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Abbeyfield
Cause areas: Care / Social, Elderly, Community ServicesAbbeyfield exists to make older people's lives easier and more fulfilling. Since 1956 Abbeyfield volunteers and staff have worked tirelessly to provide housing, support and companionship to older people. Committed to care and independent living for older people in around 650 houses and 80 care homes across the UK, Abbeyfield relies on legacies to continue its valuable work and to plan and build for the future. Your legacy - no matter how large - will help us ensure that older people remain at the heart of their communities for generations to come.
Read moreAction for M.E
Cause areas: Medical / ResearchAction for M.E is the leading UK charity for people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) and their carers. M.E. is a chronic, fluctuating illness affecting thousands of people in the UK. It may be diagnosed as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) or Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome (PVFS).Action for M.E provides information and support, while campaigning for better services, more effective treatments and greater investment in research.
Read moreAfasic unlocking speech & language
Cause areas: Disability, Children / YouthAfasic is the UK charity supporting children and young people with speech language and communication impairments and their families. Over 1 million are affected by this hidden disability. Afasic helps to give them the opportunity to reach their true potential.
Read moreAfrican Children's Educational Trust (A-CET)
Cause areas: Overseas / International, EducationAward winning independent charity, run with passion by unpaid dedicated professionals through local partners, is changing the lives of thousands of disadvantaged Ethiopian youngsters, often orphans, the disabled or abandoned, through easier access to better quality education by individual scholarships and upgrading, building and furnishing rural community schools. Educate Ethiopians and help them develop Ethiopia.
Read moreAge UK
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Cause areas: Overseas / International, Medical / Research, ElderlyAge UK is the new force combining Age Concern and Help the Aged. We help people enjoy a better later life - here and in 40 other countries - by providing life-enhancing services and vital support. We aim to improve later life for everyone through our information and advice, campaigns, products, training and research. We have around 500 Age UK charity shops and 330 local partners in the UK. Gifts in Wills are vital to our work and make a real difference. We urgently need this money to help people in later life who turn to us - now and in the future.
Read moreAlzheimer's Research UK
Cause areas: Medical / Research, ElderlyAlzheimer’s Research UK is the UK’s leading dementia research charity. As research experts, we specialise in funding world-class, pioneering research at leading universities to find preventions, treatments and a cure for dementia. We believe science and innovation hold the key to defeating dementia and invest in the scientists learning more about the condition and its causes.
Our findings improve the lives of everyone affected by dementia now and in the future. We forge partnerships with Government and other key organisations to make dementia research a national priority.
We encourage everyone to join us in supporting research and achieving a world free from dementia.
Read moreAlzheimer's Society
Cause areas: Medical / Research, ElderlyWe are the leading care and research charity for people with dementia and their carers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and provide expert care, information and support. We campaign and lobby for fairer and better treatment. We are carrying out vital research that could one day lead to a cure. Our ultimate aim is to defeat dementia.
Read moreAmber Foundation
Cause areas: Children / Youth, HomelessnessAmber is unique in its approach to helping unemployed, homeless young people gain the confidence, self esteem and skills they need to enter employment, college and their own accommodation. Our residential centres in Devon, Wiltshire and Surrey provide the space, time, guidance and support young people on the edge of society need to prepare for independent living.
Read moreAmbulance Services Benevolent Fund
Cause areas: Disability, Crisis / RescueThe Ambulance Services Benevolent Fund was established in 1986. The Trustees are all volunteers and provide assistance to both serving and retired ambulance personnel in a variety of distressing circumstances, many arising from the stressful and demanding incidents they are called to deal with on a daily basis.
Read moreAMREF UK
Cause areas: Overseas / International, Children / YouthHeadquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, AMREF is a truly African organisation whose vision is lasting health change in Africa. AMREF provides health care to Africa’s most marginalised and vulnerable communities in Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Senegal and South Africa.
We believe that the power for health change lies within Africa's communities.
We ensure that communities have the knowledge, skills and means to maintain their good health and break the cycle of poor health and poverty. We:
- Support communities others cannot or do not reach
- Create better conditions for health, and nurturing the hidden but real energies within communities
Animal Care Trust
Cause areas: Medical / Research, Animals - domestic, EducationThe Animal Care Trust - because animals will always matter... The Royal Veterinary College's animal hospitals provide specialist veterinary care to thousands of animals each year, pioneer new treatments and train the next generation of veterinary professionals. The ACT is the College's registered charity and raises funds to support these hospitals, enabling our vets to save the lives of more animals. Our hospitals run on a non-profit making basis - income from clients only covers the basic running costs. A gift in your will means we can afford more care and equipment that can make all the difference to our patients and their owners!
Read moreAnimal Welfare Foundation
Cause areas: Read moreArthritis Research UK
Cause areas: Medical / Research, ElderlyArthritis Research UK is the charity leading the fight against arthritis. We are taking the pain away for over 10 million in the UK that suffer from arthritis and helping them to remain active. We fund world-leading research, provide information about arthritis and we campaign to improve the quality of care and attention for arthritis sufferers. Everything we do is underpinned by research, but this wouldn’t be possible if it wasn’t for the generosity of gifts included in wills. The majority of of our funding comes from people remembering us in their wills and they are vital for our goal of a future free from arthritis.
Read moreAsthma UK
Cause areas: Medical / Research, Information / Advice, HealthOver five million people in the UK have asthma. That's one person in every eleven who can't take breathing for granted. Asthma UK works together with healthcare professionals, researchers and people with asthma to develop and share expertise to increase our understanding and reduce the potentially life-threatening effects of asthma on lives. We fund ground-breaking research into identifying the causes of asthma, provide essential services like the Asthma UK Adviceline (0800 121 62 44) and campaign on issues that impact on the lives of those affected by asthma. Our vision is: control over asthma today, freedom from asthma tomorrow.
Read moreAsthma, Allergy & Inflammation Research
Cause areas: Medical / Research, Science, HealthThe UK has the highest prevalence of asthma in the world and 15% of 13-14 year olds have symptoms. Approximately 40% of the population has an allergic tendency.
The AAIR Charityfunds research into all respiratory disease and allergic conditions. AAIR is run by volunteers and most of the funds donated and raised by AAIR, go towards research.
Southampton University Medicine is one of the world's leading research centres with up to 140 staff and students working towards the cure, management and treatment of these debilitating respiratory conditions.
We welcome donations and visitors by arrangement.
Read moreAwards for Young Musicians
Cause areas: The Arts, Children / YouthWe believe that all musically talented young people should have the opportunity to develop that talent – not just those from well off families. That’s why we’re here – to help young people with exceptional ability from lower income backgrounds. Many of these young musicians are struggling to meet the prohibitive costs of funding their gift. Our job is to ensure that they can continue to make music, by providing vital financial backing and supplying the opportunities that gives them the confidence to progress.
