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The Haberdashers' Company - Ancient guild of the City of London. Details of its history and activity today in schools, education and charitable work.

HumanITy - Charity working to research and prevent social exclusion amongst the poor and disabled stemming from lack of access to IT resources.

Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution - RABI is a charity providing support for members of the farming community who are in need, throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Sue Ryder Care - A charity which supports people with disabilities and life-shortening diseases, their families, carers and friends. Provides long-term and respite residential care, day care centres and home care. Information on the charity, its services and well-known chain of charity shops.

Training For Life - A training charity providing motivation and empowerment for people who have been denied opportunity. "It is about breaking dependency by empowering people to act independently. It is about realising potential and unleashing creativity. It is about energising people who have given up."

The Independent Christian Workers Trust - Expedites the collection of UK income tax refunds on charitable gifts, increasing their value. Opportunities for student employment, causes and other information on the organisation.

Loadsmorefun.co.uk - Up-to-date repository of all Royal National Lifeboat Institution fundraising events across the UK including information on events, donations and sponsorship.

Society for Co-operative Studies - A charity which seeks to advance the Co-operative Movement and co-operative forms of ownership in general through education and the publication of research. Information on the society and on its conferences, contents of its thrice-yearly journal and research papers.

The Neighbourhood Initiatives Foundation - Charity specialising in community participation, training and development.

Just Gifts - Helps create a wedding-gift web site where people can donate to a UK charity of the couple's choice instead of buying a present.

The Nancy Oldfield Trust - Provides holidays in the Norfolk Broads for disadvantaged people based on activities such as sailing, bird-watching and environmental studies. Information about the facilities and activities, contact information and how to help.

British Technion Society - Raises funds in the UK for Technion, Israel's University of Science. Photos, alumni club, how to give money, events and general information about the organization.

The Charity Commission for England and Wales - Government organisation responsible for registered charities. Includes information on each charity, investigations, complaints procedures,publications, news and surveys.

National Council for Voluntary Organisations - Umbrella body for the voluntary sector, with a representative and lobbying role. It also offers advice and support to the voluntary sector. Site includes a complete directory of member organisations.

Directory of Social Change - Publishes information and holds conferences for those working in the voluntary and charity sectors.

Cartridges for Charity UK - Accepts empty printer cartridges or old mobile phones for recycling to benefit UK charity partners. Contact details and press release.

The Universal Beneficent Society - A charity which helps older people in the UK who are living on very low incomes. Details of activities, case histories and how to donate.

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After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Charities "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it." -- Jerry Seinfeld I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell [text_end] [text_start] A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Charities No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollack "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston Churchill Charities To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. -- Margaret Fairless Barber America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Charities "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw Charities Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? -- Michael Meissner Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? -- Rita Rudner Friends applaud, the Comedy is over. -- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Charities Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... -- Anonymous They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. -- Anonymous "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Charities "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me. -- George Bernard Shaw "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Charities I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Charities Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be. -- Betty Shabazz We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Charities If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME! -- Anonymous Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle Charities Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. -- Thomas Fuller, 1732 I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain. -- Lyster Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan Charities The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -- James Stephens Charities No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Charities "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Charities
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