Approved charities

local scout group in the holbeck area with a beaver, cub and scout section. we own our own hut which is also used by a rainbows group and a pensioners coffee afternoon group. we support young people through scouting to grow in confidence, develop lifelong skills and attitudes that will help them live healthy, active lives as positive members of their community.

We are a Brownie Unit which is part of Girl Guiding UK. The girls follow the Guiding programme for their section and work on topics covering You, Community and World.
The girls also work towards gaining badges

Weare Beaver and Cub Scout Group taking part in community events providing indoor fun and adventure in both indoor and outdoor Scouting activities.

Not for profit organisation ran by parent carers of disabled children who make affordable weighted therapy & sensory items. We also create meaningful activities for the disability community in the form of workshops & work experience to aid independence/ self esteem

We are sheltered housing providing accommodation for 11 elderly residents, the Barrow Society was established 50 years ago and has been used by the local community continually over these years, residents have an en suit room and are provided with all meals and have a 24/ 7 on call support system.

Bringing comfort after pregnancy and baby loss
Aching Arms is a baby loss charity run by a group of bereaved mothers who have experienced the pain and emptiness of leaving hospital without their baby.
Our aim is to raise awareness of the impact of pregnancy and baby loss and bring some comfort to bereaved parents and their families after the loss of a baby.
We provide Aching Arms bears to hospitals for midwives to give out. We also reach out to bereaved families who contact us via our website, email, Facebook or Twitter and post dedicated bears directly.

Action for A-T was established in 2012 with the aim of speeding up the process of identifying a cure for A-T or treatments that delay or prevent the disabling effects of the condition. We do this by seeking and funding high quality peer-reviewed medical research both in the UK and around the world.

Since 2012, we have funded or co-funded 11 international projects (see http://www.actionforat.org and have recently established our own highly qualified medical advisory and peer review panel. We are also members of the Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) which is the national membership organisation of leading medical and health research charities.

As well as our existing research pipeline, we have ambitious plans for the future. Our long term strategic goals include increasing our investment into the highest quality A-T related research, establishing a UK based centre of excellence for A-T related research and funding research fellowships to continue the momentum we have already created in the research community.

AGE UK BARROW AND DISTRICT WILL WORK WITH AND FOR OLDER PEOPLE TO PROVIDE A WIDE RANGE OF QUALITY SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES. IT IS DEDICATED TO IMPROVING AND MAINTAINING THIS AIM. AGE UK B& D AIMS TO BE AN EFFECTIVE ORGANISATION THAT LISTENS TO, AND IS INFLUENCED BY, ITS USERS AND THE WIDER COMMUNITY. IT WILL WORK TOWARDS THE REMOVAL OF AGE AS A BARRIER TO OPPORTUNITY AND CHOICE FOR ALL.

Alder Hey Children’s Hospital is the busiest children’s hospital in the UK caring for over 275,000 young patients each year. Alder Hey is a Centre of Excellence for children with cancer, heart, spinal and brain disease and a National Centre for head and facial surgery, we are one of only four centres nationally to provide epilepsy surgery and one of two accredited major trauma units for children in the North West – our A & E department treats nearly 60,000 children every year. We are here for every child every day, providing remarkable care with excellence and dedication.

In October 2015 we moved into our brand new world class hospital, Alder Hey in the Park, the only hospital in Europe built entirely in a park.

Alder Hey Children’s Charity raises funds to support the hospital’s pioneering work and aims to improve the quality of life for not only the young people we see each year, but through innovations and research into childhood diseases, the quality of life for children in hospitals across the world.
Every donation we receive enables us to achieve that little bit more from buying vital equipment to building a better environment and providing facilities for families – your support means the world to us, thank you.

Alzheimer Scotland is the leading dementia organisation in Scotland. We campaign for the rights of people with dementia and their families and provide an extensive range of innovative and personalised support services. Our aims:

To be the national and local voice of and for people with dementia and their carers in Scotland

To improve public policies for the benefit of people with dementia and their carers

To provide and to secure the provision of high quality services for people with dementia

To provide and to secure the provision of high quality services for carers of people with dementia.

The Alzheimer's Society offer a range of knowledge and information service relevant for both staff and people affected by Dementia. We help someone with dementia to do the things they love and understand their diagnosis. We help support their families and carers, and provide information and support for any form of dementia through our publications, helpline and website. We campaign for a better quality of life for people with dementia and a greater understanding of dementia. We are united against dementia.

We protect and provide sanctuary for unwanted and distressed animals until loving new homes are found. We also facilitate neutering and micro-chipping services.

