Charities In Islington

ActionAid UK is part of an international federation working in 44 countries. We provide support and humanitarian assistance to people living in poverty and on the margins of survival. Together we demand action at local, national and international level. We don't walk away until we've achieved lasting change.

The object for which the charity is established is to advance education particularly by encouraging the understanding and appreciation of the dramatic arts.

The Charity raises funds to enable Moorfields Eye Hospital to continue to provide excellent care for patients and their families and to help ensure the hospital remains a world-class centre for ophthalmic research and education.

Provides UCL students with advice on immigration,housing,finance,employment,academic appeals etc. Provides representation between Students,UCL and other bodies.Co-ordinates Student Academic Representatives to encourage student feedback/course development.Promotes student personal development by the provision of social,cultural,volunteering, sporting/recreational activities,discussion/debate fora

The provision of specialist palliative care in inpatient, day care in health and wellbeing centre and community settings.Education and training of healthcare professionals and partnerships with other organisations that share our objects also form an important part of our work.

The Trust aims to achieve its objectives by funding work that includes education, scientific research, investigations and promoting sustainable development.In the medium to long term we are prioritising work in the areas of Climate change, Forests, and Oceans.We work closely with other Greenpeace entities around the world so as to maximise the impact of our charitable work.

Provision of social and educational activites for adults with learning disabilities, clubs for children with learning disabilities and for their siblings, support and advice for parents and carers of a disabled person, supported housing projects for adults with a learning disability, and a calendar of social functions and outings for children and adults with a learning disability and their carers.

The FIA Foundation manages and supports an international programme of activities promoting road safety, environmental protection and sustainable mobility, as well as funding specialist motor sport safety research.

Enabling the development of young people through the provision of supported housing, youth work, counselling, advice and guidance and health education.

CEPR's mission is to promote world-class economic research and deliver the policy-relevant results to decision-makers: Research Excellence with Policy Relevance. It provides common services for its network of researchers and for users of its research, and obtains funding for the activities it develops, executing projects once funding is obtained, and reporting to donors on activities undertaken.

The Society's main aims are to promote the advancement of physiology and to facilitate communication, both between scientists and with the wider public, through: the publication of scientific journals; support for scientific meetings; grants to allow physiologists to attend scientific meetings and develop research collaborations; and by supporting education and outreach activities.

Under the terms of the trust, the fund can make grants to young people between 5 and 25 years old, resident in the old borough of Finsbury (now part of Islington) with a preference for those resident in, or whose parents during the previous year had their business or employment in the Parish of St. Lukes Old Street, and in the opinion of the governors are in need of financial assistance.

Cripplegate Foundation is a grant-giving trust which aims to improve the quality of life of people who live or work in our area of benefit which is the borough of Islington and parts of the City of London. It is a proactive funder, whose work addresses poverty and inequality. Our grants improve access to opportunities and promote social cohesion.

Advancing the education of students aged 9 to 18 being students who are the victim of bullying or by reason of other emotional trauma or illness are unable to attend mainstream school by providing tuition and appropriate support for them in a safe learning environment until they are ready to return to mainstream education and employment.

The provision of managed workspace, education and training for the public benefit.The fostering, promotion and expansion of the interest of the public in art,craft,design and artisan skills, particularly, but not exclusively, those pertaining to goldsmithing.

We are a constituent of the Movement for Reform Judaism. Reform Judaism, is an informed and questioning, compassionate and egalitarian expression of a unique faith and culture, rooted in the tradition of the Torah, yet in dialogue with modernity.

The company is a charity and exists to promote the Christian Faith and alleviate suffering according to the mission of the Church of England and the values and tenets of the Anglican Communion summarised in resolution 11 of the third Lambeth conference following the Chicago-Lambeth quadrilateral.

Across 9 boroughs of inner London, XLP provides support for disadvantaged young people aged 10-21 including:In-class support, literacy and numeracy,clubs in schools and PRU's;Support on estates through 3 Community double decker buses, mobile recording studios and sports and fitness programmes ;A Performing Arts programmes for young people;Mentoring and Ready for Work programmes

Union Chapel is an independent secular charity operating within the church building. It has a dual charitable remit to restore the building and to open it up to arts, community and heritage interest. We also run a in house centre called Margins, offering hot meals, winter shelter and advice to people on the margins of society.

The principal activity of the company for the period under review was running the Children's House School on its two sites in Islington providing nursery education for children from the age of 2 to 4 at its Elmore Street building and primary education for children from the age of 4 at the Upper School in King Henry's Walk.

We operate the St. Paul's Steiner School in the former St. Paul's Church in Islington where children are educated from the age of 3 till 14 years. The objective is to advance the education of the public based on the researches and philosophy of Rudolf Steiner.

Area 51 Education provides full and part time continuing education opportunities to young people over the age of 16 who have severe, profound or complex learning difficulties and physical disabilities.

Age Concern Islington works with local older people to give relief, support, and help to those in need, and also provides activities and opportunities to help local older people stay fit, active, and fulfilled. To provide these services and opportunities, we welcome funding through contractual services, or from charitable trusts, statutory sector grants, lottery, or other grants or donations.

Selby Trust's vision is delivered with the ethos of "Many Cultures One Community". We manage community buildings & run community projects that respond to community needs whilst improving the life chances of disadvantaged communities in 5 areas: (a) facilities management, (b) Community development, (c) Community environmental development, (d) Community economic development, (e) Community safety.

MULTI-PURPOSE NEIGHBOURHOOD CHARITY WITH A LARGE COMMUNITY CENTRE SERVING PEOPLE IN AND AROUND THE WARD OF BUNHILL IN THE SOUTH OF ISLINGTON. THE TRUST PROVIDES A WIDE RANGE OF COMMUNITY ANCHOR SERVICES, INCLUDING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL CARE FOR THE EDLERLY, AND PROVIDES PUBLIC SPACE FOR USE BY OTHER LOCAL ORGANISATIONS.