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Over £50m raised by Dream Challengers

150+ charities have benefitted

30+ Countries around the world

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We work closely with you to understand your goals, budget, time-frame and demographics. This way, we can create a challenge that’s perfect for your supporters and what you want to achieve. We can manage anything and everything, from operations and logistics to marketing and participant management, depending on your needs.

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Open challenges

Open challenges are a surefire way to attract fearless, committed fundraisers to your charity. Our ‘Open Challengers’ have, between them, raised millions of pounds for charities of their choice. We have events for all abilities and support everyone who joins us in doing their personal best. Promote our challenges to your followers and fundraisers, and we’ll do the rest.

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Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust has been working with Dream Challenges since 2010. As a company and a group of people they are an absolute pleasure to work with, highly professional, organised, approachable and get the job done.

Robert Music, Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust

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If you'd like to become one of our charity partners, please contact us by calling 01590 646410 or by emailing events@dream-challenges.com.

Childhood First

Childhood First provides outstanding residential care, education and therapy to children and young people affected by abuse and poverty.

Rethink Mental Illness

Rethink Mental Illness exists to ensure a better life for everybody severely affected by mental illness. We do this through services and local groups, expert information and training and successful campaigning. Help us to support more people that need it and choose to fundraise for Rethink Mental Illness on your trek!

Trekstock

34 young adults in their 20s and 30s are diagnosed with cancer every day in the UK. Trekstock delivers practical and social support programmes tailored to their needs, to give them a better chance of living well through and beyond cancer. Our programmes tackle social isolation, improve quality of life and provide young adults with the tools they need to get moving again after cancer puts their life on hold.

Regain

Regain provides equipment and facilities to improve mobility, communication, education and employment opportunities for those with Tetraplegia.

40tude

40tude curing colon cancer is a registered charity, which raises funds and promotes awareness of colon cancer. To date, 40tude has raised more than £1.5 million for St Mark’s Hospital in Harrow, the UK’s national bowel hospital. The funds we raise support ground-breaking research targeted at improving the early diagnosis and treatment of colon cancer. Our purpose is to transform the detection and treatment of colon cancer. We achieve results through innovative partnerships with a remarkable group of participants, sponsors, donors and medical specialists.

stem4

stem4 aims to develop positive mental health in teenagers through education and early intervention. As well as hosting local educational conferences about teenage mental health for students, teachers and health professionals, the charity has created a digital education programme for schools (Head-ed). stem4 have also developed 3 free clinically informed apps, including Calm Harm for managing self-harm, Clear Fear for symptoms of anxiety and Combined Minds for parents and friends.

Creative Response Arts for Wellbeing

Founded in 1993 by artist Mike Prinsep, Creative Response is an independent, arts related organization established and run by professional practising artists who offer a unique, supportive environment promoting personal resilience and wellbeing through art.

World Cancer Research Fund

World Cancer Research Fund champion the latest and most authoritative scientific research from around the world on cancer prevention and survival through diet, weight and physical activity, so that we can help people make informed lifestyle choices to reduce their cancer risk

Borneo Orangutan Survival UK

The Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) is the world’s largest orangutan conservation organisation with two reintroduction centres in Kalimantan, Indonesia. We work to save orangutans by rescuing and rehabilitating them, with the ultimate goal of releasing them back into protected rainforests, while also working to save and restore more habitat so the species can thrive.

Vasculitis UK

Vasculitis UK supports those individuals and families suffering from the effects of vasculitis diseases by providing education, information and advice.

Charlie House

Charlie House is a local children's charity which supports babies, children and young people with complex disabilities and life-limiting conditions, and their families, in the North-east of Scotland.

MS Society

We’re the MS Society. Our community is here for you through the highs, lows and everything in between. We understand what life’s like with MS.

Singing Gorilla Projects

Singing Gorilla Projects is a UK charity that operates in Uganda by providing community based projects that give people choices so that they can enrich their own lives and improve the welfare of their communities in a creative and sustainable manner. Singing Gorilla Projects has been working in the Kisoro District, a remote and rural part of Uganda with no electricity or running water. Singing Gorilla Projects have set up a women’s empowerment group, a music school, installed water tanks, built classrooms and latrines sponsored children to continue their schooling and has built a community health clinic and service.

HCPT

HCPT (Hosanna House and Children’s Pilgrimage Trust) travels every Easter to Lourdes in Southern France with around 1,000 disabled and disadvantaged children from the UK and beyond – they are accompanied by volunteer nurses and helpers. During the Summer months visitors, many of whom have disabilities or life limiting conditions, stay at the HCPT’s Hosanna House in the hills above the town. HCPT’s services are available to all.

