Charities
BetchaIcan Charity of the Week is Royal Mencap Society
These are the charities that we currently have links to.
To help you decide which charity you would prefer to donate to we have included a brief description and link to their website.
| Charity | Description | Website |
|---|---|---|
| Age Concern | The UK's largest charity working with and for older people. | www.ageconcern.org.uk |
| Amnesty International | To promote research into the maintenance and observance of human rights and to publish the results of such research. .To provide relief to needy victims of breaches of human rights by appropriate charitable (and in particular medical, rehabilitational or financial) assistance.To procure the abolition of torture, extra judicial execution and disappearance. | www.amnesty.org |
| Animal Rescue | The Animal Rescue Charity, registered with the Charities Commission in 1999, evolved from the need to provide a safe haven for distressed, neglected and homeless animals. | www.animalrescue.org.uk |
| Arthritis Care | Arthritis Care exists to support people with arthritis. We are the UK’s largest organisation working with and for all people who have arthritis. | www.arthritiscare.org.uk |
| Barnardo's | Barnardo's helps the UK's most vulnerable children have a better start in life, and therefore the chance of a better future. We believe that children deserve to be protected from harm, to enjoy good emotional, mental and physical health, and to feel they belong in their home and community. | www.barnardos.org.uk |
| Battersea Dogs' and Cat's Home | To give temporary shelter to lost and abandoned dogs and cats; .to reunite lost dogs and cats with their owners; .to find permanent homes at moderate prices for abandoned dogs and cats; | www.dogshome.org |
| British Heart Foundation | The British Heart Foundation (BHF) is leading the battle against heart and circulatory disease – the UK’s biggest killer. Please help us defeat it. The BHF funds heart research and vital support for the 2.6m people in the UK who are living with its debilitating effects. | www.bhf.org.uk |
| British Red Cross Society | The British Red Cross helps people in crisis, whoever and wherever they are. We are part of a global network of volunteers, responding to natural disasters, conflicts and individual emergencies. We enable vulnerable people at home and overseas to prepare for and respond to emergencies in their own communities. | www.redcross.org.uk |
| Cancer Research UK | Cancer Research UK is the world's leading independent organisation dedicated to research investigating the causes and improving the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer. | www.cancerresearchuk.org |
| Childline | To Promote the Protection of children and in particular : (a) To set up and maintain telehone line sor other means of communitaion or correspondence to assist children in danger, suffering, or being abused physically, sexually or mentally. (b) To help children who are in danger or need in the form of financial, medical, prootective or like assistance and to give such children advice, guidance and comfort. | www.childline.org.uk |
| Great Ormond Street | Any charitable purpose relating to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust including research. | www.gosh.org |
| Greenpeace Environmental Trust | The Trust's mission is to relieve sickness or suffering among humans and animals, which is a consequence of any change to their natural environment, whether caused by humans or not. | www.greenpeace.org.uk |
| Help The Aged | Help the Aged fights to free older people from the disadvantages of poverty, isolation and neglect, and simultaneously to defeat endemic ageism and to prevent people from becoming deprived in later life. It works to secure and uphold the rights of disadvantaged older people in the UK, Europe and developing countries of the world. | www.helptheaged.org.uk |
| Marie Curie Cancer Care | Marie Curie Cancer Care is a national charity which helps people with cancer, their families and carers. | www.mariecurie.org.uk |
| Multiple Sclerosis Trust | We are a national UK charity for people with multiple sclerosis (MS), their friends, families, and for the health and social care professionals who work with them. Our mission is to make a real difference for people with MS through the provision of information and professional education, by funding practical research and by campaigning for the improvement of MS services. | www.mstrust.org.uk |
| NCH | NCH was founded in 1869 as the National Children's Home and Orphanage. The charity works for the public benefit having as its objects the promotion of the upbringing and care of children and young people in need from all backgrounds, cultures, and faiths or none | www.nch.org.uk |
| NSPCC | National Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. The purpose of the NSPCC is to end cruelty to children. The NSPCC joined with Childline in February 2006. | www.nspcc.org.uk |
| Oxfam | Oxfam GB is a development, relief, and campaigning organisation that works with others to find lasting solutions to poverty and suffering around the world. | www.oxfam.org.uk |
| Prince's Trust | The Prince's Trust helps young people to overcome barriers and get their lives back on track. Through practical support including training, mentoring and financial assistance, it helps 14-30 year olds to realise their potential and transform their lives. | www.princes-trust.org.uk |
