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A big well done to Cardiff Foodbank who are our Cause of the Month for June and win a £200 donation from Viking .
They help and support people facing the reality of being unable to feed themselves or their families. Food is donated by individuals, schools, businesses and churches and is distributed from centres across the City.
Director Ian Purcell says, “We were delighted to win the Cause of the Month for June and with client numbers doubling this year to date we will have no problems in making good use of the £200 courtesy of Viking. Thank you very much to everyone who is behind us and have voted – we could not do any of this without a generous community of supporters.”
Win £200 for your cause
July’s cause of the month competition starts today so use the comments section below to let everyone know how fantastic your cause is and they could win a £200 from Viking too.
Here’s how it works:
1. Post a comment below to tell us about your cause and why you think they should be our Cause of the Month.
2. On Monday July 18th, we will announce a shortlist of 10 causes and ask you all to vote for the one you would like to win.
3. The voting closes at Midday (12 noon) on July 31st and the cause with the most votes fairly cast will win a £200 donation from Viking
Please make sure you abide by our terms and conditions. To find out who wins, and to hear about our other competitions, subscribe to our blog updates.
Totz2teens is a volunteer led community for parents of all age children. We offer support on all aspects of family life, school, work and social too. Our team of volunteers ensure that the site is run efficiently but of course have many ideas of how we can extend our services further in the future. Many members find the community a friendly and important part of their lives.
As a winner of Cause for the Month in June we have been delighted to receive the support of those who voted, and for those who enter in July I hope it goes well not only in the competition but also in your future efforts towards some great causes
Thanks!
Our cause is the Parent Teach Association of Elmridge Primary School in Hale Barns, Cheshire.
We would *love* to be the cause of the month as £200 would help us to provide much needed investment in our PTA equipment. This year our team of volunteer parents has worked incredibly hard to introduce new fund raising and social events events for the families in school, as well as keeping up the old favourite events. However, one of our big fundraisers previously was a bouncy castle, but this year we were unable to borrow the one we usually borrow due to damage, and had to hire one for our summer fair instead – which ate up 90% of the profits on the bouncy castle (although the kids loved it!). We would love to be able to buy a second-hand bouncy castle to be able to use at PTA events at school (not just the summer fair), as well as after school in the summer, and a £200 donation would pay for nearly all of that. The children would LOVE this, and we would be able to maximise the fundraising at our events.
I would like to nominate Brompton fountain. This is a charity linked to Royal Brompton Hospital in London. The charity supports families of children under the hospitals care. The children are often seriousy ill as the Brompton is a specialist heart and lung hospital. It is a fantastic chairity who recently have been fighting to keep the childrens sugery unit open as it is under threat from a review. Their funds have been much depleted as funds have been diverted to help the campaign, and are now in need of some extra funding so that they can go back to supporting the families.
The RSPCA East Norfolk Branch would love to be chosen. We are inundated with cats & kittens at the moment and have lots more waiting for our help. A twice weekly clinic provides necessary treatment for those animals whose owners would otherwise be unable to afford treatment. A welfare voucher scheme also exists to help those that need help towards emergency vet treatment and neutering. All of this costs a lot of money. No government funding is received and all of our money is raised locally for local animals. Please vote for us!
I am very happy to vote for this worthwhile cause.
Delighted that Cardiff Food Bank received so much support. With pressure of benefit cuts biting, only organisations like this stand between families in crisis having to make a choice between food and going further into arrears with their rent, or even losing their homes. Well done, Ian and co
Our Squadron is aimed at encouraging a practical interest in aviation and to provide training that will be useful within the forces or civilian life, by fostering and developing qualities of leadership and adventure for youth ages between 13 and 20. Our main priority at the moment is to purcahse a good secondhand 17 seater minibus as we currently have no means of transport.
SOFT UK is a nationwide charity that supports families affected by Trisomy 13 and Trisomy 18. Up to 700 diagnoses are made a year in England and Wales alone yet many people have never heard of the conditions. Many families experience having to make heartbreaking choices, care for children with multiple and profound disabilities and face bereavement . SOFT UK supports them every step of the way. Being your charity of the month would help raise the profile of the conditions, meaning families would benefit from more support in the communities in which they live. It would also raise the profile of SOFT UK meaning families would be more able to find them when they really need them.
We are an online Kayak fishing community who raise funds for various charities. For example we funded an electric reel for a disabled child , have made a number of donations to RNLI stations , Help for heroes and most recently helped run and fund a Disabled persons kayaking day on Llangorse lake in Wales
We’re raising funds to create our our ‘rainforest’ in the school grounds!
We want to build an eco solar geodesic dome that we can use as an outdoor learning zone to compliment our wildlife garden. We have planning permission, we have the space available, we have the supplier, all we lack is the funding.
The children at the school have been helping to raise funds for the dome through Green Weeks, but we’re still some way short and are looking for new ways to raise the money.
this is a Support Group for sufferers of a rare, hard to treat form of chronic uveitis called Birdshot Chorioretinopathy. if it wasn’t for this Support Group i would never have been able to get in touch with and meet so many other sufferers, i now don’t feel so alone. They also organised a fabulous Patient Day in September 2010 where sufferers, their supporters and healthcare professionals all got together to helpt each other learn and understand about this condition.
Hazel Grove carnival assocation ,not only put on a great carnival,they raise funds for local charities,good causes, And help young girls to become young ladys,give them confidance in a tough world.
I am raising money to go to Borneo with world challenge in 2012 for a month, i have to raise all the money myself. While in borneo i will be helping out at schools and orangutan sancturies, we will also be doing altot of hiking and learning about life in Borneo while helping out at many charites there.
I am helping to raise money for the Bluebell Railway, so that they can finish their northern extension to East Grinstead. They need to dig out 100,000 tonnes of landfill from an old cutting and this is going to cost £2,000,000. Unfortunately if it isn’t done by March 2012 it will cost around £10,000,000 due to a landfill tax exemption expiring at that time.
This is an important project, and the railway is a valuable educational resource as well as a fantastic leisure facility and local transport link.
I would really like the Mayhew Home in Kensal Green to be nominated for the money. They rely solely on donations and take excellent care of the animals bought to them and are proactive fundraisers. It would be nice to give them that extra helping hand.
My family have had 5 cats from them over the last 20 years and I also foster for them. They change lives they do for the animals and for the humans that get to love them!
Basingstoke Bison Under 10s. We are the youngest team within the Basingstoke Junior Ice Hockey Development Club. With both boys and girls as young as 5 years old up to 9 in the team. We rely totally on Parents Support and fund raising to run our club. The children train twice a week at the Ice Arena in Basingstoke and take park in games within a league once a fortnight, one at home and one away. Ice Hockey is very much a minority sport in country but is slowly becoming more recognised. Our Season starts at the end of August and £200 would help us get off to a fantastic start this year.
I would like to nominate the RSDR Bulgaria street dog rescue for this cash prize. They are currently very short of funds and trying to rescue injured and stray animals from the streets of Bulgaria under very difficult circumstances at the moment. They have purchased a building that needs to be renovated so they can help neuter and spay dogs and cats and re-home them abroad.
I’d like to nominate Leatherhead & Mid Surrey Samaritans as a cause worthy of winning the prize.
The centre is staffed from early in the morning until the early hours of the next day, including weekends and public holidays, entirely by volunteers who donate their time to listen to and help people who need emotional support, sometimes desperate and suicidal.
Each Samaritans branch is self funded and every penny of every donation is used to help support people who are in an emotionally vulnerable place in their lives, mostly by the same volunteers who man the phones and answer the emails and texts.
This is a life saving charity totally reliant on good will and donations.
Busy Bees
Busy Bees
Vote for us if you please
We help the flowers and the trees
And make the honey for afternoon teas
We work so hard and cause no fuss
So help our cause and vote for us
At the end of July, I am going on a 3 week expedition to and indigenous reserve in Costa Rica. A team of us will be building 7 biogas generators to generate electricity for the indigenous people, so that they no longer have to cut down their forest to survive.
We will also be building a kindergarten for the young children in the reserve, as the youngsters currently receive no education.
£200 would contribute to the building materials we’ll be using, and therefore would be much appreciated!
We are a village pre-school and provide early years education for ages 2-4yr olds.
The grant funding that we get from the government is for ever being restricted and only just covers the overheads which we watch closely.
We fund raise continously to provide replacement and new equipment to keep the resources up to date and make teh setting a fun and stimulating environment.
We encourage healthy lifestyle but are unable to store safely the childrens scooters whilst they are here. We are saving for a scooter rack which would mean the children can scoot to the pre-school and home again.
The pre-school is located next to the community centre and playground so actually the whole village would benefit and be able to be more active.
This would be a good chunk of the money required. and would be very much appreciated.
The Berwick Swan and Wildlife Trust was registered as a charity in 1992 following a pollution incident on the river Tweed in 1991 that entailed washing 186 swans by volunteers rounded up by the local vet.
For the following nineteen years the Trust has been busy on every single day, rescuing, treating and looking after all species of sick or injured wildlife. No charge is made for veterinary care or any other expenses incurred. All funding of the Trust’s work comes from donations.
The Berwick Swan and Wildlife Trust do a superb job, taking care of all forms of wildlife in North Northumberland. Thank you.
I would like to nominate SNAP special needs and parents to win the voucher. They reley on donations to keep the centre running.
I am the parent of a child with a disability SNAP have supported me over the last 4 years and many many parents like me with children with varying disabilities.
They offer fantastic services, courses such as makaton, counselling sessions, one to one advice and yoga sessions for adults.
They also arrange lots of childrens sessions Parent and preschool sessions, stay and play, music therapy, drama and trampolining.
Thankyou SNAP for your ongoing support.
The dogs cannot ask for help themselfs ,so i thought i would try for them,If successfull £200 Would keep& feed 5 dogs for10 nights givung me time to find new homes for them ,im sure its better than being put to sleep. thankyou
In July 2012 i am going on world challenge to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands for a month, but to do so I need to raise a massive sum of £4,500. During this month I will be completing a trek, vsiting a market in the Andes, doing a project to benefit the local community, and contributing towards the very important conservation work in the Galapagos.
I would be very grateful for £200 to h
I would like to nominate the Nepal Trust that works in one of the most remote and impoverished places on the planet – the Hidden Himalayas of north west Nepal. Child and maternal mortality rates are amongst the highest in the world and basic services are non-existant. There are no roads; the nearest road is 2 weeks walk away.Yesterday one village was partially destroyed by glacial lake above the village bursting its bank and also destroying crops. This will cause starvation in the winter. The Nepal Trust provides basic healthcare, renewable energy projects and income generation projects to create hope for the future.