Down's Syndrome Association

The Down’s Syndrome Association (DSA) is the only charity in the UK dealing with all aspects of Down’s syndrome. Its aim is to help people with Down’s syndrome live full and rewarding lives and to create the conditions that all people with Down’s syndrome need to live full and rewarding lives.

Sheldrick Wildlife Trust

Best known for our work to protect elephants, the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (SWT) operates the most successful orphan elephant rescue and rehabilitation program in the world. But we do much more than this.

Ride For Freedom

Ride for Freedom aims to empower victims of modern-day slavery through the power of cycling. Through their Freewheel programme, this revolutionary organisation has helped improve the mental health, independence and mobility of hundreds of survivors as they recover from a life in slavery.

Charlie's Cancer Support

Charlie's supports anyone affected by cancer, including their friends and families. We offer therapies, such as massages, reiki, meditation, art and social groups, fitness, wig fitting and much more. Our centre in Gloucester, Madleaze Road is open 3 days a week with our volunteer therapists offering the above support.

HEART UK

HEART UK – is the only charity in the UK dedicated to saving lives by helping people avoid heart attacks and strokes caused by high cholesterol. We're committed to raising awareness about the risks of high cholesterol, lobbying for better detection of those at risk and supporting health professional training

Cardiac Risk in the Young

CRY work toward the prevention of young sudden cardiac deaths via awareness, screening programmes, medical research and by supporting bereaving families.

York Mind

York Mind are a charity providing support to people experiencing mental ill-health in York. Our services support adults and young people to speak to us about their lives as a whole. Through one-to-one and group based support, we help adults and young people to build independence in coping with mental health struggles. Our services are confidential and prioritise listening to people, shaping the support to fit their needs wherever possible

Ovarian Cancer Action

Ovarian Cancer Action is working towards a world where no woman dies of ovarian cancer. We’re investing in research projects across three vital areas: prevention, earlier diagnosis and more effective treatments. Improvements in each of these areas will transform the lives of women today and for generations to come.

Dominica Dementia Foundation

The Dominica Dementia Foundation aims to raise awareness of Dominica, raise funds for families affected, provide emotional support to families and caregivers and to facilitate research towards Dementia

FareShare

FareShare is the UK’s national network of charitable food redistributors, made up of 17 independent organisations. Together, they take good quality surplus food from right across the food industry and get it to almost 11,000 frontline charities and community groups, including school breakfast clubs, older people’s lunch clubs, homeless shelters, and community cafes. Every week, Fareshare provide enough food to create almost a million meals for vulnerable people.

British Heart Foundation

The largest independent funder of cardiovascular research, pioneering research to help those living with heart and circulatory conditions.

Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation

Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation is the only UK lung cancer charity dedicated to helping everyone affected by the disease. We support everyone affected by lung cancer – from diagnosis, through treatment, living with the disease and end of life care. We raise awareness, prevent future generations from getting it and challenge the misconceptions of lung cancer. We do all this so those diagnosed can live well with lung cancer for as long as possible.

Maggie's

Maggie’s is a charity providing free cancer support and information in our centres alongside NHS hospitals and online. We help people take back control when cancer turns life upside down, with professional support for anything from treatment side effects to money worries.

Make-A-Wish

The Make-A-Wish Foundation makes the wishes of children suffering from life-threatening medical conditions a reality.

Born Free

Born Free Foundation works tirelessly to ensure that all wild animals, whether living in captivity or in the wild, are treated with compassion and respect and are able to live their lives according to their needs. As a leading wildlife charity, we oppose the exploitation of wild animals in captivity and campaign to keep them where they belong – in the wild.

RMA – The Royal Marines Charity

The Royal Marines Charity are the Royal Marines’ chosen charity and exist to five a lifetime of support to the Royal Marines family. Our mission is to provide support, advice and friendship to serving and retired Royal Marines. Their families, those who aspire to join and those with close links to our Corps

Cancer Research UK

Today, one in two people now survive cancer; we want to get to three in four within the next 20 years. Every step we make towards beating cancer relies on every pound and every person. Cancer is happening right now. Join our team today and together we will beat cancer.

Kidney Cancer UK

Kidney Cancer UK is the UK’s leading specialist kidney cancer charity. We seek to reduce the harm caused by kidney cancer by increasing knowledge and awareness, providing patient information and by supporting research into the causes, prevention and treatment of the disease.

