Action Acton was founded in 1998 and is a registered charity, Development Trust and Social Enterprise operating in West London. The charity’s Mission is ‘to promote community and economic regeneration in disadvantaged communities’.

Our 3 key, inter-linked  objectives are to help disadvantaged individuals get JOBS, EDUCATION, TRAINING, QUALIFICATIONS and SELF EMPLOYMENT.

Action Acton helps unemployed individuals, refugees, black and ethnic minority individuals, young and adult offenders; lone parents, older people and people with disabilities. Action Acton also runs the community focussed Acton Street Market 3 days a week You Tube Video and a business start up centre www.thedoughnutfactory.co.uk.

Action Acton works in partnership with other charities and organisations, local authorities and public sector bodies in West London. Action Acton is keen to develop links with businesses, companies and their staff.

Blastbeat International Ltd is a for profit social enterprise, our mission is to provide a self sustaining organization that can support young people irrespective of their circumstances with opportunities and experiences that will help them understand and realize their potential as creative entrepreneurs and artists by empowering them and encouraging their educational development in the arts and entrepreneurship. Blastbeat is developing a global youth community, building social entrepreneurship, creativity and learning whereby young people can learn the basics of good non sectarian social Interaction, teamwork, creative, and business skills through their own decisions and actions both on and offline.

The Community Foundation provides grants to local voluntary and community groups to help them build a stronger Merseyside and tackle modern social issues. Each year we distribute over £5 million in grants to nearly 1,000 community projects on behalf of around 60 partners and donors. Community Foundation for Merseyside is part of a national network of community foundations and the largest grant-maker in Merseyside.

Community H.E.A.R.T. (Health Education And Reconstruction Training) was set up in 1995 to support the people of South Africa, in their struggle to overcome the awful legacy of apartheid. We support self-help projects based on the hopes, aspirations and initiatives of local people and communities.

The apartheid legacy of poverty and deprivation meant there was little or no access to proper health, education, housing and utilities for the majority population. The task of reconstruction and development will take decades to complete.

We work with local South African people and organisations focussing on
•    providing greater access to educational resources
•    HIV/AIDS projects which raise awareness and support those affected by the pandemic
•    supporting those affected by violence against women and challenging gender violence
•    access to health care
•    community arts projects helping build self-confidence and a sense of achievement
•    housing projects addressing the need for formal housing

Teens and Toddlers is a targeted youth support programme designed to reduce NEET and teenage pregnancy and increase aspiration and educational engagement in at risk young people. It combines hands on experience in a nursery with one-to-one life-coaching and classroom sessions on topics such as parenthood, sexual health, communications skills and anger management.

It is the only youth development programme that provides a gateway to employment and qualifications through its accreditation scheme and the opportunity to gain a Level 1 NCFE Award in Interpersonal Skills.  Teens and Toddlers is an evidenced based, cost effective, early intervention targeted youth support service. Teens and Toddlers has been recognised by the Centre for Excellence in Outcomes in Children and young People’s Services (C4EO) as effective, good value for money and well evidenced. The programme has also been endorsed by DfE and the DH.  Teens and Toddlers are proud to partner with impetus Trust as one of their portfolio charities.

Cyclists Fighting Cancer awards new bikes, tandems and specially adapted trikes to children and young people who have been affected by cancer throughout the UK and Northern Ireland. We encourage cycling as the best form of exercise based rehabilitation for those children undergoing and recovering from cancer treatments. To encourage them further we also give bikes to their siblings and in many cases their parents in order that they can take part in an activity as a family once again after what can be years of hospitalisation and disruption.

Daisy’s Eye Cancer Fund is dedicated to building effective care for children worldwide with retinoblastoma, a highly curable cancer that kills 7,000 children every year, primarily in developing countries.  We believe lives will be saved and suffering dramatically reduced by increasing awareness and access to existing treatments.  This is our mission.  We work from grassroots to national level, empowering communities and medical teams to vault many different challenges so each child and family receives the best possible care.  We encourage families, medical teams and communities in our partner countries to be active leaders in the process of developing high quality sustainable care.  We encourage the international retinoblastoma community, imaging industry, health care policymakers, researchers and global citizens to help us ensure the rights of every child with retinoblastoma are protected, and that no child suffers needlessly because of this highly curable cancer.

