Feedback from families has shown us that there is a genuine need for an affordable and beautiful teddy bear to keep either precious memories or perhaps baby ashes.

The bear is made from luxury super-soft fabrics with high quality detailing and finishes. He is hand – washable and carries the CE standard mark so is safe for all age groups.

Our new skate school project has been really busy in it's first few weeks. It's great to be welcoming young people back into the youth centre again. We'd really like to add to the equipment we have on offer and this donation will enable us to purchase a new slappy box. What's that? well its a grind-able box for skateboarding, that allows the skaters to 'slap' or ride straight onto it, much more easy and accessible to new skaters!

It is a huge donation so our young people are putting their subs towards the box too (it's total cost is £175). The box will be dedicated in your name if you wish, or just a personalised message and create years of memories and fun in our Skate School.

Be Well Collective provides monthly workshops which unite young people as a part of the Be Well community. Lead by an expert health professional, who provides an educational workshop to teach practical tools and skills to young people to help improve their mental health and wellbeing.

Belong's restorative justice interventions reduce crime and the harm it causes by enabling victims of crime to communicate safely with those who have caused harm. They assist victims of crime to move on from incidents of harm and empower those who have caused harm to take responsibility for their actions and avoid reoffending. MOJ Research (2008) showed that: 

• Restorative justice leads to a 14% reduction in the rate of reoffending.
• 85% of victims were satisfied with the process of meeting their offender face to face, and 78% would recommend it to other people in their situation.
• 62% of victims felt that restorative justice had made them feel better after an incident of crime while just 2% felt it had made them feel worse.
• For every £1 spent on delivering a face to face meeting, £8 was saved through reductions in reoffending.

Our hard-working volunteers who sort, package and dispatch our stock to UK hospitals are powered by tea and biscuits. Please help them keep running!

Cherished Gowns UK is a charity that provides the families of babies that are stillborn, miscarried or pass away shortly after birth with items of clothing that they are able to be dressed in for their funeral. We offer five sizes of Cherished Gowns, and each gown is accompanied by a hat, pair of booties, a blanket and a cloth nappy. These items are provided completely free of charge to parents, funeral directors, and we also supply every UK hospital with this service. All of the items that we provide are lovingly made by volunteers around the UK, from donated Wedding Dresses.

These Pyjamas make children feel special after the ordeal of heart surgery and provide the practical benefit of hiding medical and monitoring equipment.

Heart Heroes work with children and their families living with heart conditions. We aim to provide services for these children, to help them meet others who are in similar situations and allow their family to talk to other families going through related experiences. At Heart Heroes we: Support children with heart diseases aged 0 – 16. Organise events and provide socialising opportunities for children to attend. We aim to introduce families with similar experiences so that they can support each other.

If leprosy is suspected, the sooner a diagnosis happens, the better, as then the patient can begin treatment as soon as possible. This reduces the risk of them suffering from long term health issues caused by this disease such as losing fingers or toes, or other disfigurements. 

We provide large A4 bespoke, personalised, Memory boxes of exceptional quality to help bereaved children remember someone who has died. When you lose a child there is often very little support for the bereaved sibling. The Memory boxes are a very simple, but effective way of helping a sibling remember their brother or sister and preserve their very precious and personal memories. The Child has full control over the design process and choosesa background theme and colour for their memory boxes. The photos are also chosen by the children and when the design has been aproved by the child it is digitally printed and heat sealed onto the Memory box. The designing of the Memory boxes is often used as a therapy by many bereavement services across the UK and every child in the family designs and receives their own Memory box so that the box belongs to them and only them.

​We do not charge for our service as we are fully self funded.

​Please note: Our large A4 wooden Memory boxes and bears are only supplied  to bereaved children under the age of 25yrs.. 

​Our Memory Boxes are supplied to families through bereavement service referrals; we do not sell boxes directly.

Mentoring Young Creatives is a programme that matches a vulnerable young person with a well suited, experienced mentor to help support and guide them. Mentoring can help to reduce the rates of mental health issues by providing access to support with a like minded individual, helping young people to feel less alone in their mental health struggles. 

We run many mindfulness sessions at Autism Together and our Raby site would like to start doing these during the good weather out on our fields with nature and our goats and alpaccas roaming around. By being portable mats we can take them to support people directly in their homes or an area of their choosing such as our woodlands or wooden chalets. 

Dame Emily Park Project (DEPP) is a local group of people who care about their park. We run the community garden and Forest School which are free to join.

Water is the gift of life. Children and families often have to walk barefoot for miles in the hot desert sun to reach their nearest water supply.

Can you imagine what they have to go through for every drop of water?

Instead of walking for hours in the scorching heat every day for water, children can go to school and mothers can work to earn an income for the family - just by having a handpump in their village.

In some villages, people have even managed to grow vegetables for the first time.

• Over 400,000 people die from malaria every year - 67% of those deaths were children, under 5 years of age.   It is a tradgedy when malaria can be prevented so easily.  Forever Angels supports families by providing them with a mosquito net to protect them from malaria and give their children a safer childhood.  Nets costs just £8 - which literally saves lives.  Can you help us?

These capes make me look like the superhero I am for being brave through heart surgery.

Heart Heroes work with children and their families living with heart conditions. We aim to provide services for these children, to help them meet others who are in similar situations and allow their family to talk to other families going through related experiences. At Heart Heroes we: Support children with heart diseases aged 0 – 16. Organise events and provide socialising opportunities for children to attend. We aim to introduce families with similar experiences so that they can support each other.

AliveCor mobile ECGs are a wonderous device that can do easy and instant readings for children with heart conditions and alert hospitals to any issues.

