with tracheo-oesophageal fistula (TOF), oesophageal atresia (OA) and related conditions. The group enables families to benefit from the friendship of other parents who have experienced the particular stresses of caring for these children - as well as the joy when problems have been overcome.
The Tommy Hollis Charitable Fund is a fund for the benefit of underprivileged, sick and orphaned children in memory of our son who died in tragic circumstances. As parents who have lost a child we would like to give loving care to children, in particular those without parents. We will be working with other charities who provide this support in the most direct way possible in order to ensure that help reaches those who most need it.
Funds support specific projects at charities that touch the lives of most of us inc?: Cancer Research UK, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children?s Charity, Help the Hospices, the NSPCC, which provides ChildLine and charities supporting military personnel and their families. See www.towergate.org.uk
The charity?s aim is to help improve the well-being, health, education and care of people in Towerhill.We focus health & education whilst promoting community adhesion.
The aim of the Town 102 Kids Trust Charity is: to relieve poverty, hardship or the distress of families with children to promote the physical or mental welfare of families with children in need of care and attention to improve the lives of individual families with children and children's groups living in Ipswich and the surrounding area by providing donations to drive education, health, welfare, ability and opportunity
Aims of Our Organisation · To raise awareness amongst parents and professionals of biomedical approaches for Treating Autism · To provide a resource to support parents & professionals who use biomedical approaches for Treating Autism · To encourage and support research evaluating and developing biomedical approaches for Treating Autism
Tri for life is a registered charity set up to organise triathlon and scootathlon events to raise money for a variety of other charities. The events are suitable for novices and experienced participants and provide a fun day out for all the family
The Trust cares for the needs of children in Belarus whose health is still being seriously affected by the legacy of Chernobyl. It provides respite holidays to help boost their immune systems and supports projects within Belarus to provide the appropriate environment to support and care for these children.
Turning Point work to relieve poverty, transform lives and restore hope amongst acutely vulnerable children and their families. We offer a holistic range of programmes which provide children with access to education, healthcare and regular meals, in addition to providing them with psycho-social support. We also operate pioneering prevention projects, aimed at supporting families, promoting independence and working towards financial self-sufficiency.
T? Hafan helps life-limited children, young people and their families make the most of the time they have left together. Not only is T? Hafan a home from home providing specialist palliative care, but it also offers a much needed source of strength, respite and support for the whole family. From diagnosis to bereavement and beyond it takes its support right into the heart of the family home. For T? Hafan to offer this unique service completely free of charge to families in Wales, it has to raise over £2.5 million every year.
The charity's committee works to raise funds for the purchase of medical equipment at the Schneider Childrens Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Israel.
The UK Thailand Children's Fund helps and supports over 400 children infected and affected by HIV/Aids in and around Chang Mai in Northern Thailand. A principle of its work is to help children within their extended family/community and thereby maximise their opportunites.
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.
UNICEF is the world?s leading organisation working for children and their rights in more than 190 countries. As champion of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF works to help every child realise their full potential. Together with our partners, UNICEF delivers health care, nutrition, education and protection to children in urgent need, while working with governments to ensure they deliver on their promise to protect and promote the rights of every child. UNICEF relies entirely on voluntary donations from individuals, governments, institutions and corporations, and is not funded by the UN. For more information, please visit www.unicef.org.uk
UAFA's mission is to aid long-term development of life in Azerbaijan, with a particular focus on children, health and education. Our team implements strategies to help children in need of special protection; those who have been abandoned by their families because of poverty, social problems and disability.
UfA aims; to advance public participation in sport; to provide recreational facilities with the object of improving the conditions of life for individuals; to promote football coaching schemes regardless of race, gender, status, disability or religious beliefs. It promotes equality and diversity.
UK Thalassaemia Society (Est. 1976) supports people affected by thalassaemia, a genetic blood disorder which requires lifelong blood transfusions & various other medical treatment. The charity offers support, advice, counselling & distributes information encouraging blood screening. It also organises conferences for patients & health professionals to keep them up to date on the latest treatments available.
Help make a difference for patients attending the University Hospital of North Staffordshire.
UHNS Charitable Fund is made up of over 100 separate funds covering most wards and departments. It also has research and some general funds. Its main objective is to raise money to enhance patient care, provide extra comforts and help fund state of the art equipment.
The University of Nottingham set up the Children?s Brain Tumour Research Centre in 1997 in response to the fact childhood tumours do not receive major research funds. The Centre has now begun a research programme to find out more about these fatal tumours so that far less damaging treatments can be developed.
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.
Vitiligo is a common skin disease where patches of skin become milky-white and can develop in shape and size. The Vitiligo Society exists to relieve the distress and suffering of people with vitiligo. Hence our main emphasis and activities are to develop and provide “people support services”.
