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I'd like to vote for the Trethosa Hut Project please.

Please can I nominate "Hospice At Home"? When my Dad was dying, the team from the hospice in York were super and really supported both my parents.

A cheeky second nomination would be 'Penhaligon's Friends' which are a local Cornish charity who help children who are dealing with bereavement. Again, when my children lost both their Grandads in the same week, the help, support and advice we received from them was invaluable.

I would like to use my second vote for swan UK please

I would like to nominate www.thedaisygarland.org.uk The Daisy Garland charity, a small family run charity that I would be lost without. After losing their lovely 6 year old daughter to epilepsy, the family set up this wonderful charity to help other children with drug resistant epilepsy. They fund raise to provide children with breathing and epilepsy monitors which can save lives as well as allow parents some peace of mind overnight. The Facebook page and websites are a constant source of information and support and even include light hearted items such as suggested craft activities for families over the weekend.

I do my bit towards discovering new antibiotics, cures for AIDS, Ebola & malaria, and improving the world's water supply by sharing my computer :)

No money required, just join the World Community Grid.

Well I've already used 4 of my 5 votes (Woolly Hugs being whatever it will be) so my final one would be for a charity of which few of you will likely have heard - Antibiotic Research UK.

I'll confess that this is more of a political vote than anything else. I'm normally one for saying 'Let people continue to do the Big Stuff Lobbying but in the meantime, how are charities going to pay their electricity bills?' It's just that in this case, there is arguably hardly any time left to do anything and the possibilities for lobbying are very limited given that the large firms involved have no commercial interest in people not using their products. There's no profit motive.

The charity is currently trying to raise £30million to have one new AB in place by 2020 - I think they've raised £100k so far - so prominence on a site like MN might give some added impetus to this and to their general campaign against undiscriminating use of ABs and the use of combination drug therapies instead.

Imagine a world where the last antibiotic was proving ineffective? It's a global issue but one where we can all play our part if we wish.

And that's me done.

I know there's been a few nominations for children's hospices, but I'd like to nominate CHAS.

CHAS is a charity that provides the only hospice services in Scotland for children and young people who have life-shortening conditions for which there is no known cure. They have two Hospices in Scotland, Rachel House and Robin House, but also have CHAS at Home, their home care service, for when time at home is needed badly and for those further away from the Hospices.

As a volunteer there in the past, I know how much their services are needed and how well they look after families and children.

Another nomination for Mummy's Star.

www.readwell.org.uk gets brand new books and storytellers to children in hospital. Aiming to be in all 30 of the UK’s major children’s hospitals this year, ReadWell’s mobile bookcases and storytellers are currently in 26 and its work is totally funded by donations, including by children running a sponsored Readathon at schoolwww.readathon.org.uk.

Every year, more than 100,000 children are hospitalised with a serious and prolonged illness. Books are really important when you’re stuck in hospital. Your world is getting smaller and smaller, you might be bored and scared and in pain. Imagination – stories – are a ticket out of there; they can take you anywhere. But how can hospitals get the very best, latest and loveliest books to children when budgets are already stretched? That’s where Mumsnet could come in…

I'd like to vote for Pastamancer's Trethosa Hut Project - it's a very deprived area of the UK and a new hut would mean a great deal.

I'd like to nominate RAVSCA (Raising Awareness of Victims and Survivors of Child Abuse) as there are so many people suffering in silence

I'd like to nominate Woolly Hugs and Women's Aid please

Indie's Gift.

The woman who set up and runs this charity in memory of her daughter who died after being born prematurely helps parents who's child/children have been born prematurely by sending out clothes which fit the baby in a pack with other essentials for both baby and the parents.

I received a pack after my dd was born at 32 weeks and the thought that went into made the situation feel a lot less lonely and scary and I was so grateful for that. I was able to dress my dd in clothes that actually fitted her and she looked like an actual baby, something which I thought wouldn't have been possible at that time.

She works so hard, supports each and every parent, and is so deserving of any donation that could be made to her.
She is an inspiration!

Having just read about it I would like to vote for the Abortion Support Network too.

Crying shame in this day and age it is needed

I would like to nominate the Scleroderma Society, it's a little known disease with very limited funding for research, as a sufferer all research is greatly appreciated ??
sclerodermauk.org

Yes indeed, Finbar. The numbers are frightening now - especially among young people.

I want to nominate SOBS - Survivors of Bereavement through Suicide.
They are the place I turned to when I needed to know how to tell my children about a suicide in the family.
The immense pain that suicide leaves behind is gently and kindly supported by this underrated charity. The numbers of suicides are increasing. This charity needs to continue to be there.

I would like to nominate Scottys Little Soldiers who support children who's parents have been killed while serving in the armed forces. Also another vote for Winstons Wish who supported Wilf when his Dadda died.

I would definitely nominate Mummy's Star. Amazing charity that provide much needed support those unfortunate Mummy's that are diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy and beyond.

I'd also like to nominate the Abortion Support Network

Two charities that are small but fabulous for supporting families where health care sometimes can't:

www.reach.org.uk

Reach.org.uk is a national charity for children and their families affected by upper limb deficiencies. They provide support and advice and fantastically positive role models for folk with missing/partial arms or hands. They can visit schools to talk about living with limb differences etc. They hold an activity week for affected teenagers in an outward bounds setting, mentoring them to challenge themselves and share experiences with peers. Not glamorous but hugely helpful at various stages of the children's lives, bullying, positive self image, problem solving, etc "it's ability not disability that matters" is their slogan.

The other is SWAN another support system for families whose children have rare syndromes that have no name, and thus the added struggle of uncertainty about what the future holds for their child and no other community where they can seek advice and shared experiences. undiagnosed.org.uk

I would like to nominate mummy's star. A charity that supports women diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy and beyond. A charity that is on the grow and come so far, the support given to women through this is incredible and invaluable :) x

I didn't know that. Good idea.

A vote for the Abortion Support Network.

I would like to nominate Scottish Women's Aid. Last year I don't think it was sufficiently clear that WA operates as 4 separate charities in the 4 countries and so WA in England was the sole recipient of the funding. Short of nominating all four WAs the best I can do is at least suggest we rotate between the Home Countries if WA is chosen.

I would like to nominate the charity Off The Record otrtwickenham.com/ - thats the Twickenham one, but they have services in different areas. Like in Hampshire www.off-the-record.org.uk/

They are a Young persons counselling service, dealing with mental health issues in children from age 11 and up. They provide a vital service for young people when mental health services have been pretty much demolished by the government. Our GP suggested this, as she said there really was no NHS alternative any more.