N.Yorks Charities Who Need Help
Below is a list of charities in N.Yorks that need help from local businesses and people. If you are a N.Yorks business who would like to help, any of them listed below would love to hear from you and discuss how you can work together. We would love to know about any successful 'matches' to enter into our 'N.Yorks Hall of Charitable Fame'.
Name of Charity
Harrogate Easier Living Project
Your Name
Lizzie Hughes
Your Email
lizzieh@harcvs.org.uk
Your charity's website addresss
www.helpharrogate.org.uk
Your Registered Charity Number
1144758 (we are part of Harrogate & Ripon Centres for Voluntary Service)
A contact phone number
01423 813090
Your Website Address
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https://twitter.com/HELPHarrogate
https://www.facebook.com/HELP.Harrogate
In one or two sentences describe what your charity does ie Animal Welfare, Hospital Charity, etc
HELP works with volunteers to support older, vulnerable or disabled people in the community to stay living safe and well in their own homes, helping with practical tasks such as transport and DIY, but also tackling loneliness and social isolation.
The size of your charity (eg 1-5 staff) including volunteers
13 part time staff, 100 volunteers
What kind of help do you need?
HELP would be interested in partnering with local businesses in a variety of different ways with the ultimate aim to improve our services to older and vulnerable people across the District. We need support with both fundraising and hands-on volunteering including: Help at Home – group gardening/decorating jobs During the summer we have a number of large scale gardening jobs which are too big for our team of two to handle. We would invite you to bring a small team of employees to take part. All equipment and gloves would be provided and you would be working alongside people who are trained in H&S. Similarly, we carry out large scale decorating jobs which also require extra pairs of hands. In-kind support Could your business provide us with in-kind support to help keep our overheads down? Support might include: • Franking our bi-annual newsletter mail out • Printing support • Design/photography input • Create a film/short clip of our work • Provide a venue for volunteer meetings/get togethers • Could you sponsor an activity for a year, such as our Craft Group, a men’s group or an interest group that is a good fit with your business? Fundraising We are always looking for new and innovative ways to raise funds to keep our services running. Activities can be as simple or as grand as you like. Ideas might include: • Collecting tins at your premises • Group challenges – walks, runs, bike rides • Golf days, parachute jumps, Fashion Shows • Raffles, bake sales, quizzes • % donation to HELP for every sale/customer you help • Donation of raffle prizes for fundraising/client/volunteer events • Sign up to The Local Lotto and choose HELP as your nominated charity • Encourage clients & employees to donate via our BT MyDonate page Spreading the word You can help us by: • Sharing information about our services with your network • Promoting our volunteering opportunities amongst employees and customers • Placing leaflets and posters on your business premises • Including articles about HELP in your newsletters/website/on social media How we can benefit your business HELP can help you by: • Giving you the opportunity to come and speak to our members about your skill/service • Including articles in our newsletter • Writing articles for the local media about the relationship • Promoting your business and its activities for the charity via social media platforms – Facebook and Twitter • Providing the prefect team building activity with our Help at Home team
Anything else you want to tell us?
With the help of over 100 volunteers, we keep people well supported at home by providing: • Volunteer befriending and social groups • Voluntary car driving services to enable those who can't access public transport due to rural location and/or limited mobility to attend medical appointments, make social visits, attend day centres and make essential trips such as shopping or banking • 'Help at Home' gardening, decorating and odd job service for people unable to do the work themselves or could not afford a professional tradesperson • Craft groups, an intergenerational group and lunch clubs in three rurally-isolated villages Our clients tell us it is the little things we support them with, like a lift to the GP surgery or changing a light bulb that makes them feel more confident about living independently. Our services also help people at risk of loneliness and/or social isolation. Not only do our events and transport services help our clients stay connected with their local communities, our wonderful volunteers also offer much needed social contact and provide a listening ear to clients who may otherwise rarely get out and about. We currently deliver our services to nearly 900 clients with the help of a team of over 100 volunteers who give 310 hours of support each week.
Name of Charity
The Snappy Trust
Your Name
Anne Stamp
Your Email
office@snappyyork.co.uk
Your charity's website addresss
www.snappyyork.co.uk
Your Registered Charity Number
702190
A contact phone number
01904 640562
Your Website Address
www.snappyyork.co.uk
Your Social Media Accounts (ALL) - this part is really important please don't miss it off! Please cut and paste the FULL URL in, so people can click on it directly.
https://twitter.com/SNAPPYYork
https://www.facebook.com/SNAPPY.York/
In one or two sentences describe what your charity does ie Animal Welfare, Hospital Charity, etc
Snappy offer Play and recreation opportunities to Children and Young people with disability .
