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Abbeyfield Southend
Abbeyfield Southend provides housing, support and companionship to older people within the local community.more...
Action for Refugees in Lewisham
Action for Refugees in Lewisham (AFRIL) is based in Lewisham, in South East of London. They have operated since 2007 in the London Boroughs of Lewisham, Bromley, Greenwich and Southwark with the aim to relieve the poverty of refugees, advance their education and educate the general public of their rights and needs.more...
Al-Mizan Charitable Trust
Al-Mizan Charitable Trust is a grant-funder which provides financial support to individuals and families in financial hardship, regardless of their faith or cultural background. Through an open and accountable application process, the Trust awards grants interest-free loans of up to £500 to individuals who are seeking basic subsistence or the means to acquire the skills and opportunities which will help them break away from the debilitating cycle of poverty.more...
Apex Charitable Trust Ltd
The aim of organisation is to reduce overall crime in society through developing and providing information, advice and guidance services that assist people with a criminal record to gain appropriate employment, training and education.more...
Brent MIND
Brent Mind is the leading independent mental health organisation in Brent, which has been helping the residents of Brent for 35 years. It offers high quality services to local residents seeking mental health information and support. more...
Buckingham Winslow and District CAB
The Citizens Advice service is a registered charity which provides free advice to the general public and is formed of a workforce of over 20,000 volunteers spread over 426 Bureaux throughout England and Wales. Trained advisers provide the members of public with information on a wide range of problems including debt, benefits and employment.more...
Camden CAB
Camden CAB is the largest Citizen's Advice Bureaux service in the country. Its advice services range from advice and information delivered through high street bureaux to specialist HIV advice services. CCAB is currently changing its advice delivery model to make greater use of volunteers with the aim of expanding service.more...
Colchester Volunteer Centre
The Colchester Volunteer Centre is a Volunteering England, Quality Accredited Local Volunteering Development Agency.http://www.volunteering.org.uk/
Community Transport Waltham Forest
CTWF aims to provide a sustainable group transport facility for local community groups.more...
Croydon Association for Young Single Homeless
CAYSH provide support and advice to young people aged 14-25 with the aim of providing them with the opportunity to realise their potential and gain further independence.more...
Croydon CAB
Croydon CAB offers free, impartial and informed advice to those facing problems in housing, debt and similar issues and looking to be at the forefront of the advice world locally.more...
Crusaid
Crusaid is one of the UK's leading HIV and AIDS charities and is committed to providing financial and practical support to people affected by HIV and AIDS and living in poverty in the UKmore...
DABD (UK)
DABD (UK) develops and provides a range of support, services and programmes to promote and enable independent living, inclusion and personal development.more...
Elders Voice
Elders Voice started within peer run advocacy network, Pensioners Link and developed as an autonomous charity in 1993. They serve older people in Brent and have practical, social and community programmes to support resilience, safety, independence and enjoyment.more...
Greenwich Vietnam Community
The Greenwich Vietnam Community service is a registered charity which provides advice, support and information to members of the Vietnamese community in Greenwich. The support ranges from issues concerning housing and education to problems with welfare and health.more...
Ground Up Development
Ground Up Development is a youth led organisation based in South London in the heart of the Brixton community. They seek to encourage, inspire, and equip young people who are facing social exclusion by organising courses, programmes and projectsmore...
Gumboots Community Nursery
Gumboots Community Nursery aims to provide high quality and affordable childcare, to advance the education of children under the age of five by the provision of safe and satisfying group play.more...
Harrias House
Harrias House is a residential home for the elderly. There is a management committee consisting of a Chairman and four members. They are unpaid. Their aim is to run the home according to the guidelines set by the Care Quality Commission but, further than that, to provide a home from home for our residents, keeping them interested, healthy and stimulated.more...
HEAL - Helping Everyone Abused Live
Who is this organisation?
HEAL offers a confidential self-help support centre for adults abused as children as well as information and support to the partners and families of abuse survivors.more...
HER Centre
The HER Centre is a dynamic charity that is run by a dedicated group of staff, offering advice and advocacy services to vulnerable women who live in Greenwich.more...
Hertfordshire Society for the Blind
HSB is an independent local registered charity providing services and information to blind and partially sighted people throughout Hertfordshire, as well as to their families, carers and any organisations with an interest or involvement in people with a visual impairment.more...
Home-Start North and Mid Beds
Home-Start North and Mid Beds forms part of the registered charity 'Home-Start', which offers free advice, friendship and practical help to struggling parents with at least one child under five. Trained volunteers visit such families in their homes to help them with problems as diverse as poverty, disability, post-natal depression and the stress of multiple births. Support is also available to working parents and those who are new to parenting.more...
Lambeth Mediation Service
Lambeth Mediation Service is an organisation which aim is to promote mediation in Lambeth; provision of a mediation service in Lambeth and running of training programmes eg in schools.more...
Luton Irish Forum
Luton Irish Forum is a registered charity which aims to improve the welfare of the Irish community through the provision of advice services as well as social, educational and health facilities.more...
