The Lord Mayor's Charities
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The good causes for 2009-10 that will be supported by the Lord Mayor's Charity Appeal, represent a combination of new initiatives and existing charities.
St Basils Charity
St. Basil's
St. Basil's work with young people between the ages of 16-25 to tackle homelessness, providing them with support services, advice, mediation and guidance. The consequences have helped to transform many young lives here in Birmingham. The work they do is truly amazing; please visit the website to check out the real case studies of the successes, latest events and updates
www.stbasils.org.uk
WAITS Charity
WAITS - Women Acting in Todays Society
This is an important charity in a diverse City such as Birmingham and WAITS is doing outstanding work enabling women to overcome barriers and combat isolation to help increase their involvement in the public life and business of communities throughout the city. Once again, we know that there is huge potential need for the work carried out by WAITS and there is a a great deal more to be done. Please visit their website for more information
www.waitsaction.org
Pancretic Research Charity
The Birmingham Fund for Pancreatic Cancer Research
A new charity has been established, The Birmingham Fund for Pancreatic Cancer Research. The objective is to establish a new registered charity that outlasts the current Mayoralty – and indeed runs until that dreaded affliction is mastered. While there’s been steady progress with several forms of cancer, for pancreatic cancer the five-year survival rate following diagnosis forty years ago stood at just 3%. Today that rate is – well, just 3%. Yet the disease is treatable on those occasions where the cancer is detected early enough, and the primary focus of the fund will be on research, conducted in Birmingham, into improved diagnostic methods.
Engineering Scholarship Charity
Lord Mayor’s Engineering Scholarships
Also new, this will be a fund for scholarships and material support for the study of Engineering in Birmingham at various levels. As a Council we recognise the unmatched contribution that engineering has made to the City, and I am sure we would all agree that it is vital that Birmingham remains prominent in this important field in the future. So, alongside other initiatives, we will encourage and enable young people from Birmingham to take up engineering both as a course of study and as a fulfilling future career. Encouragement will also be offered to progress developments in vital newer areas such as Clinical Engineering.
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