Read moreBattersea Dogs & Cats Home
Best Beginnings
Cause areas: Children / Youth, Information / Advice, HealthBest Beginnings is committed to giving every baby in the UK the healthiest possible start in life. Our vision is a future in which all children enjoy excellent care from the very beginning. Currently infant mortality in the poorest parts of the Midlands is six times greater than in affluent parts of Hampshire. This huge health gap continues into adulthood with children from more challenging backgrounds being significantly more likely to suffer from obesity, diabetes, cancer and heart disease in later life. We use innovative approaches to ensure families have the information and support they need to protect their children’s health.
Read morebibic - changing children's lives
Cause areas: Disability, Children / Youthbibic transforms the lives of disabled children by empowering families with the skills, strategies and techniques they need to help their child to develop and reach their full potential. We work with children who have a brain-related condition or learning disability which can include cerebral palsy, autism, dyslexia and Down’s syndrome. We help families to achieve things that they never thought possible – a child’s first steps, learning to play with friends, their first words: even something as simple as being able to laugh or smile.
Read moreBirmingham Royal Ballet
Cause areas: The Arts, Children / YouthBirmingham Royal Ballet aims to inspire audiences with work that is entertaining, relevant, exciting and technically excellent. We are committed to inclusion and access as ballet, dance and music are art-forms that everyone can experience, participate in and enjoy. We achieve this by creating and presenting ballets, nurturing and developing dance talent, and encouraging local communities to participate in ballet.
Read moreBorn Free Foundation
Cause areas: Animals - wildAn international wildlife charity working throughout the world to prevent wild animal suffering and protect threatened species in the wild.
Read moreBrain Tumour Research
Cause areas: Medical / Research, HealthBrain Tumour Research was launched specifically to raise substantial funds for brain tumour research.
In the UK more children and people under the age of 40 die of a brain tumour than any other cancer – yet brain tumour research is woefully under-funded!
We aim to change that bringing better hope and care to thousands of brain tumour patients and their families through raising at least £7million per year to fund world class brain tumour research programmes and projects at UK universities where brain tumour research is already established. This will accelerate progress significantly, making a clinical difference and improving outcomes.
Read moreBread and Water for Africa UK
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Cause areas: Overseas / International, ReligionBread and Water for Africa UK was founded to support and strengthen grassroots organisations across Africa. Over the years, we have identified 11 community programmes in Kenya, Ethiopia, Burundi, Zambia, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Mozambique, founded by driven and innovative leaders that address key problems within their respective communities. Together with these partners, we are working to give communities the tools and resources they need to help themselves. Bread and Water for Africa UK provides support for projects aimed at improving health care, orphan care, agricultural development, education and vocational training, clean water access and income generation.
Read moreBreakthrough Breast Cancer
Cause areas: Medical / Research, HealthBreakthrough Breast Cancer is a pioneering charity dedicated to the prevention, treatment and ultimate eradication of breast cancer. We fight on three fronts: research, campaigning and education. Our aim is to bring together the best minds and rally the support of all those whose lives have been, or may one day be, affected by the disease. The result will save lives and change futures - by removing the fear of breast cancer for good.
Read moreBritish Heart Foundation
Cause areas: Medical / Research, HealthOur vision is of a world where people do not die prematurely from heart and circulatory disease, the UK’s biggest killer. We’re dedicated to keeping vulnerable hearts beating and do this by funding pioneering research and providing vital patient care, support and information. Every day we are able to help many people because someone kindly thought of us at the time that they made their Will, resulting in countless lives being saved and improved. By leaving a legacy to the BHF, your special gift would become a permanent gift of hope to future generations. Thank you.
Read moreBritish Homeopathic Association
Cause areas: Medical / Research, Animals - domestic, Information / AdviceThe British Homeopathic Association promotes homeopathy practised by conventional doctors, vets and other statutory healthcare professionals for the benefit and safety of all patients. We provide information to the public, fund research, enable the education of doctors, vets, nurses, pharmacists and other professionals, and promote access to homeopathy. Our aim is to see homeopathy fully integrated into the healthcare system and available as a treatment choice for every woman, man, child and animal.
Read moreBritish Red Cross
Cause areas: Overseas / International, Crisis / Rescue, Care / SocialWe have been helping people in crisis for over 140 years, whoever and wherever they are. Across the world, we provide emergency supplies and medical assistance to those in need following conflict or natural disaster. We respond within hours and stay long afterwards to help communities recover and cope better in the future. In the UK, we help vulnerable people by providing medical equipment, transport and care in the home. We train over 120,000 first aiders every year and our volunteers support the emergency services whenever disaster occurs. Please help safeguard our life-saving work with a gift in your Will.
Read moreBritish School of Osteopathy
Cause areas: Read moreCancer Research UK
Cause areas: Medical / Research, Information / Advice, HealthCancer Research UK is the world's leading charity dedicated to beating cancer through research. The groundbreaking work of our scientists, doctors and nurses is funded entirely by generous supporters, many of whom choose to remember our work when they write or amend their Will. More than a third of our vital work is funded by legacies, and gifts of this kind have helped to save hundreds of thousands of lives. Our commitment is to continue this progress and help more people survive the disease in the future. If you would like to help us beat cancer by considering a gift in your Will, please visit our website and request an information pack.
Read moreCats Protection
Cause areas: Animals - domesticCats Protection is the UK’s largest feline welfare charity. Every year we help more than 200,000 cats and kittens through the tireless work of our network of 29 adoption centres, 1 rehoming centre and more than 250 volunteer run branches located throughout the UK.
We focus on the three key areas of homing, neutering and education as we work towards our vision of a world where every cat is treated with kindness and understanding of its needs.
We never put a healthy cat to sleep, and we rely entirely on the generosity and support of the general public.
Read moreChichester Cathedral Restoration & Development Trust
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Cause areas: Heritage, ReligionThe Trust's Objectives are to restore the fabric of Chichester Cathedral and, alongside its spiritual purpose, to develop its use for the arts and as a contemporary resource for the community.
Read moreChristian Aid
Cause areas: Overseas / InternationalRead moreCitizens Advice
Cause areas: Community Services, Information / AdviceThe Citizens Advice service helps people to resolve their problems. As the UK’s largest advice provider it is equipped to deal with any issue, from anyone, spanning debt and employment to consumer and housing plus everything in between.
In the last year alone the Citizens Advice service helped over 2 million people with 7 million problems. But it’s not just here from times of crisis – it also uses clients’ stories anonymously to campaign for policy changes that benefit the population as a whole.
Read moreCombat Stress (Ex Services Mental Welfare Society)
Cause areas: Disability, Medical / Research, Care / SocialCombat Stress provides effective clinical treatment and welfare support to veterans of the British Armed Forces and Merchant Navy who suffer from mental health problems attributable in whole or part to their service, in order to enable them to maximise their mental, physical and social capabilities.