The size of your charity (eg 1-5 staff) including volunteers
3 core staff 10 sessional staff 100 volunteers
What kind of help do you need?
Snappy are seeking support through fundraising , volunteering , mentoring and advice
Anything else you want to tell us?
Snappy has been in operation since 1985 and our current register stands at 276 families .
in the last year snappy provided 23,240 hours of care to families .
We worked with 140 volunteers and employed 35 care staff .
We delivered training to over 25 other organisations in the area and worked with 38 families on an outreach programme.
Our social media has 257 followers on twitter and 1540 followers on Facebook .
Our reputation is excellent with good or outstanding in Ofsted and our profile is high .
Name of Charity
Survive
Your Name
Nathalie Stead
Your Email
survive@survive-northyorks.org.uk
Your charity's website addresss
2nd Floor
Your Registered Charity Number
1069129
A contact phone number
01904638813
Your Website Address
www.survive-northyorks.org.uk
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https://twitter.com/Survive_York
https://www.facebook.com/surviveyork/
In one or two sentences describe what your charity does ie Animal Welfare, Hospital Charity, etc
Counselling and support for survivors of sexual violence
The size of your charity (eg 1-5 staff) including volunteers
11 staff, 11 volunteers
What kind of help do you need?
Fundraising expertise, business acumen, social media and marketing strategy, IT support
Anything else you want to tell us?
Name of Charity
Community Counselling (North Yorkshire) Limited
Your Name
Stephen Robling
Your Email
chiefofficer@community-counselling.org.uk
Your charity's website address
www.community-counselling.org.uk
Your Registered Charity Number
1151230
A contact phone number
0165369230
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https://twitter.com/CCNYL
https://www.facebook.com/Community.Malton
In one or two sentences describe what your charity does ie Animal Welfare, Hospital Charity, etc
We provide accessible, professional counselling and other therapeutic interventions to adults and children living in North Yorkshire.
The size of your charity (eg 1-5 staff) including volunteers
30
What kind of help do you need?
Help with:
1. completing funding applications,
2. raising awareness of a our brand through our website and social media, and
3. generating more funds through donations and fundraising activities.
Anything else you want to tell us?
We have been recognised for our professionalism by being awarded accreditation by our professional body (the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) for our counselling services, and by being awarded a contract to provide counselling to children and young people who have been victims of crime by the Police and Crime Commissioner for North Yorkshire.
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Name of Charity
Moorview Rescue
Your Name
Amber Beck
Your Email
enquiries@moor-view.co.uk
Your charity's website addresss
http://www.moor-viewrescue.co.uk/
Your Registered Charity Number
1155095
A contact phone number
01423711993
Your Website Address
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https://www.facebook.com/moorview/
In one or two sentences describe what your charity does ie Animal Welfare, Hospital Charity, etc
Animal Rescue and Rehoming
The size of your charity (eg 1-5 staff) including volunteers
2 staff ~10 volunteers
What kind of help do you need?
We need help with professional leaflets to have at our fundraising stands and to distribute around local areas. We do not have the knowle dge or equipment to make professional leaflets. They would benefit the charity by increasing awareness, supporters and followers. This would in turn increase are adoption rates and donations which will help us rescue and rehome more animals. With the leaflets, we will use them at fundraising events, as well as have volunteers distribute them to local homes.
Furthermore, we need resin paint and gravel to help finalise our kennel maintenance. The bars still need painting and the gravel will be used where we exercise the dogs in winter as it will become too muddy and unusable. Wet mud also holds bacteria which is bad for the paws so gravel will increase the health and hygeine of our animals.
Anything else you want to tell us?
The use of professional leaflets will be invaluable to charity and we would benefit from these massively in numerous respects. .
Name of Charity
Yorkshire Coast Sight Support
Your Name
Colin Eastwood
Your Email
colin@ycss.org.uk
Your charity's website addresss
Yorkshire Coast Sight Support
Your Registered Charity Number
224245
A contact phone number
01723354417
Your Website Address
www.ycss.org.uk
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http://ycss.org.uk
In one or two sentences describe what your charity does ie Animal Welfare, Hospital Charity, etc
Support the blind and partially sighted residents of the Scarborough Borough
The size of your charity (eg 1-5 staff) including volunteers
4 Staff 12 Volunteers
What kind of help do you need?
As is usual with all charities core funding is essential, any way local bus inesses can support Yorkshire Coast Sight Support (YCSS) would be very welcome.
Joint fund raising events have proven to work well.
YCSS hold a number of raffles, tombolas etc etc each year and we are always looking for prizes
Our fundraising group need partners to work with, do you have a restaurant? We have ideas for a dining event but need a partners to work with.
