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One World Broadcasting Trust (OWBT) - builds links between the media and those working for one world
Panos Institute (London) - source of news, opinions and perspectives from developing countries, covering such issues as the impact of the Internet, telecoms liberalisation, the repercussions of climate change and other environmental issues, challenges facing women's health and reproductive rights, and the social impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic
 
 
 
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA)
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
Vegan Society of the United Kingdom (St Leonards-on-Sea) - provides advice on the vegan diet and veganism, publishes helpful guides, leaflets and information, sells a unique Trade Mark to put on products that are vegan, and produces a quarterly magazine called "The Vegan"
Vegetarians International Voice for Animals (Viva!) (Brighton) - international vegan organization that actively campaigns on behalf of animals killed for food, producing campaign materials for activists, including booklets with detailed information on topics such as nutrition, the environment, and factory farming
 
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Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) - campaigns for peace, democracy and development
ActionAid - works with poor and marginalised people in more than 30 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean to eradicate poverty by overcoming the injustice and inequity that cause it
African Foundation for Development (AFFORD) (London) - connects Africans and their organisations with organisations involved in the processes of development on the continent and develops the skills and abilities of African peoples, either temporarily or permanently away from Africa, in ways that will contribute to Africa's development and enhance Africa's contribution to global development
Department for International Development (DFID) - UK government department responsible for promoting development and the reduction of poverty
African Initiatives - social justice organisation that promotes the right to a life of dignity, to fully participate in the social, political and economic decisions that affect their lives
BOND - a network of more than 250 UK based voluntary organisations working in international development and development education
British Agencies Afghanistan Group (BAAG)
CARE International UK - working together with local communities in 64 countries to end poverty
Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) - agency of the Catholic Churrch in England and Wales
Centre for Global And Development Education (GLADE) (Somerset) - development education centre which aims to give pupils a global perspective by fostering the knowledge, skills and attitudes which promote justice and equality in a multicultural society and an interdependent world
Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) International (London) - aims to help donors make the most of their giving, and non profit organisations make the most of their resources
Christians Abroad (agency of the Council of Churches for Britain and Ireland) - provides information about work in aid, development and mission overseas
Christian Aid (agency of the churches in the UK and Ireland) - supports local organisations, irrespective of religion, tackling the causes of poverty and injustice in over 60 countries through 16 overseas offices
Electronic Immigration Network (EIN) - small voluntary sector organisation, with charitable status, which links major information providers with advice workers and practitioners dealing with all issues relating to immigration, refugee and nationality law and practice in the United Kingdom, and specialises in the provision of information on immigration and refugee law, via the Internet and the most comprehensive electronic database of immigration case law in the UK
Fahamu (Oxford) - a small core of highly skilled and experienced staff in the UK and South Africa committed to supporting progressive social change in the South through information and communication technologies, including electronic newsletters, distance learning materials, face-to-face workshops, websites, and web-based resources produced for offline use
Hunger Project-UK (Leeds) - works in coordinated action with chapters of The Hunger Project in both the developed and developing world - a global movement of individuals taking action for a world free from hunger
International Health Exchange (IHE) - works for sustained improvements to people's health in developing countries by providing appropriately experienced people
Merlin - provides medical relief to people suffering as a result of conflict, disaster or disease anywhere in the world
Novi Most International - Christian organisation devoted to helping young people in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Ombudsman Project - aims to establish an International Humantiarian Ombudsman as an impartial voice for people affected by disaster
Opportunity International United Kingdom (Oxford) - specialist provider of collateral-free business loans, training and mentoring to chronically poor adults empowering them to start or expand their own small businesses, with a worldwide repayment rate of 95-98% on both principal and interest
Overseas Development Institute (ODI) - aims to reduce poverty, alleviate suffering and achieve sustainable livelihoods in developing countries
Oxfam.org.uk - development, advocacy, and relief agency working to put an end to poverty world-wide
Oxford Human Resources Consultants Ltd - international recruitment for development, relief, environment, conservation, ethical business
Panos Institute (London) - source of news, opinions and perspectives from developing countries, covering such issues as the impact of the Internet, telecoms liberalisation, the repercussions of climate change and other environmental issues, challenges facing women's health and reproductive rights, and the social impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic
Reading International Solidarity Centre - development education centre which works with schools and community organisations to raise the profile of international issues and promote action for sustainable development, equality and social justice
Sight Savers International - combatting blindness in developing countries
Student Action for Refugees (STAR) - supporting refugees everywhere
SUSTAIN - the alliance for better food and farming
VSO - international development charity in the UK, which works through volunteers
 