Intervention is based on the assessed psychological, social and welfare needs of the individual. Using a multidisciplinary, holistic approach through short-term residential clinical treatment and support services in the community clinical interventions range from brief therapy to chronic disease management.
Read moreContact the Elderly
Cause areas: Care / Social, Elderly, Community ServicesContact the Elderly organises monthly Sunday afternoon tea parties for people over 75 who live alone with little or no support from family and friends. One Sunday afternoon a month volunteers use their car to take older members to and from a volunteer host’s home for tea, cake and companionship. Our hosts take it in turn to welcome the small group of older people and volunteer drivers into their home for a few hours. These Sunday afternoon tea parties are a lifeline of friendship bringing older people and volunteers together for an afternoon of stories, laughter and conversation.
Read moreCoram
Cause areas: Children / Youth, Care / SocialCoram Family promotes resilience in vulnerable children and young people enabling them to take responsibility for their own lives and achieve their full potential. We have been caring for children since 1739.
Read moreCORDA: Preventing heart disease and stroke
Cause areas: Medical / ResearchCORDA supports high quality clinical research into the prevention of cardiovascular disease (heart attacks and strokes)through development and application of safe and painless non-invasive methods.Read moreDiabetes UK
Cause areas: Medical / Research, Care / Social, HealthDiabetes UK is the leading charity that cares for, connects with and campaigns on behalf of every person affected by or at risk of diabetes. There are currently 3.8 million people in the UK with diabetes, including an estimated 850,000 people who have Type 2 diabetes but do not know it.
- We fund pioneering research into care, cure and prevention for all types of diabetes.
- We help people manage their diabetes by providing advice and support.
- We campaign with people with diabetes and with healthcare professionals to improve the quality of care across the UK’s health services.
Dimbleby Cancer Care
Cause areas: Medical / Research, Care / Social, HealthDimbleby Cancer Care is a charity dedicated to the support and care of people affected by cancer. It provides information, financial advice, counselling and psychological care, support groups and complementary therapies. People can now survive cancer for much longer, yet life after treatment can still pose problems. Dimbleby Cancer Care's Research Fund was established to meet these challenges, and makes available up to £500,000 each year for senior specialists throughout the UK to test and improve existing support services; improve psychosocial care for patients and their families; and to ensure better continuity of care for all those affected by cancer.
Read moreDogs for the Disabled
Cause areas: Disability, Animals - domestic, Children / YouthThe bond between people and dogs is very special. A dog can make us smile when we are feeling down, keep us fit and active, and can break the ice when we are meeting new people.
Since 1988 Dogs for the Disabled has been building on this special relationship by providing trained assistance dogs for people with physical disabilities and for families with a child with autism.
Through practical tasks our dogs offer freedom and independence, but an assistance dog also becomes a reason to go out, offering the confidence to undertake new opportunities including friendships, education and even careers.
Read moreDogs Trust
Cause areas: Animals - domesticDogs Trust is the UK's largest dog welfare charity. Every year we care for around 16,000 stray and abandoned dogs at our nationwide network of 17 rehoming centres. We never destroy a healthy dog. We also promote dog welfare through educational, neutering and lobbying campaigns.
Read moreDyslexia Action
Cause areas: Children / Youth, EducationDyslexia Action improves lives through education by providing a range of services for people of all ages who have dyslexia and struggle with literacy. These include assessments, teaching, training, resources and awareness raising.
Read moreEast Park
Cause areas: Disability, Children / Youth, Care / SocialEast Park strives to provide excellent, person centred residential care and education to young people between the ages of 5 and 25 with complex additional support needs, including Autism Spectrum Disorder and physical and sensory impairments. With the young person at the centre, our work focuses on seeking innovative, personalised approaches enabling each individual to reach his or her maximum potential.
Read moreGarvald Edinburgh
Cause areas: Disability, The Arts, Care / SocialGarvald Edinburgh is a Scottish charity offering creative opportunities and support for people with learning disabilities since 1969. We currently support 140 people with learning disabilities through training workshops where craft, catering and artistic skills are learned, as well as accommodation through supported tenancies and community housing. Many of the people we support have multiple disabilities and additional needs, requiring one-to-one support. Our work is inspired by the ideas of Rudolf Steiner - of key importance is the recognition of the unique contribution each person makes to the wider community whatever their apparent disability.
Read moreGingerbread
Cause areas: Care / Social, Information / Advice
Gingerbread is the national charity working with single parent families. With over 90 years of campaigning and service-delivery expertise, we work with single parents to understand the particular challenges they face and to ensure that their needs are met. We provide expert information and advice, membership and training opportunities, and campaign against poverty, disadvantage and stigma.
Read moreGuide Dogs
Cause areas: Disability, Medical / Research, Animals - domesticWe provide guide dogs, mobility and rehabilitation services to blind and partially-sighted people. Two out of three guide dogs are paid for by gifts in Wills. "When my wife Jeanette passed on, she left a gift in her will to support two guide dog puppies, including Buster. I met Buster and his owner Tony and could see just what a worthwhile thing my wife had done, which is why I'm going to do the same." Mr Jenkins, Guide Dog pledger
Read moreHandicap International UK
Cause areas: Disability, Overseas / InternationalHandicap International is an international development organisation focusing on issues around disability and inclusion. We work alongside disabled people to provide long-term support and emergency relief. Our activities include rehabilitation, support for inclusion in all aspects of daily life, and the elimination of preventable causes of disability, such as landmines and cluster munitions. Our vision is of a world where all disabled people can fullly access and exercise their human rights.
Read moreHealth Poverty Action
Cause areas: Overseas / International, HealthHealth Poverty Action believes that everyone should enjoy a life free from poverty and ill health. We deliver life-saving healthcare in places where poverty, oppression and conflict are denying people their health and welfare.
We see health and poverty as inseparable. By taking action on health and poverty together we can turn a negative cycle of disease and deprivation into a positive cycle of good health and hope for the future. We work in partnership with the world’s poorest people to grow local expertise in health services and disease prevention so that communities can survive and thrive. For these people, every day is a fight for life and health, against all the odds – and we are on their side, fighting with them.
Read moreHearing Dogs for Deaf People
Cause areas: Disability, Animals - domesticTo offer greater independence confidence and security to deaf people by providing dogs trained to alert them to chosen everyday sounds. Homepage image shows 11 year old Elizabeth and her 'team' hearing dog, Russ
Read moreHelp the Homeless
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Cause areas: Homelessness, Grant makingHelp the Homeless was founded in 1975 with the principal aim of supporting the care and treatment of the single homeless. The reasons for people being homeless vary enormously, but may include ill-health, those who are discharged offenders, drug and drink addicts or other adverse circumstances in their lives such as mental illness. Homelessness is not just about the people that the public sees and thinks about - principally "rough sleepers" living on the streets - but the whole range of people who lack a home. We financially support hostels, drop-in centres and the like with small (and occasionally large) grants especially those organisations who seek to prepare people to take their place once more in society by becoming less dependent on charitable or State funding.