I wish to nomiate “Leisure Direct”. This is a registered charity now in its 18 year. It provides sporting, leisure and social activities for adults with Learning Disabilities, membership currently 127, who live in North Hertfordshire. Learning Disability is a much misunderstood and underfunded incurable condition. In the last financial year, the charity provided 119 different activities ranging from Bingo; Discs;Theatre visits; Day trips; Sporting events;; Art Experiences; culminating with one five day and a four day holiday at a leisure resort for a total of 60+ members. This totaled an attendance figure of 3,652. This helps to relieve social isolation, experience new things, improve confidence in a persons own abilities. It also provides much needed respite for the members carers. All activities are held in the public sector therefore giving the general public the opportunity to gain a better understanding of the condition of Learning Disability.
Please let the money go to RSDR Rudozem Street Dog Rescue. They work in very, very difficult conditions. I am really respected by them and I am sure that with a little help they will continue this great work.
Waltham Chase Pre-School is a volunteer run community pre-school and a registered charity. For us every penny counts as we are based in a shared village hall and our basic income rarely meets out overheads. We offer pre-school education for all children aged 2 until they start school, which is much needed in our local community.
We have the chance to turn a small piece of land to turn into a playground and outside learning zone for our children and are raising money towards this. Our aim is to turn this into an interesting, stimulating learning environment where our children can truly embrace our mission statement of “learning through play”. This will include the opportunity to grow fruit and vegetables, harvest and taste the results; mark making and drawing on blackboards; develop their understanding of numbers; managed risk taking through physical activity; a role-play area with a house/shop; and building a large new sandpit with a sail shade over the top to protect the children from the sun.
Please consider us – every penny (or pound – even £200) helps!
We are a small primary school of 63 children in Suffolk and our Friends of Somersham School (FOSS) do their best to help raise funds.In the winter our mobile classroom was flooded because the pipes burst when they froze. The building program was cancelled and the funding changed after that. We lost lots of equipment. Some we claimed back with the insurance but other home made things were hard to replace. We would love to receive £200 to help our youngest children aged 4 to 6 improve their outside play area, because all our money has been used to sort out the classroom itself, there has been none left for improving and keeping the outside area safe and stimulating. Our parents our so supportive and give us all sorts of cast offs, but we need the money to buy roofing to allow the children to play under cover in all weathers. Please donate the money to us and improve the lives of our kiddies this year and for years to come.
I would like to nominate the Berwick Swan and Wildlife Trust – These guys do some amazing work and they rely totally on volunteers and all their funding is from donations. £200 would make a huge difference to them
Bobcats swim squad is a small squad of 35 swimmers age 9-39 years old.
The squad train togther before and after school and compete regularly. Members are ranked at the top of their age groups, and in July 7 swimmers will be competeing at the National Championships in Sheffield.
Also in July between 1st and 6th, six members will be in Dover waiting the call to attempt the Channel Swim, and 2 members are competing in the European Triathalon.
Not bad for a small Northern Town!! We are based in Burnley.
Money is desperately needed to pay pool hire fees which have spiraled to ensure effective training can continue. Thank you
I am one of many volunteers who work many hours to help look after the cats, kittens, dogs, rabbits, ferrets and any other living creature that needs help. We get no government funding and only survive by people giving donations. The numbers of animals being dumped and cruely treated that come into our rescue are increasing, some of them are heartbreaking, but without our help they would not survive. £200 would go some way to help us care for them and ensure that they have a warm dry bed and food along with the lots of tender love and care that is needed until we can find a new home for them. So please find it in your heart to give us a vote.
Thank you.
I would like to nominate Remus Memorial Horse Sanctuary, they are finding things hard at the moment, most of the 75 horses are over 30 years of age, our oldest is 52, they are given the very best that can be afforded but the feed bills and veterinary care needed to keep horses of this age in good condition having a happy life are huge. Hay and feed generally have gone up hugely, they really could use a financial boost at the moment.
We are raising funds for equipment to help the disability squad at Don Valley Dolphins. The swimmers have a safe environment to improve swimming technique, fitness, gain confidence and improve social skills. As a volunteer helping out it would be great to improve facilities and to continue the good work.
I would like to nominate Assisi Animal Sanctuary which is based in Newtownards, Co Down. Assisi is Northern Ireland’s largest independent animal welfare charity, providing shelter for up to 200 companion animals including dogs, puppies, cats, kittens, rabbits and guinea pigs. Last year we rescued over 2,300 animals.
The Sanctuary operates a ‘No Kill Policy’. All animals are neutered, vaccinated, wormed and deflead and all our dogs are microchipped prior to rehoming. Assisi operates a strict rehoming criteria to ensure our rescue animals find the best possible home. Some of our cats and dogs are permanent residents, but all the others are waiting to find permanent new homes.
With operating costs of £400,000 and no government aid, Assisi is dependant on fundraising, donations and legacies. Your support would help us continue to save the lives of companion animals.
OC Support UK is a non-profit organisation founded in 1991 by Jenny Chambers following the stillbirths of her 2 daughters. Obstetric Cholestasis (OC) is a pregnancy realted liver condition that affects around 5000 women in the UK every year. It is characterised by intense itching and has been associated with fetal distress, premature labour and increased risk of stillbirth and indeed last year there were several stillbirths around the UK attributable to the condition.
OC Support UK is run entirley by volunteers and offers 3 online support forums as well as a telephone support service to those affected by the condition. OC Support UK also promotes research into the condition.
£200 would fund the helpline for 18 months.
Play Lane Millennium Green Trust
We are a small group of volunteers trying to maintain a green space on the edge of a much populated area, so that adults and children alike can enjoy walking and playing and just watching wildlife.
We try to be innovative in the way we raise funds – breeding and selling stick insects, selling goods on ebay and holding sponsored dog walks.
£200 would make a lot of difference to our Charitable Trust
Bannockburn Primary School is situated in an area of South East London which falls within the top 10 – 20% most deprived in the country. We have been raising money to improve facilities within the school grounds. A particular success, this year, has been our gardening project. The whole school has been growing vegetables in raised beds. Enough vegetables have been produced so that, not only have all children been able to sample them in class, but have also contributed to school dinners. The gardening project, combined with the after school cooking club, have led to very real changes in diet. Children are now not only prepared try new foods at school – this attitude has transferred, along with newly-learned cooking skills, to their homes and families. In September, our school will begin to more than double in size. The new annexe has an area that would be ideal for creating a garden, wildlife area and allotments. In addition, our cooking club, which has hitherto been subsidised, will soon cease to receive funding. Please help to make a difference in these children’s lives – vote for Bannockburn Primary School.
I would like to nominate Crewkerne Rangers Football Club. We were founded in 2008 and have just set up a reserve team in our local league. We rely on fundraising in order to buy kits, equipment, registration fees to the leagues. The season starts in august and eventually we would like to set up a youth team. £200 would make a massive difference to us and really kickstart the fundraising agenda.
Wish is such a great organisation working away out of the spotlight. The women Wish supports would not get support any where else, they are forgotten and faceless. Support Wish
I’m raising funds for an expedition through my school to Tanzania in July 2012. Whilst there we hope to climb Kilimanjaro but we will also be working on a community project to build a playground for local children.
I need to raise £4000 and, becasue of my age (15) , I’m restricted in getting jobs. I’ve been car washing and window cleaning for friends and family and I hope to qualify as a referee to earn money from refereeing youth football next season (I’d need to give up playing myself to do this).
£200 would be a great boost to my efforts but there are a number of worthwhile causes here. I suppose other charities have other options and will operate for longer than me in raising funds. I currently volunteer one evening a week after school in a local charity shop so I know the efforts they put in.
Originally we started out with the idea to start a sort of outreach programme for Filipino Children that could not afford to buy school note books, pens, pecils and a bag to carry them. This was because so many of the parents could not afford these items, and therefore could not afford to send their children to a school, these children stay in the poverty trap.No education,and little chance in life,we in the West take an education as a God given right, not so in the Philippines. Then I came across this project for special needs children, a school for children that otherwise have no chance for an education, a special needs school.There are 38,blind,deaf,autistic and downs sydrome children awaiting and needing this school.
We have six runners in next weeks July10th Official London10K run, if your in London, give all the runners a big cheer on to the finishing line, but look out for ours.. Parang special needs school…thanks
I will be travelling to Ghana and helping out in an orphanage. The children there have nothing, they were picked up off the streets. The money would go towards me being able to afford to travel there.
I would like to nominate the Summit Foundation (SUFO), a Ugandan based charity organization working to promote the rights of the women, children and youth to access eqaul social, economic and political opportunities and empower them through policy-oriented research, advocacy, capacity building and strategic partnerships to meaaningfully alleviate poverty and injustices in their communities.
Our vision is a world where every young man and women enjoys fundamental human rights, equality and democracy and everybody lives free from poverty and injustices.
Please support the SUFO to improve the lives of the vulnerable people of the war raavaged and povert striken region of Northern Uganda. Any donation to SUFO will help transform the lives of the women attacked during war, and prepares a better future for their children.
Please visit http://www.summitglobal.org to find more information about SUFO.
Thank you very much!
The children at Bishops Cannings School are bored at playtime! They need some interactive features in their school playground! The painted number square and hop-scotch have faded and the chldren have wished the Friends of BC school to provide a better playtime environment.
We want to enrich playtime and provide at least 6 outdoor activities eg. Play Panels and paint some new markings on the playground eg. new hopscotch and trails to follow.
We have loads of volunteers to help during the school holidays – so with your help of £200 we can get it done in time for the new term in Sept!
184 children say PLEASE!!
Flitwick and Ampthill sea cadets are currently raising funds to buy a boat engine. Last year they received funding to buy a new safety boat which has not been used due to not having a suitable engine.
A youth organisation where upon opportunities are given to local children to learn sailing, kayaking, rowing and wind surfing.
Revelation Rock-Gospel Choirs has been my nominated cause because my life has changed through my time there. I’ve learned so much about music, about others and about love and respect for one another and it’s been fantastic. If you wanna see more about what they’re about, there’s a good chance you’ll hear them busking in Edinburgh around 24th – 31st August, during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Check them out also at http://www.rev.org.uk
I’m nominating Respect For Animals for the fantastic work that they do fighting against the killing and torturing of tens of millions of animals every year simply for the fur on their back. They particularly urgently need funds at the moment to campaign against the horribly cruel seal slaughter that takes place each year in Canada.
London Chest Hospital Radio are a small charity in East London, providing a free radio entertainment service which is incredibly popular for the patients of this world renowned Hospital. Everything is run to a tight budget, and they rely entirely on their own fundraising efforts, and donations. This group definitely put their listening patients first, so much so that their own room has very old falling-apart furniture, and a £200 donation would make life a little more comfortable for their growing number of volunteers, with some new furniture and chairs from those lovely people at Viking Direct
I nominate Washington Village Memorial Hall in West Sussex as it provides a venue for the local community to meet for social, educational and recreational purposes. The Small Hall in particular is in need of refurbishment and is used by smaller groups for meetings, art classes etc. Washington is a small village on the edge of the South Downs with limited public transport facilities which make the Village Hall an important resource for the significant elderly population. At the other end of the scale the Hall is also used by local Brownie Packs and other children’s groups.
