Charities we support:


ActionAid
We support ActionAid by donating £2 for every one of our Greensource Imaging Toner Cartridge range sold. Greensource Solutions is also donating £26,800 in support of ActionAid during 2008 from the proceeds of recycling printer cartridges and mobile phones.

ActionAid is one of the UK's largest international development organisations. Last year they helped over 13 million of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people in more than 40 countries throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Working alongside 2,000 local, national and international organisations they make the most of their knowledge and experience to try and reduce poverty in the world.

They do this by helping to ensure people get the food, safe water, shelter, education, healthcare and the means to earn a living that is their right - and to enable people to have a say in the decisions that affect their lives.

ActionAid also campaigns to influence the Governments, institutions and big businesses that make the decisions and policies that often keep poor people poor.

ActionAid is a registered charity, reg no. 274467.

Visit www.actionaid.org.uk

We support Children's Hospice South West via the Caring Cartridge scheme.

Children's Hospice South West provides the only hospice care in the region and supports children with life limiting or life threatening conditions and their families. In the South West region alone there are more than 1,000 children with life-limiting illnesses. Our two hospices, Little Bridge House in North Devon and Charlton Farm in North Somerset, provide respite care and support for those families who have to cope with the most difficult of situations.

Caring for a life-limited child can be an exhausting and lonely experience and can put immeasurable strain on the family. Both Little Bridge House and Charlton Farm are places where families go for respite and relaxation, friendship, expert palliative and end of life care; the support for the families starts at diagnosis and continues into bereavement. Children's Hospice South West launched the Precious Lives Appeal in 2007 to raise funds to build a third hospice in Cornwall to complete the final piece in the jigsaw of world class palliative care throughout the South West.

Our expert care currently costs six million pounds a year and we receive little government funding. We are hugely appreciative for the generosity of individuals, community groups, grant making bodies and corporate supporters from across the South West region. Please support the work of Caring Cartridge by recycling your empty ink cartridges and old mobile phones to raise money for the Children’s Hospice South West. You will be supporting life limited children and they families throughout the South West. Sadly the need for children’s hospice care will never disappear but with your help we can be there all the time.

To find out more how you can help us make the most of short and precious lives visit www.chsw.org.uk

A local Bristol charity, which exists to improve the quality of life of patients diagnosed with incurable illnesses, usually cancer, by providing free specialised
palliative care and support for them and their relatives. We help people to feel better for longer, enabling them to live with the disease they have and
then to die with dignity where and how they choose.

We offer a community based service from our North and South Bristol sites from which all of our patients, their families and carers have easy access to
any of the full range of palliative care services they may need.

• 22 In-patient beds available for symptom control, respite care or last few days of life
• A weekly place at Day Hospice for over 100 patients for specialist care and symptom control in a caring sociable, supportive environment
• 13 Community Nurse specialists offering treatment and advice to patients in their own homes and liaising with GP practices
• Hospice at Home – intensive nursing at home for the last few days of life
• Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Chiropody
• Complementary Therapies: Reflexology, Massage & Aromatherapy, Acupuncture
• Music Therapy
• Personal services- day to day activities which have become difficult to manage including hairdressing, shaving, bathing and manicure
• Lymphoedema Clinic
• Multi faith Chaplaincy
• Social Work services, including bereavement services for adults and children

This much needed service costs £5 million every year to run and your support really can make a difference to local patients and their families.

Find out more at the St Peter's Hospice website: www.stpetershospice.org.uk

Registered Charity Number 269177
 

ORCA – Looking our for Whales and Dolphins
Working in the Bay of Biscay, the North Sea and the Irish Sea, the conservation charity ORCA (Organisation Cetacea) is raising public awareness of whales, dolphins and porpoises and encouraging everyone to help in their study.
Marine life faces many threats, including climate change, fisheries by-catch and over-fishing, chemical and noise pollution. The information we gather via a network of volunteer trained observers is vital for monitoring cetacean populations and safeguarding their future and that the entire marine ecosystem.
We exist to forge links between people and the sea, encouraging public involvement by inspiring people to care about, watch and even learn more about whales and dolphins throughout the European Atlantic. We run regular training courses and volunteers are given the opportunity to take part in research surveys from ferries and cruiseliners throughout the year - a great way to see marine wildlife whilst participating in globally-important long-term whale and dolphin population monitoring programme.

Please help us continue our vital work by volunteering, joining as a member, or making a donation. If you have a group and would like us to come and give you a talk, please get in contact.
Whatever you can do, you’ll be helping a dedicated team undertake great work to aid the conservation of cetaceans and our oceans. With us you’ll know your contribution will count.
You can visit the Orca website at www.orcaweb.org.uk
Charity Registered in the UK. No: 1098765

More charities to be added soon