Read moreHumane Slaughter Association (HSA)
Cause areas: Animals - domestic, Education, Information / AdviceCaring for food animals beyond the farm gate. The HSA, established in 1911, is an independent charity that works to achieve the highest worldwide standards of welfare for food animals in markets, during transport and at slaughter through scientific and technical advances, education, training and advisory services for all those concerned with food animal welfare.
Read moreI CAN
Cause areas: Disability, Children / YouthI CAN's vision is a society in which all children have the speech, language and communication skills to learn, achieve and make friends. I CAN works to support the development of speech, language and communication skills in all children with a special focus on those who find it hard. We do this through a network of specialist nurseries, schools and assessment centres as well as advising parents and training teachers and mainstream schools.
Read moreInternational Fund for Animal Welfare
Cause areas: Animals - wild, Animals - domesticInternational Fund for Animal Welfare works to improve the welfare of wild and domestic animals globally by reducing commercial exploitation of animals, protecting wildlife habitats, and assisting animals in distress. We seek to motivate the public to prevent cruelty to animals and to promote animal welfare and conservation policies that advance the well-being of both animals and people.
Read moreKidneys for Life fundraising for MINT
Cause areas: Medical / Research, HealthKidneys for Life … One Day !
Chronic kidney disease is on the increase and can strike anyone at any age, especially as we live longer yet have less healthy lifestyles. If you develop the disease it is likely you will need dialysis or even a kidney transplant. Research into the prevention of these treatments is essential to increase patients' life expectancy and quality. Kidneys for Life raises funds for research into kidney disease, transplantation and dialysis. It also helps fund improvements in patient amenities at the various dialysis units attached to Manchester Royal Infirmary, where this charity is based.
Read moreLymphoma Association
Cause areas: Medical / Research, HealthLymphoma is the most common cancer diagnosed in the under 30s and the 6th most common cancer diagnosed overall in the UK. The Lymphoma Association is the only UK charity to provide this specialist information and support and is reliant on voluntary income to keep its FREE services running for patients, their family, friends and carers.
Read moreMaggie's Cancer Caring Centres
Cause areas: Care / Social, Information / Advice, HealthMaggie's unique centres are located on hospital grounds to provide the very best complement to medical care. Our effective combination of practical, emotional and psychological support is available to anyone affected by any type of cancer for as long as they need it. People affected by cancer come to Maggie's through many routes, and the journey to us can often be an isolated and frightening one. But time and again people tell us that they feel different from the moment they walk into a Maggie's Centre. Our programme is designed to help people find the strength within themselves to manage their cancer journey, wherever it may take them.
Read moreMagpie Dance
Cause areas: Disability, The Arts, HealthMagpie enables learning disabled people to take an active and integrated part in community life through dance. This is done through three strands of participation, performance, and professional development. Magpie’s ethos is based on ability not disability, and aims to give learning disabled people a range of skills in communication, cooperation, and confidence in order to progress their own development. It also works to provide training of carers, health, education and dance professionals in order to increase knowledge and understanding of the abilities of learning disabled people and foster improved ways to communicate between learning disabled people and their care networks. Magpie also provides quality progression routes for learning disabled people to develop their dance skills further through performances, residencies with professional dance companies, and support to enter further dance education and other routes.
Read moreMaternity Worldwide
Cause areas: Overseas / International, Children / Youth, HealthMaternity Worldwide is working to reduce mortality associated with childbirth in developing countries. This is through deployment of medical and midwifery staff, provision of quality equipment and facilities, subsidy of patient care for those most in need, health education and advocacy within the developed world.
Read moreMayhew Animal Home
Cause areas: Animals - domesticThe Mayhew Animal Home was established in 1886 and today is one of the busiest animal sanctuaries in London rescuing thousands of animals from cruelty and neglect.
Read moreMencap
Cause areas: Disability, Care / SocialMencap is the UK's leading learning disability charity for children and adults with a learning disability their families and carers. We have campaigned for 60 years to bring positive changes to thousands of lives, fighting for equal rights, campaigning for greater opportunities and challenging people's attitudes and prejudices. If you're related to, or support someone with a learning disability, you may be concerned about providing for them when you are no longer around. Mencap's Wills and Trusts team offer free support and advice.
Read moreMultiple Sclerosis Trust
Cause areas: Disability, Medical / Research, HealthThe MS Trust is a leading UK charity for people with multiple sclerosis, their friends, families and for the health and social care professionals who work with them. We aim to make a real difference through the provision of information and professional education, by funding practical research and by campaigning for the improvement of MS services.
Read moreNational Animal Welfare Trust
Cause areas: Animals - domesticFounded in 1971 the Trust is now one of the top 10 animal rescue and re-homing charities in England, and runs 5 rescue & re-homing centres across the country. Our centres are located in Watford, Berkshire, Essex, Somerset and Cornwall.
The Trust is Home to a surprisingly wide variety of animals primarily dogs and cats but farm animals, horses and donkeys, ducks, poultry and small domestic pets too.
The Trust is a non-political and non-campaigning organisation, it simply concerns itself with looking after some of life's casualties. It receives no money from the government and relies entirely on voluntary contributions to carry out its work.
Read moreNational Coal Mining Museum for England
Cause areas: HeritageThe National Coal Mining Museum for England is a unique collection of buildings, displays and galleries which reveal the hidden world of coal mining through the centuries, telling the stories of mining methods and machinery, the miners and their families. Visitors can descend 140m underground and learn how coal was mined and moved by men, women, children, ponies and machinery. Please leave a gift in your Will to us and help us to keep the history of coal mining alive.
Read moreNational Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)
Cause areas: Information / AdviceThe National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) is the umbrella body for the voluntary sector in England. We work to support the voluntary sector and to create an environment in which voluntary organisations can flourish.
Read moreNational Migraine Centre
Cause areas: Disability, Medical / Research, HealthThe City of London Migraine Clinic is the only independent, charitable clinic in the UK that is entirely focused on headaches and migraines. We have unparalleled experience in helping people suffering from migraines, cluster headaches and other types of headaches. This year (2010) we celebrate 30 years having treated over 43,000 patients. The clinic has helped pioneer and trial several drugs that are now commonly used throughout UK and is home to internationally renowned specialist in the field Professor Anne MacGregor. Recently, we have been awarded the title ﾫ Best Migraine Clinic ﾻ in the Migraine Heroes Healthcare Awards 2010.
Read moreNeighbourhood and Home Watch Network (England & Wales)
Cause areas: Elderly, Community ServicesPeople join Neighbourhood and Home Watch Network (NHWN) to make the areas where they live safe, friendly and pleasant places to be. The old stereotype of the Neighbourhood Watch curtain twitcher is wrong for one very simple reason: it implies fear. NHWN is about the opposite: making sure that no one has to feel afraid, vulnerable or isolated in the place they live. It’s about people looking out for each other, crossing barriers of age, race and class to create real communities that benefit everyone. NHWN encourage working with other charities, the police and local authorities to achieve best practice.
