Nominate Your Chosen Charities

aliasojo

The Lymphoma Association

http://www.lymphoma.org.uk/support/

The Lymphoma Association provides emotional support and information on a range of issues to anyone with lymphatic cancer and to their families, carers and friends.

'When you learn that you have a lymphoma, whether Hodgkin lymphoma (formerly known as Hodgkin's disease) or non-Hodgkin lymphoma, you may know little about it. In these circumstances, it is very natural to feel fear or anxiety. We believe, however, that knowledge conquers fear and that the more you know about something, the less afraid and anxious you are likely to be.

The Lymphoma Association welcomes enthusiastic fundraisers. This year we need to raise over £700,000 to maintain our existing services and to help achieve this we rely on the kind and generous support of many individuals and companies.'

My Mother suffered from lymphoma, as does one of our own MSE'rs on this site. Charities like this provide much needed support that the Doctors just don't have time to provide. It's not as well known or supported as the more usual cancer charities but the illnesses it deals with are just as frontline as breast cancer for example.

BallroomDancerUK

GAYE BIFFEN MEMORIAL FUND

http://www.avondanceclub.org.uk/

This fund is split annually between Cancer Charities.

Avon Amateur Dancers Club is a Ballroom & Latin American dance club that works in connection with the Gaye Biffen Memorial Fund to raise money for local Cancer Charities and hospitals. Gaye Biffen was a member of the club who died of Cancer in the 70's. Each year we hold a Ballroom & Latin American Dance Competition, hold raffles, Grand Prize Draws, and hold auctions to raise funds. Since the fund began we have raised over £50,000.

student100

hpiper wrote:

(Howabout having land (??), sea (RNLI) and air (Air ambulance) !

Land would of course be St. John Ambulance as I mentioned earlier...


Since you didn't give any more details for the RNLI:

Royal National Lifeboat Institution

Saving lives at sea

http://www.rnli.org.uk/

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution is a registered charity that saves lives at sea. It provides, on call, the 24-hour lifeboat search and rescue service to 50 miles out from the coast of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, and a beach lifeguard service on 57 beaches in the south west of England. The RNLI continues to rely on voluntary contributions and legacies for its income. Every day it costs £300,000 to run the lifeboat service, every penny of which comes from voluntary contributions and legacies.

aliasojo

DebRA UK

http://www.debra.org.uk/

'DebRA UK is the national charity working on behalf of people with the genetic skin blistering condition, Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB). Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) is the name that was first used in 1886 for a form of hereditary blistering disease and whilst now not technically correct is commonly used to describe a family of genetic disorders that cause blistering and shearing of the skin from even the mildest of friction.

DebRA was formed in 1978 by a group of parents whose children were affected by EB. At this time only some 200 people with EB were known to health professionals in the UK. Since 1978 we have, thanks entirely to voluntary donations, been able to help people in the UK with EB by:

• Establishing specialist treatment centres
• Providing a dedicated EB healthcare team of children’s and adult nurses, a dietician, welfare support and social workers
• Enabling prenatal diagnosis to be made at a much earlier stage
• Funding researchers who have identified the genes responsible for the many forms of EB with effective treatments now firmly in sight
• Making improvements in care, pioneered by DebRA staff, that has led to children with RDEB no longer being frail, underweight and malnourished.'

Watching a documentary about EB broke my heart. This is without doubt one of those diseases that needs funding thrown at it as a matter of urgency to try to find a cure for what is at present incurable. The extreme pain that people who are affected with this have to endure is horrible, please seriously consider this one.

RANDY_3

1. Greenwich and Bexley Cottage Hospice.

2. http://www.cottagehospice.org.uk

3. Provides hospice care services.

4. The hospice was founded by two cancer patients in 1985. They recognised the need for local hospice care. They worked tirelessly to raise £1 million pounds to build one. 9 years later in 1994, their vision became reality. The hospice had been built and opened. It provides inpatient care as well as many other services to people in the area. Recently after another campaign it increased to 19 beds.The hospice needs approx £2million/year to function. The majority of this money has to be raised from fundraising from the public.
Please visit the website to understand the services offered by this charity. Thank you.

Stumpy

I'd like to nominate Cancer Research UK, website here.

A few weeks ago, my mum died from Cancer of the Pancreas - up until she was diagnosed I was, probably as most people are, vaguely aware of it, but assume they will never be affected with it. Cancer Research has had major advances, however, in some respects we are still in the dark ages. In my mums case, we discovered that her cancer was one of the very difficult ones to detect and within 5 weeks of diagnosis she had died (prior to which she was told she probably had heartburn!). It took them less than a week to tell us there was nothing they could do but give her painkillers and wait.

I realise that Cancer Research is probably rather a large charity, but it could change so many lives - they have already helped an awful lot of people totally recover, and lots of others live a lot longer than they would have otherwise, and yet in other cases the doctors haven't got a clue. If you're lucky, you can get a large chunk of your insides cut away and hope, if you're unlucky you die.

Thanks.

withalj

1. Practical Action (formerly ITDG)

2. http://www.practicalaction.org

3. Developing practical answers to poverty.

4. ITDG – the Intermediate Technology Development Group –Practical Action aims to demonstrate and advocate the sustainable use of technology to reduce poverty in developing countries. With its commitment to poverty reduction, environmental conservation and technology choice, ITDG Practical Action is uniquely placed to contribute to a world free of poverty. ITDG Practical Action has a unique approach to development – not starting with technology, but with people. The tools may be simple or sophisticated – but to provide long-term, appropriate and practical answers, they must be firmly in the hands of local people: people who shape technology and control it for themselves. Support Practical Action and really make a difference to peoples' lives.

wealthsaver

1. The Woodland Trust

2. http://www.woodland-trust.org.uk/index.htm

3. UK's leading conservation charity protecting our native woodland heritage.

4. Lets help preserve this nations woodlands by contributing money to the charity I want to nominate. Woodlands offer so much for wildlife, leisure and the environment. Rainforests worldwide are being decimated and in this country we should preserve what remains and leave our children something to enjoy. The Woodland Trust campaigns to create and improve policies, incentives and legislation to protect ancient woods, improve woodland biodiversity, increase native woodland cover and increase understanding and enjoyment of woods. By acquiring sites and campaigning for woodland, The Woodland Trust aim to conserve, restore and re-establish native woodland to its former glory. Currently The Woodland Trust own and care for over 1,000 woods, covering over 50,000 acres.

Old_git_7

1. Samaritans
2. http://www.samaritans.org.uk/
3. Confidential emotional support to the suicidal or despairing
4. My wholehearted support is as a result of having experienced first hand the dreadful effects of having a loved one commit suicide. The mental health problem support services are very poor in many - possibly most - areas of this country (often just 'sweeping it under the carpet'), and the Samaritans make a big difference to the feelings of self worth of people who are in despair and/or have suicidal feelings. Please support them.

mad_cash_cow

1.SEND A COW

2.http://www.sendacow.org.uk/

3.Animals / agricultural equipment / training for self-help in Africa.

4.This charity provides proper sustainable help to enable those struggling against poverty in Africa to farm crops and livestock to feed themselves, and also for sale.

For me, it has two main attractions:-

1)training and ongoing support are given along with the livestock/equipment, so that they give maximum benefit.

2)the first female offspring of the donated animal has to be passed on to another needy family, and so the gift is spread.

This small charity was endorsed by Feargal Keene in the Independant as really making a difference on the ground.

Surely a self- replicating gift, provided with the backup to make it work, fully fits in with the MSE "value for money" ethos?!!