MoneySavingExpert.com Charity Fund Nominate a Charity June 08

niamhypooh

I would like to nominate http://www.muscular-dystrophy.org/.

This worthwhile charity helps people of all ages, with various types of the illness and there are many of them.
I had never heard of Muscular Dystrophy until my partner was diagnosed with it in 2002 age 36. There's no cure on the horizon.

PLEASEEEEE consider this little publicised charity

GSDANGUS

a. SARDA (Southern Scotland)
Search and Rescue Dog Association (Southern Scotland)

b. sarda.org.uk

c. dog teams that search for missing and vulnerable people

d. Helping to Save Lives. The volunteers are all members of their respective Mountain Rescue Teams throughout Scotland who, in addition devote their time and energy to train search and rescue dogs to help people from all walks of life and ages from the very young child to the elderly dementia sufferer. Each handler and dog team are on call 24 hours a day 365 days a year and are called out in all weather conditions and operate in mountains and rural lowland areas throughout Central and Southern Scotland. The handler and dogs carries around £ 2000 of equipment on call outs including radios, first aid and safety equipment. It costs in excess of £ 10,000 every year to run the association to train and equip handlers, dogs and our volunteer bodies and run our training and assessment weekends. Spiralling costs, as in all aspects of our lives, make Charitable Donations to our organisation to be even more crucial to allow us to continue to operate and train effectively.
SARDA (Southern Scotland) is recognised as a Charity in Scotland No. SC028709.

OldBat_2

a) The South & West Lancashire Food Bank
b) www.swlancsfoodbank.ik.com
c) providing safe & healthy food donated by industry to local communities
d) The Food Bank works throughout the North West, receiving donations from manufacturers of food, drinks, toiletries and cleaning products which would otherwise be sent to landfill (what a waste that would be!) These goods are then re-distributed to charities and voluntary organisations to both help them save money and provide better or additional services to their clients. The Food Bank is running on a small income and last year rescued more than £100,000 worth of goods from being sent to landfill.
Having just taken bigger premises to enable expansion and the rescuing of more goods from landfill, funds are required to pay for this additional space over the coming years.
A wide variety of groups use the Food Bank, including a number of women's refuges, the Salvation Army, Age Concern, local community centres, and a range of hostels & support projects.

Vital_Spark_2

Monkey World in Dorset. http://www.monkeyworld.org/

These people go all over the world dealing with governments, friendly and not so, persuading them to change/create laws to include those against animal cruelty and the taking of animals from the wild.

A google search will take you to MW's site or you can watch the work they do on Animal World television (Cable, Sky or Freeview). Donating a be done via the "Jim Cronin Memorial Fund" via the rescue centre's website: see link above.

Although the work they do in Dorset, primarily, deals with primates, they are involved in fighting cruelty to ALL animals.

You only need look into the eyes of these beasts to see the horrors of what they've come thorugh in their lives before being rescued. Then the sparkle which they beam after a short spell in Monkey World.

anja_2

i would like to nominate www.leaves-of-hope.co.uk/
this charity supports children in Belarus who have been affected by Chernobyl many years ago. i have met one of them personally when she came to visit the uk the have some tests done at Great Ormond Street hospital. It is a small charity and a little money goes far in Belarus!

QuakerSal

http://www.grameen-info.org/index.html

Tiny loans to the poorest of the poor.

"As of May, 2008, the Grameen Bank has 7.5 million borrowers, 97 percent of whom are women. With 2,515 branches, GB provides services in 82,072 villages, covering more than 97 percent of the total villages in Bangladesh."

The big banks said it couldn't be done. If you lent money to "these people" they would not repay it. Muhammad Yunus thought differently and started this charity with the change he had in his pocket! Every donation helps, probably more than we can appreciate.

AtollK1950

a) William's Fund

b) http://www.williamsfund.co.uk

c) Research into child cancers

d) William Dodd was a little boy of 4 years old who died from an unknown form of cancer. Despite having to go through exhausting and painful radiotherapy and chemotherapy during his short life, he bore his illness with the dignity of someone much older, always with a smile and a twinkle in his eye. We can all learn so much from him. William's Fund was set up by his parents so that the same awful tragedy might be avoided for other families. It is a fitting way to remember him. Have a look at William's story on the website - it will win your heart as it did mine.

selimap

a) Music in Prisons - the Irene Taylor Trust.
b) http://www.musicinprisons.org.uk/
c) Reducing re-offending by giving prisoners self-respect
d) Relevance to Money-saving: Crime costs honest consumers money. MIP is a small charity where the money would make a difference. By allowing prisoners the freedom to create and perform music, Music in Prisons raises their life aspirations, enabling them to play a positive role in their communities. By providing individuals with the chance to develop new skills, both musical and personal, MIP gives them the chance to leave prison with more than just the stigma of having been there. Projects like this result in a proven reduction in re-offending rates.

Newtonr

I would like to nominate the following charity
1 - Sheffield Childrens Hospital
2 - www.sheffieldchildrenshospital.org.uk
3 - Dedicate Hospital for Children A&E and VERY Specialist care
4 - Sheffield Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of only eight specialist children's hospitals in the country and represents a unique combination of facilities, expertise and understanding. The hospital provides specialist care from birth to 16 years of age with the primary catchment area being the North Trent region but also having some patients referred from all over the country. Sheffield Children's Hospital Charity is a registered charity that exists to support and enhance the services of Sheffield Children's NHS Trust and it's reputation as a centre of excellence for the research, prevention, care and cure of childhood illnesses.
PLEASE CONSIDER US !!!

simonebell

I nominate the following charity
1. Child line
2. http://www.childline.org.uk/pages/default.aspx
3. help for children and young people who are at risk or scared.
4: this is not just a charity for children who are being abused at home, it is for children and young adults everywhere who are being bullied, are unhappy, considering running away, and have nowhere else to turn. The charity is funded soley by contributions and is always at risk of not being able to answer the phone, consider each time a child takes that step to make the call but nobody is there to answer it, what happens to that child. vote for childline.:T