Read moreNetwork for Animals Charitable Trust
Cause areas: Animals - wild, Animals - domestic, Crisis / RescueNetwork for Animals Charitable Trust works to advance the welfare and conservation of animals throughout the world. The Trust aims to reduce commercial exploitation of animals, help animals in crisis and distress, work to prevent cruelty to wild and domestic animals and educate policy makers and public in respect of the foregoing.
Read moreNewcastle Upon Tyne Dog and Cat Shelter
Cause areas: Animals - domesticNewcastle Dog and Cat Shelter is one of the busiest animals homes in the North East. Established over 100 years ago, the charity cares for thousands of lost, neglected, unwanted and abandoned animals every year until they can be either reunited with their owners or found a loving new home.
Read moreNSPCC
Cause areas: Children / Youth, Care / SocialThe NSPCC is the UK's leading charity specialising in child protection and the prevention of cruelty to children. We campaign to change the law, provide ChildLine and the NSPCC Helpline, offer advice for adults, and much more. By leaving a gift in your will you can help us to achieve our vision to end cruelty to children in the UK.
Read morePlatform 51
Cause areas: Crisis / Rescue, Children / Youth, HealthPlatform 51 supports girls and women as they take control of their lives. Girls and women are at the heart of all we do. Our activities, services and campaigns are about things women need and want. We give them a platform to have their say and challenge discrimination.
Read morePorchlight
Cause areas: Care / Social, HomelessnessPorchlight works across Kent to change people's lives for the better. We work with vulnerable people who are homeless, or at risk of becoming homeless.By helping the most vulnerable and isolated people access housing and support services, we help change lives, prevent the breakdown of communities and reduce poverty. Through our success we challenge negative attitudes and beliefs surrounding exclusion.
Read moreProgressio
Cause areas: Overseas / International, Religion, Environment / ConservationProgressio is an international charity with Catholic roots that works in 11 developing countries. Progressio challenges poverty with people power. With the right skills and knowledge, people can overcome the barriers that keep them poor. Our innovative approach places skilled development workers with local communities. We work on projects that tackle poverty and improve lives. And we challenge the unjust systems and policies that perpetuate poverty. We currently work in the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Malawi, Nicaragua, Peru, Somaliland, Timor-Leste, Yemen and Zimbabwe.
Read moreProstate Action
Cause areas: Medical / ResearchProstate disease affects 1 in 2 men during their lifetime. Prostate Action funds research and education to beat all prostate diseases. We fund the best international research into prostate disease; we promote collaboration between researchers and promote their findings; we educate primary healthcare professionals in prostate disease and its management through our Masterclasses and we provide training grants for urology specialists. To help fund our vital work and learn more about leaving a gift in your Will, please contact us or visit our website.
Read moreQVH Charitable Fund
RCVS Charitable Trust
Cause areas: Medical / Research, Animals - domestic, EducationWe are the charity partner of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. We believe that vets and vet nurses play a pivotal role in the high quality of health and welfare of all animals, and that animal and human health is inextricably linked to a better world for us all. Our purpose is to drive innovation and improvements to veterinary care and treatment, knowledge and understanding. We achieve this by funding research and education projects that improve animal health.
Read moreRefugee Action
Cause areas: Overseas / International, Information / Advice, Human RightsRefugee Action is an independent charity working with refugees to build new lives in the UK. We provide advice and support to asylum seekers and refugees as well as run innovative projects to widen the opportunities available. We work in partnership; empowering those people seeking sanctuary to rebuild their lives with dignity. We ensure that refugees have a voice; we campaign for their rights and lobby for change. We also challenge the misconceptions around asylum and strive for racial tolerance in our diverse society.
Read moreRefugee Council
Cause areas: Community Services, Human RightsRefugees have fled war and persecution, leaving behind everything they called home. Often, they find that the Refugee Council is the only place they can turn to for help.
We are the leading charity working with refugees and asylum seekers in the UK. We provide practical and emotional support so refugees can regain hope and rebuild their lives in safety. We challenge government policy and speak out for a fair and humane asylum system.
By including the Refugee Council in your Will, you can help to ensure that refugees are protected and have somewhere to turn in years to come.
Read moreRehearsal Orchestra
Cause areas: The Arts, Children / Youth, EducationThe Rehearsal Orchestra runs orchestral courses for future professionals and serious amateurs. Since 1957, we have offered high-level training through intensive rehearsal, exploring the core orchestral repertoire under the batons of prominent conductors, and allowing players to develop their skills without the pressure of concert performance. Places on every course are heavily subsidised to allow as many musicians as possible to benefit from our services, and charitable gifts make a real difference in enabling this.
‘The Rehearsal Orchestra does invaluable work on the quiet and with the minimum of fuss.’ Sir Simon Rattle
Read moreRemap
Cause areas: DisabilityRemap volunteers design and manufacture or adapt equipment for disabled people where no suitable item is available. This service is free to the client.Read moreRNBT (Royal Naval Benevolent Trust)
Cause areas: Crisis / Rescue, Care / SocialThe RNBT helps serving and ex-serving ratings in the Royal Navy and other ranks in the Royal Marines and their dependants - the RNBT Family.
Read moreRNIB
Cause areas: Disability, Medical / Research, HealthRNIB - supporting blind and partially sighted people
Every day another 100 people will start to lose their sight. RNIB is the UK's leading charity offering information, support and advice to over two million people with sight loss. We believe in a world where blind and partially sighted people enjoy the same rights, freedoms, responsibilities and quality of life as people who are fully sighted and one in which no-one needlessly loses their sight. We provide a vast range of services and support, which empower people with sight problems to lead full and independent lives.
Read moreRNLI
Cause areas: Crisis / RescueThe Royal National Lifeboat Institution is a registered charity that exists to save lives at sea. It provides the UK and Republic of Ireland's 24 hour rescue service predominantly crewed by volunteers. It is entirely funded by voluntary donations and seven out of ten lifeboat launches are only possible thanks to legacy donations. Homepage image credit: Nigel Millard
Read moreRSPCA
Cause areas: Animals - wild, Animals - domesticThe RSPCA works to protect animals from cruelty abuse and neglect and to promote kindness to all animals. Founded in 1824 we are now the world's largest and most effective animal welfare charity. The RSPCA operates in England and Wales.
Read moreSailors' Society
Cause areas: Overseas / International, Care / Social, ReligionYour legacy will provide a lifetime of support for seafarers worldwide as the Sailors' Society seeks to replace isolation with belonging for this invisible workforce upon whom we all depend. We do this valuable work through a network of Port Chaplains who offer practical help, emotional and spiritual support and, when in dire need, financial assistance and family liaison. Our Port Chaplains visit thousands of ships every year, directly addressing seafarers’ needs - irrespective of belief or nationality - as well as maintaining vital links within the Ports that they operate.
