CHARITABLE WORK
There are many English-speaking charitable organizations offering the British in France the opportunity to give up some of their free time to help others. Is there one not yet listed here, near where you live in France? If so, we’d like to hear from them. Why not ask their Chairman or a committee member to contact the British Community Committee by e-mailing us on britishinfrance@gmail.com
Alcoholics Anonymous (English-speaking) 01 46 34 59 65
E.N. VOL. (Equipes Nouvelles de Volontaires)
E.N.VOL, Equipes Nouvelles de Volontaires – English-speaking Volonteers Founded by the late Mireille Bollinger, the volunteers have opened an English-speaking welcome and information service at the Barbès building of the Institut Hospitalier Franco-Britannique, destined to help with the out-patient maternity department and the British doctor’s consultations on Thursdays. Bilingual volunteers are most welcome to join the team.
IHFB, 3 rue Barbès , 92300 Levallois
For information please contact : envol2009@gmail.com
Elizabeth Finn Care
Elizabeth Finn Care, a UK-based registered charity (no. 207812), gives money to help people who have less than £4,000 in savings and, lacking enough household income, can only manage a bare hand-to-mouth existence.
By giving just that little bit more money beyond state benefit provision, Elizabeth Finn Care enables people to pay for the things they vitally need, take charge of their lives once more, and plan for a future.
We help people whose former careers have been interrupted or ended through circumstances beyond their control: physical or mental illness, redundancy, family breakdown, or those struggling on low income in retirement.
In many cases, people who apply to us have needs greater than we can meet, including needs for specialist advice and detailed information. In these cases we will work together with other charities to do as much as we can to help.
Contact for France - Mary Hughes
L’Escargot, 46 Le Village, 11270 Cazalrenoux
04 68 23 43 79
mary.hughes@elizabethfinn.org.uk
www.elizabethfinncare.org.uk
The British Charitable Fund
The British Charitable Fund was founded in 1823, and has since then helped many thousands of British residents in Paris and its surrounding areas, who are "in conditions of need, hardship or distress". The BCF helps people of all ages and from all walks of life; some need help on a long-term basis, others for just a short time. The Charity's main aim is to keep the many elderly beneficiaries secure in their homes and to provide adequate and acceptable lifestyles for younger families and individuals until they can become self-sufficient again. The BCF office is open Monday - Thursday.
01 47 59 07 69
britishcharitablefund@orange.fr
The Salvation Army (Armée du Salut)
The Salvation Army has well-established evangelical and social centres in seventy places in France, where a practical expression of Christian faith operates in much the same way as in centres in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. Most of the officers are French, and the leaders are ultimately responsible to the movement’s international headquarters in London.
60 rue des Frères Flavien, 75976 Paris Cedex 20
01 43 62 25 56
01 43 62 25 00 fax
info@armeedusalut.fr
www.armeedusalut.fr
The SLL White Horses charity
The SLL White Horses charity is a Franco-British registered charity with humanitarian aims.
We buy horses in the Camargue, ride them across France and part of England, and, at the end of the long ride, we donate the horses to RDA Centres (Riding for the Disabled Association and similar centres in France). As part of the riding team, we take French and British young people from disadvantaged backgrounds or with sociological problems and help them to get their lives working by enabling them to care for and ride the horses during the six month journey.
We are planning and fundraising for our 3rd project, THE CARAVAN OF HOPE 2012. This new project has the same aims as the two previous ones using two covered wagons, one drawn by 2 Camargues, and the other by 2 Franc Comtois draught horses. Another 5 other Camargue horses will be ridden by the young people and team leader.
info@sllaossoc.com
jakkipee@hotmail.com
isegura@free.fr
SOS HELP Crisis line in English: 01 46 21 46 46
SOS Help is a telephone listening service for the English-speaking community in France. Trained listeners are available every day of the year from 3 pm to 11 pm. The service is confidential and anonymous. In addition to compassionate, non-directive listening, we can provide information on community services and community resources available to English-speaking callers. SOS Help is staffed by volunteer listeners; other volunteers are involved in community liaison, fund-raising and publicity. Volunteers are always welcome, and should contact the above telephone number to request further information about recruitment and training.
Chairman - David Payne
01 46 21 46 46
TOC ‘H’ Association
The Paris Branch was started in 1937. The aim is for elderly British subjects to keep contact with each other, so monthly teas are organised and a Christmas party is held. When possible they are taken out for a day in the country and are visited at home when they are not well. Most meetings and activities take place at St Michael’s Church, 5 rue d’Aguesseau, 75008 Paris.
Chairman - Mrs Doris Leck
14 avenue de Joinville, 94130 Nogent-sur-Marne
Association
& Charity
815 Chemin
des Gourettes 06370
MOUANS SARTOUX
Tel/Fax : 04 93 47 94 20
E-mail: admin@sunny-bank.org
Web-site: www.sunny-bank.org
Sunny Bank Association and Charity is
the current name of the body which founded the Sunny Bank British Hospital
in Cannes in 1892, inaugurated by HRH The Prince of Wales in 1897. In 1997, after a century of service to residents
and visitors alike, (remaining open during the Nazi occupation in WW2),
the hospital was closed. The site
was sold and the money used to purchase a plot of land just north of Cannes
where a 94-bed retirement home, The
Victoria, and a community centre, The
Grange, opened in May 2010. The Victoria is operated by a French company
EMERA and has an international mix of residents. The Grange, an 18thC barn, and now the Sunny Bank office, has been comprehensively
converted with meeting rooms, indoor and outdoor kitchens, a large terrace
and garden, which are all available for other Anglophone community events.
There are two guest flats for the use of British or other visitors to
the retirement home and it also houses the impressive library of
English books which used to operate at the old Sunny Bank hospital.
Sunny Bank Association and Sunny Bank
Charity are both loi 1901 associations
with HRH The Duke of Edinburgh as patron. As well as involvement in the
Victoria and the running of the Grange, Sunny Bank
operates locally as a charity to support elderly Anglophone residents
who are unable financially to meet their health or retirement home needs
in South-East France.
Address : 815 chemin des Gourettes 06370
Mouans-Sartoux Alpes-Maritimes
Chairman: Stuart Bateman 04 93 40 27 16
Secretary: Brian Woolf 04 93 42 01 82
Treasurer: Anthony Vyvyan 04 92 02 71 73 - 06 82 00 86 92
Office: 04 93 47 94 20