Charities In St Helens

Greenbank was set up to enhance the opportunities and status of people with disabilities through education, training, employment, and recreation.Greenbank offers its services to the local community and is particularly supportive of disabled people and disadvantaged groups. We provide work related training, a guidance service, employment related projects, sport and recreation and education.

Activate provide alternative education and employability skills programmes to those disengaged or at risk of becoming disengaged from education and/or employment, primarily those with disabilities.

FACT provides a range of activities including an exhibition programme including installations, screenings, etc by artists working with digital and visual arts media; a collaboration programme working with local communities; a range of moving image and new media resource services that support the arts sector; education and training initiatives for a range of audiences; and a research programme.

RESIDENTIAL AND NURSING CARE OF THE ELDERLY JEWISH

INFORMATION, ADVICE AND RESOURCE CENTRE FOR COMMUNITY/VOLUNTARY SECTOR GROUPS WORKING WITH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ON MERSEYSIDE

The Bluecoat is Liverpool's Centre for the Contemporary Arts.Our purpose is to open up creative possibilities for individuals and communities. We do this through a programme of exhibitions, live art and participation projects; through support to artists; by opening our 18th Century building to makers, traders and visitors; and by creating connections between Liverpool and the rest of the world.

To further and assist in the education of children and adults within Wigan and surrounding areas through the use of the game of football and other ancillary sporting activities as educational tools. To provide or assist in the provision of sporting and recreational facilities for the public of Wigan and surrounding areas.

Liverpool Biennial is an ongoing platform for research, commissioning and presenting international art, education and debate. Liverpool Biennial Festival brings an international focus to our work. It is the moment when the world comes to Liverpool to engage with our thinking, and when we present art to the world.

Mental Health Charity

A local support organisation, it builds the capacity of voluntary and community organisations and promotes co-operation and partnership working between third sector, statutory and other relevant bodies. Projects across both boroughs include volunteer centres, training, funding advice, network support, health and social care involvement and a community accountancy service.

To relieve individuals who have been a professional or self employed person, a person who worked in a supervisory capacity, or a clerical or non manual worker and their dependents who are residing in Merseyside or who have so resided for a continuous period of not less than 15 years who are not less than 50 years of age and who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress

Advice, information, training and support to men, women and children affected by sexual violence whether it happened recently or in the past.

FST seeks to enable socially excluded people experiencing enduring mental health problems & other disadvantages to have the opportunity to work & to access paid employment. FST, in partnership with statutory agencies & other partners, sets up projects that assist its service users to gain work skills & qualifications while overcoming the barriers & difficulties to employment in their daily life.

Support for Carers in the borough of St Helens. Young Carers aged 6-18 and Adult Carers

To support high quality patient care, focusing on areas not fully supported by exchequer funds such as improvements to the Hospital environment and better facilities. As a large teaching hospital, the Trust also has links with the local universities, and another important aim of the charity is providing financial aid to support and encourage our clinicians in new research projects.

Koala North West offers emotional and practical support to families. We aim to strengthen and widen the social support network of families. Volunteers, who are parents themselves are carefully matched to the needs of the family; they then visit the family at home, building a strong supportive relationship offering friendship, reassurance and practical help.

The principal activities are women's education and training which continue to expand in line with skill requirements of local employers and student demand. We also work closely with the Education and Skills Funding Agency and the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority to help fulfill the local and national education agendas.

The undertaking or facilitating of the construction, maintenance, repair and development of Liverpool archdiocesan church, school and other buildings.

Providing accommodation and support for homeless people, various activities to help support people in the form of courses, a gym for their health and wellbeing, along with activities such as the involvement in the homeless games

Priority is given to applications from Cheshire, Merseyside and South Lancashire and the charities supported by the settlor in his lifetime. Other charities who do not meet those criteria should not appy without prior invitation but should, on a single sheet, state briefly their aims and apply fully only on being asked to do so.

The relief of disabled persons in the district of St Helens and in particular by the provision of welfare and support services calculated to improve their conditions of life. Our main objectives continue to be the delivery and development of services and activities that uphold the welfare, rights and entitlements of disabled people and promote quality of life.

Operating a children's day nursery from ages 3 months to pre school

Energy Projects Plus is a Charity and Company and operates energy efficiency projects in Merseyside and Cheshire working with householders, local authorities, community groups and other organisations. The Charity provides a free impartial advice service and runs specific energy efficiency projects from its offices in Wallasey, Merseyside.

Wigan Family Welfare offer advocacy and counselling to both adults and children. It provides mental health advocacy, independent mental health advocacy, children's advocacy and supports a self advocacy group for people with Learning Disabilities . The counselling it provides is in a variety of settings from certain Secondary Schools to Sure Start Children's Centres.

The activities of the charity are to address the numerous barriers and inequalities experienced by Deaf people. Merseyside Society for Deaf People seek to ensure that Deaf people achieve a full, active and influencing role in mainstream society. We do this through the provision of customised information, communication support, community support, training and development.