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1Voice provides a network of information and support for children (and their family) who cannot speak and who use communication aids. Such a communication disability can be isolating for the child and their whole family. 1Voice seeks to help families overcome this isolation by setting up support networks that allow families to share ideas, information, and to support each other.
A Scout troop for girls and boys with special needs.
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.
3H Fund organises group holidays for physically disabled children and adults with the support of volunteer carers and nurses, allowing the family carers a much-needed week of respite. 3H Fund also provides grants for families with a disabled dependant to organise their own holidays.
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.
AbilityNet helps over 165,000 people a year who thought they couldn't use a computer because of a disability, overcome their problems. Computers open up the world of communication, learning and work; or simply shopping, emailing and having fun with friends and family across the world.
Accuro provides an invaluable support service to enable people with disabilities of all ages to participate in everyday pursuits and leisure activities. All the schemes are needs led and are designed to increase confidence and reduce isolation. The charity also provides respite relief for their families and carers.
Disabled people in Africa and Asia are amongst the very poorest of the poor. ADD helps them to take control of their own lives by providing training and funds for their self-help groups. ADD supports them as they campaign for basic human rights and rightful inclusion in society.
Agape Family Care Trust is a Christian based charity founded to provide help. care and support for young people (and their families) with profound physical and learning disabilities.
Age Concern Birmingham is the foremost voluntary agency supporting older people and others in need in the city and provides trading of utilities, advice and information services and special projects to benefit older people. We rely on external funding to promote and provide our services.
Age Concern Richmond aims to improve the life of older people in the borough of Richmond upon Thames by offering information, advice, and practical help and support in the home. Activities at its three popular social centres range from exercise classes and outings to digital camera workshops.
Age Concern Salford is a local independent charity that exists to improve the quality of life to all older people in Salford through the provision of support, advocacy and direct services. All donations received go towards our work with older people.
Age Concern Westminster exists to promote the wellbeing of older people in the City of Westminster and help to make later life a fulfilling and enjoyable experience.
Aid To Georgia was established to fundraise for two specific projects in Rustavi (Georgia), these being the Disabled Day Centre and Hospital No 2. We are staffed by volunteers in the UK and Georgia, enabling us to ensure that all donations only reach the people who need them most.
Our appeal is to replace the All Saints' Youth and Community Hall in Didcot. The existing hall is the home of local guides and scouts. It is well over 40 years old and desperately needs replaced by a modern building to serve the community for the foreseeable future. Please support us. Thank you.
Amaze is a charity that supports parents of children with special needs and disabilities in Brighton and Hove. It offers a helpline, volunteers who work individually with parents on education issues and benefits claims, publications, workshops and much more. 'I think that the service that Amaze offers is outstanding and I would have been lost without it.'
Ampthill & District Rotary Club supports the local community, helps those less fortunate at home and abroad, and offers informal networking with like-minded business and professional people.
It helps the frail elderly with social inclusion and finacially with annuities, grants and loans.
It supports people who experience mental ill health from the age of 18 to 65+. It provides support services on an individual basis, both in its day centre and out in the wider community. Its goal is to enable people to achieve their potential and participate in society.
ASSERT provides support to the individuals and families who are affected by Angelman Syndrome. This is done by sending out information packs, producing a regular newsletter and providing a helpline to support families and professionals.
ASBAH is a registered charity, which was formed in 1966, initially to help families and individuals affected by spina bifida and hydrocephalus.
Today ASBAH is a community of individuals, families and friends, as well as professional - sharing achievements , challenges and information on living with hydrocephalus or spina bifida, and related issues.
Please note that affiliated Local Associations are registered charities in their own rights. Any money raised using the ASBAH brand and registered charity number 249338 will remain with ASBAH and cannot be transferred.
It is a small and relatively new group but already busy with young disabled children wishing to ride.
Aspire's projects and services have a very simple goal - to provide the practical support needed for people with spinal cord injury, from injury to independence.
ASTO is the umbrella body for organisations providing personal development through adventure at sea, particularly for the young, disadvantaged and disabled. ASTO represents Sail Training centrally, organises training, youth events such as races, and provides bursaries to offset voyage fees
At Home in the Community is a Christian charity which supports and enables adults with learning disabilities to live their lives to the full. It does this by providing domiciliary care, independent support living and residential care and also by promoting understanding in the community of the needs and aspirations of people with learning disabilities.
The Attlee Foundation was set up to commemorate Clement Attlee's life, work and achievements through piloting projects that benefit the people he cared most about - those disadvantaged by poverty, disability or lack of opportunity, particularly young people. Its work ranges from making small grants to research and major capital projects.
Autism Cymru is a purely Welsh charity. All Trustees live in Wales and it is staffed by Welsh based practitioners. In recognition of its work Autism Cymru was S4C's Charity of the Year during 2006. Its key strategic work includes raising Public awareness of autism throughout Wales; lobbying Welsh and UK governments to introduce specific policies and strategies for autism; providing comprehensive bi-lingual information on autism to families through awares.org, delivering training throughout Wales; setting-up a Welsh centre for autism research; projecting Welsh autism issues in the EC and playing a key role in setting-up the EC's forthcoming European Autism Alliance.
The Autism Initiatives Group supports children and adults with autism across the UK. In Scotland one of our projects is the One Stop Shop project specifically works with adults with Asperger Syndrome in Edinburgh and the Lothians providing a mix of one-to-one support (for things like employment, benefits, housing) and social activities. In England we have a range of services including Peterhouse School in Southport which provides education and support for 55 children from Merseyside and the surrounding counties.
It is focused on the creation of new communities to provide a future for the increasing number of children with autism. These new environments will provide adults with autism a home for life: where they can work, live and improve their skills and talents in a creative and supportive environment.
autism.west midlands aims to improve the quality of life for people with autistic spectrum disorders and their families by raising awareness of the condition and making provision for the individual needs of people with autistic spectrum disorders.
The Autistic Society Greater Manchester Area (ASGMA) provides a range of support services to people affected by Autism - including parents and carers support groups, telephone support, Parent Resource Information Packs, awareness events and Training. The Aspirations Project provides individual support and social engagement to people with Asperger Syndrome / Higher Functioning Autism.
BADA-UK is an organisation run by volunteers and dedicated to raising awareness about, and promoting the prevention of, Borreliosis (Lyme disease) and other tick-borne infections in the UK and Ireland. Principle activities include education within the general public and the healthcare profession.
The Bar Pro Bono Unit is a charity which helps to find pro bono (free) legal assistance from volunteer barristers. Pro bono assistance is only available to those who cannot afford to pay and who cannot obtain public funding (Legal Aid).
We are dedicated organisation that works in effortlessly in supporting the the conservation of Barn Owls & other Birds of Prey. Our mission is very simple: EDUCATION, CONSERVATION & BIRD WELFARE
BDDA promotes the welfare of disabled people in Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria and the surrounding districts. BDDA offers advice, educational facilities, complementary therapies, social events, youth activites and provides a meeting place for people with all kinds of disabilities.
BASIC provides support, information of resources and develops services needed for persons with Autism and those who care for them. It raises awareness and understanding of Autism Spectrum Disorder through art, education and re-education.
It helps local people improve their lives using rugby as a tool. It looks at education,sport,heathy lifestyles and increasing self esteem.
The society offers a wide range of support and services to people with Cerebral Palsy and associated disabilities their families and carers in North and Mid Bedfordshire. Services include school holiday play schemes, weekend activity clubs, grants for specialist equipment and holidays, information helpline, advocacy, carers groups, and voluntary opportunities.
The MS Therapy Centre provides therapy, information and support to people living with MS. Many professional therapists, including an MS Specialist Nurse, physiotherapists, dietician, speech therapist and counsellor are employed together with complementary therapists. We request donations only for therapy and receive no statutory funding, so fundraising is essential.
Beit Halochem UK raise funds to support the rehabilitation of over 51,000 disabled soldiers and victims of terror in Israel from the day they are wounded, for the rest of their lives. In conjunction, BFIWD fundraise for veterans visits to the UK.
The work of Belfast Lough Sailability is to encourage and enable people with a diverse range of disabilities onto the water to experience and enjoy the sport of sailing.
Lions is the world's largest voluntary community service organisation and each club shares a common objective of serving its community. Our motto is "We Serve"
To improve the quality of life for people in Berkshire through a growing grant making capacity supporting voluntary and community groups in the county to help local people in need. Since 1985 it has helped over 2,700 groups and thereby countless children, individuals and families.
Multiple Sclerosis is an incurable and unpredictable disease affecting the central nervous system. They provide therapies for people with MS in Berkshire and the surrounding counties, giving them the power to manage their disease rather than letting it control their lives, and keeping them as mobile and independent as possible.
Rehabiltation through sport for disabled ex-service men and woman
It runs a local community centre offering services to children, youth, elders and people with disabilities. Internationally, we work in Albania and Morocco and support other projects across the world.
The Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC) is running The Big Salute Forces Fundraiser on BFBS TV and Radio to raise funds for 6 Service Charities. BLESMA, Combat Stress, Veterans Aid, St Dunstan's, Headley Court and Help 4 Heroes. All money raised will go to the 6 Big Salute charities, NOT to SSVC!
Birchwood Highland is a charity dedicated to support some of the Highland's most vulnerable adults and young people. It aims to improve the quality of life of people with mental health issues and complex needs by promoting recovery, inclusion and independence. It provides residential and outreach support covering Inverness, Easter Ross, Lochaber and Caithness.
To help local people, provide local solutions through a range of effective grant making programmes in the areas of poverty and deprivation. To stimulate new initiatives and partnerships within the community and to link these with the major regeneration initiatives in the city.
The Birmingham Mail Charity Trust formally the Christmas Tree Fund now in its 120th year, raises funds for volunteer and community groups and small charities supporting deprived and needy people and groups of all ages and creeds in the Greater Birmingham area. Grants are made to a max of £2000
Body Positive Dorset is an organisation set up to offer advice, practical support and counselling to those people whose lives have been affected by HIV/AIDS. It also aims to raise awareness in the community, offer education and promote prevention.
Booktrust helps to make a difference to people's lives by inspiring a lifelong love of reading in children, young people and adults.
Provision of sport and leisure for adults and children in The Bradford District
Brambles is the MS Society's Surrey Centre, which provides respite care for people with Multiple Sclerosis. Brambles supports people with MS by: * Providing specialist nursing and social care * Reducing isolation and improving social contact * Providing time and support for carers to have a much needed break * Increasing information and practical support
Brandon Trust works with and for people with learning disabilities. It aims to support and enable people with complex needs to live the lives they choose. Brandon maximise an individual?s independence through Supported Living, Education, Residential Services, Training, Work Learning and Leisure.
It helps children who are terminally ill, chronically sick, disabled or disadvantaged-
Break provides a range of services for children, adults and families in need. These services include: Homes for Children and Young Adults, Supported Holidays and Respite Care, Assessments for Families in Crisis, Mental Health Services for Women, Day Support Services for Adults with Learning Disabilities and Mentoring Schemes for Young People.
Breakaway are the UK's only residential weekend activity breaks designed for young people aged 4-18 with bowel and /or bladder diversions/dysfunctions, and their families. Breakaway offers the opportunity to meet others in similar situations, to talk, share experiences and to take part in confidence building action adventure activities.
BSA provides support to all whose lives are affected by stammering. We work to prevent stammering through early intervention, provide the optimum support for pupils who stammer and offer, through our helpline and website, information and a listening ear to adults and parents of stammering children.
The Bromley by Bow Centre works in Tower Hamlets helping some of the poorest communities in the UK. They work with young and old, families and people with disabilities. They help people to break out of poverty by supporting people to; look after their health and wellbeing, gain vital new skills, find employment and make positive changes in their lives.
Buckingham & Greenacres RDA provide several riding lessons for pupils from schools in Milton Keynes, as well as Saturday sessions for individual riders from the local area. Through the commitment of volunteers, RDA enables people with disabilities to ride to benefit their health and wellbeing and to achieve their goals.
BUILD is led by, and works for the benefit of, adults and young people with learning difficulties and other disabilities. It achieves this through social, leisure and learning activities, including a community based befriending scheme, youth projects, a weekly social club, young adults social networking group and a research and training consultancy service.
Parent led building for the future is aiming for a purpose built building for all the disabled children in the Wokingham borough where the children and their families can go , where they can feel accepted understood and valued.
Burton Hospitals League of Friends is a fundraising organisation dedicated to Queens Hospital, a group of 30+members donated a variety of items and equipment to over 30 difffering wards and departments during 2008. We recently opened a shop at the entrance selling donated goods and 'aids for daily living'
The project is an educational,recreational and therapeutic project for people of all ages dealing with disablement of any kind. It was founded as a gardening project in 2002, but now doubled offers, (with the help of strong volunteers) a diverse and stimulating programme.