Heart Heroes work with children and their families living with heart conditions. We aim to provide services for these children, to help them meet others who are in similar situations and allow their family to talk to other families going through related experiences. At Heart Heroes we: Support children with heart diseases aged 0 – 16. Organise events and provide socialising opportunities for children to attend. We aim to introduce families with similar experiences so that they can support each other.

Your donation will pay for 5 BillyChips, which can be redeemed for food and drink at any participating outlet.

BillyChip®️ Foundation registered charity 1188779 was set up in 2018 to continue the legacy of Billy Abernethy-Hope a twenty-year-old ambulance driver from Bristol who was the inspiration and idea behind the BillyChip®️. After helping support the homeless at Christmas, Billy felt disheartened at how little support the general public gave to local homeless people. Many people donate to charity on a regular basis but Billy was surprised what a small percentage of donations were given directly to people living rough on our streets. Turns out most people are apprehensive to give money directly to homeless people because it's not possible to know how a donation is spent.

Unfortunately, the common perception is the money will be used for alcohol, drugs or cigarettes. Even if a donation of food or drink is given to safeguard your donation, it is very awkward as people have to make assumptions of what the person would like and when. The alternative is to engage with that person, ask the question and purchase what’s required which many feel uncomfortable doing. Billy recognized that the likelihood of someone having the time, inclination, courage, and kindness to engage with a homeless person to buy them food or drink was too big a challenge. That was the eureka moment when he first thought up the concept of the BillyChip®️. Sadly Billy never got to launch the BillyChip as planned due to his untimely death whilst backpacking in Thailand.

A wish of £40 funds a specialist counselling session to help patients and families move forward after a devastating and  life changing brain tumour diagnosis.

Specialist nurse to provide an hour of clinical support for a child who is end of life

Across the food industry, tonnes of edible food products are thrown away every day. Give £10 and enable us to redistribute 40 meals worth of food to those in need.

Someone who has been treated for leprosy will wish to secure their future by working again, but are often unable to return to their previous physical labour. The gift of a small business means that they can generate their own income, providing for both themselves and their family. 

More frequent extreme weather in the Saharawi refugee camps is causing havoc with life which is already precarious for the majority of the population living in that part of the inhospitable Saharan desert of SW Algeria. Most buildings are not built to deal with freak heavy rains. Help us put a more solid roof on to protect our learning centre against heavy rains in the future.

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You'll be ready to head to infinity and beyond with this awesome wheelchair cover set! Wonderfully capturing Buzz Lightyear's iconic spaceship, the wheelchair covers come with 16 support bars for stability.

Magic in the details...

• Includes: 2 felt spaceship pieces and 16 support bars
• Made of stiff felt with detailed sublimated art inspired by Buzz Lightyear's Star Command Spaceship
• Comes with 16 supportive plastic piping pieces for added stability
• Long self-stick fabric strips help keep pieces in place
• Cut-out window panels
• Easy assembly required, instructions included
• The wheelchair must be operated by a helper when the costume is attached
• Only to be used for standard wheelchairs with 24'' wheels
• Not to be used with battery powered wheelchairs, baby strollers, etc.
• Wheel lock must be engaged when putting on or removing the costume from the wheelchair
• Remove the costume before folding the wheelchair
• Buzz Lightyear Wheelchair-Friendly Costume available
• Costume sold separately, subject to availability
• Created for Disney Store

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You'll be ready to head to the ball in style with this beautiful wheelchair cover set! Plastic piping adds stability along the wheel covers and long self-stick fabric strips keep the pieces in place for an enchanting dress-up adventure.

Magic in the details...

• Includes: 2 large wheel covers, 2 small wheel covers, and 2 carriage pieces
• Made of stiff felt with detailed sublimated art inspired by Cinderella's carriage
• Comes with 12 supportive plastic piping pieces (4 large and 8 medium) for added stability
• Long self-stick fabric strips help keep pieces in place
• Cut-out window panels
• Easy assembly required, instructions included
• The wheelchair must be operated by a helper when the costume is attached
• Only to be used for standard wheelchairs with 24'' wheels
• Not to be used with battery powered wheelchairs, baby strollers, etc.
• Wheel lock must be engaged when putting on or removing the costume from the wheelchair
• Remove the costume before folding the wheelchair
• Cinderella Wheelchair-Friendly Costume available
• Costume sold separately, subject to availability
• Created for Disney Store

The bare necessities

• Fully assembled: H134.5 x W106.5cm approx.
• Each panel: D0.5cm approx.
• Made from polyester
• Wipe clean
• Please note: steam or iron for best results
• Warning: keep away from fire
• Warning: not suitable under 36 months due to small parts

Can you help us engage with young people? Every week we head out from the youth centre and engage with young people where ever they are. It's a great way to get useful services out to young people that might not know about them and offer support where it's needed. We like to offer young people a hot chocolate and biscuit while they chat to us and some really look forward to seeing us. Please help us by donating to buy this offering and help us engage with young people!

Our youth club runs twice a week and aims to involve young people in new and interesting activities. It could be learning how to cook a meal, create fun stencil art or something completely different. Your wish will help us provide these activities to lots of young people that attend our youth club each week.

Across the food industry, tonnes of edible food products are thrown away every day. Give £25 and enable us to redistribute 100 meals worth of food to those in need.

Your donation will cover the costs involved in setting up a new cafe or restaurant to be part of the BillyChip®️ scheme.

BillyChip®️ Foundation registered charity 1188779 was set up in 2018 to continue the legacy of Billy Abernethy-Hope a twenty-year-old ambulance driver from Bristol who was the inspiration and idea behind the BillyChip®️. After helping support the homeless at Christmas, Billy felt disheartened at how little support the general public gave to local homeless people. Many people donate to charity on a regular basis but Billy was surprised what a small percentage of donations were given directly to people living rough on our streets. Turns out most people are apprehensive to give money directly to homeless people because it's not possible to know how a donation is spent.