At Animal Welfare (Furness), we rescue, rehabilitate, nurse and rehome hundreds of cats, dogs and other animals each year in the Furness area. Since our foundation in 1985, we have been providing compassionate advice on caring for all animals to the local community and our work relies on your support.
You really can make a huge difference!
We thank you for you continued support.

Arthritis Research UK is the biggest funder into the cause, prevention or treatment into arthritis in the UK

small village club open to all kids above 6 years of age both boys and girls everybody is welcome . We try to have fun whilst teaching at all levels all instructors are volunteers and no one is paid. After paying rent the money which is left over is used for coures,competions and equipment.

We are a youth group in Askam which runs on a Thursday evening. We have about 60 -80 children attending.

Autus Cumbria work locally with Individuals with ASD

We are constituted to promote the wellbeing of disabled people, their carers and families in the Borough of Barrow in Furness in any way deemed lawful. We provide a wide range of activities and services for this client group. We are a totally independent registered charity having to raise our own funds to enable us to operate. We also work with professionals to help them best understand the needs and ways of our client group.

We provide and deliver a comprehensive military based training syllabus to children aged 12 -18. Subjects include first aid, weapon handling and shooting, Navigation, military knowledge, Drill and all aspects of field craft. We also provide Duke of Edinburgh awards and BTEC qualifications.

Barrow Celtic Association Football Club main objective is to promote and organise Junior and Open-age Association Football in the district, this will include proactive engagement with the local community.

Our aims are to to provide free, confidential, impartial and independent advice and information for the benefit of the local community, and to ensure individuals do not suffer through a lack of knowledge or an inability to express their needs effectively
* to exercise a responsible influence on the development of social policies and services
Barrow Citizens Advice values diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination.

The kitchen was set up in 2015 to provide a hot meal once a week for those who had been sanctioned and benefit stopped. This has now become a place for a meal and a chat 4 days a week still offering a free 3 course meal on a sunday. The centre promotes social inclusion and community spirit with many activities planned for the future for all ages.

Barrow Foodbank aims to provide relief to individuals and families in crisis in South West Cumbria, through the provision of emergency food supplies either directly or through approved partner agencies. We engage the whole community in collecting food, which is then banked and used to give to local people in food crisis.

Open Age Ladies Rugby League Team.

Providing humanitarian aid to the Antonio Orphanage in Romania.

Barrow Savoyards bring Gilbert and Sullivan operettas to the local area in amateur productions. We endeavour to provide a style of music, acting and dancing that no one else in the area brings. We have members of all ages and welcome young people from the age of 14. Through our workshops within local schools Barrow Savoyards strides to be accessible to all ages and to keep the works of Gilbert and Sullivan alive today.
This year Barrow Savoyards are broadening their repertoire and bringing operettas from other composers to the area and hope to continue to provide this style of productions for years to come.

Bay Hospitals Charity - we fund over and above NHS funding. We improve the hospital environment, support clinical teams and ensure our patients receive the best possible treatment and care. We are here to support you, your family, friends and neighbours from the cradle to the grave and at every stage in between.

Beatson Cancer Charity is determined to beat cancer and is committed to securing significant funding to support and enhance the treatment, care and wellbeing of current, former and future cancer patients and their families

Beyond FGM is a grassroots charity working in Pokot, Kenya to eradicate female genital mutilation (FGM) and early/child marriage.
We work with local communities by bringing education to remote villages where FGM rates are very high.
In Pokot FGM is carried out as a rite of passage into womanhood so that the girls are married off almost immediately after having FGM done to them.
We have developed an alternative rite of passage ceremony (ARP) whereby girls come together for a week of seminars and workshops on negative aspects of FGM, their right to education and empowerment to refuse FGM and choose their own path in life.
There is then a big public ceremony with the whole community which acknowledges the altered status of the girls to be young responsible adults but no cutting involved.
To date over 4000 girls have participated in our ARP ceremonies. Robust follow up tells us that the vast majority of these girls have remained uncut and at school. Several girls have now graduated from colleges and become teachers.
The girls continue to be role models in their communities and many of them become active campaigners against the practice. www.beyondfgm.co.uk

As the registered charity for Birmingham Children’s Hospital we exist to make things better for the children, their families and the staff who treat them. We provide funding for important equipment, pioneering research and all the important extras that make our hospital so special

The Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity raises funds for those projects and services which fall outside the remit of the NHS. Thanks to the generous support of our fundraisers the hospital can provide a level of patient care beyond what NHS funding alone can deliver. Together we can make projects happen sooner and to a greater degree than might otherwise have been possible.

