FINAL THREE CHARITIES..

Sense: 

Deafblindness is something you may not know even exists. Having met children and adults who are Deafblind, this is a charity important to me and as much awareness they receive will do nothing but improve these individuals lives. Sense supports and campaigns for children and adults who are deafblind. Deafblindness refers to a combination of sight and hearing impairment which causes difficulties in a range of areas including communication, access to information and mobility. Sense provide support and sensory equipment to allow people to communicate and experience difference senses. Deafblindness is not just a deaf person who cannot see, or a blind person who cannot hear. The two impairments together increase the effects of each. You may have seen an advert about Elliot over christmas. Sense has enabled him to communicate more effectively and feel senses which he has never been able to through special sensory toys.

http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=Wcd5Wsn8Epc&u=/watch?v=MSkW_481h2s&feature=share

Canine Partners: 

Canine Partners trains dogs to assist people with tasks such as:

Opening and closing doors and cupboards
Retrieving a variety of items
helping to get undressed
pressing buttons and switches
raising the alarm in an emergency
unloading washing machines and tumble driers.

The canine partners provide practical day to day assistance with tasks that may be difficult, painful or impossible to perform. They also provide that special companionship, unconditional love and affection which is so unique to dogs.

Bone Cancer Research Trust: 

The final charity I am supporting will be Bone Cancer Research Trust. I have chosen this charity, as they have a focused effort on providing grants towards research into a specific cancer. A cancer which is not so known about but just as devastating and less diagnosed. I know someone who died from Bone Cancer which spread around the body, and at the age of 15 myself I had a tumour on the bone of my knee. Luckily it was benign, but it dawned on me the worry that families would go through during the diagnosis process.