Charities

Hertfordshire Breast Unit Appeal

Hertfordshire Breast Unit Appeal support men and women affected by breast cancer. The appeal is now raising funds to support the new Radiotherapy Unit for Hertfordshire.

Sunny Days Children’s Fund

Sunny Days Children’s Fund is a national registered charity which raises funds to help children under the age of 18 years with a wide range of adverse medical conditions including Leukaemia, Cerebral Palsy, the Deaf and Blind, Terminal Illnesses, and all other life hindering conditions.

Maggie’s

Maggie’s offers the best possible support free to anyone with cancer and their families who walk through our doors. You’ll find our centres alongside NHS hospitals and we can also support you online.

Garden House Hospice Care

Garden House Hospice Care provides free specialist palliative care for patients, families and carers facing life limiting illnesses from across North Hertfordshire, Stevenage and towns and villages in Central Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire, serving a population of around 260,000 people.

Bishop’s Stortford Street Pastors

Little Princess Trust

The Little Princess Trust provides free real hair wigs to children and young people, up to 24 years, who have lost their own hair through cancer treatment or other conditions.

We also fund childhood cancer research searching to find kinder and more effective treatments.

Hearts for Herts Charity

We fundraise to provide public access defibrillators and bleed control kits all across Hertfordshire. Our Heartsafe Lifesaver course is free and includes how to use a defibrillator, perform CPR, use a bleed control kit, help someone who is choking, help someone who is having a heart attack and how to put someone in the recovery position. Our work helps to keep our communities safe and helps to raise awareness of the location of lifesaving emergency equipment. Every Heart Matters.

Motor Neurone Disease Association

The MND Association focuses on improving access to care, research, and campaigning for those people living with or affected by MND in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

RSPCA Southridge Animal Centre

Southridge occupies a 16-acre site that nestles in the bottom of a small valley surrounded by the lush green Hertfordshire countryside. Although we have all too often witnessed the true horrors and cruelty that humans subject animals to, it is here that the lengthy process of reversing the damage begins.

Southridge is not a sanctuary, it is a re-homing centre. Our aim is to place every animal who walks or is carried through our doors into new, responsible, kind and caring homes. We care for many species of animals, and at one time can have up to 250 animals on site that need our support.

Guide Dogs for the Blind Association

We’re a charity, almost entirely funded by donations, and we are the world’s largest assistance dog organisation. As world leaders in puppy socialisation and dog training, we’re the only organisation to breed and train guide dogs in the UK. We’re also the largest employer of specialists dedicated to helping children and young people overcome the challenges of sight loss.

Essex & Herts Air Ambulance

Essex & Herts Air Ambulance, unlike NHS emergency services, is a charity. The free life-saving service is provided 24/7 by helicopters and by rapid response vehicles in the hours of darkness.

Mind Over Cancer

Mind Over Cancer is a charity that supports the Mental Health of a young person given a cancer diagnosis between the ages of 0 and 29 as well as their family and support network. We understand that a cancer diagnosis doesn’t disappear when treatment stops, so our services are available to these young people and their loved ones at any stage of their life.

We launched in June 2021. Our services are currently available across East Anglia. We hope to expand our services UK-wide in the future Your support and donations will help to make this possible.

SADS UK

The cardiac charity SADS UK aims to save lives, providing information, funding research and medical equipment to prevent premature sudden cardiac death. Working in the areas of Research, Prevention and Emergency Care lives have been saved as a direct result of the work of SADS UK. SADS UK holds the Annual National Lifesaver Awards to honour people who have saved lives in the community using CPR and the defibrillator.

St Clare Hospice

St Clare Hospice is a local charity and each year we care for hundreds of people across West Essex and the East Hertfordshire border. We provide free, compassionate care and support to adults who are living with a life-limiting illness, facing the end of life or experiencing bereavement.

Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice Care

Phyllis Tuckwell is the only Hospice Care service for adult patients, and their families, living with cancer or another terminal illness (such as heart, lung or neurological disease) across the whole of West Surrey and part of North East Hampshire.

East Herts Citizen Advice

We provide free, confidential and impartial advice on all issues.

We are here to help you find a way forward.

