Official Charities
Over the years the Plymouth Half Marathon has seen many good causes and charities benefit from the event, with many hundreds of thousands of pounds being raised. You could undertake your own fundrasing through
www.justgiving.com.
Each Year we select a good cause to be our Nominated Charity of the year.
We're delighted that this year’s Nominated Charity is CHICKS.
CHICKS (Country Holidays for Inner City Kids) provides free respite breaks for disadvantaged children. These children include those in care or suffering poverty, child carers, victims of abuse and children whose parents are addicts. CHICKS provide these children with a free, fun filled respite break at either their Devon or Cornwall retreats. This year we are celebrating our 18th anniversary and would be delighted if you join our team to help raise much needed money to fund the free respite breaks for underprivileged children who come from all over UK including many from the West Country.
Download a CHICKS Plymouth Half Marathon sponsorship form by clicking here.
Contact us at:
CHICKS
Moorland Retreat
Bonnaford
Brentor
Tavistock
Devon PL19 0LX
Tel: 01822 811020
Fax: 01822 811021
mick@chicks.org.uk
Golden Bond Places
As in previous years we have a number of charities offering Golden Bond Places. So if you would like to help please use the contact details below. For more information of Gold Bond places, please contact:
eventman@hotmail.co.uk.
Jeremiah's Journey
The service we offer to the children and their families is free of charge and is available to families living within Plymouth and the immediate surrounding area. Jeremiah helps children understand death and teaches coping skills and supports grieving children and their families.
For information about us and how you can secure your gold bond place please call Sarah Wilson on 01752 763666
or email
info@jeremiahsjourney.org.uk.or visit our website....
www.jeremiahsjourney.org.uk
St Luke's Hospice Plymouth
At St Luke’s Hospice in Plymouth, staff are dedicated to providing free high quality palliative care and support to patients from across the South West of Devon and Cornwall as they reach a most critical point in their lives. St Luke’s cares for hundreds of patients each year in there ‘preferred place of care’ whether that is at the Hospice, at Plymouth’s Derriford Hospital or in their own homes. St Luke’s costs more than £5 million each year to run. Sadly, due to lack of Government funding, £3.5 million of that figure must be raised within the local community by the hospice events and fundraising team.
To run the Plymouth Half Marathon in aid of St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth, please contact us on 01752 492 626 or email
events@stlukes-hospice.org.uk
The Chestnut Appeal
Raising awareness of prostate cancer is a vital part of the work we do, and it is now more widely talked about than ever before. There are now Chestnut Nurses based in Plymouth, Exeter, Torbay, Barnstaple and Truro. The charity supports these dedicated nurses who assist men with prostate cancer. The Chestnut Appeal also funds the very latest in treatments. Brachytherapy is now being used in Exeter and Plymouth.
Please contact the Charity Manager:
Lesley-Ann Simpson
Tel: 01752 792 736
or email us on chestnut.appeal@phnt.swest.nhs.uk
or check out our new website www.chestnutappeal.org.uk
Dame Hannah Rogers Trust
Dame Hannah Rogers Trust provides education, therapy, care and respite for children and young people with profound physical disabilities
The Dame Hannah Rogers Trust has been transforming young lives for over 220 years and now provides education, therapy and respite care for young people aged 5 – 25 with a range of physical disabilities and associated learning difficulties.
The Dame Hannah Rogers Trust`s school for 5 to 19 years olds, together with the specialist adult care cente (Planet Hannahwood) and respite care unit is situated on the edge of Dartmoor National Park in Ivybridge, near Plymouth in Devon. If you would like to support our work by running the Plymouth Half Marathon please contact Paul Courtney for a sponsor form or further information on 01752 898186. Or visit the website at: www.damehannah.com/contact.cfm
The Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association
Our mission is to fund and promote research to bring about an end to MND. Until then we will do all that we can to enable everyone with MND to receive the best care, achieve the highest quality of life possible, and die with dignity. We will also do all that we can to support the families and carers of people with MND.The Association funds and promotes research to understand what causes MND, how to diagnose it and, most importantly, how to effectively treat it so that it no longer devastates lives.
We also campaign nationally and locally for better care for all people with MND, and provide support and advice to help people with the disease and those who care for them to achieve the highest quality of life possible.
Please contact us on:
Tel: 01805 601 802
E-mail: sarah.hampton@mndassociation.org
www.mndassociation.org
Drake Foundation
What is the Drake Foundation?
We are a local community charity, covering the Plymouth travel to work area, supporting small voluntary and community groups by providing grants to help their cause.
What causes do you support?
The Drake Foundation supports a wide range of local organisations and local people of all ages. We help charities and voluntary groups, supporting education, training, sport, environment and care. In partnership with Devon Community Foundation we have already allocated grants worth over £150,000 to local causes.
