If you are raising money for a charity or organisation you can spread the word, help and ideas can then be channelled where you'd like. Monetary gifts are not for everyone The Present Knowledge can help you to let others now your current requests via your wish list. Please see below links to just some of the charities we suggest for alternative donation/gift ideas.
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Barnardo's - www.barnardos.org.uk
Barnardo's helps the most vulnerable children and young people transform
their lives and fulfil their potential.
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Prostate Cancer Charity - http://www.prostate-cancer.org.uk
Prostate cancer - for so long a neglected health issue - neither understood by the public nor prioritised by politicians. It was against this background that The Prostate Cancer Charity was set up in 1996. In its relatively short life, the Charity has played a key role in raising both public awareness of the disease and political debate about services and support ... and there is now a real sense that for the cause of prostate cancer 'the time has come.'
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Christian Aid - www.christianaid.org.uk
Ordinary people doing extraordinary things: Christian Aid is a movement
of people convinced that the world can be changed for good. We want to change
history for poor communities, irrespective of race or religion, by providing
hope, health and the chance of a decent life.
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Cancer Research - www.cancerresearchuk.org
You can help us make a difference. Cancer Research UK spends more than £191
million every year on research. Of that, £15 million goes on research
into breast cancer. Cancer Research UK relies on people like you to help
us fund our vital work |
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Oxfam - www.oxfam.org.uk
Oxfam works with others to overcome poverty and suffering |
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NSPCC - www.nspcc.org.uk
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) has
a vision - a society where all children are loved, valued and able to fulfil
their potential. You can help in many ways- by making a donation, buying
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Guide Dogs for the Blind - www.gdba.org.uk
Our mission is to provide guide dogs, mobility and other rehabilitation
services that meet the needs of blind and partially sighted people. Sponsor
one of our puppies and help them become a guide dog |
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Charities Direct - www.charitiesdirect.com
CharitiesDirect.com is the home of the National Charities Database, providing
regularly updated information on over 10,000 UK charities. |
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The British Heart Foundation - www.bhf.org.uk
The largest independent funder of heart research in the UK. Order Christmas
cards and gifts online |
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World Wildlife Fund - www.wwf.org.uk
If you feel passionate about preserving the incalculably precious heritage
that is the natural world, please join WWF. You can also adopt an animal. |
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The British Deaf Association - www.britishdeafassociation.org.uk
The BDA wants to see a world where Deaf people who use sign language enjoy
the same rights, opportunities and quality of life as everyone. They rely
on the generosity of people like you to support their vital work.
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Comic Relief - www.comicrelief.com
Every single penny you give will go towards ending poverty and social injustice
all over the UK and in Africa. Your generosity will help a lot of people
whose lives are very hard |
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World Vision - www.worldvision.org.uk
A leading, international, Christian aid organisation that is working worldwide
to bring hope and change to communities in need through our relief and development
projects aimed at helping children. By becoming a World Vision Child Sponsor
you will not only help the child you sponsor but their community as well.
There's also an alternative gift catalogue where you can choose some life
changing gifts for eg…. The ultimate environmentally friendly gift!
Help reforest an area by buying 100 saplings for a whole community in Bangladesh!
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Send a Cow - www.sendacow.org.uk
The gift of just one cow can make an enormous difference to a desperately
poor East African family, enabling them to combat malnutrition with protein-rich
millk and earn an income from the sale of the surplus milk |
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Relief Web - www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf
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Children in Need |
BBC Children in Need - www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey
BBC Children in Need started in 1980, and has raised more than £325
million. Every penny has been used to improve the lives of British children
who have experienced problems or hardships, such as abuse, serious illness
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Mencap - www.mencap.org.uk
Mencap is the UK's leading learning disability charity working with people
with a learning disability and their families and carers |
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Blue Peter - www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/bluepeter
Keep organising sales and sending in your money and we can go on and help
even more people in Tanzania and Uganda who need pumps and taps to help
them get clean water supplies |
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Alerting humanitarians to emergencies www.alertnet.charitynet.org
EMERGENCIES
Iraq
after the war
Sri Lanka
conflict
Liberian
crisis
Congo
conflict
Afghan
reconstruction
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