upReach supports undergraduates from less-privileged backgrounds to secure graduate jobs and internships by running a needs-focused professional development programmes in partnership with foundations, universities and employers. Students are guided by Programme Co-ordinators who support them through practice online tests, mock interviews and CV reviews to prepare them for job applications. Video
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upReach supports undergraduates from less-privileged backgrounds to secure graduate jobs and internships by running a needs-focused professional development programmes in partnership with foundations, universities and employers. Students are guided by Programme Co-ordinators who support them through practice online tests, mock interviews and CV reviews to prepare them for job applications. Video forums and skills workshops also develop essential soft skills, and professional mentoring and insight days give them the tools to face the professional world.
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National |
£1,627,869
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Suicide remains the largest single cause of death in men and women under the age of 35 and The Listening Place aims to change this. Established in 2015 by senior Samaritan volunteers and supported by mental health professionals at the frontline of suicide prevention, the charity provides free, face-to-face support from trained volunteers to those with chronic suicidal feelings.
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London |
£1,140,110
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West London Zone aims to promote the care and upbringing of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds who live in or have a close connection to the West of London. By supporting positive family relationships, advancing education and promoting health they provide opportunities for each young person to reach their potential.
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Hammersmith And Fulham, Kensington And Chelsea |
£4,062,203
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Blue Marine Foundation (BLUE) exists to combat overfishing and the destruction of biodiversity through the creation of large-scale marine reserves and by delivering new models of sustainable fishing.
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Saint Helena, Dorset, Devon, Hampshire, Belize, Chile, British Indian Ocean Territory, Maldives |
£4,158,194
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Sport 4 Life UK provide the opportunity for young people aged 11-29 to prepare for, and move into, sustained employment, education or training by improving their employability and key life skills through sports-themed personal development services.
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Birmingham City, Dudley, Sandwell, Worcestershire |
£873,866
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Sand Dams Worldwide supports rural dryland communities to work their way out of poverty with dignity. Working with local partners, they support rural communities to gain access to clean water close to their homes and invest in climate-smart agriculture
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India, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Eswatini |
£991,038
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Action Tutoring provides free tuition to pupils from low-income backgrounds through partnerships with schools, using high quality volunteer tutors who aim to ensure pupils are equipped in English and Maths for progress into further education, employment or training.
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National |
£2,154,554
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My Life Films create free biographical films for people living with dementia by capturing their unique story in a film to help celebrate and remember their lives. The films help to improve the quality of life of the person with dementia and act as an innovative care tool during all stages of the disease.
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National |
£264,170
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Tempus Novo is an award-winning charity that works with serving prisoners and ex-offenders who want to change their lives by stopping the cycle of crime.
Tempus Novo has a unique strength; it’s understanding and direct links into the British prison system. Founded in 2014 by two serving Senior Prison Officers at HMP Leeds, Tempus Novo operates within the prisons to identify offenders committed
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Tempus Novo is an award-winning charity that works with serving prisoners and ex-offenders who want to change their lives by stopping the cycle of crime.
Tempus Novo has a unique strength; it’s understanding and direct links into the British prison system. Founded in 2014 by two serving Senior Prison Officers at HMP Leeds, Tempus Novo operates within the prisons to identify offenders committed to transforming their lives. Upon release, these prisoners continue to work with Tempus Novo to gain employment whilst also receiving hands on mentorship and support for a minimum of 6 months.
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Leeds City |
£289,530
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The Human Milk Foundation provides screened donor milk to babies in hospital or the community, where breastfeeding is impossible or taking time to establish. The HMF also makes grants available for research and educational purposes, and develops programmes of education related to disseminating the science of human milk.
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National |
£285,821
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ClientEarth apply their expertise in EU law, international law, common, and civil law to combat climate change and pollution, secure people's environmental rights and protect and restore habitats, wildlife and natural resources. They do this by driving strong action from governments; shifting financial flow; changing markets, trade and business practices; and empowering citizens and communities.
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Worldwide |
£21,635,509
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Our mission is to be the catalyst for the global eradication of institutional care of children.
