Charities

Army Benevolent Fund is the Army’s national charity, here for soldiers, former soldiers and their families for life.

We are one of the largest funders in the sector, supporting 60,000 people in 63 countries last year. We award grants to individuals and families, and provide essential funding to leading charities and organisations that support the Army family. When we hear of a person or family in need, we aim to respond within 48 hours.

In 2009, we created Unique Kidz and Co to make sure that our own children’s needs were met and to provide a service for others like them. We spent two years researching how to run a business, talking to parents, and attending courses to provide us with childcare and business knowledge.

This community of support for disabled children started in one of our kitchen’s, Jane’s, and it kept growing as we grew in activities we provide. We now deliver our service to more than 130 children and young adults in our own building.

Our centre in Morecambe offers support activities, play, and social time – we also know that everyone is unique and that one size doesn’t fit all. Our OFSTED registered childcare services for disabled children and their families offers the support and the activities needed for your unique children. Since 2016, we’ve expanded our service to young adults from 16-25 years old with 4Ever Unique.

Alder Hey Children’s Charity raises vital funds to help make Alder Hey Children’s Hospital a truly world-class, patient-friendly hospital for the 330,000 patients and families we care for every year.Since 2013, over £65m has been raised for a range of life-saving medical equipment and facilities that are making a real difference to families every day – but we still need your support.

We need your support for our Surgical Neonatal Appeal.Our new Appeal is for a state-of-the-art unit for newborn babies in Liverpool, and was launched by Liverpool Legend Jamie Carragher. Jamie, who was treated at Alder Hey’s neonatal ward for the first six weeks of his life, launched the appeal to raise £3m for the new Surgical NICU on behalf of Alder Hey Children’s Charity in September 2021.The new Surgical NICU is a joint project between Alder Hey and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust as the Liverpool Neonatal Partnership. The new unit is planned to offer 22 neonatal cots, including 8 ICU and 13 HDU cots and will feature 18 individual family rooms where parents can be alongside their poorly new-borns whilst they’re receiving expert care.

The Cystic Fibrosis Trust is the only UK charity dedicated to fighting for a life unlimited by cystic fibrosis for everyone affected by the condition. Find out about how we’re making it a reality and how you can get involved.

Cystic Fibrosis Trust is the charity uniting people to stop cystic fibrosis (CF). We fund vital research, improve care, speak out and race towards effective treatments for all. Cystic Fibrosis Trust is here to make sure everyone with cystic fibrosis can live without limits. We won’t stop until everyone can live without limits imposed by CF.

Willowbrook Hospice and Andy Reid MBE’s Standing Tall Foundation have partnered with Born Survivor to bring you a fundraising challenge like we’ve never offered before! This is a joint fundraising event meaning you can simultaneously raise money for two fantastic causes.

Willowbrook Hospice is an independent UK charity formed in 1993 to establish and create a local, specialist palliative care unit for our community. With all the positive encouragement and generous contributions from our community we opened the doors to our hospice in 1997 and, to date, have provided care, compassion, comfort, love, laughter and warmth to over 10,000 residents.Located in the borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, we proudly give everything we can back to the community that supports us so incredibly well.The Standing Tall Foundation based in St Helens, Merseyside aims to support community health and wellbeing for veterans and vulnerable young people. We are an inclusive organisation using the example of William Andrew Reid MBE to overcome adversity and challenges in today’s society. We believe no one is immune to struggle and we strive to provide assistance to anyone in need of help.

We are a local registered charity with the vision to have a community that gives the greatest opportunity for a safe, fulfilled, and aspirational life, free from, homelessness, domestic abuse and poor mental health.To achieve this we deliver a number of projects that includes; supported accommodation, community based support, support in educational settings, counselling, and training, and personal development opportunities.All our services provide specialist support on an individual basis to empower people to build emotional resilience, improve their health and wellbeing, make positive choices, and to have fulfilled and independent lives.Our vision is to have a community that gives the greatest opportunities for a safe, fulfilled, and aspirational life free from homelessness, domestic abuse, and poor mental health, and our mission is to make a positive difference to those impacted by homelessness, domestic abuse and/or poor mental health by developing innovative responses to need and providing high-quality, specialist support to empower people to build independent lives and live safely.

Claire House Children’s Hospice helps seriously and terminally ill children live life to the full by creating wonderful experiences and bringing back a sense of normality to family life.

By providing specialist nursing care and emotional support we help families smile again when life couldn’t get any tougher.Claire House has a team of trained professionals who are as passionate about what they do as they are talented at doing it. Our staff includes nurses, physiotherapists, play specialists, counsellors and we also have four dedicated doctors who visit the hospice.

The Clatterbridge Cancer Charity is the only charity dedicated to supporting The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre.

The Clatterbridge Cancer Charity is the only charity dedicated to supporting The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre. We fund life-saving research, invest in leading technology, enhance the patient environment and enable innovations in care that make a real difference to the lives of local people affected by cancer.

The David Lewis Brigade as we have named ourselves, includes ten David Lewis colleagues who are taking on the military style Born Survivor fundraiser at Capesthorne Hall on the 7th May 2022.The fantastic teamwork on the day will get us through this challenge. It will be exhausting, muddy and a great fun way to raise funds for our charity.Please help if you can with a kind donation to boost our charity fundraising challenge at this amazing venue.

