New Site Charity Nominations Now Open

barjam_2

i would like to nominate st oswalds hospice it has been 1year yesterday since my mam fell asleep in st oswalds (gosforth newcastle upon tyne), i cannot think of a nicer place the staff are sent from heaven i'm sure, they are so dedicated to their work



http://www.st-oswalds.org/index.php

pandas66

I would like to nominate Romanian Challenge, a charity based in the UK that supports primarilya Romanian Orphange but has spread to incorporate an Old Peoples Home.
It started 16 ish years ago on Challenge Anneka.
Now they raise money all year round by doing Charity Casinos Nights and collect jumble to be recycled to raise funds to improve life in the Orphanage and to give all the children a holiday.
Visit www.romanian-challenge.org or http://www.romcamp.org.uk/

ianandjody

I would love to recommend the Jubilee Sailing Trust https://www.jst.org.uk

They are a Unique charity in that they are a small local one but with national appeal. They are a UK based charity, who own and operate two tall ships, the Lord Nelson and Tenacious. There aim and ethos is simple. "To integrate both able bodied and disabled persons through Tall Ship sailing". Both of the ships have been designed and built specifically to cater for disabled people with them working as equals on board the ships. Anyone aged between 16 and 100+ can sail with any ability or disabilty, with the oldest sailor being a spritely 98 last year


They are unique in that they are the only Tall Ships in the world, designed to sail with a crew of Disabled people. They have taken over the last 20 years the widest range of abilities and disabilities to sea, and have taken nearly 30000 people sailing form a variety of backgrounds.

They recieve no goverment funding so rely on supporters and fundraising activities to support two expensive to maintain ships.

Could i suggest that the money raised is used ot set up an assisted voyage fund, where by deserving people are able to have assistance towards voyage fee's, this is able to be set up with any guidelines or stipulations the board decide.

Experience possibilities at sea not disabilities!

Thanks

Ian

P.s I am biased as I work for them!

daviddonna

I would like to nominate the Sense Charity. This charity is for deafblind children and adults. Here's the site:

http://www.sense.org.uk/

This particular charity is close to my heart since I am deaf. Fortunately I have sight though. They also will send you postage paid envelopes so you can send your empty ink jet cartridges in so the Sense Charity gets money for them. A very worthy cause. :T

Claire_DC

I'd like to see some mental health charities given a cash boost. The 2 i put forward are:

1. MIND (National Association For Mental Health)
http://www.mind.org.uk/

Helping/Supporting People Who Experience Mental Distress.

I think that MIND do a brilliant job to help and support people who have any experience of mental distress. I feel mental health is often underfunded in the NHS and often not really catered for in major fundraising campaigns, which makes it harder for people who are suffering to get the help and care they need, not to mention the stigma attatched to having mental health problems causing more problems. Mental health problems can occur in anybody, at any time and for any reason which is why i think it's so important that more attention and funding is given to charties that focus on these problems. There is also a relevance to this site also because a lot of people in debt/having problems managing money can also start to suffer with depression/anxiety etc, which can lead to them self harming, or comitting suicide.




2. Depression Alliance
http://www.depressionalliance.org/

Relieving Depression, Offering Support/Info and Raising Awareness.

I think this slightly smaller charity would benefit greatly from extra funding as it desperately needs more money to carry on the worthwhile work that it does. It has an emergency appeal set up to try and keep the charity open/running as i think it is experiencing financial difficulties. My reasoning is very much the same as my reasons for MIND, even though this charity is aimed more towards depression as opposed to mental health as a whole.

astep70uk

I would like to nominate the Motor Neurone Disease Association

http://www.mndassociation.org/

This is especially close to my heart as my father passed away from this dreadful disease 10 years ago, 2 weeks before my wedding.

Motor Neurone Disease (MND) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that attacks the upper and lower motor neurones.
Degeneration of the motor neurones leads to weakness and wasting of muscles, causing increasing loss of mobility in the limbs, and difficulties with speech, swallowing and breathing.

Thank You

Jammygal

I nominate Tommy's the baby charity who are committed to funding medical research and providing pregnancy information to help more mums and dads through a healthy pregnancy and birth.

https://www.tommys.org

As many of us here on MSE are lucky enough to be parents and parents to be. Also peops are constantly looking for baby freebies.....let's give something back to those who maybe are not as fortunate as us!!!

**purplemoon**

I would like to nominate YoungMinds as they have been invaluable in helping us to gain much needed support and advice in dealing with mental health problems within the family.


http://www.youngminds.org.uk/index.php


YoungMinds is the national children’s mental health charity, working to promote the mental health and emotional wellbeing of children and young people across the UK. YoungMinds grew out of the Child Guidance Trust - a cohesive organisation representing a number of professional individuals and child guidance teams across the country, all dedicated to the promotion of multi-professional work in the child and family mental health field.


"We need your help in order to continue to support babies, children and young people at risk through our work."

A donation of…

£10 could pay for information on depression or self harm to be sent to parents and their children.

£25 could pay for a YoungMinds resources pack to 73 schools, increasing their awareness about children's mental health issues.

£55 could enable our Parents Information Service to take a telephone call from a parent or carer concerned about the mental state of a child or young person.

£200 could sustain a voluntary worker in our offices for a month, helping to reduce our administration costs.

£1,000 could pay towards the production, publication and launch of a new booklet for young people covering a specific mental health topic.

Lotta_Littlies

ooop! Edited as already nominated.

Lotta

almond

i would like to nominate dogs trust
why because we can help ourselves and each other but dogs can't they need to rely on us for help, they say a mans best friend is they dog and without
https://www.dogstrust.org.uk thousands of dogs a year would die.
I went to a local show at darlington a couple of weekends ago and spoke to
my daughters friend who's son works they and was told this story
a old dog had problems with his eyes and the only vet that knew how to
treat him was 60miles away, the guy took the dog they and was told the
treatment would cost about £1000 dog trust are going to pay it to give the
dog a few extra years of life.
please have a look at the site and set it has your home page since if you read
it says we can raise £50 a year by doing this.