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Giving back to the sector has always been at the heart of our values. So in 2024, as part of our annual charitable giving, we donated a percentage of our profits to a number of small charities. We caught up with the charities who received a donation from CharityJob to find out the impact, one year on…
EVA Women’s Aid
EVA Women’s Aid provides a range of services to women, children and young people who are, or have been, victims of domestic abuse and/or sexual violence.
CharityJob’s kind donation helped to fund our EVA Support Workers, who play a vital role in helping women fleeing domestic abuse. They provide immediate safety, emotional support and practical assistance. They also help women access emergency accommodation and ensure their physical and emotional needs are met in a safe environment.
Our support workers listen without judgment, helping survivors rebuild confidence and live risk free. They assist with securing protection orders, applying for benefits, finding long-term housing and accessing counselling or healthcare. They also advocate with other agencies on behalf of survivors, ensuring their voices are heard and respected. By offering consistent support, encouragement and resources, support workers empower women to make informed decisions about their futures. Their compassionate and professional approach creates a sense of trust and safety, helping survivors heal and rebuild their lives free from fear.
Some of the women supported by EVA Support Workers told us:
“You have saved my life.”
“I feel safe and free.”
“Your support has helped with my confidence.”
“I have been able to buy things I actually like, as he would tell me what to wear. ”
Sibs
Sibs exists to support people who grow up with or have grown up with a disabled brother or sister.
Sibs was delighted to receive a £10,000 donation from CharityJob to support our work with young siblings of disabled children in schools. From our survey report, ‘If Only You Knew’ published in 2024, it was clear that young siblings often struggled to get the support they needed. Most often, they just wanted their teachers to understand what life was like for them.
We developed a set of resources called ‘Sibs Talk Lite’ for primary and secondary schools. With support from CharityJob, we’ve been able to develop three new information packs for schools (primary, secondary and special school) and start directly engaging with teachers by offering free training sessions and responding to information requests. Since we received the funds, we’ve reached 428 schools and education professionals and are on target to reach 500 schools by autumn 2025.
One teacher told us, “I recently attended your fantastic training session for schools. I’m a teacher at a secondary school in London and I think your support is invaluable. We have a caseload of student siblings and I would like to make use of this wonderful charity and ensure we provide support to this group of pupils.”
Living Paintings
Living Paintings helps improve the life chances, mental health and wellbeing of children who are blind or visually impaired.
We are extremely grateful to Charity Job for their generous donation of £10,000. Over the last year, this funding has contributed towards providing more than 5,000 UK children who are blind or visually impaired with free, unlimited loans of our unique ‘Touch to See’ books and resources.
Our latest Annual Children’s Impact Survey reports that, for the children we reach:
- 88% have improved confidence,
- 90% have attained an increased interest in learning,
- 82% benefited from an improved confidence in reading,
- 82% were more confident in joining in class activities and discussions.
The parents and teachers of our young beneficiaries have told us:
“Your books help my pupil feel the ‘same’ as their classmates. Words cannot express just how important this is.”
“Living Paintings has made a world of difference to my child. Having tactile and braille learning resources helps her feel included in the world again and brings the topics to life for her. She would be completely isolated in her education without these.”
Keep Talking Services
Keep Talking Services provide a telephone befriending service focused on alleviating loneliness and improving mental health.
Thanks to CharityJob’s funding, we were able to bring a new wellbeing coordinator, Mel, on board when demand for our services was overwhelming. The support helped us grow from two staff to three, allowing us to reach more people while continuing to care for our existing clients. Mel’s role expanded from 16 to 24 hours with additional funding, and during this time our impact has doubled. We now make around 1,000 phone calls every month, extending support to new areas and offering a lifeline to many. CharityJob made this possible, and we are truly grateful.”
One client told us, “Before Keep Talking Services, I hadn’t left the house in months. Now, since speaking to them, I have been volunteering and taking regular trips to the shop. I finally feel like I can trust services again, and this is all down to these guys.”
NACOA
NACOA supports the needs of children growing up in families where one or both parents suffer from alcohol dependency/addiction.
In recent years, our online helpline services have received more than 120,000 additional contacts. The donation from CharityJob has helped us respond to this ever-increasing number of calls, emails, online messages, 1-2-1 helpline chats and contacts through our social media channels. Our gratitude can’t be overstated.
Some callers use NACOA as a lifeline when they may have tried to get help through social services but haven’t been believed or have even been blamed for their parent’s drinking. We’ve been able to maintain contact with children and young people who have fallen through the gap in services, empowering them with a variety of life skills to help them cope with difficult challenges. Young people told us:
“It does help writing here and I feel comfortable sharing my thoughts and feelings and your responses are wonderful. They make me feel understood and supported and encouraged to try and stay strong and to continue to keep trying to do my best and that means a lot. I am grateful for NACOA and all the wonderful counsellors.”