Could you home one of our collection boxes?
Our minibus needs maintaining and servicing could you help with this?
Our Resource centre needs up keep and maintenance could you provide the people or materials to help?
Does your business provide an activity our members could take part in? Our members will try anything from climbing to cycling, dancing to singing.
If your business makes something our members could have a go at making, they would love to give it a try.
YCSS do need core funding, but we also want to improve the quality of life for our members you can help in many ways, if we haven't suggested it, and you think it would help, then let us know, we love silly ideas!!!!
Anything else you want to tell us?
Yorkshire Coast Sight Support (YCSS) is the main sight related charity covering the Whitby, Scarborough and Filey areas.
Loss of sight does not often receive the attention of many other disabilities, similarly support of a sight loss related charity is not seen as headline grabbing and not often at the top of many personal donation or organisations corporate commitment agendas.
As with many other age related illnesses the number of people suffering from sight loss is growing, however, sight loss can be totally un related to age. We have members who have suffered reducing levels of sight since they were teenagers and others who lost their sight virtually overnight through illness or accidents. Like many other, much more high profile, debilitating illnesses sight loss is not choosy who it picks or when.
Loss of sight is very difficult to imagine but easy to replicate, just wear a blindfold for a few minutes and try carry out the simplest of tasks. Making a cup of tea can become a very dangerous chore when you can’t see the cup or kettle full of boiling water. Try sending a text or accessing the internet with the blindfold on. Even to most skilled texter or internet geek will struggle.
The RNIB are the most recognised sight loss charity, however, with the many cuts in Government support etc. the vast majority of RNIB funding is now used to support their own activities Nationally, rather than direct support of local needs.
YCSS receives small amounts of support funding from Scarborough Borough Council and North Yorkshire County Council of which we are very grateful. However, the majority of YSCC funds comes from private donations, legacies, collection boxes and our Charity Shop on Falsgrave Road Scarborough.
Our resource Centre on Dean Road Scarborough houses a purpose designed computer suite enabling our visually impaired members to re learn, or for our older members start to learn, how to use Word or access the internet. Scanners enable difficult to read documents to be scanned, converted then read out by the software. We have a dedicated IT sessions providing one to one teaching at the members own speed.
We have a small gym area where members can exercise under the watchful eye of our instructor. Members may just be keeping fit in a safe environment or getting used to exercising and using exercise machines before enrolling at their local gym. Again imagine trying to use a running machine with limited sight.
There are many aids to reduce the impact of sight loss, talking watches, magnifying image readers, talking scales, kettles, even talking measuring tapes. YCSS keep a large display of aids covering all areas of living for members to try before they decide what helps most. We have a large audio book library and many large print books.
If members don’t want to have IT training, go to the gym or try new equipment they are very welcome to just come and chat to other members and our team based in the Centre. Loss of sight is, to say the least, traumatic. Talking to like minded people who are on the same journey or have completed the journey can help reduce the fear and stress. YCSS have team members, volunteers and members who have undergone a range of training to assist others in the sight loss journey. If our team can’t help we have many contacts Regionally and Nationally who can.
As YCSS covers such a large area and traveling on public transport is not easy if you are visually impaired, something else to try with your blindfold on, we have a 14 seater minibus for picking up and taking home groups of members. Purchased through donations and maintained by sponsorships the minibus is the life line of many members who’s only outing in the week is the visit to YCSS.
YCSS would like to offer our members further challenges, experiences and interests. A recent questionnaire to members highlighted requests such as cycling, following a taster session around Marine Drive, visiting the climbing wall, salsa dancing, learning to play the guitar, brewery trip, yoga, mindfulness, goal ball and paddle boarding.
We can’t even hope to carry out the requests of our members without funding, sponsorship or donations. Money is always necessary to keep YCSS afloat, however, support doesn’t always have to be in money. If you’re a salsa teacher could you spare a few hours to teach our members. You may run a class or dance sessions, once our members get a little confidence they will come along to the main sessions, you just try keep them away. You may be a story teller, our members would love to have the opportunity to hear a real life talking book. YCSS has a number of volunteers, without this very dedicated group YCSS would not be able to offer the support and services our members deserve.
Next time your organisation or you as an individual are wondering what local charity you would choose to support, put on the blindfold and try a simple task. Then, please re think your list of life changing disabilities and what a difference your support of YCSS could make. Something as simple as hosting one of our charity collection boxes or as elaborate as making us your chosen charity for the year or anything in-between will make a difference to local people.