Luton Mediation
Luton Mediation is a dispute mediation service which offers free and confidential mediation to residents of Luton as well as neighbourhood mediation, at a charge, to other areas of the county. The organisation deals with any dispute, such as those between neighbours, regardless of how big or small the issue may be. The impartial service is given by trained volunteers to individuals who have initiated use of the service as well as those who have been referred by solicitors, doctors or agencies...more...
Magpie Dance
Magpie Dance is an inclusive dance company and has carved out a national reputation for its exciting and inspiring approach to inclusive and creative dance. The company is at the forefront of dance for people with learning disabilities and focuses on emphasising their ability rather than disbaility.more...
Quinta Dimensao
Quinta Dimensao is an International Development Aid charity, providing help to Portuguese speaking countries/communities in Africa and around the world, in the fields of Development Aid, Literacy and Faith. Operating from Portugal for over 25 years, is now establishing an international office in London.more...
rania
rania Child Development Center, a charity trust, envisions a community working for children with holistic development free from hunger, violence and cruelty, diseases and worries about basic needs and rights.
The main objective of the rania is to provide accommodations for the homeless and street children--orphans, victims of abuses and conflicts, neglected and or abandoned children. rania will pose for institutional foster care and provide free education to children-beneficiaries and...more...
Red Kite Learning
21 years of supporting the disadvantaged and excluded into work 1988-2009. The organisation is focused on the long term unemployed, offenders, speakers of other languages and people with drug and alcohol problems.more...
Relate Richmond Kingston and Hounslow
Relate Richmond Kingston and Hounslow is an independent charity working as part of the Relate Federation, which is the largest provider of relationship counselling in the United Kingdom. Relate offers advice, relationship counselling, sex therapy, workshops, mediation, consultations and support face-to-face, by phone and through this website.more...
Relate South Essex
Relate South Essex provides counselling, sex therapy, youth counselling, mediation and training for the communities of Thurrock, Basildon and Southend. The organisation's aim is to provide affordable counselling, support and training delivered at a range of centres.more...
Rotary Club of Cheam
Rotary Club of Cheam forms part of the worldwide organisation of Rotary. The Cheam Club aims to support worthy causes and charities on a local, national and international level as well as to promote intermational understanding through the organisation of popular events within the local community.more...
Spirit of Peace
Spirit of Peace is a rapidly developing UK based charity, with a heartfelt vision to foster greater peace and equality in our global society. Contributing to the creation of a culture of nonviolence in our fractured world it is influenced by the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi, Dr Martin Luther King and others.more...
Streatham Drop in Centre for Asylum Seekers and Refugees
Streatham Drop in Centre for Asylum Seekers and Refugee was founded in March 2002, the Centre has been providing a safe and welcoming environment for many refugee and asylum seeker individuals/families living in the area.more...
Thanet Early Years Project
Thanet Early Years Project (TEYP) is a local voluntary organisation with charitable status. It provides day care nurseries ; crèche facilities and a after school club, in various locations around Thanet.more...
The Coin Street Community Builders
The Coin Street Community Builders (CSCB) is a development trust and social enterprise which seeks to make the South Bank a better place in which to live, to work and to visit. Since 1984 CSCB has transformed a largely derelict site into a thriving mixed-use neighbourhood.more...
The South Kilburn Neighbourhood Trust (SKNT
The South Kilburn Neighbourhood Trust (SKNT) is a local regeneration charity working to bring about lasting change for the communities of South Kilburn and will support the area in becoming 'alive with opportunity'. SKNT also works in partnership with residents and key stakeholders by bringing together all the organisations that have a responsibility in the area. It does this by facilitating the South Kilburn Partnership and its themed groups.more...
The Upper Room
The Upper Room are a charity with a Christian ethos helping the socially disadvantaged to regain their self-esteem in order to find employment and an independent lifestyle.more...
Theydon Bois Parish Council Youth and Community Project
Theydon Bois Parish Council have recently purchased the village youth club and are setting up a new charity for youth and community projects. Are you interested in taking up this new and excited challenge?more...
Together: Working for Wellbeing
Together's focus is to support people who have complex and enduring mental health issues, most of whom are referred to its services by other professionals. It allows them to get what they want from life and to feel happier.It also seeks to influence policy and practice.more...
Uckfield Volunteer and Information Centre
The Uckfield and District Volunteer Centre is an unincorporated association established to undertake and promote voluntary work in Uckfield and its surrounding parishes.more...
Vana Trust
Vana Trust is a charity that was established with the aim of advancing good health and education for children and young adults in Africa and the UK.more...
Volunteer Centre Westminster
The Volunteer Centre provides information on volunteering opportunities in Westminster as well as helping local charities to think about how they can involve volunteers.more...
Woman's Trust
Provides free advocacy, counselling and group work services for women who have experienced or are at high risk of domestic violence.more...
YourStory
YourStory works with Young People from 5 - 25 focused on Education, Personal Development and Sport to build confidence and self-belief through their achievements so they can develop to their full potential.more...