Action for Children
www.actionforchildren.org.uk |
Action for Children helps some of the UK’s most vulnerable children – youngsters born into poverty, struggling with illness or disability, suffering terrible abuse, living in care or on the streets. Our 500 projects across the UK, work with over 140,000 children, young people and their families. |
Arthritis Research Campaign
Registered Charity No 207711
www.arc.org.uk |
Raises funds to promote and fund research into causes, treatment and cure of arthritic conditions, as well as educating healthcare professionals and providing information for sufferers. |
Barnardo’s
Registered Charity No 216250
www.barnardos.org.uk |
As one of the UK’s leading children’s charities, Barnardo’s works directly with over 115,000 children, young people and their families every year. We run 394 vital projects across the UK, including counselling for children who have been abused, fostering and adoption services, vocational training and disability inclusion groups. Every Barnardo’s project is different but each believes in the potential in every child and young person, no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. |
British Heart Foundation
Registered Charity No225971
www.bhf.org.uk |
The British Heart Foundation is the nation’s heart charity, dedicated to saving lives through pioneering research, patient care, campaigning for change and by providing vital information. But we urgently need your help. We rely on your donations of time and money to continue our life-saving work. Because together we can beat heart disease. |
Cancer Research UK
Registered Charity No1089464
www.cancerresearchuk.org |
Cancer Research UK is the world’s leading independent organisation dedicated to cancer research. We have discovered new ways of beating cancer that together have saved hundreds of thousands of lives across the world. Our groundbreaking work, funded almost entirely by the general public, will ensure that millions more people survive. Together we will beat cancer. |
Care
Registered Charity No250058
www.care-ltd.co.uk |
CARE is a national charity that provides vital day-to-day support for people with learning disabilities. Using a holistic approach and specifically tailoring services to the changing needs of each individual, we aim to develop confidence and self-esteem, ensuring an improved quality of life with increased independence. We offer the flexibility of a range of accommodation options together with training and employment opportunities, as well as a wide variety of stimulating day activities, both educational and therapeutic. |
Cystic Fibrosis Trust
Registered Charity
No281287
www.cftrust.org.uk |
CFTR - Cystic Fibrosis Trust - 'Supports and funds medical and scientific research aimed towards understanding, treating and curing CF. Also aims to ensure that CF sufferers receive the best possible care and support in all aspects of their lives. |
Diabetes UK
Registered Charity No215199
www.diabetes.org.uk |
There are over 2 million people in the UK who have diabetes and an estimated 500,000 people who have the condition but do not know it. Diabetes UK is the largest organisation in the UK working for people with diabetes, funding research, campaigning and helping people live with the condition. With over 170,000 members Diabetes UK is the charity for people with diabetes, their friends and carers. Our mission is to improve the lives of people with the condition and work towards a future without diabetes by providing practical support, information and safety-net services to help people manage their diabetes. |
Epilepsy Action
Registered Charity No234343
www.epilepsy.org.uk |
Epilepsy Action is the largest member-led epilepsy organisation in Britain, acting as the voice for the UK’s estimated 456,000 people with epilepsy, as well as their friends, families, carers, health professionals and the many other people on whose lives the condition has an impact. |
Help the Aged
Registered Charity No272786
www.helptheaged.org.uk |
Our mission is to secure and uphold the rights of disadvantaged older people in the <<UK>> and around the world. Working with them, we will research their needs, campaign for changes in policy and provide services to alleviate hardship today and prevent deprivation tomorrow. |
Leukaemia Research
Registered Charity No216032
www.lrf.org.uk |
Leukaemia Research is the only charity in the UK dedicated exclusively to researching blood cancers and disorders including leukaemia, Hodgkin’s and other lymphomas and myeloma. 24,500 people, children and adults are diagnosed with a blood cancer in the UK every year. Our research has already improved treatments but with your help we want to achieve further advances and save more lives. |
Macmillan Cancer Support
Registered Charity No261017
www.macmillan.org.uk |
Macmillan Cancer Support improves the lives of people affected by cancer. We provide practical, medical, emotional and financial support and push for better cancer care. Cancer affects us all. We can all help. We are Macmillan. |
Mencap
Registered Charity No222377
www.mencap.org.uk |
Mencap works with people with a learning disability to change laws and services, challenge prejudice and directly support thousands of people to live their lives as they choose. |
Mind
Registered Charity No219830
www.mind.org.uk |
Campaigns for the opportunity to work and play a full part in the community for anyone with experience of mental distress, and is an influential voice on mental health issues. |
Multiple Sclerosis Society
Registered Charity No207495
www.mssociety.org.uk |
The MS society supports the 85,000 people in the UK who live with multiple sclerosis. We fund MS Nurses, respite care, an MS Helpline and provide services through our 350 local branches. We also invest in innovative research with the hope of finding more effective treatments for MS. |
National Autistic Society
Registered Charity
No269425
www.autism.org.uk |
The National Autistic Society is the UK’s leading charity for people affected by autism. Over 500,000 people in the UK have autism. Together with their families, they make up over to million people whose lives are touched by autism every single day.