Blesma, The Limbless Veterans helps all serving and ex-Service men and women who have lost limbs, or lost the use of limbs or eyes, to rebuild their lives by providing rehabilitation activities and welfare support. Our programmes allow Members and their families to face the challenges ahead with renewed confidence and self-belief.
We work tirelessly for our Members when the conflicts that have affected their lives are no longer a focal point in the nation’s media. Since 1932, we have been the only national Service charity that supports limbless veterans for the duration of their lives. Our Members range from the youngest amputee veterans to those who fought in WWII.

We're the UK's specialist blood cancer charity. We've been working to beat blood cancer since 1960. We fund world-class research; provide practical and emotional support to patients and their loved ones; and raise awareness of blood cancer.
https://bloodwise.org.uk/

THE BLUEBELL FOUNDATION
The loss of a pregnancy, death of a baby, infant or child, or the struggle to conceive can have a real impact on the families involved.
The Bluebell Foundation provides support for people experiencing grief associated with loss during pregnancy, death of a baby, child or young person, those with fertility issues and families where a child has life-limiting or life-threatening illness.
We also provide support for children and young people up to the age of 18 who are grieving through the death or anticipated death of someone important to them.
We hope to enable families to begin to understand their grief. We cannot replace the life lost but we can try to help people cope with the loss.
The Bluebell Foundation was formed in 2007 by a group of people who have been through a similar or the same experiences. They felt setting up this charity would help people through such a traumatic time, and help them talk to other people who have suffered the same or similar loss.
Bluebell provide support to families and individuals when they are ready. You do not need to wait a set amount of time. We are available for you when you feel the time is right

Charitable Objectives - To save lives and improve outcomes for people affected by primary bone cancer through research, information, awareness and support. BCRT is the leading charity funding research into primary bone cancer.

PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN ON A NOT FOR PROFIT BASIS A FINANCIALLY SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY CENTRE IN THE VILLAGE. THE VILLAGE HALL WILL BE PROVIDED FOR USE WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, AGE, DISABILITY, NATIONALITY, RACE OR POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS. INCLUDING USE OF THE HALL FOR MEETINGS, LECTURES AND CLASSES OR OTHER FORMS OF RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION.

Our work with children, young people and families is central to Brathay’s purpose. Every year we help thousands of young people to make positive choices that will change their lives.

Focusing on each individual’s strengths through powerful experiences and structured support in the community, we inspire young people to realise their potential and develop a range of skills that raise aspirations and benefit the people around them.

Our mission is to win the fight against cardiovascular disease and our vision is a world in which people do not die prematurely or suffer from cardiovascular disease.

The British Red Cross helps people whoever and wherever they are. In Cumbria we support people affected by crises and disaster such as major floods, house fires or unexpected hospitalisation. Across the region our volunteers are on call 24/7 to deliver emergency, medical, practical and emotional care for people where it is needed most. We run Wheelchair loans, Emergency Response and First Aid courses from our office in Carlisle and centres around Cumbria.

In crisis situations, whether this is a major natural disaster affecting millions or an individual facing immobility anywhere in Cumbria, people need the Red Cross to be there when there is no one else to turn to. We have our national and international presence, but we are incredibly committed to delivering local Cumbria services on the basis of our local community’s needs.

THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST LIVING MISERABLY, or CALM, is a registered charity, which exists to prevent male suicide in the UK. In 2014, male suicide accounts for 76% of all suicides and is the single biggest cause of death in men under 45 in the UK

CancerCare is a unique independent charity dedicated to helping families and individuals in North Lancashire and South Cumbria who are affected by cancer and other potentially life-limiting conditions.

Delivered by qualified and experienced staff, CancerCare’s wide range of free professional therapy services are designed to help individuals and their families come to terms with and manage the challenges of a serious health condition. Services include counselling, hypnotherapy, Alexander Technique, aromatherapy massage, group activities, support groups and a Children and Young People’s Service.

With 35 years of experience, CancerCare helped more than 30,000 local people affected by cancer and other life limiting conditions.

CancerCare has three dedicated centres based in Barrow (the Furness Centre at the Trinity Church Centre on Warwick Road), Kendal (The Lakes Centre on Blackhall Road) and in Lancaster (Slynedales on Slyne Road) and also provides outreach services in local hospitals and community outlets including Furness General and the Royal Lancaster Infirmary.

