MoneySavingExpert.com Charity Fund Nominate a Charity June 08

purplegirluk1

Name - Bonnie Babies

Link - http://bonniebabies.co.uk/ (Please have a look at the amazing work they do, this is a chatity that really provides an amazing service)
Description - Making Clothes, Blankets, Burial Outfits For Premature Babies

Why we should support them -
This is an amazing chairty, run by a lady called Debby and supported by devoted volunteers. They make and send tiny premature baby clothes, blankets and sadly burial outfits to U.K baby units and also parents who need support. They are an entirely non-profit organisation that depends on a dedicated group of volunteers. They reley on the support of vlounteers who work tirelessly to sew and knit the items from donated materials and materials they provide themselves. It costs around £8 to post each package and they currently send items to over 80 hospitals. The support of MSE would make a unimaginable difference to this chairty and to the families it supports. The charity is growing as more and more people are requesting items. I know that a donation would allow them to carry on supporting familes and special care babies for a great deal longer.

fatbelly

a. Shelterbox
b. http://www.shelterbox.org
c. Disaster relief, worldwide, each box serves 10 people
d. Since beginning work in 2001, emergency aid from ShelterBox has helped around 500,000 disaster victims worldwide. Boxes have now been flown or shipped from Helston, Cornwall (of all places!) to every continent.

smithcvs

The N.S.P.C.C. please

YellowRose_2

I hope you don't mind but I'd like to add a little more information to the Sands nomination if I may please?

a. Sands

b. www.uk-sands.org

c. Sands, the stillbirth & neonatal death charity

d. Sands exists is to:
• support anyone affected by the death of a baby;
• work with health professionals to improve the quality of care and services provided to bereaved parents and their families;
• promote changes in antenatal practice and fund research that could help to reduce the loss of babies' lives.

This month Sands launches the Why 17? Campaign which asks a simple question. Why, in spite of medical advances, do 17 babies die every day in the UK?

For some of those deaths we simply do not yet know enough to be able to say why. Further research is needed. But increasingly, Sands believes that many of those deaths are potentially avoidable. The devastating impact of the death of a baby on the parents and their families and friends could be prevented.

Sands Why 17? Campaign is seeking to raise £1.7 million over 17 months to;

1. Focus public awareness on why, tragically, 17 babies a day in the UK are stillborn or die within the first twenty eight days of life;

2. Promote changes in antenatal practice that could prevent some babies from dying;

3. Identify and support key research which could provide further information on why so many babies are dying.

My own daughter was stillborn six years ago and since then similar has happened to a number of my friends. Sands is a charity that sadly you only tend to find out about “afterwards”. Death is sadly still a very taboo subject, especially when we’re talking about babies dying, but the utter devastation and the shattered hopes and dreams when a much wanted and loved baby dies so suddenly and tragically is utterly horrendous. It is so, so important that awareness and funds are raised to try to find out why so many babies are stillborn or die so soon after they are born. Sands is an incredible charity and does so much for so many families each year.

Thank you for taking the time to consider this nomination.

VCE_in_Fornax

ME Research UK
www.meresearch.org.uk
The primary aim of ME Research UK is to fund biomedical research into ME/CFS: to find its cause, to develop effective treatments and ultimately to discover a cure.

• Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) is characterised by a range of neurological symptoms and signs, muscle pain with intense physical or mental exhaustion, relapses, and specific cognitive disabilities. It is a real, debilitating illness, affecting up to 150,000 people in the UK, with similar rates of incidence in Europe, USA, New Zealand and Australia.
• ME is recognised as a neurological illness by the World Health Organisation.
• A report to the Chief Medical Officer of England in 2002 stated that ME/CFS “is a genuine illness and imposes a substantial burden on the health of the UK population. Improvement of health and social care for people affected by the condition is an urgent challenge.”
• Studies have shown that most sufferers are unable to work to full capacity, and that 25% are severely disabled with some house/bed-bound.
• Characteristic symptoms include muscle pain with physical and mental exhaustion following normal activities; quite different from what is normally experienced by healthy people.
• ME/CFS has a huge impact on the lives of families and carers, but little, if any, support is available to them.
• ME/CFS also affects children.
• The cause is still unknown, and no cure or effective treatment has yet been found.

Please support this charity, so that there may be a light at the end of the tunnel. I have copied and pasted this from the website because I struggle too much with thinking straight and writing, not because I'm lazy, which is often what I hear said about people with ME...
Thank you for your support

cottel7

Habitat for Humanity

http://www.habitatforhumanity.org.uk/

Building homes with families in need.

This charity organises groups of people to work with locals to build houses, then educates members of the village to manage the housing based on affordable rent, so they can build funds to build their own houses. This truly works on the 'teach a man to fish' philosophy.

"Our homepartner families own their home and pay for them through a low cost, non-profit mortgage that recycles back into the community to sustain the local organisation and helps build more houses. A Habitat for Humanity home is a hand up – not a hand out."

Hibousage

The Lymphoma Association
http://www.lymphoma.org.uk/
'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'
NO, I didn't know what a Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkins lymphoma were.
NO, I didn't know that non-Hodgkins is increasingly in the Western world (and to date, nobody knows exactly why)
NO, I didn't know the numbers of people involved (breast & colon seem to grab all of the spotlight)
NO, I didn't realise at all the support you need when you get one of these
NO, I did not fully appreciate how great the NHS staff are - and how we knock them (shame on us)
Please don't say no, SAY YES & support the Lymphoma Association!

Dragon_Mama_2

a. CAFOD.
b. http://www.cafod.org.uk/
c. The Catholic Agency for Overseas Development
d. CAFOD works with over 500 partners overseas and in the UK to reduce poverty. They believe that all human beings have a right to dignity and respect, and that the world's resources are a gift to be shared equally by all men and women, whatever their race, nationality or religion. They work not only to provide aid to those in poverty but to address the causes of the poverty, issues of human rights, justice and peace.

worldtraveller

a. Help for Heroes.

b. HELP FOR HEROES WEBSITE - PLEASE CLICK HERE

c. Support for our wounded Servicemen & women.

d. Help for Heroes was launched on 1st October 2007 to do something practical for the men and women of our Armed Forces who are wounded while serving in the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The charity is non-political and is not trying to say anything about the rights and wrongs of current military campaigns, it is simply trying to raise awareness and funds for those men and women who don’t make it home unscathed and gives people the chance to show that they care, appreciate and support all our Servicemen and women.

JnKnight

The Make A Wish Foundation UK charity please.

Make-A-Wish Foundation® UK
Make-A-Wish grants magical wishes to children and young people fighting life-threatening illnesses. This year the charity is celebrating 21 years of wishgranting. Make-A-Wish was founded in the UK in June 1986 and, since then, we have granted over 4,800 wishes. At any given time, over 20,000 children in the UK are living with life-threatening conditions and our aim is to grant 21 wishes a week by the year 2010.