Despite this, autism is still relatively unknown and misunderstood. This means that many of these two million people get nothing like the level of help, support and understanding they need.
Together we are going to change this. |
NSPCC
Registered Charity No216401
Scottish Charity number SC037717
www.nspcc.org.uk |
The NSPCC's purpose is to end cruelty to children. Our vision is of a society where all children are loved, valued and able to fulfil their potential. We seek to achieve cultural, social and political change - influencing legislation, policy, practice, attitudes and behaviours and delivering services for the benefit of children and young people. |
Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation
Registered Charity No251051
www.qef.org.uk |
Exists to develop the skills and improve the independence of people with disabilities and to promote awareness of their needs and abilities. |
Royal National Institute of Blind People
Registered Charity No 226227
www.rnib.org.uk |
RNIB offers friendly support, expert advice, Talking Books, a wide range of products and training to help people learn new ways to get on with everyday life. If you or someone you know has a sight problem call RNIB Helpline on 0845 766 999. 50 % of sight problems are avoidable. Every day another 100 people will start to lose their sight. Your support helps us rebuild lives devastated by sight loss. |
Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Registered Charity No209603
www.rnli.org.uk |
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution is the charity that saves lives at sea. Our volunteer crews provide the 24 hour on-call service necessary to cover search and rescue requirements out to 100 nautical miles from the coasts of the UK and the Republic of Ireland. We now also provide a seasonal lifeguard service on more than 100 beaches in England and Wales. The RNLI is independent from Government and continues to rely on voluntary contributions and legacies for its income. |
Save the Children
Registered Charity No213890
www.savethechildren.org.uk |
We’re the world’s independent children’s charity. We’re outraged that millions of children are still denied proper healthcare, food, education and protection. We’re working flat out to get every child their rights and we’re determined to make further, faster changes. How many? How fast? It’s up to you. |
SSAFA Forces Help
Registered Charity No210760
Registered Charity (Scotland) NoSC038056
www.ssafa.org.uk |
The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families’ Association (SSAFA) Forces Help is the leading 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. |
The Home Farm Trust
Registered Charity No313069
www.hft.org.uk |
HFT’s vision is to meet the hopes and needs of people with learning disabilities. HFT delivers a range of individual opportunities and quality services with and for people with learning disabilities. These include residential care, supported living, day services, carer support, advocacy, short breaks, training and opportunities for employment. HFT enables people with learning disabilities to develop their potential, to make informed choices and to live their lives to the full. |
The National Deaf Children’s Society
Registered Charity No1016532
www.ndcs.org.uk |
The National Deaf Children’s Society is the national charity dedicated to creating a world without barriers for deaf children and young people. We represent the interests and campaign for the rights of all deaf children and young people from birth to independence. NDCS believes that the family is the most important influence on a deaf child’s development. NDCS supports the deaf child through the family as well as directly supporting deaf children and young people themselves. Freephone helpline 0808 800 8880 Mon – Fri 10am – 5pm. |
The Stroke Association
Registered Charity No211015
www.stroke.org.uk |
Provides support for people affected by stroke, their families and carers. Our mission is to prevent strokes, and reduce their effect through providing services, campaigning, education and research. |
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Alzheimer’s Society
www.alzheimers.org.uk |
Alzheimer’s Society is the UK’s leading care and research charity for people with dementia and those who care for them. There are 700,000 people with dementia in the UK with numbers set to rise to one million by 2025. Alzheimer’s Society provides information and support for people with all forms of dementia and those who care for them. It runs quality care services, funds research, advises professionals and campaigns for improved health and social care and greater public understanding and awareness of dementia. |
Perennial Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Society
www.perennial.org.uk |
Perennial is the only UK charity for people in gardening professions and every year we help many hundreds of people who due to illness, old age or financial difficulties have found themselves unable to cope. Our services include retirement accommodation, financial help, advice and support through our casework team. |
Shelter
www.shelter.org.uk |
Shelter believes everyone should have a home. We help more than 170,000 people are year fight for their rights, get back on their feet, and find and keep a home. We also tackle the root causes of bad housing by campaigning for new laws, policies and solutions. Our website gets more than 100,000 visits a month; visit www.shelter.org.uk to join our campaign, find housing advice or make a donation. We need your help to continue our work. Please support us. |
