MoneySavingExpert.com Charity Fund Nominate a Charity June 08

fionab21_2

A) Age Concern Leicester Shire & Rutland

www.ageconcernleics.com

C) Charity supporting older people to live fulfilling lives

D) The information and advice team working with this charity are trying to increase the amount of money avaialble to older people in Leicestershire and Rutland. So many older people don't claim the benefits they are entitled, around 20% of pensioners are living in poverty. Fuel poverty is increasing too and older people need quality, timely and relevant information and support to make claims.

Please support our charity and help older people to live as independently as they can for as long as they can

Thank you

Fiona

aboba

The Official Name of the Charity: Sudan Water Grant for Incapacitated Areas (SUWGIA). Registered charity in England and Wales No. 1100365

b. A link to the Website of the Charity: www.suwgia.com

c. A desciption of no more than 8 words of the charity - this is crucial, its what will be used to describe the charity in the vote: PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH BY PROVIDING CLEAN WATER.

d. One paragaph only (max 150 words) of why this charity should be supported; whether that's for your personal reasons or more generally:

Beside the work of SUWGIA to help the needy human beings in the most deprived areas in the world, SUWGIA is now campaigning to build 1000 wells in Darfur when peace is restored there. We already dug 20 wells in Sudan. These wells change the life of people tremendously. In Nugdalla Village (Sennar State), people used to walk 4 miles to get a few litres of water. Now they are enjoying clean water in the village.
In Wad Sharaifai (Eastern Sudan, Kassala State), SUWGIA saved an 800 pupils primary school for girl from closure after a donkey died in their open dug well. Please watch the opening ceremoney for this well in youTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Dr-dQqbTA

efyson

a. Toybox

b. www.toybox.org

c. Let the Street Children Live!

d. “They called me a street child, but nobody asked me why.” These are the words on the grave of Ruben, 12, a street child killed by a policeman whilst he slept in a shop doorway. Toybox is helping thousands of street children and children at risk in Latin America; children like Jose who says “I’m 18 now. I never thought I would get this far in my life. I ran away to the streets when I was a child because it wasn’t safe for me at home. It was scary there and I was alone. But then a group of people from Toybox found me and told me they could help me. I got an education, a family and friends who really care about me. I want to graduate and do something special with my life.” Please choose to support Toybox and help them save more children from the streets.

susan1981_2

a. Breast Cancer Care, RCN 1017658

b. www.breastcancercare.org.uk

c. Information and support for anyone affected by breast cancer.

d. Breast Cancer Care is here for anyone affected by breast cancer. We bring people together, provide information and support, and campaign for improved standards of care. We use our understanding of people's experience of breast cancer and our professional expertise in everything we do. All our services, including a free and confidential helpline, publications, website, and support groups, are free.

Rainbow_Trust_Africa

a) Rainbow Trust Africa

b) www.rainbowafrica.org

c) Social outreach in southern Zambia

d) Rainbow Trust Africa seeks financial support to establish a hospice for AIDS affected children who are otherwise dying in squalid conditions with no medical support whatsoever. Since 1996 the trust has operated from a base in Livingstone Zambia and now has over 70 employees. It asks its supporters to 'help us bring a smile back to Africa' and it seeks to do this through the provision of high quality education, medical services and support for destitute grannies and their AIDS orphaned grandchildren.
The trust has a twelve-year history of success in establishing such facilities as these and now has an outstanding level of local Project Management expertise. As a minimal overhead structure already exists, 100% of all money donated will be carefully and specifically targeted at this hospice project. Progress will be monitored through regular written and photographic feedback and visits from sponsors will be welcomed.

DJ_Mitch

I would like to nominate Fife Employment Access Trust. Their website is www.journeytowork.co.uk and they "Support sufferers of mental illness to regain work"

This organisation have supported a huge number of individuals to return to work after the lows of mental illness. They also work closely with employers to raise awareness of mental health issues in the workplace and increasingly conduct campaigns to challenge stigma and dispel myths about mental illness aimed at the general public. They should be supported as a reward for their success to date and to help develop their money advice services for people experiencing mental health problems who are considering returning to work.

DJ Mitch ([EMAIL="duncan.mitchell@f-e-a-t.co.uk"]duncan.mitchell@f-e-a-t.co.uk[/EMAIL])

lisakate72

Hello

I would like to nominate the Precious Lives Appeal for Childrens Hospice South West, though I appreciate it is a local charity it desperately needs support.

A) Children's Hospice South West
http://www.chsw.org.uk/cornwall-home.php
C) Appeal to provide care and respite to families in Cornwall
D) Families & Children in Cornwall currently do not have the essential and valuable care provided by a childrens hospice actually in Cornwall, instead they have to travel long distances to Devon and Somerset to receive the amazing care they deserve from just down the road. Imagine. The precious lives appeal would like to change that.

Precious Lives Appeal


Children's Hospice South West has been providing care and respite to families from across the South West of England for nearly 13 years firstly at Little Bridge House, North Devon, and more recently at Charlton Farm, North Somerset. Plans are now in place to extend this world class service into Cornwall.
A hospice in Cornwall will provide a place closer to home for many families from Cornwall and Plymouth, who may find the journey to Little Bridge House and Charlton Farm too far, or would just be happier using a hospice closer to home and friends and family.
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taurustime

Outside Chance

'Offering help to young people to help themselves'

I wish to nominate Outside Chance, a small charity based in Hammersmith, West London, which delivers high impact, anti crime, behaviour challenging and STD awareness workshops in Greater London secondary schools as well as in 4 young offender units with 15-21 year old male inmates. We aim to dissuade and deter inmates from reoffending on release and, in doing so, producing more victims in the community. In schools, we engage young people by showing them the often life long consequences of engaging in bullying, petty crime, knife-, gun-, gang- and drug-related crime at the earliest possible stage in order that they do not go on to a criminal record and a prison term in the UK's already overcrowded penal population.

www.outsidechance.org

Ian Ross
Outside Chance

aydee

I would like to nominate family rights group.

www.frg.org.uk

support for family and friend carers.

Est in 1974 they work to increase the voice children and families have in the services they use. They promote policies and practices that assist children to be raised safely and securely within their families, and campaign to ensure that support is available to assist grandparents and other relatives who are raising children who cannot live at home.

I have received support from frg and they have a fantastic forum for grandparent carers.

J4yno

a. Swansea & Gower Cancer Self Help Group
b. Temporary Site: http://beehive.thisissouthwales.co.uk/default.asp?WCI=SiteHome&ID=8827
c. A Self Help Group for Cancer Patients.
d. This Self Help Group holds fortnightly open days, providing much needed support, information, entertainment, therapies and a lunch to individuals with cancer in and around Swansea/Gower. All volunteers work tirelessly to provide sufferers with an environment where they can relax, talk to other cancer patients and gather more information about how to cope with the illness on a day to day basis. Having visited this group recently, I personally experienced the positive vibe exuberating from this group - a fantastic environment for individuals who are unsure about their future and how to cope with this illness. TRULY WONDERFUL PEOPLE.