Charities - older people

Vital help for elderly people in financial need

With your help AFTAID improves the quality of life for many older people who are unable to afford those essentials most of us take for granted.

Age UK is the new charity combining Age Concern and Help the Aged. The Age UK family includes Age Scotland, Age Cymru and Age NI.

Age UK Camden’s mission is: ‘to work with and for older people in and around Camden to improve their lives’. The organisation is responsible for raising all of its own funds and during this time of far reaching funding cuts must rely more and more on donations and legacies to continue to support vulnerable and often isolated older people.

Alzheimer’s Research UK is the UK’s leading dementia research charity. As research experts, we specialise in funding world-class, pioneering research at leading universities to find preventions, treatments and a cure for dementia. We believe science and innovation hold the key to defeating dementia and invest in the scientists learning more about the condition and its causes.

We recognise the importance of the treasured relationship between people and pets and we recognise that this relationship is, more often than not seriously threatened by infirmity and frailty.

We exist to ensure that any problem encountered in the day to day care of a pet can be overcome and all the benefits of owning a pet can be preserved.

Greensleeves Homes Trust provides residential and nursing care for older people. We have 17 homes situated in the Midlands, South and East of England.

The Congregation of the Little Sisters of the Poor is a religious order founded in France in 1839. The Sisters came to England in 1851 and a rapid expansion took place in towns and cities through the Country. Today the English Province comprises Homes in London, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Preston, Sunderland and Jersey, Channel Islands.

We have been serving older Christians since 1807. Then we supported them with money and practical gifts, and always with spiritual encouragement. Today we help with residential and nursing care, including dementia care, and various levels of sheltered housing – and always with spiritual encouragement. We also share our experience and expertise with seminars, talks, and publications. In every one of our homes there is at least one person who has outlived their friends, family, and even their church fellowship.

The Salvation Army is an international Christian church and charity, and we seek to put our belief into action through social welfare provision. In the UK, we are one of the largest, most diverse providers of social and community services after the Government. We are passionate about the diverse and life changing work we do now, and our ambition is to be able to do even more.

The CSRF has looked after the welfare of retired civil servants and their partners/dependants for over 40 years. Anybody who has been a Civil Servant at any time (together with their partner/dependants) is a beneficiary of the organisation.
Beneficiaries can support us by joining as members; lending a hand as a volunteer or by just making a donation towards the work we do. Support is not restricted to retired Civil Servants – any serving Civil Servant may join as well.