Charities In Wokingham

We are an ecumenical charity working on global issues, particularly those embodied in the Millenium Development Goals. We work by linking people to resources, networks and accurate, up-to-date information in order to foster Christian responsibility worldwide.

The charity's purpose is 1.To provide immediate assistance to Berkshire Mark Masons or their widows in time of need in compliance with our by laws; 2. Support to small local charities; 3. Support to one Berkshire-wide Charity each year;4. Support to National Charitable Giving through the Mark Benevolent Fund.Support to Option 1 will always receive first call on funds.

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUPILS OF WINNERSH PRIMARY SCHOOL BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL, RECREATIONAL AND OTHER CHARITABLE FACILITIES IN AUGMENTATION OF SUCH FACILITIES FINANCED BY THE LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITY OR THE DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION (DFE).

Organises fundraising activities such as school fairs and school discos. Donates money to Hawthorns Primary School for specific items or events.

To develop more extended relationships between staff, parents and others associated with the school. Engage in activities which support the schools and advance the education of the pupils attending them.

Scouting activities for boys and girls

Performances of a variety of music from early to modern to the public in the Reading / West Berks / Wokingham area

The staging of non-professional productions and concerts.

The WI exists to educate and inform our members with a variety of subjects and through a variety of media.We have speakers regularly, participate in and organise craft and exercise classes and arrange outings.

Continue to use the income from the sale of Sonning Fire Station and to distribute the Trust's income in accordance with our Charity Commission Scheme.

Raising funds for school facilities including outings and activities, music & sporting projects and equipment for children to use inside and outside.

Cornerstone Counselling exists to provide counselling services to adults & couples from diverse backgrounds and varying social - economic contexts, living or working in the N.E.Hants / Berks / Surrey border area

Alder Grove PCSA raises funds for specific items that will benefit all children at Alder Grove CoE Primary School and Nursery. Currently we are fund raising for outdoor recreation and learning facilities, such as climbing frames and outdoor classrooms.

To hold an annual music, speech and dance festival

The Silvers Workshop provides a workshop with wood and metal-working tools where older men can come to make and mend things and socialise and enjoy the camaraderie of work without the pressures. We are based in Reading in Berkshire and membership is available to men in the vicinity of Reading, Wokingham, West Berkshire and Bracknell Forest.

To relieve the suffering and distress of hedgehogs in need of care and attention by providing a rescue, care and rehabilitation service for sick, injured, or orphaned hedgehogs with the aim of releasing such hedgehogs back into the wild wherever possible. To educate the public by promoting awareness of the problems hedgehogs encounter in relation to their future survival.

We hold formal monthly meetings October to March, some include presentations by experienced beekeepers. April to September we meet social twice a month. At our teaching apiary members can get hands on experience and non-beekeepers can observe inspections. Volunteer members provide a swarm collection service and we rent out honey extraction equipment to local beekeepers.

Staging shows/operettas for educational benefit of members and to assist other charities in raising funds.

This ecumenical Trust works in Communications, which includes media, publishing and the performing arts; and Education, which includes speaking, lecturing, consultancy and mentoring. It both accepts commissions and develops its own projects. It has a special care for the poor. It is not a funding agency.

The aims of the Foundation are to undertake research and development aimed at the creation, testing and deployment of new vaccines against diseases of humans and livestock. The Foundation will have a particular focus on vaccines of the developing world where greatest needs exist for novel vaccines.

Promote the development of young people in achieving their full physical, intellectual, social and spiritual potentials, as individuals, as responsible citizens and as members of their local, national and international communities.

The corps is a private, totally independent voluntary organisation maintained by private subscription and fund raising, started over 115 years ago. It gives and develops moral, mental and physical training to boys and girls 6.5-18 years old to develop character, moral strength, good manners, self respect and self control via a military style organisation and structure.

Distribution of funds to qualifying local residents of Winnersh and charitable organisations supporting the residents of Winnersh

To search for lost or missing vulnerable persons on behalf of the Emergency Services

To apply its income, and with discretion, its capital to relieve clergy who are in conditions of need, hardship and distress, who are serving or have served in Buckinghamshire Archdeaconry of the Oxford Diocese, or the widows, widowers, children and orphans of such clergy, with a preference to those resident in the Buckinghamshire Archdeaconry