To be inspired and find the causes you feel most passionate about, visit Charity Choice.
Painting in Hospitals
''Paintings in Hospitals is a registered charity that uses visual art to create environments that improve health and wellbeing for service users, their families and staff.
Established in London in 1959, Paintings in Hospitals now works across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The charity has a diverse collection of 4,000 original artworks and delivers interactive art projects for the benefit of service users, patients and the people caring for them.
Every year our work brings comfort and reassurance to over 1.8 million people across the UK from London to York, Aberystwyth and Belfast. We work across the health sector, including hospitals, hospices, care homes, GP surgeries, cancer centres and alternative therapy centres.''
This orgaisation would be a great choice for Kate because she is passionate about art and this charity uses it's power to brighten the walls of hospitals and the days of the patients to make their healing process easier. And who wouldn't like to see Kate getting her hands dirty while painting and creating fun, colourful atmospheres?!
The British Dyslexia Association
Ten percent (10%) of the British population are dyslexic; 4% severely so. Many of the dyslexic people across the UK, whether adults or children, are unable to fulfil their potential as a large percentage of the population still do not understand what dyslexia is, the difficulties which the condition presents and do not know how best to support them. Dyslexia is not an obvious difficulty; it is hidden. As a result, dyslexic people have to overcome numerous barriers to make a full contribution to society.
The British Dyslexia Association (BDA) campaigns for a dyslexia friendly society where barriers to dyslexic people do not exist. The BDA works to ensure that ALL people with dyslexia fulfil their potential. To achieve this we need to create change, set standards and support and enable people.
Kate's brother, James has dyslexia so she could see for herself what are the daily struggles of people with learning difficulties. You can also read James' thoughts on being dyslexic and how if affected him here.
‘At the end of the day, whether it was in a little church or Westminster Abbey didn’t matter, it was me, as a brother, doing a reading for my sister and her husband at their wedding and I wanted to do it right.’
Cabrini
‘We all need roots and wings to feel a sense of self-worth and to fly towards our potential.’
"At Cabrini we are committed to making a life-long difference to children, adults and families. With 125 years of experience and knowledge, we have transformed hundreds of thousands of lives through our range of innovative services. And in a rapidly changing world, the need for roots and wings is more urgent than ever.
Our name Cabrini is inspired by Francesca Xavier Cabrini the Patron Saint of Immigrants who, in the early 1900’s, dedicated her life to helping children."
Cabrini's work is focused on: adoption, foster care, post adoption support, schools counseling and neighbourhood projects.
I think this would be new territory to Kate, but this is one of my personal favourites, so I decided to share.
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