2023/2024
Mountbatten Hospice
Mountbatten Hospice provides 24/7 inpatient and community domiciliary and palliative end-of-life care services to people across Southampton City and large parts of Hampshire, including rehabilitation and enablement services and psychological and bereavement support to patients and their families.
They deliver expert care and support to people experiencing death, dying, and bereavement. They give patients and their families choices about the care they receive, providing the highest quality nursing, medical, and therapeutic care within our hospice and in people’s homes, supporting our patients and their loved ones’ physical, social, and psychological needs.
The Charity currently supports around 1,000 families every day, and the demand for their services is predicted to rise by 40% in the next 18 months.
Donations can be made directly at https://www.mountbatten-hampshire.org.uk/donate/donate
MCF Festival 2027
The Province of Hampshire and Isle of Wight is currently raising money for the Masonic Charitable Foundation (MCF) under a Charity Festival which will end in 2027 .
The MCF is one of the largest grant-making charities in the country and provides about £20 million annually, supporting a wide number of charities, hospices, air ambulances and international disaster relief efforts, as well as Freemasons and their families.
Out of this total, the Province of Hampshire and Isle of Wight last year received £766,623 for individual members and their families, plus a further £150,000 went to local charities and good causes. The money raised as part of this Festival directly funds these works.
To donate to the 2027 Festival under YOBL, please use the below link and ensure that you enter 5296 into the relevant text box
https://fundraising.mcf.org.uk/Festival-MCF2027/
2022/2023
Diabetes UK
The following has been taken from the Diabetes UK website
As the UK’s leading diabetes charity, the charity tackles the diabetes crisis to prevent Type 2 diabetes, campaign for and support everyone affected by diabetes, and fund research that will one day lead to a cure.
The charity is fighting for a world where diabetes can do no harm. Diabetes is a serious and often hidden condition, so without access to crucial information and support, people experience life-changing and potentially fatal complications.
All of their work is made possible thanks to their supporters who offer their time, their donations and fundraising to help them find a world where diabetes can do no harm.
Diabetes is a serious condition where your blood glucose level is too high. It can happen when your body doesn’t produce enough insulin or the insulin it produces isn’t effective. Or, when your body can’t produce any insulin at all.
There are two main types of diabetes: type 1 and type 2.
When you’ve got type 1 diabetes, you can’t make any insulin at all. If you’ve got type 2 diabetes, it’s a bit different. The insulin you make either can’t work effectively or you can’t produce enough of it. They’re different conditions, but they’re both serious.
Other types of diabetes include gestational diabetes, which some women may go on to develop during pregnancy. And there are many other rarer types of diabetes such as type 3c and Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults (LADA) too.
In all types of diabetes, glucose can’t get into your cells properly, so it begins to build up in your blood. And too much glucose in your blood causes
Donations can be made directly at https://donate.diabetes.org.uk/donate/~my-donation
2021/2022
Serv Wessex | The Blood Runners
The following has been taken from the SERV Wessex’s website
SERV Wessex – The Blood Runners is a registered charity (No. 1156383) that delivers blood products, urgent samples and medication from Hospital Pharmacies. The service supports Hampshire, South Wiltshire and Dorset and operates 24/7.
Their operating costs per year are circa £35k and they need a further £25k to enable them to replace ageing vehicles coming to the end of their service life.
They normally operate 365 days per year, between 19:00 and 06:00 on weekdays and 24hrs at weekends and on public holidays. On April the 1st they moved to a 24hr service by providing a daily medication and controlled drugs delivery service supporting Hospital Pharmacies delivering to vulnerable patients that are shielding due to the COVID 19 crisis.
SERV Wessex transports blood products and other urgent consignments allowing hospitals to divert financial and staff resources elsewhere.
All of their riders, drivers and volunteers donate their own time and fuel to provide a free service to hospitals.
They also run a continuous service to the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance to replenish the blood and plasma carried on the helicopter and their critical care cars.
Donations can be made directly at https://cafdonate.cafonline.org/13247#!/DonationDetails
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
The following has been taken from the JDRF’s website
JDRF is the world’s leading charitable funder of type 1 diabetes research; funding research to cure, treat and prevent type 1 diabetes.
Today there are over 400,00 people in the UK living with type 1 diabetes. JDRF exists to make life better for anyone from the type 1 community. and their ultimate goal is to find a cure.
JDRF research has led to new developments in diabetes technology and treatment and is laying the foundations for a cure. They support everyone living with type 1 diabetes, by working with policymakers to increase the availability of treatments and by providing information and resources to help people manage their condition.
Their global programme funds more than 500 active research projects around the world and supports more than 70 clinical trials at any one time. Internationally, JDRF has invested more than £1.5 billion in research to date.
Donations can be made directly at https://jdrf.org.uk/get-involved/give/donation-v2/