Fields in Trust is the only independent UK charity working to protect and improve playing fields. Our mission is to ensure that everyone- young or old, able or disabled and wherever they live - has free access to local outdoor space for sport, play and recreation both now and for generations to come.

The Queen Elizabeth II Fields Challenge is an exciting new programme to mark Her Majesty The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee led by its Patron HRH The Prince William of Wales. It is a landmark project to create a permanent, tangible and relevant legacy from the two major events scheduled to occur in the UK in 2012; Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee and the London 2012 Olympics.  The campaign will create a branded network of 2,012 Queen Elizabeth II Fields in communities all across the UK  - each one protected for the long term as a visible, permanent, grassroots legacy arising from 2012,  ensuring that they provide sport and play opportunities for the whole nation and for generations to come.

Gwalior Childrens Charity is working to provide for poor, disabled and destitute esp. children,women and elderly in India through hospitals, mobile clinics in slums and villages, schools and Orphanages as well its own "Snehalaya- meaning The Home with Love in Hindi", a care home for disabled and destitute children, homeless women and the aged with school, hospital and more on site.

In 2001, Hands Inc was established when its founders identified a gap in the provision of affordable complementary therapies amongst disadvantaged and marginalised groups in the community. Since then, Hands Inc remains a not-for-profit community based organisation whose aim and mission are to inspire health and well-being and tackle health inequalities at the grass roots level. We engage with policy makers to improve access to affordable complementary health and well-being services and interventions. Our programmes encourage empowerment, self awareness and sustainable health, amongst those most in need.

Kreative Vision is a registered charity with Aims to relieve poverty faced by disadvantaged individuals and their families; to combat isolation and deprivation faced by unemployed and economically inactive individuals.  The organisation aims are achieved throught he promotion of advancement of education in Visual Creative Skills including complementary skills such as IT.  Our target audience includes Mental Health Survivors in transition to return to live an independent life, BAME groups of people, Older isolated people, Young People, Refugee and Asylum Seekers.

LUCIA (Life Uplifted by Change in Africa) is a charity supporting sustainable development in Africa, mainly in Ethiopia.  LUCIA raises funds to help the work of its partner projects.  These promote community self help groups, microcredit, healthcare and education in order to improve the living conditions of vulnerable women and children.

Lively Minds is improving the quality of life for deprived children and their families in rural Ghana and Uganda by setting up educational play centres that are run by the communities themselves. The centres help children learn through play, promote good health and hygiene, and empower communities to use their own skills and resources to change their children's lives, and their own, for the better. This is real sustainability. This is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.

MOVE Europe is a small UK based charity that works tirelessly to ensure that the most severely disabled children and adults throughout the country get the best chance to live healthy and happy lives. We do this by providing the opportunity for independent mobility by teaching the functional skills necessary for sitting, standing, walking and transferring.

There are approximately 110,000 severely disabled children in the UK, many with more than one physical or learning disability which severely impacts on their everyday life. Children with physical disabilities will experience various impairments, which will affect their ability to sit, stand, and walk, but also prevent the development of essential skills that make being a child fun: playing and learning.  

Every child on the MOVE Programme makes progress to the best of their ability, with 72% of children improving their mobility within their first year on the Programme. Recent research also found that 88% of parents stated that their children are healthier and happier after a year on the MOVE Programme.

The National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy (NCYPE) is the national charity for the 60,000 children and young people with epilepsy in the UK. We change lives through our special school,  specialist Further Education College and medical and diagnostic service as well as supporting parents, professionals and young people with epilepsy themselves, whether via our helpline and training days or through our Champions for Childhood Epilepsy campaign . Find out how you can support us at www.ncype.org.uk or search for ‘NCYPE’ on Facebook.

