Charities
Swings & Smiles is a place to play for children with special needs and their families. It offers a unique environment where the whole family feels supported and where they can spend quality time together. Our services include play sessions, sibling support and outreach. Swings & Smiles provides activities for children and young people aged 0-19 years old with a wide range of disabilities and special needs to be able to enjoy playing together without the pressures often experienced in wider community settings. We support the whole family including parents, carers, the child with special needs, brothers, sisters and grandparents. Our support is hugely varied and depends on the needs of the family, we will tailor support to individual need. Swings & Smiles also welcomes adults with disabilities who may benefit from this type of environment and visits from community groups and respite providers. We offer a variety of different sessions, for more information please visit our website.
A tree and forestry charity aiming to advance sustainable forest management. Sylva runs various projects under three programs covering science, education and science.
Education Loans: Sympathy offers interest-free loans to students for their studies and short courses, they are not required to pay them back. It is up to the student whether they choose to assist another person in obtaining an education or repay Sympathy to assist another person in obtaining an education in the future. Donation to Deserving Candidate: When parents need to pay for their children, sympathy receives cases in which we ask them to complete the application. We go to their homes, take some photos, and then email the images to our donors. We ask donors whether they are willing to aid that student and then pay their fees after attaching the application form, their fee voucher, images of their homes, and the student’s test results. We collaborate with the school on the progress of the student every six months. If they require tuition, we also cover it; if they are excelling academically, we also shift their schools so they can receive the best advice and guidance.
Tamba (Twins and Multiple Births Association) is a national charity that provides high quality information and mutual support networks for families of twins, triplets and more, highlighting their unique needs to all involved in their care.
We empower the poorest communities in Tanzania on a village-level. We are all volunteers and pair local Tanzanian representatives with UK-based project officers to support rural development and transform lives through various projects in our key priorities of access to water, girls' education and income generation to enable people to lift themselves out of extreme poverty.
TB Alert is the UK’s national tuberculosis charity. We are the only charity that focuses on TB both in the UK and overseas – in India, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi. This gives us a unique perspective in order to address issues around TB that are common both to low incidence countries like the UK and high incidence regions such as Africa and Asia. Our work focuses on: -raising public and professional awareness about TB, addressing barriers to treatment, and providing support to patients during their treatment -bringing together statutory health services, voluntary organisations and people affected by TB to plan and deliver better TB services -advocating for the policies and resources to improve the care of patients and the prevention and control of TB. Our vision is the control and ultimate elimination of TB. Our mission is to increase access to effective treatment for all.”