Unfortunately, the common perception is the money will be used for alcohol, drugs or cigarettes. Even if a donation of food or drink is given to safeguard your donation, it is very awkward as people have to make assumptions of what the person would like and when. The alternative is to engage with that person, ask the question and purchase what’s required which many feel uncomfortable doing. Billy recognized that the likelihood of someone having the time, inclination, courage, and kindness to engage with a homeless person to buy them food or drink was too big a challenge. That was the eureka moment when he first thought up the concept of the BillyChip®️. Sadly Billy never got to launch the BillyChip as planned due to his untimely death whilst backpacking in Thailand.

Sudan has a long-standing tradition of hosting refugees. For decades, it has kept its doors open to people fleeing war, hunger and hardship. Importantly, Sudan is one of the major hosting countries for refugees fleeing the deadly conflict in South Sudan. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the education gaps in the country, while the virus keeps spreading. Children are returning to school in unsafe conditions and without protection.

Windle International empowers people to make lasting change in their own lives, in their communities and in wider society. We do this by creating access to quality education and training across East Africa and the Horn of Africa for refugees, communities affected by conflict, and those who have been marginalised in society. We believe that every child should have the capacity to access quality education safely, and reach their full potential.

Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps, located in an arid environment in the northern part of Kenya, are host to over 508,033 refugees and asylum seekers, from which more than the half are children. The camps are located in the north-western region of the country, which has the highest levels of poverty and lowest performance indicators relating to access to quality educational opportunities. 84% of the population in Turkana County, and 73% of the population of Garissa County, lives below the poverty line. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis in the country, schools are closing at each pick outbreak and children do not have tools to follow home-learning. With the provision of solar radio, secondary school children will be able to follow live classes all year long.

Windle International empowers people to make lasting change in their own lives, in their communities and in wider society. We do this by creating access to quality education and training across East Africa and the Horn of Africa for refugees, communities affected by conflict, and those who have been marginalised in society. Windle International Kenya manages secondary schools in Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps as the lead implementing partner of the UN refugee agency, and runs a range of quality educational programmes and scholarships aimed at improving the educational outcomes and ultimately contributing to the creation of peaceful and durable communities.

Word Forest works with unsupported schools in Coastal Province, Kenya to build safe, cool classrooms, providing educational spaces for the children and for the community too. For every classroom we build we plant 4,000 fruit and nut trees around the school compound. 

The gift of the cropping food forest aims to instil a sense of responsibility in the school children, and nurture their spirit of care.

This legacy planting programme will give classroom students nutritious meals, as well as give everyone shade and protection from the weather, help reduce damage from flooding, provide safe habitats for wildlife, clean the air and combat climate change.

Your donation will help us reforest Kenya with extra fruit and trees for the schools we work with. Thank you.

We have developed Pratham Open School which has over 1000 apps and stories and over 7000 learning videos in 13 Indian languages that support children's learning. Whilst the apps are available to anyone with a smartphone we also provide preloaded tablets in targeted communities to support learning.

3D Hand sculpture ot a child's hand for parents to keep forever

Educating girls leads to more peaceful and equitablSouth Sudan is facing a range of humanitarian emergencies from conflict to economic instability and severe food insecurity situation. Nearly 7.5 million people, including 54% children, are in need of humanitarian assistance. The impact of the pandemic with the closure of schools has eradicated all past gains made in the education sector. The number of girls enrolled in primary and secondary schools decreased by 84% when schools reopened after the national lockdown. Girls are exposed to social and economic challenges faced by their families leading to sexual exploitation through forced and early marriage and early-unintended pregnancy. The protective environment provided by the school, friends and teachers, has all been taken away from the girls by the closure of schools due to COVID-19 leaving the girls vulnerable.

Windle International empowers people to make lasting change in their own lives, in their communities and in wider society. We do this by creating access to quality education and training across East Africa and the Horn of Africa for refugees, communities affected by conflict, and those who have been marginalised in society. We believe that investing in girls' education will change the world. Educating girls leads to more peaceful and equitable societies, where boys, girls, men and women can reach their true potential.e societies, where boys, girls, men and women can reach their true potential. 

There is no health care in the villages of Darfur. Young girls getting married in remote villages face childbirth with no trained assistance. In some villages there may be a Traditional Birth Attender (TBA) – someone who has ‘survived childbirth’. She will have had no medical training. If there is obstructed birth, ‘rope delivery’ is the only possible help, with subsequent damage to the baby – if it survives. It costs Kids for Kids £2,000 to train a Village Midwife and to provide her with a smart white tobe (sari uniform) and leather sandals, plus providing her with medical equipment. We also provide a fast and strong crossbred donkey so she can travel more easily between the villages, plus a solar lantern so that mothers will not give birth by the flickering light of a fire. There is no electricity in villages.

Your donation would provide a care package for someone living in isolation due to caring responsibilities and perhaps can’t get to a art group

Dover smART Project was founded in 2013 to provide opportunities for disadvantaged children in Dover to take part in a wide range of creative activities and experiences to boost their confidence, enhance their well-being, raise their aspirations and widen their outlook on the world. The charity soon evolved and began similar work with other groups, such as the people without a home and hospice patients, using art and creativity to support their various needs.

Belong's vision is to ensure hope, rehabilitation and recovery for victims and perpetrators of crime. Our mission is to inspire change by providing long term, individualised responses to conflict and crime. We work with children, young people and adults in custodial and community settings. Our main services include mentoring, creative psychotherapy and restorative justice. We specialise in working with those that are hardest to reach.

Across the food industry, tonnes of edible food products are thrown away every day. Give £100 and enable us to redistribute 400 meals worth of food to those in need.

