Health Charities That specialise in Health condition

Enable deaf children and their families to join together to enable mutual help and encouragement through meetings, social occasions and advice. Provide a holiday playscheme for deaf children and their siblings. Purchase certain useful equipment for hearing-impaired children not provided by social services. To ensure local hearing-impaired children have equal opportunities with their hearing peers.

Swindon Mind provides a community, wellbeing & learning programme consisting of; Wellbeing House. One to one advice, counselling & Wellbeing Coordination. Activity & social inclusion in the community including sport, walking, connect & meet, Creative classes, swimming, football. Mental Health Training, Schools programme, Employment Services Support & Swindon Mindful Employers Network.

TO PROMOTE MEDICAL RESEARCH DIRECTED TOWARDS IDENTIFYING A TREATMENT OR CURE FOR ALZHEIMERãS DISEASE. THROUGH SUCCESSFUL FUNDRAISING WE SEEK TO ENCOURAGE AND PROMOTE COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH NOT ONLY WITHIN THE UK BUT ALSO ACROSS INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARIES. IN DOING SO WE ENDEAVOUR TO PUSH BACK THE FRONTIERS IN CURRENT UNDERSTANDING ABOUT THE CAUSES OF ALZHEIMERãS DISEASE.

We produce a weekly edition of local news and features, and a bimonthly magazine that are sent,free of charge, with a listening device, to visually handicapped people. We record on memory sticks which are mailed in a free Royal Mail package.

Guest speakers, entertainers, quizzes, bingo at monthly meetings. Additional days out for coach trips to places of interest and visits out for lunches and teas aimed at improving the quality of life socially for both stroke sufferers and their carers.

WAMES activities in Wales: campaign for recognition of ME as a neurological illnesscampaign for appropriate health, education, social care services, benefits and researchraise awareness of MEoffer support to young people with MEprovide information in Welsh and English for people with ME, their families & professionalsaid local support groups

A charity organisation that record selected extracts from the Welwyn & Hatfield Times on to CD for blind, partially sighted people, and those who have difficulty in reading due to temporary or permanent incapacity.

As well as providing grants to deserving causes within our community and the Lions District and Multiple District the Lions Club of Leek undertake a number of community service projects :-Christmas lunch for members of the Leek Stroke Club, Spectacle Recycling. Message in a Bottle, Message in a Wallet, In Case of Emergency Labels and Santa Duties

Recording and distributing news from local newspapers and items of general interest to those who have a disability which prevents them from reading written text for themselves. This is mainly in Banbury and the surrounding Oxfordshire district, but we have listeners in Northants, Warwickshire and further afield where ex Banbury residents have requested.

For the public benefit by providing funding for equipment and research projects undertaken and sponsored by consultants , other clinicians and midwives in obstetrics and gynaecology at St Marys Hospital, but with a particular emphasis in the field of reproductive medicine,namely infertility, implantation disorders , recurrent miscarriages and later pregnancy complications arising from these issues

Each week, a team of readers records the Hexham Courant, Tynedale's local newspaper, for distribution to blind and partially sighted people, and to other disabled people unable to read a printed newspaper. Recordings are copied onto memory sticks, and posted on Friday evenings. Listeners return the sticks to be re-used for the following week's recording. We normally have around 100 listeners.

Recording news for blind and partially sighted listeners.

We raise funds to give grants of up to ?350 to young people 17-25 years old receiving treatment for cancer in Southampton General Hospital

To relieve the needs and to promote the good health of people living with dementia, their families and carers in the three counties of Hampshire, Surrey and Berkshire and such other parts of the UK and the world through the provision of support groups and other ways as the trustees may from time to time think fit.To advance the education of the public about dementia and its care and support.

We aim to support people who are HIV positive targeting mainly BME Black and minority ethnic group, youth/young people their families,& carers, but the wider public will be able to benefit from our services Activities include: Drop-in Peer Support One-to-one support Groups/workshops Treatment education resources Advice/guidance HIV awareness training/eventsComprehensive referrals

Relieving poverty, Advice and information service, welfare rights, community cafe, education and training, internet cafe, chair based exercises, craft groups, drug and alcohol support, recycled clothes and other goods.

Relieving the blind and partially blind, or those labouring under some temporary or permanent incapacity or disability which makes reading a strain, by the provision of recorded tapes or by other oral means.

Attended the annual conference in Nigeria.and donated money towards the Church project.Sponsored a funeral visitation to Nigeria.Carried out visitation of some elderly people in their homes.Made a successful application to the Land Registry for Property Reversion. Visited dying cancer patient at Belvedere.

The Charity gives grants to support those suffering with Dementia and their carers.

Larchwood is a purpose built 64 bedded care home offering Dementia and Respite care. The Friends aim to improve the quality of life of the residents of the care home by working with staff, residents and relatives.

Faraja Cancer Support UK makes grants in order to support cancer patients and their carers in Kenya through the provision of: advice, information and counseling; complementary therapies; and financial assistance.

The Charity provides free opportunities for referred individuals in S London and the South East suffering mental health issues, to participate in supervised climbing & bouldering activities in a safe secure environment with professional tuition, support and guidance, for the purposes of relieving symptoms of anxiety and depression. Plus free opportunities for interaction at regular social events.

Weekly distribution of news and current events on electronic media to blind and partially-sighted people.

Tailoring of garments for patients receiving treatment for cancers or other chronic conditions/diseases

Small grants payable to local residents of Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council who are suffering from Multiple Sclerosis to improve their day-to-day living