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The Wellcome Trust (UK) - The world's largest medical research charity. Offers UK and international research grants, and wide range of education and arts initiatives to promote public understanding of science.
British Red Cross - Independent charity providing emergency help to people in need. British part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent organisation.
Mind - Extensive collection of information about mental health and related topics. Mind is a national UK charity with many regional branches.
Children Nationwide - National UK children's charity funding research for childhood diseases. Details of current projects and how to make a donation.
Friends of the Elderly - Providing a combination of nursing, residential and dementia care. Information on clubs, nursing homes and donation information.
Association of Medical Research Charities - Information about member charities; assistance for grant applicants; representation of the work of the members.
Breath of Hope - Children's charity raising funds to entertain children in hospital, wish granting, improving the quality of life for seriously ill children. Explains its work and fundraising requirements.
Swimathon - Fundraising swim marathon held each year to raise money for charities including the Macmillan Cancer Relief Fund. Includes on-line donation facility.
Saving Faces - Charity devoted to the prevention and treatment of facial disease, injury and oral cancer. Information on conditions, their activities and events, with contact details.
Chinese National Healthy Living Centre - Promote healthy living and provide access to health services for the Chinese community in the UK. The Centre aims to reduce the health inequality between the Chinese community and the general population.
X Appeal - Official charity of the Royal College of Radiologists, provides funding for research into radiotherapy treatment. Details of their fundraising, and projects supported.
St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Charitable Foundation - Information about their work in support of a group of hospitals in London. Includes details of the Archives and Museums of Barts and The London NHS Trust.
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. -- Helen Rowland The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. 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Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Charities Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributed In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford Charities Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. -- Slavoj Zizek A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith Charities "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Charities "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. -- Douglas Adams If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are... -- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- Anonymous Charities A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- Anonymous The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Charities There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. -- Seen on a bumper sticker If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? -- Albert Einstein Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle Charities "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Charities A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Charities Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. -- American Proverb Charities Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. -- Brendon Behan Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Charities The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. -- Louise Hay "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Charities "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. -- Helen Rowland Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso Charities In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr. He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler Charities We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. I have a great diet. 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