“I started listening to a podcast about NACOA and children of alcoholics, and that was the first time I have ever truly felt seen in my whole life.”
TwoCan Inclusive Theatre Company
TwoCan Inclusive Theatre Company brings positive change to the arts industry, giving fresh opportunities to deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists, participants and audiences.
In 2023, TwoCan became a venue-based charity, taking on an old Methodist hall to provide our youth theatre groups, creative life-skills programmes and artist mentorships. Thanks to generous supporters like CharityJob, we’re redeveloping the space to truly meet our community’s needs. A key part of this is the installation of Changing Places facilities—specialist accessible toilets designed for the 250,000+ people in the UK who can’t use standard accessible toilets. This will mean dignity, safety, and full participation for our members, audiences, and the wider community.
We’re delighted to have secured full funding for the project, which will transform two old toilets and a storage area into fully accessible facilities by December 2025.
We are deeply grateful to CharityJob and everyone who has supported us—your generosity is life-changing. Together, we’re building a more inclusive cultural landscape for Gloucestershire and the Southwest.
Leukaemia and Myeloma Research UK (LMRUK)
Leukaemia and Myeloma Research UK’s mission is to prevent people dying from blood cancer through prevention, research, and more effective treatment.
The kind donation from CharityJob was spent directly on clothes recycling units located in Merseyside, Lancashire, Cheshire and Greater Manchester. The recycling scheme was devised to make us less reliant on grant funding, improve our sustainability and raise awareness of our work.
The money raised from the recycling units supports qualifying families who have a history of cancer and wouldn’t be able to afford the cost of private bio-banking. It allows them to get their babies’ cord blood stem cells collected and stored for a 25 year period. These cells can then be used to fight disease, particularly blood cancers. We’re also launching this service to communities from a minority ethnic background , as they have a much lower chance of finding a bone marrow match from an unrelated donor.
Luna chose to store the stem cells from baby son Dream’s umbilical cord after experiencing cancer in the family. She said: “When my mother fell ill, no-one in the family was a match, so we had to find a donor to help treat her non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. I would really recommend storing stem cells from umbilical cord blood. It gives you a ‘plan B’ should someone fall ill—and you never know what might happen in the future.”
Mummy’s Star
Mummy’s Star exists to support women and birthing parents affected by cancer in and around pregnancy.
The amazing donation from CharityJob has been used to provide one-to-one bespoke support for pregnant women and new mums who have cancer. It allowed us to provide regular emotional and practical support via phone, text and email to hundreds of mums across the UK. This includes wellbeing check-ins, which give them a vital chance to offload and ask questions, and online forums and ‘ask the expert’ sessions. We also offer practical support and advice on things like returning to work, or pre-bereavement support for those facing a terminal diagnosis.
One mum recently said: “The support I received from Mummy’s Star made such a difference to me in my cancer journey. Having someone to talk to that had been through a similar experience made all the difference and made an unimaginable situation less scary. I can’t fault my support worker, she is amazing. From referrals to other charities, help with a grant towards a wig and being a listening ear when I needed one, the support I received was invaluable. Thank you to my support worker and the whole team at Mummy’s Star!”
Voices of Hope
Voices of Hope works with people with complex physical and/or mental health issues, families experiencing food insecurity, women who have experienced abuse/domestic violence, and the elderly.
CharityJob’s generous donation of £100,00 helped us continue to provide weekly, hands-on meal kits to children and families through BRITE Box. This has empowered them to cook healthy meals together and build lasting habits around food. In 2024–25, we expanded the programme, reaching 1,010 families weekly across 42 schools in 8 boroughs. Our evaluation showed that:
- 93% of families reported increased confidence in preparing healthy meals,
- 89% of children tried new foods through BRITE Box recipes,
- 82% of families noticed improved mealtime routines and reduced stress,
- 71% said BRITE Box helped them manage their food budget better.
Parents told us:
“BRITE Box has been a lifeline on tough weeks—and my kids actually enjoy cooking now!”
“My son, who has autism, never touched vegetables before. Now he helps cook them and even eats them. It’s been transformative for our family.”
The donation also supported our Specialist Women’s Hubs, providing consistent, trauma-informed support to more than 530 women in Kingston, Richmond and Elmbridge. 93% reported improved mood, 83% reduced anxiety, and 92% increased confidence. Women themselves told us:
- “Coming to the Richmond Women’s Hub is my weekly dose of medicine.”
- “I feel so empowered and motivated after each class. Thank you for creating such a wonderful space for us!”
Applications for CharityJob’s 2025 annual charitable giving are open from Monday 15th to Friday 26th September 2025. Apply here.
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