All CancerCare services are provided free of charge. This is only possible through fundraising and generous donations from local people and businesses.

About Caritas Care

At Caritas Care we believe that everyone deserves chances, choices and opportunities to live the best lives they can. We‘re about giving people from all walks of life hope and we make sure that we’re there to help them through any barriers they may face.

That is why the services and projects are dedicated to making a positive difference to the lives of all children, families and communities. We support people in building the lives that they want and we believe that everyone has the right to be able to reach their goals and aspirations, no matter what their background may be.

Our diverse range of services support people through:
•Adoption
•Fostering
•Disability Support Services
•Homelessness facility
•Ex Offender programmes
•Community based services: Nursery, Community Centre

Our Charity exists to enhance the experience of the 240,000 children cared for by Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital each and every year.

Our aims are very straightforward: to support excellence in the treatment, research and care that we provide to our young patients, now and always. We aim to make a real difference to the children and young people in our care by ensuring they continue to receive the highest quality treatment in the highest quality facilities.

We do this by focusing our fundraising efforts on three key areas, namely treatment, research and care. These can include the purchase of specialist equipment to diagnose and provide treatment of our young patients more quickly and easily, creating as child-friendly an environment as possible and funding pioneering medical research to increase our understanding of children’s illnesses and the optimum way to treat them.

People and organisations from across the country are already active supporters of Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital Charity. Our supporters include thousands of individuals, businesses and community organisations, each making their own unique contribution to make life better for the hospital’s patients and their families.

Chain of Hope was established in 1995 by Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub, OM, FRS, with the aim of providing children suffering from life threatening heart disease with the corrective surgery and treatment to which they do not have access.

It is estimated that as many as 15 million children die or remain severely ill every year through potentially treatable or preventable cardiac diseases. Chain of Hope is an international children’s charity that links people and companies together to help children with heart disease in developing and war-torn countries to get the care that they desperately need.

Linking volunteer medical teams, host families and supporters, we work together to treat children in urgent need and to build up local cardiac services through training, provision of equipment and specialised support.

We help children with heart disease both by transporting them to partnering hospitals for urgent treatment and by building up cardiac services in developing countries so that future generations will have access to the treatment they need locally.

With your help we can save even more children's lives.

Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group is a leading children’s cancer charity and the UK and Ireland’s professional association for those involved in the treatment and care of children with cancer. Each week in the UK and Ireland, more than 30 children are diagnosed with cancer. Two out of ten children will not survive their disease.

Over the last 40 years, CCLG has played a key role in the major improvements in survival rates and the standards of care for children. We bring together childhood cancer professionals to ensure all children receive the best possible treatment and care.

There are still some childhood cancers with a poor outlook, and many treatments can have long-lasting side effects. Further research is therefore vital, and the ultimate aim of CCLG is to cure as many children as possible while reducing the short and long-term side effects of treatment. We fund and support research into childhood cancers, and we help young patients and their families with our expert, high quality and award-winning information resources.

RAISING FUNDS FOR CHRISTIAN YOUTH ACTIVITIES

Through the worldwide climbing community, we aim to increase awareness and raise funds for research in the continued fight against a disease that affects so many. Climbers Against Cancer is run mainly by volunteers and none of the money raised is used for administration, travel or any other expenses.

We are Combat Stress. The UK’s leading charity
for veterans’ mental health.
For almost a century, we’ve helped former servicemen
and women deal with issues like trauma, anxiety,
depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Today, we provide support to veterans from every
service and every conflict.
On the phone and online. In the community
and at our treatment centres.
We’re on a mission to raise awareness that invisible
injuries can be just as hard to cope with as physical ones.
So when a veteran is having a tough time, we’re there to
help tackle the past and to help them take on the future.

We are a group of parents, school staff and school friends who raise money to pay for outings or resources to enrich pupils' lives either in school or during after school activities. The money raised ensures that costs to parents are kept to an affordable level and also we can provide school with resources that they are not able to afford from their very tight education budgets.

Coniston Cricket Club is a voluntary organisation which provides individuals, both children and adults from Coniston and the surrounding area the opportunity for socialising and recreation through the sport. We currently have 2 mens' teams who play in the Westmorland Cricket League, with games played once or twice a week and also training midweek.

To promote for the benefit of the inhabitants of Coniston and the surrounding area the provision of facilities for recreation and other leisure time occupation of individuals who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, financial hardship or social and economic circumstances or for the public at large in the interest of social welfare and with the object of improving the conditions of life of the said inhabitants.

