Edenbridge Scouts provide activities for young people

The Fund is to enable a full refurbishment of the headquarters building which was erected in 1969. In particular the roof and structural floor must be replaced at a cost of £25,000 and the electrics, toilets and kitchen need to be upgraded. The estimated cost for the total refurbishment is £55,000. The Group serves the Emmbrook area of Wokingham in Berkshire and has 90 lively members in the Beaver, Cub and Scout Sections. The Headquarters is also used by 50 members of the Rainbows, Brownies and Guides. As with all Scout Groups 1st Emmbrook has the Aim of promoting the development of young people in the 6 to 14.5 age range. It achieves this Aim by providing an enjoyable scheme of progressive training including weekly meetings, weekend camps, outings and adventurous activities.

It helps young people to try to achieve their full potential as responsible citizens in their communities both local and nationally.

The current Scout Hut has served the Kennington Group for nearly 50 years. It is steeped in history and character and has some wonderful stories to tell but alas in recent years the structure has deteriorated to the point where, despite extensive 'first aid', it can no longer provide the facilities and needs of the modern Scout Group. Plans for a new Scout Hall on the same site have been drawn up and approved by Ashford Council. The cost is in excess of £250,000 and because they are a voluntary organisation the money needs to be raised by the Scouts themselves and their supporters. With only £50,000 raised so far they have a long way to go and need all the help they can get!

It helps youngsters to take part in a variety of activities, which helps to foster team spirit and become a best citizen. Rutland Air Cadets are part of a large organisation UK wide.

5th Rayleigh Scouts originally formed in 1959 and has been an active Scout, Cub and more recently Beaver group ever since. It wants to continue to build on its long heritage so that many more boys and girls can enjoy and learn the spirit of scouting.

The AV Foundation is an educational charity working with poor rural schools in Africa, Asia and Central America, with plans to expand its target areas in these three continents. The AV Foundation was established by Africa Asia Venture ("AV"), the volunteering organisation, and provides bursaries to deserving and needy children who would otherwise be unable to attend school as well as providing funds for the improvement of school facilities. Projects range from building classrooms, sports and computer facilities, ablutions and in one case included building a bridge to reduce the childrens' walk to school from 2 ½ to 1 ½ hours! Using AV staff on the ground to oversee and manage the projects reduces overheads to a minimum.

Aanchal's objectives are to relieve the distress caused by domestic violence, and to undertake preventative and educational work with young people, including men, to reduce the occurrence of domestic violence.

To increase the numbers of members in the Organisation so as to encourage the youth in the area to take part in meaningful sport and educational activities in a supervised and controlled environment.

Aberdeen Foyer works to prevent and alleviate youth homelessness and unemployment in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire by providing supported accommodation and access to education, training, employment opportunities and health services.

Chefs Adopt a School is the Academy of Culinary Arts’ charity and is about improving lives and changing habits. Professional chefs deliver food education sessions that are both fun and informative to children nationwide. The aim is to teach cooking as a life skill, but also to enthuse children about taste, food provenance and healthy eating.

We offer rural communities a source of independent, expert support on the particular issues that affect them and manage programmes designed to find new ways of meeting their needs. We work with rural people in Sussex to make sure their voice is heard locally, regionally and nationally. As a result we often step in when there is a risk that services needed by rural people could easily be forgotten.

Albion in the Community is the charitable arm of Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club and was recently voted Community Club of the Year at the 2007 Football League Awards. It works in the community to improve lives through Football, Education and Health initiatives. For more information please visit www.albioninthecommunity.org.uk

Andalus is a community initiative, rooted in Scottish culture, seeking to meet the needs and aspirations of Scottish Muslims. It promotes understanding, integration and social cohesion. It is currently conducting and developing educational and recreational activities to meet the needs of adults, promoting full participation of women, and children.

Through the inspiration of the Diary of Anne Frank, the Trust unites communities to challenge hatred and prejudice and to create a society based on respect, understanding and individual moral responsibility. Innovative educational programmes and exhibitions take place across the UK and reach over 120,000 people every year.

The Charity runs a residence for students and also provides professional, personal and social training, with a view to helping women and girls achieve their potential and raise their awareness of the disadvantaged. It promotes and supports projects in Manchester, other inner-city areas and in the 3rd world.

