• Vaccine Damage Payments: Benefits Agency
  The Benefits Agency (BA) website has merged with a new Department of Social Security (DSS) website.
  
• Vaginal Atresia: Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group
  Charity No 1073297 AISSG offers telephone support to families and affected adults.
  
• Vascular Birthmarks: Birthmark Support Group
  Charity No 1090952 Birthmark Support Groups offers help and information on vascular birthmarks.
  
• Vascular Birthmarks: Changing Faces
  Charity No 1011222 established in 1992. It provides information, support and advice to anyone with a disfigurement and their family.
  
• Verrucous Haemangioma: Birthmark Support Group
  Charity No 1090952 Birthmark Support Groups offers help and information on vascular birthmarks.
  
• Verrucous Haemangioma: Changing Faces
  Charity No 1011222 established in 1992. It provides information, support and advice to anyone with a disfigurement and their family.
  
• Vertigo: Menière's Society
  Charity No 297246 Vertigo, tinnitus and deafness are symptoms of Ménière's disease.The society can help with information and support.
  
• Vestibular Schwannoma: British Acoustic Neuroma Association (BANA)
  Charity No 1024443 Support affected individuals and their families.
  
• Victim Support
  Independent UK charity for people affected by crime, offering a free and confidential service, irrespective of whether or not a crime has been reported.
  
• Vitiligo Society
  Charity No 1069607 Offers mutual support and understanding to affected persons.
  
• Voluntary: Association of Children's Hospices
  Represents all the voluntary sector children's hospices and brings together over 37 voluntary sector organisations in Great Britain dedicated to the care of terminally ill children.
  
• Voluntary: Cats Protection League
  National charity for feline welfare.
  
• Voluntary: Charities Direct
  CharitiesDirect is a free web service featuring financial and contact information on the UK's top 10,000 charities.
  
• Voluntary: Children Nationwide Medical Research Fund
  Charity No 289600 Leading charity funding the research into the prevention, treatment and cure of childhood illness.
  
• Voluntary: Children of the Andes
  Charity No 1075037 Offering aid and support children and child victims of violence in Columbia.
  
• Voluntary: Children's Hospice Association Scotland
  Charity No SC019724 Providing hospice facilities to terminally or seriously ill children in Scotland.
  
• Voluntary: Children's Hospice South West
  Charity No 1003314 Offering respite, palliative and terminal care to children in the South West..
  
• Voluntary: Church Lads' & Church Girls' Brigade
  Charity No 276821 Recreational, educational and cultural activities, organised by the CofE for young people.
  
• Voluntary: English Heritage
  The Government's leading body for the historic environment in England.
  
• Voluntary: Esther Benjamins Trust
  Charity No 1078187 Volunteers supporting disabled and deprived children in the poorest areas of the world.
  
• Voluntary: Friends of the Earth
  One of the leading environmental pressure groups in the UK.
  
• Voluntary: Greenpeace
  Environmental organisation with campaigns ranging from promoting solutions, to direct actions, political lobbying and scientific research.
  
• Voluntary: National Blood Service
  Want to give blood? Find out more.
  
• Voluntary: National Canine Defence League
  A national dog welfare organisation that initiated PATHWAY, the National Working Group on Pets and Housing.
  
• Voluntary: RSPCA
  Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
  
• Voluntary: Tidy Britain Group
  Tidy Britain Group is an independent UK national charity aiming to improve the quality of local environments.
  
• Voluntary: Tree of Hope
  Charity No 21043092Only registered charity that raises funds for specialist surgery.
  
• Voluntary: Women's Environmental Network
  The Women's Environmental Network is a charity which works to educate, inform and empower women who care about the environment.
  
• Voluntary: Amnesty International
  International human rights organisation.
  
• Voluntary: British Trust for Conservation Volunteers
  UK organisation promoting conservation work by volunteers, BTCV runs thousands of practical conservation projects every year.
  

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