Saharawi refugee women are at the heart of delivering English language education to primary school aged children at our Desert Voicebox afterschool programme, based in camps near Tindouf in SW Algeria. Throughout the academic year, up to 80 children learn at four progressive levels, five days a week, in a 4 years-long curriculum.

Sandblast has taken on the mission of providing opportunities for local refugee women, who were not able to go to university, to develop careers locally and become educational leaders in their community in order to drive the Desert Voicebox project forward. The training  provided since the project started, in 2016, has had and continues to have a life-changing impact on them. 

This training opportunity in Algiers, over the summer of 2023, will vitally help our  DV teachers to strengthen their skills in English language teaching to improve the quality of the learning experience for the Saharawi refugee children enrolled at Desert Voicebox.

There is nothing that upsets us more than to see a broken handpump sitting idle. 

Imagine the sheer frustration of knowing there is water right there in your village – but not being able to fix the pump, and having to walk miles each day to fetch water. 

Kids for Kids has emergency funds set aside for cases like these, to quickly get broken pumps working again. 

Somalia has long-standing political instability, armed conflict leading to a sectarian war and environmental stress. 3 million children have been left with no access to education. Retention and continuation are a challenge as institutional education capacity remains weak. The lack of learning materials in schools poses a severe threat as the ratio of materials to learners stands at 1:9.

Windle International empowers people to make lasting change in their own lives, in their communities and in wider society. We do this by creating access to quality education and training across East Africa and the Horn of Africa for refugees, communities affected by conflict, and those who have been marginalised in society. Windle International considers good quality education as a key element in reducing the risk of extremism and establishing peace.  Since 2018, Windle International SOM has supported thousands of children, supplying educational materials, peer-counsellor training, professional development for teachers, mentorship, and re-usable facemasks and COVID-19 preventative information to learners and teachers.

Our professional counsellors help guide grandparents in their journey through grief

Across the food industry, tonnes of edible food products are thrown away every day. Give £50 and enable us to redistribute 200 meals worth of food to those in need.

Saharawi refugee children learn English and music over 4 years in a bespoke curriculum  at Desert Voicebox 5 times a week and are taught by locally sourced Sandblast-trained Saharawi women. As there is no running water nearby we would like to provide the children learning at Desert Voicebox with access to clean water by installing a 1000 litre water tank.

Your donation will protect on average seven acres of rainforest in our most urgent carbon-rich projects, whose protection is vital in the fight against climate change.

And you will be providing a safe haven for countless animals, insects and plants, as tropical rainforests support over 50% of the world’s species, many of which are critically endangered.

The acres you save will also safely store, on average, over 1,000 metric tonnes of CO2e, helping to mitigate the impacts of climate change around the world. 

100% of the money that Rainforest Trust UK receives will go directly towards conservation.

These gowns make children feel special after the ordeal of heart surgery and provide the practical benefit of hiding medical and monitoring equipment.

Heart Heroes work with children and their families living with heart conditions. We aim to provide services for these children, to help them meet others who are in similar situations and allow their family to talk to other families going through related experiences. At Heart Heroes we: Support children with heart diseases aged 0 – 16. Organise events and provide socialising opportunities for children to attend. We aim to introduce families with similar experiences so that they can support each other.

Childhood cancer is a life changing diagnosis.

It affects the child diagnosed but also their siblings, parents and their friends and teachers at school. A child with cancer faces prolonged periods of time away from school in isolation and in hospital. The Grace Kelly Childhood Cancer Trust cannot change the child’s diagnosis, but we can help to make a real difference by giving them some hope and a level of normality whilst they are fighting their illness.

Why do we need these robots?

By giving isolated children this ‘window’ to their friends and the outside world, we can help them to bridge the gap. The AV1 robot allows children in a hospital bed to interact with their classroom and their peers at the same time. Not only does this bring hope and positivity to children (and their families) affected by cancer but also to their peers who are facing the sudden disappearance of their friend. We have seen how Oscar, Lucy and Zain, who have already been given the use of our AV1 robots, have already benefitted.

How many children need help?

In the counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, there are approximately 75 children diagnosed with cancer every year, with around 40 being of school age. Of these school children, more than a half will need extended periods of hospitalisation or isolation during their treatment. Our aim is to be able to support these children with our AV1 machines wherever possible. Over the first three years of the project, we aim to purchase 18 new AV1 machines and support packages for these children to use. Referrals will be made directly from cancer specialist nurse teams to ensure that the children that need them are not missed.

More information on our website >>

A bear to remember a child that has passed

£30 towards items for our family support packs which are given by newly diagnosed families. These packs contain useful and essential items for a hospital stay and will provide comfort and support.

Word Forest works closely with partners in Kenya on the Tulinde Bongo Project, taking place in the Aberdares Forest. This amazing project covers a range of activities - reforestation, education and community engagement - to help protect and save the Mountain Bongo as well as play a part in mitigating climate change.  

The Mountain Bongo is listed as critically endangered by the IUCN.  Part of the planned project includes planting thousands of Kenyan Forestry Service recommended saplings within the Aberdares Forest. Reforestation of the area is essential to create the environment that they thrive on, allowing them the space to return and hopefully grow in numbers.

Your donation will help Word Forest add to the 5000 saplings they have already planted, creating increased new habitat, and provide the shade and cover needed for the species growth. Thank you.

Our music studio has been running since 2008, offering young people the opportunity to express themselves and learn how to write and record music. Our trained sound technitians work with young people twice weekly to explore issues that are important to them and put it into something positive and expressive.

In 2019, 10 million new people fell ill with TB, even though the disease is preventable and curable. With the emergence of COVID-19, respiratory illness and treatment are more important than ever.

APOPO’s TB-detection rats screen tens of thousands of sputum samples collected from TB clinics every year. As a result, many TB patients that initially were diagnosed as negative have been identified, started treatment and stopped the spread of the disease.

