2024 Lead Charity Partner - Sarcoma UK
We are pleased to be collaborating with national bone and soft tissue cancer charity, Sarcoma UK, as this year’s Santa in the City charity partner.
Sarcoma UK is a national charity that funds vital research, offers support for anyone affected by sarcoma cancer and campaigns for better treatments. It is the only cancer charity in the UK focusing on all types of sarcoma.
Sarcomas are uncommon cancers that can affect any part of the body, on the inside or outside, including the muscle, bone, tendons, blood vessels and fatty tissues.
There are around 100 different sub-types of sarcoma.
Sarcoma UK is now one of the biggest funders of sarcoma research in the UK, having invested more than £5 million to 74 research projects to date. The charity has helped more than 3200 individuals who use their support services an average of three times since they launched in February 2016.
Sarcoma UK relies on generous voluntary donations and the energy and imagination of its tireless fundraisers. The people who support their work are some of the most passionate, creative and committed in the UK. When you join Team Sarcoma, you are given support from the day you join until you cross your finish line, and beyond. You will be given personalised support, up-to-date information, and Sarcoma UK will be there to answer your questions any time. It’s the least they can do for their Team Sarcoma heroes!
Raising funds for Sarcoma UK means you are helping bring about a world where fewer people are affected by sarcoma. And that’s a win for everyone.
We’re bringing about change. Join us in doing that. For more information, visit: sarcoma.org.uk
Want to run for Sarcoma UK? Please get in touch and send an email to fundraising@sarcoma.org.uk
2024 Accessibility Partner - The National Brain Appeal
This year we are delighted to announce The National Brain Appeal as the Santa in the City accessibility partner.
The National Brain Appeal is a charity dedicated to raising vital funds for The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology – together known as Queen Square. Since the charity was set up in 1984, they have raised more than £56m for ground-breaking projects.
The charity’s aim is to transform the lives of the millions of people living with neurological and neuromuscular conditions. They drive advancement by funding pioneering research, innovative treatments and world-class facilities – over and above what the NHS can provide.
Promoted charities
Santa in the City is proud to be promoting the charities below, who will be at the event. If you would like your charity to be involved please visit our groups page for more information.
+ CABARET VS CANCER
CABARET VS CANCER raises money through world-class cabaret and burlesque. Quite simply, our aim is to support those affected by cancer.
Since 2016 we have been working with child bereavement teams in local hospices, to ensure they have the tools and support they need to help children who are losing or have lost a close relative.
Additionally, we work with various organisations to support those currently dealing with a cancer diagnosis; from the manufacture of modern breast forms for post-mastectomy women in Cornwall; supporting the work of The Loss Foundation, Dragonfly Cancer Trust and many more.
YOU can help us continue our incredible work and to help make the lives of those affected by cancer just a little better.
Registered Charity number 1167819
+ Maggie's
Maggie's is a charity providing support for anyone living with cancer and their families and friends – whatever type of cancer, and at whatever stage – in centres across the UK and online. All our support is free, and no referral or appointment is needed. There’s also no time limit on our support, we’re here for you as long as we’re needed.
Our workshops, courses, one-to-one, and group support help people to change the way they live with cancer. We focus on the things that really make a difference, like help with money worries, stress, managing side effects, and relationships. Our support has been shown to improve physical and emotional wellbeing, and helps people take back control when cancer turns life upside down.
By supporting Maggie’s, you’re helping us to continue to support and reach even more people affected by cancer.
Registered Charity number SC024414
+ CNWL NHS Health Charity
We are the official, established charity for the Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.
The CNWL NHS Health Charity raises funds for exciting, and pioneering projects that improve health and wellbeing for our patients, staff and communities, by investing in people, projects and ideas which complement and enhance what the NHS is able to provide.
Registered Charity number 1082989
+ Brain Research UK
Brain Research UK is the UK’s leading national funder dedicated to research into neurological conditions. We fund vital research to increase understanding, improve diagnosis and treatment, and work towards the prevention of neurological conditions, to help people who suffer with them live better, longer. Our funding is currently focused on three priority research areas: Brain tumours, Brain and spinal cord injury, and Headache and facial pain. These are areas where there is a large unmet patient need that is not reflected in current funding levels. By concentrating our efforts on these three areas, we can have a more significant impact.
Fundraise for Brain Research UK
Registered Charity number 1137560
+ Surrey Care Trust
Surrey Care Trust is the local charity working with volunteers to give people the opportunities, skills, and support they need to achieve their potential. We are breaking the Cycle of Disadvantage in Surrey by equipping vulnerable people with the skills and confidence they need to change their lives, and their futures. Using our decades of expertise and experience we provide long term services that understand and respond to local people’s needs.
Registered Charity number 285543
+ Stamma
The largest UK charity and membership organisation representing people who stammer. We exist to create a world that makes space for stammering. Where a stammer is embraced as just a difference. Where no-one judges us on our stammer or the way we choose to deal with it.