Bishop’s Stortford Food Bank

The Food Bank is here to help anyone in Bishop’s Stortford and the surrounding villages experiencing a food crisis. Through the incredible support of the local community, we have the food, funds and volunteers to make sure no one goes hungry. If you need food, please ask for help. No one should have to go hungry – ever.

Army Benevolent Fund the Soldiers Charity

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

Children in Need

Al’s Pals

We support cancer patients and their families in hospital, at home, online and in the community with emotional support Our services are growing rapidly, specifically our home support service. Patients and their families recognise the benefits of talking to someone that understands and empathises what they are going through. Any money raised will go towards this particular service as it enables us to recruit more volunteers and allow us to grow the service and support more patients.

Side by Side (Children) Ltd

We are Side by Side, the independent, special school supporting the SEN/disabled in our communities to reach outstanding education and opportunities.

We believe that behind disabled/SEN children and young people lies a wealth and potential. And we want to help them do all they can do to fulfil it. We are proud of our passionate and dedicated team, who are trailblazing the path of SEN/disability support for children and young people.

We are committed to providing tailored education, to include IT Education and opportunities and an exceptional Employability program so our students can feel valued and become thriving members of society.

Isabel Hospice

People stay at the Hospice when they need support to help manage symptoms related to their illness, and to get any pain under control. Many of their patients have cancer, however almost 50% of those they care for have other life-limiting conditions. Sometimes, people stay when they are coming to the end of their life, and require care to stay comfortable.

£25 – Provides a one hour clinical nurse home visit

£75 – Covers 3 hours of a specialist care nurse in the In patient unit

£1608 – 8 hours of expert care to every patient in the In patient unit

Through the Fight Foundation

Through the Fight Foundation is a fully registered charity which provides support for victims of violence and people affected by life limiting illness. The charity has helped more than 50 families since 2016.

Samuels Charity

At the start of September 2013 Samuel was admitted to St George’s hospital in South London. He was diagnosed with a cancer, one that is very rare – Precursor T-Cell Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. He saw how hard it was for the other children to suffer the pain, fear and loneliness of serious illness so he asked his dad to start a charity to help them.

Now, Samuel’s Charity helps thousands of seriously and terminally ill children in underfunded wards.

We provide entertainment equipment – Games Stands that have a new games console, 24 inch TV, storage for controllers and multiple games – the Stand is on wheels so can be used anywhere especially in isolation rooms where they are needed most. We also provide Accuveins – handheld scanner that reduces most or all of pain from injections for kids. These are just some of the items that transform the treatment and reduce the pain and depression so many children suffer daily.

Royal Papworth Hospital

Jim Cronin Memorial Fund

Parkinsons UK

Licensed Trade Charity

The Licensed Trade Charity frequently acts as a safety net for drinks industry professionals facing adversity. Our comprehensive support includes both essential financial aid, offering individuals a fresh start, and compassionate emotional support that accompanies them through their most challenging moments. Our dedicated 24/7 helpline is always just a call away, providing counselling sessions for individuals, couples, and their children. Additionally, we extend vital financial assistance to those grappling with various burdens, such as council tax, rent, children’s school expenses, white goods, and more. Our aim is to get people the support they need to get back on their feet. 

Alzheimers Research UK

NGCA Ducklings

Children With Cancer UK

Prostate Cancer UK

MK Friends of Milton Keynes Hospital & Community

We support the patients, families and community of Milton Keynes University Hospital who are sick, infirm or in need of assistance. Items bought with money we raise can range from physiotherapy equipment, chairs, furniture, wheelchairs, and medical equipment. We have raised over £3.5 million and have recently donated £50,000 to MK Hospital Radiotherapy Appeal.

MK Friends provides a range of services at MK Hospital. Our café and shop including our online shop, deliver to patient wards and out trolley service, which goes around the wards 364 days a year, is run by our volunteers.

Burnt Chef Project

Ask for Clive

St Albans District Shopmobilty

Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity

North Enfield Food Bank

Hertford Food Bank

Hatfield Food Bank

We don’t think anyone in our community should have to face going hungry. That’s why we provide three days’ nutritionally balanced emergency food and support to local people who are referred to us in crisis. We are part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK.