Action for People in Conflict (AfPiC) - works closely with children in areas of the world that suffer great violence and who have pyscological and emotional scarring
Book Aid International - works in partnership with organisations in developing countries to support local initiatives in literacy, education, training and publishing.
Britkid - a website about race, racism, and life as seen through the eyes of the Britkids
Common Purpose - educational organisation that helps people in leadership and decision-making positions to be more effective in their own organisations, in the community and in society as a whole, believing that, fully engaged and properly informed, citizens themselves can find the money, build their buildings and solve their problems
Commonwealth Institute (London) - independent agency working to promote learning across the many cultures
of the Commonwealth, delivering education programmes to schools across the Commonwealth so that young people grow up
inquisitive about other cultures as well as their own, at ease with diversity and confident as global citizens
Kazi Mingi Foundation - education for Africa
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)
No Kidding Productions - independent production company producing documentaries on issues of social justice and societal change
Peace Child International (PCI) - empowers children to take responsibility for peace, human rights and the environment
People & Planet - student organisation campaigning to end world poverty, defend human rights and protect the environment
Save the Children Fund (UK) - leading international children's charity to create a better future for children
Student Action India (SIA) - promotes young people's wider education in the UK and in India
 
Bat Conservation Trust (London) - UK organisation solely devoted to the conservation of bats and their habitats
Boycott Esso Campaign
British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (BTCV) (Wallingford, Oxfordshire) - offers Conservation Holidays in the UK and 23 countries, including projects ranging from turtle conservation in Thailand, Greece and Grenada, wetland management in Hungary, to footpath construction in Iceland
CABI International - a leading global not-for-profit organisation specialising in sustainable solutions for agricultural and environmental problems
Centre For Alternative Technology - Europe's leading Eco-Centre
Conserve Africa International (CAI) (London) - international environmental organisation set up by a network of NGOs, public institutions and individuals in Africa and in the North, which aims to advance sustainable use and conservation of natural resources by implementing partnership field projects and activities and by conducting advocacy, capacity-building, policy analysis, networking, education, research, exchange and dissemination of information
EarthAction - United Kingdom (Kent) - a network of more than 1,900 citizen groups in 161 countries which aims to mobilize growing numbers of people around the world to press their governments for stronger action to solve global problems
Foundation for Science and Technology
Friends of the Earth (UK)
Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment (IEMA)
Mammal Society (University of Aberdeen) - works to protect British mammals, halt the decline of threatened species, and advise on all issues affecting British Mammals
Marine Conservation Society (MCS) (Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire) - charity dedicated to protecting the marine environment and its wildlife
National Centre for Business & Sustainability (Manchester)
National Federation of Badger Groups (NFBG) (London) - registered charity which promotes the conservation, welfare and protection of badgers, their setts and habitats
Red Pepper - magazine providing a platform and discussion point for the green-left in the UK and internationally
Sea Life Centres (UK)
Shark Trust (Plymouth, UK)- promotes the study, management and conservation of sharks, skates and rays
Waste Watch - promotes action on waste reduction, reuse and recycling
Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) (Chippenham, UK) - dedicated to the conservation and welfare of all whales, dolphins and porpoises (also known as cetaceans)
Woodland Trust (Grantham, Lincolnshire) - acquires woodland sites to care for and protect them in perpetuity
 
National Autistic Society - the UK's foremost charity for people with autism and Asperger syndrome
Sight Savers International - combatting blindness in developing countries
Stop Aids Campaign - coalition of groups across the UK who are campaigning for a greatly scaled up UK and international response to the epidemic
 
