Charities

The National Museum of Computing, located at Bletchley Park, is an independent charity. It houses the world's largest collection of functional historic computers and World War II machines, including Enigma, Lorenz, the working Turing-Welchman Bombe, the rebuilt Colossus (the world’s first electronic computer), and the WITCH (the world's oldest working digital computer). The Museum enables visitors to follow the development of computing from the ultra-secret pioneering efforts of the 1940s through the large systems and mainframes of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and the rise of personal computing in the 1980s and beyond. The Museum runs a highly successful Learning Programme for schools and colleges and promotes introductions to computer coding amongst young people, especially females, to inspire the next generation of computer scientists and engineers.

Formed in 1973 the NSPKU exists to help support people, their families and carers, with the rare inherited metabolic disorder, Phenylketonuria (PKU).

The NYBBGB is established to advance education and in particular education in music and to encourage and advance education and training of the gifted and talented young persons in the playing of brass band instruments and to form on a national basis in Great Britain a brass band composed of such persons.

Wildlife Rescue Rehabilitation and Release. We rescue and rehabilitate thousands of birds and mammals every year, and with our purpose built Accident and Emergency Unit, we are improving our facilities, and becoming busier year on year. We take in injured or orphaned wildlife from all over Scotland, and with our volunteer staff work hard to ensure a very high success rate for releasing back to the wild. From the smallest birds to the magnificent Osprey, with foxes, badgers and deer often needing help, and not forgetting the stunning squirrels, pine martens and hedgehogs we take in on a regular basis.

The North of England Refugee Service was established in 1989. We are an independent and charitable organisation which exists to meet the needs and promote the interests of asylum seekers and refugees who have arrived or have settled in the North of England. NERS acts as an agent of positive change in For the last 30 years NERS has been working to improve the everyday life conditions of asylum seekers and refugees, and to promote social inclusion by facilitating their integration and equal participation within British society with and for the immediate and long-term needs of the community of refugees across the North East region, focusing at the most vulnerable stages of the journey to integration.