Charities Supported by St Anne’s
We actively support a number of local, national and international charities. Click on any name for more information.
- Mission Aviation Fellowship
- MAF’s small planes can use air-strips in remote parts of
Africa and Asia where flying is a life-line. They carry workers such as
doctors, vets, aid workers and evangelists. Cargo can vary from medical
supplies and Bibles to seedling trees and school materials. They are
often involved in evacuating medical emergencies. (Go to website)
- Mission to Seafarers
- is concerned with the spiritual and physical well-being of
seafarers of all nationalities and faiths. In an average year over
600,000 seafarers are welcomed to the Mission’s centres and over 71,000
visits are made to ships. The Mission is also involved in many justice
cases and in assisting stranded seafarers.
(Go to website)
- The Leprosy Mission
- is a Christian agency assisting with the physical, mental,
social and spiritual needs of individuals and communities disadvantaged
by leprosy. Many new cases are diagnosed each year and cure is now
possible. There is an accent on preventing and overcoming disability
and stigma, and helping with rehabilitation into the community. (Go to website)
- The Bible Society
- is committed to helping people have Bibles in their own
languages. The Bible, or some part of it, is now available in over 2000
languages. A current focus is on providing scripture to sick and
disabled people throughout the world. (Go to website)
- The Barnabas Fund
- assists distressed Christian minorities in the Muslim world.
Food, literature, funding for buildings, training for employment and
emergency relief supplies are provided. (Go to website)
- Restore
- is a project of Birmingham Churches Together, and seeks to
bring together the local refugee and host communities. It works in
partnership with statutory and voluntary agencies, and provides
information and training resources to those working with refugees.
Restore offers a befriending service and advocacy, as well as help with
practical matters. (Go to website)
- Focus Foyer
- runs a housing project for young people aged 16-25. Project
workers advise clients on their benefit entitlement, and help them
access education and training so they can get settled in the community.
Training in the use of information technology is available on the
premises for Focus Foyer and others in the community.
- SIFA Fireside
- works alongside those who are socially excluded or
disadvantaged, addressing alcohol issues and homelessness and
empowering and supporting people to meet their short and long term
goals. We run a specialist alcohol service as well as offering social
support, counselling, and advice and practical help with accommodation.
(Go to website)
- Birmingham Christmas Shelter
- is a Birmingham-based organisations which provides warmth,
shelter, food and company for homeless people for 5 nights and days
over each Christmas period. Chiropody, haircuts, dental care and
clothing is provided. Some 200 volunteers make this possible and some funding is given from Crisis at Christmas. (Go to website)
- Tearfund
- The Evangelical Alliance Relief Fund is an evangelical
Christian development and relief agency which supports 500 projects in
some 70 of the world’s poorest countries, and to a small extent in the
UK. They work with Christian partners for people of all faiths. In
disaster situations, Tearfund send their own teams of trained personnel
to provide emergency relief. (Go to website)
- The Children’s Society
- works with children, young people and their families in the UK
to overcome personal and social difficulties. They are highlighting the
needs of young carers and running events for them. The Society is also
concerned with young disabled people, with youth justice and with
children who run away from home. (Go to website)
- Church Mission Society
- CMS is a mission agency involved in evangelism, community
development, healthcare and educational projects in over 50 countries
including Cambodia, Romania, Korea and the UK. there is a focus on
empowering people on the margins of society. CMS is also involved in
enabling the sharing of skills and insights of people from one country
to another. (Go to website)
- Christian Aid
- works through local partner organisations in some of the
poorest communities in over 50 countries. It aims to help during times
of crisis and with long-term development, and assists people regardless
of their religion. It challenges unfair structures and is involved in
the trade justice movement. St Anne’s members take part in fundraising
during Christian Aid week, and in campaigning activities.
(Go to website)
- Operation Christmas Child
- a branch of Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian relief and
development agency working in many countries. At Christmas time,
shoeboxes are filled with gifts for children, and are despatched to
needy children, mainly in Eastern Europe. (Go to website)
- United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
- USPG is a missionary society which works alongside its partner
churches worldwide. It is active in institutions such as hospitals and
babies’ homes, and is also involved in HIV/AIDS work. It is currently
taking part in an environmental and agricultural project in South
Africa. As well as sending long-term mission partners, it arranges
short-term placements overseas.
(Go to website)
- Anawim
- an organisation of women working with women in the West
Midlands. Support and befriending is offered to women involved in
prostitution, and assistance given to those who wish to extricate
themselves from this way of life. Women are offered skills training and
help with child care. Visits are made to those in prison.
- Amaudo Itumbauzo
- works with destitute mentally ill people in Southern Nigeria,
and offers medical care, accommodation, and rehabilitation to the
patients. It co-ordinates the community psychiatric programme in three
states so that people have access to psychiatric services. It trains
nurses and volunteers in psychiatric care, and also arranges for
volunteers from the UK to work in Amaudo.
(Go to website)
- Amnesty International
- is a worldwide human rights movement. It seeks the release of
all prisoners of conscience as long as they have not used or encouraged
violence. It also works to end extrajudicial executions and
"disappearances", and to abolish the death penalty, torture and other
inhuman punishment. It works for fair and prompt trials for all
political prisoners.
(Go to website)
Thanks to Elisabeth Leicester for compiling this information.
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