I would love to nominate Our Lady of the Rosary School PTA. We are a very active group of working parents who work hard to fundraise for our childrens school.
The school has been classed as “outstanding” for the past few years and as such gets little funding from the government. The teachers work extremely hard to provide the best academic education to our children. However our fundraising means that the children can be bought extras to enhance their school days. Currently we are trying to purchase outdoor exercise equipment as health and well being are extremely important in these early years.
We also believe that sports equipment is very important as not all children are highly academic and so this means that those who are sporty are also given the chance to excel in their own field.
I’m supporting Penny Appeal’s Everest Base Camp Challenge. A group of brave volunteers will be trekking to Everest Base Camp in December this year in order to raise funds to help rebuild a village that was swept away by the devastating floods in Pakistan last year. A year on, thousands of people are still living in tents with only the most basic of supplies. £200 would make a real difference; it would mean aid packages which would feed two families, or it would pay towards a small business fund to help a family rebuild their lives, a well to provide safe and uncontaminated drinking water for a whole community or a family home.
Kesed Church in Colchester actively supports Care for Cambodia (CfC) a registered charity, who take homeless people & orphans off the streets and away from violence and sex trafficking. CfC currently houses 49 children (40 orphans) & 14 adults. CfC’s 46 village projects are affecting the lives of approximately 3000 children, who are taught social skills, healthcare, basic literacy & numeracy & much more. They are currently trying to raise enough money to buy a piece of land on which they will build a school or futher accomodation.
I would like to put Riseley Lower School forward for Cause of the Month.
It is a small village school in Bedfordshire and is currently under going some refurbishment to improve the conditions for the children and staff.
It is also raising funds to buy new library books including, for the first time, fiction books. Which is something the children are very excited about.
The school is much loved in the community and the school puts great emphasis on respect for the whole community.
£200 would be really useful in either project and the pupils would benefit from this greatly.
Many thanks
http://www.gunstonetrust.org
The Gunstone Trust was founded in memory of Sam Gunstone who was tragically killed on the A31 on 1st May 2010 at the age of 18. An extremely popular young man with a passion for art, skateboarding and the outdoors, his friends and family have decided that this vibrant individual, who so enriched the lives of all of those that had the pleasure of knowing or meeting him, will leave a lasting legacy.
Established to raise funds for much-needed youth and community projects, The Gunstone Trust aims to: promote (and fundraise for) the provision of positive leisure-time activities and facilities for the advancement of amateur sport – for example skate boarding, inline skating and BMXing; promote the reduction of alcohol/drug misuse and crime amongst young people; promote the advancement of education – chiefly citizenship within the curriculum – to aid and enrich community development and involve both young and older citizens in community projects and support within our work the Dorset art scene – musicians, artists etc.
Our immediate fundraising objective is to raise the funds to replace Redcotts Half Pipe (Skate Ramp) in Redcotts Recreation Ground, Wimborne, Dorset, which is no longer fit for purpose. This will benefit local residents and service-users alike – residents would like a more sound-proofed ramp and service-users of all ages are crying out for an updated version – and we have an opportunity here to please both interest groups by making a vast improvement to the current noise-levels by providing a much sought-after and more modern facility.
As a result we have been actively fundraising since October 2010 and have so far raised in excess of £6000, primarily through organizing live music events and club nights with donations gratefully received by The Gunstone Trust. We also recently received the majority of Waitrose customers’ support through the store’s Community Matters scheme in the Wimborne branch and are due to benefit from a share of £1000 split between three local ‘good causes’. We aim to continue in the same vein with fundraising and with the same gusto in order to fund the replacement ramp and so winning ‘Cause of the Month for July’ would mean a healthy boost to our ongoing fundraising and move us a step closer to being able to get to work on our first project.
I am supporter of Wessex 4X4 response. My dad and His friends work hard to help the Emergency serevices in Wiltshire, Somerset and Surrounding area’s.
They are needed in stormy Weather for instance snow and Floods.
Ashfield Primary would love to win £200 as we are a small school in a poor area and £200 would massively help provide extra provisions for our deserving pupils.
I Nominate Jump Space
Jump Space is a Stockport based charity providing trampolline, rebound therapy , softplay and sensory activities for children and young adults with special needs.
Though these activities we improve the lifes of are participants through educational play developing coordination skills and communication skills.
St.Mary’s church in Frampton has been hit twice withing 3 weeks having lead removed from the roof. It is going to cost the earth to have it replaced and like most churches who have had the same theft, we feel we are fighting a losing battle against the thieves. However, we are now at much cost investing in the Smart Water scheme which may help to catch the thieves if it happens again but it an expense we could do without in this day and age as it costs thousands to keep our lovely churches going. We have ongoing fundraising events which help, but winning the ‘Cause of the Month for July’ would be a great help towards the cost of the theft deterrents. Its a sad world we live in when our churches and historical buildings are vandalised for easy money for the thieves.
Framfield Allotments in West London work closely with a number of local community groups and schools. We are looking for funding to help us provide better facilities for our visitors, so that we can help more people benefit from a valuable local community resource. We would really appreciate your support!
I have visited Belarus as a volunteer with Chernobyl Children’s Project (UK) for the last 6 years. They support a lot of projects around Belarus, working with children suffering from cancer and disabled children and young adults, many of whom live in institutions.
The charity organise holidays in the UK for children and teenagers every summer, they arrange a summer camp in a cleaner part of Belarus for children from institutions, they support a fostering and adoption programme, support a children’s hospice, a respite centre and have set up family homes for some of the children and young adults. They are also working alongside Belarussian professionals to provide training opportunities for medical staff and carers.
Chernobyl Children’s Project (UK) are doing a lot of good work to improve the lives of these people and the conditions they, and the future generations, grow up in. It is especially poignient this year as it is 25 years since the Chernobyl incident.
FANS is an organization set up to raise funds for the HUCKNALL NATIONAL INFANTS AND PRIMARY SCHOOL in NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. they are trying to raise money to provide the children with play equipement in the playground area and as this is not a very affluant area it is quite difficult for them to raise money. They do a fantastic job at the school and the children just love going to school there – that is completely true as my grandchildren told me. It would be fantastic to get them a large donation or even a lot of small ones to help with this cause because they have just had to pay out for a new roof that took all the money they had.
i would like to suggest 2nd Penn Scout group for cause of the month we are scout group based in Wombourne just outside Wolverhampton. we have over 50 members in our group ranging from 6 – 14 years old and we have a great team of leaders who organise some great events and activities for the children. This money could help us take the children on an activity day or a camping weekend.
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The Old Heath School Association (OHSA) is the PTA for Old Heath Community Primary School in Colchester. The OHSA organises and runs fund raising and social activities that enrich the school experience for all our 186 children, and also for the parents that get involved.
The OHSA would like to provide the children of Old Heath School with a map of the world which would be printed on the playground. The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games will soon be with us and this is an ideal opportunity to follow the success of the Athletes, gain an interest in different types of sport, while also learning about the countries of the world through play. We are fortunate to have had this project endorsed by a local Olympian who will be competing in 2012.
Fundraising for this project will begin in earnest when the school returns in September, therefore, this prize donation would be a superb start in which to motivate and inspire the school community.
I have been a member of the Weybridge Male Voice Choir for nearly 3 years. The choir celebrates its 90th anniversary this October and performs around 20 concerts a year in aid of charity. Bringing music to people is a very rewarding personal experience as well as the proceeds that the concerts provide
The Dunnerholme Golf Club is a small, friendly non profiting making club providing sporting and leisure facilities for the local community around Askam in Furness. We had 10 kids join our Junior Coaching sessions at the beginning of May and this has already grown to 25! Our volunteers work very hard to encourage and coach the children but we aim to provide professional coaching from a local PGA Professional at one coaching sessions per week. We are very grateful to Easyfundraising for giving our kids the opportunity to learn a new sporting skill – and having fun at the same time!!
I think my ice hockey club, the Paisley Pirates, should be your Cause of the Month. They are an amateur ice hockey team playing in the Scottish National League, and apart from the players themselves paying all their own costs for equipment, transport to games as far away as Dumfries and Dundee, and the like, all the back up staff are volunteers for duties such as producing the programme, goal judging and washing the strips, to name just a few of the jobs involved. In all, there are maybe 60 volunteers involved just to get the guys on the ice every week. To hire the ice the club has to pay approximately £1500 a week for training and matches, and I just think that kind of joint voluntary action on a major scale deserves some sort of recognition.
Action heart; Provides a gym service for anyone at “risk” of heart disease/other issues due to their weight, potentially saving the NHS considerably money by avoiding the need for surgical/other intervention by helping them lose weight/reduce their BMI and reduce the risk of heart attacks/other heart issues.
Also provides free gym access to heart patients at the hospital where it is based. Also behind a weekly paced walk club which also helps keep the heart healthy, which is popular amongst ex-heart attack patients.
I would like to nominate BEJSC who provide various sport opportunities including judo, canoeing, swimming, badminton, basketball, football and inline hockey for young people. The club and all its activities are run by unpaid volunteer parents who ensure they are fully qualified under their respective disciplines. The club also has a junior committee of young teenagers who are developing their leadership skills thru Action for Youth programmes & organise open, taster days for all. It is a non-profit making club and seeks to keep its membership fees as low as possible. The £200 would be very useful for some new equipment for one of the many sports..
Fusion Youth Theatre, FYT, is a voluntary run youth theatre based in the Grimsby/Cleethorpes area. We run term time workshops in dance, drama and musical theatre resulting in performances. We do “Play in a Day”, “Play in a week” workshops in which young peopleproduce a piece of theatre from start to finish in that time scale. We put on Summer School workshops etc. which results in performances at the end of two weeks in August. The production then goes to the Skegness Youth Drame Festival in October.
FYT is open to any young person and is totally reliant on volunteers. The Drama tuition etc is given by professionals voluntary, and provides a means for young people to develop self-confidence, new skills and make lots of new friends.
I am youth sec of Waunarlwydd Rugby club. We run teams for all ages from under 8`s through to under 16. We also have a youth team and 2 senior teams as well as a senior womens team and we are trying to start a junior womens team . We are currently trying to build new changing rooms for all our teams to use as the current facilities arre old and we dont have enough changing rooms for all the junior teams on sundays.
I would like to nominate Childer Thornton Pre-School.
We are a small charity run by a committee of dedicated parents. They work hard to raise funds year after year to ensure that we have enough resources and exciting activities for the children.
Voting for us will be greatly appreciated, allowing us to improve our setting and enhance the children’s lives as they learn through play.
I would love Greenway First School to win £200 as they desperately need new school windows. Unfortunately after many parents put in hours of hard work to prepare for a successful Summer Fair this year, the weather was absolutely dreadful (probably the worst day of the year when it poured down non-stop) and they ordered three bouncy castles which looked extremely sad standing unused in the pouring rain. Unfortunately they still had to be paid for, so this would certainly make up for that loss. Thank you.
