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| Action
Aid |
International development agency, focusing on poverty
for over 30 years |
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| Age
Concern |
Supporting the over 50s |
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| Alcohol
Concern UK |
Tackling the misuse of Alchol |
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| Alzheimers
Society |
The UKs leading Care and Research charity
for people with dementia |
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| Amnesty
International |
The world famous human rights campaign |
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| Anthony
Nolan Trust |
The UKs largest Bone Marrow and Stem
Cell register |
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Arthritis
Research
Campaign |
Committed to finding the cure to Arthritis |
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| AICR |
Association for International Cancer
Research |
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| AMRC |
Association of Medical Research |
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| Barnardos |
Looking after vulnerable children across
the uk |
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| BACP |
British Association for Counselling and
Psychotherapy |
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Blood
Pressure
Association |
Fighting high blood pressure to beat
stroke and heart disease |
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| Born
Free |
The international wildlife charity |
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Brain
and Spine
Foundation |
Developing Research, Education and Information
programmes to help people who suffer from disorders of the two focus
points |
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| Brain
Research Trust |
The research into Neurological diseases |
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Birth
Defects
Foundation |
Funding research into birth defects
and helping familys affected by inborn conditions |
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| BCS |
British Cardiac Society |
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| BHF |
British Heart Foundation |
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| CAFOD |
Catholic Agency for Overseas Development |
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| CND
UK |
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament |
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| Carebral
Palsy Care |
Kent based organisation devoted to educating
and taking care of Cerebral Palsey sufferers under the age of 5 |
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| Childline |
The 24 hour hotline for children |
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| CED |
Christian Engineers in Development |
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| Comic
Relief |
also known as Red Nose Day, raising
money to aid both Home and abroad |
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| Crusaid |
Working to make a difference to the
lives devastated from Poverty and Illness caused by HIV and Aids |
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| Daycare
Trust |
Uk based National Childcare Charity |
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| Development
in Action |
Promoting global citizenship by encouraging
engagement in global issues amongst young people |
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| Diabetes
UK |
Funding research into and helping people
with the disease |
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| Diana
Memorial Fund |
Keeping the memory of Princess Diana
preserved by assisting and addressing the worlds problems that she
cared about |
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| The
Dystonia Society |
Promoting awareness for the neurological
movement disorder |
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| EIA
International |
The Environmental Investigation Agency |
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Environmental
Justive
Foundation |
Empowering people to protect their
own environment, contains info on how you can help. |
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| Epilepsy
Action |
Information about Epilepsy |
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| Farm
Africa |
Working with rural African farmers
and herders since 1985 |
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| Friends
of the Earth |
Contains information on how you can
help the environment around the house |
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Glaucoma
Research
Foundation |
Funding research into discovering how
to prevent the eye disease which can occur without warning |
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| Global
Impact |
Made up of 50 US based Charities teamed
together to provide relief, education, health training and economic
programs such as self sufficiency |
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| Health
Help International |
Humanitarian relief fund |
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| Health
Unlimited |
Working with indigenous people and
communities living in the remote areas of countries affected by war
and political instability |
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| Help
the Aged |
UK Charity whose purpose is to assist
the elderly |
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| Honeypot
|
Improving the lives of severley disadvantaged
children living in Britain |
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Marie
Curie Cancer
Care |
Works with cancer sufferers and their
families |
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| Mencap
|
The UKs leading learning disability
Charity |
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| Mind
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Aspiring to help all who have had experience
in mental distress |
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Multiple
Sclerosis
Society |
Raising money for people with Multiple
Schlorosis, according to this site 85,000 people suffer from the condition
alone in the UK |
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Multiple
Sclerosis
Resource Centre |
Kent based organisation devoted to
educating and taking care of Cerebral Palsey sufferers under the age
of 5 |
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| NKRF
|
National Kidney Research Fund |
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| NSPCC
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Eliminating cruelty to children |
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| One2One
|
International Childrens Charity |
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| Oxfam
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Aiming to end Poverty, Suffering and
Injustice |
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The
Prostate Cancer
Charity |
Raising awareness about the disease
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| Quest
Overseas |
Provides expeditions using GAP year
students to assist in Africa and South America |
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| Red
Cross |
The largest independent humanitarian
organisation in the world |
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| RNLI
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The Royal National Lifeboat Association
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| Salvation
Army |
The organisation that has been bringing
relief to poverty around the world for over a century |
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| Samaritans
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Provide Emotional Support via many
ways, most notably on their 24 hour hotline |
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| SCOPE
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For disabled people achieving equality
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| Terrence
Higgins Trust |
Europes leading HIV and AIDs charity
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| The
Princes Trust |
Helping the UK's young people get their
lives going |
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The
Royal Marsden NHS
Foundation Trust |
The UK's leading comprehensive cancer
centre |
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| The
Scarman Trust |
Set up to help citizens bring about
change in their community |
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| Tourism
Concern |
Campaign for ethical and fairly traded
tourism |
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| Unicef
|
The international humanitarian organisation
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| Wellbeing
for Women |
Funding research into reproductive
health for women |
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| Wellcome
Trust |
Researching to improve human and animal
health |
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| YCare
|
International development and relief
agency of the YMCA movement in the UK and Ireland. |