Citizens Advice Copeland - The aim of our service is to provide the advice and support people need to deal with the problems they face. We are an independent charity who provide a free, independent and confidential service across the borough of Copeland. A team of 12 paid staff and 40 volunteers deliver advice services on issues including debt, welfare benefits, housing, employment, energy, relationship and family problems.

We are a Community First Responder's Group operating in South Cumbria and Crake Valley. Community First Responders are equipped and trained community based volunteers who are paged out from Ambulance Control to provide critical care of patients and situations pending the Ambulance arrival. Other activities include promoting Public Access Defibrillators and assisting CPR Training.

The Cri du Chat Syndrome Support Group was founded in the mid 1980s by Ann Wilson, a parent of a child with Cri du Chat Syndrome, after discovering there was no support group specifically for this syndrome.

A steering group was formed in 1991, and the group became a registered charity (#1044942) in 1993.

The support group is made up of families and relatives of those with CdCS, as well as research members who have expressed an interest in this condition. However, the group is open to anyone with an interest or need, whether in the UK or abroad.

The group provides information, advice and support through its Clinical Advisory Group, formed by members of the committee and outside professionals.

We receive no government funding and are funded by individual and corporate donations as well as fundraising activities.

Croft Care Trust is a local charity founded in 1955 to provide support and care for people with physical and learning difficulties. It was originally set up to provide support and help for the families of children with difficulties, but as our clients progressed through life we changed to meet their needs into what we are today.
We now have a 23 bedded nursing unit and a 23 bedded residential village for people over the age of 18 years.
The aim of Croft Care Trust is to provide a safe and caring environment for residents as long as is needed. We seek to maximise the development of each individual within their own potential and our mission is to strive to meet the hopes, needs and aspirations of each individual in our care.

A Charter Standard Club we have teams from age 5 to 16, with 120 children. We have 2 Senior and 9 Mini and Junior Teams.
We endeavour to provide a safe, friendly, caring and supportive environment.
Your support would help us provide team equipment, indoor training facilities in winter, first aid and football kits.
It would also help us with the many other costs associated with running a football club.

Cadas was established in 1980 and is a well-respected and registered charity. We have helped thousands of people and their families over the last 38 years offering holistic and strengths based approaches supporting individuals in recovery. Our approach is underpinned by the Asset-Based Community Development Model (ABCD). Our core service comprises of individual and group support, volunteering, peer mentoring and mutual aid via peer led support groups, programmes and workshops of educative and preventative initiatives.
Cadas offers a range of support primarily delivered by trained volunteers to enable people in recovery improve their emotional, physical and mental health.

Our aims & objectives

The Cumbria-Rungwe Community Link was established in 1987 with the aim of linking two rural communities from West Cumbria in the UK and the Rungwe district in Tanzania. Our principle objective is to promote awareness and understanding between what may appear to be two very different cultures. Through a process of experiencing something of each other’s lives we seek to promote friendship and a realisation of what people have in common.

The Cumbria-Rungwe community link is a unique charity based in West Cumbria. It was established in 1987 with the aim of linking our rural community with that of the rural community of Rungwe District in Tanzania. The idea was for both communities to share and understand both the similarities and differences of their respective cultures.

Cyril Flint Befrienders offers a free one to one befriending service for lonely and/or socially isolated older people, many of whom have disabilities or long term illnesses which impact on their way of life. We ask each older people what they wish to gain from befriending and try to ensure the service we are offering is meeting their needs and having the greatest impact possible; some are struggling to get out due to lack of confidence and want a friend to accompany them to the shops, others are housebound, feeling cut off from society and want a friend to visit them weekly for some conversation and to offer a connection to the local community, which they have previously felt shut off from.

Feedback has evidenced that having a befriender helps to reduce older people's feelings of loneliness and isolation and it also helps to improve the older person’s self-esteem and confidence, as they are not used to people visiting them because they want to, instead being used to paid professionals visiting them, if anyone. It is hoped that by continuing the work we are doing to reduce their loneliness we are helping to ward off the mental health implications of this such as the on-set of dementia, anxiety and depression.

Dalton Carnival is a community event that takes place on the second Saturday each June. We aim to raise funds to keep the Carnival sustainable and distribute donations each year to charities, clubs and organisations primarily in Dalton & Newton.

We are a new entity as a result of the merging of Dalton Methodist Church and Dalton URC. We are committed to work in and for the Community and make our premises widely available to Community Groups

Voluntary run junior football club based in Dalton. Providing free football to children in Dalton and the surrounding areas.