The Daisy Network deserves June’s £200 because of the amazing Conference it put on for girls and young women suffering from premature menopause!
It’s a 100% voluntary charity with NO PAID STAFF, and to have created this event and helped so many sufferers was a great achievement. It attracted fantastic speakers and 100 delegates and some lovely contributions but we need cash to enable us to do it again and again and again.
100% of the £200 will go to service delivery; NO PAID STAFF just volunteers processing ever-increasing invoices!
We are a radio controlled model car club and have been racing for about 25 years.
We are at the moment getting quite a few youngsters coming to race including a couple of boys with problems with autism and are trying to raise funds for a new rostrum with a safety rail,that at the end of the night we can fold up and store.
we have seen these and are not cheap,so any donation would help no end.
These youngsters really enjoy their racing .
Camp Nibble is a small animal rescue charity (reg. charity no. 1137407) based in Leeds. Run on an entirely voluntary basis with no paid employees we receive no official funding and rely on public donations to continue helping animals in need. We are one of only a tiny number of organisations in our area providing rescue back up to rabbits and rodents who very often get overlooked.
Sadly rabbits are currently the most neglected animal in the UK with around 35,000 passing through rescues each year. Many people are still carelessly buying live rabbits as presents for children over Easter. Therefore, this is a busy time of year for rabbit rescues as Easter bunnies begin to be abandoned and surrendered after the novelty has worn off. We would be delighted to be charity of the month as £200 would help towards giving ten rabbits a second chance by paying for them to be fully vaccinated in preparation for re-homing.
Radio Nightingale is the radio service for the Rotherham General Hospital. We are an independent charity, receiving no funding from the NHS as many people believe. All of the funds to run the station to keep us broadcasting to the patients are raised by our volunteers. We broadcast 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including patients requests in our live programmes as research shows that hearing a favourite song can help people get better quicker. Many patients say that they would not have stayed sane in hospital were it not for Radio Nightingale. The £200 cause of the month prize would be extremely valuable to us to cover the cost of a new tape player machine which has seen so much use over many years the play button has finally broken off !!!
Our club is a multi-sports club providing fun for young and old alike, we would use the funds too purchase safety gear to make the members fun onthe water safer.
On behalf of Joint Services Hosanna House Group 507, I wish to Nominate JSHHG507 for your donation..
A little about the group: – Committee are ex-servicemen. Each year we take 46 persons for seven days, VIP’s and helpers, for a respite week staying at Hosanna house, 3 km from Lourdes, . All VIP’s are Ex-service or deserving immediate relatives from all the services and I stress – of any faith. The idea is to use the excellent facilities for the infirm that exist at Hosanna House. We get no public money. This year we are committed to find £40,000 towards the total cost of the week in May 2012, and of course any shortfall will be spread across the group as their contribution to their fare.
Looking to the future, we are in line to assist with those preparing for life after injury in our most recent wars. First we have the experience and secondly we have the facilities such as a coach with a lift for wheelchairs and adapted minibuses to take those who need to receive this special attention.
Thank you again.
Joe Guy, member’s secretary JSHHG507.
I am fortunate to work as a teacher at a small school called Fox Hollies in Birmingham, which caters for children with severe learning difficulties. The staff work exremely hard to provide an education that is stimulating and pertinent to our students’ needs, whilst often dealing with very challenging behaviour. Staff also give up a lot of their free time to provide enriching clubs such as drama, drumming, cooking, keep fit, dance and Saturday club. We even find time to offer residentials throughout the year so that our guys can experience and enjoy other environments and activites. Like all small schools money is often scarce and this prize donation would go some way to saying thank you to staff and offer yet more opportunities to our amazing pupils.
We would love to be the cause of the month to help support the orphans in our Children’s Village in Mufindi, Tanzania with their clothing and food; also to help the Milk Formula Programme where HIV/AIDS+ mothers are on this programme after six months of breast feeding to help eliminate the passing of the virus to their babies. This programme is becoming very successful where the babies from infected mothers are free from HIV/AIDS. Orphans in the Wild
Woodside is a large and vital safety net for vulnerable animals. Running costs are high as many of the pets need veterinary attention and may be with them for weeks as they recover.
As well as the young and healthy, the countryside sanctuary always has a collection of much loved resident pets that are unlikely to be adopted, such as the elderly and long-term sick. Sanctuary animals include dogs, cats, rabbits and hamsters etc as well as a few hand reared sheep, goats and a pot bellied pig.
They helped me out at a very difficult time and would like them to benefit from a donation for all their hard work even through difficult times.
We would love to be the cause of the month to help support the orphans in our Children’s Village in Mufindi, Tanzania with their clothing and food; also to help the Milk Formula Programme where HIV/AIDS+ mothers are on this programme after six months of breast feeding to help eliminate the passing of the virus to their babies. This programme is becoming very successful where the babies from infected mothers are free from HIV/AIDS. Orphans in the Wild
I would like to nominate the Rosemary Foundation based in Petersfield Hampshire. This hospice at home charity is run by a small team of nurses and is entirely dependent on voluntary donations, it receives no government funding. They look after terminally ill patients in the comfort of their own home at no cost to the patient and they never turn down a referral. They provide a full supportive hands-on nursing service for patients and counseling and bereavement support for their families. Last year their income did not meet their outgoings and to continue this invaluable service they desperately need our help.
I think Make A Wish should be the charity of the month.The charity gives wishes to children who are terminally ill or have life threatening illnesses.They come to see the child and ask them Who would you like to meet. What would you really like, where would you like to go and what would you like to do. My daughter was 5 and was terminally ill with a inoperable brain tumour. Her wish was to meet Snow White and have a meal with her. They took the whole family to Warwick castle for the day and made my daughter feel like a princess for the day. My daughter has now passed away but Make A Wish filmed the day for us. So we can now watch and remember my daughters special day. It was a day the whole family including my daughter could forget about her illness and hospitals and enjoy herself.
I would like to name streetdogrescue as cause of the month because the fam Rowles are trying to help the dogs in Bulgaria by raising money to nurse and spay the dogs.Also the feed many dogs in their neigbourhood.They are trying to build a shelter but the locals don’t want that because the see dogs as pests.
They don’t like it when dogs are woundering around their homes and by the family helping the pups finding new homes abroad and spaying as much dogs as they can they are just helping the locals but unfortanutly they don’t see it that way and they are aasking the family to stop helping dogs.They need as much support at this moment as they can get.It is a nonprofit arganisation and all of tyhe donations are going directly to the dogs.
I hope that people will choose us and give us a chance…
The 1st Cherwell Ranger Guide unit was set up in September 2009, the age range of the guides is 14yrs -25yrs. we aim to provide a varied and interesting program to help the guides become more independant, raise awareness for their local community and global community along with gaining team working skills, and having fun along the way.
There are many opportunities for the guides to become involved with, these include their Queens guide award, DofE award along with volunteering oversea’s and becoming members of the national youth forum. In total 22 awards and opportunities can be accessed.
All these activities require an amount of money much of which the guides raise themselves or individually.
Todate 4 have gained their Bronze DofE award and are working towards their silver award, 1 has been selected to be part of the 22nd World Scout Jamboree in Sweden and raised the £2,100 herself, through fundraising.
5 guides are working towards their Young Leader qualification which will form part of their adult leader qualification, and they can then go onto run units of their own.
The unit needs funds to pay for our rent and to help subsidise activities whether it is for resources for our weekly activies,a unit camp/holiday or towards a wider event/adventure.
My nomination for Cause of the Month is Barking Football Club. Barking FC has teams for all ages up to men’s teams and gives fantastic pastoral care and coaching to all. To be able to compete with larger clubs it needs a clubhouse. The current clubhouse attached to the stadium was shut down approximately five years ago as there is asbestos there. Barking FC is trying to raise funds to build a new clubhouse. Volunteers (players, parents and members of the local community) are currently trying to build a temporary clubhouse that would bring in more funds but a permanent clubhouse is needed. Any donations towards the building of a new clubhouse would be much appreciated.
We are a pre-school for children aged between 2 1/2 and 5 years old. We are based in the heart of the community in Colchester. We have a team of dedicated staff who run the setting brilliantly. But we are desperate for some new equipment and toys for the children when we start the new term in September. Please help x
Haworth Cricket Club has organised itself over the past 5 years to become a full part of the community and ‘The Big Society’.
We have just had a new social room built so we can offer a unique, safe, large, green space for use to organisations – local or otherwise. As we are less than 400m from the Bronte Parsonage there are groups of pupils visiting from near and far. With our easy-access ground and facilities we can act as a ‘base camp’ for visiting school parties.
One thing we would like to do is improve our toilet facilities so the ladies and girls don’t have to go near the changing rooms. Whilst they are perfectly fine, it would be better if the Ladies’ facilities were more separate. This would be a great bonus to start the ball rolling for ourselves and as a community facility.
I would like to Nominate Bratton Brownies.
Bratton Brownies is run by volunteers, whom work very hard to make their weekly meetings for Brownies fun and educational; building self confidence, independance and social interaction. I’m sure the £200 would be of great help to pay for the girls on an outing as a unit; not everyone is able to go due to costs so it will be of great help.
Adapt EDA are one of only three organisations that provide vital support to those suffering with eating disorders in Northern Ireland and were a key organisation in lobbying for services to finally be implemented in NI where only ten years ago no services or provision was available. This support and service is vital for people living with ED’s as they are the most complex of mental illnesses and have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness, with large suicide rate across the UK.
Adapt provide many support services to help those suffering fron an ED and to help support the family and friends of someone suffering, as an ED affects the entire community and family, not just one person. Without these services many people would be left with no support or provision, and Adapt provide the only extensive youth project to help address issues of self-esteem and body image within a preventative schools workshop that is rolled out across NI and includes much needed work for All Boys Schools in NI.
Such work allows the growing numbers of sufferers to get needed support, and with numbers growing meaning almost 1 in 10 people are affected by ED’s it is vital these services recieve the support to keep going and to reduce the stigma attached to this illness.
I would like to norminate st,micheals church woodgreen N22.
The church does a lot of charity work and work for the community they run drop ins two days a week, work club to help people find work. a free toddler group, youth club for teenagers. they work to help the homeless and many other things the church itself needs works, and any help would be greatly recieved .
£200 would make a huge difference to fat fluffs and help towards the huge veternery bill that helps to save abonandoned rabbits and give them the care they need. Over 33,000 rabbits are looking for homes in the UK and rely on recue centres like fat Fluffs to get them the forever home they deserve.
Rabbits are beautiful, sensitive creatures which are so sadly abused..please help us make a difference!
My cause is chelmsford Mencap
Chelmsford Mencap runs lots of different clubs and organises lots of events for adults and children with learning disabilities. Chelmsford Mencap also provides support for these adults and children as well as their families.