Since 1988, East Cheshire Hospice has been caring for people suffering from life-limiting illnesses. We put our patients, their carers and families at the centre of everything we do, and our expert medical treatment is only the start of the holistic care we provide.

2018 marked the 30th anniversary of the opening of East Cheshire Hospice. For more than 30 years we have relied on the generosity of our community to help us care for local people who are facing the toughest challenges of their lives.We prioritise each patient’s needs and wishes, aiming to improve overall quality of life with practical assistance, emotional and spiritual support. At a time when family is so important, we also support carers and relatives with social and family services, counselling, complementary therapies and much more.Less than 17% of the Hospice’s funding is from the government and the remainder is funded independently through the generosity of the local community. We need to raise £7,500 each day to keep East Cheshire Hospice running.Thank you to everyone who has supported the Hospice over the last 30 years, we simply would not be here without your kindness.

Kidneys for Life aims to raise funds to ensure that research can continue to further help that kidneys work well for the lifetime of the patient, and our research plan for the future will follow this aim. We also aim to improve direct patient amenities within the Renal Units.

Kidneys for Life was set up in 1976 for the benefit of renal patients at Manchester Royal Infirmary and in recent years with Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital and outlying satellite dialysis units.In 2016 Kidneys for Life are pleased to be also working with Salford Royal Infirmary to support renal patients both adults and children in the Greater Manchester area.

Maggie’s is a charity providing free emotional support & expert advice in centres across the UK and online. Our Cancer Support Specialists, Psychologists and Benefits Advisors are here for anyone with cancer and their family and friends, whatever kind of cancer, and whatever stage they’re at.

Our workshops, courses, one-to-one and group support help people to change the way they live with cancer. We focus on the things that really make a difference, like money worries, help with stress and depression, managing side-effects and relationship and family support. Our support has been shown to improve physical and emotional wellbeing and to help people take control when cancer turns life upside down. Understanding every person’s individual circumstances is central to what we do and means we can guide them to the support that will help them the most. Our cancer support is evaluated regularly, and is informed by external research findings, our own research and advice from our external reviews.Registration Fee: £30 Fundraising Target: £200

Mid Cheshire Hospitals Charity is a registered NHS charity which supports the excellent work of Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We do this by providing funding for state-of-the-art equipment, new facilities and all the added extras that make people’s experience at our hospitals and in our community services the best it can be.

We couldn’t do any of this without the ongoing support, hard work and generosity of our local communities who donate to, and fundraise for, the charity. Our current major appeal aims to raise £100k to build a dedicated children’s waiting area at Victoria Infirmary, Northwich. By providing a calming, child friendly environment we can help to relax and distract children of all ages, so that their experience is the best that it can be. By providing this space we will also be able to help relieve the stress and worry parents and carers experience when bringing their child to hospital.

Rosemere Cancer Foundation raises vital funds to support world-class cancer care throughout Lancashire and South Cumbria, for the benefit of patients treated at the regional cancer centre at Royal Preston Hospital, or at the cancer units at Royal Blackburn Hospital, Burnley General Hospital, Chorley and South Ribble Hospital, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Furness General Hospital, Royal Lancaster Infirmary and Westmorland General Hospital.

The Foundation works in partnership with local clinical staff, and our charitable funds help to purchase cutting edge equipment (such as our recent £1.3m installation of Surface Guided Radiotherapy equipment at the Rosemere Cancer Centre), support life-changing patient welfare initiatives, back local cancer research projects, and facilitate innovative training for clinical staff. The projects we fund are outside the scope of normal NHS provision, and wouldn’t exist were it not for the kindness of our donors, fundraisers and volunteers – but they make a real difference in the treatment and care received by local patients.

Trinity Hospice has provided excellence in specialist, compassionate care on the journey towards the end of life on the Fylde coast for more than 30 years, touching the lives of around 8,000 local people every year. Trinity helps people live life to the full, and live well right to the very end.

Demand for its care keeps on growing and its services continue to evolve to meet changing expectations.Open 24 hours a day, every day of the year, Trinity is rated ‘outstanding’ and is proud of its modern facilities and high standards. But Trinity is more than a set of buildings – its nursing teams work at the hospital and out in the community day and night, covering every part of the Fylde coast.It costs more than £9million to run all of Trinity’s services each year, which are provided completely free of charge to everyone who needs them. But with little help from the government, it must continue to call on its community – the people it cares for – for support.

Warrington Youth Zone is a purpose built, 21st Century Youth Provision, aimed at attracting young people aged between 7-19 (25 with additional support needs). We offer the opportunity to meet new friends, to gain new experiences and to have masses of fun. For just 50p, our young people have access to over 20 activities each and every session ranging from cookery to dance, football to rock climbing- there is something for everyone. All young people deserve the opportunity to have a safe place to go, something to do and someone to talk to. With membership of almost 8000 young people, Warrington Youth Zone is the place to be.

Central YMCA has been breaking down barriers and creating improved access to life-changing opportunities for almost 180 years.

Just this past year alone, we supported over 6,000 people – from 4yrs old to 90yrs old – through our Health & Wellbeing centres and programmes.To demonstrate our commitment to our work, Central YMCA’s staff members have signed up to participate in Born Survivor. They will attempt to tackle this challenge to raise funds for our vital and life-changing Social Prescription programme: improving the lives of those diagnosed with lifelong health conditions such as HIV and cardiac rehabilitation, through physical activity and social support.