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

I would like to nominate The Running Charity - they work with young people who find themselves homeless and who often have no other forms of support.

• they help to find young people accommodation, a job or go back into education
• they help young people to access mental and physical health services and work at trying to tackle the problems they may have in all the areas of their wellbeing
• they want young people to be given a chance at a future without homelessness

They are a small London charity but they are doing great things and they are always looking for support and volunteers, I have fundraised for them before and they were so grateful. Thanks x

I would like to nominate ICP support. They are a very important (little) charity which is a support and information and research charity for Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy. This is the condition with causes itching in pregnancy.

Sadly, my friend's daughter was stillborn due to the lack of knowledge of this condition by the hospital. A lot more research and education needs to be focused on this condition. No one should have to go through what my friend went through. No one should have to leave the hospital without their baby due to a treatable condition. No one should have to go shopping for an outfit for their baby's funeral knowing that is the only outfit they will get to buy their daughter.

www.icpsupport.org

On the same lines, and as a secondry vote, I would also like to nominate Count The Kicks.

If this is possible I Would like to nominate Alder Hey Children's hospital charity. This charity does great work raising money for extras for children in hospital, sometimes for long stays. This includes things like Christmas and birthday presents for the children, visiting performers, even Easter eggs! In September the hospital is moving to a completely new building themed around a park. The donations would really help with the work they will need to do to make each ward as fun and friendly as possible.

I'd like to second the nomination of Women for Refugee Women. It's run on a shoestring and the work they do with and on behalf of asylum-seeking women, who are primarily escaping terrible sexual violence and abuse in their own countries, is desperately needed.

Most are interned in Yarl's Wood - imprisoned for having fled abuse. They're guarded by male prison officers in situations which can mirror the scenarios in which they were originally violated. It's awful. Often their applications are denied - the attitude of the authorities here seems to be that rape and sexual abuse is 'just one of the things that happens to women' rather than grounds for asylum - and they are sent back for more.

Until you hear a survivor telling their story (which I did recently) it's hard to really take on board the heartbreaking injustice and cruelty of the whole system; I felt desperately ashamed - enraged in fact - that my country could allow this to happen.

There's which explains a bit more about what they go through here.

I'd like to nominate Newcastle Toy and Leisure library. They're an amazing charity full of amazing people who support disabled children and their families in Newcastle. It's been going for 40 years but due to funding issues (like a lot of small charities in the current climate) are at risk of closing. I hate to think what families will do without the service it has been a lifeline for mine.

I would like to add my vote for the Daisy Garland Charity please.

I see Winston's wish has been nominated - I second it!

Arc (antenatal results and choices)

Available to any woman (or partner) who has or is going through an abnormal screen of any sort. They have been a life line to me.

The women are very experienced, you can speak to someone who has had the same experience as you.

There is nothing quite like the crushing feeling of finding out something is wrong with your baby then all the complicated medical options.

They were the charity that explained exactly what would happen when I chose my tfmr. They also support women who carry to term.

It doesn't matter what your choice is they are there to give you good advice, tell you what will happen next and support you if, like us, your baby doesn't make it.

I would be in a much darker place now if it wasn't for their support. They do it on very little money.

As well as my nomination for bens den
Can I also vote for:
Count the kicks
Swan
Abortion support network

My vote is for daisy garland I hope my vote counts.

Christian Blanford Trust- Helping seriously ill children in ways most don't think of ie buying blackout blinds for a children's ward so the kids stopped waking up at 5am in the summer
Post Pals- Sending cheerful post to seriously ill children and their brothers and sisters as well as days out and parties
Kids Company- I think everyone knows this great charity
The charity set up by someone on MN in memory of her daughter raising awareness of carbon monoxide poisoning

oops, the link the the Amber Phillpott Trust should be:
www.amberphillpott.com/

I would definitely like to nominate SWAN - they do an amazing job.

Also want to throw OCD-UK into the mix, they do stirling work on a very tight budget for people with this much maligned condition. They currently want to start up activity days for young people and children affected by OCD but don't have the funding to do so.

I nominate www.countthekicks.org.uk

They really do help to save lives and educate people in baby movements trying to eradicate the myths that pregnant women ignore with scary outcomes.

My vote is for Solace Women's Aid, providing support to women and children survivors of domestic and sexual abuse since the 1970s.

solacewomensaid.org

I'd like to nominate The Up Project. It's a small national community interest group that supports disadvantaged and disabled families thoughout the UK by giving them free baby carriers and advice on how to use them safely and comfortably. Early intervention really improves attachment between carer and child and enables the family to participate in their local community. These have a knock on effect for years for the children involved.

Www.theupproject.org.uk

As it is EDS awareness month, I nominate Ehlers danlos support uk.

I'd like to vote for Nia Ending Violence and to nominate (can't see it so far) Horton Women's Holiday Centre who provide very cheap accommodation for women and children as well as a unique place to stay.

Can i vote again for Magic Breakfast too. Never heard of it before (my kids aren't at school yet) and it seems like such an excellent cause.

Glad that someone else has nominated Magic Breakfast - I donate via DD every month, but its such a fantastic charity (But then they all are, its so tough to pick just one).

ARC - Antenatal Results and Choices. They have been a huge help to me and several other families I know. They are such a small charity but their training really makes a difference. They are trying to set standards of care into the breaking of news.

Also I too would like to nominate SANDS. Again, I have had personal experience of them and they do so much to help parents at a very difficult time.

Can I please vote for Widowed and Young. Absolutely amazing group of people who are there for you at the very worst possible time, many of their members have been left widowed with very small children and they need all the funding they can get to be able to provide a national service and support network

www.widowedandyoung.org.uk/

I'd love to nominate Trafford NCT's Little Bundles Scheme. They work with local midwives/HCP's to provide clothing, toiletries, nappies and baby equipment (prams, moses baskets etc) for mum's in need. And while i know the NCT is a national company this scheme is the work of local mums who give their free time to help other mums in need. They are funded solely through local fundraising and donations from the local community, along with some community grants and they also pay for storage of all the items so they are readily available for urgent referrals. They would appreciate anything given.

www.nct.org.uk/branches/manchester-trafford/trafford-latest-news-press-releases