I am raising money for tap attack youth company who are raising the £30000 needed to send the England tap team to the world championships in Germany in november. They are a group of 30 young people under 21 from all over England who train once a week usually in Reading.
I would like to nominate the Berwick Swan and Wildlife Trust because they always respond to any calls for help for sick or injured wildlife and never charge.
I would like you to support Zack’s place as i find it is an Oasis where people who find themselves destitute can come for a breakfast.
It is also the kind of place where there is always a friendly smile and greeting and someone who will listen to your needs and point you in the right direction
It is a church but not a church! There are no conditions except to be sober and not to cause trouble for other users. I believe that any donation given to Zack’s will be used for the betterment of the service.
I would like to nominate Fife Rottwiler Rescue(FRR)
FRR have been rescuing this much misunderstood breed for several years now, and have to rely on donations.
Fundraising is hard, as soon as the word Rottweiler is mentioned, folk will not donate, and in some cases, fundraisers have been showered with abuse for helping this breed.
German shepherds, greyhounds,pit bulls are all amongst the breeds that have had to put up with bad press, and now it is the turn of the Rottweiler, unfortunately, only the horror stories come to light, never the good stories.
No one likes reading these stories in the press, and unfortunately Rottweilers are often seen in T.v Programmmes as viscious dogs, owned by drug dealers, or money lenders and the likes, they are never seen lying in front of the fire, in a loving family enviroment, as is much more commonly the case.
These dogs have often been mistreated and need extensive vet treatment, they are neutered/spayed, their vaccinations are brought up to date, and they are fed, for as long as they are in the care of FRR, and they are microchipped and go to their new homes with a clean bill of health, or if they have on going illnesses, their vet bills are met by FRR.
This all takes a lot of hard work, and a lot of hard fund-raising, done by hard working volunteers, who have to take a lot of abuse for trying to help these dogs, thankfully, the fund raisers do it for the love of the breed and keep on going, when somedays it must seem like a great big wast of time.
Please think carefully about considering FRR, at the end of the day, these poor dogs did not, like all other animals, and yes, us human beings, ask to be put on this earth, and neither did they ask to be mistreated and misunderstood, and finally, I would just like to add, unfortunately, many of the dogs that come in to FRR, are beautiful dogs, from loving family homes, but people get so fed up with the pressure they can be put under by family, friends, neighbours etc, due to bad publicity, that they give in, and re-home their dogs, often heart broken at doing it, but sometimes, it is the easier option for them.
4TH FRODSHAM SCOUT GROUP – MINIBUS FUND
We are a thriving Scout Group with over 70 members in Beavers, Cubs and Scout sections with waiting lists for all of them. Our minibus is over 18 years old now and costing a lot in repairs so we would like to have a nearly new one so we can carry on the good work of taking all our boys and girls to activity days, weekends and other great places. We are raising some money through a sponsored walk up Snowdon on the 10th July and every penny counts towards our lifeblood of our minibus. Please help our group continue the great work for local children in our area by awarding us this months award.
Please vote for TBF! We support children and adults with learning difficulties and their carers to enhance their quality of life and support their independence. We raised enough recently to provide a wonderful automatic wheelchair to the parents of a young person with cerebal palsy. They can now take her to all the fun places that they found it difficult because they couldn’t push her! We are launching a ‘cookery is fun’ course for those with learning difficulties wanting to live independently and we will be publishing a fab cookery book with shopping lists and useful tips too for them to use!
£200 will hep us with the printing costs of the coookery book and it will last for many years!
My cuase is Swinton & District Excelsior Band. We are a village brass band and we have a number of voluteers who provide free tution to children to teach them the art of music making. We have members from many backgrounds who, without the band, might not be able to participate in such an activity. We are currently trying to raise funds to provide more instruments for our training band. The Band also does many engagements out in the community to raise money both for band funds and many other worthwhile charities. We have no sponsors or wealthy benefactors and the arts council tends to ignore brass bands when it comes to funding so we rely entirely on voluntary donations to enable the band to keep going. In these hard financial times it is increasing difficult just to keep the band running.
I nominate the Fife Hospitals Kidney Support Group which
is a regstered charitable organisation set up in 2003 to help sufferers of kidney disease in Fife. We raise funds allowing us to offer different outings, from weekends away, day trips, educational meetings and other social activities to renal patients, carers and their families at little or no cost to the patient. We are committed to promoting awareness of the organ donor register scheme, which can transform the lives of those who receive a successful kidney transplant.
You will get more information from our website shown above,
I wish to nominate Springboard Opportunity Group for U5′s with special needs AND their families. It is their Silver Jubilee this year. 25 years ago it was started by 3 mothers and their children (no play groups back then could cope with special needs children) and now supports 90 families in Clevedon & Weston-super- Mare. Almost all of the helpers are unpaid, qualified staff who do so much to help, encourage and support each child no matter how profound their problems are. The love and care given to each child is amazing. It is truely a local charity, so does not get country-wide recognition of the wonderful work they do. Fund raising is continuous, so they are very grateful for any support they get.
The Woodley Preschool provides good quality education for all children aged between 2 and 5 years. The children and parents are currently fundraising for our own free-flow outdoor area. It will provide easy access to the outside for the children whatever the weather, allowing them to experience digging, climbing and finding wildlife. An extra £200 will help towards the resources required for outside play. Thank you.
This Sanctuary is a vital cause for all the neglected and abused animals that are brought to its doors.We have to speak up for the animals they have not got a voice and cannot tell the people who hurt them to stop we have to be there for them to provide a home where they can be safe ,they have a right to live there lives without pain or suffering.Please help.
My Cause is Rosina Animal Centre
Who take in all sorts of animals nd do not rehome, they stay wih Rosina’s for the rest of their lives.
We have no funding at all, but try and raise money through a fundraising shop
http://www.rosinasfundraisingshop.weebly.com
We curently hav 224 animal with us and thi mony would help to pay a few vet bills
thanks
STN is a charity that was set up primerily to preach the word of God through out the nations. It is spear headed by a man named Rob Joy whose background is very bleak, living a life of drink, drugs and violence, Rob was in and out of prison a number of times and diagnosed as a paranoid pscysophrenic until he had an encounter that changed his life forever. Rob and his wife lydia now spend their time travelling the country and abroad, visiting prisons and schools as well as churches and youth groups bringing hope to many desperate peoples lives.
The STN charity runs totally on voluntary contributions to fund events and visits to places that often cannot afford to pay someone who comes to speak.
Tarland Area First Responders are volunteers who have undertaken training in order to be able to provide life saving treatment to those people within the community who are critically injured or ill in the first few minutes prior to the arrival of an ambulance. We require funds for another set of kit to respond to more calls, potentially saving more lives.
My cause is Myeloma UK a cancer which can never be cured.It is a silent cancer which is often well established by the time it is detected.It is a difficult one to diagnose and often comes to light by having a fractue of ribs,vertebrae or the neck of femur.
I would like to see more money spent on screening and GP knowledge to detect this earlier.
I support Carer Support Wiltshire.
This is a County-wide Carers Organisation in Wiltshire which works very hard to make the task of Carers easier and supports them in so many different ways. Carers often feel isolated and alone and are often too tired and busy with their role to find out what they are entitled to, and what help is available to them. Carer Support Wiltshire dispenses advice and information, about financial help, help with learning disabilities, help with mental health problems, transitions, to ‘time-out’ activities, giving Carers time to relax with therapies, craft activities, walking groups, clubs, outings and other events. There are Carers cafes arranged in different venues across the County where Carers can meet together with a Support worker. There are Carers Focus groups, which give Carers a platform to discuss issues relevant to their role. Help with transport and a sitting service can be arranged in order to attend these meetings. Speakers on relevant issues can be asked to attend these.
I would like to nominate Frame of Mind a vocational training centre for adults with learning disabilities and mental health issues.
Our main buisiness is picture framing and the trainees come to us in order to rebuild their confidence, gain new skills and realise their own potential with a view to joining or re-entering the work place.
This community interest company relies heavily on funding to continue to provide this vital and invaluable service.
The environment in which they work is safe and comfortable, a place of business and therefore assists the trainees in reintroducing structure into their daily routine.
Please help this small, friendly and invaluble company survive.
I would like to nominate Frame of Mind a local Community Interest Company who provide vocational training for adults with learning disabilities and mental health issues.
The aim of this picture framing buisness which is open to the general public is to reintroduce structure to the daily routine of trainees, teaching them new skills whilst helping realise their own potential.
This invaluable service has help rebuild the confidence of many people enabling them to re-enter the work place.
This company rely heavily on funding to continue to provide this unique service to service users in West Sussex so please, please support us.
Hi I would like to nominate Littlehampton Community Steelband.
My son has been involved with and played in the steelband for the past 6 years travelling both at home and abroad to perform. The band bring much enjoyment to old and young perfoming at fetes, weddings, charity events, carnivals and many more local and national events. They have twice made it through to the Music for Youth National Festival and have represented Littlehampton in both France and Germany. They are about to embark on a trip to Switzerland at the end of July. The maintence of the equipment retuning of the pans and transportation of both band member and their instruments is expensive so every amount small or large is greatly appreciated.
Please support this group of extremely talented young people and enable them to continue to provide an excellent and unique form of entertainment.
My cause is Samuel’s Childrens Charity set up in memory of my 10year old son after loosing him to a brain tumour last july we decided we had to try and make a difference and help make some happy memories for the whole family by providing days out and short breaks for the whole family to have a chance for some quality time away from hospitals and treatment alot of the time families get seperated when parents have to stay away with the other child siblings being left with grandparents and other people which cannot be helped but provides an oppurtunity to bring the whole family together for a short time. We also provide other treats recently we peovided entertainment for a young boys birthday party tohelp the parents at a difficult time.We are a very small charity and rely solely on fundraising a donations winning £200 would go a long way to providing a family with help at an often emotionally and difficult time
Hi, we’re Henbury Football Club. We need help to raise funds to redevelop and refurbish our changing rooms and clubhouse to ensure our Gloucestershire County League status. If our 3 senior teams go through the hoop, so do our 6 boys Colts teams and 1 girls Colts team. Our Colts system gives the chance to over 300 kids aged between 7 and 16 to play the game they love and keep them off the streets. Henbury Football Club was est. in 1952 with the Colts forming in the !970′s. It would be such a shame to lose one of Bristol’s biggest and well-known amateur football clubs.
I would like to nominte The Fountain Centre. Reg Charity 1089086
The Fountain Centre is a small local charity based in Guildford. We support cancer patients and their carers with information, counselling and complementary therapies. The Fountain Centre aims to enable cancer patients and their families to regain control of their lives by empowering them with information and support. . The Centre opened its doors in September 1998 and operates as an independent charity within the hospital.
There are approximately 95 volunteers that work in the Centre, 63 of whom are highly trained and qualified complementary therapists. The remaining volunteers are all trained in basic listening and responding skills to welcome patients and carers as they come in. More information can be found via our webiste on http://www.fountaincentre.org. Thank you for reading.
