We run opticians clinics for people experiencing homelessness in London, Brighton, Birmingham, Manchester, Exeter, Gloucester, Bristol and Leeds. Using volunteer optometrists, dispensing opticians and assistants, we provide glasses free of charge to 1,800 homeless people each year. People experiencing homelessness are particularly disadvantaged when it comes to obtaining sight tests, glasses and eye care. Around two thirds of our patients cannot get NHS eye tests and glasses. When people are experiencing homelessness they need glasses to look for work, find accommodation or simply to keep themselves safe. By fundraising for us you will help more homeless people receive the glasses they need.

Vista is dedicated to improving lives for people with sight loss by providing information and practical support, challenging barriers to inclusion and working to prevent avoidable sight loss.

VOCAL operates in response to the needs of over 70,000 unpaid young and adult carers in Edinburgh and across Lothian, supporting over 10,000 carers directly each year, offering counselling, access to benefits, legal advice, training and also small grants to help facilitate short breaks and respite opportunities. We also work to identify carers who are unaware of the support available to them, as there are huge numbers of unpaid carers who do not recognise their status, sometimes despite having had caring responsibilities for many years.

Voices for Life is a children's music and wellbeing charity, inspiring children to be happy and confident through music. Through all of our work, we aim to build a world where children can make music, lead happy childhoods, and be part of sustainable communities. To achieve this mission, we run school singing workshops with structured wellbeing coaching built in, offered to children from all backgrounds. Over the months of preparation, they learn specially commissioned musical works with fun, imaginative storylines, teaching them how to manage emotions and build healthy relationships. These workshops then culminate in a performance at impressive venues such as Bath Abbey, alongside professional musicians. For many children, this is their first opportunity to perform in front of an audience. The impact on their confidence is significant - in a recent project, 75% of children had grown in confidence by the end. Performances also build communities - not just bringing together children from different backgrounds, but also the volunteers and audience members who come to support them. Besides these school projects, we run the extra-curricular VFL Bath Children's Choir, providing children with even more opportunities to sing and make new friends. Previous additional projects have included a children's composition competition and an album featuring many children who had no prior singing experience.

VSO works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries. Our high-impact approach brings people together to share skills, build capabilities and promote international understanding. Everyday around 1,500 VSO volunteers are working in carefully selected placements, sharing their skills to tackle poverty by empowering those really affected by it.

We partner with communities to overcome adversity, tackling social isolation and loneliness, improving health, developing skills and opportunity and making sure young people can lead change. And because we’re a national charity, we do this at scale, sharing our expertise and building partnerships to make an even bigger impact.

From a person’s first breath through to their last, VSA has stood next to the people of Aberdeen for 150 years offering care, support, and vital services to vulnerable people living in our communities as and when they needed it. As times have changed, so has the way we have delivered our services, but always with one ambition: to give the people of Aberdeen the best of care to enable them to live the best of lives.

Befriending older dog lovers in their own homes as well as in care or medical establishments. Reducing loneliness and improving health and wellness. Operating currently in the 12 Unitary Authorities of the North East only.

Wakefield Hospice, is a registered charity, committed to providing the highest level of symptom management and care for people who have advanced active, progressive and life limiting illness.

The Wales Air Ambulance delivers advanced lifesaving medical care to people across Wales 24/7. We are the only air ambulance charity, based in, and dedicated to, the people of Wales and rely entirely on your charitable donations to raise £11.2 million every year to keep the helicopters in the air and fleet of rapid response vehicles on the road. 

Walking With The Wounded which was set up in 2010, aims to re-educate and retrain our wounded and injured soldiers, and return them to the work place. This enables them to have a secure and stable future. Walking With The Wounded identifies and supports organisations that look beyond immediate medical care and short-term rehabilitation to the challenges of reintegration and retraining for civilian life. Our wounded have a very different future to the one they had planned. Join us in empowering those who have given so much on our behalf.

Since 1995, The Grand Appeal has raised over £31 million to transform the lives of sick babies and children at Bristol Children’s Hospital and the Special Care Baby Unit, providing life-saving equipment, patient activities, new services and family accommodation. Bristol Children’s Hospital is one of the UK’s leading children’s hospitals treating over 100,000 patients every year from across the South West, South Wales and beyond with life-threatening illnesses and serves as the paediatric intensive care centre for the whole South West region. The hospital is an international, national and regional specialist centre of excellence for a range of services including neurosurgery, burns, cardiac, leukaemia and bone marrow transplants. The Grand Appeal provides ground-breaking facilities at the Hospital, including the South of England’s only 3T MRI scanner and intra-operative scanning suite, which has revolutionised the treatment of children with neurological conditions requiring highly complex surgery and a pioneering Cardiac Hybrid Theatre and Integrated Cancer Unit, meaning a sick child can receive all of their treatment in one place. We also fund arts, music and play programmes and facilities at the Hospital, which play a major role in a child’s recovery and rehabilitation. Arts workshops, dedicated music therapy sessions and school activities all provide opportunities for distraction and wellbeing for hospital patients. The Grand Appeal is committed to keeping families together whilst their child is cared for at the Hospital, having funded over £1 million of family facilities and accommodation at Bristol Children’s Hospital and St Michael’s Hospital’s Special Care Baby Unit. We receive no statutory funding and rely entirely on the generous support of the local community, businesses, grant-making trusts and other philanthropic organisations and individuals for support.  