RSPCA Mid Norfolk & North Suffolk Branch

Every RSPCA Branch is a separately registered charity and operates within the framework of the national society's policies and guidelines. This means we are one of 164 branches in England and Wales and the local branch for Mid Norfolk & North Suffolk. By supporting our Branch you can feel secure in the knowledge that your donations will go towards providing care and support to animals that need it. We receive no government funding and pledge to support abused, abandoned and neglected animals. In 2018 we helped over 1,000 animals through rehoming and our welfare assistance programme but there are still so many vulnerable animals out there that need our help, hopefully you will be excited about joining our pack!

Tiny Tickers

Tiny Tickers is dedicated to improving the early detection and care of infants with serious heart conditions.

Hugs from Henry

Hugs from Henry is a childhood cancer charity based in Plymouth and Cornwall, supporting with emotional support, group events and respite in Cornwall. childhood cancer is devastating to all the family and it’s important that everyone is supported from diagnosis and beyond.

Bowel Cancer UK

We’re the UK’s leading bowel cancer charity. We’re determined to save lives and improve the quality of life of everyone affected by bowel cancer. We support and fund targeted research, provide expert information and support to patients and their families, educate the public and professionals about the disease and campaign for early diagnosis and access to best treatment and care.

The Jermain Defoe Foundation

The Jermain Defoe Foundation supports homeless, vulnerable and abused young people in the Caribbean Islands and the United Kingdom. Currently, the charity focuses on funding Dominica Hurricane Relief to help the children and families whose lives were devastated by the impact of Hurricane Maria.

Women V Cancer

The aim of Women V Cancer, organisers of Ride the Night, is to help raise funds for three women's cancer charities, raise awareness of the cancers and get more women cycling!

Little Hearts Matter

A national charity providing help and support to anyone affected by the diagnosis of a single ventricle heart condition.

Momentum Children's Charity

Momentum Children's Charity supports children, and their families, across Surrey, SW London and Sussex who are faced with the diagnosis of cancer or another life-challenging condition. We support children, and their families, across Surrey, SW London and Sussex who are faced with the diagnosis of cancer or a life-challenging condition. All families are different, so we offer individually-tailored practical and emotional support through our family support programme; provide holidays, family experiences to help during the stress of treatment; and implement projects within local hospitals including Kingston, Epsom, St Peter’s, Croydon, St George's and East Surrey, refurbishing areas within their children’s wards. Momentum Children's Charity supports the whole family, parents, siblings, and grandparents. By establishing close links to the families we can identify ways to help that fit their specific needs. We're there at every step, forever.

Living With Aphasia

We are a charity that supports people in Devon affected by aphasia. We bring people with aphasia together to share experiences, make friends, rebuild their confidence in communication and access the support they need. There are over 367,000 people in the UK with aphasia, but a figure that increases by 20,000 each year. Our charity aims to help these people find a way to reconnect with others again.

St Peter & St James Hospice

We provide expert and compassionate hospice care to adults living with a terminal illness in Haywards Heath, Burgess Hill, Uckfield, Lewes and the surrounding villages. We also support their families and friends through the challenges of bereavement and grief.

Alzheimer's Society

The UK's leading dementia charity funds research into the elimination of the disease, whilst supporting anyone it has affected.

Royal Cornwall Hospitals Charity

At Royal Cornwall Hospitals Charity, we are passionate about improving patient experience for everyone at our three hospitals. Thanks to our kind and generous supporters, we are able to fund equipment, facilities or additional training that will provide our patients with a service over and above what the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust alone can deliver.

The Donna Louise

The Donna Louise provides a lifeline to families across Staffordshire and South Cheshire who are facing every parent’s worst nightmare; the heart-breaking knowledge that they will almost certainly outlive their child. We provide specialist care and support services for children and young people with life-limiting conditions, due to illness or injury, from birth until they no longer need us. Our services are free of charge, and we rely hugely on the kindness and generosity of the local community to make this possible.

Marie Curie

Marie Curie provides care, support and guidance to those affected by terminal illness to bring light in the darkest hours.

Kidney Research UK

Kidney Research UK is the leading charity in the UK dedicated to research into kidney disease. We believe that everybody deserves a life free from kidney disease.

Scottish SPCA

The Scottish SPCA is Scotland’s animal charity. We are the only charity in Scotland that cares for all animals and are continually deepening our welfare expertise through our ground-breaking work and research with partners. We rescue animals and nurse them back to health before finding them loving homes or releasing them back into the wild, educate the public on animal welfare and report those who have been cruel to animals.

The Christie Charitable Fund

The Christie charity provides enhanced services over and above what the NHS funds for more than 44,000 cancer patients every year. Sign up to a Dream Challenge today, and your support can help us to fund life-changing and potentially life-saving projects that will benefit cancer patients both now and in the future.