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Bulgaria, Romania, South Africa, Rwanda, Sudan, Uruguay, Belarus, Bosnia And Herzegovina, Moldova, Ukraine |
£10,043,584
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The Cares Family is a group of community networks that bring young professionals and older neighbours together, allowing them to hang out and help one another while combating loneliness and isolation
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National |
£628,764
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We support women experiencing severe disadvantages in the period before, during and after the birth of their babies. We run groups and give one to one support to women in four prisons and in the community in London. We have a national remit to improve the experiences and care of women facing health and social inequalities in the perinatal period through training, research and influencing change.
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Throughout London, Surrey, Peterborough City |
£470,097
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Foodcycle support people who are hungry and lonely by serving tasty lunches and dinners each day in towns and cities across the country. Many guests struggle to afford the basics to eat and will eat alone without company or conversation so volunteers are able to serve surplus food cooked in spare kitchen space and keep them connected to the community
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National |
£1,326,776
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Justlife provides innovative, strategic and frontline responses to community needs, working specifically to raise aspirations for vulnerable adults. Justlife has three core workstreams:Regeneration: Enabling innovative physical regenerationResourcing: Ensuring that the most vulnerable have access to relevant services.Research: Gaining a deeper understanding of the needs of communitiesd
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East Sussex, Brighton And Hove, Manchester City |
£1,093,733
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Resurgo's mission is to help communities overcome social challenges through outstanding church-based social ventures. Their current initiatives include the Spear programme (a year-long programme helping young people facing barriers to work into sustainable employment), ReWork (equipping unemployed adults from all backgrounds with the skills, mindset and confidence to re-enter the workplace) and
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Resurgo's mission is to help communities overcome social challenges through outstanding church-based social ventures. Their current initiatives include the Spear programme (a year-long programme helping young people facing barriers to work into sustainable employment), ReWork (equipping unemployed adults from all backgrounds with the skills, mindset and confidence to re-enter the workplace) and Resurgo Consulting (providing coaching and impact management to support organisations to drive social change).
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London, Brighton |
£2,123,080
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Provision of services offering advice, advocacy and support to those facing severe social disadvantage and multiple barriers in their lives. Particular focus on provision of training and support for those with lived experience to become professional workers able to support these services and enter the job market.
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National |
£13,717,324
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Surfers Against Sewage is a national marine conservation and campaigning charity that inspires, unites and empowers communities to take action to protect oceans, beaches, waves and wildlife. They also now campaign on government policy, create plastic free urban communities and have a presence in schools, educating future conservationists.
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National |
£2,036,464
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The Access Project help motivated students from disadvantaged backgrounds win places at top universities. This is accomplished through a unique combination of tuition and in-school mentoring, creating applications, improving grades and helping young people transition successfully to the next stage of their education.
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London |
£2,750,751
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World Land Trust is an international conservation charity that protects the world’s most biologically significant and threatened habitats acre by acre. Through a network of partner organisations around the world, they fund the creation of reserves and provide permanent protection for habitats and wildlife. Partnerships are developed with established and highly respected local organisations who
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World Land Trust is an international conservation charity that protects the world’s most biologically significant and threatened habitats acre by acre. Through a network of partner organisations around the world, they fund the creation of reserves and provide permanent protection for habitats and wildlife. Partnerships are developed with established and highly respected local organisations who engage support and commitment among the local community to protect the most endangered areas and species.
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Colombia, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Vietnam, Gloucestershire, Mexico, Argentina, Belize, Costa Rica, Philippines, Armenia, Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras, Paraguay, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Ukraine |
£8,156,000
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City Harvest collects surplus food from food manufacturers, farmers and retailers to distribute to organisations that feed the hungry across London. The food distributed has strict control over quality and helps ensure in need recipients are maintaining a healthy, balanced diet
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National |
£2,884,113
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The Panathlon Foundation promote the physical and personal development of young disabled people, through organising school sports competitions and by the provision of resources including coaching, training, equipment and sports leadership opportunities.
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National |
£659,379
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Best Beginnings creates and disseminates engaging, evidence-based resources including the Baby Buddy phone app, From Bump to Breastfeeding DVD, Small Wonders DVD, Baby Express Magazine and Maternal Mental Health films. These resources help to educate and empower parents and parents-to-be, increasing their confidence, knowledge and skills to give their children the best start in life.
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National |
£1,507,322
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Running workshops and events, providing learning materials, organising work experience placements, and building online networks to develop a proactive youth conservation movement in the UK with a culture of greater awareness and participation, and in the process grow the wider involvement and support of young adults, professionally, voluntarily or financially, for conservation in the future.
