Action for Children
Registered Charity No 1097940
www.actionforchildren.org.uk |
Action for Children supports and speaks out for the most vulnerable and neglected children and young people in the UK, working with approximately 200,000 children, young people and their families through 480 projects. We challenge injustice and empower children to overcome the obstacles in their lives that hold them back. We tailor our work to local circumstances, in partnership with children and young people, families, communities and local organisations. |
Age UK
Registered Charity No 1128267
www.ageuk.org.uk |
The Age UK Group works to improve later life for everyone by providing life-enhancing services and vital support. We achieve this through our information and advice, campaigns, products, training and research. We have about 500 Age UK charity shops throughout the UK, offering a wide and ever-changing range of goods at very reasonable prices. These shops provide a gateway to the whole charity and are recycling centres too. Age UK support and assists a network of over 330 local Age UKs and Age Concerns which between them cover every locality and district in England. The Age UK family also includes Age Scotland, Age Cymru and Age NI. Age Concern and Help and Aged merged to form a single charity on 1 April 2009 and became Age UK on 1 April 2010. |
Alzheimer’s Society
Registered Charity No 296645
www.alzheimers.org.uk |
Alzheimer's Society is the UK’s leading support and research charity for people with dementia, their families and carers. We provide information and support to people with any form of dementia and their carers through our publications, National Dementia Helpline, website, and more than 2,000 local services. We campaign for better quality of life for people with dementia and greater understanding of dementia. We also fund an innovative programme of medical and social research into the cause, cure and prevention of dementia and the care people receive. If you have any concerns about Alzheimer's disease or any other form of dementia, visit alzheimers.org.uk or call the Alzheimer's Society National Dementia Helpline on 0845 3000 336. (Interpreters are available in any language. Calls may be recorded or monitored for training and evaluation purposes.) |
Arthritis Research UK
Registered Charity No 207711
www.arthritisresearchuk.org |
Arthritis Research UK is the charity leading the fight against arthritis. We work to take the pain away for the 10 million people suffering from arthritis in the UK, helping them to remain active throughout their life. We provide information about arthritis to the public and health professionals, so that people can make informed decisions about prevention, treatment and lifestyle. We also campaign to improve the quality of life for people who have arthritis. Everything we do is underpinned by the research we fund to prevent and reduce the pain and disability resulting from arthritis. |
Barnardo’s
Registered Charity No 216250
www.barnardos.org.uk |
Whatever the issue from drug misuse to disability; youth crime to mental health; sexual abuse to domestic violence; child poverty to homelessness; Barnardo’s believes we can bring out the best in every child. We run 415 projects across the UK |
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 our pioneering research, patient care, campaigning, and vital information to keep more hearts beating. But we cannot do it without you and your essential donations of time and money, which allows us to continue our life saving work. Because it’s only together that we can beat heart disease. |
Cancer Research UK
Registered Charity No1089464
www.cancerresearchuk.org |
Cancer Research UK is the world’s leading cancer charity dedicated to saving lives through research. Our groundbreaking work into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer has seen survival rates double in the last 40 years. But more than one in three of us will still get cancer at some point in our lives. Our research, entirely funded by the public, is critical to ensuring more people beat it. |
Cystic Fibrosis Trust
Registered Charity
No281287
www.cftrust.org.uk |
CFT - 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 |
Diabetes UK is the largest organisation in the UK working for people with diabetes, funding research, campaigning and helping people live with the condition. Diabetes UK Careline is the only dedicated diabetes helpline in the UK. The confidential helpline is staffed by trained counsellors who can provide information on living with diabetes as well as the time to talk things through and can be reached on 0845 120 2960. |
Epilepsy Action
Registered Charity No234343
www.epilepsy.org.uk |
Epilepsy Action improves the lives of everyone affected by epilepsy. Working closely with stakeholders to: ensure that all people with epilepsy have expert medical care and treatment for their condition; ensure they can lead their lives free of stigma, prejudice and discrimination; campaigning for better and increased services for people with epilepsy; fund and protect epilepsy specialist nurse posts, known as Sapphire Nurses, working closely with the NHS. Over 845,000 people used Epilepsy Action’s services last year. Seeking expert advice and information. Support from our helplines, website, facebook, and private on line forum, forum4e. Or to join our national network of volunteer branches, groups, conferences and workshops, to access local support. We really need your help to ensure that in these stringent times we can continue to deliver these vital services. 75 people will be diagnosed with epilepsy today, and the same tomorrow. Every single day 75 people are newly diagnosed with epilepsy. By supporting our work you really can improve the lives of everyone affected by epilepsy. Your support is of huge importance to people with epilepsy, so thank you very much. We really appreciate it. |
Hft
Registered Charity No313069
www.hft.org.uk |
Hft is a national charity providing local support for people with learning disabilities and their families. Our creative and resourceful approach supports individuals to make choices about the life they want. People with learning disabilities and their families talk to us about all types of support. Working together we find the best individual solutions. Our flexible approach means we can offer the right support from as little as two hours a week to twenty four hours a day. We work with over 1,000 people with learning disabilities across the UK and 4,000 family carers through our Family Carer Support Service. |
Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research
Registered Charity No216032
www.beatingbloodcancers.org.uk |
Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research is the only UK charity solely dedicated to research into better treatments and cures for all blood cancers, including leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma. We receive no government funding and rely entirely on the generosity of the British public. We know research takes time, but we are determined to beat blood cancers, however long it takes. |
Macmillan Cancer Support
Registered Charity No261017
www.macmillan.org.uk |
Macmillan Cancer Support improves the lives of people affected by cancer. One in three of us will get cancer. If someone is diagnosed with cancer, our team will be there for them every step of the way. We are the nurses and therapists helping throughout treatment. The advisers telling people which benefits they’re entitled to. The experts on the end of the phone. The campaigners improving cancer care. We are all affected by cancer. We can all help. We are Macmillan. |