Registered Charity number 1089967/SC038866
+ School-Home Support
We are a national education charity working to improve low attendance in schools and maximise educational opportunities for all children. We provide bespoke whole family support with and through schools to help understand and tackle barriers to good school attendance. We do this by building trust, resilience and skills across the whole family. We also work with schools and policy makers to share best practice to improve low attendance. Our mission is for children to be in school, ready to learn. Whatever it takes.
http://www.schoolhomesupport.org.uk
Registered Charity number 1084696
+ Urban Synergy
Founded in 2007, Urban Synergy is an award winning social mobility charity that has helped over 33,000 young people.
Our mission is to support 9-24 year olds to write their own futures and to reach their fullest potential to excel in education and careers.
We focus on early support, to build confidence and show young people what’s possible. That’s why we connect them with aspirational, yet relatable role models, mentors, and work experiences in industry leading companies .
Join us in making a difference and empowering the next generation. Together, we can create opportunities and inspire hope for young individuals as they navigate their journey towards success.
Your contribution, no matter how small, will make a significant difference in shaping the future of these young individuals. Thank you for considering our cause and being part of this transformative journey.
Registered Charity number 1138802
+ Brandon Centre
For over 54 years, Brandon Centre has been supporting young people in Camden and Islington with their mental health. We focus on understanding the challenges that come with growing up as an adolescent and aim to prevent and address issues like anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship problems, bullying, suicidality and difficulties regulating emotions. This includes providing mental health support for disadvantaged groups such as care leavers, those experiencing homelessness, refugees, asylum seekers and LGBTQIA+ young people. Our services include Counselling and Psychotherapy, Social Prescribing, Systemic Integrative Therapy, Parenting Groups, and Consultancy and Training. We pride ourselves on our accessibility and open-door approach, with a third of young people self-referring. At Brandon Centre, we help young people to live happier and healthier lives.
Registered Charity number 290118
+ Chicken Shed Theatre Trust
Chickenshed is a theatre company for absolutely everyone. For fifty years, they have created bold and beautiful work from their limitless belief in each other. Through their productions, performance training, education courses and their outreach projects, their mission is to create wonder out of chaos and change out of challenge.
Chickenshed succeed together or not at all and have a clear vision of how the world should be – and a society where everyone can flourish. Chickenshed shake things up by sharing their lived experience with each other, with those who hold power and with those who feel they have none. They do this on stage, off stage and wherever people come together.
Every year, Chickenshed supports over 15,000 children, young people and adults within the community to feel confident, valued and empowered - where 60% experience disadvantage and are often excluded in other areas of their lives - due to mental or physical health challenges, gang-related pressures, being a young carer or experience of the care system – often a combination of these challenges.
Registered Charity number 1012369
+ Hope and Homes for Children
We work around the world to get separated children out of orphanages and back to family.
Registered Charity number 1089490
+ Look Ahead
At Look Ahead, we are dedicated to improving lives through social care and housing services across London and the Southeast. We co-design and deliver innovative services that empower individuals with learning disabilities, young people, and adults facing homelessness, complex needs, domestic abuse, and mental health challenges. Our goal is to help them thrive and lead fulfilling lives.
Christmas is a tough time for many people we support. People who have experienced homelessness or slept rough and cold on the streets. People who may be living with a long-term mental health condition, a learning disability, or complex health needs. Young people who have just come out of the care system or children who are living in temporary or insecure housing or who have fled domestic abuse. These people, without our help, may struggle to have the things most of us take for granted at Christmas time. A hot Christmas dinner, warm clothes and bedding, presents for children.
By participating in Santa In The City fundraising challenge, we want to change this this year and Make Someone’s Christmas Brighter.
Every pound we raise or receive will go towards providing a brighter, better Christmas for the children, families, and adults in our services.
• A £10 gift will provide a hot Christmas dinner with all the trimmings for someone in our services. • A £25 gift will provide a child in our services with a Christmas present, maybe the only one they receive this year. • A £50 gift will go towards providing winter clothes and bedding for children in our services. • A £100 gift will help provide a festive celebration for 5 adults with learning disabilities who might otherwise be alone this Christmas. • A £250 gift will provide a Christmas dinner for 25 young people who have been in care who may not have families to spend the festive period with.
Why not spread Christmas joy this year by donating to our campaign or even gifting a donation to Look Ahead on behalf of a loved one instead of your usual gift to them? Or as an alternative to a Secret Santa with your family or workmates?
Let the best gift you give this Christmas be a brighter, better Christmas for someone in need. Be a Look Ahead Secret Santa and support us today.