In Darfur, Goats save lives!  Goat’s milk stops children from being malnourished, and mothers can sell surplus milk and yoghurt at market to earn what is often her first ever income. Donate a goat today!

A Heart Heroes Hug- contains arts/crafts, goodies and activities to send to make a Heart child smile who may be isolating, recovering from an operation or is about to have an operation.

Heart Heroes work with children and their families living with heart conditions. We aim to provide services for these children, to help them meet others who are in similar situations and allow their family to talk to other families going through related experiences. At Heart Heroes we: Support children with heart diseases aged 0 – 16. Organise events and provide socialising opportunities for children to attend. We aim to introduce families with similar experiences so that they can support each other.

If a person who has been treated with leprosy is provided with a cow or goat, then they can sell their milk and gain a reasonable income. This independence and income is vital to help them rebuild their lives after treatment, and to sustain themselves for the future. 

We are seeking emergency help for families who are desperately short of food and water. They dare not leave their homes whilst fighting rages around them - battles have broken out across Darfur, not just in Khartoum. Children are always the first to suffer when fighting erupts. The situation in Darfur has exacerbated an already dire situation where shortages across the country have led to many families struggling to feed their children. In Darfur, conditions were already worse than we have ever known. Families need basic essentials including flour and seeds as well as repairs to broken water hand pumps. Drinking water is in desperately short supply. Please consider donating to support our life-saving work.

A sensory box to aid sensory play, Contains a touchy feely book, ribbons, spikey ball, foil blanket, bells and feathers.

Heart Heroes work with children and their families living with heart conditions. We aim to provide services for these children, to help them meet others who are in similar situations and allow their family to talk to other families going through related experiences. At Heart Heroes we: Support children with heart diseases aged 0 – 16. Organise events and provide socialising opportunities for children to attend. We aim to introduce families with similar experiences so that they can support each other.

We offer free mental health peer support sessions for children, young people, and their parents. These sessions help young people better understand their mental health challenges and navigate through the recovery journey. Your gift will fund a free peer support session. Sometimes, it’s just one session that can save a young person from self-harm. Over the last six months, we have supported 1430 families across the UK.

Our Mission

Deliver quality and accessible mental health services to children and young people on a large scale. 

Our Vision

Build a bright and healthy future for children and young people.

Who we are?

We are a non-profit organization that uses technology to bring the right information and support for the mental health of children and young people.

Why do we do this?

We know how hard it is to find the right information and support at the right time. More than 70% of our team have lived or shared experience of mental health conditions. We founded Mindsum because we felt there’s a need for an all-in-one solution.

We want to make mental healthcare more accessible to children, young people, and their parents.

How do we do it?

We do this by providing the right information and giving access to the right therapists, as well as dedicating all our profits towards funding therapy for those who cannot afford to pay.

Your donation will go towards the costs of providing tuition to a child who uses English as an additional language living in Bristol or Oxford. This includes recruiting and training a volunteer tutor, providing teaching resources and access to an online learning platform. It also covers the cost for the child and their family to attend one of our fun kids’ events or activities.

First aid workers are a lifeline for villagers with no other access to healthcare. 

A small cut can soon become a debilitating injury if an infection goes untreated. 

The training they receive includes hygiene and the care of broken limbs. 

First Aid Workers are also trained to take part in vaccination programmes to prevent diseases. 

They are in charge of the Revolving Drug Programme we help them to establish, ensuring that medicine is available in all our Kids for Kids’ villages.

Childhood cancer is the most common medical cause of death of children in the UK. Every year, just under 4,000 children and young adults receive this life changing diagnosis. The Grace Kelly Childhood Cancer Trust is working to raise awareness of childhood cancer and the signs and symptoms with which it may present. We produce educational resources for parents and clinicians, provide support to families and fund research into rare cancers of childhood. The Grace Kelly Childhood Cancer Trust was founded in memory of 4 year old Grace Kelly who passed away in 2014. The vision of the Trust was born from the inspiration that Grace imparted on the people she met. Grace was a compassionate and caring little girl, who looked after others before herself. We are making a difference to other children whilst fulfilling Grace's wish of helping others. Because The Children Of Today All Deserve A Tomorrow

Cherished Gowns UK is a charity that provides the families of babies that are stillborn, miscarried or pass away shortly after birth with items of clothing that they are able to be dressed in for their funeral. We offer five sizes of Cherished Gowns, and each gown is accompanied by a hat, pair of booties, a blanket and a cloth nappy. These items are provided completely free of charge to parents, funeral directors, and we also supply every UK hospital with this service. All of the items that we provide are lovingly made by volunteers around the UK, from donated Wedding Dresses.

Word Forest has created a women’s empowerment group in Kenya called Mothers of The Forest to support women in small rural communities.  In challenging environmental conditions, the women look after their families and work hard to find a living. They have been given little opportunity for education and many have felt socially isolated and disconnected.

They now have weekly meetings that include courses on permaculture, tree husbandry, agroforestry and income generation. They also receive lunch, water and as an innovative way to reforestation, two new tree saplings (mangoes, cashews, moringa), helping them to create their own cropping forest. 

The women can then harvest the crops from the trees, sell any excess creating sustainable livelihoods, and help us by saving the seeds to grow in our nurseries for planting in the future. The trees will also provide shade, a new habitat for wildlife, absorb CO2, clean the air and combat climate change for generations to come.

Your donation will give a fruit or nut tree to each member of our Garashi group. Thank you.

£40 to buy a Buzzy for our family support packs.

Buzzy is a very cute vibrating bee with ice pack wings that decreases sharp pain.

