Charities

The Progress Educational Trust is a charity which provides information and debate on the social, ethical and legal issues in assisted reproduction and human genetics.

Project Ability is a specialist art gallery providing visual arts workshops and supported studios for artists with disabilities or mental health problems. Our exhibition programme showcases (and sells) the artwork that is created by around 300 people who take part in our programmes every week. Gallery Open: 10am - 5pm, Weekdays.

Project Trust empowers young people to be confident, effective, creative, independent and resilient through a challenging volunteering experience overseas. Acting as responsible global citizens Volunteers make a positive difference to their overseas host communities and share their learning and understanding when they return home. Our volunteering experience is open to all young people with the desire, motivation and aptitudes required to succeed. Project Trust has been organising long term voluntary placements in Africa, Asia and Latin America for young people since 1967, making us the most experienced educational charity specialising in overseas volunteering for school-leavers.

Promise Dreams is a national registered charity, dedicated to helping seriously ill and terminally ill children and their families turn a very special wish into reality. Every penny donated by supporters helps put a smile on the face of a poorly child, no administration costs are deducted.

At Prospect Hospice we offer unparalled end-of-life care services for a community of more than 300,000 people in Swindon, Marlborough and north east Wiltshire. Our vision is for excellent, personalised and compassionate care for everyone affected by a life-limiting illness.

Funds Research into greater understanding of new techniques & treatments of all prostate disease. Provides free leaflets, DVDs, Videos and Website. Trains specialist & non-specialist professionals in the latest advances in treatment. Offers advice, help and above all, hope to those affected by prostate problems.

PSPA is the only UK charity dedicated to improving the lives of people living with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and Corticobasal Degeneration. PSPA promote and fund research to understand the causes of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and Corticobasal Degeneration, improve diagnosis, develop new treatments and ultimately find a cure. PSPA provide information and support for everyone affected by Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and Corticobasal Degeneration to enable them to live the best life they can. PSPA also raise awareness, particularly with decision makers and healthcare professionals, so they can recognise the conditions and have the skills and knowledge to help those affected access the right services at the right time. For more information please visit www.pspassociation.org.uk.

PIRC is an independent charity developing participatory approaches to researching, communicating and connecting around cultural stories for a more democratic, equitable and sustainable society. Over the past decade, through our work first on environmental issues and later on broader social and democratic issues, we’ve learnt to recognise the deep connections between the issues our society faces and the multiple, interlinking oppressions that lie at the heart of the system. Poverty, climate change, isolation and loneliness, inequality, discrimination, over-consumption and political disengagement are all underpinned by the same structures. In this context, we work for a stronger civil society that has reclaimed the stories of our culture that encourage our better selves and reshapes society for the better. PIRC has a 40-year record of catalytic research, championing the public interest and informing public policy, and a more recent history of championing the vital role of cultural stories and movement-building in social change.