Health Charities That specialise in Health condition

Giving cancer patients and those living with cancer up-to-date information, practical advice and support they need to reduce the fear and uncertainty of cancer. The charity's aim is to provide information in reply to any question on any cancer. Note that this is now undertaken in the name of Macmillan Cancer Support, with which Cancerbackup merged in 2008.

The charity provides nursing and dementia care for the Jewish community in a residential setting for the aged and infirm and frail.

St Benedict's Hospice provides palliative care services to the people of Sunderland and surrounding districts.

The charity supports a number of charities helping Jewish organisations and blind or disabled organisations.

We are a Disability therapy centre, providing complementary and mainstream therapies for people with Neurological conditions.

TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF THE BRISTOL HAEMATOLOGY AND ONCOLOGY CENTRE AND TO OFFER RELIEF AND HELP TO ITS PATIENTS.

We provide immediate, practical support to people with, and affected by, HIV/AIDS and their carers.

Grants awarded to visually impaired people residing in United Kingdom. All applicants must be registered blind or partially sighted. Grants do not include loans - usually remitted for tuition/course fees, computer equipment & household items.

The objective of the charity is to support and further all or any charitable activities carried out in connection with the Church of England in the Diocese of Manchester.In particular the promotion of temperance, higher standards of moral life in the individual, the family and the community. The charity supports work in respect of delinquency, and those addicted to drugs and alcohol.

The Charity consists of a portfolio of stock exchange investments and cash which produces an income. This income is used to make donations to other registered charities to be used for general charitable purposes, with an emphasis on supporting charities active in certain medical areas as specified in the governing document (namely cancer, heart trouble, neurological diseases, and arthritis).

Providing homes in the Community for people suffering from severe and enduring mental health conditions

Funding of arts therapy for cancer patients.

Providing accommodation for all local groups, clubs, families and societies to enjoy all the normal facilities of a community centre for as low a price as possible (lowest in the area). Facilities include;- dancing, dance tuition (incl ballet), meeting rooms, sports and recreation, parties and celebrations, garden clubs & societies, stroke club, slimming classes, toddlers groups.

The charity continues to support local charities in the West Midlands area, specifically around mental health, end of life support, young people and homelessness.The trustees do not make grants for educational purposes.Applications are reviewed twice yearly, in February and August.

Provide affordable studios for artists in all disciplines, particularly in sculpture who are able to use the on-site bronze foundry. Provide work experience and residencies for school children, art students and artists. Work with mental health groups. Organise exhibitions, art classes, visits to the studios to meet the artists and watch a bronze pour. We exhibit widely and hold Open Weekends.

The association aims to improve attitudes towards mental ill health and promotes practical measures and research for preventing and combating mental distress.

Hill walking for blind and partially sighted people throughout the UK.

The charity makes grants to organisations engaged in activities in keeping with the trusts' objectives; prevention of the abuse of alcohol and other substances and to assist persons suffering from such abuse and to help their families and dependents.

The trust was formed to support research into diseases of mankind, primarily cancer research.

The charity supports other charities carrying out charitable work in London (HIV positive families), Wales (with the elderly), Manchester (offenders, schools) and Norwich (teaching English).

Objects: To relieve sickness among persons suffering from cancer of all kinds, financing treatment and associated care.a) to raise funds b) to provide amenities, equipment and facilities within the hospital. c) to promote research and development into cancers, their prevention and treatment and the improvement of equipment and to publish the useful results of such research.

Social opportunities for D/deaf people

Makes grants to organisations with an emphasis on deaf and blind charities or those related to autism. There is an emphasis on smaller charities where our contribution is more likely to make a significant difference,and geographically towards North and West Oxfordshire.

The charity provides welfare and social facilities for the elderly and those living with physical and/or sensory impairment in our local community. This enables them to retain their independence and establish friendships, social contact and rehabilitation breaks.The charity is managed by the Trustees/committee who arrange weekly meetings providing lunch and entertainment throughout the year.

The principal activity of the GMD continues to be that of the provision of means of social engagement and recreational activities, emotional and mental wellbeing, training and support for the Deaf and their friends. In addition the protection and promotion of the welfare and interests of the profoundly deaf in the three counties of Glamorgan, without religious or other distinction.