Toybox works with children who have been plunged into the chaos of living or working on some of the world’s most dangerous streets. Over the last 12 years Toybox has supported over 193,475 children, parent and caregivers. 

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Action4Youth is a youth charity providing positive, transformational activities that inspire 25,000 children and young people in Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes, and surrounding counties.

We deliver a wide range of programmes including mental well-being support for vulnerable young people; anti-knife and gang crime interventions; employability programmes; leadership and life skills initiatives, plus unique outdoor and adventure learning.

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Mind BLMK works across Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes to support positive mental health and wellbeing. Our aim is to make sure that no one has to face a mental health problem alone.

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MK Food Bank is a local charity established in 2004, which provides food parcels and support to the community of Milton Keynes.

In 2023 we distributed 35,382 food parcels and this year we expect this number to rise significantly. Luckily, we have never had to turn anyone away thanks to our supportive community here in Milton Keynes.

Runner interest email: office@mkfoodbank.org.uk

Emily’s Star is a dedicated charity that supports children and young adults in Milton Keynes with complex needs and life-limiting conditions. Our mission extends to enhancing the care provided at Milton Keynes University Hospital, where we support across four different wards. Additionally, Emily’s Star makes a meaningful impact on families nationwide by providing premature babies with their first outfits, ensuring that even the tiniest lives begin with warmth and comfort. Through our comprehensive support and heartfelt initiatives, we strive to bring joy, relief, and support to those who need it most in our community and beyond.

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Camphill MK is a community of 70 adults with learning disabilities and autism who are encouraged and supported to maximise their potential through the experience of living, learning, working, and celebrating in community with others. Residents get involved in meaningful activities every single day through our gardening and food production projects, in the weavery, pottery studio, Chrysalis Theatre, upcycling centre and café. Camphill MK  is growing and embarking on an ambitious Capital programme to build accessible homes, to welcome more residents to our community.

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Headway Milton Keynes is a small, local charity providing rehabilitation sessions for those who have suffered a brain injury. Every 90 seconds, someone in the UK suffers a brain injury, Headway Milton Keynes aims to raise awareness around brain injury while also supporting service users from the NHS, Adult Social Care and Self-referral with relearning functional skills that are often impaired after a brain injury, including communication, fatigue, mobility, memory and many more!

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Headway Milton Keynes is a small, local charity providing rehabilitation sessions for those who have suffered a brain injury. Every 90 seconds, someone in the UK suffers a brain injury, Headway Milton Keynes aims to raise awareness around brain injury while also supporting service users from the NHS, Adult Social Care and Self-referral with relearning functional skills that are often impaired after a brain injury, including communicatiMK SNAP providese larning and life-skills, work preparation and opportunities for work for people with learning disabilities, giving them the confidence and skills to realise their potential and live as independently as possible.

–> Contact MK Snap

Willen Hospice cares for end of life patients and their families in Milton Keynes and the surrounding areas. The Hospice is run by local people for local people. We are proud to deliver calm, compassionate care in a tranquil environment, helping people to really make the most of the time they have left with their loved ones.

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Ride High transforms the lives of disadvantaged children by giving them the opportunity to learn to ride and look after horses and ponies. We effect lasting change in their attitude, wellbeing, self-confidence and life prospects so they become happy, confident young people who are positively engaged in the outside world.

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At Connection Support our team of staff members and volunteers work alongside people to overcome life’s challenges. Why? Because our mission is to support everyone in our society to become safely and sustainably housed and live as independently as possible. To do that we provide a wide range of services that offer support with homelessness, housing support, mental health, independent living, preventing isolation, parental mentoring, refugee resettlement, and social prescribing.

–> Contact Connection Support

A powerful campaigning organisation, Brain Tumour Research is the leading voice of the brain tumour community. Unique and much needed, it is the only national charity focused on finding a cure for all types of brain tumours. The charity is campaigning to increase the national investment in research into brain tumours to £35 million per year, while fundraising to create a network of seven sustainable Brain Tumour Research Centres of Excellence across the UK.  

–> Contact Brain Tumour Research

Milton Keynes Hospital Charity is dedicated to supporting all wards and departments at Milton Keynes University Hospital (MKUH). We’re here to help enhance patient and family experience, making a difference through fundraising, volunteering, and developing projects with MKUH staff.  These projects can range from extra special medical equipment – like vein finding machines, teaching skeletons, and Virtual Reality headsets – to transforming clinical hospital environments into wonderfully warm and welcoming places to be.

–> Contact Milton Keynes Hospital Charity