Speakers for Schools is a leading youth social mobility charity, launched in 2010 by ITV’s Political Editor Robert Peston. Our mission is to raise career ambitions among young people from disadvantaged backgrounds across the UK, and provide the necessary inspiration, experience and networking opportunities for them to succeed. Since our charity’s launch in 2010, we have supported more than 1.1 million young people. We aim to support 1 million young people annually by the end of the academic year 2022/23.

Special Olympics GB is the largest provider of year-round, all ability, sports programme in Great Britain and supports over 10,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities on a continued basis. Across, England, Scotland and Wales, approximately 27,000 regular sports coaching sessions of at least one hour each, are delivered locally each year by 140 accredited programmes across 28 different sports. This coaching activity leads to an annual average of 100 all ability, inclusive sports competitions. Its competition pathways make Special Olympics Great Britain unique within the disability sports sector as it provides for athletes of all abilities, opportunities to compete and progress at local, regional, national and international levels. This extensive programme is led by over 4,000 dedicated volunteers in a variety of sports coaching, administrative, event, logistic, fundraising and supporting roles. For our athletes, excellence is personal achievement, a reflection of reaching one’s maximum potential – it is a goal to which everyone can aspire. For those Special Olympics athletes who attain an elite level in their sport, we signpost and support a pathway into Paralympics and other elite competitions.

The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.

Sports programme for individuals with an intellectual disability

At least 1.9 million children in the UK are struggling to talk and understand words.  We give children and young people the skills they need so they aren't left behind. We do this by creating tools for schools and nurseries, giving advice and guidance to families and putting pressure on politicians.

Speech Bubbles is a unique drama-based programme, proven to build confident speech and language skills for those KS1 pupils who need it most.

For over 50 years, Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Scotland (SBH Scotland) has provided a lifetime commitment of specialist support and information to families affected by spina bifida, hydrocephalus and associated conditions. Our Scotland-wide services are available, for free, to over 4,000 children, young people and adults through a helpline, workshops, individual and family support, home and hospital visits, youth clubs, health check clinics, one to one key workers and respite.

We are the Spinal Injuries Association (SIA), the expert voice and leading source of support and information to people with spinal cord injury. We help people with spinal cord injuries lead fulfilled lives.

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a rare genetically-inherited neuromuscular condition causing muscle wasting which leads to a loss of mobility and can also cause breathing and swallowing difficulties. Your donations will enable us provide free information and outreach support to anyone in the UK affected by SMA and to help provide access to the best care, services, treatments and research.

Every year 1,000 people in the UK and Ireland are paralysed due to spinal cord injury. Spinal Research is the UK’s leading charity funding medical research around the world to develop effective treatments for paralysis caused by spinal cord injury.

Sport in Mind transform the lives and mental health of children and adults through sport and physical activity.

Sport Relief’s exists to create a just world free from poverty helping people in both the UK and internationally.

Our aim is to brighten the lives of seriously and terminally ill children during intensive treatment and extended hospital stays. A large part of this includes our regular hospital visits with our team of magicians, singers, poets, face-painters, fairies, therapy dogs and children’s characters, who entertain thousands of hospitalised children every year, distracting them from pain and treatment, relieving the monotony of the hospital environment and creating happy, positive memories at the most challenging of times.

Angelman Syndrome (AS) is a rare neurogenetic condition affecting around 1 in 15,000 people.

The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association (SSAFA) Forces Help - supporting those who serve, those who used to serve and the families of both for over 125 years.

SSNAP is the charity supporting the newborn care unit at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, providing practical and emotional support to parents, training for nurses and life saving equipment for the unit.

St Andrew's First Aid is Scotland's leading first aid charity. Our aim is to provide everyone in Scotland with the highest standards in First Aid skills, services and volunteering opportunities.

St Barnabas House is the hospice for the Worthing, Adur, Arun and Henfield areas. Thanks to support from the local community, people with life-limiting illnesses and their loved ones can enjoy life as fully as possible, for the time they have left together. We care passionately about the difference we can make, and always place patients at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is to provide dignity and comfort for adults who need our specialised, supportive care.

St Barnabas Hospice is the leading charity in Lincolnshire providing palliative and end-of-life care to adults living with a life-limiting or terminal illness. Each year we support over 12,000 people across Lincolnshire by providing free, compassionate, dignified palliative and end-of-life care, as well as wellbeing services such as bereavement support, counselling, and welfare and benefits advice. Our Vision is a world where dying with dignity, compassion and having choices is a fundamental part of a life. Our Mission is to ensure all individuals facing the end of their life in Lincolnshire receive dignified, compassionate care when they require it and where they ask for it. By way of example, every £19.93 raised will enable St Barnabas to provide one hour of specialist at-home care to a patient living with a life-limiting or terminal illness.

The Bursary Fund at St Bede's College Manchester exists to not only support and increase access to Bedian education it's impact is far greater in terms of working to support and defend Bedian education and sharing it with as many young people as possible. The long term aspiratio of the "Giving Back; Looking forward" campaign is to build an endowment fund to enable talented young people from a wide range of backgrounds to benefit from a Bedian education.

St Catherine’s Hospice provides care & support, free of charge, to terminally ill people & their loved ones in Crawley, Horsham, Mid Sussex & East Surrey.

At St Christophers Hospice our vision is of a world in which all dying people and those close to them have access to the care and support they need, when and wherever they need it. We were founded in 1967 by Dame Cicely Saunders and, nearly 50 years later, her words still remain at the heart of everything we do: You matter because you are you and you matter until the last moment of your life. Each person is unique and we tailor our care to meet social, emotional and spiritual needs, as well as manage physical symptoms. Every year we provide care and support to over 6,000 people across South East London, both at home and in the hospice.

St Clare Hospice is a charity providing specialist palliative care to improve the lives of people affected by a life-limiting illness in West Essex and the borders of East Hertfordshire. With limited NHS funding, we need to raise more than 70% of our annual costs to provide our vital services; in 2024/2025 the running costs of our charity are expected to be £8.1 million. We therefore rely on our local community to help us raise money each year so we can continue being there for local families facing one of the most difficult journeys in life.

St Columba’s Hospice cares for patients in Edinburgh and the Lothians with cancer and other terminal illnesses.All of our services are given completely free of charge to all those who need our care and support.As a charity we depend on support to ensure that we can continue to provide our care to our patients and their families at the most difficult of times.

St. David’s Foundation has been providing a ‘hospice at home service’ in Newport, Torfaen, Caerphilly and Monmouthshire since 1979. Last year we cared for over 2,600 patients facing a life-threatening illness, their families and carers. At any one time our nurses are caring for over 960 patients. The cost of providing the service, which is free-of-charge to patients and their families, is over £4.6 million per annum.

St Elizabeth Hospice improves life for people in East Suffolk, Great Yarmouth and Waveney living with a progressive or life-limiting illness. Our work is centred on an individual's needs, which means specialist support, whenever and wherever it is needed, whether at home, in the community or at the hospice. Through medicine and therapy we ease pain; we give life purpose and make life liveable