Company number 21004R
+ St Joseph's Hospice
Being diagnosed with a life-limiting illness can be devastating. It affects every part of your life and has a huge impact on those around you. Since we opened our doors in 1905, St Joseph’s Hospice have provided exceptional care to people across East London when they are at their most vulnerable. We see the person – with their own unique story, fears and needs – not just the illness. We help patients to live the best quality of life possible and support families, helping them make the most of the time they have together.
We are here for everyone who needs us and our care is free of charge. We receive some funding from the NHS but need to raise an additional £7 million each year to meet our running costs.
Registered Charity number 1113125
+ ActionAid UK
ActionAid is an international humanitarian charity, supporting women and girls around the world, as they tackle injustices and claim their rights.
Registered Charity number 274467
+ Age UK Wandsworth
Age UK Wandsworth has been supporting residents across Wandsworth for over 60 years. We are an independent, well-established and trusted charity that serves approximately 15,000 residents a year in Wandsworth. Our goal is to help residents age well in Wandsworth and to build confidence and resilience in order to stay living healthily and independently for as long as possible. We are a completely independent charity that operates solely in Wandsworth and we raise all our own funding, rather than being funded to run by a national charity or by the government. Our support for older people includes: healthy living, coffee mornings, LGBTQ+ , exercise, handyperson, hospital discharge, voluntary services navigation, befriending, information and advice, outreach, online food shopping, dementia, a Men’s Shed, and digital inclusion. Many residents access more than one service across our organisation.
Registered Charity number 1069406
+ Medical Women's Federation
The Medical Women's Federation was founded in 1917 and is today the largest and most influential body of women doctors in the UK. Our aims are to support women doctors to thrive and lead at all stages of their career and to improve health in general. We host networking events, prizes and webinars and we have a strong voice – some of our members represent us at major events, committees and campaigns.
#ProtectSupportAdvance
The voice of medical women on medical issues
Registered charity number 261820
+ Target Ovarian Cancer
At Target Ovarian Cancer, we target what’s important to stop ovarian cancer devastating lives. Stand together. Save lives.
Join Team Target - Santa in the City London
fundraising@targetovariancancer.org.uk
Registered Charity number 1125038
+ Single Homeless Project
We are the largest homeless charity dedicated to helping Londoners in crisis, supporting over 12,000 people each year across all 32 London boroughs.
Registered Charity number 287779
+ Save the Rhino International
We believe rhinos are magnificent. And, they are endangered. To survive, they need a safe and diverse world. Yet today, they face immense threats of poaching, habitat loss and the increasing impacts of the climate crisis.
We want to see all five rhino species thriving in the wild.
Working alongside expert partners around the world, we can support Critically Endangered rhino conservation programmes in Africa and Asia, to ensure the future of these amazing species. With your fundraising and support, we move closer towards making our vision a reality.
Registered Charity number 1035072
+ Centrepoint
Centrepoint is a safe space for young people to build an independent future. We provide the expert support and secure housing that young people need to reclaim their dreams and have a future beyond homelessness.
Registered Charity number 292411
+ Future First
Britain has a deep social mobility problem. For too many young people, their start in life is limiting their future. We are Future First, a social mobility charity and we are here because every student from every walk of life deserves to thrive. We want to build a society and economy that harnesses talent from all social backgrounds: supporting social and economic progress, unlocking potential, helping local communities to thrive, and creating pathways to success. We bridge the gap between careers education and the world of work. We want young people to see ‘someone like them’ succeed.
Registered Charity number 1135638
+ Pecan
Pecan is a charity based in Peckham that works within the local community to help people find ways through seemingly impossible barriers to a better future. We want to help people not only survive but thrive! We do this through several core projects, all of which provide a dignified and holistic approach to tackling the causes of poverty not just the symptoms: • Southwark Foodbank – provides emergency food parcels plus advice and signposting to support. • Peckham Pantry – Choose at least £15 worth of food for just £4.50 in our shop, plus advice and signposting to support. • Women’s Service – Gender specific, trauma informed advocacy and support for women facing multiple disadvantage. • Together – Community and life-skills activities at our café space, tackling loneliness, isolation and poor wellbeing. • Employment Support – Help to get people back into work, through professional guidance and employment skill sessions. Our Vision is transforming lives through Kindness, Belief and Hope. Our Mission is to restore futures and see an end to poverty in all its forms. We aim to achieve this through equipping people in our community both practically and emotionally to believe in their potential and thrive. We tackle the issues that cause poverty – low income, lack of choice, no access to the internet, social isolation, poor wellbeing, discrimination etc., not just the symptoms. To do this we provide emergency support for someone in crisis but aim to work with people before they reach crisis point and supporting them out of crisis.
Registered Charity number 801819
+ Clowns Without Borders UK
Clowns Without Borders UK provides emotional first aid to children and families directly affected by war, conflict and natural disaster. We believe in the power of play and laughter, and our joyful workshops and performances have brought smiles to 100,000 children living in refuge centres across the world over the last 10 years.
Registered Charity number 1156987
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