Wallace & Gromit's Children's Foundation is a national charity championing the cause of sick children by raising funds to improve their quality of life in hospitals and hospices throughout the UK. The Foundation funds an innovative range of projects to ensure children have access to the very best comforts, facilities and equipment giving them a better, brighter future. These include arts, music and play therapy programmes, sensory equipment and facilities, respite care, state of the art equipment and pull down beds and refreshments rooms for parents. These extra facilities not covered by statutory funding, can make an extra-ordinary difference to the lives of children and their families in hospitals and hospices. We can't stop children getting ill or cure every illness but Wallace & Gromit's Children's Foundation works hard to ensure that children enjoy a carefree, fun and happy childhood despite their medical condition. Please help us today and put a smile back on a sick child's face.
The Grand Appeal raises funds to enrich and improve the quality of life for children at the Royal Hospital for Children in Bristol. Over 70,000 patients every year are treated at the hospital where they receive the best medical care and treatment possible, but NHS funding alone cannot meet the complex and demanding needs of children and their families which is why the Appeal needs your help. Please do all you can to raise funds to support the Grand Appeal and give a better, brighter future to patients at the Hospital.
The Warrington Wolves Foundation is a Registered Charity (1110734), which aims to make a positive impact through sport, by developing and benefiting young people, their families and the community through the provision of positive rewarding experiences.
Specialist in providing cycling opportunities for disabled and disadvantaged people in a safe and natural environment
The aim of Water for Kids is to preserve and protect the good health of people in the developing world by assisting in the provision of safe drinking water, good sanitation and other public health matters. Water for kids is currently involved in projects in Zambia, Uganda, Kenya and India.
Wave 105 Cash for Kids is committed to supporting local children under the age of 18, who are financially, socially, emotionally or physically disadvantaged. Additionally, to encourage healthy lifestyle options by promoting physical, mental and general wellbeing of children and adolescents specifically within the Wave105 region.
A place where people can come to be prayed with for healing in the name of Jesus. Anyone can walk in off the street without an appointment whatever their faith or condition and receive prayer.
Polluted water is the world?s biggest killer of children under five. The Well foundation primary aim is to raise money to build wells, install hand pumps and establish health and sanitation progremmes to provide accessible clean water to the poverty stricken regions of the world.
WellChild is the national charity for sick children and provides practical help for children and their families as they deal with serious illness and complex conditions. Funded solely by the people of the UK, for more than 30 years, WellChild has been instrumental in saving the lives of thousands of sick children across a range of conditions covering the three key areas of:
Care - WellChild has created a team of WellChild Children's Nurses who work with sick children and their families in the community to give care and practical support to children living at home with complex care needs.
Support - To provide practical and tangible support to young people and families, WellChild has created its Helping Hands scheme which enlists the practical support of volunteers right across the country to tackle one-off projects in the homes of sick children.
Research - WellChild's dedication to helping sick children both now and in the future is shown by the charity's investment of more than £20 million in life-changing and ground-breaking children's health research projects.
Providing pastoral services to the Ealing community for over 25 years the UKIM West London Islamic Centre provides religous, social, health and educational facilities. It is now embarking on an exciting re-development that will see it turned into a visonary and modern mosque serving all of London.
The West of England School and College is a registered charity that is the leading regional centre for the education and care of blind and visually impaired children and young people, many of whom also have a range of additional disabilities. This includes young people from 5 ? 22 years old with cerebral palsy, hearing impairments, autistic spectrum disorders and physical disabilities. Each student who attends the West of England School and College is referred by his or her Local Authority or the Learning and Skills Council. A fee is paid by the authority to cover teaching, care and health requirements. However the fees paid are insufficient to cover the full cost of the student?s requirements as well as some of our more innovative teaching and learning. Parts of the service we offer do not receive any funding at all. Your generous support helps us to provide the best education and care for our visually impaired and blind students. Thank you.
This charity works tirelessly hard in it's efforts to establish a much-needed local children's respite centre and hospice to serve the hundreds of families who currently care for children who suffer from life-limiting/terminal illnesses at home.
WEZIMBABWE is an organisation dedicated to the empowerment of Zimbabweans through the development of a strong and united global Zimbabwean community and to the provision of access to formal education and non-formal life skills training for children and young people throughout Zimbabwe. Charity Registration No 1111282
The White Stuff Foundation wants to make the world a little happier by helping disadvantaged children and young people in our local communities. It aims to do this by helping children and young people realise their true potential and to support their health and well-being.
It was established to preserve and protect the health of babies in the baby unit of Whittington Hospital by the provision of equipment and facilities which would not have otherwise be provided and to assist parents of babies who are in the baby unit
The Williams Syndrome Foundation was formed in 1980 and is run by parents for parents of children with this rare condition which causes heart and kidney problems and learning difficulties. It desperately needs funds to finance its ambitious research and family support programmes which include national conventions and regional meetings.
For children of developing nations requiring specialist surgery.