Hi – I would like to nominate Zac’s Place.
The Exousia Trust is a registered charity established in 1991 by Sean Stillman and a board of trustees, set up to oversee Sean’s itinerant ministry and develop mission initiatives among the biking community and marginalised groups. In 2003 bought old Gospel Hall, named it Zac’s Place. Known as a ‘Church for Ragamuffins’ – it is church, community, beacon of hope, chaotic mix of Christian discipleship alongside the marginalised. It is a respected outreach. Has a Coffee Bar Thursday evenings, open house, free hot meal, pick up clothes. Breakfast at Zac’s weekday mornings – first point of contact for those sleeping rough. Provide simple breakfast and staff to assess needs. Tribal Gathering Tuesday evenings – main gathering for fellowship & prayer. Since it’s foundation the Trust continues to be entirely supported by gifts and donations of individuals, church groups and occassionally grants. The £200 donation would help Zac’s to continue to provide this essential service.
I would like to nominate The Healing Clinic.
My daughter was very poorly and had various tests at hospital. Nobody could find out what was wrong with her but insisted she would “grow out of it”.
We went to The Healing Clinic in the hope somebody could help. We saw June, what a fantastic woman. Whatever she does works, I don’t always understand how but it does.
Lovely caring people, making people feel good.
RAPID UK is an acronym for “Rescue And Preparedness In Disasters”. We formed in 1996 to meet the growing need for a specialist international urban search and rescue team.
As a non-governmental Organisation (NGO) we receive no official funding and our members volunteer their skills and time.
Our primary objectives are the relief of human suffering and distress in any part of the world resulting from disaster of any kind and the protection and preservation of human life. We achieve this by deploying suitably trained and experienced search and rescue response teams whenever we receive a request for assistance. We do not charge for this service.
Although we are best known for our search and rescue work in the aftermath of sudden onset disasters, two-thirds of our effort goes into overseas training. We frequently return to countries where we have deployed in an emergency to provide training to expand their capacity to mitigate the effects of future disasters. This can vary from training specialist search and rescue teams to increasing communities’ and officials’ risk awareness.
We are entirely funded by donations and £200.00 would go a long way to fund our organisation so your help would be gratefully received.
Youth and Families Matter supports disadvantaged and vulnerable children, young people and families in Totton, Hampshire. We offer 1-to-1 mentoring to families in crisis because of poverty, unemployment, family breakdown, ill health, mental health issues, parenting issues. We run various support groups and parenting courses and also a weekly drop-in coffee morning with a free creche. We also support vulnerable children and young people by providing 1-to-1 mentoring in eight local schools as well as lunchtime drop-in clubs. On a Friday evening we run a mobile youth facility at a local skate park, providing young people with somewhere safe to go. We also provide a weekly boys outdoors club and an after school drop-in once a week. In holidays we run play schemes. We also provide an emergency food parcel service which has seen demand double in the last year. We provide all these services at little or no cost to the service users and so £200 will achieve a lot for our charity.
St Mary’s Church East Bergholt Church is beautiful and houses the only bell cage in the world. The cage dates back to 1531 and the five bells are rung from the headstocks on the ground rather than in a bell tower. I’ve just started learning to ring the bells and it’s a truly amazing experience. Visitors to our historic village (former home town of painter John Constable) can hear the bells ringing on a Sunday morning whilst visiting the gorgeous church. The sunlight streaming through the high windows casts a truly magical glow over the interior of the church and, whether you are a believer or not, it is a sight to behold.
I would like ot nominate IIH Support- £200 would help then continue their great work.
I would like to nominate Berkshire Lowland Search & Rescue (SEBEV).
The main functions of the team are to assist Thames Valley Police in the search for missing persons (such as children and the elderly) in Berkshire and the surrounding counties, and also to provide support for the local authorities and the statutory emergency services during civil emergencies in the area. The team also assists other searcg teams in neighbouring counties, and likewise other teams will assist SEBEV, in large or prolonged searches
The SEBEV team is made up wholly of volunteers who manage their time with SEBEV around work and family commitments. We do not receive any government funding and rely solely on donations.
I would like to nominate Aycliffe Village Primary School PTA. We are a very small PTA and struggle to raise money to support our School which tries to provide our children with a wide and rich experience. We have a very dedicated and dynamic chairperson but only a small pool of parents to support our PTA events. Recently we have been asked to contribute towards special events such as sports activities and arts events. We would like to continue to support our School in this way and £200 would be a welcome boost to our dwindling funds.
I would like to nominate Willows because every animal deserves a chance and to be loved and cared for, this happens at willows ,they do such a brilliant job and it would benifit all the animals if they got the money and they can go on helping others.
I nominate Action for M.E (AfME) as cause of the month. ME affects thousands of people, but funding for research and NHS services is lamentably small. In my own area there is NO NHS service for ME/CFS sufferers. It takes lobbying and publicity to get support from the decision makers.
We are a non profit gymnastics club that is run by volunteer coaches. The coaches are in the gym from 1 hour up to 20 hours per week and not only teach gymnastics but also help out with the general running of the building (e.g. cleaning toilets!). They do all this as well as there normally 9 – 5 jobs!
The children train up to 15 hours per week in our new purpose made facility, unfortunately we have now run out of funds to complete the re-furb!
we are constantly fund-raising to help and any amount of money big or small would be a massive help!
I nominate Revive at Maryhill Scotland as they provide great assistance for people who have Multiple Sclerosis.
They need a lot of money to maintain this helpful service so are the ideal candidate for this donation.
I would like to nominate the Tommy Clucas Memorial Fund. We are a small dedicated bunch of friends who are raising money to achieve our dream of building a Community Sports Hall in memory of our funny, most loved friend Tommy “Spook” Clucas who died in September 2004 chasing his dream.
We believe that a new Community Sports Hall within the heart of Peel would bring everyone together, creating new friendships that will last a lifetime, just like the life we had from Tommy and the memories we haveof him for our lifetime.
Invest in ME are a caring, informative group that help the many people with the neuro-immune disease myalgic encephalomyelitis, via their website (http://www.investinme.org/index.html), their annual conference and the rapid, effective help they give to individuals in difficulties.
Of all the M.E. charities, IinME is the one that responds to need fast, provides a platform to share international ideas and progress, and never looses sight of the real issues besetting those ill with myalgic encephalomyelitis.
Did you know that tragically 1 in 5 teenagers in the UK deliberately hurt themselves and that 50% of teenage suicides have self harmed? These children and young people are trying to cope with the devastating impact of child abiuse, domestic and sexual violence and neglect. The WISH Centre is one of the few services supporting these young people that have the expertise and committment to move them to more positive ways of coping and to help them find hope and build better futures. We do this through a mixture of counselling, peer support work, youth projects and on line and text support and by providing a safe environment for them. We are a small local charity mainly run by volunteers and to be awarded this prize would make a huge difference to our ability to reach out to children and young people across the UK. Who can put a price on a young life? its not possible but how fantastic to know that every single penny of this donation will go towards saving one or more. Please vote for The WISH Centre.
I believe that Nations Together deserves this month’s donation. I am currently working at Nations Together for my work experience and i’m finding it eye-opening. Its such a pleasure to see how this charity is making a difference for people living in poverty in Tanzania, Africa.
£200 pound would really help make a difference and allow the charity to further its resources in order to bring Nations Together. I have only been working here for a couple of days and i really acknowlege how hard everybody works for just a extremely small amount of pay.
I honestly believe that Nations Together deserves this month’s donation and i’m very sure it would put a smile on everyones face!
I would like to nominate Mesothelioma UK.
Mesothelioma UK is a national resource centre dedicated to providing specialist mesothelioma information, support & improved care & treatment, they provide a free phone helpline 0800 169 2409 and wewbsite http://www.mesothelioma.uk.com, and all there services are free.
Use of asbestos is banned in the UK but it is still present in most public buildings, especially schools and hospitals. Safe presence of asbestos cannot be guaranteed. Mesothelioma is a cancer caused by inhaled asbestos fibres. It takes many years for symptoms to appear, by which time the cancer may have become well established. This makes effective treatment difficult. It is considered one of the most challenging of all
cancers. Few people survive more than a few years once diagnosed. Only six per cent of the UK population know what the disease is, yet this deadly cancer kills one person every five hours in the UK. The rising number of deaths from the condition is linked to the use of asbestos in the building industry up until the mid 1980s and it doesn’t discriminate, it can affect anyone, even if you haven’t worked with it you may have been exposed through a secondary route and all it takes is one fibre inhaled. Asbestos is dangerous, so let’s do something about it….
I would like to nominate Invest in ME.
In only a few years IiME have done more for people with ME then any of the larger ME charities who have been running for thirty years.
Plans are under way to open a treatment centre which will be the first of it’s kind in the UK.
Most people probably will not realise that this cruel life stealer of an illness only receives psychological “tools” in place of proper medical treatment at the hands of the NHS, so a Medical centre to correctly treat the myriad of symptoms that leaves sufferers incredibly debilitated is very much needed.
Invest in ME have held world renowned conferences for the last six years, educating the Medical community and sharing research and treatment information.
All this is done by few volunteers who are sick themselves with ME.
Even though I am in the Netherlands, I feel it is very important that Invest in ME get additional support. The situation for ME sufferers in the UK and the Netherlands are comparable and interlinked. If IiME manages to make a positive contribution, it will affect research everywhere.
I would like to nominate Invest in ME because it is a small charity set up in 2005 as the founders’ daughters have the disabling neuro-immune disease myalgic encephalomyelitis. They spend every penny they get on helping children and adults with ME and most of their amazing and valuable work goes unsung behind the scenes.
They have hosted an international conference every year in May since they set up, with first-class speakers sharing news of the latest developments in biomedical ME research around the world, which they then make available to everyone on DVD.
This vital research is sadly lacking in UK so Invest in ME plan to set up the first UK Centre of Excellence for Biomedical ME Research and Treatment, based at the University of East Anglia in Norwich but with benefits for everyone with ME in UK from the developments in research and treatment.
Please see their website for details of the centre. This is an exciting and much-needed project but ME is a cinderella disease, widely misunderstood, and so does not attract much funding for biomedical research, even though it affects children as young as 2 years of age and some people are so severely affected they cannot move, speak or swallow.
Invest in ME is a small charity with big ideas which it wastes no time in trying to make reality, putting all its money where its mouth is and giving great value for any funds raised, so it were chosen as your Cause of the Month, the £200 would be very well spent on behalf of people who desperately need it.
Many thanks.
I would like to nominate Action for ME as my cause of the month. They work to support people with this horrible and debilitating condition in a whole variety of ways. Their support has been invaluable to me during my seven year battle with this illness, providing me with invaluable information, support and advice that I simply couldn’t get elsewhere.