Buzzy®uses natural pain relief by confusing your body's own nerves, thereby dulling or eliminating sharp pain. In the same way that rubbing a bumped elbow helps stop the hurt, or cool running water soothes a burn, Buzzy® bypasses sharp pain. In an emergency department, nurses and doctors can get too busy to wait for numbing creams for needle procedures. For newly diagnosed diabetic children, the medical community has a history of expecting kids to just get used to needle pain. For shots, for bee stings, for boo-boos, for injected medicines, for all acute pain management, Dr. Amy Baxter and her team developed Buzzy® to put instant pain management in YOUR hands.

Your donation would provide a 1-2-1 session to support a young carer who may be in crisis.

Dover smART Project was founded in 2013 to provide opportunities for disadvantaged children in Dover to take part in a wide range of creative activities and experiences to boost their confidence, enhance their well-being, raise their aspirations and widen their outlook on the world. The charity soon evolved and began similar work with other groups, such as the people without a home and hospice patients, using art and creativity to support their various needs.

Cherished Gowns UK is a charity that provides the families of babies that are stillborn, miscarried or pass away shortly after birth with items of clothing that they are able to be dressed in for their funeral. We offer five sizes of Cherished Gowns, and each gown is accompanied by a hat, pair of booties, a blanket and a cloth nappy. These items are provided completely free of charge to parents, funeral directors, and we also supply every UK hospital with this service. All of the items that we provide are lovingly made by volunteers around the UK, from donated Wedding Dresses.

Changes Bristol is a charity that helps people in mental health distress. We offer peer support groups, telephone befriending and a walking service. We work with over 100 volunteers who help us to run all of our support networks. A donation of £150 will cover the cost to train a volunteer facilitator. 

Changes Bristol support over 1,000 people with poor mental health and without volunteers, the charity would not be able to run. We actively consider people who have lived experience of low mental wellbeing, with extensive training and support throughout. 

Not only does volunteering with Changes offer a spring board into a support service career path, it is also an extremely rewarding opportunity to help others. 

Cherished Gowns UK is a charity that provides the families of babies that are stillborn, miscarried or pass away shortly after birth with items of clothing that they are able to be dressed in for their funeral. We offer five sizes of Cherished Gowns, and each gown is accompanied by a hat, pair of booties, a blanket and a cloth nappy. These items are provided completely free of charge to parents, funeral directors, and we also supply every UK hospital with this service. All of the items that we provide are lovingly made by volunteers around the UK, from donated Wedding Dresses.

Your donation will protect on average three acres of rainforest in our most urgent carbon-rich projects, whose protection is vital in the fight against climate change.

And you will be providing a safe haven for countless animals, insects and plants, as tropical rainforests support over 50% of the world’s species, many of which are critically endangered.

The acres you save will also safely store, on average, around 500 metric tonnes of CO2e, helping to mitigate the impacts of climate change around the world. 

100% of the money that Rainforest Trust UK receives will go directly towards conservation.

A personalised Young at Heart Superhero bear to put a smile on the face of a child or baby with heart conditions under the care of Birmingham children hospital cardiac unit and supported by Young at Heart Childrens charity 

During the present Covid crisis we have extended our objectives to include services for those who have lost during the coronavirus pandemic.  

When the Covid – 19 crisis began to emerge we grew very concerned that families who lost during this time would have not had the “non World” bereavement experience and reflected on how this would be affecting those concerned and their mental health. To lose a loved one and not be able to visit them in their last moments, see them after they had died and at times not been able to attend their funerals leaves a huge gap and perhaps lack of acceptance and form of reality and this would have effects on a person’s emotional well-being. With that in mind we began the process to adapt to the current crisis and try to help.

Memory box to remember a child

We have specially selected these items to help parents who have babies in special care.  We have chosen these items as they promote bonding with the baby and also can take some of the stress off of parents who will need to 'dash out' and purchase essential care items.  

Secured in our Baby Memorial Garden in Rochester, Kent. The Baby Garden is open to parents and families who want to come to a quiet, beautiful place to remember their baby.

Nurses provide vital ongoing treatment and support for those with leprosy, both within medical facilities and camps, as well as through outreach programmes in local communities. 

Children growing up in the camps suffer from a lack of quality and fun activities to grow outside the classroom and to develop their potential and creative voices. Lack of positive stimulation is an endemic problem. The special workshops run by our international volunteers provide excitement and variety for the children, who always look forward to their next learning adventure in these workshops. Having air-conditioners at our Desert Voicebox learning centre is not a luxury. It's a necessity! We hope to raise enough funds to support 2 volunteers to run month long workshops every year.  

Dover smART Project was founded in 2013 to provide opportunities for disadvantaged children in Dover to take part in a wide range of creative activities and experiences to boost their confidence, enhance their well-being, raise their aspirations and widen their outlook on the world. The charity soon evolved and began similar work with other groups, such as the people without a home and hospice patients, using art and creativity to support their various needs.

Vibe Youth have vast experience in providing services to the most disadvantaged and economically marginalised young people and communities who are affected by poverty and hardship. Vibe Youth creates safe environments that challenge young people to identify and explore barriers that restrict them from fulfilling thier potential. Young people are struggling now more than ever, Vibe Youth address issues that inturn improves the mental health and emotional wellbeing of children and young people. We are asking for support to reach our goal of £250 which will enable 10 young people to access workshops that will focus on supporting their wellbeing. Please make our wish come true and support South Wales YOUTH. 

Uganda hosts the largest number of refugees in Africa (1.4 million), and 58% of them are children under 18 years old. The basic right to education of refugees is often denied. Living in a foreign country fleeing violence and persecution creates an extremely difficult situation for learning. Where education can continue, it is often of poor quality; in Uganda, this is affecting hundreds of thousands of children. The majority of schools do not have the infrastructure to accommodate overcrowded classrooms and the basic needs of children. Overcrowding is the hardest obstacle for teachers and students alike. This makes the situation for both teacher and learner almost impossible. Infrastructure needs to be adequate in order to make schools safer and more accessible, to all children affected by conflict. We aim to provide sufficient space, desk and learning materials to improve primary school children's learning outcomes and secure their academic future toward secondary level.