ActionAid - works with poor and marginalised people in more than 30 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean to eradicate poverty by overcoming the injustice and inequity that cause it
Amnesty International
Amnesty International UK
Anti-Slavery International (London) - fighting traditional slavery, child labour, bonded labour, and the trafficking and enslavement of men, women and children
Charter99 Charter for Global Democracy - works to increase democratic accountability in international decision-making, hold decision-makers answerable for the actions they take
Children of the Storm - believes that asylum seekers deserve humanity and respect, with responsibility for extending hospitality to refugees, especially children
Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers (London) - campaigns worldwide against detention of refugees and asylum seekers
Cred - an international organisation that has the issue of justice for the poor as its central value
Different Voices (Mitcham) - online information and media network which promotes media access for all, especially through use of the internet
Electronic Immigration Network (EIN) - small voluntary sector organisation, with charitable status, which links major information providers with advice workers and practitioners dealing with all issues relating to immigration, refugee and nationality law and practice in the United Kingdom, and specialises in the provision of information on immigration and refugee law, via the Internet and the most comprehensive electronic database of immigration case law in the UK
Ethical Junction (Manchester) - gateway to the ethical sector for people in the UK and Ireland, giving a focal point for a broad range of ethical issues and trading
General Council of the Bar
Gun Control Network
Kingston Council (UK)
Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture
National Assembly Against Racism (NAAR) - working to defend asylum rights
National Coalition of anti-Deportation Campaigns (NCADC) - bringing together families and individuals fighting deportation
North of England Refugee Service
Penal Lexicon - prisons, criminal justice and penal affairs
Peace Child International (PCI) - empowers children to take responsibility for peace, human rights and the environment
People & Planet - UK students campaigning on issues of poverty, human rights, and the environment
Plan B Movement - global social organisation dedicated to improving freedom, democracy and equality for every human being
Refugee Council
Rural Race Equality Project - initiative funded by the Commission for Racial Equality and the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux
Wilton Park
 
British Council - seeking to create enduring international partnerships
British Overseas NGOs for Development (BOND)
Burma Campaign UK- campaigns for human rights and democracy in Burma, provides analysis, and lobbies to improve government and economic policy
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (UK)
Conflict, Development and Peace (CODEP) Network (London) - multi-disciplinary forum for academics, organisations and practitioners involved in exploring the causes of conflict and its impact on people's lives, which aims to help reduce violent conflict and support those worst affected by it through the improvement of policy and practice in conflict, development and peace work
Peace Pledge Union (PPU) - provides teaching and campaigning resources on war, peace and nonviolence
SERVAS Britain - international network of hosts and travellers working through personal contact for peace
United Religions Initiative (URI) (Manchester) - promotes enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated violence and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings
 
LabourNet UK
National Union of Teachers
Trades Union Congress (TUC)
 
 
 
Conservative Party
Conservatives
Democratic Unionist Party
Labour Party
Liberal Democrat Party
New Communist Party (NCP) of Britain
Pro Euro Conservative Party
Social Democrat & Labour Party
Scottish National Party
Sinn Fein - Irish republican movement
Socialist Alliance
Plaid Cymru Party of Wales
Ulster Unionist Party
United Kingdom Unionist Party
 
Demos - to help reinvigorate public policy and political thinking and to develop radical solutions to long term problems
Electronic Immigration Network (EIN) (Manchester) - aims to link major information providers with advice workers and practitioners dealing with all issues relating to immigration, refugee and nationality law and practice in the United Kingdom
ePolitix.com
Fabian Society
Hansard Society
Westminster Foundation
 
Adam Smith Institute - promoting free markets and free trade
Bretton Woods Project - works as a networker, information-provider, media informant and watchdog to scrutinise and influence the World Bank and International Monetary Fund
Corporate Watch (Oxford) - radical research and publishing group which supports grassroots and direct activism against large corporations, particularly multinationals, investigating corporate structures and the system that supports them, rather than solely criticising individual companies
Ethical Money (Sheffield) - provides ethical financial advice, and enables the purchase and research of ethical investments online
Institute of Economic Affairs
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Jubilee 2000 - campaign to eradicate international debt; contains extensive news reports, email petition, answers to 10 most common questions
New Economics Foundation (NEF) (Reading) - practical & enterprising solutions to social, environmental & economic challenges to local, regional, national and global economies
New Policy Institute - to advance the cause of social justice in a market economy
National Centre for Business & Sustainability (Manchester)