We are a registered charity providing a variety of activities and supported learning opportunities for adults and young people with learning disabilities. Our mission is to provide practical, compassionate and transformative support through efficient, effective and empathetic service provision in a safe, uplifting and nurturing learning environment.

War Child is an international child protection agency that works with the most marginalised children – child soldiers, street kids and children in prison War Child believes it is unacceptable that children continue to be victims of war. 66% of people who die in conflict are children. In the last decade alone 1.5 million children have died in wars. Four million have been disabled and a further 10 million traumatised.  We work where other agencies do not, reaching the most at risk children in the most dangerous war zones.    

Washington Mind is a well-established local Charitable Incorporated organisation who have been delivering mental health and wellbeing support since 1981. We are affiliated to national mind and are one of around 130 Local Mind Associations. Our missions is to work in partnership with our community to promote recovery and improve mental health and wellbeing. We deliver a range of quality mental health services for people who are experiencing or are at risk of developing, mental ill health emotional distress.

WasteAid works with communities and policy makers in lower and middle-income countries to implement waste management and recycling programmes. Our vision is a world in which waste causes no harm, and where people in poverty are empowered to recover its value.

WaterAid is an international non-profit with one goal: to change the world through water. Along with decent toilets and good hygiene, a reliable supply of clean water is essential for health, dignity and a life full of opportunity.

WaterAid transforms lives by improving access to clean water, hygiene and sanitation in the world's poorest communities. We work with local partners and influence decision-makers to maximize our impact.

Local charity Watford Mencap to support over 800 people with lifelong learning disabilities. Every year we need to raise over £250,000 in order to fund our services which help local people with learning disabilities reach their full potential and provide valuable respite to their families and carer

WAY is the only national charity in the UK for people aged 50 or under when their partner died. It’s a peer-to-peer support group operating with a network of volunteers who have been bereaved at a young age themselves, so they understand exactly what other members are going through.

Wherever you’re at, however you feel, we get it. Whether you’re in remission, living with cancer or just been diagnosed, we understand because we’ve been there. Angry, upbeat or just in need of some support? Whatever feels right, we get it. We provide support and information for people in Bath who are dealing with cancer. Come to a workshop, find a local resource or simply meet others who know how you feel.

We Hear you provide free professional counselling to children and adults affected by cancer or any other life threatening condition, across Somerset, Wiltshire and Bath & North East Somerset.

Suicide prevention and mental health charity

WW2 Home Front and Home Guard Museum dedicated to the education of children as well as being open to the public.

Weldmar Hospicecare Trust in an independent charity based in Dorset caring for patients with cancer and other limiting illnesses.  Weldmar needs to raise £10 every minute of every day to keep these services free!  Your support will make such a difference. 

WellChild is the national charity for sick children and is committed to ensuring that every child in the UK has the very best possible quality of care. Our services include: - A unique team of UK wide Nurses – ensuring that children can be cared for at home rather than in hospital wherever possible. - WellChild Helping Hands – enlisting the support of volunteers to tackle one-off home improvement projects in the homes of sick children. - Innovative, high impact, high quality and effective projects – influencing and ensuring the best quality of life and care for seriously ill children and young people.

Welsh Hearts are funding for the widespread provision of Defibrillators and Emergency Life Saving equipment through-out Wales. (welshhearts.org) Our mission is centered on the prevention and management of heart disease, and to fund heart screening in Wales. All monies raised in Wales are utilised and distributed within Wales. The charity is particularly keen to work in partnership with others to achieve this goal.

WWA is the lead national organisation in Wales campaigning, influencing policy and practice and innovating to end domestic abuse and Violence Against Women. We also manage various direct service projects across Wales including a 24-hour helpline, refuge and children's projects.

West Berkshire Mencap exists to provide high quality services for people with learning disabilities, their families, carers and professionals.

West End Women and Girls Centre is the first and only open access, community based women and girls centre in Newcastle, we aim to build the power of women and girls, who have been and continue to be disenfranchised. We seek to drive positive change in the world, our community and in women and girls lives. We do this through group work where women and girls have the opportunity to meet, have fun, learn skills, look at issues relevant their lives and generally build confidence in a safe and supportive environment.