NEAR is a membership-based, non-governmental organisation which facilitates international collaboration between organisations active in issues of academic freedom and educational rights, and promotes respect for the values enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. NEAR was launched by UNESCO in 2001 and since then has successfully defended the rights of many in the education sector including scholars, teachers, students, administrators and staff. On behalf of its members and its Council, the NEAR Secretariat acts as an effective and efficient clearinghouse, facilitating the rapid global transfer of international academic and educational rights abuses through its website. Prominent Members of NEAR include: Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Education International.

Positive East has over 20 years experience of improving the physical, psychological, emotional and social needs of individuals and communities affected by HIV in East London. Through our unique holistic provision of welfare, housing, asylum and counselling support, combined with our gay men and African services and testing campaigns, we bridge the gap between health and social care. Our aim is to create a safe environment for people to come and receive peer and professional support. Last year we worked with over 2500 people through 18130 episodes of service, helping them with nearly 6000 issues and raising over £2million in social security benefits and hardship funds. Central to all our services is the principle of self empowerment, taking our service users from a place of crisis to sustained independence.

Room to Read is a global organisation seeking to transform the lives of millions of children in the developing world by focusing on literacy and gender equality in education. Founded on the belief that World Change Starts with Educated Children, Room to Read works in collaboration with local communities, partner organisations and governments to develop literacy skills and a habit of reading among primary school children and to ensure girls have the skills and support needed to complete their secondary education.  Since 2000, Room to Read has reached more than four million children in Asia and Africa and aims to reach 10 million children by 2015. Learn more at www.roomtoread.org. Room to Read is UK registered charity number 1125803

SpecialEffect is a young charity dedicated to helping ALL young people with disabilities to enjoy computer games and leisure opportunities by the use of cutting edge technology including eye control computers. Launched in 2008 by local MP David Cameron SpecialEffect runs award winning computer games roadshows with disabled groups, has created the worlds first fully accessible computer games suite at the Helen and Douglas House Hospice and also has launched a pilot site for disabled gamers called www.gamebase.info. Plans are currently being formulated for the charity to create the National Accessible Games Centre from its small based in Oxfordshire.

The Tea Leaf Trust was created with the aim of improving the quality of life, reducing poverty, tackling prevalent social issues and promoting ethnic cohesion in the tea-growing regions of Sri Lanka, through a variety of educational initiatives.

The tea estates are where the majority of the poorest people on the island live. Many lack the education/training needed for skilled jobs, and therefore have to resort to extremely poorly paid labour-intensive work; mainly picking tea or working as farm labourers. The extreme poverty faced by these communities, particularly on tea estates has given rise to a raft of social problems including alcoholism, domestic violence and rape. Coping strategies by many of the women on tea estates include self-harm and/or substance abuse.

The Tea Leaf Trust currently has a centre where it runs its one-year diploma, which includes English Grammar and Speech, IT, Business and Success and Ethics - a subject that tackles prevalent social issues. The Tea Leaf Trust also runs a number of outreach projects that brings English language skills to the more remote communities in this region.

It is envisaged that these resources will improve employment opportunities and quality of life, reduce poverty and, promote integration/strengthen cohesion between these groups.

The Cure Parkinson’s Trust is the only charity in the UK focusing on Parkinson’s research at the clinical development stage. 2009 marked the 40th anniversary of the introduction of L-dopa which is unbelievably still the only gold standard treatment for Parkinson’s.  The Cure Parkinson’s Trust aims to change this by identifying novel treatments not based around L-Dopa, nurturing these treatments through their development as quickly as possible. We are driven by the need for teamwork to build momentum towards a cure and recognise that patients, scientists, healthcare professionals and pharmaceutical companies all have a part to play. We are passionate and determined in all that we do, and as we are a patient-led organisation, we ensure that those living with the condition are at the very heart of every initiative.

The One Foundation is a UK registered charity, working with communities in Africa to address the most pressing humanitarian needs, such as clean drinking water, nutrition and sanitation. The vast majority of donations come from The Global Ethics Group, and its innovative ethical business approach – bringing products and services to market to fund like-for-like projects, eg. water products for innovative water projects, such as Playpump® water systems.

