Economic and community development Charities That specialise in Urban areas

We support the development of self-sustaining local organisations in Africa and Asia that work with urban poor communities to help realise their right to land, housing and basic services. We provide a range of grants, loans and other support that these organisations need to deliver land, housing and basic services at increased scale and in new ways.

KHAAS seeks to promote the comprehensive needs of BME disabled children, their carers and families. KHAAS was formed in 1987 in response to research undertaken by Bristol Inner City health project. KHAAS provides a Saturday respite care, holiday playscheme, health related sessions, accredited and non accredited course, one to one group support & outings etc.

In 2005, Tower Hamlets Youth League United was established as a non-profit organisation with the purpose of providing a safe haven where inner-city youth participate in a comprehensive schedule of Sports and life skills program that promotes the physical, educational and life skills necessary to prepare and empower them for leadership in their communities and success in their personal lives. Our

Bishop Auckland & Shildon Circuit is a diverse network embracing 10 churches, representing both urban and rural areas. It seeks to consolidate and develop the work of the churches, encouraging partnership among and between them. It exists to make the love of God known and share the Good News of the Gospel through worship and activities of the individual churches, holding those churches in unity.

The object of the charity is to provide almshouses for poor men, not less than sixty years of age and of good character who are resident in the County of Northamptonshire and preferably in the Urban district of Rothwell, at the time of appointment. A total of ten almshouses are available to meet this object.

Provide a wide range of educational/social activities, individual support, advice and advocacy to support older people living in the Woodhouse and Little London areas of inner city Leeds.

London Inner City Kitties is a volunteer run, no-kill charity that takes in and rehomes abandoned cats, and those whose owners can no longer care for them. Many of the cats we take in are sick or injured and require expensive medical attention. We operate with a network of fosterers. All the donations that we receive go to pay medical bills.

To provide a local community centre for the benefit of all Kempston residents and voluntary organisations without distinction of sex political, religious or other opinions in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure-time occupation with the object of improving the conditions of life for all users of the facility.

Oblique Arts is an artist led non profit making organisation. We enable communities to work with us and provide spectacular and innovative multi media urban installations and digital art outcomes. We specialise in working with at risk young people and hard to reach communities. Our projects empower our participants to explore their creative potential through high quality visual arts projects.

Providing out of school activities and care for children and teens within their local community, including career development, educational support, holistic well being and personal and spiritual mentoring.

Mustard Seed Project is working in a deprived area of urban Mombasa, Kenya. We have a built a primary school for 330 children aged three to 14 with a feeding programme and outstanding academic results. We are also sponsoring many of our poorest children to go to secondary school. Our original group of three year olds have just completed secondary in 2023.

The advancement of education in matters relating to urban design by offering advice, information and training and project support to community, tenants and residents groups throughout the UK.The improvement or provision of pubic amenities in the interests of urban and rural regeneration, through the support and promotion of public participation in the design of the built environment.

Speed up and scale up transformative urban development towards a resilient, low carbon, resource efficient way of living. Bring together:1 - World-leading modellers & sector experts to design and create tools; and2 - Public, private, community & knowledge sectors to enable them to make collaborative decisions on policies that lead to improved resilience & attract private sector investments.

Advance the education of students of the former Strode's Sixth Form College and young persons resident in the area of the former Urban District of Egham

Promoting and supporting Urban Youth work and bursaries and apprenticeships for young people

Seven programmes of compassion minister to people's basic needs in the squatter urban poor communities of Mandaluyong in Manila. Over two hundred children receive an education through the Child Sponsorship Programme. Over fifty desperately poor families receive help each month through the Family Support Programme.

Networking and both formal and informal training and other communication initiatives, in order to motivate, encourage, train and facilitate self-financing teams engaged in church planting.

The provision of child care, play, creative and youth activities for children, young people and families from the inner city wards of the City of Plymouth.

We provide a search and rescue service for people who are lost, injured or endangered and appropriate medical care to mitigate further harm, injury or distress to such people. We do this particularly in rural upland areas but also in semi-rural and urban environments primarily in the counties of Northumberland and Tyne & Wear.

The purpose of the Goodly Dale Cottage Homes is "to provide accomodation for poor persons of good character each of whom shall not be less than 60 years of age (or 50 if disabled), and shall have been born or lived for 10 of the last 30 years in Windermere and Ambleside Urban Districts, Undermillbeck, Troutbeck and Applethwaite.

The Charity recruits, trains, maintains & equips a team of volunteers who are able to search for and rescue any persons or animals in distress primarily in the Lakeland & Cumbrian fells. The Team also will assist the emergency services in swift water rescue incidents, bad winter weather and urban and rural searches for lost or vunerable persons.

We have four funds. Relief in need, education, public purposes & church. They are self explanitory, except that the church fund is a share of our net income. Our area of benefit is limited to the urban & rural districts of Whittlesey. Applications from outside our district will perhaps not receive a reply.

Heathfield Park Community Action Network works within the Heathfield Park Neighbourhood Plan Area and has two areas of activity:- 1. As the designated Neighbourhood Plan Forum, promoting, for the public benefit the urban regeneration of Heathfield Park.2. As a network hub, working with other groups and providers in Heathfield Park, promoting social inclusion for all within the area.

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:1) TO PROMOTE THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND HIGH STANDARDS OF SOCIALLY SUSTAINABLE URBAN DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE IN DEVELOPMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:(I) SUPPORTING COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT TO DELIVER SOCIAL VALUE IN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN BY(BUT NOT LIMITED TO): A) INITIATING INNOVATIVE IDEAS FOR COMMUNITY-LED REGENERATION; B) SUPPORT

We provide Search and Rescue of the vulnerable and missing, we rescue the injured from hazardous locations including mountains, quarries, urban areas, rivers, lakes and floodwater. We also recover the deceased from isolated or hazardous locations. The medical treatments are provided by trained members of the team. We operate in Conway, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd, Powys and Wrexham.