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National |
£304,736
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We listen to local people and empower them to make sustainable changes themselves so that every child in northern Ghana can be happy, healthy, safe and in school. We do this by focusing our programmes in 3 main areas: education, health and child protection.
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Ghana, Camden |
£1,525,805
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Lumos works to transform the lives of disadvantaged children by facilitating the end of institutional care for good. It does this in two ways:At a policy level to accelerate and improve the quality of reform in health, education and social protection servicesAt a practical level working with providers of children's services to demonstrate the value of family-based care
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National |
£8,181,234
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Breaking Barriers empowers refugees to find stable and fulfilling employment through bespoke, 1-1 support. They work in partnership with the private, non-profit and public sectors to provide paid work placements and permanent job opportunities as well as offering practical skills workshops like English language and IT classes.
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National |
£1,561,285
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Chance for Childhood is an award-winning charity working in Africa to support the most vulnerable children, often invisible from society, such as street children, disabled children, children affected by conflict and children in conflict with the law. These children are often hidden members of their communities, unable to go to school, excluded from society and living in abject poverty.
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Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Zambia, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda, Congo (Democratic Republic) |
£975,244
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Kids Operating Room works with local surgeons and their teams to create fully-equipped operating rooms for children\'s surgery. Enabling those teams to use their dedication and talents to treat greater numbers of children, transforming lives one operation at a time.
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Africa |
£20,212,874
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The Sustainable Food Trust enables a transition to more sustainable food systems by working catalytically and collaboratively, through a combination of high-level lobbying, coalition building, public campaigning, education and media networking. This is based on three key pillars of work – policy advocacy, measuring and valuing sustainability and public awareness raising.
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National |
£916,130
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SolarAid combats poverty and climate change by providing access to solar lights in Africa to help catalyse solar markets and eradicate the kerosene lamp. We have created a social enterprise, SunnyMoney, who sell lights via sustainable school networks and local enterprises.
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Uganda, Zambia, Malawi |
£1,738,925
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The Bike Project aim to provide relief for those seeking asylum and those granted refugee status and their dependants who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress. They achieve this by collecting, repairing, and distributing second-hand bikes
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National |
£2,328,550
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Carbon180 is a new breed of climate-focused NGO partnering with policymakers, scientists and businesses around the globe to build a world that removes more carbon than it emits. They move carbon removal into the mainstream and catalyse its potential through increased funding for innovative technologies, new federal laws, and coalition building
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Worldwide |
$2,699,933
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Good Food Institute are developing the roadmap for a sustainable, secure, and just protein supply. They identify the most effective solutions, mobilise resources and talent, and empower partners across the food system to make alternative proteins accessible, affordable, and delicious.
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Worldwide |
$13,273,604
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The Borne Foundation is a medical research charity based in Imperial College School of Medicine's facilities at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Their aim is to identify the causes of premature birth to save lives, prevent disability and create lifelong health for mothers and babies through clinical studies and funding of expert research in the field.
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National |
£1,287,863
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Through technology innovation, policy change, and thought leadership, the Clean Air Task Force drives impact to prevent climate change through realistic solutions. They have a unique position to apply pressure to some of the biggest contributors and effect change in the biggest influencers that aids in reduction of carbon and other climate warming emissions
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Worldwide |
$6,161,366
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Rainforest Trust UK works in partnership with Rainforest Trust in the US to preserve and protect rainforests and other tropical habitat, particularly areas that are home to endangered species. They work in collaboration with trusted local NGOs and indigenous communities to place land under protection, either by land purchase or land designation as community forests or national parks.
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Worldwide |
£1,971,494
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Our resources are overwhelmingly committed to 'For Baby's Sake', our major and expanding programme to help parents to break the cycle of domestic abuse and give babies the best start in life. Our catalytic philanthropy addresses the root causes of complex problems. We inspire progress in policy and practice by sharing our pioneering learning and resources and through our partnership working.
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Blackpool, Cambridgeshire, City Of Westminster, Hammersmith And Fulham, Hertfordshire, Kensington And Chelsea |
£3,163,779
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Givedirectly UK gives financial aid to households in developing countries via mobile phone-linked payment services. It targets extremely low-income households and people affected by humanitarian crises with the aim of relieve poverty by allowing beneficiaries to choose where they invest their grant.
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Kenya, Uganda |
£2,738,670
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