The Butterfly Trust provides support to people with Cystic Fibrosis. This life limiting condition causes chronis lung disease and digestive problems. People with Cystic Fibrosis require intensive, exhausting and expensive treatment administrered at home. Our services improve quality of life by alleviating the physical, emotional and financial burden of care.
DART PROVIDES A SPECIFIC ADVICE AND INFORMATION SERVICE TO ASSIST PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND ACRERS TO ACCESS SERVICES IN THE AREA AND TO HELP ITS CLIENTS TO CLAIM THE BENEFITS TO WHICH THEY ARE ENTITLED AND PROVIDES INFORMATION THROUGH A QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER.
Calibre Audio Library brings the pleasure of reading to people who have sight problems or physical disabilities through a free, nationwide postal service of recorded books. We offer a choice of over 8,000 titles, fiction and non-fiction, recorded unabridged by professional actors and broadcasters. The Calibre website, www.calibre.org.uk, provides details of all our services including on-line access to our complete catalogue of audio books, and how you can help.
Calvert Trust Exmoor is an outdoor activity centre for people with disabilities. Its specially adapted facilities aim to challenge disability through outdoor adventure and enable people of all ages and with all types of disability to benefit from the Calvert Experience, an opportunity that leads to real personal achievement. Activities such as horse riding, carriage driving, abseiling, climbing, canoeing, kayaking, sailing, archery and orienteering are all offered at our 40 acre site, along with caring qualified staff to ensure visitors have a safe and enjoyable experience.
It enables people with physical, sensory and learning disabilities along with their families and friends, to achieve their potential through the challenge of outdoor adventure. By using specialist equipment and employing specially trained activity and care staff, Calvert Trust Kielder helps people to develop the self confidence to embrace the challenges of everyday life.
The Camden Society is a London-wide organisation providing a range of modern services that emphasise the human rights of people with disabilities. Founded 40 years ago, it continues to run and develop services to support people to live, work, relax and socialise in the ways that they choose.
Camphill has been part of the Aberdeen City and Shire community since 1939. More than 700 people live and work in six local Camphill communities. Together they offer education, training, work and living opportunities for vulnerable children, young people, adults and older people.
This charity provides specialist trained cancer detection dogs to identify the odour of human cancer. This knowledge can then be used to develop new medical equipment with which to diagnose cancer quickly and simply. It also trains assistance dogs to warn people with poorly controlled diabetes of hypoglaemic episodes and is investigating the placement of other medical assistance dogs.
The Cancer Counselling Trust offers specialist counselling and emotional support, both face to face and over the phone, to anyone - patient, partner, family member, colleague or friend - having difficulty in coping with a cancer diagnosis, treatment or effect at any stage of the disease, including bereavement.
Canine Partners aims to transform the lives of people with disabilities by providing them with highly trained assistance dogs which enable them to live more independently.
Complementing the traditional ministry of a church, the CCBC also manage a successful befriending project for older people & disabled adults, the DORCAS PROJECT, and a community centre called THE BRIDGE, which is home to the CANONBURY RECREATION CENTRE, a lunch club for the over 60's.
Capability works with disabled people of all ages and their families and carers throughout Scotland. We provide a range of modern, flexible services to disabled people across Scotland in areas including employment, education, accommodation, respite and independent living. We are also a campaigning organisation, committed to using the influence we have to ensure disabled people achieve the same human and civil rights as the rest of society. Our campaigning ensures that the issues that matter to disabled people stay on the Government's agenda. Our vision is to be a major ally in supporting disabled people to achieve full equality and to have choice and control of their lives.
A scenic charity cycle ride with three different options for the start:
60 miles - Esher College, Surrey, to Hove or Hove to Hove circular route.
30 miles - Haywards Heath, West Sussex to Hove.
Capital to Coast benefits five partner charities undertaking crucial work with babies, children and adults - Norwood, Bliss, the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, the Down's Syndrome Association and Heart's Have a Heart - see website www.capitaltocoast.org.uk for further details.
Carers Network Westminster is a voluntary organisation working with carers within Westminster. our work includes outreach to identify carers, information and advice to help carers access services and general support services to help carers cope.
Caring Matters Now has 3 main aims: 1. To support sufferers of Congenital Melanocytic Naevus (CMN) and their families. 2. To raise awareness about the CMN skin condition. 3. To raise funds for the CMN medical research.
It supports people throughout Northern Ireland with acquired disability such as brain injury, as well as people who have been disabled since birth. It develops and delivers services which empower and support people with disabilities to be fully included in their communities.
To help those suffering from the misunderstood and life-limiting condition m.e / chronic fatigue
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.
Champneys Charitable Foundation wants to make a difference to children and adults suffering from any form of disability. It will support individuals as well charities in need of specialist equipment by making donations for specific projects.
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.
Chedgrave MS Therapy Centre provides Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy as a treatment primarily for people with MS but also to aid sporting injuries, pre and post surgery for cancer recovery and the healing of broken bones.
Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland aims to improve the quality of life for people in Scotland affected by chest, heart and stroke illness, through medical research, advice and information, and support in the community.
Children Today provides grants for vital, life-changing equipment for children and young people with sickness and disability across the UK. Our aim is to ensure that every disabled child and young person fulfils their potential and leads an active childhood.
The Chinese Community Centre aims to improve the quality of life and well being of the Chinese community, particularly those who are disadvantaged. To achieve its aims the Centre offers a range of support services and advice to both the young and old within the community.
It helps people with a SCI regain independance by providing grants for equipment or rehabilitation and much needed advice and support to their families and carers.
Christian Action UK supports vulnerable people living in China's third poorest province of Qinghai. Qinghai Province is situated in the northwest of China, on the Tibetan Plateau, and is the source of China?s great rivers. Christian Action UK provides funds for orphaned and abandoned children in Qinghai, as well as schools, homes and rehabilitation facilities for Han Chinese, Tibetans and other ethnic groups living there.
The Trust raises funds in memory of Ciaran, who suffered from a genetic skin disorder called Keratitis-Ichthyosis-Deafness Syndrome (?KID syndrome?). The Trust aims to help people with similar conditions, as well as supporting research and promoting awareness about the difficulties of living with the multiple disabilities of blindness, deafness and skin disorders.
Circles Network provides direct support for disabled and disadvantaged individuals at risk of exclusion throughout the UK and Ireland. Their aim is to build inclusive communities where everyone, regardless of ability and background, can belong and contribute.
Citizens Online is a national charity who believe participation in the digital world is a basic human right. Citizens Online promotes digital inclusion and the aim is for everybody to enjoy and share the benefit from digital technologies, so that our society may become more inclusive and just.
The charity was set up for the purpose of allocating income received for charitable purposes directed wholly or mainy to the benefit of the City of Westminster.
The CJD Support Network offers advice, information and support for patients, carers and professionals who are involved in any form of suspected or confirmed CJD. Additionally it offers emotional and practical support; disseminates new information as research develops and offers advice for those who may be deemed at risk.
The foundation are oganising a 3500 mile cycle ride from the UK to Uganda to raise money to build a farm and school for a displaced community in Koch Goma. They are doing this with the support of young adults in the UK who are committed to helping people start new lives with a “Clean Sheet”
CSRC benefits over 200 people, with additional needs, each week, through riding, carriage driving + equestrian vaulting. It uniquely has facilities for residential riding holidays attendees gain huge social, physical and mental benefits. CSRC relies on volunteers for manpower and fund-raising.
CMT United Kingdom is the national support group for people affected by Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, also known as Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathy. The organisation provides advice, support and information for people with the condition, family, carers and medical professionals.
The Colostomy Association provides emotional and practical support to ostomates and their families. It overs a 24hour helpline, a quarterly magazine and one to one support. It also aims to raise awareness of stomas through open days up and down the country.
Comber has worked since 1992 to improve the lives of Romania’s most vulnerable citizens-young people with disabilities living in appalling conditions in its notorious institutions across rural Romania and other countries in the region. Comber works tirelessly to provide small family type homes for these young people and to integrate these them into the community.
CANB?s aim is to support the charities of Brasov through the provision of grants and volunteers. It supports a range of projects, which work with vulnerable and disadvantaged adults and children throughout Brasov County.
Community Focus is a charitable arts centre for people of all abilities based at the artsdepot, North Finchley. Our accessible facilities feature a fully equipped photographic studio and darkroom, computer suite and multi-purpose art/craft studio. Community Focus holds weekly workshops for people with physical disabilities, learning difficulties, mental health problems.
The Community foundation for Calderdale connects people who care with local causes that matter. It does this by staging fundraising events, working with individuals and companies using their donations to make a positive difference in local communities through grant making.
We help local people and businesses manage their charitable giving by setting up Funds for causes that are close to their heart.
For over 50 years it has provided holidays and respite to needy and/or disabled children. It has 5 holiday homes in Westgate, Kent and a respite home in south-east London.
CPC helps pre school children who have Cerebral Palsy achieve their full physical, mental and social potential using "Conductive Education". This service is FREE. CPC offers "Care in the community" enabling Elderly and disabled of all ages to retain their independence. The "Day Centre" for the elderly and disabled gives a welcome break from the confines of home. The "Life Skills Group" enables young adults to explore their potential and live as independently as possible, learning new skills and making friends in a safe environment.
It offers disabled adults and children in the area (Surrey) the opportunity to ride horses. This is therapeutic - both mentally and physically - and it's fun! We operate thanks to a large number of volunteers. The money we raise goes towards the upkeep of the horses and the stables.
We use cricket to do good amongst communities of young people who, for whatever reason, are disadvantaged. We believe that cricket can make a positive impact on the lives of individuals and communities; helping them to gain confidence, feel included and a bringing together people from different backgrounds.
Crossroads (Lewis) provides trained Care Attendants to - relieve stress on those who are caring for all age groups of people with physical, mental or sensory impairment. care in certain circumstances for those who live alone and struggle with illhealth or loneliness.
Cheshire East Crossroads Caring for Carers provides high quality support services to carers and people with care needs. Caring for a sick or disabled person is a very demanding role so it is vital that carers get support. Crossroads gives carers the chance to share the responsibility for a while.
Crossroads Care is Britain's leading provider of support for carer's and the people they care.
It provides support, advocacy and information to individuals of all ages with cerebral palsy living in Cumbria. In addtion it operates a residential care and day centre for adults with cerebral palsy just outside of Carlisle.
DaBKA formed in 2008, to help and support renal patients in the Doncaster and Bassetlaw Area. The trustees and committee members are all renal patients. So far, we have donated information DVD's and a urinalysis machine to the Doncaster renal unit, as well as subsidising social events for patients.
It provides a safe working environment to assist those with mental health issues and learning difficulties using Dance Movement Psychotherapy.
DAD supports disabled people and carers through the provision of services, support and information, and by tackling issues affecting disabled people both locally and nationally.
In the UK over 10 million people have disabilities. DEMAND designs and makes equipment for individuals, often with profound multiple disabilities, using the skills of experts to fulfil each particular need. DEMAND needs YOUR help to create these little miracles for them. For further information visit www.demand.org.uk
Emotional and practical support to carers in Derwentside.
DGSM yourChoice is an affiliation of Royal Mencap Society. The charity works with people with learning disabilities, their families and carers in the North Kent and Medway areas. Support is provided through housing, independent living, day services, employment and training, advice and information, leisure, sport, evening clubs and much more! The charity aims to develop self fulfillment and independence for every individual with a learning disability enabling them to lead a life in the community like any other person.
The Diamond Centre is a registered charity providing unique facilities to benefit disabled children and adults by having regular contact with horses. It is widely recognised that riding helps disabled people both physically and mentally - and remarkable improvements achieved by so many of those attending The Diamond Centre are proof of this.
Dinnington Resource Centre is THE community centre of Dinnington. It provides many valuable services to the community as well as allowing lots of different groups, clubs and societys to meet and fulfill their aims.
The Disabilities Trust is a leading national charity providing high quality care, rehabilitation and support for people with profound physical impairments, autism, acquired brain injury and learning disabilities. We offer a range of specialist, purpose-built accommodation, community-based housing, education and other essential support programmes, all individually-tailored and all aimed at empowering each of our service users to live more fulfilling, independent lives. With your support, we can make a real difference to improving the quality of life for people with particularly complex and challenging disabilities.
Disability Action is the only Northern Ireland wide pan disability organisation. We provide help and support to people with physical, mental, sensory, hidden and learning disabilities. Through a programme of community based services, we provide help and support to over 45,000 people in Northern Ireland every year.