Harlow Food Bank

Haven House Children’s Hospice

East & North Hertfordshire Hospitals’ Charity

British Red Cross (Turkey and Syria Earthquake appeal)

4Louis

Save the Children

DEC (Turkey/Syria Earthquake)

British Red Cross

Helen Rollason Cancer Charity

Helen Rollason Cancer Charity is dedicated to supporting people whose lives are touched by cancer. Our Support Centres in Essex and London are vital in helping people living with cancer. The centres offer a range of complementary therapies to patients in an environment of peace and tranquillity, including counselling, reflexology, aromatherapy, manual lymphatic drainage and support groups.

Broxbourne Foodbank

We don’t think anyone in our community should have to face going hungry. That’s why we provide three days’ nutritionally balanced emergency food and support to local people who are referred to us in crisis.

Cecil’s Horse Sanctuary

Cecil’s Horse Sanctuary offers a loving permanent home to horses and ponies who are old, abandoned, neglected, abused or unwanted.

NGCA Ducklings Pre-School

Willen Hospice

Mind

We’re Mind, the mental health charity. We’re here to make sure no one has to face a mental health problem alone. We provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. We campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding. We won’t give up until everyone experiencing a mental health problem gets support and respect.

Herts & Middlesex Wildlife Trust

Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust is a local charity supported by people who care about protecting wildlife, including over 22,000 members.

St Albans & District Foodbank

Helping local people in crisis.

Macmillan Cancer Support

Macmillan Cancer Support is here to listen, support you through treatment, and help with money. We fundraise so we can do whatever it takes.

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity

GOSH supports over 619 children from across the UK every day, that’s over 300,000 patient admission and appointments every year. GOSH has 63 specialized services,for rare and complex conditions, the widest range on any one site in the UK, which is why seriously ill children come from all over the country to GOSH.

Cancer Research UK

We are the world’s leading independent cancer charity dedicated to saving lives through research, influence and information.

Aspire

Aspire is a UK charity providing practical help to people who have been paralysed by Spinal Cord Injury, supporting them from injury to independence.

Vasculitus UK

We provide crucial help in financing research into vasculitis, and support for those looking for reliable information about vasculitis.

Stortford Heroes

Sevenoaks Welcomes Refugees

Sevenoaks Welcomes Refugees is a local charity formed in 2017 originally to help support refugees from Syria resettling in the Sevenoaks district.

UNICEF

Alzheimer’s Society

From day one of dementia, we’ll be right here with you. For support and advice. For pushing for change, and for life-changing treatments and care.

Hospice in the Weald

Hospice in the Weald provides care for patients with a terminal illness, and those important to them, in West Kent and Northern East Sussex.

The HALO Trust

The HALO Trust  helps countries recover after conflict. Clearing landmines, to save lives, is at the heart of what we do. We work with communities that are too often forgotten once the fighting has ended

Streets2Homes

Streets2Homes is a charity based in Harlow, Essex and we provide a day centre which seeks to reach out to and help homeless people. We provide a safe and friendly environment in which we can assist them in a number of ways including finding accommodation.

DEC Ukraine Appeal

The DEC brings together 15 leading UK aid charities to raise funds quickly and efficiently at times of crisis overseas.

In these times of crisis, people in life-and-death situations need our help and our mission is to save, protect and rebuild lives through effective humanitarian response.

MS-UK

MS-UK, a national charity here for anyone affected by multiple sclerosis, to empower them to live healthier and happier lives by improving the understanding of MS and providing support where it is needed most.

MS-UK is completely independent, we do not receive any government funding.

A few ways money will be spent to help those affected by MS:

£10 could pay for an information pack to support those newly diagnosed with MS.
£25 could pay for an MS-UK Helpline and Information Officer to answer a call and provide information and emotional support.
£100 could pay for 5 hours of online exercise coaching to help people stay active at home and manage their wellbeing.

SOHK

SOHK delivers life-changing programmes across the UK. We change the lives of children and adults using rugby, boxing and strongman courses, supported by a curriculum of powerful life lessons. We work with unemployed adults to find and sustain employment; and with school children at risk of exclusion to help them reengage with education. Please help us to reach more people in need of our services by donating today. We spend at least 87% of every donation directly on frontline work.