Read moreSave the Children
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Cause areas: Overseas / International, Children / YouthOver the last 90 years we have helped achieve vital breakthroughs for children and have saved millions of lives with the help of our supporters. With your support we can make history in the future together. A quarter of the donations provided by supporters come from people who have kindly left a gift in their will to Save the Children. Without them, we couldn't have achieved these milestones for children:
- Our report "Unemployment and the Child" helped ensure children in the UK got free school milk in 1944
- We opened the first of many tuberculosis clinics and child health care centres in 1955
- We helped reunite 40,000 children with their families in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide in 1994
- We helped children and their families rebuild their lives after the devastating Boxing Day tsunami hit Asia in 2004.
- We respond quickly during emergencies, reaching more than 60 million children a year affected by devastation in countries such as Haiti, Pakistan and Japan.
Scope
Cause areas: Disability, Children / Youth, Care / SocialScope. We believe disabled people should have the same opportunities as everyone else. We run services and campaigns with disabled people to make this happen. As a charity with expertise in complex support needs and cerebral palsy we never set limits on potential. More than a third of our vital work is funded by gifts in wills and these enable us to be there for all disabled people and their families for as long as they need us. To find out more, please visit our website and request our free enquiry pack.
Read moreSelf Unlimited
Cause areas: Disability, Care / SocialSelf Unlimited supports people with learning disabilities. Our range of housing and individually tailored care and support services provides opportunities for each person to make the most of their abilities, living a fulfilled life as independently as possible. We believe that people should have no boundaries to their achievements, other than those they set themselves.
Read moreShelter
Cause areas: Homelessness, Information / Advice, HousingShelter believes everyone should have a home. In our affluent nation, tens of thousands of people wake up every day in housing that is run-down, overcrowded or dangerous. Many others have lost their home altogether. We help people to find and keep a home in a place where they can thrive, and we tackle the root causes of bad housing by campaigning for new laws, policies and solutions. Your legacy gift will bring better housing and life opportunities to a whole new generation.
Read moreShelterBox
Cause areas: Overseas / International, Crisis / RescueShelterBox is an international disaster relief charity who provide shelter, warmth and dignity to disaster-affected families across the world. We respond rapidly to disasters and our aid is distributed by highly trained ShelterBox Response Team volunteers, who ensure it reaches the communities most in need.
Our vision is of a world where every person made homeless by disaster has access to the shelter and basic equipment they need to survive and live in dignity and safety. Gifts in Wills are a lasting way to support our work and can ensure we are ready to help families who need us, whenever and wherever disaster strikes.
Since 2000, we have distributed humanitarian aid on every inhabited continent of the world, giving hope to over 120,000 families who had lost everything.
Read moreShipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
Cause areas: Crisis / Rescue, Elderly, Grant makingFounded in 1839, The Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society (commonly known as - Shipwrecked Mariners' Society) assists the survivors of shipwreck supports the families of those lost at sea. Today our aim is to provide financial help to former merchant seafarers, fishermen and their dependants. We pay an immediate grant to the widow of a seafarer who dies at sea or ashore. Regular grants are paid to former seafarers, their widows and partners and those who are no longer able to work at sea through accident, disability, ill-health or for compassionate reasons. Special grants are made to meet crisis situations.
Read moreSightsavers
Cause areas: Disability, Overseas / International, Medical / ResearchFor over 60 years Sightsavers has been working in the developing world to save sight and promote equal opportunities for people who are blind or have low vision. We work with our partners to prevent avoidable blindness and restore sight to those who are needlessly blind. Where sight loss is irreversible we provide education, training and support, providing people with the skills to live a more independent life.
For more information about Sightsavers, visit our website.
Read moreSociety for the Assistance of Ladies in Reduced Circumstances
Cause areas: Care / SocialThe Society gives financial assistance to women domiciled and habitually resident in the United Kingdom who are living alone and in genuine need irrespective of age or social status. Read moreSociety of St James
Cause areas: Care / Social, Homelessness, Community ServicesThe Society of St James is Southampton's largest homelessness charity, supporting over 3000 people annually. Established in 1972 to provide accommodation and support to homeless people in the city, SSJ now offers a range of services for vulnerable adults. The people that we support often have diverse and complex issues, including homelessness, addictions, and mental health problems. We therefore have developed services to cater for all of these needs. At SSJ, we believe that everyone has a right to a home, and that people should be given the opportunity to develop the skills they need to lead a fulfilling life.
Read moreSolent Youth Action
Cause areas: Disability, Children / Youth, Community ServicesSolent Youth Action empowers young people to develop as individuals, enjoy new challenges and make a positive contribution to the community through volunteering.
To be recognised as a credible voice for young people in order to further the aims and objectives of young people within Hampshire and beyond.
To prepare young people for life and work, regardless of their ethnic origin, sex, age or ability, by consolidating links to employment, education and training
To strive for quality in everything we do; our services, relationships, training, education and governance.
Read moreSt John Cymru - Wales
Cause areas: Medical / Research, Care / SocialSt John Cymru Wales sends its St John Ambulance in Wales volunteers to provide first aid support to tens of thousands of people every year. We are the leading provider of first aid training in Wales; operate a patient transport service from hospital to home; and provide educational youth development programmes. St John Cymru Wales receives no core government funding and each of our volunteers donates more than 600 hours of their own time each year to provide vital services in the community.
Read moreTarget Ovarian Cancer
Cause areas: Medical / Research, Information / Advice, HealthTarget Ovarian Cancer is dedicated to achieving a long and good life for every woman diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the UK, and working to improve diagnosis and treatment of this disease.
Our works focuses on:
- Education: Working to achieve early stage diagnosis and providing much needed practical and emotional support for women with ovarian cancer.
- Advocacy: Raising the profile of the disease with the public, governments and the media, and empowering women and those involved in their care to campaign for improvements.
- Research: Advancing medical research into the development of new treatments and continuing to learn about the disease.
Target Tuberculosis
Cause areas: Overseas / International, Education, HealthOur vision is a world free from Tuberculosis. TB kills 2million people a year and these deaths are needless as it is both preventable and curable. In Africa and Asia TB takes thousands of lives every day. We exist to reach those most vulnerable with lifesaving TB education, testing and treatment. We empower communities by training local volunteers in TB identification and testing, we educate people so they can recognise the symptoms and know where to get help and we ensure people receive the treatment they need to regain their health. Your gift will help us save even more lives.
Read moreThe Anthony Nolan Trust
Cause areas: Medical / Research, HealthAnthony Nolan saves the lives of people with blood cancer. Every day we match remarkable donors willing to donate their blood stem cells to people who desperately need lifesaving transplants.
Every 20 minutes someone is diagnosed with blood cancer. We help two people get the transplants they desperately need every day. However, at present there are another two people each day who we cannot help because we simply do not have the funds, and so these people have no chance of survival.
