About The Charities We Are Supporting

See what good work the charities we are supporting do, and know that your help will go to a good cause

 

 

 

 

St Elizabeth Hospice was established in 1989 to meet the needs of people in the East Suffolk community who are living with an incurable life limiting illness. Our focus is on quality of life for the patient and their family and carers. We are an independent charity and all of our services are free of charge.

 

At St Elizabeth Hospice we ensure care between home, hospital and the hospice is as seamless as possible. We provide an Inpatient Unit, Day Care Centre, Out-patient Clinics, therapy services, family support and a Hospice at Home team.

 

This year, it will cost in the region of £4.2 million to run the hospice. We receive a grant of around £1 million from the Primary Care Trust and the remaining £3.2 million we must fund ourselves. We rely upon the generosity of local people and businesses to enable us to continue to provide and develop our specialist care services.

 

 

 

We provide support for the serving men and women in today’s Armed Forces and for those who have served - even if it was only for a single day. We also care for the needs of their families and dependants.

Last year alone, our professional staff and trained volunteers gave assistance to more than 50,000 people. We helped to make a real difference to many lives.

SSAFA Forces Help has been serving the Armed Forces and their families for well over a 100 years and our work is as vital today as it has ever been.

Our continually evolving support services are driven by the current needs of the Service community.  They are particularly relevant in today’s high pressure military environment, where our contemporary veterans and serving personnel alike often experience different problems from the soldiers, sailors and airmen of earlier conflicts.  Reservists too, heavily engaged in current operations, have equal call on our services.

 

Since its foundation in 2000, the charity has expanded to provide a 365 day a year service covering Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.  In August 2007, we took on Bedfordshire.  Unbelievably, this means we cover an area approximately 11% of the total area of England.

With the assistance of the NHS Ambulance Trust and the Magpas Emergency medical team, our second Air Ambulance is now covering Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire. MAGPAS is a charity based in Cambridge, supplying highly trained volunteer doctors to assist the NHS Trust paramedics fly on the second Air Ambulance five days a week. The East Anglian Air Ambulance is currently paying for the NHS Trust paramedics on the second helicopter.

We fly an average of 4 missions per day. It’s our job to get patients to hospital within the “Golden Hour”, and in an air ambulance that journey will take only minutes, greatly increasing patients’ chances of making a full recovery.

Here in East Anglia we need an air ambulance more than ever. Our roads are getting increasingly congested, leading to ever more road traffic accidents – which already make up more than 50% of our work. We are considered the most rural area in England with accidents occurring in remote locations not easily accessible by land ambulances.

 

For a small charity we have a long reach. With just a few entirely voluntary members, our aid effort stretches several thousand miles to remote areas of Mongolia. Our projects there span many hundreds of square kms, from Khenti, to Bulgan, Selenge and Khuvsgul in the north, to Dundgobi on the desert fringe in the south. Our aid ranges from provision of grass cutting machinery, to well-refurbishment, and veterinary aid for horses and camels.

During more than six years of fund raising CAMDA has helped meet the needs of thousands of nomadic herding families, with projects specific to their way of life. First, during the catastrophic dzuds of 2000-2003 with emergency fodder, followed by inoculations of camel and horse herds that were left in poor condition.

From late 2003 onwards, these projects were extended as it became apparent that small-scale herders over wide areas were still in need of this kind of grass- roots help.

With support in those early years from SPANA, later from WSPA, plus funding from other prominent organisations, a combination of three projects came to be established - Mobile Vets, Well-Refurbishments, and Grass Cutting Equipment.

 

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