Disability Action Yorkshire provides high quality services that enable disabled people to live the lifestyle of their choosing, this includes residential care with training for independent living, work, training for work and support within peoples own homes.
DASL is a user-led organisation which works to enable disabled people in Lambeth to live more independently. It provides hundreds of people a year with vital legal advice, help with managing their own care, information about living with disability and support to become involved in their communities.
The Disability Law Service is a national registered charity that provides confidential and free legal advice for disabled adults, their families and carers. DLS also provides disabled people with a casework service. DLS challenges the inequality and poverty of disabled people by securing for them free and equal access to their legal rights and entitlements.
It works towards improving the quality of life for the several thousand disabled people in the North East region through a wide range of events, advice, support and practical help.
Disability Snowsport provides opportunities for people with a disability to participate in skiing and snowboarding. It is our goal to help the individual improve their quality of life and transfer the benefits that they can from taking part to their everyday life.
Disability Sports NI organises a range of projects and events, all designed to give people with physical, sensory and learning disabilities the opportunity to lead a fit and active lifestyle through sport and physical activity, as well as supporting the development of more talented disabled sports people.
The Disabled Living Foundation (DLF) is a national charity helping over 30,000 older and disabled people each year find equipment solutions to enable them to live more independently.
The DPHS Aberdeen is a much in demand local organisation offering housing advice, information and advocacy to meet the very special housing needs of disabled people and their families in Aberdeen whose needs are not being met by any other statutory organisation.
DPOANI provides membership based services to police officers who have been physically or psychologically injured whilst on duty.
Disabled Citizens Advice and Support Services helps disabled people, their families and carers with problems they face in day to day life.
The Douglas Bader Foundation exists to advance and promote the physical, mental and spiritual welfare of persons without one or more limbs, or otherwise physically disabled. We offer advice and information to amputees, friends, family and carers via our online ?Knowledge Centre' the Limb Loss Information Centre. We promote the benefits of physical activity and mental and spiritual welfare through our events, CHAMPS and the Douglas Bader Grant Scheme.
A charity providing a range of residential , respite and day care services for adults who have a learning disbility and their families
Drake Music works with disabled musicians of all ages to explore, compose and perform music. We use technology in innovative ways to foster creativity, nurture talent, develop new skills and bring together disabled and non-disabled artists. We provide previously unimagined access to music-making
We collaborate with disabled musicians in creating and producing music at all levels, pushing boundaries and breaking new ground artistically and technologically.
Drake Music is a voice for the future, informing and challenging the way people, society and government think about music and disability. We connect across difference, valuing the unique contribution of disabled artists
Dream-A-Way is a non-profit charity providing holidays and outings to disabled people of all ages throughout the South-West of England.
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.
The Dystonia Society provides practical and emotional support to people living with this neurological condition by providing support and information services both nationally through our Helpline and at local level through our network of branches. It also encourages research to find better treatments for this incurable condition.
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) is the name given to a group of heritable disorders of connective tissue. It is characterised by abnormalities of the skin, ligaments and internal organs and can be life threatening. The Support Group aims to provide information and support to those with EDS and medical professionals.
Formed in 1991 by the Carers of people with dementia, it provides high-quality personalised care for people with dementia, and support for carers. It also provides information, advice and training to the general public and other organisations.
The Elisabeth Svendsen Trust for Children and Donkeys aims to bring enjoyment and pleasure into the lives of children with special needs and disabilities and to give them the satisfaction that comes with the achievement of learning riding skills using its specially trained donkeys, dedicated staff and volunteers. A Charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Charity Registration No 801070
Founded in 1962, Elizabeth FitzRoy Support is a national charity that exists to provide practical support to people with learning disabilities and to help them lead full, stimulating & independent lives. The charity provides a range of services, including: Registered care & nursing homes, day centres and support for people living in their own homes.
We will offer a short-break holiday service (non-medical) to children with life limiting,life threatening,and prolonged illnesses,and their families.offering wonderful surroudings,working in partnership with local attractions to offer "A SPECIAL PLACE FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN "
Enable Ability is an independent charity for the care, welfare and advancement of disabled people living in Portsmouth and surrounding area. It works in partnership with disabled children and adults, their families and carers, to provide a range of quality, professional and confidential services.
The English Federation of Disability Sport (EFDS) organises National Championships for disabled people in a variety of sports. These events provide pathways to international success, such as the Paralympics. Working with corporate and trust partners, we aim to increase participation and talent identification. Fundraising is an essential part of our work and all funds will assist disabled sports people in their ladder to success.
Enham has a proud past and an even brighter future. Enham strives to support disabled people in making real choices in life through the provision of services that will extend access and opportunity for learning, living and worthwhile employment. It gives support wherever needed to enable life to be lived to the full.
Epilepsy Connections provides information, advice and support (in English, Urdu, Punjabi and Cantonese) to anyone affected by epilepsy in the Greater Glasgow and Forth Vally areas of Scotland. We run a Befriending Service for adults, a Schools Project and a Mainstreaming Project which helps adults get back into work or training.
To provide Disabled Children and adults with the opportunity to ride to benefit their health and well being. Our riders, who have physsical and mental disability and sometimes both, come to us from schools, hospitals, day centres and as individual riders.
Equal Adventure creates resources to support the meaningful involvement of disabled people in adventure sport, active outdoor lifestyles, expeditions and out of classroom learning. Our Vision Our work will be done when all people are able to access the natural environment for education, research, physical activity or play regardless of disability.
The Equal Rights Trust is a new international advocacy organisation launched in January 2007. Established as a resource centre and think tank, its purpose is to combat discrimination and promote equality as a fundamental human right and a basic principle of social justice, developing strategies for translating the principles of equality into practice.
We support good causes within the east renfrewshire area
Erb's Palsy Group offers advice and information on the injury Erb's Palsy / Obstectric Brachial Plexus Paralysis. This is done by giving support to parents, adults and children, putting parents in contact with each other, newsletters and informations leaflets and also holding annual events for families.
East Sussex Disability Association (ESDA) offers help and support to Disabled People in East Sussex. It offers a vast range of impartial services including an information service, a benefits advice service and a Disabled Living Centre.
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.
Fairplay supports children and young people with disabilities and additional needs, and their families, across North Derbyshire.
FibroAction is raising awareness of Fibromyalgia Syndrome, a painful chronic condition that can be extremely debilitating and which affects at least 1-in-50 people in the UK. We work to educate patients, their carers, healthcare professionals, the media and the general public, as well as provided much needed support to patients.
Finchale Training College is a national specialist College which provides vocational training and rehabilitation for unemployed disabled adults to enable them to gain and retain permanent employment.
It enhances the lives of people who are working, or have worked, in the UK furnishing industry and who are facing financial hardship or a personal crisis. It provides grants for desperately needed one-off items and weekly grants for individuals, couples and families suffering ongoing hardship.
The main objective of FLASH is to promote the relief of people with Autism (or other related conditions) and to provide relief for the families of such persons; and to advance the education of the public in all matters concerning Autism; It provides services to children with Autism who are in Havant or have been educated in the borough of Havant.
We provide fun and exciting experiences for children with special needs through after school clubs and weekend day care.
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.
Frensham Pond Sailability provides disabled people of all ages the opportunity to experience the thrill of sailing. Sailing ranges from therapeutic cruising in the relaxing surroundings of Frensham Pond to fully competitive racing in Paralympic class mini-keelboats. Boats, safety gear and helpers are all supplied. More information on www.sailfrensham.org.uk
2,500 disabled, most of them children,whose bodies have been shattered by serious illness and terrorist activity are rehabilitated through sports programs at the Israel Sport Centre for the Disabled.Funded almost entirely by charitable donations, the Centre desperately needs wheelchairs, essential rehabilitative equipment and support for specific projects.
Bridges Resource Centre provides specialist short breaks for very complex, challenging disabled children, which also then provides relief from the continuous caring role for their families. Through fundraising we provide specialist equipment, play equipment and opportunites to develop life skills for these children in and around the local community.
It offers support to special needs children and their families providing new equipment and organising fun days and events which enables them to participate in activities which would normally not be accessible to them due to the profound and complicated medical needs of their children.
'Friends' supports the first children's hospice in Belarus. It provides care at home, in-patient care and respite care for children with life-limiting and life-threatening illnesses and their families. Their services are free. Friends is run by unpaid volunteers and our chairwoman speaks Russian fluently and has a place on the hospice's advisory board.
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.
Using sport to deliver inspirational, accessible and inclusive initiatives, promoting educational and social opportunities, improving the quality of life for disadvantaged young people to make a positive, real and lasting difference to the local community
Fund for Heroes Tough Guy? Helpline Forevermore Injury disability support for Soldiers and Tough Guy? casualties.
To promote and protect the physical and mental health of sufferers of Guillain Barre Syndrome and associated illnesses in the United Kingdom through the provision of financial assistance, support, education and practical advice.
The Charity turns the dreams of disabled people of all ages, and those who care for them, into reality. The recipients have to be recommended by an organisation and those receiving a Sporting Chance have to raise funds for a charity other than Give them a Sporting Chance. www.givethemasportingchance.com
Grace Eyre is a charity supporting people with learning disabilities to make the most of opportunities in their communities and lead independent lives. We provide person centred day activity and accommodation services to 200 people, employ 80 staff and are supported by over 50 volunteers. We work across East and West Sussex and Brighton & Hove.
It is run by serving and retired Police officers and Support Staff from Grampian Police. It helps a wide range of causes from the relief of suffering to helping with illness. It works with local schools and businesses promoting Justice and Hope through social inclusion and corporate social responsibility
Greenhouse Schools Project is a charity that uses sports and arts programmes to teach 11-16 year olds life and social skills. We especially target children who are experiencing difficulties with learning and behaviour or who are living with a disability.
Gwalior Childrens' Hospital Charity is working to help and provide for poor, needy, destitute, disabled and underprivileged esp. children, women and old, the most vulnerable of Gwalior and Chambal region through Gwalior Hospital for Children and Women, Ophthalmic Centre, General Hospital, Rural health centres and Gwalior mobile hospital to provide a wide range of specialised medical care and health educational services in Gwalior and Chambal region, its slums, rural and remote areas. In addition GCHC supports children in existing schools and Orphanages as well runs a School for special needs and is building an Orphanage- Snehalaya to accommodate 200 of disabled and destitute children, details on http://www.helpchildrenofindia.org.uk
Hackney Family Backup (HFBU) supports families of children & young adults with disabilities &/or disabling medical conditions in Hackney. Improving the quality of life of Disabled children aged 0-19 & their families, by promoting community support & social inclusion; providing Short Break Carers, Family Support Volunteers & Toy Library.
The object of this charity is to support terminally ill Halesworth surgery patients and their families within the community by the provision of nursing care and equipment.
The Hamlet Centre Trust is for children and young people with disabilities (physical, learning or sensory disabilities) who live in Norwich and Norfolk. We provide recreational, educational, social and vocational opportunities backed up by high quality care.
Handicap International, co-laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize, is an international development organisation focusing on issues around disability and inclusion. Our vision is of a world where all disabled people can fully access and exercise their human rights.
harc is the Hertfordshire branch of the National Autistic Society (NAS) and is run by parent/carer volunteers to support all people affected by autistic spectrum disorders living in Hertfordshire. harc works to provide information and support to individuals and their families and campaign for better local services.
The Centre provides low-cost therapies to people with MS and offers information and support to them and their families.
Have a Heart is the charity for Heart radio.
This year Have a Heart will focus on building a better future for the children living in our communities, those who are vulnerable, face adversity, are living with a disability or illness and are deprived of the childhood that every child deserves.
Have a Heart will specialise in funding local projects, raising funds in your communities, through your local Heart radio station - making a difference together to make life better for our children.
It helps to provide those luxuries not provided by the NHS for patients and those caring for them.
Headfirst exists to raise funds to support research into acute conditions of the nervous system which result in mental and physical disability. These could be due to a stroke, brain tumour, sudden brain haemorrage or to a serious head injury.
Headway Bristol provides information, support and advice for people with brain injuries, their families and carers. A daytime resource and activity centre provides an environment where people can learn new skills and gain confidence and coping strategies to deal with everyday situations that most people take for granted.
Headway Devon provides expert care, support, and rehabilitation to local children and adults with acquired brain injuries - as well as advice to their family and carers.
Headway Glasgow is an active local Headway group in Glasgow working with people with brain injury, their families and carers. It provides information on brain injury and services, support for individuals and runs a variety of groups.
Headway Worcester Trust Ltd supports people who have suffered an acquired brain injury and their families and carers. It has a day opportunities facility a cafe and book shop. It also has a dedicated team of outreach support workers who help clients with daily living skills.
