Month: November 2016

This year we are asking our staff, volunteers and supporters to wear blue on #givingtuesday and raise public awareness of Sea Cadets.

At the same time we would love everyone to share 3 key facts about Sea Cadets:

1. We are a charity.
2. We are 160 years old.
3. We have helped transform over 1 million lives.

We will use social media to share photos of all those who have kindly dressed in blue holding their own messages. Anyone who would like to donate £3 supporters can do so by texting ‘SEA’ to 70111 and help the next generation of young people.

Here at nsif, we are aware of how difficult the winter can be for those with spinal injury.

The body’s ability to regulate temperature is a function that people lose when they suffer a spinal injury. Typically, individuals with spinal cord injury from trauma or medical issues will not be able to effectively adjust their body temperature. When hot or cold they cannot sweat or shiver below the level of injury because the brain does not receive the message that a body temperature correction needs to be made.

People with spinal injuries are given the advice to stay inside during the cold months to avoid the dangers associated with getting too cold, such as hyperthermia. It is also increasingly difficult in the cold and wet weather to navigate icy pavements in a wheelchair. These additional hazards are just some of the things people with spinal injury have to contend with during the festive period.

Currently there is no cure for spinal cord injury, at nsif we hope to change that. Which is why this #givingtuesday, we are organising our first Christmas event, to raise vital funds for cutting edge research into a cure for spinal injury.

The event will consist of carols, canapés and readings from some of our celebrity patrons including Helen Fospero and Jeffrey Archer. All of the proceeds of the concert will go to the pioneering research that we fund to find a cure for spinal cord injury.

You can book your tickets for this special event now by visiting our eventbrite page.

Small change can build up in your purse and can get annoying, but this #givingtuesday we are asking you to use your small change to make a big change!

We are running a coin collection and asking people to save their coppers and donate these to Children’s Helpers Worldwide (CHW) on #givingtuesday.

CHW has recently partnered with a horse therapy project in Cordoba, Argentina. Horse therapy has many benefits, but is out of the reach of poorer families, costing around £110 per month. All the coins, added together, would help a child with disabilities to attend horse therapy sessions.

We will also be holding a ‘Coffee and Cash In’ Event at a coffee shop on Tottenham Court Road, London, at 6pm on #givingtuesday. We invite you to join us for a coffee and a chat about the charity’s projects. This will be a chance for people to donate any small coins and we are also asking volunteers to join us to help us count the coins.

More details can be found here on our website.

We look forward to joining together with you on #givingtuesday, to make a big change!

For more than 50 years Transform Europe Now (TEN) has been working with over 70 national partners in the poorest nations of Europe.

We work to bring relief to communities languishing in dire poverty. Each winter our partners make a special effort to provide for families and individuals trapped in desperate circumstances, bringing shoe-boxes filled with gifts to thousands of children, offering logs for the fire, blankets to keep warm and new clothes and shoes for the children. Most of this work is as a result of the generosity of UK donors.

Donating money towards TEN’s WinterHelp Appeal enables our partners to buy food, fuel and other vital provisions at local prices. This costs much less than it would to source and send supplies from the UK.

On #givingtuesday, 29th November 2016, TEN is launching its latest campaign, WinterHelp, to raise vital funds to assist thousands of people in Eastern Europe. In addition to approaching our lovely, regular donors we are spreading the word through social media to reach new donors. Gifts from £10 will make a huge difference to the lives of individuals and there’s an exciting option to choose from a selection of gifts available online.

Thanks to CAF we’ll be very busy on social media promoting WinterHelp, so look out for us and best wishes to all charities taking part in #givingtuesday.

 

Could you sponsor a sewing sister this #givingtuesday?

They may not make headlines every day, but the atrocities committed by ISIS in northern Iraq are as raw as ever for the women whose lives have been shattered.

Take Suha, who is 26 years old and deaf. Although she escaped from ISIS, she lost most of her family, and now lives in a camp with her uncle. And there’s Koze, a 29-year-old woman whose husband was murdered, leaving her to bring up their four children alone. With no income, she has to rely on the kindness of others just to feed her family.

But Suha and Koze are not alone. Ever since ISIS began its reign of terror in 2014, thousands of Yazidi women like them have been desperately trying to rebuild their lives and put the past behind them.

This is where you can help.

The Lotus Flower are funding women in one of the camps in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Duhok so they can learn to sew, and make textile-based products they can then sell. By enabling our ‘Sewing Sisters’ to make a living, they can regain financial independence and keep socially active, which will also help heal their psychological and emotional wounds.

A donation of just £20 will help us buy the sewing machines and fabrics they need, as well as employ staff to train them. It’s an entirely sustainable form of aid, which has the potential to change these women’s lives forever.

The Sewing Sisters project was set up by The Lotus Flower charity, whose founder Taban Shoresh has her own, very personal reasons for wanting to help the Yazidi women.

As a child, Taban survived genocide and political imprisonment under former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Now in her early thirties, she was utterly horrified when she returned to her homeland in 2014 and saw a second genocide being waged by ISIS.

She established The Lotus Flower in her living room, and since then, has worked tirelessly to raise awareness of the Yazidis’ plight.

Thank you.

This year we will be helping people ‘de-clutter’ before the festive season.

We will be collecting any good ‘bric-a-brac’ at our offices in Tiverton – anytime (Multi Storey Car Park, Phoenix Lane) and on Tuesday 29th we will be at the Pannier Market Tiverton from 9.30am until midday.

When you feel the need to de-clutter, ask yourself these questions: do I really need it ? Why am I keeping it? … so don’t delay, don’t put it off – start today!

Your donations will make a world of difference to our fundraising and help many isolated and vulnerable people.

This year on #givingtuesday Pancreatic Cancer Action are asking that people join in with their take on the campaign #GivingTwosday!

Pancreatic Cancer Action is a national charity with a focus on improving early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer and the quality of life for those affected by pancreatic cancer.

Currently there are over 9,000 people newly diagnosed a year with pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic Cancer Action are on a mission to stamp out late detection of the disease and to get more patients diagnosed at a point where surgery is possible – currently the only cure.

There are many ways to get involved in #GivingTwosday, but we are first asking people to take a selfie holding up the 2 reasons they are supporting Pancreatic Cancer Action, texting ‘GTWO22 £2’ to 70070 to donate and then tagging 2 of their friends to do the same.

With your help we can save lives through early diagnosis! Find out more by visiting our website here.