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Help everyone who is involved with anorexia or bulimia nervosa by supporting sufferers and their families and friends. Run an adult helpline open Mon-Fri, 8.30am-8.30pm DLF Checked.
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Offers advice and listening support to people with alopecia, including information on treatments and wearing wigs. DLF Checked.
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Provide support and information for families whose children are being educated outside school, and for those who wish to uphold the freedom of families to take proper responsibility for the education of their children. DLF Checked.
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Inform, encourage and assist those with EDS and their family members as well as providing information for members of the medical profession. Produce booklets on EDS and a booklet on 'Pregnancy and Childbirth in EDS'. Information sheets are available on various aspects of EDS. A newsletter 'Fragile Links', audiotapes and a video are also available. DLF Checked.
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Provide detailed information on all forms of accommodation for older people nationwide. Gives guidance and advice on how to choose and finance the accommodation most suited to their needs. Information includes sheltered/retirement housing to rent or to buy and registered care homes. DLF Checked.
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Works to improve the independence and levels of achievement for blind and partially sighted people of all ages, through provision of specialist or suitably adapted electronic equipment, where no statutory or personal resources are available. Applicants must be registered blind or partially sighted and may apply either directly or through Social Services. DLF Checked.
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EIN is a voluntary sector organisation specialising in the provision of information on immigration and refugee law via the Internet, particularly in the United Kingdom and Europe. DLF Checked.
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Aims to develop and improve services to people with moderate learning difficulties. Provide courses on independent living, art therapy and counselling service, basic education programmes, hostel and homelink service to support people with learning difficulties in everyday life. DLF Checked.
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Aims to raise funds to advance treatment of Leukaemia and related blood cancers. Raising funds. Funds training and travel fellowships for people working in haematology. Currently funding six projects and Fellowship Scheme providing support to individuals. DLF Checked.
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The Trust relieves need and distress among British and Irish people, and members of their immediate family, from a wide range of occupations and backgrounds. No account is taken of religious denomination, political opinion, age or place of residence. Need and distress may encompass difficulties associated with old age, infirmity, disability, financial need ans social isolation. Aims to safeguard independence and also dignity by giving grants to people with limited financial resources who live in their own homes or by providing accomodation for older people in Elizabeth Finn Trust Homes. DLF Checked.
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Provide support, dignity, opportunity, fulfilment and individual choice to those of all ages with a profound learning difficulty and to encourage their continued development in a normal and caring environment. DLF Checked.
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Organisation which deals with disability and employment. Aims to improve job prospects for people with disabilities and enable employers to recruit, retrain and develop disabled employees. Aims to combat discrimination and support individual rights within the media. DLF Checked.
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Specialist employment agency which aims to help disabled people secure open employment matched to their talents and aspirations, by helping employers to positively recognise ability and potential. Provide a range of services free of charge to clients; employers may be required to contribute towards some services. Local offices throughout England, Scotland and Wales. DLF Checked.
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Offer advice for low paid workers, their advisers, trade unions and people concerned about low pay, poverty, employment rights and social security benefits.
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Empower is a consortium of users of prosthetics, orthotics, wheelchairs and equipment for rehabilitation. Campaigns for a 'national look' based on individual needs member organisations foster local initiatives and spread best practice nationwide. Publications include the Millennium Agenda for Independence calls for the creation of a National Service Framework of Disablement Services and a Disablement Services Authority. DLF Checked.
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Concerned with the rights of people with learning disabilities including the means to enhance their potential for development. Promotes mutual support and co-operation among parents and others responsible for the welfare of people with learning disabilities, as well as research into the causes, treatment and management of learning disability. Encourages the provision of services and the participation of people with learning disabilities in decisions which affect them. DLF Checked.
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Enable date is an international dating/contact/penfriend service for people with disabilities and anybody else looking for new friends. DLF Checked.
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Enabled Lives is a new organisation which offers training and consultancy to those working and living with people who are vulnerable. This includes adults and children with learning disabilities or difficulties, looked-after children and others. The work centres on sexuality in terms of both rights and protection and considers the needs of staff as well as service users. It can also be adapted for other vulnerable groups including older people and those with mental health difficulties. DLF Checked.
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A Disability Equality company that produces training materials and courses for schools, local government and businesses. DLF Checked.
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Offer telephone support, linking families for mutual support. Provide information about encephalitis, professional support and entitlements. Set up local groups. Increase awareness of the condition and especially the subsequent problems by literature, workshops and conferences. Raise funds for research. DLF Checked.
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Government funded organisation which provides grants to low income householders to help pay for improvements in home insulation, room heating and water heating. Contact the organisation for information on the criteria regarding eligibility for help. DLF Checked.
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Aims to solve the problems of the society in relation to drugs by targeting young people with well-informed advice. DLF Checked.
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Energywatch is the independent watchdog for all gas and electricity consumers, providing free help and advice on all gas and electricity matters. They can also take up complaints where it has not been possible to resolve the complaint direct with the supplier. Campaign has been launched to increase the number of eligible people signed up for the free services under the Priority Service Register. DLF Checked.
