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Skydive Swansea is proud to partner with the following charities for fund raising purposes. Our charity partners in most cases have a strong Welsh presence and some enjoy UK wide representation. We also help people raise funds for charities that are not our official charity partners. Some of the charities that fall into this category are listed at the end of this page and we are happy to consider any legitimate charity.
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Our Charity Partners are:
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Headway Swansea is a charity which provides support to people who have experienced a head injury, their family and carers. Headway Swansea is able to provide:
Care and support to people with head injuries
Care and support to families of those with head injuries
Listening skills
Contacts within the medical and legal profession
Access to a vast library of Headway literature
Social evenings and activity days
We also run an Activity Centre twice per month.
Headway Swansea Web Site
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Providing creative, touch-based art of movement and dance programmes for individuals affected by autism, behaviour that challenges and profound and multiple disabilities.
Please give your support. All the money raised will go to help the Touch Trust maintain & extend its life- changing work with people of all ages with profound disabilities.
The Touch Trust is the only organisation in the UK offering this arts-based interactive programme.
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Cancer Care Cymru is committed to giving the highest quality of care to those people in Wales whose lives are affected by cancer. We provide specialist care and support from the moment a cancer diagnosis is made and throughout treatment.
Cancer Care Cymru recognises that Wales currently has the highest cancer rate in the UK and that the rate is increasing at the same time as the population of Wales is growing.
Cancer Care Cymru Web Site
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Tŷ Hafan – the Children’s Hospice in Wales
What would you say to the parents of a child who is expected to die in childhood? If you could offer only two words of comfort, try these … “Tŷ Hafan.”
Tŷ Hafan, The Children’s Hospice in Wales provides respite, palliative and end of life care for children who suffer from conditions which mean that they will not reach adulthood.
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This service, which includes family support and bereavement counselling, is completely free to all the families that use Tŷ Hafan and currently costs around £2.5 million a year.
By supporting us, you will help to make a real difference to these children and their families.
Tŷ Hafan Web Site
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The MS Society is dedicated to enabling everyone affected by MS to live life to their full potential and secure the care and support they need, until we ultimately find a cure.
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is the most common disabling neurological disorder among young adults and it affects around 85,000 people in the UK.
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The Society funds MS research, runs respite care centres, provides grants (financial assistance), education and training. It produces numerous specialist publications on MS and runs a freephone specialist help line.
Join our team of MS Daredevils to help raise awareness and much needed funding across Wales during MS Awareness Week (27th April – 3rd May 2009).
Help our voice get stronger and become a member today at The MS Society Wales.
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Wales Air Ambulance is an all Wales charity providing a vital service through emergency air cover for those who face life-threatening illness or injuries. It is a misconception that Helimed simply responds to mountain climbers and walkers who get injured in Snowdonia, Brecon Beacons and other rural beauty spots. In reality, about 40 per cent of all its missions are to road traffic collisions, and these, unfortunately, occur all over Wales.
Wales Air Ambulance Web Site
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The Stroke Association is the only UK wide charity solely concerned with combating stroke in people of all ages. It funds research into prevention, treatment and better methods of rehabilitation, and helps stroke patients and their families directly through its Rehabilitation and Support Services. These include Communication Support, Family and Carer Support, information services and welfare grants.
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Mencap is the UK’s leading voice of learning disability.
Our vision is a world where people with a learning disability are valued equally, listened to and included. We want everyone to have the opportunity to achieve the things they want out of life.
Mencap believes in being people centred, empowering, including and respecting all people. Challenging wrong ways of thinking about learning disability, transforming lives, being brave and developing new ideas.
Every week in Wales 12 babies will be born with a learning disability. There are over 60,000 people with a learning disability in Wales. We work with children and adults with a learning disability, the families and carers. Mencap is an all Wales organisation, and all monies raised in Wales, stays in Wales.
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The SAFE Foundation is a registered charity which aims to assist poverty reduction in small communities that have little access to mainstream aid and assistance. We empower people at grass roots level to contribute to the development and progression of their own communities, rather than accept aid from large agencies that maintain a presence or some element of control over local initiatives. So, in simple terms, this means letting people make their own decisions about their lives. We sponsor indigenously run, community based projects that are under funded and remote, small or overlooked for other reasons. These initiatives are based all over the world. In Wales, we aim to raise awareness about sustainable poverty reduction and development issues, and introduce ways in which youth culture can actively engage with different geographical cultures.
The SAFE Foundation Web Site
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For The Love is a scheme to help raise money and awareness for an orphanage school in Wtwapa, which is a town on the coast of Kenya. Situated 22 km north of Mombasa (Kenya's seconded largest city) Wtwapa is growing in size and population at an alarming pace. New Life Nursery School was set up to educate orphaned children and give them basic life skills. Funded solely by the community, the school receives no help from the government, charities or Non Government Organisations. The schools structure is very basic, made up of wooden poles, mud walls and a corrugated roof. There is no door and gaps for windows. Internally it is poorly equipped, wooden bench desks and very little else.