I would like to nominate Action for ME for the £200 prize. ME can be a devastating illness and sufferers become isolated, unable to continue with normal day to day activities the rest of us take for granted. Action for ME provides much needed support as well as fighting for the rights of ME sufferers. Funds are desparately needed to continue this work and support research into the causes of this illness. As the mother of an ME sufferer I know only too well how vital the work of Action for ME is.
Invest in ME are a caring, informative group that help the many people with the neuro-immune disease myalgic encephalomyelitis, via their website (http://www.investinme.org/index.html), their annual conference and the rapid, effective help they give to individuals in difficulties.
Of all the M.E. charities, IinME is the one that responds to need fast, provides a platform to share international ideas and progress, and never looses sight of the real issues besetting those ill with myalgic encephalomyelitis.
I would like to nominate Preston Schoolroom in Preston-next-Faversham. This is a community hall which is currently raising funds for the new extension. This extension will give full disabled access and facilities together with facilities for children as well. This is the only hall in this community and is used by all in the wider area and the new extension will mean that is is fully inclusive for the whole community. Thank you
I nominate Action for ME.
ME is such a debilitating illness, very misunderstood still by the public and even, to their shame, some in the medical profession but has a devastating effect on the lives of those unfortunate to have it. The future is uncertain for them because there is no treatment or cure. It has driven sufferers to suicide because there is no light at the end of the tunnel for them.
Action for ME provides support in all sorts of ways, which costs money of course. Also money is sorely needed for research. So little money goes into research, especially compared with more highly publicised illnesses, but this really is the only way a cure, or even some alleviating treatment will be found. The £200 would be well used and very gratefully received..
I would like to nominate mansfield Children’s community as it is a lovely place parents feel safe leaving their children in their capable hands. They are always putting events on to raise money and always make us parents aware of how much money was raised and where it has been spent. They are a friendly bunch and always welcoming. For all their hard work that they put into events to raise money i think it would be great for them to receive this money to help towards more equipment for the children that attend there.
I would like to nominate the charity that I fundraise for which is Birmingham Children’s Hospital Oncology Ward 15. The children on that ward are very poorly and the ones that are well enough at the moment but have to stay in hospital, they do not have much to do so new toys for the play room would be great and keep them occupied, the rest of the money would go towards helping the amazing doctors and nurses on the ward treat the children as they need many drugs and medicines and treatment. I have raised over £10,000 myself now since 2009 and Skydived and climbed Kilimanjaro and reached the summit, that hopefully shows you the dedication I have towards the hospital and the children. Good Luck to everyone else I am sure every ones causes are just as great.
I would like to nominate Allington & Sedgebrook Pre-School. This little group enables rural mums to work, have a break at a cost they can afford. The children are taken from the age of two, though most start at 3. They are prepared for when the time comes to enter school proper, they are given confidence and learning skills. The committee of this Pre-School work hard to raise funds in order to keep the cost of leaving a child to a minimum. They have to pay for all their courses and helpers. Mums are no longer allowed to helop unless they have qualifications, which have to be paid for. They even pay for their Offsted inspections. It costs £5,000 a year to run the Pre-School, hence the constant fund raising. £200 would go a long way to help their efforts.
This time last year, July 2010, our fifteen year old daughter was at a dangerously low weight due to anorexia. She had been off school since the February as she was so weak.She did spend seven weeks on a children’s ward of the local hospital but unfortunately the staff there did not really know what to do .My husband and I asked for her to admitted to the North Wales Adolescent Service,Hospital at Abergele ,North Wales.It was a very hard decision to send her there but it was our last hope. Thanks to the specialised expertise of the unit’s staff, in treating young people with eating disorders , our daughter ,after a five month stay was able to return to school,full time,has sat a few of her GCSEs exams and has secured a part time summer job. Last year non of this would have been possible and there were times when we feared the worst. Her future seems brighter now. The unit still monitor her every few months.
I believe this cause should be considered for the cause of the month During the school holidays money is required to organise activities and visits for the young people-they only have a small amount earmarked every week,£200 would be much appreciated to help give some enjoyment to the youngsters-some of whom can be away from home for more than an year-we are lucky as our daughter is home now,but we still remember how excited she was when telling us of a visit she had rather than sitting around waiting to see doctors. Please ,please consider NWAS as your cause of the month, Thanks
Action for M.E is a lifeline for people suffering from this awful illness and their carers. It kept me going on my worse days with their magazine. It deserves more funding.
I would like to nominate my daughter as a cause for the £200, she is going with Operation Wallacea to Honduras and it was postponed one year due to political uprising which meant all her classmates cancelled, but she was determined not to cancel this once in a lifetime opportunity and is now going this year, with people from the class below. I admire her tenacity and her ‘not giving’ up attitude, a credit to her peers.
I would like to nominate Action for ME. As a sufferer I have first hand experience of the amazing support offered by this charity. It helped me through the maze of applying for benefits, gave advice about medicals, keeps me up to date on all the recent research, keeps me in touch with the latest developments in Parliament with regard to ME and acts as a lifeline to other people who understand the debilitating nature of this illness. It has literally been a life saver to me.
West Yorkshire Dog Rescue rescues and re-homes unwanted dogs. When dogs are rescued, we do not use kennels in which to house them but instead, they are cared for by volunteer fosters in their own homes. This allows a full assessment of the dog and the sort of forever home that they would fit into. We do not charge for dogs, but rely on donations from adopters and fundraising to raise the money required to care for the dogs. This care includes veterinary treatments such as spaying and neutering, flea and worm treatments, dental care and any other treatent that ensures that when the dog goes to its new home it is in the best possible condition. Another major expense is food as we only feed top quality produce to the dogs as many are under nourished when they come into the rescue, so need building up before they go to their new home. £200 would spay or neuter one dog and provide treatment for fleas and worms and so help it on its way to a new home.
I wish to nominate the Bristol based charity, Action for M.E. When I first became ill 20 years ago, little was known of this condition by medical or non-medical people. Having seen a short programme with Claire Francis describing how M.E. affected her and speaking of the charity, Action for M.E. it helped me SO much when I contacted them and knew I wasn’t alone. They have been a constant source of help and information and to maintain this they need funds. Please help them to help all sufferers, carers, families, schools and GP’s/hospitals for the charity provides information for all and much more such as help lines, welfare rights and benefit help to mention only a few.
They fight for the rights of sufferers with by communicating with Health Departments and Parliamentarians alike.
I’d like to nominate action for M.E. for providing support to people with this devestating condition. Currently Action for M.E. is the only provider of support for those with M.E. and they do a fantastic job of providing essential information and advice whilst keeping up to date with current research into possible causes of the condition. So far there has been little to no government funded research into medical causes of M.E and there is limited understanding of the condition within both the medical and wider society. Without action for M.E basically people with M.E would have nothing. They desrve all the support they can get!!
I would like to nominate Girl GUides Brinmill Seniour Section because I have been a member of the Guiding movement for over 10 years and it has taught me some invaluable lessons and I’ve made some lifelong friendships!! Guides get’s NO funding from a goverment body therefore most of the leaders are volunteers, they give up their free time to help young girls better themselves and build their confidence and bcome a more rounded individual! However these are hard times and some of our normal ways of fundraising are now not as lucrative as they used to be.
Imagine being born with 15cm x 10cm of your head missing!
Daisy now 1 year old, has Adams-Oliver Syndrome. Only 130 cases Worldwide,so very rare!
Daisy has a big part of her skull missing,and the skin. Her brain was clear to see, she’s recently recovered from a CSF leak. Daisy also has a Heart murmour, ASD hole in Heart, Pulmonary Arteieral sternosis, Narrowing of the Arteries, Abnormal toes,with the ends of toes missing and thus nails undeveloped. Small limbs, hands and feet. Then Apneoa, meaning she stops breathing randomly.
Daisys ailments where all undetected in scans (pre-birth) We have no funds from charitys and at present Daisy sleeps in mum and dads room, it is unsafe for her to share with her older siblings. Daisy has a pink Helmet, she hates it but its needed!. But,she has no-where to sleep that is safe, nor anywhere to play,and she is generaly restricted from exploring the world around her. I hold her a follow her everywhere. We dont know how she’ll cope with walking and when or if she will need her Heart op,her heart wasnt strong enough to operated on her skull as yet, the skin is nearly there, although weak and thin,the skull they will look at around 5/6 years old. Daisys heart should then be stonger for open head surgery. Her hair will never grow and they will do tissue expansion (bloons under skin)for this, when the skull has been patched up. untill then we have to keep her safe and make her stronger, ready for ops. We have applied for home adaption (DFG) and various funds but we dont tick there boxes, and we never will as daisys condition is so rare, haveing daisy with skull missing is a great risk of brain damage or worse and thats without her added problems. im raising simple to provide her with a safe area in her home an area she can play, sleep and be happy. Raising funds for her is extremly hard, i dont want to beg and pled, but if thats what it takes to keep Daisy alive and safe then i will. so away with my pride and personals morals of struggling on alone, please help my daughter, because if i keep her safe…who will??
I nominate Turkish Animal Rescue Organisation
TARO is a lifeline for stray animals in Turkey organised by UK volunteers.
fingers crossed!
Fingers and Paws xx
I would like to nominate Blenheim Scouts in Bristol. They are based in South Bristol, and are in need of funds to help provide kids of all ages with a chance to have experiences they would not otherwise be able to have. The money from viking would help a lot to improve the small area of office space we have and make paperwork a lot easier to manage.
I nominate TARO who do a great job feeding, neutering, getting veterinary care and rehoming etc stray and orphaned dogs. You here and see some awful stories about these dogs, thankfully most of the thanks to TARO have happy endings. The person who run Taro is a personal friend of mine.
I nominate Turkish Animal Rescue Organisation (TARO)
GREAT WORK
I nominate Turkish Animal Rescue Organisation
TARO do a wonderful job caring for the stray animals of Turkey, many of which would NOT survive without the vital work done by these volunteers.
Your Sanctuary works to empower people experiencing domestic abuse to rebuild their lives. We offer immediate practical and emotional support and work to prevent and reverse the cycle of abuse. Our clients are women, children and men from diverse communities, sexual orientations, religions, ethnicities, socio-economic and age groups. We want to help a child recover from the trauma of seeing their mum abused by giving them individual support sessions. £200 could help our children’s worker support up to 10 children at refuge a week.
I would like to nominate TARO for the wonderful work they do in helping the stray and sick animals in turkey
I nominate Turkish Animal Rescue Organisation
They spay / neuter , feed and care for so many stray dogs in Turkey , a lot of the costs are funded by the volunteers personally, they could do with some help.
Turkish Animal Rescue Organisation
They really could do with winning this to help even more animals.
I support and nominate TARO Turkish Animal Rescue Organisation
I nominate Action for ME, the one organisation consistently to support and represent me through 20+ years of illness. This has to be the most misunderstood and ridiculed of illnesses – just as MS was 50 years ago before scientists found a methodology to diagnose (since when it’s arrived in the “top three most feared”; before that it was “all in the mind”). People with ME need a champion like AfME to battle our corner and this they do daily – in one-to-one support and campaigns for research and public services. Life would be very much tougher, even more lonely, without the knowledge that they are out there.