Dane Ghyll School is a primary school in Cumbria. Offering education without barriers. We currently provide education to over 200 children in Barrow. We have an increasing number of pupils with a variety of educational special needs. In order to meet our vision the school requires additional financial aid to support these children.

Raising funds and awareness of research into neurodegenerative diseases at Lancaster University.

PROVIDES A SERVICE, MAINLY IN UPLAND OR MOUNTAIN AREAS, TO SAVE LIFE AND ALLEVIATE DISTRESS.
ADDITIONALLY UNDERTAKES SEARCHES OF LOWLAND AND RURAL AREAS FOR MISSING PERSONS WHEN REQUESTED BY THE POLICE

Diabetes UK is looking towards a world where diabetes can do no harm. We provide information, help and peer support, so people with diabetes can manage their condition effectively. We are one of the largest funders of diabetes research in the UK.

We save the lives and rehome lost and abandoned dogs due to die in council pounds because they have not been reclaimed by their owners or received any offers from other rescues. We take dogs regardless of age, breed or veterinary condition. We have rescued over 15,000 to date. 100% of donations spent on the dogs, all unpaid volunteers, on call 365 days per year.

Dravet Syndrome UK is an independent UK charity dedicated to improving the lives of those affected by Dravet syndrome through support, education and medical research.

Duddon Inshore Rescue is a voluntary organisation providing a 24 hour on-call service dedicated to fostering the safety of individuals, by providing and maintaining an effective search and rescue operation for assistance to anyone or anything in peril from the sea in the area of the Duddon estuary and Walney waters in Cumbria. We aim to work closely with the local community and welcome volunteers from all backgrounds. Since the inception of Duddon Inshore Rescue we have been involved in over 400 incidents on or around the treacherous waters of the Duddon estuary.

We would like to be considered as your charity. We are your local charity, serving the local community.

We offer specialist care, supportive care and end of life care for patients with life-limiting illnesses of all kinds and their families both in the hospice and in their own homes. Inevitably the hospice has its times of sadness, but people are often surprised to find that it is a happy place too. Here everyone is special, whether patients come to us or we go to them.

Our supporters raised the money to build the hospice over 33 years ago, and have continued ever since, for which we are truly grateful. To enable us to continue our care, we need to raise £3.5 million every year, which is over £9,500 per day. This is not an easy task, but we are confident that with the help of supporters like you we will achieve this.

EFOD challenges its members to undertake development projects amongst some of
the poorest communities in rural Africa and provides them with an opportunity to broaden
their skills and experience. The North-West branch has completed 3 successful projects and now embarking on their 4th.

We are the leading national epilepsy medical charity working for everyone affected by epilepsy. We lead the world with our ground breaking medical research into causes and treatments for epilepsy.

The Family Holiday Association is the only national charity dedicated to providing seaside breaks and day trips for families coping with some of the toughest challenges life can bring. We help UK families struggling with problems such as severe and long-term illness, bereavement, mental health issues, disability and domestic violence. Evidence shows that our work results in stronger, healthier and happier families and communities. Each family we support is referred to us by someone already working with them in a supporting role. Our referral network includes teachers, health visitors, social workers and other charities such as Barnardo’s and Shelter. By working with referrers, we can be sure that the funds we raise help the families who will benefit most.

FND Hope UK mission is to provide awareness, support affected individuals, and advance in to Functional Neurological Disorder [FND]. We aim to drive high quality standards for FND care while empowering patients to better health.
1) Raise awareness and understanding of FND through Social Media, Charitable Events, Medical Conferences and other educational materials.
2) Coordinate a voluntary FND patients register to assist Drs in the advancement of new and ongoing research in partnership with the Genetic Alliance.
3) Work with Medical and Allied health professionals to provide better understanding of FND, improve medical protocols and promote ethical standards.

We fundraise for the development of bereavement equipment and services for parents of stillborn babies and neonatal baby loss. This includes building bereavement suites within the NUH Trust

We are a constituted community group raising funds to renew our local playground for our children and our entire community.

We are a group of teachers, parents and friends who support our local village school. We raise money to buy equipment and pay for extra activities for our children. We have bought outdoor and play equipment in recent years. We ensure the children have access to a rich curriculum by spending our money with advise from school staff and the children.

We are a heritage and educational small charity to support Furness Abbey. We raise funds and awareness of this very important historical building

Furness Creatives aims are to engage with the Barrow community in their creative pursuits. To establish community art space with a relaxed and friendly working group of mixed ability artists to encourage the study, practice, and development of the arts. With creative’s working on a basis of mutual self-help, with special emphasis given to the encouragement of beginners by the more experienced members.