We aim to focus our efforts where the need is greatest and where we can have the most impact; to positively change lives in some of the poorest communities in Africa by providing some of the basics: Water ~ Sanitation ~ Nutrition ~ Medical care ~ Education ~ Jobs and Micro-Loans

To date, The One Foundation has raised over £5 million, changing the lives of over 1 million people.
For more information visit www.onedifference.org

Since our inception in 1966, the aim of The Pirate Club has been to offer adventure, training and fun on the canal for the young people of Camden Town and surrounding Boroughs. We are based in our own Pirate Castle on the bank of the Regents Canal, in the heart of Camden.  Although activities on the Regents Canal are the medium, the Club is first and foremost a social education facility, concerned with the development of children and young people.

Transverse Myelitis is an uncommon Neurological  condition which affects possibly between 3-6 patients per million so the chances of ever meeting someone else with the condition is very rare. The symptoms are very hard to deal with or even communicate from complete paralysis to severe sensory symptoms. So it is easy to feel isolated when it appears there is no one who understands how it feels. Support Groups are informal gatherings of TM patients and their carers, friends and family, which enable you to meet others with experience of TM. Support Groups provide opportunities to find solutions to problems from others who have experienced them before. But just meeting someone else who ‘just knows’ how it feels, is a great experience.

Village by Village fights poverty by empowering communities in rural villages in Ghana, Africa. We are a highly cost effective kitchen table charity, run by professionals, based in the UK working in Africa. We get the greatest impact by working in partnership with people living in poverty.  Village by Village builds wells, improves sanitation and provides educational scholarships for children.

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www.villagebyvillage.org.uk

Vital Regeneration is a charity working to transform London's most deprived neighbourhoods.  We develop social, environmental and economic programmes, so that people and communities fulfil their potential through learning, employment and enterprise.  Our vision is for everyone to have equal expectations and opportunities in life and not to be seriously disadvantaged by where they live.

Working Chance is a charity with a fresh approach to moving women offenders out of poverty and offending.  We are a “one-stop employment shop” for women offenders in London and we offer a professional, bespoke employment service, treating each woman’s case on an individual basis to ensure successful outcomes.

Our overall aim at Working Chance is to help women offenders (and their children) move across the social divide from exclusion to inclusion.  We endeavour to do this by being a “centre of excellence” where women offenders in London can come to have all their employment needs met.  To expect a woman to come out of prison and overcome all the obstacles and barriers to employment on her own, without specialized help and support, inevitably means that as a society we are setting her up to fail.  We at Working Chance don’t believe it has to be like this.  With our support and help we have seen that women offenders can turn their lives around.

York and District Mind since 1952 have continued to be an independent mental health self governing, self funding organisation. In 1956 we affiliated to Mind the leading national mental health charity, we first registered as a charity in 1972 and later becoming a company limited by guarantee in 1994 maintaining our charitable status. We are funded in part by contracts from local statutory bodies, but we also rely heavily on our own fundraising initiatives and on individual donations from the community in order to continue our important work. York and District Mind continues to respond to the needs of our particular community, and to provide a more convenient and accessible quality service to local people. We are a local Mind Association, with a local membership and we pay to affiliate to Mind (National Association for Mental Health) in recognition of our shared ethos. Our mission is to eradicate social exclusion, discrimination and impoverishment on the basis of mental health and to uphold an individuals’ right to fulfil their potential without hindrance through stigma and prejudice.The main activities of our organisation revolve around eradicating social exclusion, discrimination and impoverishment on the basis of mental health as well as providing support for people in mental and emotional distress. We currently offer a Community Advocacy Services, Hospital Advocacy Service and an Independent Mental Health Act Advocate service, Befriending Service, General Counselling Service, a Carer’s Counselling Service, Information resource line, Support Groups. We provide training to other organisations and within our organisation we have many volunteering opportunities and we facilitate local research projects and consult on proposed policies.Our services we offer are completely free to people who are in or have been in mental and emotional distress, their friends and Carers. In all our work, we all have a responsibility to uphold professional standards and promote our values in everything we do. Our commitment to embedded quality management systems which are externally validated professional standards and our values and ethos underpin everything we do and should form the basis of how we work with each other, our partners and clients.