Windle International empowers people to make lasting change in their own lives, in their communities and in wider society. We do this by creating access to quality education and training across East Africa and the Horn of Africa for refugees, communities affected by conflict, and those who have been marginalised in society. We believe that positive change is achieved, and peaceful societies are created, when the people who have been most affected by conflict are empowered to become change-makers in their communities. In Uganda, we have been recognized Best International Education Humanitarian NGO in the country, in both 2019 and 2020.

Donate the gift of education and send a child who has never been to school before to start his/her journey.  Education helps children to escape poverty and build a future for themselves. 98% of mothers in Darfur are illiterate – they need help to teach their children. £90 will provide education for a child for one year.

The people we support love to take part in art activities of all sorts and we regularly go through lots of supplies. It would be great if you could support us in purchasing some extra equipment; things like paint, pens, pencils, easels, canvses, clay, tools etc. 

A package of "The baby" book, a memorial bear and a personalised pebble presented in a beautiful box

Heart Heroes work with children and their families living with heart conditions. We aim to provide services for these children, to help them meet others who are in similar situations and allow their family to talk to other families going through related experiences. At Heart Heroes we: Support children with heart diseases aged 0 – 16. Organise events and provide socialising opportunities for children to attend. We aim to introduce families with similar experiences so that they can support each other.

We are running a special campaign for our Neonatal parents. We know how difficult it is to have a baby in special care. We have devised a carry cot full of items to help spend precious moments with the new baby. 
the carry cot and contents have a retail price of over £150, but we are lucky enough to be able to supply and deliver them for £50. 
in sponsoring a carry cot we can add your details, so that your item goes to a recipient in one of our partnered hospitals. We are limited to just 60 carry cots which will be sent to one of the following hospitals: 

NorthamptonGeneral, Kettering General, Milton Keynes University Hospital and Norwich and Norfolk Hospital. 

Distance Learning is a potentially powerful tool for achieving our commitment to gender equity. With many suitably qualified female candidates from East Africa unable to study outside of their home region for family or cultural reasons, this means that applications and selected candidates for traditional UK based scholarship programmes continue to be overwhelmingly male dominated. This in turn risks perpetuating and further entrenching the status quo where females are marginalised in education. Opportunities for Distance Learning offer the possibility of overcoming this barrier to inclusivity.

Windle International empowers people to make lasting change in their own lives, in their communities and in wider society. We do this by creating access to quality education and training across East Africa and the Horn of Africa for refugees, communities affected by conflict, and those who have been marginalised in society. Our alumni reached positions ranging from senior Ministers to NGO leaders, development professionals, doctors, engineers and teachers amongst others. We believe that positive change is achieved, and peaceful societies are created, when the people who have been most affected by conflict are empowered to become change-makers in their communities. 

This year AFK celebrates 30 years of providing special equipment, education and employment support for disabled children and young people. Can you donate to help fund travel, party food and activitirs on the day (26th June)

During the warmer days, the people we support love to be outside with a variety of activities. We would love to get this portable Badminton set so they can set it up and play with staff and others as a fun activity. 

Forever Angels supports orphaned and abandoned babies by providing life saving formula milk at our Interim Care Home as well as to babies in the community being raised by relatives.   20 women die in childbirth every day in Tanzania, leaving behind 20 babies at risk of malnutrition and death.  We provide these babies with the necessary nutrition to keep them alive and be able to thrive.  £50 supports a baby with milk for one month - esentally saving its life.  Thank you for your kind support. 

Surgical intervention can prevent people who have leprosy from sustaining long-term disabilities, which as well as stopping them from earning income, can have a huge impact on both their mental health and their daily lives. 

Dover smART Project was founded in 2013 to provide opportunities for disadvantaged children in Dover to take part in a wide range of creative activities and experiences to boost their confidence, enhance their well-being, raise their aspirations and widen their outlook on the world. The charity soon evolved and began similar work with other groups, such as the people without a home and hospice patients, using art and creativity to support their various needs.

Community health workers play a vital role in supporting leprosy patients. They can diagnose the disease, train the person in self care and help prevent long term disabilities. 

Since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in Africa, girls have struggled significantly in being able to access education. This has been caused by many factors, including increased childcare responsibilities and household chores, while their male peers were able to continue their studies from home. When they finish with their chores, girls’ struggle to do their homework because of the lack of sunlight and electricity. To allow girls’ to catch up, we distribute solar lamps to the most in need girls so that they can do their homework and study in the evening.

The Boarding School is the name of our new indoor skateboarding project. We've got a hall full of ramps at our youth centre that we set up each week for young rippers. Your wish will help us provide skateboard tuition to a young person to help them progress and earn locally recognised accreditation.

Belong's vision is to ensure hope, rehabilitation and recovery for victims and perpetrators of crime. Our mission is to inspire change by providing long term, individualised responses to conflict and crime. We work with children, young people and adults in custodial and community settings. Our main services include mentoring, creative psychotherapy and restorative justice. We specialise in working with those that are hardest to reach.

Mentors engage people serving sentences, in the community on license or on suspended sentences in practical activities such as CV writing; job interview practice and housing support, as well as family, emotional and relational support such as self-esteem exercises; thinking skills, problem solving and life skills based practice. Mentoring sessions take place for approximately 1 – 2 hours weekly or fortnightly, depending on the mentees needs. Belong’s mentoring services achieved the Mentoring and Befriending Foundation’s Approved Provider Standard quality mark in 2014.

