Links

We hope the Community Connections site has shown you how you can help others. Listed below are links to some of the charities you may wish to support in your fundraising.

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• Action Research – www.actionresearch.co.uk
• Alzheimer's Association - www.alzheimers.org.uk
• Anthony Nolan Trust – www.anthonynolan.co.uk
• ARC – www.arc.org.uk
• Beating Bowel Cancer – www.beatingbowelcancer.org.uk
• Breakthrough Breast Cancer – www.breakthrough.org.uk
• British Skin Foundation – www.britishskinfoundation.org.uk
• Cancerbackup - www.cancerbackup.org.uk
• Cancer Research UK - www.cancerresearchuk.org
• Carol's Smile (supporting Lymphoma research and NHS equipment) - www.carols-smile.org.uk
• Child Victims of Crime - www.childvictimsofcrime.co.uk/
• Children's Heart Federation - www.childrens-heart-fed.org.uk
• Claire Sadler Trust Fund - www.clairesadlerfund.org.uk/
• Consensus Action on Salt and Health – www.actiononsalt.org.uk/
• DEMAND - Design and manufacture for disability - www.demand.smartchange.org/
• Diabetes UK - www.diabetes.org.uk
• Dreams Do Come True - www.dreamsdocometrue.org
• Foundation for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (FSID) - www.sids.org.uk
• Friends of the Earth - www.foe.co.uk
• The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association - www.guidedogs.org.uk
• Help the Aged - www.helptheaged.org.uk
• Henshaws Society for Blind People - www.hsbp.org.uk
• International Animal Rescue - www.iar.org.uk
• Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation - www.jdrf.org.uk
• Kanu Heart Foundation - www.kanuheartfoundation.com
• Leukaemia Research Fund - www.lrf.org.uk/
• Life Education - www.lifeeducation.org.uk
• Macmillan Cancer Relief – www.macmillan.org.uk
• National Asthma Campaign - www.asthma.org.uk
• National Autistic Society - www.nas.org.uk
• National Children's Homes (NCH) - www.nch.org.uk
• Nurses Welfare Service (support, advice and counselling for nurses) – (email: info@nurseswelfareservice)
• Plan (an international humanitarian organisation helping children) - www.plan-uk.org
• Princess Royal Trust for Carers - www.carers.org
• The Red Cross - www.redcross.org.uk
• Royal National Institute for the Blind - www.rnib.org.uk
• The Samaritans - www.samaritans.org.uk
• SCOPE - www.scope.org.uk
• Shelter - www.shelter.org.uk
• Shooting Star Hospice for Children - www.shootingstar.org.uk
• St Andrew's Hospice (cares for people with life limiting illnesses) – 01472 350908
• St George's Crypt - www.stgeorgescrypt.org.uk
• Terrence Higgins Trust (HIV/ Aids) - www.tht.org.uk
• The Children's Society - www.the-childrens-society.org
• Unicef - www.unicef.org.uk
• World Medical Fund Site - www.worldmedicalfund.org

There are also several organisations that can give you more information and ideas on volunteering and can help you make the most of YOUR time and skills:

• Charity Commission - www.charity-commission.gov.uk
• Community Service Volunteers - www.csv.org.uk
• Experience Corps - www.experiencecorps.co.uk
• Institute of Fundraising - www.institute-of-fundraising.org.uk
• National Centre for Volunteering - www.volunteering.org.uk
• National Centre for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) - www.ncvo-vol.org.uk
• Timebank - www.timebank.co.uk

There are also some general advice sites:

• Charities Aid Foundation - www.cafonline.org
• Common Purpose - www.commonpurpose.org.uk
• Directory of Social Change - www.dsc.org.uk
• Employer's Forum - www.employers-forum.co.uk
• Ethical Performance - www.ethicalperformance.com
• Internet Resources for Special Children - www.irsc.org