Mencap
Registered Charity No222377
www.mencap.org.uk |
Mencap is the voice of learning disability. There are 1.5 million people in the UK with a learning disability and they are among the most excluded people in today’s society. Mencap works with people with a learning disability to change laws and services, challenge prejudice and directly support thousands of people to live the life they choose. |
Mind
Registered Charity No219830
www.mind.org.uk |
By buying Mind Christmas Cards, you will be supporting a charity that, for more than fifty years, has taken the lead in promoting mental health, and working for a better life for everyone with experience of mental distress. Our vision is of a society that promotes and protects good mental health for all, and that treats people with experience of mental distress fairly, positively, and with respect. We provide information and support, campaign to improve policy and attitudes and, in partnership with independent local Mind associations, develop local services, including sheltered homes, drop-in centres, counselling, advocacy and employment schemes. We do all this to make it possible for people who experience mental distress to live full lives, and play their full part in society. |
Multiple Sclerosis Society
Registered Charity No1139257
www.mssociety.org.uk |
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a devastating and incurable neurological condition that affects around 100,000 people in the UK. Usually diagnosed in your 20s and 30s, it is a chronic condition that affects three times as many women as men. It is unique in its range of symptoms and unpredictability. For nearly 60 years, the MS Society has been providing information and support, funding research and fighting for change. Our mission is to enable everyone affected by MS to live their live to their full potential, until we ultimately find a cure. With your help we can beat MS. |
National Autistic Society
Registered Charity
No269425
www.autism.org.uk |
Over 500,000 people in the UK have autism. Together with their families, they make up over two million people whose lives are touched by autism every single day. Founded in 1962, The National Autistic Society is the UK’s leading charity for people affected by autism. Today we have over 19,000 members, over 100 branches and provide a wide range of advice, information, support and specialist services to 100,000 people each year. A local charity with a national presence, we campaign and lobby for lasting positive change for people affected by autism. |
NSPCC
Registered Charity No216401
Scottish Charity number SC037717
www.nspcc.org.uk |
We’re here to end cruelty to children in the UK by fighting for their rights, listening to them, helping them when they need us and making them safe and this will be achieve by:
- Providing UK services, such as the NSPCC Helpline for adults concerned about a child and ChildLine for vulnerable children
- Providing pioneering services to help children who have been neglected and sexually and physically abused
- Creating new life-saving changes in child protection, and working for these to be adopted across the UK
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Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation for Disabled People
Registered Charity No251051
www.qef.org.uk |
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. |
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 150 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 |
In 2011, Save the Children is asking millions of people to join us, giving their money and adding their voices to help us stop children dying. With the money we raise, we’re dramatically strengthening the work we do in 120 countries around the world, helping to save millions of children’s lives. We’re also helping poor countries and communities to provide better healthcare and nutrition for their children. Save the Children already has an impressive track-record in saving children’s lives. We help children get vaccinated against potentially deadly diseases. We help them get lifesaving treatment when they’re ill. And we help them get the food they need to survive, grow up healthy and have the chance to fulfil their potential. We focus on the first five years – the time they’re most vulnerable. Now we’re extending and growing our work to further increase our impact and save many more lives. Specifically, over the next three years, we will:
- Stop 3 million children dying from avoidable illnesses like pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria.
- Train 50,000 health workers - nurses, and midwives and community workers - so that many more children can be vaccinated, diagnosed quickly and treated effectively.
- Make sure that 640,000 babies are delivered safely by skilled birth attendants that we help train, who will also provide essential postnatal care, getting newborn babies safely through those crucial first few weeks.
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Self Unlimited
Registered Charity No250058
www.selfunlimited.co.uk |
Self Unlimited is a national charity that offers a network of individually tailored support services maximising opportunity and choice for hundreds of people with learning disabilities across the country. We maintain an encouraging environment that allows people to gain in confidence and achieve as much independence as possible. Offering supported living, specialist residential services, training, occupation and work opportunities, we strive to ensure that people live as active citizens in their own community and take as much control in their lives as possible. Self Unlimited is the operating name of Cottage and Rural Enterprises (CARE). |
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. For over 125 years, we have provided a reliable, caring and trusted service to more than 50,000 people each year, that’s 150 people each and every day. |
The National Deaf Children’s Society
Registered Charity No1016532
www.ndcs.org.uk |
The National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) is the leading charity dedicated to creating a world without barriers for deaf children and young people. NDCS believes that every deaf child should be valued and included by society and have the same opportunities as any other child. NDCS helps deaf children thrive by providing impartial practical and emotional support to them and their families, and by challenging governments and society to meet their needs. We provide parents with unrivalled information and support on all aspects of childhood deafness. This includes a free membership service, a wide range of events, helpline support, and one-to-one advice from a family officer. |
The Stroke Association
Registered Charity No211015
www.stroke.org.uk |
The Stroke Association is the only UK wide charity solely concerned with combating stroke in people of all ages. The Stroke Association funds research into prevention, treatment and better methods of rehabilitation, and helps stroke survivors and their families directly through its Life After Stroke Services. We also campaign, educate and inform to increase knowledge of stroke at all levels of society, and we act as a voice for everyone affected by stroke. |