“I think I’m a lot more patient now.... I think chatting to my mentor helped... Before I was just angry or I’d just fight, but now I think I’ve grown up a bit through the course and just through myself”

We offer free therapy sessions for children and young people struggling with various mental health conditions. Your gift will help a child or a young person to get free therapy sessions that can make a lasting impact on their lives.

Our Mission

Deliver quality and accessible mental health services to children and young people on a large scale. 

Our Vision

Build a bright and healthy future for children and young people.

We are a non-profit organization that uses technology to bring the right information and support for the mental health of children and young people.

Why do we do this?

We know how hard it is to find the right information and support at the right time. More than 70% of our team have lived or shared experience of mental health conditions.

We founded Mindsum because we felt there’s a need for an all-in-one solution.

We want to make mental healthcare more accessible to children, young people, and their parents.

How do we do it?

We do this by providing the right information and giving access to the right therapists, as well as dedicating all our profits towards funding therapy for those who cannot afford to pay.

Across the food industry, tonnes of edible food products are thrown away every day. Give £5 and enable us to redistribute 20 meals worth of food to those in need.

We have lots of personal allotment beds for the people we support and wheelbarrows are a great way of helping them to move items around and with clearing. We also have our farm with goats and pigs and our own Garden Centre. Plenty of places where wheelbarrows are needed and we will also use some money to purhcase 2 wheeled wheel barrows to help indiviudals with mobility issues. 

Our beautiful Memory bears have a concealed zip pouch to hold a precious item belonging to a bereaved child

This will give a disabled child the chance to play with their friends or go on bike rides with their family while increasing their strength and independence

Our professional counsellors help guide the whole family in their journey through grief. 

Goats save lives. Kids for Kids lends 5 goats to a family for immediate milk for starving babies and malnourished children. We train the family to look after them, and the little flock grows. What is so fantastic, is that as the flock increases, the goats provide an income for essentials like food, clothes, healthcare and education. Of course the availability of milk and yoghurt in the village benefits the wider community too. After 2 years the family passes on 5 healthy goats to the next family and the miracle continues.

Cherished Gowns UK is a charity that provides the families of babies that are stillborn, miscarried or pass away shortly after birth with items of clothing that they are able to be dressed in for their funeral. We offer five sizes of Cherished Gowns, and each gown is accompanied by a hat, pair of booties, a blanket and a cloth nappy. These items are provided completely free of charge to parents, funeral directors, and we also supply every UK hospital with this service. All of the items that we provide are lovingly made by volunteers around the UK, from donated Wedding Dresses.

"The Baby" is a magical rhyming book that is intended to support families that are suffering or have suffered with the loss of a baby. Written by talented children’s author Joseph Hopkins in collaboration with registered charity ‘Making Miracles’, the book is intended to help families talk and provoke communication about this tough subject. Research showed that families find talking to young children or siblings particularly hard and that is where ‘The Baby’ can help. Wonderful, simple and calm illustrations are a perfect fit for the book.

Your donation will pay for 10 BillyChips, which can be redeemed for food and drink at any participating outlet.

BillyChip®️ Foundation registered charity 1188779 was set up in 2018 to continue the legacy of Billy Abernethy-Hope a twenty-year-old ambulance driver from Bristol who was the inspiration and idea behind the BillyChip®️. After helping support the homeless at Christmas, Billy felt disheartened at how little support the general public gave to local homeless people. Many people donate to charity on a regular basis but Billy was surprised what a small percentage of donations were given directly to people living rough on our streets. Turns out most people are apprehensive to give money directly to homeless people because it's not possible to know how a donation is spent.

Unfortunately, the common perception is the money will be used for alcohol, drugs or cigarettes. Even if a donation of food or drink is given to safeguard your donation, it is very awkward as people have to make assumptions of what the person would like and when. The alternative is to engage with that person, ask the question and purchase what’s required which many feel uncomfortable doing. Billy recognized that the likelihood of someone having the time, inclination, courage, and kindness to engage with a homeless person to buy them food or drink was too big a challenge. That was the eureka moment when he first thought up the concept of the BillyChip®️. Sadly Billy never got to launch the BillyChip as planned due to his untimely death whilst backpacking in Thailand.

At Forever Angels Baby Home we care for between 30 and 40 orphaned babies and toddlers at any time.  Our biggest expense is milk, but as the babies are weaned, we need to buy lots of fresh fruit and vegetables to ensure they have a good diet.  We spend around £150 per month on fruit and vegetables and would love your support to buy this.

It can be very scary when in hospital, purchase a care package for a cardiac family in Birmingham Childrens Hospital 

The child will receive a bravery certificatewith the date of their open heart surgery and a build bear to keep, there will also be various items for the child and parents this will vary depending on the age of the child.

the picture is for a 1 week old baby girl 

Your donation will go towards the costs of providing tuition to a child who uses English as an additional language living in Bristol or Oxford. This includes recruiting and training a volunteer tutor, providing teaching resources and access to an online learning platform. It also covers the cost for the child and their family to attend 4 of our fun kids’ events or activities.

It is crucial that people who have been affected by leprosy are provided with the means with which to secure a livelihood. A sewing machine means that they can work as a tailor and mend clothes, giving them both an income and a purpose within their community. 

We have been really busy at our new skate school project called The Boarding School, and it's great to be welcoming young people back into the youth centre. We would really like to add to the equipment we have on offer and this donation would enable us to purchase a new Grind Rail! What is it? It's similar to a handrail but much lower to the ground and specifically designed to be skate-able. Made of heavy duty box steel, the rail will be custom made to fit in the skate school and provide endless hours of fun and help young people learn new tricks.

The rail will be dedicated in your name if you wish, or with a personalised message of your choosing.