Skiggle

Skiggle is an innovative disability charity, and the only one of its kind in the UK that exists as a rescue service. Skiggle provides emergency access to disability and special needs care products and equipment through a unique SOS alert service and Marketplace. Both services are provided completely free of charge to Skiggle members providing vital – sometimes lifesaving – help and support to people with disabilities, their families, and carers, all over the UK.

Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice Care

Phyllis Tuckwell is the only Hospice Care service for adult patients, and their families, across the whole of West Surrey and part of North East Hampshire. Every day we support over 250 patients, carers and relatives at the Hospice in Farnham, at the Beacon Centre in Guildford and in their own homes. A lot has changed over the years, but the one thing that has remained constant is our commitment to compassionate care and support ..... because every day is precious!

Wellbeing of Women

Through funding research and training specialists, Wellbeing of Woman is dedicated to improving the reproductive health of women.

The Children's Heart Federation

The Children’s Heart Federation (CHF) is the leading UK children’s heart charity and works with individuals and organisations concerned with children and young people with health and educational needs due to acquired or congenital heart conditions. CHF was registered with the Charity Commission in 1988 and is administered and managed by a board of trustees.

Pancreatic Cancer Action

Pancreatic Cancer Action is the only UK charity that specifically focusses on improving pancreatic cancer survival rates through early diagnosis in everything we do. Founded by a pancreatic cancer survivor, who proves that survival is possible, our mission is to increase survival rates of pancreatic cancer by ensuring more people are diagnosed early and in time for surgery – currently the only potential for a cure – and improve the quality of life for patients.

Pasic

PASIC provide emotional, practical, and social support for families of children and young people with cancer in the East Midlands. We fund family support workers on children’s oncology wards and offer support groups, information, grants for families struggling to make ends meet, advice and signposting. PASIC help reduce isolation, increase self-confidence and strengthen the family unit through free activities and trips for all the family

Pink Ribbon Foundation

The Pink Ribbon Foundation is a grant making trust with a mission to fund projects and provide financial support to UK charities which relieve the needs of people who are suffering from, or who have been affected by breast cancer or who work to advance the understanding of breast cancer, its early detection and treatment. The Pink Ribbon Foundation has very little infrastructure. It relies on the hard work given by Trustees, interested parties and its Patrons. This is done in order to maximise the amount, which goes to the charities that benefit from the funds raised.

NHS Charities Together

The NHS is amazing. It is there for us at the most profound moments in our lives, no matter who we are or what we need. There are 250 NHS Charities in the UK providing funds and services above and beyond what the NHS alone can provide. Everyday NHS Charities give £1 million to the NHS.

The Clatterbridge Cancer Charity

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre is one of the UK's leading cancer centres. We bring together expert staff, high-quality care and excellence in research to drive forward the development of new leading edge drugs and therapies and provide outstanding specialist care for patients. Join us as we continue to offer the best treatment to those who need us in our region.

Transaid

Transaid is a development charity identifying and implementing local transport solutions to improve access to basic services and economic opportunities.

The Urology Foundation

The Urology Foundation is leading the fight against urology disease through funding research, offering education and by providing specialist training.

Look Good Feel Better

Look Good Feel Better is dedicated to improving the physical and emotional wellbeing of people undergoing treatment for any type of cancer. Found in hospitals, cancer care centres and hospices across the UK, Look Good Feel Better’s unique confidence boosting Workshops provide an opportunity for people living with cancer to come together in a safe and welcoming environment. The Workshops enable people to feel less isolated and regain a loss in confidence and self-esteem.

Rotary Club Malta

Rotary Club Malta is a service club which enables it's members to provide assistance to our local communities and overseas. Rotary is an organisation of business and professional leaders around the world with the shared aim to put ‘service above self’. They provide humanitarian services, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and help build goodwill and peace in the world. Rotary Club Malta has supported numerous charitable projects including Dar il Kaptan, a leading respite home for those with disabilities; assisted with the building of a workshop for the San Blas Rehabilitation centre for drug addicts; equipping a Red Cross children's ambulance; supported a boys orphanage in South India; funding of two schools in Uganda with the help of Kids of Africa.

Pahar Trust Nepal

Pahar Trust Nepal helps to improve the standard of schools and education in the remote and impoverished areas of Nepal’s Himalayan foothills. For over 30 years, the Trust has delivered 250 individual projects and 656 classrooms, rebuilding many schools that were destroyed or damaged by the 2015 earthquake. The schools built by Pahar Trust Nepal are safe, secure and earthquake resistant, and equipped with updated resources and facilities, benefitting over 40,000 students in some of the world's poorest areas.