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Provides a yearly publication called 'The Essential Guide to Disabled People'. DLF Checked.
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Organisation for the conservation of historic buildings and monuments with over 400 historic sites open to the public. Publish a guide for disabled visitors available free of charge which includes details of 100 sites. DLF Checked.
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Campaign, initiate and provide opportunities for physical recreation in England for those who have a degree of learning disability. DLF Checked.
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The Etta is fully committed to implementing an Equity Action Plan and programme of awareness that will ensure the sport remains open and welcoming to all who wish to play, spectate, coach officiate or work in a table tennis. DLF Checked.
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Company who have developed an environmentally friendly cleaning system using no chemicals. May be useful for people with allergies, chemical sensitivity and around babies, children, the elderly and pets. Training is needed and provided before using this service. DLF Checked.
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Provide information and support on childhood bedwetting, daytime wetting and soiling. Provide support via a telephone helpline and support groups, a postal pen pal scheme and a quarterly newsletter. Sells a range of books, bedding protection and enuresis alarms. DLF Checked.
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Offer family friendly, adventure and affordable camping safaris for the Diasabled in South Africa. Everybody is welcome on the tours: friends, individuals, families, groups and clubs, disabled or not. In the past there have been many limits for disabled travellers. Epic enabled is breaking these boundaries. Since 2001 1-2 Kruger safaris have been running each month. The safaris are prepare in specially adapted and equipped Mercedes Benz trucks to give accessibility both to the client and to being able to visit the variety of interesting and more unusual landscapes of Southern Africa. DLF Checked.
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Epilepsy Action is the largest member-led epilepsy organisation in Britain, acting as the voice for the UK's estimated 440,000 people with epilepsy, as well as their friends, families, carers, health professionals and the many other people on whose lives the condition has an impact. DLF Checked.
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Act as a support group for families/partners bereaved through sudden, unexpected death in epilepsy, and work towards the prevention of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy. DLF Checked.
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Epilepsy Scotland aims to help people with epilepsy, their families and carers. Provide information and support to individuals on a face to face basis. Range of literature and audiovisual materials available. Epilepsy Scotland has a free and confidential helpline which is open Monday to Friday 10.00am to 4.00pm and until 6.00pm on Thursday. The Helpline staff will be please to deal with any query about epilepsy related matters. DLF Checked.
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Please see Equality and Human Rights Commission for information. DLF Checked.
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The Equality and Human Rights Commission takes on the power of the former Disability Rights Commission, Equal Opportunities Commission and Commission for Racial Equality to enforce legislation more effectively and promote equality for all. The commission works to eliminate discrimination, reduce inequality and protect human rights. Has offices in London, Manchester, Cardiff and Glasgow and runs helplines for England, Wales and Scotland. DLF Checked.
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Free classified website advertising used equipment for people with disability. DLF Checked.
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Setup to monitor the work done by Conwy County Borough Council Social Services Depatments and the Denbighshire/Conwy Conwy/Gwynedd Health Authorities. The social services special equipment loan store is based at Llandudno. The store is operated by the Conwy Provider Services Department and accessed by the Health and Social Services OT staff, community nurses and physiotherapists. DLF Checked.
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Offer information and support to parents of children affected by Erb's Palsy. Activities include putting parents in touch with one another, and organising annual family social days. Publish quarterly newsletter and range of fact sheets. DLF Checked.
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Aims to educate and increase awareness among the general public, industry, health and social care staff and Government about the importance of ergonomics in everyday life. Maintains a register of professional ergonomists, and registered consultancies. Publishes advice and basic information. DLF Checked.
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Offers advice for people who have a physical disability who wish to ski independently with their families or friends. Focuses on the three top French ski resorts with accessible accommodation - Tignes, La Plagne and Avoriaz. Different types of ski options are available, including Mono-sit skiing, Bi-sit skiing for those with less balance, three tracks for amputees and four tracks. DLF Checked.
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Provides support to people living with, or at risk of pressure ulcers through research and public education. The panel has produced guidelines on pressure ulcer prevention and set up a number of groups to liase with industries and facilitate further development of guidelines. DLF Checked.
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Coalition of Christian disability organisations working together to improve accessibility for disabled people in churches. Promote accessibility to churches of all denominations. Publish the Churches for all consultation document. DLF Checked.
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Provide assistance to ex-service men and women of all ranks of the services and merchant navy suffering from mental health problems due to their service career. Offer up to three weeks respite care and counselling in one of their treatment centres in Ayrshire, Shropshire and Surrey. Have a network of 12 welfare officers who visit in home or hospital and can help with war pensions and appeals. DLF Checked.
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Trains teachers in recreational movement to music for people over 60 and less able people of all ages. Classes are held all over the country in venues such as hospitals, nursing and residential homes, special needs clubs and community centres. DLF Checked.
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Provide advice and assist on all eye related matters including eye care and eye wear. DLF Checked.
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