Charity and VCS support Charities

Crewe Youth Club is a local community centre aiming to provide a facility for the local youth in the surrounding area. Crewe Youth club are now in the beginning stages of planning and developing this new modernised youth club with the assistance of local volunteers incorporating the services and facilities that the local youth have requested.

Alternatives provides mental health and holistic wellbeing support to marginalised women, and by extension their families, living in Newham. We do this by offering free and accessible talking therapy, through advocacy support and community projects and by providing meaningful volunteering and employment opportunities.

Starfish provides crisis intervention and holistic care services for children made vulnerable and orphaned by HIV/AIDS in southern Africa. We also provide training for local partners and volunteer caregivers to enable them to deliver better quality care to more children.

A rescue and rehabilitation centre for wild native birds of prey. Providing education, conservational talks, flying displays and close encounters with the birds of prey to public visiting and Outreach sessions to schools and clubs, bird groups about the work we do. Offering volunteer/ work experience opportunities to schools and high educational pupils.

Claybody Theatre shapes new and ambitious drama from the unique cultural heritage and contemporary lives of the people of North Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent. Claybody is inspired by the lives and experiences of local people, who form our Claybody Community. This diverse range of local people enrich our productions by performing onstage and volunteering Front of House and backstage.

Established in 2005 in order to raise funds to support players whose lives are affected by serious injuries sustained playing Rugby League. This can be in the form of providing rehabilitation beyond that offered by the state, or improving the quality of life when unfortunately rehabilitation is no longer an option.

Our Mission - Al-Ajar Foundation has been committed to making a difference to those less fortunate than us. We are a 100% volunteer run poverty relief organisation. We are currently involved in a number of charity & education projects from Orphan sponsorship, food distributions, medicine aid to water well constructions in various famine, poverty stricken areas around the World.

Volunteer car scheme, community minibus scheme, wheelchair hire, exercise and social activities for older and disadvantaged people, volunteer recruitment, photocpying services, internet access.

We are a local charity offering community transport solutions for older and disabled people. We have our own minibuses and wheelchair accessible vehicles and manage a community car service. We run trips for people to get out and about, have a men's (and women's)shed and offer a volunteer brokerage service for local community groups, matching local people with their ideal volunteering opportunity.

Building the capacity of voluntary, community, and social enterprise organisations (VCSE), fostering partnership working, and promoting and improving the efficient and effective use of charitable and community resources.

We offer a range of services to young people aged 9-25 as well as members of the wider community including open access sessions, issue based work, sports/well-being, outreach/detached sessions, employment projects, volunteering opportunities, a domestic abuse awareness project and intensive one to one support sessions.

SPICMA reaches out to the poorest and most marginalized in the developing world; to be open to the needs of small communities and individuals who neither fulfil the criteria nor have any way of approaching the larger agencies;minimising bureaucracy, and maintaining direct personal links with both recipients and donors; and to minimise administration costs and making use of willing volunteers

1. To relieve sickness and to preserve the health of the public generally by providing or assisting in the provision of equipment, facilities and services,2. To preserve and protect the health of the public generally by educating them on matters relating to health and safety.The charity has continued with further public fundraising.

TRUP collects and redistributes a wide range of homemaking articles at a low cost in Thurrock and and surrounding area, provides training and volunteering opportunities for a wide range of people, including back to work training, individually tailored supported volunteering for clients with learning difficulties and general volunteering for people who want to be involved with a worthwhile cause.

We provide Positive sporting activities within the most hard to reach communities to engage with young people in their own environments including:- Quality coaching in both boxing and fitness activitiesEducational support and personal development opportunities, Accredited training and coaching qualifications, Opportunities to volunteering and undertake work placements, pathways to competition.

We are a Voluntary Community Organisation providing space for a range of Community Groups and have lettings to raise funds to run the Centre.Activities include: Childcare for 0-10year olds, Marshal Arts, Dance, Games/Role Play, Yoga etc. See our Web site for the current programme.We have an OFSTED registered Childcare Setting (550093)

Raising funds for the provision of Defibrillators in schools and sports clubs Raising the public profile of heart conditions in the young by appearing in the national and local press and media outletsSpeaking at schools and other public events.Campaigning to introduce legislation to make it a legal duty for defibrillators to be placed in all schools and public placesECG tests

Where we work Salford, Tameside, Manchester including Wythenshawe, Stockport & OldhamWhat we do * ESOL classes * cultural activities * Family events * Advice & guidance on benefits , housing, etc. * Mum and Children sessions * training *wellbeing projects (mental health) * Empoyability * Volunteering

Our overseas activities include shipment of barrels to the Caribbean Islands and Ethiopia at the request of their community leaders, filled with clothing and books. Raise funds on behalf of Christian Community appeals in Ethiopia.Continue to raise funds to renovate our building, formerly a cinema then nightclub into a community centre / place of worship.

Volunteer Centre Greenwich exists to promote the value of volunteering in the Royal Borough of Greenwich and ensure equality of access to volunteering for all people.

The Anne Robson Trust works with NHS hospitals to set up and train teams of volunteers, who provide support and companionship to people nearing the end of their life in hospital. The volunteers spend much of their time visiting patients who otherwise face the prospect of dying alone.

The charity's object and principle activity is to promote any charitable purposes for the benefit of the community in the Stratford-on-Avon District; in particular, the advancement of education, the protection of health and the relief of poverty, distress and sickness.

The Wren Project offers listening support to people with autoimmune diseases. We enable people to regain control of their lives. We offer one-to-one support, pairing volunteers and people living with autoimmune diseases.

The charities activities include but are not exclusive to promoting playing football in and around the Coalville area. Organising fund raising events to facilitate the playing of football either competitively or socially among the local population. Activities concentrate but are not exclusive to young people.

The Charity aims to promote any charitable purpose for the benefit of the community in the local government district of Ledbury and surrounding parishes; in particular to build the capacity of voluntary sector organisations and provide them with services that allow them to pursue or contribute to any charitable purpose.