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My name is Richard Barker. I created The Make A Child Smile Appeal in 2004. I was nineteen and I wanted to make a difference. I started with one signed copy of Sir Richard Branson's autobiography. I've managed to collect signed items from J.K. Rowling, Bill Gates and Rupert Murdoch. I've also raised over ten thousand pounds for the Children With AIDS Charity. I'm aiming to raise over one million!

Carl Hopkins: Secret Millionaire, Elvis obsessive, direct marketing guru and Lifetime Honorary President of Easington Miners’ Brass Band…

Simon was working in the charity sector when he decided that images of Africa ought to come from a local perspective, as well as providing employment and training opportunities for people who lived there.

Full-time student, social entrepreneur and cricket captain James Clegg is the chairman of Operation Hoodie, an organisation raising funds for Cancer Research UK.

London Councils invests over £27m a year in voluntary organisations on behalf of all the London boroughs. Grants are given in a wide range of areas including: regeneration, homelessness, health, culture, legal advice, and promotion of racial equality.

The Bridge House Trust makes grants in excess of £16 million a year to charitable projects benefiting the inhabitants of Greater London.

The annual Microsoft Community Learning Awards are open to community groups and registered charities in the UK that are seeking funding for IT skills projects for disadvantaged young people and/or adults.

Comic Relief is committed to helping end poverty and social injustice. It does this by raising funds and awareness and giving all the money to charitable projects across the UK and some of the poorest countries in the world especially in Africa.

This charity awards grants in 2 areas: support of research & innovation leading to beneficial social change; & development of research & professional capacity, especially in the sciences & social sciences, targeted at people early in their careers.

Grants Net provides information about grant schemes available to businesses and charities in the UK.