I would like to nominate Banbury Town Youth Football Club. It is run by parent volunteers and we are constantly battling to raise funds.
We are a club of 6 teams growing into 8 teams this coming season encouraging the younger children in our area to play football.
Our problem is our facilities. We have no community, government or local funding and everything we raise is from hard work from the children and their parents.
Our 2 new teams will require football kits,our facilities and ground require constant maintenance and your contribution would just ease the pressure for the start of the season with the football kits.
We aim to provide the best for the boys/girls and its a constant battle. We are aware that a couple of the clubs in our area have folded this year as its so difficult to keep things going and we are determined that this is not going to happen to us. We are a dedicated and committed team of people.
Thank you
I nominate Turkish Animal Rescue Organisation, who are an all volunteer (nonprofit) rescue organization based in UK. Their aim is to alleviate the suffering of stray animals in Turkey. They provide food, shelter, and veterinary care to dogs and puppies who have no-one. They also spay / neuter as many adult dogs as possible depending on funds available.
Fingers, toes and all paws crossed.
Thank You
I would like to nominate House The Homeless for this months Cause of the month. We are trying to help people in social need to find accommodation and provide outreach and support.
We have already helped many homeless families and individuals find new homes and supported them as they try to improve their lives.
But we need more support and donations in order to help more homeless people find a home they deserve.
Every penny counts and if we win this months prize it will make a real difference to someones life!
please help our young children to learn about trees, animals and survival skills.
I nominate Turkish Animal Rescue Organisation
I nominate Turkish Animal Rescue Organisation
TARO do a great job helping to feed many stray animals of Turkey, most of which would NOT survive without the vital work done by these volunteers
I nominate Turkish Animal Rescue Organisation
because I know how they fight to help this strays…
i urge you to support INVEST in ME for all the reasons given by the supporters already listed
Last year I spent 7 months living and working in Zambia and came across The Happy Africa Foundation (THAF) I was so impressed with their work that this year I am now back in Zambia working with the charity. This Foundation supports community and conservation projects in eastern and southern Africa and is dedicated to sustainable change and progress for underprivileged communities. Our objectives are always to empower local people and work with them to find sustainable solutions to the challenges that they face. We aim to educate, motivate and encourage, whilst making a difference to the lives of the vulnerable and disadvantaged.
One of our focal projects at the moment is Books for Africa. At present we are raising funds to have a container of 23,000 books and 10 computers to be sent over to Zambia so we can distribute them to local schools and libraries. We are nearly there and an additional £200 will give us the extra boost to get the container on its way. Thank you!
i nominate Turkish Animal Rescue Organisation
I would like to nominate Karmic Angels UK as they do so much good in the Gambia West Africa in building bush schools (4 schools in 18 months) and nearly 400 children into education including 75 orphan children who have the chance of education. Our kids in the Gambia would not have a chance without our aid and we have also saved 250 lives in the last year by donating impregnated mosquito nets to our schools and bush villages. In 1 year in 1 village alone over 100 children from new born to 6 years old lost their lives to malaria. Now we have reduced this by 50% in one year. £200 would buy 10 more impregnated mosquito nets which would save another 40 lives. Support Karmic Angels in saving lives/
Jack Ford memorial fund – Families Against Neurblastoma raises much needed funding for research, treatment and support to family affected by the most aggressive childhood cancer with the highest mortality rates. In the UK alone 100 children will be diagnosed with this disease and many will relapse amd be told by UK doctors, as my son was, that there is nothing more that can be done. There is more! Through Families Against Neuroblastoma, the funds raised by my sons memorial fund helps families to take their child to Germany for treatment. Together we also support the whole family, including the often forgotten siblings of the poorly child and provide funding towards research. This horrific disease took away my first born son, he left behind his little brother who misses him dearly and the emptiness can never be filled. In Jacks memory and honour I want to help others faced with Neuroblastoma and give those children the opportunities Jack never had. Please help me keep Jacks memory alive, please support the Jack Ford Memorial Fund. Thank you.
I nominate Turkish Animal Rescue Organisation
I would like to nominate Spurgeons 4 Kids Who Care ! project in Birmingham.
The team plays a vital role in supporting young carers to cope with their home lives whilst also giving them the chance to be like other children and get some much needed time to play and switch off from their caring responsibilities. The local authority funding cuts mean that activities provided to the children who desperately need support have to be restricted. The funds we raise will enable the project to organise additional activities which are not presently funded.
Spurgeons is a respected charity supporting vulnerable children, young people and their families in finding long lasting solutions to the challenges they face.
Victoria Cares – do you? Victoria is 12 and cares for her mum. Follow her story online (13-19 June) and learn about her life through her eyes and those of her family and friends.
http://www.victoriacares.org.uk http://www.facebook.com/Victoriacares http://www.twitter.com/victoria_cares
Kempston Colts Girls (Moon). A team that has been playing for 4 years. Achieving League and League Cup Winners, Semi Fianlist on numerous occasions. Not to mention winners of numerous tournaments. Team Manager and Coach (husband and wife) dedicate all their spare time to football. This being their first ever team in Girls Football. Currenly spnsored by DHL (thank you) together with the help of easyfundraising, regular raffles, race nights, bag packing, car boot sales we are raising funds for the girls to take part in their first ever tournament. £200 would be a great help. thank you
I would like to nominate the Berwick Swan and Wildlife Trust because they always respond to any calls for help for sick or injured wildlife and never charge
I nominate OC support because they have provided one of my long time friend a lot of support. Thank you very much xx
I nominate Turkish Animal Rescue Organisation as they do a fantastic job with very little funds & save many animals lives.
I would like to nominate my cause because Sunshine is a project that provides a home,love,care and education to abandoned children in Egypt.
There are currently 96 children who are now able to look forward to a future and to greater opportunities in life.Today as I write I received a message that a new baby boy had arrived at the project.
Imagine what hope would he have if not for Sunshine ,
Our oldest child is now 20 and attends a college course thanks to Sunshine.
If we win £200 ,it would help sponsor the new baby for 1 year and 6 months and a huge help to the charity.
Thank you for reading my comment.
Eve Lawton-Sunshine Project.
Our cause tries to help one of the main universities in the Palestinian Occupied Territories who suffers very serious lack of fund and it is in serious need for every kind of support, financially and otherwise to keep going and serving the community and the students in need.
I would like to nominate my cause-World Challenge Fundraising, South India. Next year I will be travelling to Southern India to volunterr in a local primary school in Tamil Nadu. Whist there I will be undergoing a building project employing local craftsmen aswell as helping teach the children a little English! This is an oppurtunity to improve the childrens education and skills to aid them in later life and leave behind a good example of people who care about them and their future. India being a third world country means many of the children live in poverty and inadequate living conditions. Those children who are able to attend school often find themselves in an environment not suitable for pushing them to the best of their abilities this project will improve the conditions in the school.
I would like to nominate 1st Huntingdon Rainbows. We are a unit of 15 5-7 yr old girls, we have done a lot of community work in the past 12 months including planting saplings in the local playpark, planting flowers at the church we meet in. We are running short on funds as our rent is quite a bit per week considering we only get £20 per school term per child. We would love to be able to treat the girls to new equipment and an outing to the cinema/bowling but as it stands we would have to approach the parents to help pay for it. We are based in one of the hardest hit areas of our town and as such a lot of the parents are on one form of benefit or another. It would be fantastic to be able to say to them that we are going out for the day at no cost to them. We get no government funding and rely entirely on subs or donations (which are few and far between). As leaders we have to pay for our own uniform as we just cant justify paying for it out of unit funds. Girlguiding UK as a whole is run entirely on donations/subs. None of us get paid to do the work we do with the girls or in the background, we do it purely for the children from 5 years old all the way up to 24 years old when the girls leave senior section.
Cretan animal protection deserve to be nominated for their relentless work they do with Cretes street dogs and cats.This charity rescues and nurses back to health many abused animals and have found them loving homes in Germany,france,hollond,uk.
The charity only receives money through donations and fundraising so desperately needs funds for the ever increasing number of animals,especially this time of year because at the end and begining of every season the authoritys put poison down and the animals suffer for days before they die so the charity needs to rescue from the streets as many as they can.
Lorraine Benson who looks after the sanctuary is an angel,she works full time as well as looking after all the animals in the santuary / street / fundraising and another million jobs.I really don’t know how she does it all.
I really wish they could win this money it would make such a difference to these beautiful innocent animals.
I support Northcote Heavy Horse Centre, this is run by Terena Bolam and a team of volunteers, Terena works extremely hard , she’s on the go from first thing in the morning until late evening, caring for about 15 shire horses and shetland ponies.
In the holiday season the centre is open for visitors, and lots of grand days are organised, i.e. Summer Fates, Medieval Days, 40′s nights, Halloween Parties.
The horses are really loved, and extremely well cared for, and you can clearly see how happy they are.
It truly is a wonderful charity
I would like to nominate Freshfields Animal Rescue because of their commitment and dedication in helping countless animals from abuse and neglect and to find them new homes.
Their work is relentless and they are often stretched to limits at times.They hold Open Days and activities in order to raise funds – they really are amazing and deserve every single penny.
I would like to nominate ATC 1379 (Leiston) Sqd, as we need to support the parents fuel costs, as they help get car loads of cadets to sports events, adventure weekends, and other activities.
We don’t have our own transport and with out our parents who do a wonderful job, we can not get our cadets out and about, and gain so much by meeting other cadets.
We are trying to Raise funds to open a Sensory Play Centre for children with additional needs. Ruby’s Fund is a small local charity. The charity has worked so hard to raise as much as possible with the help from the local community. A donation of £200 would really make a difference and it is for this reason I am nominating them for the £200 donation from Viking. Good Luck to everyone who has entered. Thanks again. x
I would like to nominate Orphans in the Wild as they are working so hard to
provide shelter, sustenance, education and medical care for orphans and foster families in the |Mufindi District of Tanzania, to curtail the spread of HIV/AIDS, to teach life skills (language, fiscal, vocational, self-sufficiency), and to create hope and opportunities for future generations. A donation of £200 would go a long way in Tanzania.
We are the only award winning wheelchair football club that is Charter Standared and is a registered charity. All of our members are wheelchair users some full time users, some part time user, both manual chair users and powerchair users we have a diverse type of members from age groups we have age 5 to 50yrs, disabilities including, hearing imparement, physically disabled, visually disabled and learning dificulties. We have both male and female young and old working together. Some members are terminally ill but all in all each and every member concider themselvs as footballers not just a disabled person in a wheelchair pushing a ball about. And one thing is evident we are all one big family hence our motto “FAMILY & FUN”
We are a small village cricket team with big ideas. We are trying to build a community sports pavilion to replace a very old leaking portable building and hired chemical toilet. We are continually fund raising, so this months prize will be a great boost.