Charities - Greater London

The Actors’ Charitable Trust (TACT) is a long-established charity which:
• helps actors’ children during family crisis or long-term illness
• runs the actors’ care home, Denville Hall
• supports students on drama and other arts courses.

For many years Age UK London has been helped in its work supporting and voicing the issues that impact on our older people’s lives through the generosity of donors who have remembered us in their wills.
Leaving us such a gift, however large or small, is the most important way of ensuring that we will be able to continue our work for older people living in the capital.
If we don’t work now for the rights and needs of older people who live in London, younger generations will still be trying to secure a brighter future for themselves and their families as they age.

The British Home in Streatham, south London, provides 24-hour professional nursing care for 100 residents who have severe disabilities. Most residents are wheel chair users and are disabled due to illnesses such as multiple sclerosis and stroke. Some people have been injured in accidents or due to crime.

The policy of Cat Action Trust 1977 is to help feral cats by limiting their numbers through neutering and returning to site, by providing veterinary care where necessary, and by finding homes for kittens and tame stray cats. The charity is totally against killing for expediency.

Chai Cancer Care is the UK’s Jewish cancer support organisation with over 21 years of experience providing support services for cancer patients and their families.

Hearing a child has cancer is the start of a difficult journey that tests families physically, emotionally and financially. As the UK’s leading children’s charity, CLIC Sargent is there – often within hours of diagnosis - offering emotional, financial and practical help to children and young people with cancer and their families who feel their world has fallen apart. CLIC Sargent Doctors, Nurses and Play Specialists offer the specialist care and support they need.

Epilepsy Research UK was formed by the merger of the Epilepsy Research Foundation and the Fund for Epilepsy. It is the only national charity exclusively dedicated to research into epilepsy.

The Heritage Conservation Trust (HCT), created in 1990, supports the conservation of works of art as well as education, access and research initiatives in and about historic houses.

Communication – the ability to speak and be understood, to listen and understand – is the essential life skill. It is the foundation on which children learn, join in and make friends. Over one million children in the UK have a communication disability.

Jewish Blind & Disabled is unique as it is the only charity in the community providing purpose built mobility apartments to people of all ages who are physically disabled or vision impaired. We currently have six apartment blocks across North London and are delighted to announce that building work is now well under way on our latest development in Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire. This will provide an additional 39 state-of-the-art mobility apartments for people with a real and urgent need plus two apartments for resident on site house managers.

LawWorks aims to reduce social disadvantage, financial hardship, multiple deprivation and resulting stress by the provision of free legal advice on social welfare law (housing, debt, welfare benefits, employment, contract and consumer law). Free legal advice is sourced for people and small not-for-profit organisations that cannot access legal aid and are unable to afford to pay legal fees.

Listening Books is a UK charity providing thousands of fantastic audiobooks on three easily accessible formats: downloads, internet streaming and MP3 CDs. We have some 17,000 members and our service is available to anyone who has a disability or illness which makes it difficult to hold a book, turn its pages, or read in the usual way. The library caters for both adults and children. We provide audiobooks for leisure and we support the National Curriculum from Key Stage 2 to A-Level. All of our titles are either commercially sourced or recorded in our own digital studios.

The story of the Maudsley Charity began with a charitable deed over 760 years ago. In 1247 a former Sheriff of the City of London endowed funds to form the Priory of St Mary which was later named the Bethlem Hospital, the world's oldest psychiatric institution, based at the time in Bishopsgate, near Liverpool Street station today. Over the centuries, donations have continued to play an important role in improving the experience of people treated at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLAM) and to promote mental health and well being for all.

Remember the Children of Palestine

For over 25 years MAP has worked for the health and dignity of Palestinians living under occupations and as refugees.

Forward thinking today can help us beat MS tomorrow.

Around 100,000 people – many of them diagnosed in their 20s or 30s – know what it’s like to have multiple sclerosis. They know that MS can affect their mobility, their sight, their speech, cause immense pain and even leave them paralysed. They also know there’s no cure.

Thankfully the MS Society exists to find ways of beating MS.

The National Autistic Society (NAS) is the UK’s leading charity for people with autism (including Asperger syndrome) and their families. We provide information, support and pioneering services, and campaign for a world where autism is understood and where everyone living with autism gets to lead the life they choose.

Oasis was founded in 1985 by Steve Chalke MBE. Our vision is for healthy, whole, safe communities – places where everyone is included, and all have the chance to make a contribution.
We work with families living with deep-rooted problems. Working with the children of these families in particular, Oasis helps break the destructive cycle of truancy, drug addiction, criminality, abuse and self-harm so they can live a life of positive choices and fulfil their potential.

The Philharmonia Orchestra is one of the world’s great orchestras. Acknowledged as the UK’s foremost musical pioneer, with an extraordinary recording legacy and with its relationships with the world’s most sought-after artists, the Philharmonia Orchestra is at the heart of British musical life.

Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) supports families with seriously ill children by providing free “home away from home” accommodation at hospitals and hospices across the UK. We are driven by the passionate belief that every child in hospital deserves to have their family close by to provide much needed comfort and hope.

Each and every day at the Royal London Society for Blind People (RLSB), we are in touch with blind and partially-sighted young people. They tell us they often feel depressed and isolated. An inconvenience, stuck at home, with nowhere to go and sick of feeling dependent on Mum and Dad.

The Royal Parks – London's personal space
The Royal Parks are visited by millions of us every year. Their 5,000 acres offer everyone a personal space amid the rush and bustle of the city, and above all they enhance our health and well-being and that of generations to come.

Sense is the leading national UK charity working with children and adults who are both deaf and blind. We support deafblind children and adults their families, carers and professionals working in the field of deafblindness
We provide:

• Early assessments, advice and support for deafblind children and their families
• Week long holidays and respite care
• Learning and employment opportunities for deafblind adults
• Specialist accommodation for deafblind people
• Support and services for people who become deafblind in later life

We are one of the richest countries in the world, and yet millions of people in Britain wake up every day in housing that is run-down, overcrowded or dangerous. Many others have lost their home altogether. Bad housing robs us of security, health, and a fair chance in life.

St Raphael’s Hospice in London Road, North Cheam, helps more than 900 terminally ill people each year from within the two London Boroughs of Sutton and Merton, SW London.

The National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) provides support and services that transform the lives of deaf children and their families.

Sickle cell disease is a long term inherited condition which causes excruciating pain and can be life threatening. Multiple problems may occur such as jaundice, strokes, leg ulcers, blood in the urine, eye, chest, hip and shoulder pain and damage to internal organs such as the liver, kidney, lungs, heart and spleen.
The Sickle Cell Society has been operating for 32 years. Our mission is to enable and assist individuals with a sickle cell disorder to realise their full economic and social potential.
Our services include:

Wood Green Animal Charity was founded in 1924 to help alleviate the problem of abandoned and injured animals on the streets of London.