Dans le Noir ? helps …
Sense international
Total raised: more than £7600
Sense is the leading national charity that supports and campaigns for children and adults who are deaf blind. They provide expert advice and information as well as specialist services to deaf-blind people, their families, carers and the professionals who work with them. They also support people who have sensory impairments with additional disabilities.
Dans le noir? and Sense organized a Wine auction at the end of the year 2007 and together, raised £5290. In September 2008, Dans le noir? offered a unique sensory dinner that allowed Sense to raise up to £2108. Dans le Noir? added another 10% of this dinner turnover in donation to Sense. On top of that, via Sense’s collective boxes, £110 have been collected last year.
Fredericks Foundation
£
1000 donated to Fredericks Foundation
£
60 voucher for Save the Children
Their aim is to help those people with nowhere else to turn to realise their potential. This is achieved by providing resources to individuals in order that they may become self sustaining and to contribute to society economically.
By far the most common way in which they execute this mission is by assisting individuals start their own businesses. They do this by providing loans, mentors and a support package.
Leukaemia Society
Voucher of £80
The Leukaemia Society (U.K.) is dedicated to ensuring that more people with Leukaemia survive, have the best possible quality of life and that their families and carers get the support they need. The Leukaemia Society (U.K.) raises money devoted to the recruitment of volunteer bone marrow donors, research, education and patient care.
Accenture
Organism : Accenture Charity Price
80£ voucher
Accenture in the United Kingdom is dedicated to helping clients achieve high performance. They combine their deep understanding of local business conditions with a global experience of what works to deliver innovative services that help produce clear competitive advantage.
RNIB
February 23rd, 2008
Event : RNIB Marathon + Rangers Charity Ball
Amount £80
RNIB is the UK’s leading charity offering information, support and advice to over two million people with sight loss. Their pioneering work helps anyone with a sight problem – not just with braille and Talking Books, but with imaginative and practical solutions to everyday challenges.
Their projects such as Talk and Support and Parents’ Place make a difference to people’s lives. They need our support to fund their vital work. As a charity they rely on our generosity, that is the reason why Dans le Noir? decided to help them in their fight.
Guide Dogs
April 1st, 2008
£
180 coucher
Event : Friends & Family Days
Guide Dogs wants a world in which all blind and partially-sighted
people enjoy the same rights, opportunities and responsibilities as everyone
else. Their mission is to provide guide dogs and other mobility services
that increase the independence and dignity of blind and partially-sighted
people. They campaign for improved rehabilitation services and unhindered
access for all blind and partially-sighted people.
UBS Global Asset Management
July 2nd, 2008
Organism : UBS Global Asset Management in aid of
Action Duchenne and The Sarah Matheson Trust
Event : Summer drink
£
60 voucher
UBS offer investment capabilities across all major asset classes designed for private clients, financial intermediaries and institutional investors around the world.
Every year UBS Global Asset Management nominates 2 charities of the year – in 2008 they chose Action Duchenne (http://www.actionduchenne.org/) and The Sarah Matheson Trust (http://www.msaweb.co.uk/). Both are quite small charities and are chosen by people from within UBS group whose families have been personally affected by the diseases they represent.
Cancer Research UK
Septembre 18th, 2008
£
76 voucher
Event : auction for the Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research UK
The UK's leading charity dedicated to cancer research. All the monies raised at these events fund vital bowel cancer research. Each year more than 35,000 people are diagnosed with bowel cancer, the disease from which Bobby Moore the 1966 World Cup hero, died in 1993. It is the second highest cause of cancer death in the UK, after lung cancer, with 44 people dying from the disease every day, yet if diagnosed early eight out of ten people will survive. Cancer research UK is funding cutting-edge research to change this statistic.
RAFBF
October 25th, 2008
£
60 voucher
Charity Auction
The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund provides financial and practical assistance to anyone who is serving, or has ever served in the RAF, and their partners and dependants too. It offers grants, care and mobility services to individuals, as well as funding large-scale projects such as RAF childcare centres, debt advice services and relationship counselling. .
Citi Group
Citi Investment Research
£
60 voucher
The Citi Foundation is committed to enhancing economic opportunities for individuals and families, particularly those in need, in the communities where they work so that these people can improve their standard of living.
Microscope Ball
June 19th, 2008
The Microscope Ball was set up 25 years ago by leading members of the property industry as a colleague of theirs was affected by muscle disease. Some of these supporters are still actively involved in the organisation of the event which, since its inception, has raised over £2,000,000 for the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign.
Save the Children
June 14th, 2008
Event : Angel on the Thames
£60 voucher
Save the Children is the leading independent organization creating lasting change in the lives of children in need in the United States and around the world. Recognized for our commitment to accountability, innovation and collaboration, our work takes us into the heart of communities, where we help children and families help themselves.
NSPCC
April 4th, 2008
Event : Charity Speed Dating Dinner
£
80 voucher
The London Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was founded
in 1884. Its purpose remains the same: to end cruelty to children. NSPCC
has 177 community-based projects and runs the Child Protection Helpline
and ChildLine in the UK and the Channel Islands.
Most of their work is with children, young people and their families.
they also work to achieve cultural, social and political change - influencing
legislation, policy, practice, public attitudes and behaviors and delivering
services for the benefit of young people.
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