Charities

The Duke of Edinburgh's Award - www.theaward.org

The on-line home of the Duke of Edinburgh's award.

Redr - www.redr.org

RedR are an international charity working to relieve suffering in disasters by selecting, training and providing competent and effective relief personnel to humanitarian aid agencies world-wide.

Focus Ireland - www.focusireland.ie

• respond to the needs of people out-of-home and those at risk of becoming homeless, through a range of appropriate high quality services
• provide emergency transitional and long-term accommodation for people out-of-home
• campaign and lobby for the rights of people out-of-home and the prevention of homelessness

Meningitis Trust - www.meningitis-trust.org.uk

The Meningitis Trust is working towards a world free from meningitis and providing care and support to those affected by the disease.

Sightsavers - www.sightsavers.org.uk

Sightsavers work in the poorest of countries restoring sight and giving hope to many adults and children who are needlessly blind

Mitchemp Trust - www.mitchemptrust.org.uk

The Mitchemp Trust is a youth development charity that works with vulnerable children from the Wiltshire area. Working with children between the ages of 11 and 14 years, they aim to improve their confidence, self esteem and ability to take responsibility for themselves.

Wateraid - www.wateraid.org.uk

Wateraid is an international NGO dedicated exclusively to the provision of safe domestic water. Sanitation and hygiene education to the Worlds poorest people.

The Railway Children - www.railwaychildren.org.uk

The Railway Children helps runaway and abandoned children who live in and around the Worlds railway stations. Working through partner organisations the charity offers shelter, healthcare, education, training, protection and above all, friends.

National Deaf Children's Society - www.ndcs.org.uk

NDCS is an organisation of parents, families and carers which exists to support parents in enabling their children to maximise their skills and abilities; and works to facilitate this process by every means possible.

Seafarers UK (The King Georges Fund for Sailors) - www.kgfs.org.uk

Seafarers are still formally known as King George's Fund for Sailors (KGFS). Founded by King George V in 1917 they are the only central fund making grants to nautical charities which look after the welfare needs of seafarers and their dependants in the Royal Navy, Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets. Help ranges from care of elderly seafarers to financial help for those still serving who hit problems brought on by ill health, disability, homelessness, unemployment, broken homes and bereavement. Seafarers' children also benefit with help in education.

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