Sign in here for Giving Week 2015: nominate your favourite organisation, charity or worthy cause

Can I nominate a small fund raising quest;

Nadia's Neonatal Vapotherm Fund

This friend of mine gave birth to twin girls at 25 weeks. A long road later they are all at home but rather than just deal with life as has been thrown at them, she wants to raise enough money to buy the neonatal unit one more Vapotherm machine to help a premature baby breath more comfortably!

I think this is a really worthy cause, driven by an extraordinary lady who, at the end of the day is really just like any other "(extra)ordinary" mother!

This is a tiny fund with a reasonable goal... but I'd love to see that goal smashed and Barnet Neonatal Unit receive a truck load of all the equipment they really need!!

ADD Vance have helped our family so much and I'd dearly love to nominate them

I would like to nominate pregnancy Sickness Support who are a very small charity but help a lot of mums like me that suffer with severe hyperemesis in pregnancy. They are a lifeline and prevent people ending their much wanted pregnancies and provide valuable support and advice as well as seeking to educate the health profession. Fingers crossed they get chosen as they really struggle for funding.

The biscuit fund

www.sophielancasterfoundation.com/

I would like to nominate The Sophie Lancaster Foundation for their tireless work with schools, police and communities.

I would like to nominate a wonderful charity set up by a family after the unexpected death of their DD

A smile for Orly is based in Manchester and distributes the funds it raises to support multiple projects which benefit children under 18

It's a really worthy and inspiring cause and has benefited many, many children since it was set up

It would be really amazing if the charity could be one of the chosen ones this giving week

asmilefororly.com/who-we-support/

Fabed gets a vote from me.

Reverse Retts uk

Retts is a neurological degenerative disease that effects young girls.

Reverse retts fundraises for research and raises awareness/ supports families.

A small charity that was set up by the mother of a retts girl. The research they have funded has reversed retts in mice already and may have implications for beating other conditions such as parkinsons.

Vote one: ADD-vance
Vote two: Count the kicks

I would like to nominate a gastro children's charity. FABED - the ONLY UK charity supporting children with eosinophilic disease and their families. www.fabed.co.uk It is widely acknowledged that Kids with chronic gastro disease have the worst quality of life of any chronically ill child. It is unglamorous, no celebs visit the gastro wards at GOSH, which are the last to be refurbished with only ONE SHOWER and ONE TOILET for TWO 7 bed wards. On a GASTRO ward. It's insane. Less than 1% research funding goes to gastro issues and NONE to paediatric ones. My kids rely on 40+ drugs a day just so they can wee and poo, normal bodily functions most take for granted. We also have EDS co-morbid with the EGID (Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and Eosinophilic Gastro-Intestinal Disease) and this causes a host of other problems too.
EGID involves the immune system, children are on multiple medications, restricted diets - some tube fed on elemental feed alone - undergo multiple surgeries and invasive tests and are in pain most days. There is more on my Blog here thereciperesource.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/why-we-need-culture-shift-on-medical.html

Today is the end of National Eosinophilic Awareness Week - just for once it would be wonderful for gastro issues to top the bill.

Vote for hmsa here. X

Hi,

I would like to nominate FOBE (Friends of Bright Eyes) www.fobe.org.uk/ `it is a charity supporting disabled children and their families by providing respite care. It is supported by local volunteers and they do an amazing job looking after disabled children. They provide a environment where young people with disabilities can enjoy themselves in a manner pleasing to them.

I would also like to nominate the meningitis research foundation www.meningitis.org/ They provide vital research into a vaccine as well as supporting families that have been affected by this deadly disease. This disease can kill in hours and babies are especially at high risk of contracting meningitis.

Magic breakfast (because I volunteer for a local breakfast club and think it's a travesty that some children are not fed in the UK in the 21stC) and:
52 lives, The Biscuit Fund & Trethosa Hut project all sound particularly amazing (amidst all the other amazing nominees)
Great initiative MN

my second vote is to HMSA too

Hypermobility Syndromes Association. They work hard at helping kids with heritable disorders of connective tissues to cope with chronic pain, fatigue and multi-systemic symptoms. They have set up family self-management programmes.

I would like to nominate Linbee dog Rehoming we look after dogs that no one else wants who are at high risk of put to sleep. We take dogs that no one else wants and we try to find them their forever homes. We are raising funds to help overall the kennels so they are nice for the dogs to stay in until they find their forever homes. We have a no kill policy and we will continue to love them and look after them forever if necessary we love all dogs xx any donation would gratefully be accepted and everyone is welcome to come and see our dogs xx thank you for reading you can see our page on Facebook just look for Linbee dog Rehoming Ossett x

I hope you have plenty of gin up there, Rowan. With that list, you'd likely need it.

I would like to nominate the same ascrystalglitz Naomi house and Jack place, a most wonderful children's and teenage hospice.

I'd like to nominate Educate for Life, its a tiny charity having a big impact within a remote, tribal community in Rajasthan in northern India, where families have to survive on less than 32p a day. It provides education and access to reliable health care to children who would otherwise never go to school and never see a doctor. All money goes directly to operational costs in India.

Ooh, the Hypermobility Syndromes Association for sure - it is thanks to them that I'm able to manage my health at all. The HMSA made a massive impact and I'm perpetually amazed at how much gets done with so little. :)

For anyone wanting to know more about The Sick Children's Trust, you can see info about their homes from home in Newcastle, Leeds, Sheffield, Cambridge and London here: www.sickchildrenstrust.org/our_houses/index.html

The Trust was set up by two paediatricians who realised that parents of critically ill children were sleeping in cars in hospital car parks to stay close to the ward. It does an amazing job, quietly, efficiently and in a hugely supportive way.

I volunteer with Community Action for refugees and Asylumn Seekers (formerly Kleviskola Kola Foundation) based in tooting, south London.

I'd like to nominate them because of their incredible community-led work helping traumatised children and their families adjust and heal in the UK. Only two members of staff are paid, part-time, and the rest are either local volunteers, students or former service users. They really are amazing and all heart.

Children with Cancer.

Yes, children get cancer. Existing treatments are old - very old. Treatment for children is around 20 years behind treatment for adults. For ethical reasons, drug companies won't test on children so our precious children suffer more pain and more life changing disabilities as a result.

Life changing disabilities? - Yes. Paralysis, kidney. liver, heart damage, deafness, blindness, balance, poor coordination and learning difficulties. All in the name of a cure - and children get ALL of those, not just some.

Cancer in children has many, many different forms. And overall, children's cancer receives less than 3% of cancer funding - spread across all the different forms - just no where near enough to make any kind of difference to those poor kids.

Children, and in particular dead children, have no voice. So they cannot set up and take part in Race for Life or Movember, for example.

Charities such as Children with Cancer are working to give them a voice and co ordinate and shape research for new treatments and cures to mitigate the effects of the treatment and disease. They deserve all of Bill Gates money!