Alzheimer Scotland

Alzheimer Scotland is Scotland’s national dementia charity. Our aim is to make sure nobody faces dementia alone. We provide support and information to people with dementia, their carers and families, we campaign for the rights of people with dementia and fund vital dementia research.

The RAF Benevolent Fund

The RAF Benevolent Fund is the RAF's leading welfare charity. We have been there for all members of the RAF Family for 100 years. Last year we assisted more than 50,000 members of the RAF Family. Support us in 2019 to celebrate our Centenary and help us reach even more members of the RAF Family.

Mind

We’re Mind, the mental health charity. We believe no one should have to face a mental health problem alone. We’re here for you. Today. Now. Whether you’re stressed, depressed or in crisis. We’ll listen, give support and advice, and fight your corner.

St. Luke’s Hospice (Basildon & Thurrock)

Our aim is to maintain and enhance the quality of life for our patients, caring for each of them as a whole person, offering the right to be treated with dignity, sensitivity, compassion and understanding. Wherever possible, information and support is offered to enable patients and families to make their own choices about the care they receive and the setting in which it is provided.

Children with Cancer UK

Children with Cancer UK is the UK's leading children's charity dedicated to the fight against all childhood cancers.

CLIC Sargent

As a leading UK charity for children, CLIC's care teams provide specialist support to those affected by childhood cancer.

Blind Veterans UK

We believe every blind veteran should be able to lead the life they choose. At Blind Veterans UK we’re one, transformational team. We provide rehabilitation, training, practical advice and emotional support. Together we can help rebuild lives.

Emmaus UK

Emmaus supports formerly homeless people by giving them a home, meaningful work in a social enterprise and an opportunity to get back on their feet again. For many who experience homelessness, one of the biggest obstacles they must overcome is a loss of self-esteem. Emmaus provides people with a stable home and the opportunity to regain their self-worth, making a real contribution to their community.

Wessex Heartbeat

Wessex Heartbeat charity provides support to the Wessex Cardiac Centre (WCC) at Southampton General Hospital, by making a real difference by supporting the care of over 40,000 patients diagnosed with heart conditions, this includes 4,000 newborns, children and young adults. Funding helps to purchase specialist medical equipment, patient services and refurbishment of hospital facilities as well as continuing to offer a home from home environment free of charge to 2,100 relatives of patients diagnosed with heart conditions in Heartbeat House, which is ideally situated close to loved ones whilst they stay in Southampton General Hospital.

Severn Hospice

At Severn Hospice, we are committed to caring for people in the place where they want to receive it. Both here and at home. Our approach to care is to enable those who need our help to live as well as they can within the constraints of a life-limiting illness. ‘Living Well’ with Severn Hospice means we care for people, not patients.

Suicide&Co

Suicide&Co is a national charity with the core purpose to support those bereaved by suicide and open-up the conversation around suicide-related grief. The main support that Suicide&Co provides is free to access one-to-one bereavement counselling. They also have a helpline – the first national suicide bereavement helpline run by bereavement counsellors open Monday – Friday 9am-9pm.

The Cornerstone Foundation

Everyone should have the chance to reach their potential. Yet, across Scotland, thousands of children and adults with complex needs are missing out on the opportunities and resources they need to have a fulfilled life. Your support can change this - you can make a difference and help others to live a valued life.

Christians Against Poverty

We are on a mission to release thousands of families from grinding poverty through award winning debt counselling and community groups. By equipping and empowering local churches to reach out on their doorsteps, we’re bringing hope to over 21,500 families every year.

Spotlight UK

We have been providing activities and support in Basingstoke for the last 11 years, working with between 350-400 children each week. We now work in West Berkshire, Reading, Hart & Rushmoor and Portsmouth as well as Basingstoke. We work to increase confidence, self-esteem and social interaction, improve mental wellbeing, social interaction and help to build resilience.

PSC Support

PSC Support is the only UK charity solely focused on improving the lives of people affected by the rare, immune-mediated disease, primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), through support, advocacy and by funding much needed PSC research. There is no effective medical treatment or cure for PSC. People with PSC urgently need a treatment that works. PSC Support is run by a small team and is totally funded from charitable donations. This means that every penny you fundraise will be used where it is needed most to support and make a real difference to people with PSC and their families.

