Charities

Swings & Smiles is a place to play for children with special needs and their families. It offers a unique environment where the whole family feels supported and where they can spend quality time together. Our services include play sessions, sibling support and outreach. Swings & Smiles provides activities for children and young people aged 0-19 years old with a wide range of disabilities and special needs to be able to enjoy playing together without the pressures often experienced in wider community settings. We support the whole family including parents, carers, the child with special needs, brothers, sisters and grandparents. Our support is hugely varied and depends on the needs of the family, we will tailor support to individual need. Swings & Smiles also welcomes adults with disabilities who may benefit from this type of environment and visits from community groups and respite providers. We offer a variety of different sessions, for more information please visit our website.

A tree and forestry charity aiming to advance sustainable forest management. Sylva runs various projects under three programs covering science, education and science.

The Sympathy has embraced four key goals: Education: Sympathy was founded as a nonprofit organization to advance education and eradicate poverty by offering primary and secondary school scholarships to young people from economically deprived households. Social Welfare: The organization was founded as a nonprofit to eradicate poverty. To this end, it will carry out to distribute food Rashaan and basic grocery to those who need them. Senior Citizen Care: Sympathy was founded as a nonprofit organization with the mission of providing good quality of life to seniors who lived their lives in struggles and now their kids are giving them hard times, or there is no one to take care of them. By giving them access to the necessary medications and placing them in reputable shelter homes, sympathy aids these people. Women Empowerment: Sympathy was established to empower women. By providing them with possibilities in education, employment, and social activities. Women do not have less value than men.

Tamba (Twins and Multiple Births Association) is a national charity that provides high quality information and mutual support networks for families of twins, triplets and more, highlighting their unique needs to all involved in their care.

We are a registered charity helping to support people affected by all cancers and other chronic illnesses. The current TWCSC premises at Craven, Stonydelph, were opened in June 2014 to provide a welcoming, friendly place for anyone needing support or information about living with, or after a diagnosis of cancer or any other chronic illness. A dedicated team of volunteers, led by the Centre Manager, work hard to help bridge the gap between clinical and home environments. Our Centre’s doors are open to everyone, whether it be yourself, a friend or a relative that is affected by illness. Come and sit in a relaxed, friendly atmosphere and let us offer you practical advice, emotional support or just a listening ear. Living with chronic illness can feel like a very lonely time. Nobody should have to feel this and so this is the very reason our charity exists. We offer holistic therapies, craft therapies, wellbeing projects. We have wig fitting/styling facilities and bra fitting services. We also hold specific support groups throughout the month and we always offer a warm smile and a hot drink with our very willing volunteers.

TDT is a UK-registered charity founded 50 years ago that operates in the more remote regions of Tanzania. Its objective is to help the very poorest people to help themselves. Because it is relatively small (turnover £250-300,000 p.a.) it focuses on girls’ education, clean water, and small income-generating projects. It is run entirely by volunteers, in both the UK and Tanzania, with no offices or paid staff. 100% of all money raised is spent on projects in Tanzania. It has 18 volunteers in Tanzania helping village communities to develop suitable projects, and 20 volunteers based in the UK, mostly experienced professionals who have lived and worked in Tanzania in the past; they evaluate individual projects and visit Tanzania regularly at their own expense to monitor and supervise the projects for which they are responsible. The projects themselves are implemented by a network of local partners, mostly NGOs or CBOs (community-based organisations). TDT typically sponsors around 40 small projects p.a. Most are under £6,000 in size, and benefit between 50 and 1,500 people per project. Brief descriptions of recent projects can be found on the TDT web site www.tanzdevtrust.org/projects It also has a longer-term relationship with four “flagship” projects: a school in Tabora for girls who have been denied access to education because of pregnancy; a vocational training centre for profoundly deaf young people near Dodoma; a single-village integrated development programme in Singida; and an agriculture-based community development programme near Kigoma.   TDT acts as the international voice for these projects, raising money from Trusts and Foundations outside of Tanzania that local NGOs are ill-equipped to approach, whilst providing donors with reassurance that the project will be well-run and all expenditures properly accounted for.