Furness Homeless Support Group is a local charity which originally began as a Christmas Shelter in 1989. We soon realised that the need was prevalent all year round and have gradually grown through the years to incorporate the facilities we now have. Our project now comprises of a day centre, 9 units of short term supported accommodation, a 1 bed flat, a 2 bed house and a 3 bed house for those in need of continues support. Our day centre is open to anyone who wishes company or to partake in a low cost quality meal. We house individuals who have found themselves homeless who require support to enable them to ultimately move on to sustain their own tenancy. People come to us with multiple issues including mental health, learning difficulties, substance misuse. The support we provide includes areas such as budgeting, debt reduction, living skills, accessing health care, cooking and planning healthy meals on a budget, liaising with specialised agencies regarding alcohol/drug use, mental health services, debt, volunteering etc.

Furness Mental Health Trust (FMHT) is unique in the Furness Area in being a Service User and Carer Led and Run Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO/ULO), registered with the Charity Commission and members of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), Cumbria CVS, Cumbria Action for Health (A4H) and Cumbria Mental Health Provider Forum (CMHPF).

FMHT aims to promote emotional wellbeing, improve Mental Health, and reduce the impact of poverty in the Furness and South Lakes area, which includes some of the most impoverished wards in the North West of England, by providing the opportunity people and their families have to access support sessions and group personal development activities and services as described in our Objects, Aims and Activities.

Objects:
(1) The relief of sickness and the preservation of health among people with Mental Health problems and their families in particular but not exclusively by the promotion of Mental Health services in the Furness area of Cumbria.
(2) To advance the education of the general public in all areas relating to Mental Health problems.

Aims and Activities:
The promotion of Mental Health and related services within the Furness area of Cumbria in particular but not exclusively by:
(1) Supporting people with Mental Health problems overcome Social Exclusion, Poverty, Stigma and to build resilience and coping strategies etc.
(2) Providing access to Leisure and Social Activities.
(3) Providing access to/loan of Computer Equipment and provide Training in the use of such equipment.
(4) Providing help with/access to appropriate Housing.

This project is aimed at young people (8- 19 years old) from diverse cultures living in Furness. The objective is to break down any barriers in accessing activities and services that will promote healthy and active lifestyle, to enjoy and achieve, to stay safe and to make positive contribution in the community through volunteering opportunities. Young people’s benefit is to increase confidence, self-esteem, resilience and social integration.

Supports young children with Type 1 diabetes and their families. Organises actvities to bring families together so they realise they are not alone in dealing with their condition.

Furness Tradition is 20 years old this year and was founded to increase both understanding and involvement in the stories, music, dance and traditional arts of Furness and South Lakes and their place in relation to all traditional arts. Also to promote community involvement and well-being by providing the opportunity for all to have access, inspiration and engagement with folk arts.
Year round we bring concert artists, run regular music sessions, continue to develop a community band (playing tunes from South Lakes and Furness) and work with people of all ages and abilities sharing skills around traditional music, song, dance and storytelling. Annually Furness Tradition runs a festival weekend in Ulverston showcasing all of this.

Galloway’s Society for the Blind aims to enable people with a visual impairment to gain greater independence and minimise the effects of living with reduced vision. We support over 7,000 people a year from our hubs in Morecambe, Preston Chorley & Southport.

Like any other major life event vision loss can bring feelings of loneliness, helplessness, anxiety and depression. We are committed to working with visually impaired people to realise their potential through our many programmes of activities and support.

Living with sight loss can be challenging. But we are here to help people face the future with hope and confidence. Our support services and activities are shaped to benefit you and your friends, family and others around you.

· Social Groups · Hospital based advice
· Talking newspapers · IT training
· Audio Transcription · Introduction to sight loss
· Information · Living with sight loss
· Advice & guidance · Training programmes
· Emotional support · Specialist equipment
· Outdoor pursuits · Low vision training
· Holidays & day trips · Telephone befriending

Galloway’s relies on donations and legacies for the majority of its income and every year we need £1 million to help people living with sight loss.

Right now, in Lancashire and Sefton, there are over 50,000 people living with sight loss. Almost half of these people feel moderately or completely cut off from their communities and only ¼ of those of a working age are in employment. With your help, we know there’s so much more we can do to make our community a better place for those living with sight loss.

If you have been affected by sight loss or would like to know more about our services, volunteering, fundraising or supporting our work financially then please contact us via the details below.