Wigs for Heroes

Wigs for Heroes aims to support people undergoing cancer treatment by providing Wig Grants*, Pamper Boxes, Scarves, Hats & Pamper Events.*Grants only available for NMUH patients

Dementia UK

Dementia UK provides personal dementia support for families via specially trained Admiral Nurses, who provide emotional and physical assistance.

Motor Neurone Disease Association

Six people per day are diagnosed with motor neurone disease in the UK and six people die every day of MND. It can leave people locked in a failing body, unable to move, talk and eventually breathe. This terminal disease has no cure. The Motor Neurone Disease Association is the only national charity in England, Wales and Northern Ireland focused on improving access to care, research and campaigning for those people living with or affected by MND.

PIPS Hope and Support

PIPS Hope & Support offers the community a targeted response to suicide and self-harm and is the leading suicide prevention charity and the leading independent advocate in the SHSCT and Newry, Mourne and Down Council areas on all aspects of suicide including prevention, intervention & postvention ( Suicide bereavement) in order to reduce and prevent suicide and self-harm. PIPS Hope and Support has been providing crisis counselling services, suicide bereavement counselling and family therapy for 17 years. We currently have 19 accredited counsellors and see over 100+ new clients each month from people from all over Northern Ireland.

Willen Hospice

Willen Hospice is a registered charity that provides specialist care for people whose illness no longer responds to curative treatment (also known as specialist palliative care). We provide care for people from the age of 18 years upwards and work in Milton Keynes and the surrounding areas. Willen Hospice provides services to three Primary Care Trusts - Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire. The Hospice is based at a quiet lakeside area close to the City Centre.

The Primrose Foundation

The Primrose Foundation is a well-established breast care charity that has existed for almost 25 years, we work in partnership with University Hospitals Plymouth to provide the best possible care, support and a range of services to those who require breast care and treatment, including cancer care. We do this by funding equipment, research and education, staff development and additional resources and services that make a patient’s experience more comfortable.

Action Medical Research

Action Medical Research is the leading UK-wide charity saving and changing children’s lives through medical research.

Rennie Grove Hospice Care

Rennie Grove Hospice Care is a charity providing specialist care and support for adults and children with a life-limiting illness in Bucks and west Herts. Through our unique hospice at home service, available day and night, and a range of day services we support our patients to live the best quality life they can with a choice about how and where they are cared for towards the end of life. We are also here for the families of our patients, ensuring that everyone can receive the right support, when they need it, to help them make every moment together matter.

Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust

Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust is the UK’s leading cervical cancer charity dedicated to women and their families affected by cervical cancer and cell changes. Nearly three women die every day in the UK from cervical cancer with nine being diagnosed and facing an uncertain future. Cervical cancer is one of the most common cancers in women aged 35 and under and still, 1 in 4 women do not attend their screenings when invited. For more information visit http://www.jostrust.org.uk/

Teddy20

Teddy20 Supporting Children with Cancer is a charity based in Blandford Forum, Dorset. Our aim is to provide emotional and financial support to children and young people suffering and undergoing treatment for cancer in the Wessex Region. Amongst other things the charity has purchased and operates Ted's Shack in Weymouth which offers respite holidays for children and their families. Teddy20 was set up in loving memory of , Ted Newton 1999 – 2010. Get in touch at info@teddy20.org or owen@teddy20.org

Scotswood Garden

Scotswood Garden provides a haven for people and wildlife in one of the most deprived neighbourhoods in Newcastle Upon Tyne. From the Garden, we deliver a range of support, training and education services for 4000 local children and adults a year.

The Chronicle Sunshine Fund

The Chronicle Sunshine Fund is a North East charity that enhances the lives of local children with disabilities through funding equipment to meet their specialist needs. They support babies, children and young adults up to the age of 19 and fund equipment not provided by the NHS or Social Services. The charity receives no statutory funding and relies solely on the support and generosity of local individuals and organisations.

SSAFA

SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity, has been providing lifelong support to our Forces and their families since 1885. Last year our teams of volunteers and employees helped more than 82,000 people in need, from Second World War veterans to young men and women who have served in more recent conflicts, and their families. SSAFA understands that behind every uniform is a person. And we are here for that person – any time they need us, in any way they need us, for as long as they need us.

Oxford Health Charity

The Oxford Health Charity is the registered charity dedicated to supporting the services provided by Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, whom deliver Mental Health care throughout Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. The charity provides funding to enhance the experience of patients, carers, families and staff receiving support from or working for the Trust. Appeals and projects supported by the charity range from art activities and equipment to award winning projects; from developments of garden spaces to training to support new or developing skills; from vehicles to music projects. The end result of any funding is the positive impact on those receiving care from the Trust and your support makes this possible.