What are the benefits of supporting the Drake Foundation?
We are working on the Plymouth Grassroots scheme where all of the money we raise is match funded, so a £100 donation with gift aid made to the Plymouth Grassroots challenge is worth £256 to the fund.
We are a ‘no overhead’ charity. Every penny raised goes to worthy causes and all money raised stays in the local community, visit our website or contact Steve Davis Chief Executive.
Telephone: 01752 764455
Email: drakefoundation@gmail.com
Website:
www.drakefoundation.co.uk
Parkinson's Disease Society (PDS)
Please support the Parkinson’s Disease Society at Plymouth Half Marathon!The Parkinson’s Disease Society (PDS) is the UK’s leading charity dedicated to supporting all people with Parkinson’s, their families and carers.
Could you help us to free thousands of people from this degenerative neurological condition and change their lives forever?
With your help we can deliver a cure for Parkinson’s!
To find out more about supporting the Parkinson’s Disease Society at the Plymouth Half Marathon contact Jean Almond, on 0844 225 3732 or email jalmond@parkinsons.org.uk
For more information about the Parkinson’s Disease Society, local support for people with Parkinson’s or the Plymouth & District Branch go to www.parkinsons.org.uk/southwest
Parkinson's Disease Society of the United Kingdom
Registered Charity in England and Wales No 258197 and in Scotland No SCO37554
A company limited by guarantee. Registered No. 948776 (London)
Registered Office: 215 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, SW1V 1EJ
CLIC Sargent
CLIC Sargent has one simple aim: to ease the burden of childhood cancer on children, young people and their families.
Every day 10 families are told that their child has cancer. Diagnosis often comes as a shock. Treatment usually starts straightaway and can last up to three years.
As the children’s cancer charity, CLIC Sargent is there… with clinical, practical and emotional support, every step of the way.
Our team here in Plymouth support over 30 local children and their families each year. Right now, we are only able to help two out of three families whose child has cancer. Please support us… so we can be there for each and every one.
To run for us in the Plymouth Half Marathon, please contact:
Alison Bull 01392 882040 / 07876 653829
Email:
Alison.bull@clicsargent.org.uk
www.clicsargent.org.uk
Registered Charity No. 1107328
Macmillan Cancer Support.
Macmillan Cancer Support improves the lives of people affected by cancer.
We provide practical, medical, emotional and financial support and push for better cancer care. We fund and manage the Mustard Tree Centre at Derriford Hospital. Cancer affects us all. We can all help.
We are Macmillan Cancer Support.
For information and advice about cancer, call CancerLine on 0808 808 2020.
Suzie Warren
Fundraising Manager - Devon and Cornwall
Sheers Barton Barns, Lawhitton, Launceston, PL15 9NJ
Tel 01566 770810 mob 07595091329
Raising awareness of prostate cancer is a vital part of the work we do, and it is now more widely talked about than ever before.
There are now Chestnut Nurses based in Plymouth, Exeter, Torbay, Barnstaple and Truro. The charity supports these dedicated nurses who assist men with prostate cancer.
The Chestnut Appeal also funds the very latest in treatments. Brachytherapy is now being used in Exeter and Plymouth,
Please contact the Charity Manager
Lesley-Ann Simpson
Charity Manager
Tel:- 01752 792 736 or email us on
chestnut.appeal@phnt.swest.nhs.uk or check out our new website www.chestnutappeal.org.uk
Call the NSPCC's free, 24-hour Child Protection Helpline with any concerns about a child or young person on 0808 800 5000. Children and young people can call ChildLine confidentially on 0800 1111.
If you wish to support us by running the Plymouth Half marathon please contact:-
Alison Armer
Community Fundraising Manager (Cornwall, Plymouth, West & South Devon)
Tel:- 01752 846218
Fax:- 01752 846218
or
Taunton Association for the Homeless
Taunton Association for the Homeless (TAH) was established in 1976 by members of the local community who were concerned about the number of homeless people in and around Taunton town centre.
From these humble beginnings, the association has become a locally and nationally respected and recognised organisation, specialising in the housing and support of vulnerable, single homeless people.
Working closely with Taunton Deane Borough Council, Sedgemoor District Council, Somerset County Council and a wide range of national and local agencies, TAH houses and supports over 350 people every year in a variety of accommodation including hostels, a young persons project and supported shared housing.
More recently, TAH has begun to operate the SmartMove scheme aimed at helping single people to more easily access the private rented sector.
For more information please contact:
Katie Loates
01823 271326
07848 457279
Email: Kloates@tahltd.co.uk
Website: www.tah.org.uk/