RAG – Our Charities

Shooting Star offers a range of care services for children and young people with life-limiting conditions and their families. These can take place in the family home, in the community and at Shooting Star House, the purpose-built facility based in Hampton, Middlesex. Their care services are provided to families free of charge, 365 ays a year. It costs £3 million every year (£8,000 a day) to maintain these care services, and with no long-term statutory funding, the majority of this comes from voluntary donations.

Shelter is a charity that works to alleviate the distress caused by homelessness and bad housing. They do this by giving advice, information and advocacy to people in housing need, and by campaigning for lasting political change to end the housing crisis for good.

Shelter tackles the root causes of bad housing by lobbying government and local authorities for new laws and policies, and more investment, to improve the lives of homeles and badly housed people.

In 1956, Dr Michael Strode, took four children with disabilities from Chailey Heritage School in Lewes, Sussex, on a pilgrimage holiday to Lourdes. His ethos was simple: the children would stay in a hotel and not in the Lourdes hospital; the children would be part of a small group of caring friends; and the cost of the children’s fares would be met by fundraising. Now, over fifty years later, HCPT takes 2,000 children on its annual holiday from all over the United Kingdom and Ireland as well as other countrues. Still the children’s fares are paid by fundraising and donations, the average cost of one child being £700.

Wells For India work with the mission to bring water and dignity to the poorest people of rural Rajasthan.

They work on the conviction that everyone should have access to: water, food and shelter, good hygiene and sanitation, education, healthcare, participation in decision-making regardless of caste, religion or ethnic background.

Their primary focus is the harvesting of rain water and the sustainability of projects by villagers themselves.