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. We work with 156,000 children, young people and their families through 420 projects across the UK: providing specialist help and support for disabled children and excluded young people, find carers for children who cannot live with their families and support families at critical times with their difficult problems. We want children and young people to be able to achieve their full potential. |
Age UK
Registered Charity No 1128267
www.helptheaged.org.uk |
The Age UK Group works to improve later life for everyone by providing life-enhancing services and vital support.We aim to improve later life for everyone through our information and advice, campaigns, products, training and research. We have around 500 Age UK charity shops throughout the UK, offering a wide and ever-changing range of goods at very reasonable prices. The shops provide a gateway to the whole charity and they are recycling centres too. Age UK supports 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 the Aged combined to become Age UK on the 1st April 2010. |
Alzheimer’s Society
Registered Charity No 296645
www.alzheimers.org.uk |
Alzheimer's Society is the UK's leading support services and research charity for people with dementia and those who care for them. There are 750,000 people with dementia in the UK with numbers set to rise to one million by 2025. Alzheimer's Society has over 25,000 members and provides over 2,000 services across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Alzheimer's Society provides information and support for people with all forms of dementia and those who care for them through its publications, Dementia Helplines and web sites as well as local branches. 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. The Society funds an innovative programme of biomedical and social research in the areas of cause, cure and care. |
Arthritis Research UK
Registered Charity No 207711
www.arc.org.uk |
Arthritis Research UK is the charity leading the fight against arthritis. Our aim is to take the pain away for the millions of sufferers of all forms of arthritis and help people to remain active throughout their lives. We do this by continuing to fund high quality research, providing information so that people can make informed decisions about their treatment and lifestyle and we will start to campaign to improve the quality of life for sufferers. We spend around £30m each year on our research, information and campaigning activities – the vast majority is spent on the research which underpins everything we do. |
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; 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 charity dedicated to beating cancer through research. Our groundbreaking work into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer has saved millions of lives. Survival rates have doubled in the last thirty years and we have been at the heart of that progress. But one in three of us will still get cancer at some point and our vital work, funded entirely by the public, will help ensure that millions more people will survive. |
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 charity for people with diabetes, their family, friends and carers. There are 2.6 million people in the UK who have diabetes and up to half a million others who have the condition but do not know it yet. Our mission is to improve the lives of people with the condition and work towards a future without diabetes. We are one of the largest patient organisations in Europe. We stand up for the interests of people with diabetes by campaigning for better standards of care. We are one of the largest funders in the UK of research, £6 million in 2010, into better treatments for diabetes and the search for a cure. We provide practical support and information and safety-net services to help people manage their diabetes. |
Epilepsy Action
Registered Charity No234343
www.epilepsy.org.uk |
Epilepsy Action exists for every single one of the 456,000 people in the UK who have epilepsy. From all age groups and all walks of life, people with epilepsy can rely on us for support, advice and campaigns to build a better future. Funding enables Epilepsy Action to provide essential support and services to those with epilepsy, ranging from a freephone helpline, a specialist nurse scheme and a national network of branches. By working together, we can achieve our goal of living in a society where everyone understands epilepsy and attitudes towards the condition are based on fact, not fiction. |
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.beatbloodcancers.org |
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. 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 |
Few people know very much at all about what it is like to be someone with a learning disability. Therefore, the 1.5 million people with a learning disability in the UK 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 their lives as they choose. Mencap is the voice of learning disability. |
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 |
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common disabling neurological disorder affecting young adults and more than 100,000 people in the UK live with MS. Seven people are diagnosed every day, most commonly between the age of 20 and 40 and three times as many women as men are affected. The MS Society is the UK’s largest charity working to support everyone affected by MS. It funds research, runs respite cares centres, provides grants, information and training on MS. Our freephone helpline (0808 800 8000) is available for those struggling with the effects of the condition. |
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 two 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 |
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 |
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. |
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 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 patients 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. |
