Health Charities

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.

Our Association seeks to widen the opportunities for patients to enjoy the right of access to alternative medicine and to work in partnership with all practitioners by promoting excellence in the general practice of natural medicine. We organise lectures and seminars for the public and hope to set up a national clinic of natural medicine in the UK when funds permit.

This year we have had one fund raising event - The Christmas Coffee Morning. This raised --+¦382.50. Activity is still limited as the future of Bicester Community Hospital is still unresolved. Majority of income is from donations.

St Johns HospicePolio FellowshipKidney Cancer UKHeswall Disabled Children's Holiday Camp - HDCHC

Medical education: provision of education in Dermatology to members of the Department of Dermatology, Co. Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust, GPs, Community Nursing staff, Pharmacists, and anyone caring for patients with skin disease, with the aim of providing first-class services.

Providing an entirely volunteer run & managed FM Community Radio Station to the care and wider general communities within Taunton Deane boundary, and to anyone outside of the reach of the FM broadcast via the internet and dedicated smartphone app, including patients cared for within all hospitals in Somerset, to ease isolation, inform on important topics and provide general entertainment

Fund raising for patients' welfare - coffe mornings etc

Braidwood School raises money in order to enhance and extend learning beyond the classroom, ie. residential visits and day courses. In addition we provide BSL classes for professionals working with the Deaf and to families and carers of Deaf children. Transport, food and residential costs are provided by the school for those children whose families are in necessitous circumstances.

To pay funds available to totally blind men and women in accordance with the terms of the Will

Offers affordable counselling.

A local talking newspaper providing a free weekly service for the visually impaired.

Wishing Well is a small International Children's Charity. We work in Romania, Tanzania and the UK. We work mostly through volunteers in the field of health and education.

Supply fortnightly recordings of local news and local features to the blind & partially sighted of Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Talking Newspaper

We take part in friendly discussions, often of national concern, make new friends, discover new and improve old interests. Campaign on national issues, support local hospices and local charities

the relief of sickness and infirmity through Hospital Broadcasting

Running Christian Retreats, Conferences, Fellowship meetings, and Gatherings, for the purpose of affording religious instruction and spiritual help to those attending and counselling those in need of spiritual guidance and instruction.

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.

Financial assistance towards the cost of holidays or short breaks, for those deemed to be in need or to be worthy causes by the doctors in the Haslington Surgery or by the Trustees.

Sustain continuity of radio programmes on 24/7 basis to patients and staff of Betsi Cadwalader University Health Board. Undertake ward visiting to patients to counter loneliness. Play music requests and provide news and information. Fundraising to maintain organisation including visiting events with an outside broadcast vehicle.

We had a varied programme of talks on The Suffragettes, a Victorian Nurse (and scurrilous gossip), SS Great Britain and Unravelling the Secrets of Forged Signatures. Christmas songs were enjoyed - along with mince pies, and we all enjoyed painting on silk. Along with our meeting on Resolutions and our AGM plus a couple of quizes, we also managed monthly walks and Book Group.

To offer financial assistance to blind and partially sighted residents of Solihull Borough. To provide social activities, outings and holidays to blind and partially sighted residents of Solihull Borough and to organise and manage a weekly craft class for residents of the Solihull Borough.

the relief of patients and former patients of the Berwick Hospitals who are sick. To educate the public in the needs of patients and to supplement the service provided by the Berwick Hospitals.

Make Donations to Hospitals etc. for the purchase of Cardiac related equipment

To provide a radio service to the patients in the Hospital of St Cross Rugby.