Hemiplegia is a condition similar to cerebral palsy which affects one side of the body - the results are like those of a stroke. HemiHelp works to provide information and support to children and young people with hemiplegia and their families, and professionals who work with them.
Highland Cross is a walking or running and cycling duathlon across Scotland from Kintail to Beauly organised to raise funds for medical and social charities across the Highlands. Since 1983, over £2.7 million has been raised and distributed in full to deserving causes.
The Charity has been formed to give disabled or disadvantaged people opportunities to participate in sailing and other sporting and leisure activities. It's aims, objectives, and activities are inspired by the feats of record-breaking quadriplegic sailor Hilary Lister.
Hollybank Trust cares for some of society?s most vulnerable members. It provides education, care and often a home for children, young people and adults with profound physical disabilities and associated learning difficulties. Hollybank relies heavily on the support of individuals, organisations and companies. Every penny counts.
Its aim is for all young children in East Hampshire to have the best possible start in life. It trains volunteers to support families who are going through difficulties (such as post-natal depression, disability or bereavement) by offering regular practical and emotional support.
The League raises money to purchase toys and essential specialist equipment for children with special needs or disability attending the Honeylands Developmental Childrens Centre. The League also provide to the children music therapy and offers an on-site toy library.
The charity works on behalf of disabled children to access them to special services, especially to hydrotherapy and performing arts on evenings, weekends and school holidays. The charity has nearly reached its target of 1 million to build new facilities and continues to fund raise to help with running costs.
The ING Charitable Trust supports the charitable activities of the London branch of ING Bank NV and in particular acts as a conduit for charitable donations by people sponsoring ING employees taking part in the London marathon
Its prime purpose is to provide help, financial and otherwise, to those jockeys who are injured, unable to ride and in need.
InterAct Reading Service is dedicated to supporting stroke recovery. The charity uses professional actors to provide a live reading service for stroke patients in hospitals and at stroke clubs. The readings are designed to speed recovery by improving mood, stimulating the brain and providing much needed entertainment.
Interface Uganda aims to provide essential reconstructive surgery and equip and train local specialists. The work is presently confined to Uganda. Volunteer teams visit 2 or 3 times a year. The project supports the training of Uganda medical and nursing personnel.
INF is a Christian mission serving Nepali people through health and development work. Established in 1952, INF is Nepal's longest-serving international non-government organisation. INF helps people affected by TB, leprosy, disability, HIV / AIDS and drug abuse, facilitates development among poor communities, runs medical camps and provides medical training.
ICOD Ltd is a user-led organisation of disabled people, providing a range of services including information and advice, awareness training, access auditing and running Inverclyde Shopmobility. We also campaign locally and nationally on issues affecting disabled people.
Our mission is to provide opportunities for children of all abilities to play and socialise together, to offer support and information to families of disabled children, and to raise awareness of the benefits of inclusive provision both in play settings and more widely. We respect the right of every child to safe and stimulating play with appropriate support in a setting of their own and their family's choice. We offer services that are responsive to needs and acknowledge the vital role of families as partners in our work.
We believe that healthy communities include everyone and that all children benefit from playing together in an environment that offers the same opportunities to everyone.
The Trust provides opportunities to motivate and engage learners, of all ages and abilities ? using the theme of sport to raise achievement and inspire learners. The Trust aims to be wholly inclusive and encourages a healthy and active lifestyle for all.
JAMI (The Jewish Association for Mental Illness) is the only Jewish charity concerned exclusively with serious/enduring mental illness and the devastating impact it has on the lives of those who are ill, their families and all who care for them.
Jewish Blind & Disabled is the only Jewish charity providing caring assisted living accommodation for people of all ages with vision impairment and physical disabilities. The charity transforms the lives of blind and disabled people and their families, enabling them to live independently with dignity and choice.
John Grooms is a national disability charity, which provides brain injury rehabilitation, nursing and residential care homes and wheelchair accessible housing to over 10,500 disabled people in the UK each year. Training opportunities and accessible holiday properties also enables those affected by disability to have greater independence.
Pre-school nursery for children with special needs and disabilities. We aim to maximise each child's potential and support their parents.
We have seen time and time again, the benefits to both able-bodied and disabled people who have sailed on the LORD NELSON and TENACIOUS. Any help you are able to give will enable us to continue to make a difference, not just on our ships but in the homes, workplaces and communities of all our voyage crew. So many of the lessons learnt on our ships.
It provides Trampolining, Rebound Therapy and active play for children and young people with a disability, in a safe and challenging environment
KAB supports sight impaired people to live independent lives. We provide help and support to over 15,000 blind and partially-sighted people throughout Kent, Medway and Bromley. We work with children and adults, people with learning and physical disabilities, and people who are deafblind, and we also support families, friends and employers.
It can take time to adjust to sight loss. Our staff help people find ways to overcome the difficulties and encourage people to live life to the full, whatever their interests.
If you were to lose your sight, KAB would be there for you. We'd offer emotional support, explain your eye condition and its effects, assess your particular individual needs, give advice on benefits and concessions and help you to get them, and we'd help you to access the specialist equipment and aids that could make your life that much easier. We'd be there to help with mobility and getting about safely, help you to return to the workplace safely, or take up new pastimes or hobbies and meet other people. We also produce a gree regional news service, Kent Talking News, whish is distributed to 2,000 households in our area.
In the meantime, we rely on you; your support for our work makes a huge difference. Thank you.
Kent Kids Miles of Smiles is a Charity set up to raise funds to establish and run 'Footprints' a children's care home for the sick and disabled of Kent. Our aims and objectives are as follows:
1. To generally assist in the well being, comfort and happiness of Kent's sick and disabled children.
2. To provide holiday homes abroad for Kent's sick and disabled children.
3. To establish and run holiday centre in the Kent area for sick and disabled children
Footprints provides a home for 6 permanent children and 6 respite children 52 weeks of the year.
During their stay with us the children's entertainment is centred around their choice of activities and capabilities, at the same time ensuring that their individual needs are met.
During their stay each child is encouraged to develop self awareness and personal growth. The activity programme includes visits to the zoo, bird parks, farms, indoor activity centres, theme parks, historical attractions, beach, restaurants and swimming pools. We hope that although 'Footprints' provides fun place to stay for sick and disabled children, it also raises awareness in people that our children are no different from any other children in the fact that when 'sleeping over' they can participate in all the activities enjoyed by able children. A child is a child no matter what they look like, can or cant do, they all need the same love and attention that is provided for the children at 'Footprints'
The Kent Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre offers various treatment for all the Multiple Sclerosis sufferers and their families in Canterbury and Surrounding areas. It endeavours to provide complete services for Multiple Sclerosis sufferers, encouraging them to encourage positive thinking and make the best of their lives within the confines of the illness.
The Kepplewray Project is an education and activity centre for disabled and non-disabled people. Kepplewray challenges exclusion and is founded on a commitment to bring disabled and non-disabled people together as equal partners.
The Kepplewray Project, in partnership with The Bethesda Project is a residential education and activity centre in the Lake District, offering full board, fully accessible accommodation. Its Christian ethos is one of inclusion. The vision is to bring disabled and non-disabled people together as equal partners. It offers challenging adventurous activities and the chance to relax and unwind with home cooked food and good facilities. We are working in partnership with The Bethesda Project, an outdoor activity project in Burundi, with the same ethos of inclusion.
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.
It supports charities/organisations/individuals, whose primarily focus is providing sporting/recreational activities for individuals with special needs by reason of age, infirmity or disability, to improve their conditions of life and also locally in areas of social welfare, education, leisure and the protection/development of the environment.
It provides educational services, vocational training opportunities and residential care for children and adults with learning disabilities.
Kiya Survivors offers education, therapy, support and love to children with special needs living in severe poverty, abused and abandoned children in Peru.
We help amputees in the North East of Scotland i.e. one of our Members, Kelly Cumming, who lost her leg due to cancer at the age of 16, needs sponsorship for running the New York Marathon where she hopes to raise funds for Bone Cancer Research. She firstly requires a new running limb from Dorset Orthopaedics for this challenge.
The Lake District Calvert Trust provides residential outdoor activity courses for people of all ages with physical, sensory, learning, behavioural and/or mental disabilities. Its mission is to challenge disability through outdoor adventure. Pioneering equipment adaptations, and intensive, instructor-led activity programmes (that include climbing, abseiling, canoeing, sailing, horse/trap driving, archery, orienteering and paragliding), provide an environment whose aims are to teach, challenge, motivate, engender confidence in ability, promote independence, and foster integration. All instructors are highly trained and specialist qualified, and the facilities are specially adapted and fully accessible to all. The Lake District Calvert Trust provides a unique and life-changing experience for those with disabilities, who are encouraged to believe that it?s what you CAN do that counts.
It support older/elderly people, people affected with disabilities or ill-health problems, poor single parents families, children and young people, the unemployed, refugees and asylum seekers and people affected by wars, poverty, natural disasters and many other calamities.
The Centre is a self-help, non-profit organisation. We aim to improve the quality of life of people affected by multiple sclerosis, their families, friends and carers, by encouraging a positive attitude. We provide therapies (including Oxygen, reflexology, and physiotherapy), information, counselling and practical support
Leonard Cheshire Disability supports over 21,000 disabled people in the UK and works in 55 countries around the world. We campaign for change and provide innovative services that give disabled people the opportunity to live life their way. Our services are wide ranging and include day and residential care homes, care at home, resource centres, rehabilitation, respite care and training and assistance for those looking for work. International services include inclusive education for disabled children, training and research to aid recovery in post-conflict and post-disaster countries, and improving access to advice and small business loans. Campaigning is a very important part of our work. Our Creature Discomforts campaign aims to challenge the way people think about and respond to disability in order to remove the barriers faced by disabled people. Registered Charity Number 218186
The County based voluntary organisation empowering young people and disabled people to make positive changes to their lives and to achieve their potential through informal education. It gives individuals unique opportunities through training and life experiences, encouraging and developing vital skills such as teamwork, leadership and other social skills.
LimbPower offer relief to the physically disabled by aiding rehabilitation and improving the quality of life through the medium of recreational and competitive sports and arts, for the locomotor disabled.
The Trust is run by volunteers in the South-east of England, making donations to support various projects, both Local, National and International. The projects supported range from Children in Belarus, to Water Wells and Eye Camps in Africa.
Paignton Lions club was established in 1971. Part of Lions Clubs International. We are a non-profit making charity. ALL public donations and funds raised are passed straight to good causes. Just a club for people who want to give some of their free time to help their community.
Listening Books is the only audiobook charity in the UK providing a streaming audiobook internet service, as well as a comprehensive postal service, to anyone who has a disability which makes it impossible or difficult to hold a book, turn its pages, or read in the usual way. Charity registration number. 264221
Livability creates choices for disabled people and brings life to local communities. We offer a wide range of services to around 8,000 disabled people and their families, including residential care, supported living, education and accessible holidays. We also provide churches with the resources, advice and confidence to transform their neighbourhoods. Livability is a new charity, created by the merger of John Grooms and the Shaftesbury Society, two charities which have been hard at work among the UK's most marginalised people for over 160 years.
Listening to live music has a proven impact on behaviour, health and wellbeing. Live Music Now brings together those who are normally excluded from these benefits through ill health, disability, isolation or poverty, and young professional musicians who want to share the joy and inspiration of their music. Live Music Now is teaming up with the Musicians Benevolent Fund to enhance the lives of musicians both young and old with our innovative Adopt-a-Musician scheme. Find out more and donate direct at http://www.justgiving.com/Adopt-a-Musician/
London Wheelchair Rugby Club aims and objectives are to promote the sport of wheelchair rugby to adults and children with a disability in the area of London and the South East of England.
Holidays for families in need Youth and community work The alleviation of poverty and the effects of poverty with the City of Manchester. Financial support to under privileged families enablity them to enjoy a modest but desperately needed holiday.
Loughborough Students Rag is Loughborough Students Union's fundraising organisation helping raise money for both national charities and those in the local Charnwood area.
Laila Salehzehi Charitable Foundation was founded in 2008. The objectives of the foundation are:
· Support charitable purposes worldwide, working particularly for the advancement of education;
· Provide relief to those in need, especially young people, those suffering from ill-health, disabilities, financial hardship, unemployment and any other social or economical disadvantages
Currently LSCF is engaged in a project to build a secondary school for girls in rural Zahedan, Iran (an area severely deprived of educational institutions). The project now has a 30% input from LSCF.
LUPUS UK is the only national charity supporting people with the immune system illness Lupus. It has a number of groups throughout the UK and supports over 6,000 members through these groups. It also provides funding for medical research into this life threatening and debilitating illness.
