Links
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Health & Related
- ACT
- Working to improve care and services for all children in the UK with life-threatening or terminal conditions and their families.
- Action For Sick Children
- Trying to improve the services and attitudes to the way children are treated when they are unwell.
- AYME
- Association for Young People with ME, where all the team met.
- Cancer BACUP
- Information on cancers, treatments and support. Fantastic site for information on everything relating to cancer treatment, and the option to email a nurse any questions you have.
- Cancer Research UK
- Cancer Research in the UK.
- Carers
- Information about carers and support for the family.
- Caringbridge
- Free webpage to easily keep family updated.
- Children First
- Working with children's hospitals to build a place where young people can rely on when they're worried about their health.
- CLIC Sargent
- Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood and Sargents merged in Jan 05 to become the largest charity helping families with children who have various forms of cancer. They help in many ways from providing housing for families when their child is going through long treatments, to home nurses, to breaks away and a fun holiday.
- Contact a Family
- Providing support and advice to parents whatever the medical condition of their child.
- Dial a Dream
- Giving a really sick child the will to say: "Let me live, another day." By granting the wishes of children aged 3-18
- Locks of Love
- Allows you to donate your hair to be made into a wig for disadvantaged children suffering with hair loss.
- Make a Wish Foundation
- Granting the wishes of children aged 3 to 18 living with life-threatening illnesses.
- Radio Lollipop
- Radio Lollipop giving children in hospital something to smile about.
- Share the Love
- 'Adopt' a child's site and sign their guestbook once a week.
- Sleepy Dust
- Advice on ME/CFS/FM.
- Squirrel Tales
- Practical advice for parents of children with cancer.
- Starlight Children's Foundation
- Wishing granting and hospital entertainment.
- Teenage Cancer Trust
- Support for adolescents with cancer, also has special units.
- The National Kidney Research Fun
- To improve the health and well being of individuals living with kidney and related diseases.
- Wessex Cancer Trust
- The Wessex Cancer Trust is an independent charity to help tackle the problems of cancer in Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire, the Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands. By promoting prevention wherever possible, financial support, Counselling Service, Complementary Therapist, information leaflets on various aspects of cancer and how to cope with the problems that the disease can bring.
Miscellaneous
- Bear Hugs Bear
- If you have lost a child to cancer, Bear Hug Bears will make some of your child's clothes into a teddy bear to treasure.
- Blood Donation
- Information on blood donation and blood stocks (which many of our Pals require). Also has information on local blood donation sessions. Has some fun games too, can you rescue Betty Bone Marrow?
- Charity Finder
- A great resource to find charities based in the UK, search or browse through the list. Post Pals is featured on the home page.
- Georgies Fund
- Raising funds for Neuroblastoma, a rare and aggressive childhood cancer.
- Little Princesses
- Providing the best quality of wigs available to children who have lost their hair to cancer.
- Make a Child Smile
- An American Post Pals.
- Miss Foundation
- A lovely way of honouring somebody's memory.
- NACCPO
- The National Alliance of Childhood Cancer Parent Organisations has a website with resources for people who have a child with cancer.
- Over The Wall
- Over the Wall provide breaks for children with serious illnesses and breaks for siblings too, where children can meet others who understand, and most of all have fun.
- Princes Trust
- The Princes Trust are a UK charity that helps young people overcome barriers and get their lives working. The Princes Trust supported Post Pals in its early stages.
- Riprap
- Helping children understand their emotions when someone they know has cancer.
- Stitches of Love and Kindness
- Making quilts for children and adults with long-term illnesses.
- The Laura Crane Trust
- A trust founded specifically to fund research into the types of cancer characteristic in the 15-25 age group.
- The National Health Service
- This is the official gateway to National Health Service organisations on the Internet.
- Well Child
- Striving to help children with health problems.
- Winston's Wish
- Winston's wish help children prepare and come to terms with the death of a loved one.
Other organisations
- Abbie's Fund
- Set up in memory of Pal Abbie S, raising funds for research into Neuroblastoma
- Quilts 4 Leukaemia
- Making quilts for people with Leukeamia
Affiliates
- Chillow
- A special pad that keeps your pillow cool all day and night long without needing to refrigerate. Select "Post Pals" from the drop down menu asking "Where did you hear about us", and we will be given 10%
- Post Pal affiliates
- When shopping online click through a link from our affiliates page and the company will donate a % of your order back to Post Pals at no extra cost to yourself.
- Yellowmoon
- Craft supplies, card making things, kids kits and toys. Please quote SPO1228 when ordering, and Post Pals will receive up to 25%
