Bright Futures are a registered charity working with young women aged 11-25 to give them a brighter future by raising their self-esteem and confidence around a range of issues which affect them including alcohol and substance misuse, sexual health and relationships, homelessness, family relationships, friendships, school, education, training, crime and anti-social Read more [...]
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Phab Freewheelers
The Phab Freewheelers is a fortnightly evening social group for people with physical disabilities. We meet on Hanley, Stoke-On-Trent and offer free fun act and friendship.
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Highway House Day Centre
Highway House is a homeless shelter based in Tottenham, London. We have been in operation for 10 years. We are expanding the provision of our services to all homeless people in Haringey by operating a day centre two days a week. The day centre will be open every Monday and Friday, Read more [...]
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Craft at the Cowshed
Craft at the Cowshed has been set up to support The Cowshed Charity by upcycling unwanted clothing and textiles unsuitable for redistribution to those in need. Craft a the Cowshed meets currently on a weekly basis but we are hoping to expand to multiple locations. We are currently fundraising for Read more [...]
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It’s Better Together
We are a faith group who since 1995 have run numerous community activities such as toddler groups, youth groups, luncheon clubs, art classes etc. Through a generous grant from #Greggs4good we are expanding our provision by running ‘It’s Better Together’ – regular weekly relaxation and mental health coffee mornings together Read more [...]
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Tea and Talks
A monthly group for older people living locally to get together, enjoy a cup of tea and scone and hear from an interesting speaker!
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Families Together – Dyfodol Powys Futures
Creative sensory sessions with music and movement, for families with a child with disabilities. Running in the Newtown area of Powys around once a month and affiliated to the Touch Trust.
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KFR – White Goods Provision Fund
Kennet Furniture Refurbiz (KFR), are a white goods and furniture reuse charity. Recently awarded the “Reuse Organisation of the year 2019” by the Reuse Network, we aim to reduce usable items of furniture from entering landfill and refurbish items of white goods. Members of the public can donate their unwanted Read more [...]
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Let’s Get Active
Let’s Play supports 135 young people aged from 5-25 with additional needs in Banbury and the surrounding villages. The Project provides an After School Club, Holiday Club, Youth Group, and 18 plus group which is accessible to all. We have a bank of 30 playworkers who are highly trained in Read more [...]
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Age Concern Bracknell Forest go to Eastbourne!
Age Concern Bracknell Forest are taking a group of our members for a coach trip down to Eastbourne. We’ll have a great time, enjoying the fresh sea air whilst reminiscing about beach holidays in our younger days. And we’ll be off to Harry Ramsden’s for lunch! We’re all incredibly Read more [...]
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Motion Control Dance
Motion Control Dance was registered as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation in May 2015 by the Charity Commission with an aim ‘ to ‘advance the education of people all ages, living in the Vale of Glamorgan and the surrounding areas, in the performing arts, particularly the art of dance, for the Read more [...]
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Be Our Guest
We are a Leicestershire charity that seeks to help and serve our local community in a real and relevant way.On the last Sunday of every month we provide a Tea Party for mostly elderly people who are vulnerable for one reason or another. They may be experiencing loneliness due to Read more [...]
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The Leven Legacy Project
This is a multi-dimensional project which aims to achieve a lasting and meaningful legacy for the communities of Dumbarton and Alexandria, which are located within the geographical area known as the Vale of Leven. The golden thread which links all of these sub-projects together is the River Leven which runs Read more [...]
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Deaf Services Lanarkshire – KEEP FIT
A great big THANKS to Greggs Foundation for supporting Deaf Services Lanarkshire’s ‘KEEP FIT’ class. The funding will enable us to continue the Keep Fit class and encourage the Deaf community to become more active, while socialising with other British Sign Language (BSL) users. We provide a wide range of Read more [...]
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Confidence Club
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/confidence-club In this day and age there are so many moulds that young people try to fit themselves into, and so many pressures on them to meet expectations it really ought not to come as no surprise that we’re seeing such distressing rises in anxiety and mental health. Compounding the Read more [...]
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LinkAges Oxford
Connect with an older person in your community with LinkAges Connect! LinkAges is an intergenerational project in Oxford City, matching students and young professionals with local people who have lots of life experience! We offer lots of different experiences, from IT classes, to befriending. You will build mutual friendship over time Read more [...]
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Urban River Regeneration: Restoring Brent Rivers and Communities
Thames21 are engaging and transforming lives and rivers in the River Brent Catchment, Greater London. Community-led river improvement and citizen science activities will be delivered through a series of practical river events; to develop skills, to share and building knowledge and experiences, to embed a greater love of our local Read more [...]
