Charities In The United Kingdom Quiz

Answer: Shelter

Shelter is a charity based in the United Kingdom that deals with homelessness and housing related issues. It was started in 1966 by Bruce Kenrick, a British social activist and Minister in the Church of Scotland and the United Reformed Church. It offers advice and assistance to people who are homeless or who live in poor housing facilities regarding housing and tries to campaign against homelessness and poor housing facilities.

Answer: Action On Hearing Loss

Action On Hearing Loss is a well known charitable organisation in the United Kingdom. As the name indicates, this charity works to help people who are deaf or hard of hearing. It was started in 1911 by Leo Bonn, who was a British merchant banker. He was himself deaf, so he decided to create a charity that would work for the welfare of deaf people and help them. Thus, he founded Action On Hearing Loss, in his home, in 1911, as the "National Bureau For Promoting The Welfare Of The Deaf".

In 1924, this organisation was re-organised and renamed as the "National Institute For The Deaf".

It developed into an organisation that provided care and assistance to deaf people. During the 1950s and 1960s, the British monarchy recognised it as an organisation for the welfare and support of people who are deaf or hard of hearing, and in 1961 its name was changed to "Royal Institute For The Deaf".In 1992, its name was again changed to "Royal National Institute For Deaf People".

In 2011, its name was again changed to "Action On Hearing Loss", and at present, it is popularly known by this name, but its legal name is still "Royal National Institute For Deaf People". Action On Hearing Loss provides support and assistance to deaf people by performing a number of activities such as campaigning and lobbying with the British government to create rules, regulations and facilities to help the deaf people, providing information and creating awareness about hearing loss and illnesses that cause deafness, organising training courses or programs on deafness and hearing loss and disability in general, offering communication services and assistance by hiring the services of sign language interpreters who are trained in British Sign Language, trying to improve education facilities for children and young people who are deaf or hard of hearing, helping deaf people to find work, offering care and support services to deaf people, and trying to promote scientific, medical and technical research to help deaf people get latest hearing aids.

Answer: St. Christopher's Hospice

St. Christopher's Hospice is a famous British charity that helps people who are suffering from terminal illness. It was founded in 1967 by Dame Cicely Saunders and helps people who are terminally ill by providing palliative care and support to them in the hospice.

The hospice also provides care at the home of terminally ill people with the help of trained and qualified nurses who work together with the doctors of the terminally ill person, to control their symptoms and give family members of the person who is suffering, useful advice on how to manage their illness and control their symptoms.

Answer: Age UK

Age UK is a British charity that works to help older people and improve their lives. It was founded in 2009 as "Age Concern and Help The Aged", as a merger of two existing organisations that used to help the older people, namely "Age Concern", and "Help The Aged". It became one of the biggest charity organisations in the United Kingdom, and was renamed "Age UK" in 2010.

Answer: A charity that helps people suffering from anxiety disorders

"No Panic" is a UK-based charity that was founded by Colin Hammond and his wife Marion . They used to run a fish and chips shop in Shropshire, until both of them fell ill. Colin was suffering from an anxiety disorder, which despite treatment, recurred and he was advised by doctors to stop working temporarily, which he did. Marion was suffering from heart disease, so she was also unable to work in the shop and run it. Thus, in 1989, he and his wife started No Panic as a charity in Shropshire, to provide help, advice and assistance to other people who were suffering from anxiety disorders. Today, No Panic offers help to people who are living in the United Kingdom and are suffering from anxiety disorders such as, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, panic attacks, phobias, and many other types of anxiety disorders.

It is one of the major charities of the United Kingdom.

Answer: Teenage Cancer Trust

Teenage Cancer Trust is a British charity, founded in 1990. As the name indicates, this charity offers help and advice to teenage children who are suffering from cancer. It offers care and support to teenagers who are diagnosed with cancer through its units of doctors and nurses in hospitals that are run, controlled and supervised by the National Health Service (NHS).

It is considered to be one of the leading providers of care and support to young cancer-sufferers.

Answer: The Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal

The Royal British Legion was established in 1921 and works to help and support both veterans and people who are working in the British Armed Forces at present. It provides social and emotional support to such people and their family members.

