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Charities
Archives for October 2012
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Charity Grants/Donations/HELP!!
Hi I am raising money for The Childrens Hospital Charity which is based in Sheffield (Reg charity no: 505002) by doing a bike ride from London to Paris in April 2013 (300 miles in 4 days). I have to raise quite a bit of sponsorship and have written to lots of companies but struggling to get anywhere with them. Does anyone…
Fundraising for Children in Need
Hi everyone, The company I work for (plus a few other companies which neighbour our office) are hoping to raise at least £5000 for Children in Need by undertaking a 466 mile cycle on an exercise bike! This will be done in Belfast and 466 miles is the approximate distance to London (according to one of the organisers.) If…
Support families with disabled kids
Hey folks, The disability charity Scope is running a new campaign called Keep Us Close, to make sure the Government provides good local services for disabled children and their families. At the moment lots of families can't get the right support they need (school, respite care, childcare etc) in their local area and…
Google Grants for Non-Profits - Anyone Used Them?
Recently found that Google give away grants to charities and other non-profits to use on Google Adwords to a sum of $10,000 (£6,216) per month! For those that don't know what Google Adwords is, it's basically the 'pay-per-click' campaigns that are shown on Google.co.uk (as one example) when you search for ANYTHING. An…
Cataract charity
Has anyone any experience of finding a charity helping people who need cataract surgery. I want to donate in British pounds. Thank you
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Braiden-Lee Prescott - This little lad needs help.
Saw this little chap on local Tv if you have a few spare pounds to help him on his way http://www.justgiving.com/Braiden-Lee Braiden-Lee Prescott has stage 4 neuroblastoma. Three year old Braiden-Lee and his family need to travel to the United States before Christmas 2012 so that he can receive the Children’s Oncology…
Urgent help needed for Charity Raffle
Hi I'm part of a team and were are doing a Raffle for Birmingham Children's hospital and we are really struggling for prizes. We have funded a big prize that we've been able to get cheap, but are really apprehensive spending more cash, in case we don't make the money back. The raffle is advertised to take place in the end…
Harvest festival
Work are collecting food for local poor elderly people. I want to contribute and I have several Asda and smartprice branded food items. The thing is a few of my colleagues are very brand concious so I know there will be comments. Is it disrespectful for me to donate these items? Bearing in mind at home we only eat/can…
World Vision wants every child to know freedom from fear
40,000+ WORLD VISION colleagues throughout the world have today been praying that every child knows freedom from fear - that is our priority, our passion, our prayer. For every child to know life in all its fullness; that we have the will to make it so. May our hearts continue to be broken by the things that break God's…
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