Our aim is to provide a lifesaving transplant to every person with blood cancer who needs our help.
Read moreThe Brain Tumour Charity
Cause areas: Medical / Research, Children / Youth, HealthThe Brain Tumour Charity is the UK’s leading and largest dedicated brain tumour charity. We fund scientific and clinical research into brain tumours and offer information and support to those affected, whilst raising awareness and influencing policy. Our aim is to improve understanding, diagnosis and treatment of brain tumours.
- We spend £1million each year on world class research and are the only brain tumour charity to fund research through an open, fair and transparent process.
- We lead the UK-wide HeadSmart campaign for earlier diagnosis of childhood brain tumours by raising awareness of the signs and symptoms. This will reduce long-term disabilities and ultimately save lives.
- We actively influence policy and ensure the voices of people affected by brain tumours are heard.
The Church of England Pensions Board
Cause areas: Religion, Elderly, Grant makingFor more than 60 years the Board has offered retirement housing provision to retired clergy, their spouses, widows or widowers.
One in four of those retiring from the service of the Church of England seek our assistance.
As well as providing homes for retirement, the Board also has seven supported housing complexes offering help with day to day living. In addition, we run a nursing and dementia care home.
The Board’s charitable funds support this work. They can provide grants to supplement a low income, or subsidise residents or patients who are unable to meet the full fees for their care.
Read moreThe College of St. Barnabas
Cause areas: Care / Social, Religion, ElderlyEstablished in 1895, we are financially independent of the Church of England. We therefore rely on the compassion and generosity of others to help us in our work of caring for elderly and infirm Anglican Clergy. Our beneficiaries often come to us in financial hardship, and with long-term care and social welfare needs.
Read moreThe Dan Maskell Tennis Trust
Cause areas: Disability, SportThe Dan Maskell Tennis Trust raises funds for people with disabilities who wish to play tennis from beginner to elite athletes. The 3 areas are wheelchair, deaf and learning disabilities.
Read moreThe Disabilities Trust
Cause areas: DisabilityWe provide a range of innovative and progressive services for people with severe physical disabilities autism and acquired brain injury helping them to gain increased independence and lead more fulfilling lives.
Read moreThe Elizabeth Foundation
Cause areas: Disability, Children / YouthThe Elizabeth Foundation provides a range of early intervention and support services to very young deaf children and babies and their families, including families who have just received a diagnosis of deafness in their child. This follows our belief that it is the right of every child to be given the opportunity to learn to talk.
Read moreThe Fountain Centre
Cause areas: Medical / Research, Care / Social, HealthThe Fountain Centre is a special place within St Luke’s Cancer Centre in Guildford. We offer information and support, counselling and a wide range of complementary therapies – to cancer patients, their carers and relatives, those bereaved and hospital staff. The Centre is run by a small team and 95 volunteers. We help 650 people every month, but we want to do more, and have launched an appeal to fund additional facilities within the hospital’s Radiotherapy Department. By Easter 2012 we hope to be improving the lives of even more people living with cancer.
Read moreThe International Glaucoma Association
Cause areas: Medical / Research, Information / Advice, Grant makingThe International Glaucoma Association is the charity for people with glaucoma, with the mission to raise awareness of glaucoma, promote research related to early diagnosis and treatment, and to provide support to patients and all those who care for them. Its vision is to ensure that all people with or at risk of glaucoma have the knowledge and access to care that will enable them to maintain a good quality of life.
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Cause areas: Read moreThe King's Fund
Cause areas: Medical / Research, Care / Social, HealthThe King's Fund seeks to understand how the health system in England can be improved. Using that insight, we help to shape policy, transform services and bring about behaviour change. We also offer a wide range of resources to help everyone working in health to share knowledge, learning and ideas.
Read moreThe Migraine Trust
Cause areas: Medical / Research, Information / Advice, HealthThe Migraine Trust is the health and medical research charity for migraine in the United Kingdom. We are committed to supporting people living with migraine by providing them and their families with evidence based information. We seek to raise awareness of migraine as a serious public health issue. The Migraine Trust funds and promotes research into migraine in order to better understand it, to improve diagnosis and treatment and ultimately to find a cure for this debilitating condition.
Read moreThe National Brain Appeal
Cause areas: Disability, Medical / ResearchThe National Brain Appeal is dedicated to raising funds for the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery - a world leader in research and treatment of brain disorders. These include brain and spinal cancer, dementia, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, stroke and head injuries.
Read moreThe Paget's Association
Cause areas: Disability, Medical / Research, HealthPaget’s disease is a metabolic bone disease affecting between 4-8% of people over 55 years of age. The UK has the highest incidence of Paget’s disease of bone in the world with approximately 230,000 people affected. The charity was founded in 1973 and supports people with Paget’s disease, their families and carers.
The Paget’s Association operates a nurse helpline, produces information booklets, maintains an informative website, publishes a quarterly newsletter and holds regular information meetings. We also work to raise awareness about the condition and support and fund research into all aspects of Paget’s disease.
Read moreThe Rainforest Foundation UK
Cause areas: Human Rights, Environment / ConservationThe Rainforest Foundation UK supports traditional peoples of the world�s rainforests in their efforts to protect the environment and fulfil their rights to life, land and livelihoods. Since it was founded in 1989 the Rainforest Foundation has protected more than 100,000 square kilometres of rainforest and in the next 20 years we aim to protect 1,000,000.
Read moreThe Reedham Trust
Cause areas: Children / Youth, Care / SocialGrants towards boarding fees to children without one or both parents where home conditions are prejudicial to the child's normal development. Grants are not given for educational reasons.
Read moreThe Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts - RADA
Cause areas: The Arts, EducationThe Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) is a world-renowned vocational training establishment equipping exceptionally talented actors, technicians and theatre practitioners for careers in theatre, film, television and radio. As a founding affiliate of the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama, RADA offers international leadership in drama training and ensures that training standards are maintained and advanced. RADA’s courses are validated by King’s College London and are accredited by the National Council for Drama Training.
An institution accepting the most talented regardless of background or financial circumstances has always been at the forefront of RADA’s mission. RADA auditions all applicants and offers a range of scholarships and bursaries, ensuring that a student has never been turned away for financial reasons. RADA’s Education and Outreach Department supports this ethos of social inclusion, participation and embracing diversity, providing activities for the community who might benefit from drama training for cultural, educational or social reasons.
Read moreThe Royal Navy and Royal Marines Children's Fund
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Cause areas: Disability, Children / Youth, Care / SocialThe Royal Navy and Royal Marines Children's Fund supports the children in need of serving and ex-serving people in the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. Help is given in a variety of different ways to support families in times of grief and uncertainty. We will provide at-home support in times of crisis, perhaps when a partner is away from home, at sea or in an area of conflict. Help can also be provided there has been an injury or illness. Many of our children have a disability or illness and in these cases we can help by providing respite for the children particularly if there is only one caring parent. We will hep in any way possible, where the need is proven and there are no other funds available.
