Charities for Trinity 2006
Barretstown Gang Camp
The charity runs a specialised camp for children with life-threatening cancer or other serious diseases. The children (aged 7-17) come from all over Europe for 10 day sessions and can do activities such as canoeing, horse riding, climbing and fishing, and enjoy a childhood that may have been denied to them because of their illnesses. They leave the camp at the end of the session confident and without the 'sick-child' tag that they are forced to carry.
ACE Centre
The ACE Centre is a small charity based in Oxford, specialising in the field of communication aids and assistive technologies for children with severe disabilities. The children helped have many types of physical and communication disabilities, resulting from cerebral palsy, autism, head injury, and muscular conditions. ACE Centre therapists and technologists help the children's ability to communicate using new technology and computers, and can even give them a voice with a special 'speech device' all tailored to their individual needs. Our wide range of work also includes developing specialist books for children whose only means of communication is their eyes, and eye gaze technology, which allows those unable to use a keyboard, to operate a computer using their eyes alone.
Practical Action
Practical Action develop simple sustainable technology for use in the developing world, e.g. smokeless stoves, kitchen grinders and general to make people's lives easier and safer in poor countries. This they believe is the key to world development and eradication of poverty, advocating a grassroots approach to development.
Students Supporting Street Kids
Students Supporting Street Kids (SSSK) aims to raise awareness among students about the issues affecting street children, and to raise money for 5 projects that work with and for children in difficult circumstances. Established in five branches in British universities, it is committed to financial support of five NGOs
People and Planet
People & Planet is the largest network of students in the UK campaigning on urgent social and environmental issues, including fairtrade, climate change and HIV/AIDS. Our aim is to empower and educate students to take positive action by offering training and support, and in developing hard-hitting campaigns. Our emphasis on student-led campaigning for change has proven to be an effective and successful way of achieving long term and sustainable global justice. For example, thanks largely to students campaigning in 2005, the G8 leaders committed in July to Universal access to AIDS treatment for all by 2010. The World Health Organisation calculates that this promise, if kept, could save 7 to 10 million lives. People & Planet is campaigning hard to make them keep their promise.