The LSN is a national charity that provides information and support to people with lymphoedema. It runs a telephone helpline, produces quarterly newsletters and a wide range of fact sheets, and maintains an up-to-date website. It works to raise awareness of lymphoedema and campaigns for better national standards of care.
It is a disability therapy centre, helping adults and children who have Multiple Sclerosis, Cerebral Palsy, Autism, Brain Injury and other Neurological conditions. It provides complementary & mainstream therapies to it's members & their carers.
Martha Trust is a registered charity in Deal, Kent, and Hastings, East Sussex, providing residential and respite care for people with multiple and profound disabilities. The philosophy of the Trust is to concentrate on people as individuals helping them to reach their full potential, whilst enjoying life to the fullest possible extent.
Mayday Trust provides specialised support, accommodation and life-skills training for vulnerable adults. The Trust manages schemes across Warwickshire, Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire. Through social-skills training and confidence-building programmes, Mayday prepares clients for a successful move into mainstream, independent accommodation.
The Maypole Project provides a lifeline of support for children with complex medical needs and their whole family. We support over 100 children with life threatening, life limiting illnesses and their families every year across South East London.
MDAC-UK seeks to help children and adults with psycho-social and intellectual disabilities, to promote access to healthcare, social integration and education, and to promote the human rights of people with such disabilities.
The ME Association is a campaigning national charity which provides information and support to 240.000 people in the UK with ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, their families and carers, through a quarterly magazine, literature, education and training. It also funds biomedical research through The MEA Ramsay Research Fund and runs the ME Connect helpline.
Medical Aid for Poland Fund (MAPF) is a London-based Charity (est. 1981) which raises funds to aid the sick, elderly and disabled in Poland.
Megans World helps provide financial assistance for the burial plots and headstones for stillborn babies. It helps parents of stillborn babies and their family's to discuss and overcome their tragic loss
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.
Mercia MS Therapy Centre provides therapies and support for Midlands people with multiple sclerosis. It aims to keep MS people as mobile and active as possible within the confines of the condition and to reduce the feelings of isolation and helplessness that often accompany MS.
The Cornwall Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre Ltd (The Merlin Project) is a proactive charity passionately committed to supporting anyone affected by Multiple Sclerosis. We aim to provide unbiased information and therapy treatments by the provision of a centre at which these objectives can be carried out. We are currently fundraising to build the MS Therapy Centre for Cornwall.
Formed in 1993 it provides home interviews for those with asbestos related diseases including mesothelioma. They advise on application for all welfare benefits including Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB) and the government compensation Scheme together with a Panel List of Solicitors in accordance with the Law Society's Code of Practice.
MERU is a registered charity that designs & manufactures custom-made empowering equipment for individual children and young people with disabilities when suitable alternatives can not be found. To do this we have a team of dedicated engineers who assess, design and produce the equipment for children in our workshop in Epsom.
Connecting education, well being and the natural environment. What happens at the Gardens? Therapeutic Horticulture activities Education projects / Forest schools Fruit and vegetable production Plants and produce for sale Improving habitat for the local wildlife Maintaining the Gardens for everyone to enjoy
MFR Cash for Kids is the charity arm of Moray Firth Radio. It raises funds throughout the year to help disadvantaged children throughout the North of Scotland. MFR Cash for Kids distributes money to terminally ill, disabled and disadvantaged children as well as a wide range of youth groups and projects which benefit children in the MFR area.
Miles of Smiles is a charity that aims to make youngsters who need a smile in their day feel special. To put some sparkle and love and a few giggles in their day. They do this by organising treats- or 'smiles' for children who are nominated to them.
It takes sick, disabled and disadvantaged children on the trip of a lifetime to places such as Disneyland Paris and Lapland. Now 16 years old it continues to help children and parents or carers from Chester, Port and Flintshire, to give them something they will never forget.
The Milton Keynes Community Foundation is a local, independent grant-making charity which aims to create a culture of giving that strenghtens and supports the local community. The Foundation makes grants to support a wide variety of projects and activites, improving the quality of life for people in Milton Keynes.
Mind in Harrow helps people experiencing a wide range of mental health problems. It provides services including Befriending, telephone and web Information and Support, Educational & Leisure courses and supports the influential Harrow User Group, thereby improving the quality of life of people struggling with mental health problems.
Mitre Trust is a Charity based at Musgrave Park Hospital, Belfast. It aims to raise funds to improve patient services and to fund new developments at Musgrave, the regional centre for Orthopaedics and rehabilitation in Northern Ireland. Funds raised go directly into providing state of the art equiptment and facilities.
Momentum is a not-for-profit organisation which works in partnership to enable and empower disabled and socially excluded people to identify and achieve their goals.
Our programmes promote equal choices, equal chances and equal futures for more than 2,000 people every year, assisting them to achieve independence, move towards jobs and remain active citizens in their communities.
Some of our service users will need support to rebuild their lives following an accident or illness, while others will be aiming to achieve employment for the first time. We support them to break down whatever barriers are preventing them from moving forward in their lives.
Momentum delivers services throughout the UK and currently operates programmes in the areas of brain injury, spinal injury, mental health, physical disability, learning disability, employment, care and supported living, social enterprise and community rehabilitation. Momentum is part of the Rehab Group, which has been leading the way internationally in the provision of services for disabled people for 60 years.
It raises awareness and financial support for sufferers of a disease called Podoconiosis. This is caused by absorption of silicate particles through the foot skin that leads to scarring of the lymph vessels and massive swelling of the legs. About 1 million people are affected in the Ethiopian highlands.
Motivation works in partnership with a range of organisations to implement projects that enhance the lives of people with mobility disabilities in developing countries. By ensuring that disabled people have the skills to run the programmes that are of benefit to them, the mobility products and services it develops are always tailored to the needs of each community.
Mountain Aid is a Registered Charity with three simple objectives: - To help anyone permanently injured on the Scottish hills - To provide training and education in the skills required to safely enjoy the Scottish hills - To provide financial support to the Mountain Rescue services
MRCT provides voluntary work and social opportunities for people with a disability and vulnerable people in Harlow. It supports people with a physical / learning disability, people who are lonely, isolated, addicted, homeless, vulnerably housed and people in crisis with emergency food.
A self-help group receiving no statutory funding provides advice and support for people with MS and their carers in Tayside and Fife in a friendly non-clinical setting. Members choose from therapies; hyperbaric oxygen, counselling, physio, chiropody, aromatherapy, reflexology, yoga and swimming
Muirfield Riding for the Disabled provides therapy and support to around 160 persons with a range of disabilities by giving the opportunity to ride and be with horses on a weekly basis. It is a proven fact that those with disabilities respond to being with horses and their well being and self confidnece are enhanced significantly. We service the whole of the county of East Lothian.
The National umbrella organisation which supports 38 self-help centres throughout the country. Each centre provides a range of therapies to help manage the symptoms experienced, ie oxygen therapy, physiotherapy, reflexology and other complementary therapies, as well as dietary advice, counselling, information and general support. It is entirely self-funded
MS Research and Relief Fund supports all people affected by Multiple Sclerosis, by giving grants to groups and individuals, as well as providing other support services such as complementary therapies, exercise classes, outreach support services. works in partnership with others on research opportunities for MS. Relies solely on donations.
The Multiple Sclerosis Resource Centre (MSRC) is a proactive and innovative charity passionately committed to supporting anyone affected by Multiple Sclerosis through access to unbiased information and advice. Our approach is to encourage individuals to make choices that are appropriate to their daily lives, empowering them to maximise their potential.
Some of the services MSRC provides include:
* A 24 hour, freephone Telephone Counselling Service available 365 days a year * An advisory service with access to MS Specialist Advisors and a Welfare Rights and Benefits Advisor * Publish the renowned MS journal, New Pathways * Maintain a comprehensive website, updated daily and providing a lively online community through its forums and chat rooms
MSRC strongly believes that "Life is for Living" and by providing unbiased information and advice, people affected by MS can make choices that are relevant to their particular needs.
The MS Society of Great Britain & Northern Ireland is the UK's largest organisation dedicated to supporting the 100,000 people, their families and carers affected by multiple sclerosis.
The Derby branch of the MS Society offers offers information, practical support, and activities for all those affected by MS in and around the Derby area, primarily through its Information and Support Centre (Lilian Prime House).
It is a self-funding, self-help charity providing a variety of therapies, information and support to people living with MS, their families and carers. Its aim is to help members retain mobility and independence following diagnosisof this illness. It receives no statutory funding so fundraising is essential .
The Mungo Foundation have 30 years experience of providing quality person-centred services to individuals of all ages with wide ranging and complex support needs. The Foundation aims to make a difference to people lives by providing support to help them realise their life choices.
MustB MAD works with national and international communities in need, offering direct assistance and financial support to other organisations that are making positive changes to people’s lives. Communities can vary from those affected by conflict or in need of emergency aid, to those people old or young, seeking practical support.
NADS represents all disabled football supporters. Disabled fans want to be able to enjoy the same benefits many take for granted ie a decent view, choice of location, ability to sit with friends, cover from the weather and fair access to tickets. Help us achieve our aims by donating now.
The charitable funds are to be disbursed primarily to local charities, projects & good causes based in Nairnshire, and also to national charities for their use in Nairnshire, and that a proportion of the funds (about 10%) are to be distributed to national and international charities supported by Rotary International.
We help adults and children who are stressed due to bullying, harassment, victimisation, discrimination and/or stalking issues. We specialise in workplace bullying and playground bullying. The helpline provides confidential, impartial and practical guidance.
Portage is a regular home-visiting educational service for under 5s with additional support needs and their families. Personalised play and learning, goals and support are offered to involve the family in the care and development of the child, focussing on their child's development, building on abilities and strengths, not difficulties.
Neema Crafts has funded a large new centre in Iringa, Tanzania that employs over 100 disabled people. It is also changing the negative attitudes to the disabled that are so common. Neema Crafts also provides free physiotherapy for disabled children. This project now needs regular funding.
The North East Trust for Aphasia (NETA) supports people with aphasia and their carers. Aphasia means difficulties with communication, often following stroke. The person with aphasia can have problems speaking, understanding, reading and writing. This can have major effects for both the person and their family in terms of social life, work and relationships.
The Neuromuscular Centre (NMC) provides a range of services to people with muscular dystrophy and allied neuromuscular conditions in the North West of England and beyond. The NMC is a tangible resource for people who have muscular dystrophy and their families. The centre offers a sheltered working environment, training, physiotherapy, information and emotional support.
New Futures Nepal gives disadvantaged children and adults in Nepal and India hope for a better future. It works with the children and their carers towards independent adulthood. It provides loving homes; educates children and adults; provides specialist medical care and provides shelter for hundreds of street children in Kathmandu.
New Yatt Riding for the Disabled Group is an independent charity, run by volunteers and, with 8 working horses and ponies, provide riding instruction to over 60 children and adults from West Oxfordshire each week
Play, dance or sing - everyone responds to music. Music has a unique power to reach deep inside us. Nordoff Robbins harnesses music - with all its emotion, energy, resonance and rhythm - to reach children and adults whose lives are constrained by illness, disability, trauma or exclusion. For over 50 years the work pioneered by Paul Nordoff and Clive Robbins has set a benchmark in the use of music to promote health and wellbeing. We provide and support a range of services that encompass the depth and breadth of music, encompassing music therapy, music and health projects, and community music projects.
Nordoff Robbins supporters are behind every life changing experience in music that we enable. The financial support people give us means we can harness music to reach and transform the lives of children and adults all over the UK who are constrained by illness, disability, trauma or exclusion. We receive no statutory funding and are heavily reliant on voluntary donations to deliver 34,000 sessions every year - in schools, day centres, hospitals, and care homes across the UK, and in our Centre and Units. Every one of these sessions helps to transform someone's life.
Norfolk Community Law Service is a registered charity dedicated to providing access to justice and equality in Norfolk. It provides free legal advice include housing repossession support, debt advice, discrimination advice, a Free Legal Advice Rota on general, employment and family matters.
It provides respite care for children and adults with special needs and disabilities in a warm and safe environment. It also has a day nursery for children from birth to 5 years old with special needs.
Crossroads supports carers of all ages regardless of who they are caring for
An independent registered charity providing specialist play and recreational services for disabled children and young people, and information, support and respite care for their families.The purpose-built indoor facilities and extensive landscaped outdoor areas are open 7 days a week all year round.
The Foundation is a grant giving charity which awards much needed grants to community groups and projects in the county - to create safer, stronger communities. Projects supported include breakfast clubs and environmental schemes, clubs for adults and children with disabilities, support groups for elderly and isolated people, rural outreach work, sporting activities … and much more.
