Beneficiary group Charities That specialise in Women

Support for mothers and pregnant women and their families who are suffering with post and ante natal depression and anxiety and other perinatal mental illness. This support includes email, telephone and text support and peer support buddying in the South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire area.

Al-Akram Trust runs an education centre providing a full time Muslim primary school that was established in 2003 and a girls secondary school that started in 2011. The trust also runs adult classes and other educational activities. The charity operates in inner city Derby in the East Midlands.

Stepping Stones provides educational support for children, young people and women in GCSE, SATs and language. We have also established a nursery that provides 10.5 additional free placement.

We run issue based drama workshops with women and girls groups, using drama as a tool to empower, increasing participants self-esteem and confidence. We also create touring theatre informing wider debate of the issues covered.

Deaf-initely Women is an organisation that is governed and managed by deaf women, delivering services/activities for their peers. We aim to build their financial and emotional resilience.

To work towards redressing the difficulties faced by BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) women who have suffered mental and physical abuse through the provision of residential accommodation and to educate and support.

Emmanuel Group of Churches as three ecumenical Christian congregations engages in a wide variety of activites including worship and prayer, youth & community work incl. funded part-time youth worker and care worker, using our premises to host community groups e.g. weight watchers and an NHS health group, asian men's and asian women's groups, family tots and a number of other churches.(see report)

This has been a year of less overt activity after 5 years of intense fundraising. Significant assistance has been provided to several girl choristers enabling them to remain in the choir. With the consent of The Chairty Commission, the objects of the Trust have been amended so that it can now support both boy and girl choristers. From 1st August 2011 it is The Wells Cathedral Chorister Trust.

The Foundation raises funds to support projects for the benefit of vulnerable and orphaned children in South Africa.The main focus is Ilamula House a Home offering a place of safety for girls (aged between 2 and 18) who have been abused, orphaned or abandoned. In addition we undertake project work in the surrounding townships including feeding station, squatter camp support and related projects.

NIDAS is an organisation offering safety, advice, practical help and emotional support to victims of Domestic Abuse.NIDAS offers a range of services which gives children, young people and their families access to professional support whatever their situation.

Advancement of religious and other charitable work including education, parish and ministry work, family support, care for the elderly and support of missions

Grant-making for education and health projects to benefit children, young people and women, in the U.K, especially Herefordshire, Gloucestershire and the Bristol area, and India.

Not Beyond Redemption's activities are to legally represent and aid incarcerated mothers. This includes, but is not limited to: representing women in court, running pro bono clinics and assisting in child custody related issues.

The Congregation of the Sisters of St Anne Charitable Trust aims to support the religious and other charitable works carried on by the members of the Congregation and to care for those members throughout their lives with the Congregation. The ministries include - Social pastoral work, operation of a residential and care establishment and caring for the members of the Congregation.

Group B streptococcus (GBS) is the UK's commonest life-threatening infection in newborn babies. Without preventative medicine, GBS infects approximately 700 babies a year: 75 die & 40 survivors have long-term problems. Most GBS infections are preventable by offering higher-risk women antibiotics in labour. GBSS informs pregnant women and health professionals how to do this, saving tiny lives.

PROVIDE EDUCATION AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES

GlobalCharity.org; GlobalAIDRelief.orgFood Aid - Food Packs distributedWater Aid - Deep Water Bores as electrically operated; Drinking Hand Pumps manually operatedWork Aid - Give Working Tools to individuals to learn / or use on a current TradeWork Aid - Give sewing machines to ladies/men for Tailoring job relatedMedical Aid - Sending money to the affected in our operational countries

The Trust is a grant-giving charity. Charities and charitable projects focused on Merseyside. Charities benefiting women and unpopular causes but avoiding those with sectarian interest.

Gateshead Young Womens Outreach Project has been running over 30 years. We work with young women and young mothers inGatesheadaged 11-19yrs. We support, guide young women through crisis in their lives.These Crises can be finding out that they are pregnant, problems or struggling in schools, mental health issues, rape, self harm, lack of confidence and self belief, violence or sexual exploitation

Provide peer support to parents who are bereaved of a child or children of any age (from 1 month old to an adult child) from any cause. Support is also provided to adult siblings who are bereaved of a brother or sister and also to bereaved grandparents. Information is also given to professionals involved in bereavement care.

a) Supporting the mental health and emotional health and well-being of women in London during pregnancy and early motherhood;b) Providing specialist 1-1 perinatal counselling from counsellors who are clinically supervised and trained;c) Organising counselling groups and other therapeutic support; andd) Providing access to health professionals and other frontline staff.

The focus of the charity is to encourage, inspire and empower all women and girls toimprove their mental health and challenge the associated stigma.The promotion and protection of good health, in particularly but not exclusively for women in the area of Cheshire.

Winner, the Preston Road Women's Centre provides services to women and children including Nursery, domestic violence support, activities for young women, accommodation, training and volunteering opportunities as well as affordable second hand goods through our charity shop. Women are encouraged and supported to achieve their full potential and resume control of their lives through positive choice

(a) To provide relief in cases of necessity or distress among the WRNS Members of the Trust and among the dependants of such persons and to accept and administer any gift for any special or limited object in general accordance with the aims of the Trust.(b) To make provision in suitable cases for assistance with further education for WRNS Members of the Trust.

Agenda works to ensure that women & girls at risk of abuse, poverty, poor mental health, addiction and homelessness get support and protection; campaigns for systems to be transformed; raises awareness across sectors; and promotes public understanding. We do this through research and making and supporting the implementation of proposals designed to improve provision.