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The London Gardens Society – Annual Community Gardening Competiton
Each year we run gardening competitions across London and this year we are launching a new Community Garden Competition across all London. We are looking for sponsorship and entrants to the competition.
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Earth Week Cleanup
Saturday, April 27, 2019 1:00 PM 3:00 PM Coalie Park EdinburghScotland (map) Let’s give Leith a spring clean to celebrate #EarthDay2019. Last year almost 400 people took part in 11 litterpicks around Leith and collected more than half a tonne of litter from our streets. Can we break this record in 2019? Meet: Read more [...]
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Keeping it Wild
Keeping it Wild is a new three-year project, supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund, that will empower and inspire 600 young people aged 11-25, from backgrounds currently under-represented in natural heritage. They will gain vital skills while discovering, conserving and sharing their experiences of the capital’s wild spaces. The project Read more [...]
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Baby Basics UK
‘I find it hard to put into words what a crucial service Baby Basics is, as a midwife it helps me to provide safe care for my clients. There are no other services that could fill this gap locally’ NHS Midwife working with vulnerable women in Sheffield Baby Basics Read more [...]
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South East Rivers Trust
The South East Rivers Trust is an environmental charity which aims to acheive healthy rivers, for all, across the south east of England. We work from as far west as Baskingstoke, and as far east as Dover – looking after all the rivers and their catchments in between. We run Read more [...]
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Stonehill Community Garden: Irrigating the Garden
Stonehill Community Garden provides outdoor learning experiences for diverse groups. We provide a safe space where families, groups and individuals can come to enjoy nature, learn about sustainable gardening and meet new people and socialise. Our aim is to build self confidence and create connections between diverse groups in society, Read more [...]
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Edible Paisley
Edible Paisley will grow fruit, herbs, vegetables and edible flowers in public spaces across North Paisley for everyone to share. A project coordinator and group of volunteers will care for two edible growing sites at local community venues. Community involvement will be supported with people taking part in gardening skills Read more [...]
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Empowering and Connecting Older Residents Together
The charity after 21 years in the Crypt of St Mary Magdalene Church is moving into new premises with widespread support of residents, businesses and partner organisations. The cost of refurbishment of a building empty and unused for many years bringing it into use as an important new community resource Read more [...]
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Share Shed – A Library of Things
The Share Shed is the world’s first mobile library of things. Based in Devon (UK), it offers over 350 items to be borrowed at a minimal fee, including tools, house appliances, camping and gardening equipment, bicycles, sewing machines, and much more! The project enables local people to borrow items at Read more [...]
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Friends of Horsey Seals Information Unit
Friends of Horsey Seals are a Community Volunteer Group whose aim is to protect the breeding Atlantic Grey Seal colony at Horsey and Winterton on Sea from disturbance . With around 80,000 visitors each pupping season, it can be quite a challenge ensuring that visitors to the seals enjoy an Read more [...]
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Sustainability Centre, Hampshire, Chalk Grassland Creation
As one of the few areas harbouring natural chalk downland, this project will see an area of scrub and ruderals restored into a wildlife haven of diverse chalk grassland, using seed of local provenance for sowing and growing plug plants. These activities will be undertaken by our volunteers. This will involve scrub Read more [...]
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Gurkha Environmental Conservation Project
Our project is supporting the members of local ethnic minority communities, particularly the Gurkha veterans communities at Aldershot, Hampshire to reduce carbon emissions and promote environmental conservation. Training, information and support are being provided to key members of ethnic minority communities to help them improve their understanding and skills on waste/litter Read more [...]
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New Horizon Youth Centre
We have received funding from Regents Place Community Fund to run our Catering Project, taking place within New Horizon Youth Centre. It serves a healthy breakfast and up to 60 hot lunches a day to the most vulnerable and multi disadvantaged young people coming in to London. Many of these Read more [...]
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Home-Start Camden and Islington
Home-Start Camden and Islington has received funding from the Regent’s Place Community Fund to support 7 families living in the Regent Park area for 1 year. We will do this by recruiting and training 7 volunteers who will visit the families in their homes for 3 hours per week to Read more [...]
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Just Enough Group
We are the Just Enough Group and we live here with YOU on Planet Earth. It is a completely brilliant place – it has ice cream! However, a few things need sorting to make it even better. We teach on subjects such as Modern Day Slavery, Radicalisation, Problem Plastic, Hate Crime, Inclusion, Knife Read more [...]
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Samuel Lithgow Youth Centre
Samuel Lithgow Youth Centre (SLYC) was inaugurated in 1969 and has the strategic objective and mission of offering disadvantaged young people services and activities that would contribute to their personal and collective growth. The Centre is located at the heart of the Regent’s Park Ward in the London Borough of Read more [...]
