Charities In Dorset

Basketball - Playing opportunities.Coaching and officiating courses.Community basketball coach available.

The relief of financial hardship amongst people in Swanage and the surrounding area by: a) providing emergency food, and other items to individuals and families in need and/or for distribution by charities or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty; and b) such other means, including the provision of support or signposting to relevant information and other advisory services.

Operating in Somerset anad Dorset, delivering modern and relevant collective worship to primary schools. The use of multimedia and live music engages the children and young people and provides an opportunity for them to hear a gospel message that is relevant to them.

We are a group of local people from the town of New Milton and the surrounding parishes and we operate a Mens Shed, which is a community space for men to connect, convers, and create. Members come together to share skills, knowledge, and experiences in order to enrich each other's lives. This is achieved by undertaking creative and practical projects and using the shed as a social networking hub.

The Hall provides an area which is used by the community for a range of social and educational purposes

The objects of the Society are the learning and performance of choral music and to foster public interest and enjoyment of such music by means of public performance.

Our main object is to offer small, rural churches the opportunity to experience cathedral-style choral evensong. Our week's summer tour visits five churches, educating both our participants and the congregations for whom we sing, in the styles and forms of Anglican choral music and achieving a high standard of worship. We encourage young singers to join us by means of scholarships and bursaries.

A village hall providing a venue for hire for local people and groups, for social, educational, religious and other activities.

Financial grants to charities that meet the Trust's criteria and are active in the south west of England

Chesil Sailability is dedicated to helping disabled people of all ages to experience sailing, most in specially adapted boats, and to helping them go as far in the sport as their enthusiasm and ability takes them. We are based at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy and most of our sailors & volunteers live in South Dorset, but we aim to exclude no one who wants to take part!

The diffusion of Unitarian principles and the support of member congregations in their work in the community through regular meetings, social events and such other joint activities as may from time to time be decided.

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Fundraising for the school.

To provide fostering, rehabilitation and rehoming for dogs in our care. To ensure those dogs in our care are neutered, vaccinated and micro-chipped prior to rehoming and to ensure help and support is provided in line with the aims of the Charity.

Supports current Bishop of Plymouth by making annual grant for his use.

A village hall for the use of the inhabitants of the Parish of Wimborne St Giles, without distinction of political religious or other opinions including use for meetings lectures and classes and for other forms of recreation and leisure-time occupation. Subject to availability the hall may be hired by individuals and organisations based outside the Parish of Wimborne St Giles.

Provision of rooms to hire for various local community clubs, societies, charities and individuals for their use as a meeting place for classes, conferences, events and special occasion celebrations.

Education and leisure activities for the retired over 50's

The object of the charity is to provide and maintain a village hall for the use of the inhabitants of Whitchurch Canonicorum, Morcombelake, Ryall and Shaves Cross. The hall is to be used for meetings, lectures, classes and other forms of recreation and leisure-time occupations, with a view to improving the conditions of life for the inhabitants of the villages.

We are a non-auditioning choir of around 140 adults from Sherborne and the surrounding area. We give one major annual performance in Sherborne Abbey as part of Sherborne Abbey Festival and also hold open workshops during the year.

Christian activities are held in our premises and elsewhere. We visit with invites to activities and give Christian literature. We help local needy people and lend our premises to Christian groups with aims similar to ours, and to others helpful to our community, with a similar ethos to us. We help Christians and Christian organisations worldwide with charitable aims similar to ours.

The charity's purpose is to use both capital and income for the relief of the poor and needy, or to or for such other charitable purpose, institution,society or object shall at a duly constituted meeting from time to time direct.

Our community recycling projects include producing three recycling directories (covering the whole of Dorset). These advertise the needs of not-for-profit organisations for items which people are throwing away. We also run 9 Win on Waste sessions each month, (welcoming 4000 households in 2022), in Dorset where communities come together to donate items from their waste to benefit good causes.

The main aim of Changes Are Made is to educate, support, prevent and deter young people from carrying or using knives and serious violence.