2026 ASSOCIATE CHARITY PARTNERS

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  • Angel Shed 
    Charity Number: 1195194

    Angel Shed is a charity in Islington, North London, specialising in inclusive performing arts for children and young people.

    We provide a safe space for children to express themselves, develop confidence, and grow into curious, creative, and courageous young people. 

    Through weekly performing arts workshops, we remove social, physical, and attitudinal barriers that can prevent full participation, ensuring that everyone, regardless of background, identity, or circumstance, has equitable access to the arts.

  • Animals of our World
    Charity Number 1197372

    The only UK-registered charity providing sanctuary to neglected animals in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

  • Basket Brigade
    Charity Number: 1200548

    Basket Brigade UK is a loving, charitable organisation who deliver baskets of food, love and hope on December 23rd every year to those who could really do with a helping hand at Christmas.

    On average, around 600 volunteers, both adults and children, come together for one day and help build between 1500-2000 baskets, which feed between 4000-6000 people.

    It is the most amazing, fun packed day and so, so rewarding. People love it so much that every year over 50% return!

  • Brain Research UK
    Charity Number: 1137560

    Brain Research UK is a leading national funder into neurological conditions.

    Our vision is a world where everyone with a neurological condition lives better, longer.

  • British Heart Foundation
    Charity Numbers: 225971 (England and Wales and SCO039426 (Scotland)

    Every 3 minutes, someone in the UK dies from cardiovascular disease. It can affect anyone. Your support helps British Heart Foundation fund research that helps save lives.

  • CRISIS
    Charity Number: 1082947

    Crisis is the national charity for people experiencing homelessness. We know that homelessness is not inevitable, and we work every day to help people rebuild their lives and leave homelessness behind for good.

    Through one-to-one support, practical advice and campaigning for change, Crisis helps people find safe and secure housing, access employment opportunities, improve their wellbeing and build the skills and confidence needed to move forward.

    We are delighted to be a part of this year's Santa in the City, helping to raise essential funds to relieve the huge pressure of homelessness.

  • Dreams Come True
    Charity Number: 800248

    Dreams Come True are the only national wish-granting charity that solely supports children with a disability, serious illness, or a life-limiting condition who live in the highest areas of social deprivation in the UK today.

  • Forward Trust
    Charity Number: 1001701

    We are a social justice charity that supports people to recover from addiction or leave behind crime, helping them move on in life with family, friends, jobs, homes, and a sense of belonging.

  • Future Dreams
    Charity Number: 1123526

    Nobody should face breast cancer alone or without hope.

    Welcome to Future Dreams.

    We offer a wide range of in-person and online services providing practical, emotional and psychological support for those diagnosed with breast cancer, fund vital secondary breast cancer research, and promote breast health education.

  • Lia’s Wings
    Charity Number: 1138457

    Lia’s Wings is the only UK air ambulance charity that delivers life-saving services both in the UK and internationally.

    We use aeroplanes to provide urgent medical transfers, ensuring that babies and children receive the vital treatment they need, no matter where they are.

    We also provide a tailored support service for families to help them through crisis, creating improved outcomes and lasting change.

  • Prevent Breast Cancer
    Charity Number: 1109839

    Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK for women, despite it being a rare disease in men.

    Every year, over 59,400 individuals are diagnosed – that is 160 people a day.

    Each year we lose 11,200 to this disease.

    For us, that is 11,200 too many. In the UK breast cancer rates in women have increased by 26% since the 1990s.

    Incidence rates for breast cancer are projected to rise even further. 

    At Prevent Breast Cancer, we believe we can stop the problem before it starts.

  • Raise Your Hands 
    Charity Number (UK): 1174956

    Raise Your Hands believes all children and young people deserve to thrive and build happy, fulfilling lives, and that small charities are essential in making this happen.

    We support 16 partner charities with unrestricted funding, year on year, so they can focus on delivering meaningful and often life-changing services for children and young people.

