Galloping Girls

The Galloping Girls are a committee of local ladies who organise functions in order to raise money for local cancer charities.  Most recently raising funds for the teenage cancer charity CLIC Sargent.

www.clicsargent.org.uk

Help For Heroes

Help for Heroes has become, in the words of the Prime Minister, a ‘National Institution’ and it is hard to believe we only started this in October 2007. Since then we have raised £1 million a month to help support our wounded servicemen and women injured in the current conflicts. We have done that with your help. This has really been something very simple, a group of friends who wanted to do something to help, that message communicated to others who have joined in and made this the success it so obviously is.

www.helpforheroes.org.uk

Local Charity

Autism Concern is a charity which provides support and options to people affected by all forms of autism in gaining independence and control of their lives.
The word autism is now quite well known to most people, even if the actual nature of the condition may be less well understood. In recent years many professionals have recognised that there are many children who do not fit the classic or complete picture of an autistic child. A phrase, which is now more often used, is "autistic spectrum". The autistic spectrum is vast, ranging from Kanner autism to Semantic pragmatic, these are the three main elements of impairment:

• Problems with social interaction.

• Problems with communication (both language and non-verbal communication).

• Flexibility of thought.

Children may have significant difficulties in either all, or a combination of these areas. For example, one child may have a major difficulty with social interaction, but minor problems with the other two, while a second child may have mild difficulties in all areas.

www.n-s-a.org.uk