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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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

At Harry’s Rainbow we provide various services designed to ensure that bereaved children are supported throughout the grieving process. Through the provision of books and resources, individually tailored memory boxes and activities that promote wellbeing by building confidence and self-esteem.  By bringing these families together with others who have also suffered a bereavement can also reduce the feeling of isolation and loneliness.  In Milton Keynes alone, on average 100 families suffer a loss each year, leaving 170 children to grieve alone.  We are here to do our very best to make sure that doesn’t continue to happen.

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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.

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