| QUIT | The UK charity that helps people give up smoking | www.quit.org.uk |
| RNIB | Royal National Institute of the Blind is the UK’s leading charity offering information, support and advice to over two million people with sight problems. Our pioneering work helps anyone with a sight problem – not just with braille, Talking Books and computer training, but with imaginative and practical solutions to everyday challenges. We fight for equal rights for people with sight problems. | www.rnib.org.uk |
| RNLI | The Royal National Lifeboat Institution saves lives at sea. It provides, from 233 strategically placed lifeboat stations, a 24-hour lifeboat search and rescue service to 100 miles out from the coast of the UK and RoI and a seasonal beach lifeguard service on 59 beaches in the South West of England. | www.rnli.org.uk |
| Royal Mencap Society | Our mission is to improve the lives and opportunities of children and adults with a learning disability, together with their families and carers. | www.mencap.org.uk |
| RSPB | The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds aims to: ·conserve wild birds and the wider environment on which wild birds depend, maintaining and restoring bird numbers, diversity and natural geographic distribution. ·conserve natural and semi-natural habitats and to recreate habitats. ·encourage others to practise the conservation of wild birds and habitats and to influence public policy in this regard. ·promote knowledge and benefits of conservation through education and supported by research. | www.rspb.org.uk |
| RSPCA | Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The charitable objects of the RSPCA, set out in the RSPCA Act 1932, are to promote kindness and to prevent or suppress cruelty to animals and to do all such lawful acts as the Society may consider to be conducive or incidental to the attainment of those objects. | www.rspca.org.uk |
| Samaritans | To provide assistance to individuals who are suicidal, despairing or in distress in order to reduce the incidence of suicide; and .To advance education by providing society with a better understanding of suicide, suicidal behaviour and the value of expressing feelings that may lead to suicide. | www.samaritans.org |
| Save the Children | Save the Children fights for children in the UK and around the world who suffer from poverty, disease, injustice and violence. We work with them to find lifelong answers to the problems they face. | www.savethechildren.org.uk |
| Save the Children Fund | Save the Children fights for children in the UK and around the world who suffer from poverty, disease, injustice and violence. We work with them to find lifelong answers to the problems they face. We are achieving real and lasting change for children by focusing on: health, education, hunger and protection. | www.savethechildren.org.uk |
| Scope | Scope's objects allow for the support of, interest in and treatment, education and advancement of people with cerebral palsy or related conditions and impairments | www.scope.org.uk |
| Shelter | Shelter believes everyone should have a home. We help 100,000 people a year fight for their rights, get back on their feet, and find and keep a home. We also tackle the root causes of bad housing by campaigning for new laws, policies, and solutions. | www.shelter.org.uk |
| Sport Relief | Sport Relief uses everything that’s good about sport to raise money and change lives. Comic Relief spends the cash across the UK and the world’s poorest countries. | www.sportrelief.com |
| The BBC Children in Need Appeal | The Charity aims to make a positive difference to the lives of children in the UK who are disadvantaged as a result of: mental, physical or sensory disabilities behavioural or psychological disorders living in poverty or situations of deprivation suffering through distress, abuse or neglect | www.bbc.co.uk |
| The Christian Healing Mission | The principal activity of the company was that of operating and developing a ministry of healing in the name of Jesus Christ. The company is a registered charity limited by guarantee. | www.healingmission.org |
| The Royal British Legion | The Royal British Legion is the UK's leading charity providing financial, social and emotional support to millions who have served or are currently serving in the Armed Forces, and their dependants. | www.britishlegion.org.uk |
| The Stroke Association | Our mission is to prevent strokes and reduce their effect, through providing services, campaigning, education and research. | www.stroke.org.uk |
| World Emergency Relief | WER's primary objective is to bring physical, emotional, spiritual and economic aid to individuals and groups in distress through no direct fault of their own. | www.wer-uk.org |
| WWF | WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment, and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature by: conserving the world's biological diversity; ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable; and reducing pollution and wasteful consumption. | www.wwf.org |
If you have a particular charity that you support and would like us to look into adding them to the list, then please e-mail us at : charities@betchaIcan.com and we will see if it can be added.