Report 2011
In 2011 the partners of Stewarts Law donated £289,330 to the Stewarts Law Foundation.
The Trustees of the Foundation made donations to various charities working in a wide range of areas.
St. Mungo's
Mainly based in London and the South, St. Mungo's not only runs shelters for homeless people but works to help them turn their lives around by providing safe housing, drug and alcohol support and physical and mental health care. They provide help for homeless people in gaining life skills - from job training to independent living skills in 'semi-independent' houses.
http://www.mungos.org/
St George's Crypt
St George's Crypt is a Leeds based charity which provides shelter, care and support for homeless, vulnerable and disadvantaged people.
http://www.stgeorgescrypt.org.uk/sgc-info/
Headway UK
Headway is a charity set up to provide help and support to people affected by brain injury. A network of local Groups and Branches throughout the UK and Channel Islands offers a wide range of services, including rehabilitation programmes, carer support, social re-integration, community outreach and respite care. Headway UK provides support to these local Groups and Branches and helps to deliver high quality services through guidance on policies, procedures, standards and training. The charity promotes understanding of brain injury and its effects and lobbies for better support and resources to be made available by statutory health and social care providers. Headway also campaigns for measures that will reduce the number of brain injuries.
http://www.headway.org.uk/home.aspx
Spinal Injuries Association
The Spinal Injuries Association (SIA) is the leading national charity for spinal cord injured people. They are unique in that they are a user led organisation. The elected Trustees are all spinal cord injured and are voted for by the spinal cord injured membership. The SIA aims to offer support and assistance from the time of injury and for the rest of a paralysed person's life; provide services to increase an individual's quality of life; support the families of newly injured people; increase knowledge and awareness of the causes and consequences of spinal cord injury; and campaign for the best medical and social care for spinal cord injured people.
http://www.spinal.co.uk/
Back Up
Back Up is a dynamic and professional charity that runs three distinct services: wheelchair skills, mentoring and rehabilitative activity and cultural courses. These services are peer-led and encourage independence, self-confidence and motivation following a life- changing injury. Their vision is a world where people with spinal cord injury can realise their potential. Their mission is to inspire people affected by spinal cord to transform their lives; to challenge perceptions of disability; and to deliver services that build confidence and independence and offer a supportive network.
http://www.backuptrust.org.uk/Home
WheelPower
WheelPower is the national organisation and charity for British Wheelchair Sport. WheelPower promotes equality of opportunity in sport for all people with physical disabilities by providing world leading facilities and opportunities to enable more people with disabilities to lead an active lifestyle; supporting disability sports associations helping to create new clubs and give professional advice and support to improve existing clubs; removing barriers to participation in sport in particular the provision of manual sports wheelchairs through the Wheel Appeal scheme. In short, WheelPower transforms lives through sport.
http://www.wheelpower.org.uk/WPower/
RCA
The Royal College of Arts based in London is "the world's most influential postgraduate art and design school in the world". With its concentrated, customised forms of teaching and dedicated technical facilities and research centres, the college is widely viewed as a crucible of the creative industries. Staff, students and alumni comprise an internationally renowned community of artists, designers and academics who play a significant role in the shaping of modern culture. Stewarts Law sponsors the annual RCA "Secret" exhibition and the Charitable Foundation provides money for student bursaries.
http://www.rca.ac.uk/
SOS Children's Villages
SOS Children's Villages is the world's largest orphan and abandoned children's charity. Child sponsors and donors worldwide provide a new family and home for more than 78,000 children in 500 unique Children's Villages in 124 countries. The charity's supporters also help a million children and their families through programmes in the surrounding communities. These children may be orphans, street children, child soldiers or children orphaned by war, poverty or natural disasters. SOS gives these children "a mother and a family" in a home within an SOS Children's Village. Donations pay to build the Villages and run them until child sponsors cover the running costs. Where family life is at risk they run programmes to help strengthen families and keep them together.
http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/
WaterAid
WaterAid works in 26 countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific region to improve their quality of life through lasting improvements to water, sanitation and hygiene education using local skills and practical, sustainable technologies. Not only do they provide safe water to the world's poorest people, they also seek to influence policy at national and international levels.
http://www.wateraid.org/uk/
The World Land Trust
The World Land Trust is an international organisation that takes direct action to save rainforest and other wildlife habitats by providing funds for partner organisations, so that they can purchase land and establish permanent wildlife reserves. Since its foundation in 1989 the World Land Trust has been working to preserve the world's most biologically important and threatened lands and has helped purchase and protect over 400,000 acres of habitats rich in wildlife in Asia, Central and South America and the UK.
http://www.worldlandtrust.org/
ACE Africa
ACE Africa works in rural, resource poor areas of Kenya and Tanzania supporting communities affected by HIV and AIDS to provide care for orphans, vulnerable children and their families.
www.ace-africa.org
Street Kids International
Street Kids International helps street kids to learn to support themselves and make healthy, educated decisions that positively impact their lives.
www.streetkids.org
Second Sight
Second Sight is a hands on charity aiming to eradicate cateract blindness in some of India's most neglected areas by 2020.
www.secondsight.org.uk
Centrepoint
A charity that provides emergency accommodation, support, information and training for homeless young people in London.
www.centrepoint.org.uk