Read moreThe Salvation Army
Cause areas: Care / Social, Religion, Community ServicesThe Salvation Army is an international Christian church and charity, and we seek to put our belief into action through social welfare provision. In the UK, we are one of the largest and most diverse providers of social and community services. We are passionate about the diverse and life changing work we do now, and our ambition is to be able to do even more.
We care for many thousands of people in need. Homeless people, elderly people, children and families, prisoners, people struggling with addictions, the emergency services, HM Forces – anyone who needs us can turn to us for care, compassion and practical support.
Read moreThe School Food Trust
Cause areas: HealthThe School Food Trust’s vision is that every child should have access to the balanced diet, food education and cooking skills they need to fulfill their potential as adults.
Read moreThe Talking Trust
Cause areas: Disability, Children / Youth, EducationThe Talking Trust supports young people with severe speech, language & communication disabilities to achieve their potential.
We provide specialist residential and day education, therapy and care through St Mary’s School and College for young people aged 7 -19 years, and give opportunities for students to practice and develop confidence, independence and life skills.
Our students often have other complex needs including medical issues, physical disabilities, learning disabilities, and occasionally psychological and emotional difficulties.
The Talking Trust services are UK wide. Please help us to help young people with communication disabilities.
Read moreThe Westminster Society for people with learning disabilities
Cause areas: Disability, Care / Social, Community ServicesThe Westminster Society for people with learning disabilities aims to provide quality services and create new opportunities for children, young people and adults with learning disabilities and their families in London. It is our mission to support people to achieve integration within their community, whilst encouraging full expression of their individuality and freedom of choice. You may have a friend or family member with a learning disability or simply understand their needs, and be concerned about providing for them in the years to come when you are no longer around. Your gift could enable us to do this for you.
Read moreThe Wildlife Trusts
Cause areas: Animals - wild, Environment / ConservationThe Wildlife Trusts' vision is a UK rich in wildlife: water voles returning to our riverbanks, rocky reefs bursting with brightly coloured fish and the song of the skylark ringing out over wildflower meadows. People are part of this vision: school children learning about wildlife, farming that provides for people and wildlife, and families enjoying the natural world. Your local Wildlife Trust is working to make this vision a reality near you by managing nature reserves, delivering large-scale habitat restoration, campaigning for wildlife and inspiring people about nature. A gift in your will can help us to achieve this vision for wildlife and everyone. When the time is right please remember your local Wildlife Trust. Homepage image credit: Tom Skinner/www.seeing.org.uk
Read moreTheodora Children's Trust
Cause areas: Medical / Research, Children / YouthTheodora Children's Trust brings music and laughter to children in hospital through visits from giggle doctors; professional artists trained to work in a hospital. For most children, hospitals can be frightening; away from home and the people they love. Imagine their delight when a giggle doctor transforms the ward into a magical play space!
Read moreTraidcraft Exchange
Cause areas: Overseas / InternationalFighting poverty, helping people and communities to flourish is what Traidcraft has been doing successfully for more than 30 years. In some of the world’s poorest countries, we’re helping small-scale farmers and artisans use their skill, enterprise and determination to work their way out of poverty and build better futures for themselves, their families and their communities. It’s not easy. The challenges are huge – but so are the rewards: a home for a family, a well for a village, an education for a child. With your support we’ll do even more. Please help if you can.
Read moreUK Youth
Cause areas: Children / Youth, EducationUK Youth operates nationally and works with over 750,000 of the most disadvantaged and hard-to-reach young people in the UK. UK Youth develops and promotes innovative non-formal education programmes for and with young people, supporting them to achieve their potential and empowering them to make a difference.
Read moreUnited Response
Cause areas: Disability, Care / SocialUnited Response is a national charity that supports people with learning disabilities, mental health needs and physical disabilities to take control of their lives.
We do this in many different ways – from supporting people to live as independently as possible in their own homes to helping them access their community, get training and seek work opportunities. We also campaign with, and on behalf of, the people we support on the issues that affect their lives.
We believe that people with disabilities are equal participants in society and should have the same rights and opportunities as everyone else.
Read moreUniversities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW)
Cause areas: Animals - wild, Animals - domestic, ScienceImproving animals' lives through education and science. UFAW, established in 1926, is an internationally recognised, independent, scientific and educational animal welfare charity concerned with improving knowledge and understanding of animals' needs and how best to meet them in order to promote high standards of welfare for farm, companion, laboratory, captive wild animals and those with which we interact in the wild.
Read moreVitalise
Cause areas: Disability, ElderlyVitalise provides services which make a vital contribution to the physical and emotional well-being of disabled people. We give carers a much needed break to help ensure families stay together and provide inspirational opportunities for volunteers.
Read moreWhite Lodge Centre
Cause areas: Disability, Children / Youth, Care / SocialWhite Lodge Centre supports disabled children, young people and adults, families and carers in Surrey and the surrounding areas. This is achieved by providing high quality, innovative and individually planned services.
Read moreWorld Cancer Research Fund
Cause areas: Read moreWorld Land Trust
Cause areas: Overseas / International, Animals - wild, Environment / ConservationThe World Land Trust (WLT) is an international conservation charity. We work to protect the world’s most important and threatened habitats and endangered species.
A gift in your will can save wilderness for species such as tiger, elephant, jaguar and orang-utan, together with the countless other creatures that live alongside them.
Acre by acre we purchase and protect land, support habitat restoration and create wildlife corridors between protected areas. Our partnerships with local individuals, communities and organisations – our ‘conservation partners’ around the world - empower local NGOs by providing finance for land purchase and by building capacity.
Read moreWWF-UK
Cause areas: Animals - wild, Environment / ConservationWe're changing things for the better.
The environment is in crisis. But we remain positive.
WWF is the world’s leading independent conservation organisation. And we’re tackling the most serious conservation challenges facing the planet, building a future where people and nature thrive together.
That’s why we’re passionate about sharing the planet’s resources more sustainably, taking action on climate change and protecting endangered wildlife.
Gifts in wills are essential for our vision of a world worth living in for the future.
Read moreYMCA Central Herts
Cause areas: YMCA Central Herts is a local Christian charity that has been serving communities across the centre of Hertfordshire since 1967.
Our mission is "to meet the needs of our communities, creating opportunities for everyone to develop in body, mind and spirit".
At the YMCA we do this through every aspect of our work. Specifically we provide a range of:
- affordable supported housing for the most vulnerable across central Hertfordshire to help us move people towards independent living;
- affordable, quality, accessible services for children, young people and families across central Hertfordshire through our Day Nurseries and Children's Centres;
- positive activities for young people and access to a range of development, learning and training opportunities to help them realise their potential through our community and youth work programmes.
Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust
Cause areas: Heritage, EducationYorkshire Dales Millennium Trust works to support the natural and built environment, and the social and economic well- being of this special area.
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