We help people with spina bifida and/or hydrocephalus with advice, financial assistance in a wide variety of ways, outings, parties, and we contribute towards the funding of research activities. We actively engage in fundraising activities.
Nugent Care works across North West England to address issues of social inclusion, welfare and justice for children, older / vulnerable adults and communities. Its care homes, schools, volunteers and community projects provide support and care for hundreds of children and adults with a range of needs all year round.
OCD Action is the national UK charity for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and related conditions*, providing comprehensive support & information including: helpline, online forum, support group directory, and advocacy services.
OCD is a top 10 disabling condition (W.H.O.) and can devastate lives. But it can also be effectively treated/managed with appropriate treatment.
OCD Action also aims to raise awareness amongst the public and frontline healthcare workers and strives to secure a better deal for people affected, including families and carers.
For more info, go to: www.ocdaction.org.uk
Confidential Helpline: 0845 390 6232
*e.g. Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), Trichotillomania (compulsive hair pulling) and Compulsive Skin Picking (CSP)
OCD-UK is the leading national charity, independently working with and for people with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
Octavia Foundation supports people living and working in central & west London. Our projects include activities for older, vulnerable and disabled people, projects for young people, employment and training advice and placements, financial inclusion initiatives and community events.
One Family meets the immediate and long-term requirements of those affected by terror attacks in Israel, moving quickly to deliver relief to all those in need. It is the family member every victim wishes they had: listening to their problems, helping financially and maintaining ongoing, unconditional one to one support.
A Catholic charity for young people aged between 17 and 29. It looks after sick and disabled adults, as well as children with behavioural problems or learning disabilities. Its flagship activity an annual pilgrimage to Lourdes at the end of July, and its biggest fundraiser is the White Knights Ball at the beginning of January. Activities, however, continue all year round
Established 1986, Our Celebration is a registered charity supporting over 100 people by delivering high quality services helping them recover from mental ill-health. It successfully supports people recovering from a range of difficulties and is effective at keeping people well and moving them through services and into mainstream activity.
Disabled children often miss out on the same leisure opportunities as their peers. Out & About supports disabled children to take part in local leisure activities, learn new skills and be fully included in life.
Over The Moon Charity has been set up to raise money for the relief of sickness or disability amongst children and young people and the provision of respite support and care for members of their families. It provides unique and special care tailor made to their individual requirements.
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.
OCF connects donors with local causes that make a real difference in Oxfordshire. Providing grants and support to local voluntary groups, helping them focus on building better, stronger communitites within the county.
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 works to improve the lives of people living with pain. It runs a helpline and publishes information leaflets and a magazine Pain Matters, aimed at informing ordinary people about pain. It campaigns for better pain services and a better understanding of the needs of people living with pain.
Panathlon Foundation seeks to help, motivate and inspire young disabled people through sport. It provides expert coaching, free specialised equipment and multi-sport competitions like the Paralympics. Every penny you donate will go to helping disabled young people have fun through sport.
Papworth Trust is passionate about supporting disabled people by providing a wide range of valued services. Each year the Trust helps over 17,000 people from the East of England and beyond by delivering services covering Employment, Vocational Rehabilitation, Housing, Learning and Personal support.
In using the term "disabled" we mean anyone who has a long-term health issue, learning difficulty, physical disability, sensory impairment, mental health issue or a combination of these or other impairments. We also mean anyone of any age.
The Trust also works with the Government, employers, service providers and commissioners to promote disability equality and good practice.
The Parachute Regiment Charity supports serving and retired members of the Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces, and assists the wounded and the families of those who are killed in service.
Parity for Disability provides vital services for children and young adults with multiple disabilities in Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire.
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
Pathway Workshop is a registered charity for productive employment and training for disadvantaged adults between 16 and 80, with both physical disabilities and those with learning impairment. Pathway Workshop seeks to improve the job prospects of people with disabilities, and those who may be disadvantaged in today's labour market.
Make cycling accessable to everybody
It helps people with the painful and often debilitating condition of Pelvic Girdle Pain(PGP). PINS offers advice and support and its objectives are to provide current, accurate information and to get early diagnosis and effective treatment for everyone affected. Its work covers the UK and overseas.
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It provides families and pre-school children who have additonal educational needs who receive Portage with specialist toys and equipment not provided by others. It arranges Fun Days in school holidays and a Christmas party for Portage Children and their families. It also Funds 2 families to attend the National Portage Conference each year.
Pepenbury provides residential homes, day services, respite care and supported living for people with learning disabilities, challenging behaviour and complex care needs.
The Percy Hedley Foundation is a charity which plays a crucial role in the lives of children and adults with cerebral palsy and communication difficulties in the North East of England. Its aim is for people with disabilities to be as independent as possible and lead full and active lives.
We provide Information, Advice and Support for sufferers of Pernicious Anaemia and B12 Deficiency and their families and friends.
Providing day outings and holidays on waterways for people of all ages with any kind of disability or serious illness
Providing support, information and events for children and adults with Down’s Syndrome their families and carers in Peterborough and the surrounding area.
Phab is a national charity dedicated to promoting and encouraging the coming together, on equal terms, of disabled and non-disabled people to achieve an integrated and inclusive society.
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Pilotlight supports over 50 innovative grassroots organisations to develop strategic plans and help them to grow their income by an average of 54% within two years of working with us. We do this through a unique process of placing teams of business leaders into charities rooted in our communities.
Together we have helped change the lives of thousands of people, our ambition is to reach many more charities. To do this, we must raise £1 million.
PIP helps younger adults with a range of learning disabilities around transition. PIP has a travel training project promoting independent travel and at SW1 and CDP (Community Development Project) they provide community activities.
We support young adults 18-45 years with a physical disability across the western region of West Sussex. Through a varied program of activies we aim to help our Members develope the skills required for independant living and social interaction.
The Possum Trust provides grants to fund technical solutions for people of all disabilities The one thing which all people living with disabilities share is a need for technology to promote their independence. This equipment might include communication aids, environmental control solutions, pendant alarms, nursecall, electric doors windows and curtains.
The Power Pack was formed by parents who felt there was a lack of opportunities for their disabled children. This had an impact on the whole family.The group organise events and activities that all family members enjoy. Activities included art, drama, music, sport and social events.
Provides awareness, understanding and support for people with PWS, their families and professionals working with the syndrome.
The charity provides support to patients with PCD and parents of children known to have the condition. It also brings PCD to the attention of the medical profession and the public, provides up to date information on the condition and raises money to promote research, aiding the diagnosis and treatment of PCD.
Primrose House believes that even the most disabled person can with the right care live in the real world. It provides quality 24hr support for people with profound physical & learning disabilities & is committed to ensuring that residents lead a full,active life in a safe,loving environment
PROPS provide much needed support and opportunities for young disabled people. They achieve this by using a number of different strategies including community involvement and partnerships. Thanks for helping.
For thousands of people in the North West, North Wales and Scotland, PSS provides personal services and practical help tailored to meet their individual needs and add quality to their daily lives. We have a team of around 1,000 fully trained staff supported by more than 700 volunteers all working to enhance the dignity and independence of some of the most vulnerable people in our communities.
For 14 years the QPR Community Scheme has built bridges, formed bonds and aidied children and young adults, whilst breaking down barriers and improving people’s everyday life. It has reached over half a million children across the boroughs of Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea, Brent, Hillingdon and Westminster.
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.
QEF works with people living with physical and learning disabilities or acquired brain injuries to gain new skills and increase independence. Whether it's learning everyday life skills, rebuilding a life affected by brain injury, acquiring the skills to drive a specially adapted car or training for future employment QEF supports disabled people to achieve goals for life.
Quest Group of the Ruding for the Disabled Association provides riding for disabled young people and adults. It operates from Langshot Equestrian Centre, Chobham, Surrey.
The Quintessentially Foundation supports charitable activity worldwide that improves the health, education and welfare of disadvantaged communities. In 2010 we are supporting four charities; The House of St. Barnabas, The Place2Be, Room to Read and SOS Children's Villages. For more information please visit www.quintessentiallyfoundation.org
Racing Welfare is the leading Charity that supports all those who are working, or have worked, in the horse racing industry including stud and stable staff, racecourse employees, heath men, farriers, stalls handlers trainers and jockeys.
TO HELP RELIEVE SICKNESS, INFIRMITY AND OLD AGE AMONGST PERSONS LIVING IN THE HARROW AND WEMBLEY AREA BY PROVIDING A LOCAL BROADCASTING SERVICE FOR HOSPITALS, OLD PEOPLE'S HOMES AND SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS.
Rainbow House helps children with physical disabilities between the age of 3 months - 16 years to become more active & independent through Conductive Education and Early Years services, aiming to achieve each childs goal in sitting, standing and walking and improve their social skills in eating, dressing and toileting, making integration into mainstream school and the community easier. Not only do we help children with disabilties such as Cerebral Palsy, Downs Syndrome, Metabolic & other genetic motor disorders, we also provide support for their families & carers.
For season 2009/10 the Rangers Charity Foundation is working with International Partner UNICEF on an ambitious education project in India, National Partner Teenage Cancer Trust to help equip specialist teenage cancer centres in Glasgow and Edinburgh and Community Partner Glasgow Old People's Welfare Association to raise funds for an adapted vehicle to transport the city's elderly to day care centres and on outings and trips. We also assist hundreds of other charities with in-kind support, and make the dreams of many sick, disabled and disadvantaged children come true by arranging for them to meet players and attend matches.
Established in memory of one of Wales? greatest ambassadors - Ray Gravell, our trust supports causes in West Wales that we know would have been close to his heart. Scarlets rugby legend, broadcaster and passionate Welshman, Grav was an inspiration to so many.
The RDA Glasgow Group offers horse riding and carriage driving to over 200 disabled children and adults from Greater Glasgow. Riding improves balance, strength, co-ordination and increases confidence and self-esteem. Riding is an effective form of physiotherapy and psychological therapy and its fun! Riders are referred by health professionals.
RDA Wilton Group has 17 horses and ponies and provides riding therapy for around 250 disabled children and adults from South Wiltshire, at no cost to them. The emphasis is to teach skills, build confidence and give immense enjoyment. All expenses are met from fundraising and donations.
The Reading and District Hospitals Charity is an independent charity dedicated to the support of patients and former patients of hospitals in Reading. An umbrella charity assisting those who would want to donate and fundraise in support of various different wards and departments of Royal Berkshire Hospital.
Since 1992 RFC Community Trust has helped millions of children & adults across Thames Valley to take part in sport, social inclusion & healthy lifestyle initiatives. To continue & evolve, it looks for donations to maintain this positive service it provides to the local communities.
It provides trampoline therapy to anyone with special needs or a disability, ranging from mild coordination or learning difficulties to very limited mobility, speech and understanding. The therapy helps improve balance, coordination, confidence, strength and muscle tone and is also great fun!
Regeneration is a small UK charity for people affected by ataxia, their families, carers and health/social care professionals working on their behalf. Working in partnership with the Somerset and Essex ataxia centres, we help people to live with the effects of their condition 'Today' by providing care, support and information services. We also look to the 'Future' by funding scientific and medical research as well as supporting and undertaking research into supportive treatments.
Remap volunteers design and make, or adapt, equipment for people with disabilities where no suitable item is available. This service is available throughout the UK and is delivered free to the client.
All donations to the RFHKPA are used to support patients either through the purchase of equipment at the various renal units to make life more comfortable, or to support hardship or personal development cases.
RFU Injured Players Foundation supports players who become seriously injured playing rugby and their families. It gives grants for a wide range of support equipment and therapies. It gives grants each year totalling over 400,000.
With the help of 12 ponies and over 120 volunteers, the Riding for the Disabled Association, Abingdon Group dispenses a unique therapy to over 100 children and adults, aged from 2 to 70. Riding, driving or vaulting bring a new dimension to restricted lives, encourage independence, give confidence and generally improve each individual's well-being.
Riding for the Disabled Association aims to provide disabled people with the opportunity to ride and/or carriage drive to benefit their health and well-being.
The RTBP provides education and social activities for community groups and schools. It runs a 26m specially converted and equipped Dutch barge the 'Richmond Venturer', moored in Kingston. It has a unique role, offering the experience of the Thames and its environment to people of all ages and abilities.
It provides charitable help to children in need, hardship or distress of serving and ex serving personnel of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, The Queen Alexandra Royal Naval Nursing Service the former Women's Royal Naval Service and the reserves of those forces.
Our aim is to provide (through the medium of sea training in offshore craft) opportunities for young people and people with disabilities to acquire those attributes of a seaman, namely; a sense of responsibility, resourcefulness and team-work.