In the monsoon rains of September 2007 the school was knocked down by flash floods. The children are now being taught in the local church building.
Recent political troubles have also reduced the levels of tourism in the area, which is a primary industry in Kenya. This has put additional pressures on residents.
For The Love Cyrenians Cymru Web Site
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Western Beacons Mountain Rescue is based in Sarn near Bridgend. Our area stretches from the The Black Mountain in Brecon to St. David’s and as far north as Aberaeron. We are on call 24/7 and are alerted by the police to take part in searches and technical rescues. More and more we are being called on to perform tasks in the more urban environment around towns and cities.
We are a totally voluntary organisation and are reliant on charitable donations to run the team. These donations are used for training, procuring and maintaining two vehicles and ultimately we hope to fund a purpose built base. All team members provide and pay for their personal kit.
Western Beacons Mountain Rescue Web Site
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All Creatures Great and Small Animal Sanctuary, a registered charity operating in South Wales, specialises in caring for abandoned and/or abused animals. Looking after any animal is a huge commitment and takes time, money and patience. The Sanctuary does not receive any funding from the Council or the Government.
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Maerdy Kidz R Us is a voluntary community group based in Maerdy within the Rhondda Fach Valley, South Wales and has been in existence since 2003.
We aim to provide healthy, active, creative and stimulating play and learning activities for young people between the ages 0-18 years during school holidays in the first instance and also to provide a range of children and youth provision as and when required, ensuring the health and safety of each child is of paramount importance.
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We provide support within the community to deliver creative, informal learning and mentoring opportunities for parents, individuals and volunteers who wish to support the work of the group. We work with up to 120 children each week and support the delivery of active and healthy food initiatives.
We ensure all work undertaken by the group is accomplished by the ethos of working in partnership with Communities First and other like-minded community organisations in order to actively ensure provision is targeted to meet community needs and avoid any unnecessary duplication of community resources.
The groups ethos is centred around mutual respect, inclusion and equal opportunities for all. The group is dependent on raising small amounts of income to fund its activities and is thankful to the local community and other small grant providers who have supported us in the past.
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The Bracken Trust is a day centre supporting people who are coping with cancer and other life limiting illnesses, and we also give support to their families, if needed. We are based in Llandrindod Wells, Mid Wales.
A diagnosis of Cancer can be devastating but The Bracken Trust really can help and make a difference. We offer help by providing information, advice, support, counselling and complementary therapies. The relaxation methods offered help the healing process and the general support helps to raise morale, combining to give patients a better quality of life. No charge is made for our support but donations offset costs.
The Bracken Trust Web Site
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Cystic Fibrosis is seen as the United Kingdom's most common life-threatening inherited disease. The Cystic Fibrosis Trust is the UK's only national charity dedicated to all aspects of Cystic Fibrosis. Since the founding of the CF Trust in 1964, we have been working to improve the lives of people with CF, raise the profile of CF and fund research into a cure.
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Help For Heroes has agreed to fund up to £6 million towards building this state of the art facility for injured servicemen and women. The Government will contribute £24 million to the upgrade and that money will go on much needed accommodation, a new prosthetics department, minor brain trauma unit and additional treatment rooms, while our money is spent on the pool complex. It is, in effect a partnership between public and private money and ensures that the wounded get the very best facilities now, rather than wait for extra funding later. We need your help, so please keep going, spread the word and be assured that you are part of something really rather wonderful, a cause that is doing rather than complaining, a cause that is needed and is achieving.
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The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association wants a world in which all people who are blind and partially sighted enjoy the same rights, opportunities and responsibilities as everyone else. Our mission is to provide guide dogs, mobility and other rehabilitation services that meet the needs of blind and partially sighted people.
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The RNLI aims to save lives by changing attitudes and behaviour among people who use the sea regularly. Last year RNLI lifeboats rescued more than 8,000 people, an average of 22 people per day.
RNLI lifeguards patrol more than 70 beaches in the UK in peak season and assisted more than 10,000 people last year.
RNLI Skydive Swansea Fund Raising Page
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Other Charities That Benefit From Skydive Swansea
There are a number of charities where we have helped people raise money although they are not Charity Partners. Skydive Swansea is happy to help people raise money for any legitimate charity. The advantage in raising money for Charity Partners is that a significant amount of the administration is simplified because of the existing relationship. Non Charity Partners that have benefited from Skydive Swansea are:
Cancer Research Wales - British Red Cross - Multiple Sclerosis Society - RSPCA - Bobath Children's Therapy - Megan Baker House - Alzheimer's Society - Make a Wish Foundation -
Marie Curie Cancer Care - Meningitis Research
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