The popularity of Thame Pop Choir has meant that we have been able to donate surplus funds to support local charities. Since its inception in April 2014 the choir has donated a total of £10,584 to the following charities:

Thame and District Day Centre
Thame and District Day Centre meet at Thame Community Hospital on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9.30 am to 3pm. They are open for 50 weeks of the year and provide a day out with a hot meal, entertainments and plentiful refreshments for people from Thame and surrounding areas who are elderly, frail or, perhaps, isolated.

Thomley Hall Activity Centre
Thomley Hall Activity Centre welcomes disabled people of all ages from babies to adults, and their families, carers or friends. The Centre supports people at any stage of their diagnostic journey, whatever their additional needs, together with regular days for disabled visitors and their families. The Centre provides focus days for preschool children, adults, schools, respite groups and the wider community when any family can join to enjoy the facilities.

Thames Valley Air Ambulance

On average 3 people every day will find themselves in a life-threatening situation – a situation that requires urgent high quality medical treatment at the scene before they reach hospital. With the help of the air ambulance team, led by a qualified doctor, they can be there within minutes ready to deliver the same level of care that would only otherwise be found in the hospital emergency department.

Thame SAFARI

Thame SAFARI (‘Self Advocacy For Adults Requiring Independence’) is a charity for those with special needs.  The group holds regular  social and sports meetings in Thame.

Florence Nightingale Hospice

FNH looks after people of all ages (children and adults) with life-limiting illnesses, free of charge across Aylesbury Vale, the Chilterns, Bedfordshire and parts of Oxfordshire. A complete care package is provided through an in-patient unit, Day Hospice and adult and children’s hospice-at-home teams.

Helen & Douglas House

Helen House was set up to help families meet the need for respite care and support for children with life-shortening condition by providing occasional respite care for families, modelled on that provided in the family home – personalised and tailored to individual needs.

Douglas House was opened in February 2004 specifically for young adults, to provides a young person with the time to do the things they like to do with the support of the nursing and care team.

The George Oliver Foundation

They are a grant-making charity that has been set up in loving memory of George Richard Namiki Oliver, a little boy who would want other children to have a chance at the love and support that he had. Each year they fund a range of children’s projects with different charities covering health and education in the UK and abroad. They are currently supporting projects with charities including War Child, Haven House Hospice and Arts For All.

Alzheimer’s  Society

The society is here for anyone affected by dementia – campaigning activity to stand up for people with dementia, funding research to develop a cure, or delivering vital services across the UK.

Awards for Young Musicians

AYM exists to give talent a chance and support young musicians throughout the UK, in particular helping young musicians from low income families to remove the social and financial barriers they face in order to achieve their full potential.

Pancreatic Cancer UK (London Marathon JustGiving page)

Pancreatic cancer is tough to diagnose, tough to treat and tough to research.

For too long this disease has been sidelined. We (Pancreatic Cancer UK) want to make sure that everyone affected by it gets all the help they need.

• We provide expert, personalised support and information via our Support Line and through our range of publications
• We fund innovative research to find the breakthroughs that will change how we understand, diagnose and treat pancreatic cancer
• We campaign for change; for better care, treatment and research, and for pancreatic cancer to have the recognition it needs.

Maggie’s Centre

Crisis UK

Homelessness is not inevitable. With collective action and political will, it can be ended once and for all.

We work with people with lived experience of housing  insecurity and homelessness, with thousands of Crisis campaigners, allies and politicians to get the lasting change we need to end homelessness.

We use research and evidence to campaign to change policy in England, Scotland and Wales on a range of issues including benefits and employment, health and wellbeing, housing, law and rights, and rough sleeping.

Motor Neurone Disease Association

Motor neurone disease (MND) affects the nerves known as motor neurones. These nerves are found in the brain and spinal cord and they help tell muscles what to do.

The MND Association is here to help everyone living with and affected by MND to access the help and support.

Lord Williams’s School Young Carers

Young carers generally care for members of their immediate family who may be a parent with an illness, disability, mental health problem or dependency on alcohol or drugs, or a brother or sister who has a health problem or disability. It may also be that the family has experienced a bereavement within the household.

SeeSaw – support for children

SeeSaw provides support for children, young people and their families in Oxfordshire when they have been bereaved or when somebody close to them is terminally ill.

SeeSaw was established in 1999 in response to a lack of appropriate grief support available to children and young people, and their families, in Oxfordshire, with more than 25 years experience in providing high quality grief support to help reduce the emotional, psychological and mental health consequences of bereavement.

Soundabout  – interactive music for people with learning difficulties

Music is a universal language and a tool of expression for those who communicate using means other than words. We believe that everyone should be able to access and experience music.

Soundabout’s approach has provided opportunities for disabled people with complex support needs to enjoy making music with their families, peers, and communities throughout the country. 

Thame Community Car

The Thame Community Car has been specially adapted to carry passengers unable to travel by public transport or who have difficulty in keeping hospital, doctors’ and other medical appointments. The car can accommodate one wheelchair passenger and has access for up to three other people.

Sharing Life Trust – Thame foodbank

‘Sharing Life Trust is a UK Registered Charity helping those who have and can, to assist those who don’t have or can’t. We are based in South Oxfordshire and through support networks help people in need in the area around Thame. With the help of our international partners in both East & West Africa and North East India, we are also able to extend our support to people in need in other parts of the world’

Thame Senior Friendship Club & Dementia Group

‘The Thame Senior Friendship Centre is rich with human contact. Members enjoy a day out with friends, plenty of refreshments, a two-course meal and a variety of entertainment. We can currently accommodate 60 members a week and are hopeful to increase this in the future’

Red Kite Family Centre

‘We are an independent registered charity established in 2017, based in Oxfordshire.  From our sites in Thame and Chinnor, we support local families with children up to five years old to build a better future’