The Rossendale Rays Multi-Ability Swimming Club exists to provide water-based leisure activities for all its multi-ability members and their families from all areas of the local community. Every Sunday between 3:30 and 5:30 pm. Marl Pits Swimming Pool, Newchurch Road, Rawtenstall, BB4 7SN Tel: 01706 225457
The Rotary Club of Abingdon Vesper supports a broad range of projects both local and international. Community projects include annual barge trips on the Kennet and Avon canal for local people with physical disabilities. International projects range from Action for Children in Conflict in Kenya to supporting doctors in Tanzania.
The Rotary Club of Bristol Breakfast is a mixed gender club brought together to carry out valuable community work and to fundraise for selected charities; our members span a range from mid 30s upwards and the representation of business, professions and jobs is vast.
The ninth Dragon Boat Festival will be held on Sunday 13th June 2010 to raise money for Rotary charities including The Station which is the old Fire Station in Bridewell which is being developed to provide a world class 32,000 sq ft facility to all young people in Bristol which will be open weekdays and week ends. They will receive around 60% of the money raised the remainder going to other Rotary Charities and good causes including Gift Aid
The Rotary Club of Canary Wharf primarily raises money to support other charities and good causes for the local and international communities. In recent years it has supported, amongst others, Mercy Ships, Little Haven, Children Hospice, Riding for the Disabled, and Queen Victoria Seamen?s Rest.
The club is a group of forty five men and women. It raises funds for local and national charities through events held over the year. The main two are the raft race in May/June and Santa's sleigh just before Christmas. There is a strong emphasis on youth and the elderly.
Based in Royal Tunbridge Wells it is part of the worldwide Rotary movement of 1.2 million Rotarians belonging to more than 32,000 clubs in more than 200 countries dedicated to serving their local communities. The Rotary motto is Service Above Self.
The Rotary Club of Thorpe Bay Charity is involved in Local and Worldwide projects.
The Grantham Swimarathon is a major fund raising event for mostly local charities and worthy causes. 2010 sees the 21st year that the community has joined together over the three day event, to enjoy an hour or two of great fun to help others. Last year it raised over £36,000 that benefited over 40 organisations.
It makes it possible for both serving and ex-Royal Air Force personnel and their dependants with a severe disability to take holidays in the UK and abroad on equal terms with able bodied people. It enables families to holiday together in a property integrated with the able bodied holiday community.
RADAR is a national network of disability organisations and disabled people. It represents members by fast-tracking opinions and concerns to policy-makers and legislators in Westminster and Whitehall, and through campaigns to promote equality for all disabled people.
The RMBF was formed to relieve need, distress or hardship suffered by any person who is serving, has served or is a dependant of a Royal Marine, irrespective of rank. It also provides immediately on the death of either a serving RM or a reservist on duty a sum of money for the next of kin to help them cope with any pressing financial matters.
The Royal Star & Garter Charity has been caring for disabled ex-Service personnel since 1916. The Charity offers its residents the best in nursing and therapeutic care, as well as a wide variety of leisure activities both internally and at outside venues.
RSI Action is the only national charity providing help, support and advice for repetitive strain injuries (RSI) in the UK. RSI Action is working to raise awareness of RSI conditions and aims to achieve major change in the way sufferers are diagnosed, treated and supported.
RYA Sailability - Bringing Boating to disabled people. The charity offers people who think they can't even get on a boat - let alone sail one, the chance to achieve the self reliance that sailing can bring and feel the exhilaration of being on the water.
SACCR is an annual event raising money for local (Hertfordshire) and international charities. Since its inception 15 years ago, over £400,000 has been raised for around 100 good causes. Organised by volunteers from St Albans Rotary clubs, it's a fun day out for everyone with 100% of donations to charity
This charity takes disabled teenagers to the National Sports Centre for Disabled in Colorado, USA to learn new activities, primarily skiing, and develop their character and personalities within a group environment.
Promoting Hinduism, community cohesion, youth education, helping the aged, infirm and the physically challenged people and facilitating medical care to the needy.
Sandbach Round Table supports local charities and good causes through a range of fundraising and community work throughout the year. The 2010 Canal Challenge will support the rebuilding of St Peters Church Hall in Elworth, destroyed by fire earlier this year.
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Scope is a disability organisation in England and Wales whose focus is people with cerebral palsy. Scope's vision is a world where disabled people have the same opportunities to fulfil their life ambitions as non-disabled people.
We provide a range of support, information and campaigning services, both locally and nationally, in addition to providing opportunities in early years, education, employment and independent living.
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.
It has over 200 members worlwide, and its aim is to provide and premote golf to individuals with Arm defects. It aims to encourage participation in golf at all levels, to increase worldwide awareness. It has helped and continues to help people with Arm defects, whether from birth or accident.
The SSBA seeks to increase public awareness and understanding of individuals with Spina Bifida and / or Hydrocephalus and allied disorders. It aims to support all those affected to identify their needs and to empower them to make informed choices and decisions
A national charity that fundraises and gives grants to organisations that help serving or ex-serving seafarers from the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Merchant Navy or fishing fleets, and their families.
Providing Residential and Day Care Services for the Physically Disabled with mild learning difficulties
It provides communication equipment to severely disabled people in order to promote independence and to enable each person to reach their full potential
Since 1972 we have provided training, employment and empowerment opportunities for over 3600 disabled people. We provide free training in IT, Business Admin, Life Skills, Basic Skills and Horticulture alongside activities which reinforce the skills training and enhance quality of life for our students. Visit www.sharecommunity.org.uk to find out more.
Shaw Trust is a national charity providing training and work opportunities for people who are disadvantaged in the workplace due to disability, ill health or other social circumstances. They focus on what people can do not what they cannot and believe that everyone should have an equal opportunity to work.
Shed@ThePark is a charitable organisation, formed in 2005 as an outreach branch of Chickenshed Theatre Company, London. It provides an exciting, innovative and inclusive Theatre Company for the participation of children, young people and adults in the Chilterns and South Bucks, regardless of health, social development or ethnic diversity.
Shift.ms aims to raise awareness and improve understanding of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) among young people.
The Shoe Zone Trust principally seeks to help children to get a better start in life. Please refer to our website www.shoezone.net to find out more.
It provides support, care and friendship to elderly people and adults of all ages with disabilities from throughout Leicestershire at its two country houses. It operates a befriending scheme to the housebound, a free mobility aid loan scheme and craft and socialisation groups for people with disabilities and socially isolated members of the community.
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.
Big Herts Walk - Helping Local Hertfordshire Charities Watford Mencap, The Peace Hospice, and Watford New Hope Trust
Simple Needs is an organisation set up to help people who are suffering from poverty in the third world. Our main objectives are: to provide basic food rations to areas afflicted by famine, to provide wells for rural districts that have no access to clean drinking water and to supply medication to areas of urgent need. We also help children in distress by providing support to projects that offer such children shelter and education, with further assistance given to those who help children with disabilities. So please help us to help those in need.
SCCS campaigns to improve dermatology services for all people with skin diseases.
It has an open door policy where any genuine case is considered for its support. It is passionate about the grants reaching those with genuine needs and is committed to ensuring funds are utilised to benefit children and their families.
The Smith-Magenis Syndrome (SMS) Foundation U.K. is a small charity whose aim is to provide information and support to individuals interested in SMS. Smith-Magenis Syndrome is caused by a missing piece of genetic material from chromosome 17, referred to as deletion 17p11.2. The Foundation sponsors educational conferences for members and also sponsors research relevant to Smith-Magenis Syndrome.
SNAP is a support group for parents and carers of children with any special need or disability. SNAP's aims are to inform, encourage and support parents, allowing them to grow in strength and knowledge so that they are better equipped to give the best possible help to their children.
SOAR Youth Projects stands for, Socialisation, Opportunities, Activities & Recreation Youth Projects. SOAR provides out of school clubs for children and young people with physical/communication/learning difficulties and/or additional needs.
Social Firms UK is a charity that encourages the setting up of Social Firms. Social Firms are market-led businesses that are set up specifically to create employment for disadvantaged people, such as those with mental or physical disabilities or those who are homeless.
It is a registered charity which has been providing local support to carers for over 11 years. It is a member of the Princess Royal Trust for Carers network of carers centres and is a carer led voluntary organisation.
The Centre has been running for 23 years and is financed from collections, donations and contributions. It provides Oxygen Therapy, Physiotherapy and other alternative therapies to help people manage some of the symptoms associated with MS and hopefully improve quality of life. This is achieved within a warm, friendly and caring environment where people can talk to others that understand.
The South Yorkshire Community Foundation helps improve the lives of local people living in disadvantaged communities. SYCF is a registered charity established in 1986 and created for and by the people of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield. We connect people who care to causes that matter...
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Southfield Riding for the Disabled Group is based in Dorset and provides riding and vaulting lessons for disabled and handicapped children from local special schools during the week and for individual disabled and handicapped children on Saturdays (the only Riding for the Disabled Association weekend provision in Dorset).
SPACE provides the biggest and most versatile Multi Sensory Environment for anyone with special needs. After 15 years SPACE cannot meet the demand for sessions so the charity are campaigning to raise £3million for a fantastic new centre that will be able to meet many more needs.
Helping build a centre to support children with disabilities in South Gwent by providing a centre designed specifically with the needs of the disabled child and their families in mind. A place where children and their families can receive the widest possible range of treatments, therapies, support and advice – under one roof.
It funds speech aids for peopkle with MS. throughout the UK, where statutory funding is not available. 2008 should see us help our 200th person., having raised over 150,000 in our first 7 years. It is run entirely by volunteers, many of whom have MS themselves.
The SYC supports all children through the practice of yoga, with an emphasis on special needs. Yoga develops emotional and physical well being enabling children and adults to reach full potential. They are dedicated to making yoga accessible to all regardless of age, disability, economic status, ethnic background or religion.
Speyside Trust based at Badaguish Cairngorm Outdoor Centre is a small independent charity helping children and adults with learning difficulties and other special needs enjoy 24 hour respite care and activites in the Cairngorms National Park.
Springboard Opportunity Group is for children with additional needs aged 0-5, supporting their families across North Somerset. It offers play sessions at Clevedon; Weston super Mare and South Weston Children's Centre. Springboard has an Inclusion Service and Family Support Service. It is a Registered Charity and Company Limited by Guarantee.
Springboard's vision is to provide work experience and training for young people interested in working and gaining skills under the Job Creation Programme.
We provide the opportunity for disabled people to carriage drive. Specially designed vehicles are used that can safely accommodate wheelchairs, together with fully inspected and licensed Driving for the Disabled ponies. All equipment is provided, to ensure that everyone has an enjoyable visit.
We are the national charity committed to helping and supporting those who serve in our Armed Forces, those who used to serve, and the families of both. We provide a reliable, caring and trusted service to more than 50,000 people each year through a network of professionally trained staff and volunteers.
RAG stands for ?Raise and Give? and that?s exactly what we do. Every February St George?s goes into fundraising mode and we hold tonnes of events to raise money for a huge number of charities.
The St. Jude Foundation was set up in 1988 with the general aim of promoting the education and welfare of handicapped (disabled) people, particularly children.
Stars Foundation for Cerebral Palsy is an independent registered charity run entirely by volunteers that raises funds to help people with cerebral palsy and support them, their families and carers. The Charity?s aim is to promote awareness of the condition and raise money to buy mobility and educational aids for people who are unable to gain help through statutory means
Stevenage Community Trust raises funds through membership, donations and fundraising activities in order to allocate grants to individuals in need and local groups within Stevenage and the surrounding area.
Stockport Cerebral Palsy Society provides support to children and adults who have physical and/or learning disabilities. It provides services to residents of Stockport, Manchester, Trafford, Tameside and Cheshire. It is a registered charity established in 1953.
It provides relief and practical support for all persons in West Berkshire who have suffered disablement following a stroke. Services include Family Support (home visiting) and a lively, weekly, Club providing remedial and social activities which encourage personal progress and fellowship.
Success after Stroke is an active and motivated self-help support group where the members are helped by dedicated volunteers and therapists in their efforts for rehabilitation, independence and confidence.
The Suffolk Foundation is dedicated to improving the quality of life for the people of Suffolk by providing grants to inspirational community groups and local charities. Part of the Community Foundation Network, it is a bridge between those who care to the causes that matter in Suffolk.
The Sussex MS Treatment centre is run on a self-help basis for people with MS and other neurological disorders, by people with MS, their families and carers. Our members can take advantage of the range of therapies available at the centre, or they can just come in for a chat and light refreshments.