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Euston Foodbank
The purpose of Euston Foodbank is to redistribute food in the Euston area on London, so that people who do not have enough food can benefit from donations from those who are able to spare their own as well as funds. We are an emergency food bank, which means we Read more [...]
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Little Village – a gift from one family to another
Little Village collects great quality donations of clothes, toys and kit for babies and children up to the age of 5 and then gifts these donations onto local families in need in the area. Families are sent our way by a network of referral partners including health visitors, midwives and Read more [...]
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WhatSUP? – Rethinking Single Use Plastic
WhatSUP is a project designed by DEED to support schools and their wider communities in East Dorset to explore and ‘re-think’ their use of Single Use Plastic (SUP) and the impact it has on the environment. Thought provoking hands-on pupil workshops and staff training explore the issue of plastic in Read more [...]
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Wellgate Community Farm Edible Garden
Our Project is to transform a neglected corner of the farm into an edible garden with safer fences, adding wheelchair access, interpretation signs, raised beds for vegetables, herbs and fruit bushes. Staff will teaching gardening and maintenance skills, healthy eating and environmental awareness to the young farmers and volunteers who Read more [...]
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Rainwater harvesting
we want to educate players and improve our community football pitches in a sustainable way with rain water harvesting
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HHHO Cancer Centre Garden Project
We are with the help of a team of volunteers looking to create a garden area at our newly re located cancer centre. Allowing our clients an outside area to sit and relax, with planters and benches. Also several raised planters which will allow our clients to grow vegetables to Read more [...]
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Allotment Project
Improving wellbeing with every parsnip grown! Improving and maintaining mental wellbeing is important to everyone. Volunteering at our allotment provides a healthy route for people with a learning disability, autism or a mental health issue to improve their wellbeing through: being active, connecting with others, taking notice of the environment, Read more [...]
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Plastic Free Dee
Children and community’s around the River Dee and the estuary are becoming more aware of plastics and non-biodegradable rubbish getting swept into our rivers and oceans and plastic reduction is becoming a more popular notion. However, there is still a long way to go. We want to work with groups Read more [...]
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Pottery Bank Community Allotment
Pottery Bank Community Centre provides services and activities to local people residing within Walker and the surrounding areas. The Centre is an essential hub for training and volunteering opportunities as well as a huge variety of community and family activities. Our aim is to build confidence, skills and improve the Read more [...]
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From Plant to Plate
We are a large primary school in a busy town. We are recreating our own vegetable garden and Eco system. The children will be responsible to grow, cultivate and harvest their own food. This will result in them being able to design and create their own meals within the home Read more [...]
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Sensory Garden
The development of a sensory garden at our school for children with Special Educational Needs is an ongoing project. We have had many volunteer days working in the garden and Greggs have been part of building a fabulous sand play area in it. Having now received a Greggs Foundation Grant Read more [...]
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Heeley City Farm
Heeley City Farm is a community farm in Heeley, Sheffield. Founded over 30 years ago, it began with £20 in the bank, donated saplings and flower seeds, a hut and a goat and masses of help from enthusiastic local people. It now employs over 50 people, many who live near Read more [...]
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Helping Hands Allotment
AFRIL’s vision is to alleviate poverty and improve the wellbeing of asylum seekers and refugees living in Lewisham and surrounding areas. Formed in January 2006, AFRIL’s main objective is to provide holistic services for these vulnerable people, including classes for adults, supplementary schooling for children, legal advice and a food Read more [...]
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The Great Growing Project
Through Harmony Woods, our new and evolving community woodland, and associated growing gardens we teach care for and understanding of the natural environment and how our actions impact on it for better and for worse, locally and globally. We provide opportunities for volunteering, learning, training, enjoyment and enhanced well-being. It Read more [...]
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Bloomsbury Festival 2018
Come and join the Bloomsbury Festival team as a volunteer and be part of a global festival here on your doorstep. Bloomsbury Festival is a festival of arts, culture, science, literature and fun that explodes onto the streets of Bloomsbury over 6 days in October from Tuesday 17th to Sunday Read more [...]
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CPRE Lancashire
CPRE believes a beautiful, thriving countryside is important for everyone, no matter where they live. Millions of town and city dwellers recharge their batteries with a walk or a bike ride in the local Green Belt, spend weekends and holidays in the countryside, or enjoy fresh local produce. People who Read more [...]
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Eighton Junction Community Garden
We run a former church as a community centre for local residents and last year took on the land around it from the council. We are developing a community garden for events, education, crafts, vegetables, composting, wildlife, volunteering, health and wellbeing. Over the next few months thanks to funding from Read more [...]