    We select each charity carefully and give it pro bono support, helping it define and work towards its outcomes.

    We then monitor progress so every charity has what it needs to stay on track with its yearly objectives. Our charities often tell us we are their favourite funder, because we work alongside them and help them thrive.

    The charities:
    Our 16 exceptional small charities across the UK do everything from sending bedtime stories home from prison to healing trauma on a therapeutic farm.

    Together they create an abundance of positive change: improved literacy, better access to the arts, reduced reoffending, unlocking the healing power of the ocean, and helping people live well when facing challenges such as HIV, bullying and terminal illness.

    Yet despite their incredible impact, small charities remain overlooked when it comes to funding, with 88% of donations going to the top 5% of UK charities.

    That’s why Raise Your Hands exists - to level the playing field by backing these charities and giving individuals and companies innovative ways to support them. We do this by:

    • Providing unrestricted funding, in perpetuity, enabling charities the autonomy and flexibility to respond to real-time needs

    • Campaigning to raise awareness of the UK charity funding landscape and its imbalance

    • Increasing visibility of its charities through content and public engagement

    • Hosting innovative fundraising events, including the flagship challenge Midnight Madness, which brings in vital support for the entire portfolio. 

    • Facilitating meaningful - and measurable - corporate involvement with the platform of charities through its corporate initiative, Raise Your Hands Partners.

    Raise Your Hands rigorously selects and reviews the charities it supports to ensure donations have maximum impact.

    Our latest Annual Charity Insights Report can be found here, demonstrating the impact they have across the UK.

  • School Home Support
    Charity Number: 1084696

    Since 1984, we have been supporting children to ensure they have access to their education, to help maximise their life chances.

    We provide bespoke whole family support with and through schools to help understand and tackle barriers to good school attendance. We do this by building trust, resilience and skills across the whole family.

    Children and families are at the centre of everything we do.

    Our ultimate goal is to make an effective, long-lasting impact in the lives of the children, young people, families and communities we serve by strengthening the bridge between home and school. 

  • Single Homeless Project
    Charity Number: 287779

    Single Homeless Project help 10,000 Londoners in crisis every year to leave homelessness behind, to be seen, to be heard, and find a place to call home.

  • Starlight
    England & Wales Charity Number: 296058
    Scotland Charity Number: SC047600

    Starlight is the UK’s leading charity working to put play at the heart of every child’s healthcare. Through play, we transform children’s health by taking the fear and anxiety out of healthcare, helping children feel more comfortable, confident and in control during appointments, treatments and hospital stays.

    Our vision: A time when no child experiences trauma from their healthcare.

    Our mission: Putting play at the heart of every child’s healthcare.

    Our purpose: Transforming children’s health through better healthcare experiences.

  • The Honeypot Children’s Charity Charity Number: 1184132

    The Honeypot Children’s Charity provides tailored support for young carers and children aged 5-12 facing difficult circumstances, including caring responsibilities, loss, instability or other significant challenges.

    The children we support benefit from time away from daily responsibilities and stress, giving them the opportunity to relax, build friendships and simply be children.

    Our three Honeypot houses in England, Scotland and Wales provide Respite Breaks, Health & Wellbeing Breaks, and ongoing wraparound support.

    These early intervention services help children build confidence, resilience and joy at a crucial stage in their lives, creating happy childhood memories and building brighter futures regardless of the barriers they face.

  • University College London Hospitals (UCLH)
    Charity Number: 1165398

    Improving cancer care at University College London Hospitals (UCLH).

    We are part of UCLH Charity, specifically dedicated to improving care for people with cancer.

    Our hospitals encompass some of the most vital cancer treatment centres in the UK, providing comprehensive services to diagnose, treat, and support people with cancer.

    We provide funding wherever it is most needed across these services, from staff training to research with international impact, in areas that the NHS would otherwise be unable to.

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