Thank you
Name of Charity
Herriot Hospice Homecare
Your Name
Lucy Turner
Your Email
lucy.turner@herriothh.org.uk
Your charity's website addresss
www.herriothh.org.uk
Your Registered Charity Number
1151298
A contact phone number
01609710514
Your Website Address
Your Social Media Accounts (ALL) - this part is really important please don't miss it off! Please cut and paste the FULL URL in, so people can click on it directly.
www.facebook.com/herriothospice
https://twitter.com/HHHomecare
https://www.instagram.com/herriothospicehomecare/
In one or two sentences describe what your charity does ie Animal Welfare, Hospital Charity, etc
Herriot Hospice Homecare provides free personalised care to enable people to live comfortably and with dignity in their own home during the last weeks of their life.
The size of your charity (eg 1-5 staff) including volunteers
25 members of staff, 12 bank staff and approximately 150 volunteers
What kind of help do you need?
There are lots of different ways local businesses can support us:
Volunteering:
Fundraising:
We have an assortment of events through out the year and we need support with roles such as marshalling, registration, selling merchandise and car parking. This is a flexible, adhoc opportunity for staff looking to support their local hospice at home service!
Community:
We also have more regular volunteering opportunities in the community.
Be-friending- provide companionship and support to people who live alone or who are alone for long periods of the day, or who need support whilst they are undergoing treatment.
Respite sitting- ensuring carers get to have a well earned break.
Driving- support patients by driving them to hospital appointments when an ambulance or family member are unable.
Sponsorship opportunities:
We have a range of events which we would like to get sponsored by local companies in order to maximise profit. Sponsoring events is a great opportunity for companies to be affiliated with local charities and get their name out in the community.
Fundraising:
We need to raise one million pounds a year to continue providing our end of life care and support. In order to do this we rely on the generosity of the local community. If your company has a charity of the year scheme, organises coffee mornings or enjoys taking part in challenges or local events we would love to hear from you.
Anything else you want to tell us?
Each year, we support almost 600 people in the Hambleton and Richmondshire area through services including end of life care, bereavement support, respite care, befriending, complimentary therapy and a driving service.
This practical, emotional and psychological support not only supports patients, but also helps their families manage during a very difficult time.
Name of Charity
Peter Pan Nursery
Your Name
Kay Smith
Your Email
office@peterpannursery.co.uk
Your charity's website addresss
www.peterpannursery.co.uk
Your Registered Charity Number
1162118
A contact phone number
01977681863
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http://www.peterpannursery.co.uk/cms/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/507504256009273/
https://www.facebook.com/ppncharityshop/
In one or two sentences describe what your charity does ie Animal Welfare, Hospital Charity, etc
A pre-school nursery for children and families with additional needs
The size of your charity (eg 1-5 staff) including volunteers
8 staff, 38 volunteers
What kind of help do you need?
We really would appreciate help with fundraising, advertising and marketing. In fact because we are a small independent charity, we welcome any help offered.
Anything else you want to tell us?
Our charity is managed by a voluntary team of trustees. All of our children are referred to us by either a healthcare professional or early years' worker. We have a small charity shop in the village, this is our main source of income.
Name of Charity
Sidewalk Youth Project
Your Name
Stephen Blower
Your Email
Admin@sidewalk-scarborough.org.uk
Your charity's website addresss
Sidewalk-scarborough.com
Your Registered Charity Number
700733
A contact phone number
07480 644 256
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https://m.facebook.com/SidewalkYouthProject/?ref=bookmarks
In one or two sentences describe what your charity does ie Animal Welfare, Hospital Charity, etc
Street based work with young people experiencing marginalisation in Scarborough
The size of your charity (eg 1-5 staff) including volunteers
3.5 staff
What kind of help do you need?
Placements for young people.
Financial support.
Business mentoring and coaching.
Office and IT equipment.
Active local trustees.
Volunteers.
Help with fund raising.
Name of Charity
Sight Support Ryedale
Your Name
Julie Atkinson
Your Email
julie@sightsupportryedale.org
Your charity's website addresss
www.sightsupportryedale.org
Your Registered Charity Number
1170013
A contact phone number
01653 698860
Your Website Address
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www.facebook.com/SightSupportRyedale
In one or two sentences describe what your charity does ie Animal Welfare, Hospital Charity, etc
Supporting Visually Impaired People
The size of your charity (eg 1-5 staff) including volunteers
3 staff 25 volunteers
What kind of help do you need?
Fundraising support
volunteers to assist on outings and events
Volunteers to assist our technology support group
Anything else you want to tell us?
We are a small, friendly organisation who offers a range of activities to suit sight impaired people of all ages. We are very social; all our activities include time for tea, cake and a natter. We can also be adventurous; we have been on the zip wires at Go-Ape, we cycle and had an amazing speedboat trip at Scarborough in the summer.