It supports the work of Winchester & Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust, which covers the Royal Hampshire County and Andover War Memorial Hospitals
The Winnicott Foundation helps to care for some of the most fragile premature and critically ill newborn babies and their families. It aims to: - Help save the lives of more babies - Enable babies to leave hospital sooner - Produce better long term futures for babies - Support parents
It helps children in Essex, who are ever disabled or terminally ill.
Wishes 4 Kids was officially launched in September 2002 with the object of granting a 'wish' for Leicestershire children of eighteen years and below who are life-limited, terminally ill, have suffered severe mental / physical / emotional trauma, those who have been abused and children diagnosed as HIV positive. Since the launch of the Charity it has granted over 300 children's wishes
Wishing Well is a small internantional children's charity. Wishing Well works with children and families with fewer opportunities, delivering a range of projects with an educational or health focus. Wishing Well also supports children with a terminal illness's and/or disability.
With Kids is based in the East-End of Glasgow working with children and families providing a range of individual, social and practical support aimed at building the resilience and self esteem of children.
West Kirby Residential School is a successful Non-Maintained Special Needs School offering education for day and residential pupils.
A Christain ethos-welcoming people of all faiths and none-Helping young people build a future-to see people develop body, mind and spirit-through life changing programmes-Youth Work, Sport, Housing, Childcare and training!
World Child Cancer helps children with cancer in developing countries providing medical expertise and funding. Childhood cancer is highly curable yet 4 of 5 children with cancer in developing countries die from cancer. Many cancers are simple and inexpensive to treat and this is our starting point.
The XLP Research Trust promotes and funds medical research into a potential cure for XLP, a rare always life taking genetic disease that affects only boys. The charity also acts as a support hub for families affected by XLP worldwide and looks to raise the awareness of this awful disease.
Y BONT is an independant charity based in Bridgend, South Wales. It provides specialist support and information to families who have children with disabilities. The centre holds a full time nursery, after school club, holiday club and a Saturday Club for children with Autism
To respond to the wishes and needs of the Yemeni Community and other families in the Sandwell area, by providing cultural orientation, educational development and skills-training for children and adults, through the provision of accessible community services and activities run by the YCA
The YMCA Fairthorne Group Bursary Fund gives disadvantaged children the chance to experience the uplifting experiences that the YMCA can offer.
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
Yorkhill Children's Foundation aims to provide all the 'extra' services and pieces of equipment for sick children and babies from all over Scotland who are treated within NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. From state-of-the-art medical equipment to childrens' entertainers, every project we fund helps put a smile back on sick children's faces.
Ronald McDonald House, Glasgow, is an independent Charity providing free accommodation for families whose children are long term or critically ill patients in Yorkhill Hospital. Stays, completely free of charge, vary from a few nights to many months, and every year over 500 families are accommodated. The House needs to raise in the region of £300,000 each year to provide its service.
It offers help and support to families of babies and children diagnosed with heart defects. It provides a support line and regular ward visits for parents during their time in hospital with their sick child. Its aim is to bring the families together at social events, where they can meet with other families, share experiences and the children make new friends.
Young Hearts charity was set up to help support children born with heart disease, and their families. It raises money to provide equipment for children's treatment at home and also assists the cardiac team at The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, by providing equipment which will help save children's lives.
Young People's Support Foundation supports homeless young people age 14 to 25 years old and their children to live independently. YPSF provides advice, advocacy and support on housing, homelessness, welfare rights, family mediation, employment, training, education, and healthy living activities.
Youth Options offers a diverse and creative range of opportunities for young people aged eight to nineteen that supports them to learn and develop essential life skills that increase their chances of a more positive future, increase their participation within their communities, raise their self esteem and aspirations, and above all enable them to achieve and be recognised for the valuable contribution they make to their communities.
Youth Talk offers free one-to-one counselling to help young people aged 14-25 who live, work or study in its district. Its counsellors are professionally trained, all with extensive experience of working with young people. YT also offers group and dance/movement work and runs an information service.
A Campaign working to raise awareness of bone marrow related illness and the urgent need for more people to join the worldwide bone marrow register. They organise publicity events and bone marrow registration clinics to register life saving potential bone marrow donors.
Zöe's Place Baby Hospice in Liverpool provides respite and palliative terminal care for babies aged 0-5 with life limiting or life threatening conditions. The Hospice makes no charge to parents/carers and so the annual running costs (in excess of £650,000) must be raised solely through fundraising initiatives and generous donations.
Zoe’s Place provides 24 hour respite and terminal care to infants aged 0-5 years with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions. The hospice gives parents a short term break from their full-time care responsibilities, and the special babies receive the best of one-to-one care from our dedicated nursing staff, in a home from home environment.
Zoe's Place is a home from home for babies/infants who have life limiting illnesses, terminal, special and complex needs. Zoe's Place offers palliative and respite care for infants from birth to five years old. We receive very little government funding and rely on members of the public, companies and organisations to raise the £800,000 it costs each year to run Zoe's Place.
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