MoneySavingExpert.com Charity Fund Nominate a Charity June 08

beanielou

Disability information services in Perthshire (DISIP)
https://www.DISIP.org.uk
**Empowering disabled people to find solutions**
DISIP was created to offer a one stop sighposting shop , covering all forms and ages of disability & impairement.
DISIP should be supported as we offer a valuable service to the people of Perthshire & beyond.
DISIP are a customised personal disabilty information service and we aim to offer a customised personal service to address individual requirements and identify where our customers can get the specific support & services that they require.

Misstickland

a. The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association
b. www.guidedogs.org.uk
c. Providing mobility for blind and partially sighted people
d. Guide Dogs’ wants a world in which all blind and partially sighted people enjoy the same rights, opportunities and responsibilities as everyone else. Our aim is to provide guide dogs and other mobility services that increase the independence and dignity of blind and partially-sighted people. We campaign for improved rehabilitation services and unhindered access for all blind and partially-sighted people.

Guide dogs provide freedom, companionship and mobility for their blind and partially-sighted owners, literally transforming lives.

We receive no government or lottery funding for our services. Ask any guide dog owner and they will tell you that they are priceless. However, it costs the charity £10 per day to support each guide dog partnership, which soon adds up! Please help us to support more blind and partially sighted people.

Registered Charity Number: 209167

Tammygun

St Giles Trust - a charity working with ex-offenders and disadvantaged people.

I would like to nominate this charity as they do some gritty work which has a huge impact. They provide resettlement support through services focussing on housing, training, education and support into employment. The foundation of their work is training ex-clients to become qualified workers helping other ex-offenders or individuals suffering disadvantage or hardship e.g. homelessness, mental health problems.

Why should you support St Giles? They do important work which is often overlooked in favour of more cuddly charitable causes. Their work directly reduces re-offending and makes communities safer. Their head office is based in London but they work across the country, including carrying out work in over 20 prisons.

Further details can be found on www.stgilestrust.org.uk

Thanks for reading

pam_Gratton

A) Charity being nominated: Guide Dogs

www.guidedogs.org.uk

C) Providing Guide dogs, mobility and other rehabilitaiton services for blind and partially sighted people
D) Guide Dogs’ wants a world in which all blind and partially sighted people enjoy the same rights, opportunities and responsibilities as everyone else. Our aim is to provide guide dogs and other mobility services that increase the independence and dignity of blind and partially-sighted people. We campaign for improved rehabilitation services and unhindered access for all blind and partially-sighted people.

A guide dog provides freedom, companionship and mobility for their blind and partially-sighted owners, literally transforming lives.

Having a guide dog gives blind and partially sighted people the freedom and independence with the same rights responsibilities and opportunities as everyone else.

It costs the charity £10 per day to support each guide dog partnership, Please help us to support more blind and partially sighted people. We receive no government or lottery funding for our services of any kind and rely wholy upon the genorisity of the public for their donations.


Registered Charity Number: 209167


THANK YOU

fchesterton

:T Thank you- St Giles Trust

dancelikedad

I nominate the National Alliance of Childhood Cancer Parent Organisations (NACCPO)

www.naccpo.org.uk

A National Children's Cancer Charity helping UK families

NACCPO is a small but important charity which helps families whose children have cancer. It has expanded greatly in the past few years and more funds would enable it to extend services and reach more families. NACCPO is run by a volunteer board of trustees and one paid staff member - all of which have had a child who has undergone cancer treatment so they are very much aware of the issues faced by families when their child is diagnosed with cancer.
The Alliance is made up of 35 member groups who provide emotional support, holidays, trips and many other forms of help to their members.
NACCPO also acts as a united 'voice' for families, advocating for better NHS and charity services. We also help individual families who may need advice on benefits, grants or insurance as most parents face many financial worries when caring for a seriously ill child.

muswell_hill

The Hornsey Trust for Children with Cerebral Palsy

www.hornseytrust.org.uk

A specialist centre for children with cerebral palsy

We run the only specialist centre and school for children with cerebral palsy in the London region. We offer intensive therapy and education for children aged from birth to 11 years old. Our work is vital because we constantly guide, encourage and motivate children. This teaches each child to do as much as possible for themselves and by themselves without using aids and equipment and literally transforms their lives! Currently we provide one-to-one support for babies and children under two, Parent and Child groups, a nursery group and school groups for five to 11 year olds. We also run summer and Easter holiday schemes. Many children who come here also have significant learning disabilities, limited communication skills and additional disabilities like epilepsy, hearing and visual impairment. Each year we need to find £250k just to keep going. That is why donations are so important to us.

Gillco1985

oldmole wrote: »

I would like to nominate NCH - the children's charity.

They deserve it!!

sixdegreesofseparation

a) Tourettes Action
b) www.tourettes-action.org.uk
c) for people with Tourette Syndrome and their families
d) Tourette Syndrome affects one child in a hundred, and around 300,000 children and adults in the UK. Some have mild symptoms. For others, TS is intensely disabling: educationally, economically and socially. People with TS find themselves excluded from education, work, social activities, and family and sexual relationships. Both children and adults may also exclude themselves out of shame for their involuntary actions. Tourettes Action works to provide children and adults with TS with the practical support and social acceptance they need to help them live their lives to the full. This includes information to help get a diagnosis, practical help, parties for the children who are never invited and teenagers’ camps, as well as educating health and social care workers and the public about the true nature of TS.
Did you know that involuntary bad language affects only one person in ten with TS?

Savvy_saver_6

Charity: PEACH
Link: www.peach.org.uk
Description: Peach, effective, compassionate, progressive support for autistic children
Why?:
Peach is a parent-led group aiming to encourage, support and inform parents of children with autism.
Peach is the fastest growing UK charity in the field of ABA and Autism and helps families start Intensive Behavioural Intervention Programmes.
We have 3 principal goals:

• Supporting parents of children with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder to make informed choices for their children's future by:
  • Providing information and
  • Approaching local and central government.
• Monitoring standards and quality of services.
• Promoting ABA through the promotion of information to a wider forum.