To offer Westminster young people aged 11-21, a range of high quality, formal and informal learning and recreational opportunities enabling young people to constructively challenge the personal, social and educational disadvantages they face, lead positive, creative and fulfilled lives and contribute to the communities of which they are a part.

Beatbullying has been a huge success story. Crowned double Charity of the Year (2005-2007) and with a string of other awards to its name, beatbullying is changing attitudes and shaping behaviours across a wide spectrum of activities for young people by young people.

Bede is a community based charity offering opportunities for people in Bermondsey, Rotherhithe and Southwark. It aims to help people develop their skills, talents and confidence and contribute to the community. It offers youth work, services for adults with learning disabilities, help for victims of hate crime especially domestic violence and homophobic crime and community development work

The Society seeks to promote the Bible in Northern Ireland and awareness of the need to provide it abroad where that privilege is denied. They finance Bible translation and distribution, in appropriate formats, in over 30 countries each year with the support of the various church denominations and individual Christians.

Bishop Grosseteste University College is an independent Anglican higher education institution offering courses at foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate level in education, arts, humanities and heritage. It is a registered charity raising funds to enrich the student experience, ensuring that they will benefit the communities in which they live and work.

Over the last ten years we have supported Orphan Care Malawi - a project for Aids orphans. There are up to 300 orphans at this centre. We have great confidence in its management and the humanitarian benefits it is achieving. Any amounts given through the justgiving site will be dedicated in full to this project.

Bottletop is a youth led charity and we fundraise through innovative means. Music, fashion and events are our core way to raises funds; this enables us to deliver sexual health education to young people worldwide. Prevention is fundamental to stemming the flow of sexually transmitted diseases.

We provide a warm safe place to stay for young homeless people of the Bradford district and surrounding areas on a one night at a time basis, within the homes of volunteers. On almost 9000 occasions we have offered a bed in one of our homes. It isn't posh, it isn't for long but it is safe and it is really appreciated by the young people. www.bradfordnightstop.org.uk

Brake is a national road safety charity that works to stop death and injury on UK roads and to support people who have been bereaved or injured by a road crash. Brake runs Road Safety Week, a national awareness-raising initiative in schools, companies and communities, conducts research into the cause of crashes to inform the government and road users, runs an education service for employers to teach them about their responsibilities for safety when running fleets of vehicles and shouts loudly in the media about the importance of road safety to influence drivers to take more care.

Brathay’s vision is of a society where children and young people realise their potential. Its purpose is to enable children and young people to make positive choices by taking personal responsibility for improving their well-being. Charity registered in England number 1021586 and registered in Scotland number SC38803

The Brentwood Catholic Youth Service (BCYS) exists to strengthen and inspire young people in their journey of life and faith. It gives young people the chance to gain fresh insights and develop their personal values in the context of a loving relationship with Jesus in daily life.

BRGS is a popular, selective, 11-18 Foundation School in the Rossendale Valley. We aim to help students to discover and develop their talents, interests and abilities to the full. In 2006, due to the generosity of the school, alumni, parents and students, we reached our £1 million target for a new Sports Hall. We are grateful for the continued support of friends of the school who enable us to fund such essential, priority projects.

The Brightside Trust is an educational charity to provide young people with the confidence and skills needed to overcome social disadvantage. Our flagship project, Bright Journals, is an e-mentoring service that enables school pupils to be mentored by undergraduates and encourage them to consider careers in science and medicine.

Bristol Old Vic is recognised as the oldest continuously working theatre in the United Kingdom. Producing and receiving some of the finest theatrical experiences since 1766, the grade one listed Theatre Royal Complex is in desperate need of refurbishment so that it can continue to support the very best regional, national and young people’s theatre.

The British Friends of the Hebrew University (BFHU) is a national charity dedicated to supporting and promoting the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. BFHU is committed to providing funds for the University, supporting students and academics, and sustaining research projects across all academic disciplines. It also works to promote opportunities to study at the University. BFHU invests in its donors through its programmes, social events and missions to the University. BFHU is a partner with the Hebrew University in its contribution to the improvement of people's lives around the world.

