Founded by Mark Lyttleton, Percent For Good aims to make it as easy as possible for people to give to the charitable organisations they care about on a regular basis. The charity has carefully curated a collection of Cause Portfolios, including the Health & Wellbeing Cause Portfolio, allowing donors to give to the causes that appeal to them most. This particular portfolio includes the charities Sport in Mind, CALM, Grief Encounter, Reengage, and SafeLives.
Sport in Mind
Sport in Mind aims to transform the nation’s mental health via free physical activity and sport sessions. To date, the charity has supported 25,000 people experiencing mental health problems, with 94% of participants reporting improved mental well-being after having accessed the organisation’s fun activities. Recently, Sport in Mind announced that it would move to a new home in 2025, with The Farmhouse at Campus Reading set to become its permanent base.
Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM)
Another organisation that makes up the Health & Wellbeing Cause Portfolio curated by Percent For Good is the suicide-prevention charity CALM. Offering information and advice about subjects including grief, anxiety, money worries, depression, relationships, identity, loneliness, suicidal thoughts and mental health, CALM’s ultimate goal is to make sure that no one feels as if suicide is their only option.
Grief Encounter
Grief Encounter helps bereaved children, young people and their families to find healing and hope following the death of someone close to them. The support this charity can provide includes one-to-one counselling, group workshops, residential and family fun days, music, art and drama therapy, and bespoke support for schools, colleges and universities. Grief Encounter also offers webinars and accredited training courses for professionals and award-winning resources, including the Grief Encounter Workbook and Journal.
Reengage
This charity offers crucial, life-enhancing social connection opportunities for older people to help prevent loneliness at a time of life when one’s friendship circle could be diminishing. The charity organizes monthly tea parties open to those aged 75 and over, as well as other activity groups, and runs a telephone befriending service to help ensure older people maintain a connection to the outside world.
SafeLives
The charity SafeLives is committed to ending domestic violence, working with organisations across the UK to transform responses to domestic violence at a societal, local and national level. At the heart of the charity’s work are the voices of survivors, and these experiences fundamentally inform how SafeLives develops and provides support. For more information about SafeLives, take a look at the embedded PDF.