Sands Lothians

Sands Lothians provides compassionate care to all bereaved families in Edinburgh and the Lothians We provide specialist counselling and befriending services free of charge to all our parents. 15 babies a day die in the UK and we want to make sure no family suffers alone

Unseen UK

Unseen is working towards a world without slavery. We provide safehouses and support in the community for survivors of trafficking and modern slavery. We also run the Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline and work with individuals, communities, businesses, governments, other charities, and statutory agencies, to end slavery for good.

Victim Support

Victim Support is the leading independent charity in England and Wales for people affected by crime and traumatic incidents. Crime has lasting emotional, social, and psychological effects, often leaving those affected feeling afraid and isolated. Victim Support advocates for victims’ rights and needs, aiming to make their voices heard, and the charity works tirelessly to ensure those affected by crime receive the support they need and the respect they deserve. Last year, Victim Support offered support to 814,000 victims of crime across England and Wales, working to help people feel safer and find the strength to move beyond crime.

Against Breast Cancer

Funding pioneering research, Against Breast Cancer improve the detection, and treatment of breast cancer to increase survival after diagnosis.

World Bicycle Relief

World Bicycle Relief mobilizes people through The Power of Bicycles. We are committed to helping people conquer the challenge of distance, achieve independence and thrive.

Scottish Book Trust

Scottish Book Trust is a national charity changing lives through reading and writing. From supporting mental health and wellbeing to breaking the poverty cycle, improving employability and inspiring creativity, we believe that reading and writing for pleasure have the power to transform lives. We deliver our life-changing programmes the length and breadth of Scotland.

Cats Protection

As the leading cat welfare charity we have thousands of cats in our care at any one time. Cats stay with us for as long as it takes to find them loving new homes – we never put a healthy cat to sleep. This vital care is only possible due to kind cat lovers like you.

The Haemophilia Society

The Haemophilia Society is the only UK-wide charity for all those affected by a genetic bleeding disorder. We help people with genetic bleeding disorders to lead fulfilling lives, make informed choices and to support and inspire others.

Beat SCAD

Beat SCAD is a patient-led charity that supports those affected by Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD), raises awareness among health professionals and the general public and raises money for vital research into SCAD.

Highland Hospice

At Highland Hospice we aim to support people, their families and carers, living with an life-limiting illness in the Highlands to live the best possible life and to prepare for and experience the best possible death.

Age Scotland

Age Scotland is the leading charity in Scotland representing older people and supporting their rights and interests . We inspire older people by encouraging them to realise the opportunities and overcome the challenges of later life. We involve older people by connecting and engaging with them through our networks and enabling them to participate in groups and their communities. Our vision is a Scotland where everyone enjoys later life. We believe life is for living and everyone should have the opportunity to live happily and well, for as long as they can.

APT Action on Poverty

Action on Poverty is a small dynamic charity working across Sub-Saharan Africa to break the cycle of poverty by supporting vulnerable people to earn their own income. In partnership with local organisations, we transform lives by creating opportunities for people to gain skills and sustainable livelihoods, so they can build happier futures for themselves and their families.

Clan Cancer Support

Clan Cancer Support is a charity that is here to support anyone affected by a cancer diagnosis. We provide emotional and practical support to people, not only those with a cancer diagnosis but their family, friends, carers or loved ones. Our services are freely offered to everyone from pre-diagnosis, during treatment and beyond. Our support and wellbeing centres are located in communities across the northeast of Scotland and the Northern Isles.

Oakhaven Hospice Trust

Oakhaven Hospice Trust provides specialist palliative care and support to those facing life-limiting illness and their loved ones in both a home and hospice setting. Our team of specialist Oakhaven nurses, doctors, counsellors and physiotherapists ease physical symptoms and offer psychological, spiritual and social support. Their care is tailored to suit the needs of each individual and, with a blend of expertise and compassion, the team offers support for people when they most need it.

Running Well

Running Well provides people living in underdeveloped and remote parts of Uganda with access to clean water by encouraging people to take up a personal challenge to help raise funds for the projects it supports. The charity’s primary focus is to build water boreholes, with the aim of providing a sustainable, long term solution to giving people access to clean water and to help improve their standard of living, health and education.

Carr Gomm

Carr Gomm is a Scotland-wide social care and community development charity. Carr Gomm supports people with a whole range of needs in both their everyday lives and in achieving their goals- whatever these may be- and we have been doing so for more than 20 years. We fundraise to fill the gaps in society and provide support where no one else does through our Community Development projects, which aim to alleviate the crippling issues of loneliness and isolation. Team Carr Gomm, our fundraising initiative, tackles these issues head on by encouraging participants to be both physically and socially active while supporting our work. Will you join our Team?