SCMSTC offers a holistic approach to MS. The Coulsdon Centre is bright, fully accessible and well equipped. It offers physiotherapy, counselling, nutritional advice and yoga as well as group support and social events. Fundraising activities are many and varied ranging from supermarket collections to a 10k Orienteering event in North Wales.
An Independant self help charity to provide therapies (hyperbaric oxygen therapy) to people living with Multiple Sclerosis, and other neurological conditions, autism, strokes, ME etc. A well as people with sporting injuries. Other therapies will be available on completion of our new therapy rooms.
SWANS is a registered non profit making charitable organisation that provides educational, vocational and therapeutic services to physically and sensory impaired adults and their carers throughout Essex.
Most families take recreational play for granted. For families of children with special needs, this is impossible for some and extremely difficult for most. The aim of Swings and Smiles is to provide a fun and safe facility where children can enjoy play appropriate to their needs and abilities.
Taste for Adventure Centre is a registered Charity aimed at the social inclusion and the enhancement of the lives of disadvantaged people through the medium of adventurous, outdoor activities. Founded in 1991 by Brummie Stokes, Ex SAS, MBE BEM and third Briton to summit Mount Everest.
The Charity is a non profit organisation providing community based services that are critical to creating and maintaining a quality of life to the disabled community. We do this by providing a Computer system in the homes of people of all disabilities.
The Dan Maskell Tennis Trust was set up as part of the Tennis Foundation's commitment to make tennis accessible to everyone. It supports tennis for the disabled - wheelchair, deaf and learning disabilities.
RAISE – Theatre Resource’s Capital Appeal is raising money for the National Centre for Disability Arts and Social Inclusion, to open in 2011. A place dedicated to education, innovation and excellence in the arts, it will provide courses, programmes and vocational training schemes for disabled and disadvantaged people from across the UK.
The Think Ahead Community Stroke Group offers help to Stroke Survivors, their families and carers in the Wigan Metropolitan Borough to improve the quality of their lives by providing friendship, information, advice and education, together with opportunities for interaction with other members by organising outings, respite breaks and appropriate social activities
We are a boundary-pushing, pioneering organisation helping bring about a society where everyone has the right to feel involved and empowered, regardless of their disabilities or health condition. We believe that life is for living, and we go the extra mile to help people with disabilities or long-term health conditions lead great lives, where they are in control. We rely on donations to help sustain and develop our wide range of services for people across Scotland. For more information on our work please visit www.thistle.org.uk our contact us on 0131 661 3366.
Thomas's Fund provides Music Therapy in Northamptonshire for children & young people with life limiting illnesses or a disability, which, due to medical reasons, has meant they are too ill to attend school for extended periods. Thomas's Fund is dedicated to Thomas Smith who died at the age of 10 from a life limiting condition. Music Therapy had a very important role in Thomas's life.
Thomley is a recreational facility for disabled children, their families, friends and schools. ?Thomley has a wonderful feel, a community feel. At other places I feel on edge. Here it?s friendly, our children are accepted, no-one comments or is shocked and I don?t feel I have to apologise for my child?s disability. It?s nice to meet other parents and share experiences.? Parent
Thrive is a national charity that makes use of gardening to change the lives of disabled people. Thrive's activities focus on championing the benefits of gardening to individuals and organisations. We also teach techniques and practical applications so that anybody with a disability can take part and enjoy gardening activities.
Through the Roof aims to be Good News for all disabled people and those involved with them. It is a Christian charity that provides hundreds of refurbished wheelchairs each year to disabled people in developing countries who have no other hope of receiving one. TTR also offers support groups and accessible holidays and provides training and resources to include disabled people. The charity is currently developing new programmes so that young disabled people can achieve their potential.
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.
Providing creative, touch-based art of movement and dance programmes for individuals with autism, behaviour that challenges and profound and multiple disabilities. www.touchtrust.co.uk
The Towersey Foundation is a unique charity providing music therapy in palliative care for people living with life-threatening illnesses. The use of music therapy in palliative care is a comparatively new and specialised field. Professionals working in hospices and special schools are increasingly appreciating what a powerful tool it is in the total care of their patients.
It is a self help group that offers High Dosage Oxygen Therapy, Complementary Therapy, Physiotherapy ,Dietary Guidance, Drop in Centre, Support & Friendship for people with the condition of MS.We require £95000 annually to run the centre and receive no Goverment funding.
Training for Life aims to promote a more inclusive society by contributing to the regeneration of communities and to the lives of individuals within those communities. By helping people and communities to fulfil their potential, it is possible to tackle and prevent difficulties including unemployment, worklessness, deprivation and disadvantage and community conflict.
Trust PA was set up in memory of Paul-Andre Blundell (PA), who spent five months paralysed before he died. He had hoped to benefit from recent scientific advances. Trust PA is working to fund the Spinal Research Clinical Trials Initiative to test treatments for the repair of spinal cord injury.
Tunbridge Wells Mental Health Resource Ltd (TWMHR) working alongside individuals with mental health difficulties, maximising their full potential, within their individual lives, and within their local communities. Its aim is to promote social inclusion and equal opportunity whilst promoting awareness of mental health within the community
The Turner Syndrome Support Society is a national charity caring for the needs of those with Turner syndrome throughout the UK, offering support and information to girls and adult women with TS, their families and friends. The Society also enjoys a good relationship with medical and other specialists to promote a good basis for education and uderstanding of the management of TS.
The UK Autism Foundation aims to help and support parents, carers,children and adults with autism and Asperger's Syndrome. The Foundation has three key strands - to build the first ever state of the art Autism Centre in London, to build an autism school and to launch initiatives to help the poor - families with autism who are below the poverty line.
The charity's committee works to raise funds for the purchase of medical equipment at the Schneider Childrens Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Serving the communities of Upholland, Skelmersdale, Rainford, and close surrounding areas. Contributing to charities, and providing help & support to those people less fortunate than ourselves.
The goal of the Valerie Taylor Trust is to financially contribute to the treatment, rehabilitation and reintegration into the community of disabled people in Bangladesh, particularly those in financial need. We also aim to assist with education of the public and relevant health care workers about the problems faced by disabled people and ways in which these difficulties can be overcome.
Vauxhall City Farm is an oasis in the heart of London which is open to everyone Wednesday though to Sunday from 10.30am - 4pm. The farm also provides educational, recreational and therapeutic programmes and activities for children and people of all ages, abilities and cultures.
The Association strives to provide high quality services to physically disabled people in Surrey, their families, professionals and others concerned with disability by providing an equipment service, self-catering accessible holiday accommodation and wheelchair accessible transport.
The VCC provides an easily accessible support service and a focal point for those in need within the local community, delivering direct services such as gardening, befriending, shopping, DIY, wheelchair pushing, driving & escorting. They recruit and train volunteers to develop ;their skills.
Volunteer Bureau Sutton interviews and places people who are wanting to volunteer. They also supply a volunteer service to help the elderly and disabled people in the London Borough of Sutton.
A network of Volunteer Centres across the Highlands with the main office in Inverness. Delivers core services across the voluntary, public and private sectors, aiming to raise the profile of volunteering. The Volunteer Centres offer a volunteer recruitment service to appropriate organisations and provide information/advice and training to prospective volunteers.
It is a Charity set up to enrich the lives of individuals affected by a rare form of dwarfism called Majewski Osteodysplastic Primordial Dwarfism Type II along with their families Individuals affected by MOPDII are classed as the smallest people in the world Please visit our website for more Info
Imagine losing the ability to move and feel for the rest of your natural life. That is the reality for millions of individuals world-wide who have become victims of a paralysing spinal cord injury. Walkoncemore funds cutting edge research into a cure for this horrific condition. With your help they can weld the key to unlock paralysis.
Warrington Disability Partnership is a charity that aims to help remove the social barriers faced by disabled people, their families or carers and to support their independence throughout work and life. It offers disabled people services from: help and advice on Direct Payments to finding gainful employment, showrooms with the latest enabling equipment, free wheelchair loans, Sports Leisure & Recreation, a town centre Shopmobility scheme, opportunities to volunteer, a 'Discover IT' suite, an accessible holiday home in North Wales to even offering free day trips on our wheelchair accessible narrow boat 'Wizard'!
It provides children between the ages of 5 and 19 who have severe disabilities or complex care needs with an OFSTED registered activity club, which operates on 47 weekends per year, where they can enjoy supervised indoor and outdoor play, games, sport, crafts, music and trips out.
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.
The Werewolves of London Special Ice Hockey Club is unique in that it is the only non-profit organisation in the UK that is dedicated to providing an opportunity for children and young adults with disabilities and special needs to participate in the sport of ice hockey.
Wessex MS Therapy Centre provides therapies, advice and support for people with multiple sclerosis and their families. Therapies include physiotherapy, oxygen therapy, counselling, massage, and reflexology. Many also find that the help and support Centre members give one another is a therapy in itself.
The Magpie Centre gives riding and carriage driving lessons to over 80 children, young people and adults a week who have physical and/or learning difficulties. At the purpose built centre clients are given every opportunity to improve their physical skills, confidence and self esteem within a happy and supportive environment.
The West Yorks MS Therapy centre offers therapies and support to people with Multiple Sclerosis and their families. we offer hyperbaric oxygen physiotherapy, counselling, aromatherapy,reflexologyand healing. We can only continue to do this through fundraising events and donations.
Sport has tremendous physical, psychological and social benefits for the participants, particularly young people. WheelPower provides and promotes opportunities for thousands of children and young adults with disabilities to participate in recreational and competitive wheelchair sport and improve their quality of life.
White Lodge Centre supports disabled children, adults and their families in the Surrey area by providing a range of services. Its specialist centre offers therapies, nursery education for children with Cerebal Palsy, family support services for disabled children/young people and a resource centre, where disabled adults can socialise, learn new skills and access therapies.
It provides twenty four hour a day care and support for adults with visual and other disabilities living in community based houses. Its rehabilitation service enables and encourages blind and partially sighted people to achieve maximum independence through training.
Home to many rescued animals and Willows also offers animal assisted therapy to vulnerable members of the community
TThe Wingate Special Children?s Trust is an independent Charity devoted to enriching the lives of children and young people with all levels of disability or who are disadvantaged, through short term residential breaks at its specialist Centre and the use of its 7,000sq ft fully equipped gymnasium.
The Wolf Hirschhorn Syndrome Trust provides support to familes affected by Wolf Hirschhorn Syndrome. Contact can be made via the helpline 0845 603 5338.
Woodlands is a unique centre providing short term respite care, utilising an holistic approach, to anyone directly affected by Multiple Sclerosis. People stay at Woodlands for a week or two to enjoy a relaxing holiday, and to enable their carers to have a break. In addition, its Resource Centre provides information support and guidance to anyone affected by MS including health and social care professionals.
It provides a purpose built, multi-sensory leisure resource for people (of all ages) who have any kind of disability. It has relaxation rooms, a music studio, a Jacuzzi pool, soft play room, video room, sensory garden and much more....Lots of fun for everyone!
WWV works in 850 schools, colleges, youth clubs and prisons across the UK to promote volunteering. We give presentations to 55,000 young people each year to motivate them to volunteer and help them to find suitable placements. WWV actively works with both ex-offenders and with young people with disabilities, and we help countless charities find volunteers to help them continue the work that they do as well .... by helping us, you are actually helping a lot of other charities too! In addition to this, WWV operates a free online database of volunteering opportunities with 2000 different organisations across the UK and around the world, matching thousands of volunteers of all ages with their ideal volunteer placement.
Worthing & District Scope was founded in 1965. The charity has developed and grown over the years, but remains focused on providing services for children and adults with cerebral palsy and like disabilities. Today the charity provides day services, housing, a parent/child support group, and advice and support through our fieldwork service.
The Wye & Usk Foundation works to restore these two great rivers and their tributaries. Working in partnerships with statutory bodies and landowners it makes good the problems afflicting their salmon and other indigenous species, and provides opportunities for the public to enjoy and benefit from this.
Wyfold RDA provides disabled people with the opportunity to ride and or carriage drive to benefit their health and well being.
The Yard aims to provide children and young people with additional support needs and their siblings the chance to experience creative and adventuous indoor and outdoor play in a well supported environment
Yeovil Opportunity Group is a Charity running since 1970 to support children 0-5 and their families. The children all have special needs, ie cerebal palsy, downs syndrome, autism, a language disorder, visualor or hearing imperment, physcial or medical condition. These children come from a wide catchment area around Yeovil. l
Aims of YES in Upper Deeside are to promote, improve the health, fitness & education of young people; provide & assist in the provision of leisure facilities for the public & young people, with the object of improving their conditions of life, advance development and regeneration.
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.
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