My charity of the month for June is the Law Centres Federation, which may not be an organisation you have ever heard of. However no doubt you will have heard of Law Centres. Some of you may have used one. The Law Centres Federation is the organisation which supports and promotes them.
Law Centres are set [...]
Category Archives: Charity of the month
The Law Centres Federation – Charity of the month (June)
Unlock – charity of the month (May)
My charity of the month for May is the ex offenders charity Unlock. Often ex offenders find it hard to lead a normal life when they come out of prison with every mans hand against them. Unlock is there for them. Its current objectives include :
Improved access to bank accounts, insurance and financial capability training
Implementation [...]
Amnesty International – Charity of the month (April)
Amnesty International are a campaigning organisation, whose purpose is to protect people wherever justice, fairness, freedom and truth are denied.
Current campaigns campaigns are Stop Violence Against Women and Terrorism, Security and Human Rights. See all the campaigns here.
If you want to help, for example by donating or volunteering, click here. To read the [...]
Crisis – Charity of the month (March 2010)
Crisis is the national charity for single homeless people. They are dedicated to ending homelessness by delivering life-changing services and campaigning for change.
Services include :
employment services help get more single homeless people back into meaningful, sustainable employment
education through training and employment centres, offering practical and creative workshops in a supportive and inspiring environment together with [...]
ActionAid Sponsor a child – Charity of the month (February 1010)
ActionAid, the charity dedicated to fighting poverty has a sponsor a child scheme, which is part of their program of working with local communities.
When you sponsor a child, in reality you are supporting the local community in which that child lives. However you are giving information about the child and can write to him or [...]
Nightstop (Greenwich and Lewisham) – Charity of the month (January 2010)
Greenwich and Lewisham Nightstop is committed to challenging youth homelessness.
The project tackles homelessness in two ways; firstly by providing emergency accommodation for young homeless people in the homes of volunteers on a one-night-at-a-time basis; secondly by challenging homelessness proactively through an education and outreach programme. The web-site has a video with more information about [...]
Habitat for Humanity – Charity of the month (December 2009)
Everyone deserves a home. Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit, nondenominational Christian charity, builds and renovates simple, decent and affordable homes all over the world, with the help of volunteer labour and donations of money and materials.
The charity is supported by Scottish firm Inksters, and the firms founder, Brian Inkster and his wife Nicola [...]
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