Health Charities That specialise in Health condition

LEUCAN embraces families living in the area from Shoreham to Chichester with children with leukaemia, cancer or bone marrow failure. The self-help group offers comfort, support and advice, along with financial assistance to families who have unexpected expenses and travel costs. The group also organises social events to enable families to meet in informal situations.

The Centre provides cooked meals, clothing and other basic needs for homeless mental patients on the street of Kumasi. We also engage and offer emotional support to this group of people who have no one to turn to.

Zimele UK exists to:1. fundraise to support the work of Zimele in Southern Africa,2. raise awareness of poverty and HIV in rural communities in Southern Africa,3. promote the development of projects that encourage independence and initiative rather than giving hand-outs,4. develop markets for the products made through the projects.

The charity holds music cafe events which act as a way of providing support, education, information and advice for carers of people living with mental illness who live in Gloucestershire. To date the cafes have been held in Stroud. The charity has also made concerted efforts to raise awareness of the resources it provides for the benefit of carers of those with mental illness.

Sussex Coast Talking News (SCTN) provides blind and visually impaired listeners resident along the West Sussex coast with free fortnightly local news and a magazine recorded and dispatched on CD or USB sticks. We are run entirely by volunteers and operate from a studio in Rustington, West Sussex.

Award of grants and financial support for individuals affected by severe mental health problems, and organisations supporting such individuals, throughout the City and County of Swansea.

The Shed provides a place for people from Worcester and surrounding area to meet for social interaction and support, to pursue practical interests, and to enjoy making and mending. This may be on individual or joint projects for themselves or the wider community, including craftwork, particularly woodwork. The main aim is to assist in the mental health and general wellbeing of the members.

FOR THE BENEFIT OF ELDERLY PERSONS OVER FIFTY WITH PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS RESIDING IN SOUTH LONDON TO RELIEVE THEIR POVERTY AND PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Provide a social interactive meeting for sufferes of stroke

to provide funding for outings, entertainment and necessary items to enhance the everyday life of the clients in the Trust

Provides help and support for people who have suffered from Stroke.Helps Stroke victims to integrate and feel comfortable in the community

Provides talking newspapers to the blind and visually impared

We provide a fun, informal monthly meeting / respite session for hearing impaired children in Northamptonshire and their families. We also organise inclusive trips and activities during school holidays that the children cannot always access easily.

The charity is not yet active but its aims are the relief of those in need by reason of their age, mental health, ill-health, disability, financial hardship, or other disadvantage, to act as a resource for young people, and teaching or conducting of Gospel music.

Provides stimulating talks, in a work type environment, for those in the early stages of dementia(from whatever cause) together with their supporters, including opportunities for questions and discussion; arranges group visits to places of interest; creates opportunities for social interaction with like minded people, from challenging and demanding work backgrounds who just happen to have dementia

To promote the physical and mental health of persons under the age of eighteen years who are sufferers of illnesses who reside in the area in which the Melton Times circulates and the provision of financial assistance, support, education and practical advice, whether directly or indirectly, to those persons or those who have the direct care of those persons.

We record, onto CDs or memory sticks, audio versions of our local newspaper The Gazette and other local interest recordings and distribute them in the surrounding district to blind or partially sighted listeners and those whose incapacity makes reading a strain. We also produce quarterly magazine recordings and are starting to produce local audio history recordings too. Run by volunteers

The charity operates a counselling centre offering help, advice and support in family and personal issues, including pregnancy crisis, post-abortion syndrome, marriage support, divorce/separation recovery, general low-level stress and anxiety and provision of sexual health and relationship guidance.

To provide education and support to doctors, nurses and midwives, to improve the outcome for newborns.To provide education to reduce complications during labour and birth and prevent maternal deaths.To support neonatal departments through training and improve basic facilities for low birthweight and sick babies.

Drug Watch Foundation (DWF) provides drug and alcohol awareness information packs and workshops to children up to 19 years in schools and colleges, educating them about the dangers, laws, health and social implications of drug and alcohol abuse. We have also put a programme together for UK prison service offering education and resettlement programme

We provide comprehensive information on adult high grade brain tumours, offer support to anyone affected by a high grade brain tumour and promote awareness of and provide information about brain tumours to the general public. We also provide a kit for children with a brain tumour to enable them to stay in touch with their classmates whilst they are absent from school.

The Medical Centre is a first port of call for people in Lalibela & surrounding villages, requiring medical, nursing & maternity care. These are typically poor farming families. The nearest main hospital is 140 miles away and has poor treatment outcomes. Medical care is provided in line with the patient's ability to pay. In this way, the very poor are able to access free medical and nursing care.

Ewket activities are directed to support a group of youth in Asko suburb of Addis Abeba, raised in an orphanage and living with HIV, to access further education and other support and councelling. This typically takes place by giving grants to pay for school fees and transport costs.

Based in Tamworth, Staffs, Tamworth Talking Newspaper records local news in audio form and distributes copies free of charge to people with visual impairment. It also subscribes to and distributes audio versions of a range of weekly and monthly magazines, again free of charge.

To assist in the treatment and care of persons suffering from mental illness of any description or in need of rehabilitation as a result of such illness, by the provision of grants and funding 1. To promote and protect the mental health of sufferers of mental illness in the borough of Wirral, through the provision of financial assistance, and to support the delivery of education and practica