Every year, the Royal British Legion holds a well-known fundraising and volunteering event between the months of October and November. This event is known as the "Poppy Appeal".

The "Poppy Appeal" is organised and run with the help of volunteers. Anyone who has attained the age of sixteen and above, and is interested can apply to participate in it. Those who participate in this event as fundraising volunteers are known as "Poppy Appeal Collectors", and there are also "Poppy Appeal Organisers" and "Poppy Appeal Deputies". "Poppy Appeal Collectors" are the face of the Royal British Legion during the Poppy Appeal and they collect money and donations from people on the street by wearing the Rememberance Poppy, which is the Logo of the Royal British Legion. On the other hand, "Poppy Appeal Organisers" and "Poppy Appeal Deputies" are active throughout the year and work in cooperation with community fundraisers of the charity to organise the Poppy Appeal in all local areas by making sure that there are enough volunteer collectors in all areas, creating or organising collection rotas, placing orders for the supply of poppies and making sure that they are distributed efficiently, instructing and informing collectors about how they should do their work and counting and depositing the funds or donations raised through the Poppy Appeal.

Answer: A derogatory term for "face-to face fundraising"

In the UK, the traditional form of street fundraising by charities is for volunteer collectors to stand in public places, rattling a collecting box in which passers-by can put any small change they happen to be carrying, sometimes in exchange for a small badge or sticker which they can wear to demonstrate their support for that charity (and show other collectors that they have already donated).

The form of fundraising sometimes known as "chugging" is much more direct. The term is short for "charity mugging", and is used to describe a particular form of "face-to-face fundraising", whereby a collector stops members of the public in the street and attempts to persuade them to sign up to make a regular donation to the charity via their bank account. "Chuggers" are often accused of being aggressively forceful in persuading people to sign up, and thus of giving their organisations a bad name. They are often students who are being paid to sign up as many names as possible, rather than unpaid volunteers who support the charity's aims.

For the charities, signing up people for a regular donation can be an attractive way of ensuring a regular payment. However, not everyone likes to be pressurised in this way, and surveys have shown that many (if not most ) members of the public are unhappy with such aggressive collecting methods.

Answer: Use of Tap-and-Give Charity Boxes

Cash and cheque donations, and income from charity shops, are all well-established fund-raising methods. However, as more and more people are using cashless payment methods on a daily basis, charities have recently started to take advantage of this. British charities have introduced Tap-and Go charity boxes and many people give donations by using debit cards. Street collectors and Door-to-Door collectors are also using Tap-and-Go readers, because many people don't carry much cash, and this has resulted in a decline of cash donations.

A few years ago, some well known British charities such as NSPCC, Prostate Cancer UK, Oxfam, RNIB, RNLI experimented with the use of Tap-and-Give light, small and portable payment boxes through which donations can be made by using a debit card. People can also donate money online. Many charities use these boxes in order to provide a convenient alternative to people who want give donations to charities they are interested in or whose causes they want to support, but don't want to donate using cash. Even street fundraisers, door-to-door fundraisers, volunteer fundraisers and paid fundraisers carry such Tap-and-Give payment boxes so that people can donate money using their debit cards and other contactless payment methods. Research carried out with the help of surveys and opinion polls has shown that contactless methods of giving donations are becoming popular in the United Kingdom and many people prefer using these methods to donate money to charities.

Answer: It has signed agreements with business people and industrialists in the UK to support its work

The British Heart Foundation is a charity organisation whose head office is based in London, the capital of England as well as the United Kingdom. This charity funds research activities related to the causes, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of heart and circulatory diseases. It financially supports cardiovascular education, care and research in a major way, and it relies on donations to meet its financial needs. It works with a number of organisations to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. The British Heart Foundation also performs other activities such as trying to create awareness among people about ways and means in which people can avoid heart diseases by providing information to people on the subject, campaigning and lobbying with the British government to create laws, rules, regulations and policies that can help in reducing the risk of heart disease, and offering advice and support to people who are living in the United Kingdom and are suffering from heart disease. It does this task by providing advice and information about the type of care and support that it can offer, on its website, through information booklets and guides, or its helpline.

The British Heart Foundation however, doesn't have agreements with business people and industrialists that require them to support its work and activities! Anyone can support its work and activities, financially or by volunteering for the charity.