Phone: 01524 414846

Email: enquiries@galloways.org.uk

We fly three air ambulance helicopters across the North-East, North Yorkshire and Cumbria. We bring pioneering pre-hospital care to the scene, rescuing hundreds of severely injured or ill patients every year.

Set up in 1963 to run the Village Hall at Grizebeck. The original hall was built in 1928 but was replaced by a new hall in 2011.

Haverigg Inshore Rescue Team is an independent lifeboat operating from Haverigg with the aim of preserving life at sea.

Hawcoat Park Sports Club (still known to many locals as Vickers Sports Club) is a truly unique facility in Barrow in Furness. The club comprises 15 acres of playing fields and caters for a variety of sports at both Junior and Senior levels. Sports played at Hawcoat Park include Archery, Bowls, Cricket, Football, Rifle and Pistol shooting, Rugby League, Rugby Union, and Table Tennis.

The Bell Tower Fund is specifically set up to fundraise to save the belltower of this very famous parish church. It needs an enormous amount of work done We need to raise £70,000 and are engaged in many community events as well as applying to large grant making bodies.

Hearing Dogs for Deaf People has been through an incredible journey to get where we are today. In a nutshell, we train dogs to alert deaf people to sounds they would otherwise miss – simple sounds that many people take for granted like the doorbell, alarm clock and even danger signals like the fire alarm. Being aware of these – thanks to a hearing dog – makes a real difference to deaf people’s lives. Deafness can be a very isolating disability. A hearing dog can give a deaf person a newfound sense of independence and confidence now they have a loyal companion and a true friend by their side.

HEFF are the Hospital Equipment Fund for Furness. We are a local group who raise funds via our charity shop on Cavendish Street, events and local supporters to buy medical equipment for our hospital. We aim to fund specialist equipment that would not normally be funded by the NHS but will enhance the care of patients.

Hospice at Home provides a comprehensive, high quality, palliative care service for adults who have a life limiting illness. Care and support is individualised and strives to provide choice at all stages of illness and at the end of a person’s life. Care and support provided through the service also extends to family members/carers.

The above is achieved through the one, or a combination of the following services, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Complementary Therapy and Family and Bereavement Support.

Services are delivered by Registered Nurses, Assistant Practitioners, Health Care Assistants, Counsellors, Allied Health Care Professionals and trained volunteers.

The Huntington’s Disease Association (HDA) is the only organisation providing a dedicated service of advice, guidance and support for people in England and Wales who are devastated by Huntington’s disease.

We run a regional Specialist HD Advisory service to support those directly affected by the disease, and their families and carers, delivered by our HD experts and tailored to the individual needs of the families we work with.

There are approximately 6,000 people suffering from Huntington’s in the UK. For every person diagnosed another four people are at risk. That’s 24,000 people whose lives will, at some point, be turned upside down by the anguish of waiting for a diagnosis, or taking their chances without.

Supporting individuals and families is our core focus. Our 23 Specialist HD Advisers are currently working with a total of 13,639 people affected by HD across England and Wales. Many of these are HD patients, but they also help those at risk, and their families and carers, who shoulder the heavy burden of caring for their loved ones.

I CAAN is a group of volunteers that organise activities for people with autism and their families in Allerdale and Copeland.
I CAAN organises activities for the whole family.  Typical activities include swimming, trampolining, soft play, dance, drama, keep fit, horse riding, craft workshops, general sports sessions and family day-trips.
I CAAN is totally run by volunteers, many of whom are parents of children with autism.
I CAAN  is totally funded by local fundraising

Invest in ME Research (IiMER) was set up with the objectives of making a change in how ME is perceived and treated in the media, by health departments and by healthcare professionals. We aim to do this by identifying the three key areas to concentrate our efforts on - funding for biomedical research, education and lobbying. Invest in ME Research aims to collaborate and coordinate events and activities in these areas in order to provide the focus and funding to allow biomedical research to be carried out.

Invest in ME Research want to establish a national strategy of biomedical research into ME and establish a UK and European Centre of Excellence for biomedical research into ME. Please help make ME an illness which is properly understood and where adequate funding is provided for biomedical research into ME allowing treatments and cures to be found.

Jack's Journey is a Cumbria based charity which supports local families through childhood cancer.

The charity has been established by Jack Gibson’s parents following Jack’s diagnosis with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia aged 17 months.

Following the support they received during his initial treatment, the family decided they could support others in a similar situation by providing financial support but also with a holiday home, away from the worries of home life, which Cumbrian families can use free of charge.