Health Charities

The Stanley Street Centre for the Deaf is still following its constitution by serving profoundly, severely and partially deaf adults. It still provides spiritual meetings in the chapel on the first Tuesday of each month; a team of ministers take it in turn to take the church meetings. Social meetings take place on Tuesdays & Saturdays with various activities and trips out being organised.

The League of Friends provides support and services to patients and visitors to Spalding Hospitals. This includes fundraising for the purchase of additional medical equipment and the improvement of the social care of the patients.

We are a parent run charity whose aim is to support families of hearing impaired children. We run activity days, parties, trips and support parents in learning sign language.

Young Sound Vision is for children who live in Stockport, Cheshire who are Deaf/Hearing Impaired, Blind or visually Impaired to help support them and their families. YSV arranges social activities.

The charity serves the residents of Upavon, Rushall and Charlton St Peter by providing transport and, where necessary, escort for people attending the doctors'surgery, hospital, dental or chiropodist appointments. We also help where residents require assistance in filling in forms or making appointments. Costs are covered by voluntary donations from clients and grants from the parish councils.

Providing gifts of bedding, clothing, food, fuel, furniture, useful articles and gifts of money to relieve sickness, infirmity or distress.Payment of travelling expenses of persons entering/leaving hospital, convalescent homes or similar. Provision of tools, books, payment of fees for instructions or examination, traveling expenses or such other means as will assist persons preparing for work.

Sporting, Recreational & Social Activities for the Blind & Visually Impaired.

Supporting both adults and children who stammer by providing resources and training to Speech & Language Therapists working through the Apple House speech therapy unit based at the Warneford Hospital, Oxford. The wider dissemination of the work through a grant award scheme available to therapists throughout the UK.

Provision of weekly audio memory sticks containing readings from local newspapers which are mailed to severely sight impaired and sight impaired listeners (members). In addition, DTN organises PC training for its members - to help the blind and visually impaired benefit from the technology.

We provide continuous live or recorded radio service for the enterainment of patients ,staff and visitors at the Luton & Dunstable Hospital.To engage patients in broadcast through visits to the wards,request from patients,staff,ralatives.We aim to help the patients feel part of the community,decrease feelings of isolation and contrbute to the well-being and recovery of patients in L & D area

Makes grants to Church Stretton Medical Centre for the purchase of medical equipment and associated items for the well-being of patients.

To provide and maintain a radio broadcast service to the patients in Dewsbury and District Hospital.

The object of the charity is the provision of a welfare institute for the benifit of the inhabitants of the surrounding communities (and inparticular, but not exclusively, members of the mining community), with the object of improving health and wellbeing of the said inhabitants

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.

Provide a talking newspaper on memory stick for visually impaired and blind people in and around the Borough of Havant, Hampshire. This provides the listeners with local information and news. Our premises at 19 East Street, Havant, PO9 1AE (telephone 023 9248 0101) enable us to operate a drop in centre for listeners and friends.

The Club meets once a month to provide social and recreational facilities for the hearing impaired and to keep them informed on services and resources available in an atmosphere sympathetic to the hard-of-hearing. We have talks, slide shows, outings, craft sessions etc. and, where appropriate, we hire a speech interpretation service where a computer operator types what is being said onto a screen

Donations to overseas projects, children's hospices and various other local charities

Financial aid to elderly poor, sick and blind people living in Coggeshall. This aid usually takes the form of a small gift of money at Christmas time. Occasaionaly small amounts of money are also granted to people, who fit the criteria, at other times to help them buy goods or services which improve their quality of life.

The principal charities and/or community services currently supported are Garden House Hospice for North Hertfordshire, Mary's Meals (Uganda), Home Start , and Disaster Relief generally.

Producing and providing local free talking newspapers for blind, visually impaired and housebound people.

Provides a weekly recording of news & information, gathered from the local press and disseminated to those whose sight is impaired or who have a temporary or permanent condition that inhibits their ability to read a newspaper.

Provides talking newspapers to the blind and visually impared

Providing donations for various good causes both locally (i.e. Senior Citizens festive parties, schools and churches) nationally (financial support for hospices, hospitals, etc.) internationally ( Eye camps, water aid, disaster funds etc.) by fund raising activities from a Christmas Float collection, easter egg draw in local pubs, annual charity golf tournament and Teddy Bear draw in local pubs.

To provide advice and financial help in times of hardship, illness and to help with the welfare of our members if need be.

The village hall at Chatburn provides facilities for various activities, classes are held, including Art, Yoga, and Pilates. Several organisations hold meetings in the hall, including Chatburn Parish Council, children's parties are held, and a gathering after a funeral took place. We also support the local cancer meetings and Allotment group.