We provide relief and assistance to disadvantaged families in Israel. We run day-care centres for children,after school clubs, teenage centre,youth clubs, as well as providing facilities for senior citizens.

The Broom enables children and young persons sleeping rough or making a living on the streets of Africa to support themselves and their families through sustainable, skilled employment, away from the streets. It supports and enables these disadvantaged children to return to school-based education, or to undertaking vocational training or apprenticeships and provides shelter/hostel for them.

The Burma Education Partnership supports education in displaced Burmese communities along the Thai-Burmese border. It provides funding for schools and educational initiatives, including teacher training. It finds placements for teachers in schools, refugee camps and within a mobile teacher programme. It also develops materials for English teaching and general education.

The team are highly-trained volunteers providing a search and rescue service for remote upland and urban areas in the Peak District, Derbyshire Dales and Staffordshire Moorlands. Members are on standby 24 hours every day to help anyone. We promote safety in the outdoors through meetings with youth groups. The team are all volunteers and totally dependent on charity. Your donation may save a life!

Cantate is a mixed youth choir open to singers of all abilities, providing singing education and social opportunities. Cantate provides educational opportunities in music, singing and performing to a high standard. The choir is funded entirely by student subscriptions, and donations.

Castelnau Centre Project is a charity with a mission to promote a vibrant, self-sustaining community in the Castelnau area. It manages the Castelnau Community Centre a programme of community development projects designed to meet the need of its local residents. The Borough of Richmond is extremely affluent put this small area is isolated and a pocket of deprivation.

Catalyst builds local response-ability through ordinary people doing extra-ordinary things in tough places...because love is a verb!

YMCA Central Herts provides sffordable accommodation and support services, childcare facilities and children's activities and a range of personal development and other activities for young people across Hertfordshire

CAT is concerned with the search for globally sustainable, whole and ecologically sound technologies and ways of life. Within this search the role of CAT is to explore and demonstrate a wide range of alternatives, communicating to other people the options for them to achieve positive change in their own lives.

It promotes new ideas in voluntary action, focussing on user involvement, social entrepreneurship and young people changing the world.

In short Chabad is really changing people’s lives for the good by answering the strong need in the community for an exciting, non-judgemental, warm and inspiring centre for Jewish people young and old. Please support this initiative by sponsoring part or this entire Trek and become a partner in helping Chabad of Hendon continue its fantastic work in our community.

We are the UK’s only educational surveying charity dedicated to providing apprenticeship opportunities to young people aged 16-24. Our vision is to open up the surveying profession to individuals from all backgrounds and to provide employers with committed and talented employees.

The CSA helps to advance the education of the pupils of the Cherwell school. Its justgiving page has been set up to raise £200,000 to furnish and equip the new sixth form facilites being built at the school.

The Trust is committed to advancing the Christian faith in Derbyshire, the United Kingdom and across the world. To relieve persons who are in conditions of need or hardship or who are aged or sick and to relieve the distress caused thereby. To promote and fulfil such other charitable purposes beneficial to the community.

Chigwell Air Cadets provides invaluable training and oportunities to young people in Essex and East London that they couldn't hope to receive anywhere else. We give cadets the chance to learn leadersip, teamwork, lifelkills, self discipline and a lot about themselves in a unique and challenging environement that is second to none.

CARF-UK raises funds for a community development organisation, ACER (www.acerbrasil.org.br), to transform the marginalised community of Eldorado, Diadema. At an Activity Centre it works through art, education, youth empowerment and economic development projects directly with hundreds of deprived and abused children, keeping them from the streets, and reaching thousands more through outreach work.

CSEF is a national charity dedicated to reducing the number of child victims through interactive child safety education. Key focus is placed on the delivery of Personal, Social, Health and Citizenship Education to children and young people in the British Isles.

The Charity’s objects are for the advancement of education and the preservation and protection of good (mental, physical and sexual) health of young people resident or working within the Bucks County Council administrative areas of Chiltern District and South Bucks District, in particular by the provision of information and support.

Christ's College was founded in 1505 as a place of education, learning and research and remains that to this day. It is a top-ranking college of the University of Cambridge and teaches a wide range of subjects at undergradua