Action for Conservation
Inspires young people from diverse backgrounds to protect the natural world, through workshops, camps and leadership training that grow the next generation of environmental leaders.
The small charities we support
Meet the 16 small charities on the Raise Your Hands platform. Each one is carefully selected and reviewed in detail every year, working across mental health, education, family crisis, youth violence, and more. And we make it easy to donate to all 16 with a single gift.
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Previous Charity Partners
The charities that have moved on from our platform, having grown beyond ‘small’ or changed focus. We’re proud to have been part of their journey.
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Empire Fighting Chance
Combines non-contact boxing with intensive mentoring to help young people facing violence, exclusion or poor mental health build confidence, resilience and a path into work.
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StreetDoctors
Empowers young people in areas affected by violence to become lifesavers, with first aid training that builds the confidence to act in an emergency and protect one another.
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Storybook Dads
Helps parents in prison stay close to their children by recording bedtime stories for them to hear at home, keeping families connected and helping to reduce reoffending.
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Switchback
Supports young men leaving prison in London, through intensive one-to-one support and real work training, helping them find jobs and build stable, independent lives.
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The Wave Project
Uses surf therapy to support young people aged 8 to 24 with mental health needs, learning difficulties or disabilities, building their confidence and wellbeing on UK beaches.
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Go Live Theatre
Uses theatre to help disadvantaged and disabled young people build confidence and broaden their horizons, through workshops and theatre trips that open up new opportunities.
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Chiva
Supports children and young people growing up with HIV across the UK, through camps, peer groups and advocacy that reduce stigma, so no young person faces their diagnosis alone.
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Dandelion Time
Helps children recovering from trauma, abuse or neglect, through therapeutic time on a working farm and work with their families, so they grow in confidence and learn to trust again.
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Become
Stands with children in care and young care leavers, through advice, one-to-one support and community groups that help them build stability, confidence and opportunity.
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BelEve
Helps girls and young women grow into confident, resilient leaders, through mentoring, workshops and real-world opportunities that help them thrive in education, work and life.
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Our Time
Supports children and young people who have a parent with a mental illness, through groups in schools and communities that help them feel understood, connected and secure.
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MYTIME Young Carers
Supports young people who care for a loved one, through school programmes, life-skills sessions and respite breaks that ease isolation and give them the confidence to pursue their goals.
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Happy Baby Community
Supports mothers and babies who have fled violence or trafficking, through community groups, expert care and food, so children grow up safe and nurtured from the very start.
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The Literacy Pirates
Helps 9 to 13-year-olds who are falling behind at school to catch up, through volunteer-led sessions that build reading, writing and confidence.
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Basecamp Adventure Trust
Takes 12 to 14-year-olds facing challenges at home on a year-long programme of outdoor adventure and coaching, building the self-belief to thrive now and in the future.