Charities
Our vision is of a society where homelessness no longer exists, and everyone has a place to call home. Founded in 1980 by Cardinal Basil Hume and The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul. The Passage (Registered as Passage2000), is based in the heart of Westminster, providing practical support and a wide range of services to help transform the lives of people who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness. We are guided by our Vincentian values and offer our clients resources and solutions to prevent or end their homelessness for good, including routes to employment, benefits, and stable accommodation. We run a modern Resource Centre in Victoria, five accommodation projects, outreach and health services, homelessness prevention schemes and a pioneering modern slavery referral programme. The mission of The Passage is three-fold: - Preventing homelessness by intervening quickly before people reach crisis point. - Ending street homelessness by providing innovative and tailor-made services that act with both compassion and urgency. - Advocating for those who feel they are not heard by amplifying their voice to bring about real systemic change. Our Patron is Cardinal Vincent Nichols and our Royal Patron is HRH The Prince of Wales, https://www.passage.org.uk or alternatively, @PassageCharity.
The Patients Association is the UK’s leading independent patient charity, working directly with patients with any health condition to campaign for improvements in health and social care. Our remit covers all issues that affect patients, giving us a unique, system-wide view of care from their perspective. We believe genuine patient partnership should be at the heart of healthcare design and delivery, enabling everyone to access and benefit from the health and care they need to live well. Through our freephone helpline, membership, patient activities, and consultancy we speak to thousands of patients every year and support their health and wellbeing through our helpline and online resources. Their insights feed directly into our work with healthcare professionals, businesses, and key decision-makers, ensuring policy decisions and healthcare solutions are shaped by authentic patient voice.
We support our members and others in the permaculture network to design thriving communities across Britain by applying permaculture ethics and principles, and to contribute to permaculture worldwide. Whether you are involved in gardening, farming, planning, building homes, economic regeneration, or business, using permaculture design empowers you to make the right choices for a sustainable future. By putting ethics first and using natural systems as a model, there are simple and innovative ways to live fairly and sustainably now and in the future.
The Peter Pan Centre gives children aged 0-5 with special needs the best start in life through tailored education, development and care sessions, delivered usually on a 1:1 care basis. Parents and carers benefit from vital respite time, training and informal family support.
The Pilion Trust Charity works with vulnerable people and families who struggle to access mainstream services and cannot support themselves and their children in the community. The Pilion Trust run a range of services that support the whole community. The services include: The Crash Pad Youth Service - Supporting homeless young people who are at risk if left on the streets; Activ*8 - The Project works with women and girls who have suffered historic sexual abuse and violence; ECO Outreach for inner city homeless and rough sleepers who find themselves in desperate situations; The Ringcross Community Centre - Where they run community services for over 60s, Stay and Play; Art Classes; youth events; Food Bank and Clothing Bank.
The Rainbow Centre for Children provides free and professional support to children and their families affected by cancer and life threatening illnesses!!
At the Raptor Foundation, our aims have always been, firstly to rescue, rehabilitate and return injured birds of prey back to the wild and secondly to protect and preserve them through education and conservation. By visiting us, you are supporting the very important work that we do and helping birds of prey across the world.