Supershoes

Supershoes empowers children & young people fighting cancer in the UK, enhancing physical & emotional well-being whilst raising awareness. Each pair of shoes is designed specifically for a particular child or young person with a diagnosis of cancer, and hand-painted by a Super Artist to capture that child and all their favourite things: games, sports team, music, animals, colours, tv programmes. They love it; we paint it! The end product is a pair of Supershoes as unique as the child or young person that wears them. They are a constant reminder to that child of who they are, beyond their illness, challenges and treatment. It costs Supershoes £70 to create 1 pair of shoes.

Guide Dogs UK

Our ambition is a future where every person with sight loss has the confidence and support they need to live their lives to the full. Our Future Direction and Strategy Overview explains how we aim to reach and support many more individuals over the next five years, from 200,000 people today, to 500,000 by 2023

Iain Rennie Hospice

Rennie Grove Hospice Care is a charity providing specialist care and support for adults and children with a life-limiting illness in Bucks and west Herts. Through our unique Hospice at Home service, available day and night, and a range of day services we support our patients to live the best quality life they can with a choice about how and where they are cared for towards the end of life. We are also here for the families of our patients, ensuring that everyone can receive the right support, when they need it, to help them make every moment together matter.

Signpost

Signpost emerged in 1970 when Dr Edwards, a local GP and juvenile magistrate, decided to help the large number of young people displaying mental health symptoms caused by boredom and dissatisfaction with home, school, work and life in general.  He worked with the Senior Youth & Community Officer to establish a bureau which would offer both information and counselling to young people. Today the charity has offices around Hertfordshire and further with satellites in Rickmansworth/Maple Cross and South Oxhey

Crohn’s & Colitis UK

We are the UK’s leading charity for the 300,000 patients living with either Crohn’s or Colitis- with the current figure believed to be almost double! People with the conditions face a lifetime of medication and, in many cases, major surgery. If left untreated, it can be fatal. Unlike many other diseases, there is a huge stigma attached leading many people to feel too ashamed or embarrassed to talk about it. This means that not only are they struggling with the devastating effects of Crohn’s or Colitis – they’re doing so alone

Mudlarks

Mudlarks is a Hertford based charity supporting adults with learning disabilities and mental health issues.

Through supported learning and meaningful work in the community, Mudlarks’ projects help people build confidence and self-worth, and develop important skills.

• At our allotments in Cromwell Road we provide gardening therapy to our clients, who grow vegetables in a safe and caring environment
• The Mudlarks Café in Railway Street provides training, work experience and employment for adults with learning difficulties which improves their skills and confidence.
• Our Larking About gardening team works in Hertford, managing all of the Town Council gardens.
• Our Special Branch team of gardeners helps the elderly to maintain their gardens.
• Our Forest School at Panshanger Park supports young adults with learning difficulties , giving them the opportunity to take part in activities, connecting them with the natural environment and encouraging self-directed play and exploration.

All of Mudlarks’ projects support local people with learning difficulties and mental health issues to take a full and active role in our community, and lead more fulfilling lives.

Streetsmart

StreetSmart was set up in 1998 by two ethically-minded London business people, William Sieghart, Chairman of StreetSmart, founder of Forward Publishing and Mary-Lou Sturridge, Former Director of The Groucho Club, Hotelier.

The idea was simple. During November and December in the run-up to Christmas, many people go out to eat in restaurants and celebrate the spirit of the holidays; so wouldn’t it be great if we could harness just a little of that “good cheer” and raise money for worthy charities at the same time people were enjoying a nice meal out?

Keech Hospice Care

Keech Hospice provides free, specialist care for adults in Luton and south Bedfordshire, and children from Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Milton Keynes, who have life-limiting and terminal illnesses. Our excellent specialist care supports adults and children to live pain and symptom free, to spend untroubled time with their family and friends, to understand what’s happening to them, to stay out of hospital and to make the most of the time they have.

Herts Young Homeless

Herts Young Homeless is a unique charity in Hertfordshire providing services to support vulnerable people.

Our focus is on preventing homelessness – from education in schools and family mediation through to supporting 16-24 year olds in their first homes or caring for adults of all ages who have mental health issues and housing needs.

Our free services empower young people to be able to deal with the difficult situations in their lives, give them the ability and confidence to ‘do it themselves’ and ultimately find stability.