Treloar Trust

Founded in 1907, Treloar’s is a charity that operates a School and College for children and young adults aged 2-25 with physical disabilities. Every year we have to raise around £2 million to enable our students to access the specialist staff, equipment and opportunities needed to give them the confidence and skills to control their lives and achieve their aspirations. With your support, we can help all our young people to enjoy the chance to achieve so much more than they, or their parents, could have ever imagined possible. Thank you.

Teenage Cancer Trust

The TCT provides life-changing care and support to UK teens so that they don’t have to face cancer alone.

Breast Cancer Now

We’re Breast Cancer Now, the charity that’s steered by world-class research and powered by life-changing care. We’re here for anyone affected by breast cancer, the whole way through, providing support for today and hope for the future. Breast Cancer Now is a working name of Breast Cancer Care and Breast Cancer Now, a charity registered in England and Wales (1160558) and Scotland (SC045584), and a business name of the registered charity in the Isle of Man (1200).

Line of Duty

Line of Duty is a charity specifically created to provide practical assistance to our brave Emergency Services Personnel and Armed Forces, who face more in their daily line of work on our behalf than we realise.

Combat Stress

Mission: For a century we’ve been helping former servicemen and women deal with issues like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety and depression. Today we provide specialist treatment and support for veterans from every service and conflict to give them hope and a future.

Dyscover

Dyscover is a charity providing long-term support and opportunities to people with aphasia and their families. People with aphasia have difficulty reading, writing and understanding what is being said. This disability is caused by a stroke, head injury or other illness.

The Brain Tumour Charity

The Brain Tumour Charity is the world’s leading brain tumour charity and the largest dedicated funder of research into brain tumours globally. Committed to saving and improving lives, we’re moving further, faster to help every single person affected by a brain tumour.

Lymphoma Association

The UK’s only charity focused exclusively on providing the right, information, treatment and care to those affected by lymphatic cancer.

Ellenor

ellenor is the only charity in Kent that provides hospice care for people of all ages – babies, children and adults - and their families. This includes pain and symptom relief, end of life care, respite, bereavement support and emotional and spiritual care

Every Child Protected Against Trafficking

ECPAT UK is a leading children's rights organisation working to protect children from child trafficking and transnational child exploitation. We support children everywhere to uphold their rights and to live a life free from abuse and exploitation.

ECHO

From the moment of diagnosis, throughout any treatment and care pathway or bereavement, ECHO supports children and young people with heart conditions and their families. We aim to support members from across the UK and do so both within the Evelina London Children’s Hospital, local general hospitals and throughout the community. Congenital heart disease is the most common birth defect and affects just under 1 in 100 babies born throughout the UK

UK Cervical Cancer

UK Cervical Cancer is on a mission towards the global elimination of cervical cancer. Via online resources, a digital helpline, and ongoing advocacy, the team of healthcare professionals are dedicated to elbowing people with a cervix, of all screening ages, to attend for their screening. The charity aims to ensure all people with a cervix have equal access to testing, vaccination and support for cervical cancer. We offer education and information, UK and overseas programmes, Support, Raising awareness, research and policy.

Orchid

Because men can be afraid to face male cancer... Orchid is a small dynamic charity solely dedicated to improving the lives of men of all ages who are at risk of, or affected by testicular, penile or prostate cancer. We do this through a range of vital support services, delivering awareness and education campaigns and promoting a world-class research programme.

Parkinson's UK

We're the Parkinson's charity that drives better care, treatments and quality of life. Because we're here, no one has to face Parkinson's alone.

Action For Children

From before they are born until they are into their twenties, we help disadvantaged children across the UK

Wildlife Vets International

Wildlife Vets International provides expert veterinary support to local vets and front-line staff in conservation projects worldwide. Training and empowering key people in conservation medicine will contribute to sustainable, long-term solutions to conserve and protect endangered species. We need your support to put the latest veterinary science at the heart of all wildlife conservation. Together we can enable wildlife to survive, thrive and flourish for generations to come.

Veterans in Action

Veterans In Action (VIA) is a charity that helps veterans who suffer from the effects of war or who find it hard to adjust to civilian life. VIA use a unique program called the ALIVE Program that has three distinct stages that puts the onus on the individual to make the changes in order for them to move forward.

The Lily Foundation

The Lily Foundation aims to improve the lives of people affected by mitochondrial diseases. Through funding vital research, we are working towards a future where mitochondrial diseases can be effectively treated and one day cured.

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