Health Charities That specialise in Health condition

Set up in memory of Lady Mary Fairbairn, the charity supports a variety of causes that she pursued in her life time . These include cancer charities and a broad range of local charities in East Anglia. The charity will from time to time support good causes across the country

We provide a fortnightly memory stick to the blind & partially sighted people in Mid-Staffordshire. This is a totally free service. We also provide the equipment into which the memory sticks are inserted. The memory stick consists of news, magazine items & information useful to the visually impaired.

Provision of CDs containing local news and interviews to anyone with reading difficulties, who is blind or partially sighted or has a disability which makes reading difficult. This service is offered free, weekly, all year round.

The Association now produces news and information from around the Royal Borough of Greenwich on weekly memory sticks. This free service is carried out entirely by volunteers.

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.

PROVIDES FORTNIGHTLY RECORDED SYNOPSIS OF LOCAL NEWS AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST

We are a WI we hold monthly meetings for our members which we normally have a speaker. And we have fund raising events to raise money to help local people and have raised money for Mcmillan coffee morning and MS Society.

Lytham St. Annes Relief In Sickness Charity provides one off grants to people living in Fylde Borough. Grants range from £50 to £800 and they are only given for equipment/training or household appliance. The applications must evidence that there is some physical or mental health need and verified by a medical report.

We run a weekly drop in centre to support adults of all ages who have or have had mental health problems. We provide tea, coffee, various chocolate biscuits or just a friendly face for a chat, plus games, such as cards and Scrabble, and craftwork. Organised social activities are arranged monthly.

The charity can assist anyone of any age who is in need as a result of health problems (including mental health) or because of disability (this includes learning difficulties) and who is, at the point of referral, unable to make provision for their needs, and who lives within the area covered by the charity. Grants may be made to organisations who operate within the area to assist such people.

The Charity makes grants to persons experiencing or recovering from physical or mental ill health, to aid in their recovery or help improve their everyday lives. Requests and grants must be made via another agency, eg. social care services, health services, hospices etc. There is no direct contact between the trustees and individuals awarded grants.

From 1st April 2011 to 31st March 2012 we have supported the following organisations; The Walker Street Contact Club, Victim Support, Daggards for Charity, St. Mary`s Church, Swine, E Yorks, restoration, Castle Hill Hospital Cancer Investigation Camera, Camphill Family, Botton Village nr. Whitby, N.Yorks, British Lung Foundation, Province of Yorks. N&E Riding,

Getting members out of their home for a time for talking, singing, shopping, going out on day trips, holidays, pantomimes pub meals.Encouraging and assisting the members to carry out their hobbies and employing the skills of a physiotherapist to advise our group on the best way to help the members to get physically fitter.

Recording items culled from local press on tape (soon going digital), copying same and mailing to visually impaired residents in Thurrock plus a few ex-residents elsewhere.

THE CHARITY OPENS THE CENTRE TWO DAYS PER WEEK AND WELCOME VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE TO COME ALONG FOR LUNCH AND TO SOCIALISE. WE HAVE AN ENTERTAINMENT DAY EVERY LAST THURSDAY IN THE MONTH.

KFFB has been training blind people on self-help projects. There are currently estimated over 100 active cattle rearing projects, the milk from which is collected and sold to the milk marketing board in Kerala on a daily basis. We now look for more modern ways of empowering the visually impaired to reach their potential, eg providing learning materials to young visually impaired students.

Raise funds to provide educational activities eg invite speakers from a range of interests such as photography, bee keeping, local historical sites. Hold an annual harvest auction, where net proceeds are used to subsidise coach trips to places of interest eg lavender farm, Buckfast Abbey etc. Additionally, donations are made to other charitable bodies e.g. cancer research, local food bank etc.

The provision of a free service whereby blind, partially-sighted or otherwise reading-disabled residents of the whole of the City of Salford can listen to a local news recording each week on memory stick. A free monthly magazine recording is also sent out once a month. Play-back speakers are loaned free to any listener who needs one.

Provision of recorded extracts from the weekly local newspaper for visually impaired listeners.

Children, Care homes, Hospices, British Legion, Royal Star and Garter Home, Diabetes, Cancer, charities, etc., Animals, Ifaw, Samaritans, RNLI, SSAFA, MFPA, St.John Ambulance, St.Dunstans, Camphill Family

Support for activities in the locality and nationally which offer education and support related to alcohol and drugs issues and local charitable organisations which further such causes directly or indirectly

Thomas Bernard Robinson following discussion with Churchill after the War discussed the fact that cancer after the war was the biggest killer. A lady made a donation of a ring which was auctioned and the proceeds from that went on to set up Marie Curie Cancer Care Organisation - for which TBR was the founding secretary. He wanted to continue helping small start up charities so here we are.

Offering financial assistance to people with issues with their physical or mental health, including disabilities, in Clay Cross, Holmgate, Egstow Park, Coney Green and Danesmoor, Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

The object of the charity is to provide a weekly 90 minute memory stick (USB) of local news, information, literature, both fiction and non fiction for the blind, visually impaired and those labouring under some temporary or permanent incapacity which makes reading a strain.

A fortnightly magazine and newspaper on audio tape or CD covering the towns and villages of North Lincs. It is available to anyone with difficulty reading a standard newspaper due to visual impairment or physical disability.