The Fix it to Ride project by Leeds Bike Mill provides refurbished recycled bikes to asylum seekers and refugees adjusting to life in and around the city of Leeds.
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Based in the Liverpool City Region, Sudden Sam is a community-rooted charity offering emotional, financial, and practical support to families affected by sudden death. Born from personal tragedy, the charity is now a beacon of hope and healing, helping others navigate the complex aftermath of loss. By combining therapy, advocacy, and public awareness, Sudden Sam ensures that no family has to face sudden bereavement alone.
Let’s Do Veterans Support & Rehabilitation is a small charity based in County Down, Northern Ireland. Founded by veterans, for veterans, it supports ex-members of the Armed Forces and emergency services as they recover from injury, trauma, and isolation. Through outdoor experiences, fishing retreats and community-based activities, Let’s Do provides a lifeline for individuals navigating physical and emotional recovery – helping them reconnect with others and rebuild their lives.
Based in South East London, Wild Rangers connects people of all ages to nature through creative, hands-on experiences. With a strong local presence and deep community roots, their work is transforming forgotten green spaces into thriving places for wildlife and wellbeing. From outdoor learning sessions to ambitious environmental regeneration, Wild Rangers is inspiring a new generation of nature stewards while laying the groundwork for London’s first Urban National Park.
Friends of the Thames is a charity restoring the River Thames through community action, science, and collaboration. They believe a clean, thriving river is a public right, and that the Thames is a living system, cultural icon, and shared responsibility. Their work reconnects communities with the river, builds a River Guardians network, raises awareness of the freshwater biodiversity crisis, and drives grassroots action – while advocating for lasting legal protections for the Thames.
Social isolation and loneliness can severely impact wellbeing, especially for older or housebound individuals. Cut off from social connection and the natural world, many experience declining health and mental wellbeing. Feed the Birds offers a simple but powerful response — volunteers visit each week to top up bird feeders and offer a friendly chat, reconnecting people with both nature and companionship.
Bright Green Nature is a Scotland-based charity connecting communities with nature across the Scottish Borders. Through hands-on restoration projects in gardens, schoolyards, and community spaces, the organisation empowers people of all ages to build biodiversity, confidence, and skills. Their inclusive programmes – Wild Your Space, Young Rewilders Forum, and Young Rangers – focus on youth leadership, community engagement, and creating pathways into conservation careers, fostering a long-term legacy for nature and society.
Paws & Pause Training CIC is an innovative London-based social enterprise turning the unconditional love of dogs into a stepping-stone for people recovering from mental ill-health or substance use. Their “Paws to Employability” programme provides 6-month traineeships where participants gain life changing skills and confidence in dog care, plus CV writing, interview, job search, teamwork and communication skills. People learn how to become part of a thriving team again, and are set up for long term success in a job they feel empowered to excel in.
In today’s climate of online pressures, misinformation, and harmful influences, young people face real risks in relationships and online. Respected equips 11–16 year olds to make informed, healthy choices about relationships and sex. Founded by a GP from Dorset, the programme blends short films with class activities so teachers nationally can deliver engaging, compliant RSE with confidence.
Worldwide Deaf Gym is a deaf-led organisation making fitness more accessible for deaf and hard-of-hearing people across the UK. Their work has two goals: to ensure deaf people can enjoy equal access to fitness and wellbeing services, and to create career opportunities by training deaf personal trainers to lead the change. With deaf PTs at its heart, WDG is breaking down barriers in the fitness industry and creating inclusive spaces where people can connect, get active, and thrive.
Holderness Hedgehog Hospital in East Yorkshire is dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating, and releasing sick or injured hedgehogs. The volunteer-led charity combines hands-on care with community education to protect local wildlife. Each year, the team responds to dozens of emergency rescues while inspiring local residents to take an active role in conservation. With new funding, the charity can expand its capacity and improve conditions for these much-loved animals.
Girls Assemble
Girls Assemble is creating a dedicated workshop based in Cornwall offering girls and young women aged 9-25 the opportunity to build the world they want to live in. This female-only workshop will provide classes in carpentry, welding, architecture, engineering, and activist art with an emphasis on STEM subjects as well as working in the local community to build projects that matte
Makutano Plastic Recycling Project, Kenya
For many years Africa has had a problem with waste plastic. Huge quantities are consumed (particularly, but not limited to, water bottles), and most of it finds its way into landfill sites or is just dumped on the roadsides. Wanting to help, a UK charity called Throw a Starfish that works in Africa launched a project earlier this year to set up a plastic recycling plant in Kenya.
Gleaning Cornwall Network
The Gleaning Cornwall Network organises volunteer groups to harvest crops that would otherwise go to waste and distributes this fresh produce to food banks and food poverty charities. The project and its ever-growing network is helping to build healthy and resilient communities, bringing together volunteer harvesters, drivers, local farmers and people who work with and use food banks and food poverty charities.
Market Field Farm
Market Field Farm enables young adults with a learning disability, autism and/or ADHD to access meaningful paid employment. Working with local people, companies and parish councils to conserve natural habitats, create wildlife-friendly gardens and help maintain public spaces with conservation and nature in mind, the charity gives young people with learning disabilities a stepping stone into work.
R;pple Suicide Prevention
We first met R;pple Suicide Prevention when they applied for our Grants for Good programme. In addition to their £3,500 grant to help the charity grow, we funded a film to help them share their story.
ShowerBox
ShowerBox was founded by Sarah Lamptey. While volunteering for various homeless organisations, Sarah learned of the huge need for showers in London and set about working out what she could do to help. After a successful fundraising campaign, Sarah was able to buy a trailer and convert it into a mobile shower unit, which has been operating in London ever since. Wanting to help more people around the UK, ShowerBox is now looking to expand in other UK cities such as Birmingham and Manchester.
Hull & East Yorkshire Powerchair Football Club
Founded 8 years ago, Hull & East Yorkshire Powerchair Football Club gives disabled people who use a wheelchair or powerchair, the chance to play powerchair football at either a social or competitive level. This allows physically disabled people to play a fast-paced team game, something that most of its members have never been able to do. Most of the club’s members are people that can’t physically play sports like wheelchair basketball and struggle to find a team sport they can take part in independently.
Welcome to English
Welcome to English was created by Karen van Diesen to help newcomers to Hull (mostly refugees and asylum seekers) to practise English, make new friends and find out more about living in Hull. They achieve this with the help of around 35 befriender volunteers, most of whom are qualified teachers. In the last 4 years, they have helped around 800 learners to speak English, learn about life in the UK and help them to adapt and become part of the local community.
Tulgey Woods Sanctuary
Tulgey Woods Sanctuary is a 10-acre wildlife haven situated in the city centre of Plymouth. The land was earmarked for 125 houses but has now been saved and is run as a project to increase biodiversity and to educate people about how they can give nature a boost.
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