Make a Wish Foundation

The mission of Make-A-Wish Foundation is to grant the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy.

Founded in Phoenix, Arizona in 1980, when a group of caring volunteers helped a young boy fulfill his dream of becoming a police officer. Since then it has become an international organisation established in over 40 countries around the world.

With the help of the amazing staff, supporters, generous donors and over 30,000 volunteers, the Make-A-Wish Foundation has collectively granted more than 270,000 wishes worldwide.

http://worldwish.org/

Amnesty International

Amnesty are an organisation who work to bring change for people across the globe. They work on many different issues from Poverty Human Rights violations to help protect lives and bring around the world.

There are six key areas which Amnesty deals with:

• Women's, children's, minorities' and indigenous rights
• Ending torture
• Abolition of the death penalty
• Rights of refugees
• Rights of prisoners of conscience
• Protection of human dignity.

Amnesty International celebrated its 50 year anniversary in July 2011. For more information about what you can do to support Amnesty, visit them at:

/http://www.amnesty.org.uk/

UNICEF

For more than 60 years UNICEF has been fighting for the rights of all children throughout the world, freeing them from exploitation, violence and abuse.

UNICEF does amazing work in over 190 countries worldwide working with families, communities and governments to help every child reach their full potential

VALUES AND BELIEFS (Taken from website)

Our work is underpinned by a shared commitment to UNICEF’s vision, mission and beliefs, and to our organisational values. These are to be child focused, effective, cooperative, challenging, rights based and to act with integrity.

We believe that every child has the right to the best possible start in life. It is wrong for children to die needlessly; it is imperative to prevent their unnecessary deaths. Every child has the right to the highest standards of health and education. It is imperative to work to attain these standards.

Every child possesses rights inherent equal to every other child’s. It is imperative to defend all children from violence, exploitation and discrimination. To protect the rights of every child, and invest in her or his well-being, is the surest way to end poverty and to build peace and security in the world.

It is possible to give every child a good start in life. The world can, if it chooses, ensure that every child grows and develops to their full, human potential. Children are citizens of the communities and the societies that they live in. Their voices should be heard and their opinions heeded by all.

I encourage you to check the website and donate to help with the current famine in Somalia where approximately Two million children in East Africa are malnourished and need urgent help.

Thank You

http://www.unicef.org.uk/

ThePlutoAppeal

ThePlutoAppeal is a campaign to buy a surgical robot named Pluto for Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. This will enable the surgeons to perform intricate surgery on babies and children with more precision, better recovery times, shorter hospital stays and smaller scars.

The campaign is based on The Million Dollar Homepage, a website created by student Alex Tew in 2006, when he divided a homepage into a million pixels and sold to advertisers.  Pluto will be divided in the same way; each piece of the robot costs £1, and as more pieces are bought Pluto will begin to come alive in colour. If all the pieces of Pluto are bought we will raise over £1 million  towards the cost of the robot.

The campaign combines two of the best things in the world - Saving babies and robots. So check out the site and buy a piece of Pluto.

www.theplutoappeal.com

Just Giving

JustGiving allows you to build your own fundraising page for free. You then share your page with your friends through email, social networks and iphone apps. People can then donate to your page and just Giving spreads the donations to what ever charities you choose.

With JustGiving, you’ll get:

• Top fundraising tips and ideas delivered straight to your inbox
• 7 day-a-week fundraising support. In case you ever have any questions or need some fundraising ideas
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• Twitter and Facebook integration. Share your page as soon as you’ve made it
• The JustGiving community. Over 13-million strong, everyone knows someone on JustGiving - so it’s effortless to explain what you’re doing and how they can sponsor you

Visit today and setup your own fundraising page in just a few minutes.

www.justgiving.com