Charities

Our charity of the year relationships are an important part of our wider community investment programme and we're delighted to be working with:

Campod
Campod, Cambridge Fund for the Prevention of Disease, is a charity that raises money to directly support medical research in the Department of Pathology at the University of Cambridge. It was formed in 1983 and is supported through individual donations and legacies, grants from Charitable Trusts and income derived from fundraising activities. Campod offers the opportunity for individuals to directly support world-leading research into major diseases affecting the world-wide population

http://www.campod.path.cam.ac.uk/

Emmaus

Emmaus Communities enable people to move on from homelessness, providing work and a home in a supportive, family environment. Companions, as residents are known, work full time collecting, renovating and reselling donated furniture. This work supports the Community financially and enables residents to develop skills and rebuild their self-respect. Emmaus offers homeless people a fresh start in life with the support of the community around them.

http://www.emmausvillagecarlton.org.uk/

Sue Ryder Care – St Johns Hospice
Sue Ryder Care - St John's Hospice is situated in the Bedfordshire countryside in Moggerhanger and has 15 inpatient beds. The hospice offers specialist short-term palliative care for patients with life-limiting illnesses including Cancer, Motor Neurone Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, heart, liver and lung failure. The hospice staff are supported by volunteers providing additional bereavement and chaplaincy services.

http://www.suerydercare.org/care_centres.php/12/sue_ryder_care_st_johns_hospice

Woodfines Solicitors are also proud to support a number of other charities including:

ACT (Addenbrooke’s Hospital)
ACT is the independent registered charity for Cambridge University Hospitals (including Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital). ACT’s main aim is to support and promote the work of the hospitals to help make a difference for patients, by raising extra funds to enhance services, facilities and research.

Bedford Hospitals Charity
The Bedford Hospitals Charity has raised over £6½ million since 1988 for a number of projects. The largest was £2.5 million raised in the Primrose Appeal to build a new Oncology Unit, and the most recent have been £400,000 towards state of the art cancer screening equipment in the Endoscopy Department, £200,000 towards refurbishment of the Cygnet Wing proving improved maternity facilities and the current Gamma Camera Appeal.

Breast Cancer Campaign (Wear It Pink)
Breast Cancer Campaign uses all “wear it pink” donations to fund innovative, world-class research throughout the UK and Ireland to understand how breast cancer develops, leading to improved diagnosis, treatment, prevention and cure. The charity currently supports 92 projects worth over £16.6 million in 34 centres across the UK and Ireland.

Buckingham and Greenacres Riding for the Disabled
Buckingham RDA was started in 1977 and providing horse riding opportunities for children and young people with disabilities aged between 4 and 22 years. They provide several weekly riding lessons for pupils from schools in Milton Keynes, as well as Saturday sessions for individual riders from the local area. Lessons are taken by an RDA approved instructor and each rider has up to 3 helpers according to their level of competence. Riding has been proved to be an excellent therapy under three headings of physical, mental and social, providing exercise, mental stimulation and challenges not met elsewhere.

CBM UK
CBM is an international Christian development organisation, committed to improving the quality of life of persons with disabilities in the poorest countries of the world. CBM acts upon the needs and rights of people with disabilities and supports the provision of more than 900 projects in more than 90 countries. It is estimated that CBM reaches out to 16 million people worldwide across Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and South America.

Keech Hospice Care
Keech Hospice Care provides specialist palliative care for children diagnosed with life-limiting conditions and their families across Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Milton Keynes.  Care is offered at the children’s hospice and, through a community nursing team, in the family home. The aim of the hospice is to help the children enjoy the best quality of life possible, while providing vital support for their family and friends throughout the child’s illness and in their bereavement. All of the charity’s services are offered free of charge, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Macmillan Cancer Support

Macmillan provides practical, medical and financial support and pushes for better cancer care for the one in three people who will get cancer during their lifetime. From its early beginnings, founded in 1911 by Douglas Macmillan, Macmillan Cancer Support has grown to become the largest cancer care and support charity in the UK.

NSPCC
The NSPCC aims to end cruelty to children in the UK and provides both ChildLine and the NSPCC helpline. It also campaigns to make changes in the law and provides advice to adults. Woodfines entered a team into the 2011 NSPCC Half Marathon in Milton Keynes, and will again be co-sponsors of the event’s Team Challenge in 2012. www.mkhalfmarathon.org.uk

RSBP
The RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) is driven by a passionate belief that we all have a responsibility to protect birds and the environment. Bird populations reflect the health of the planet on which our future depends and the need for an effective bird conservation organisation has never been greater.