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Aims to establish and manage community homes and workshops where people with learning disabilities and carers can live and work together. DLF Checked.
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Aims to aid and assist the children and people of Romania from suffering and poverty. DLF Checked.
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Law Centres provide free legal representation, irrespective of a claimants financial position and can therefore represent clients at tribunals where legal aid is not available. Law Centres can advise disabled people how to enforce their rights under the DDA, but will also advise on general matters such as employment, housing, welfare benefits, racial/sexual harassment, immigration, education and environmental rights. Inquirers should phone the LCF for the details of their local law centre. DLF Checked.
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Operate a telephone helpline to help adults with learning and career queries by providing information, advice or signposting on careers or learning related issues. Helpline open Mon-Fri, 9am-9pm, Sat, 9am-12pm. DLF Checked.
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Provide free advice to lease holders, landlords, professional advisers and others on the law affecting residential leasehold property. Activities include providing free advice on the leasehold system, service charges, right to information, general management, forfeiture and possession, extending leases, buying freehold, and common hold. Advice is given on a self-help basis-to enable and empower callers to address their own issues.
Lease cannot provide long term support or direct help. Publications includes advisory leaflets and lists of professional advisor.
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Aims to find ways to prevent, and improve diagnosis and cure all forms of leukaemia and the related blood cancers in children and adults. Publish a series of booklets and leaflets providing information on leukaemia and related diseases. DLF Checked.
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Aims to establish a cycling advisory and try-out centre for people with special needs. Also provide an advisory service for individuals and professionals nationwide on cycling. Usually run a road show to take demonstration vehicles around disability centres nationwide. Organises cycling holidays and sports events, specialist in training people with disabilities to cycle. DLF Checked.
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Trade Association and advisory body for the lift and escalator industry. Aims to assist disabled people with items such as stairlifts and lifting platforms. The Association draws upon expertise from a range of the Committee's experts, dealing with issues such as technical standards, education and training. Wherever possible, the Association will offer advice on any of these subjects. DLF Checked.
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Promote the general welfare and rehabilitation of people of all ages without limbs through amputation or otherwise. Provide advice and information to people born without limbs or who have had an amputation. Promote rehabilitation through a home/hospital visiting service. Membership and a quarterly newsletter (17 or 15 by direct debit). DLF Checked.
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Offers residential rehabilitation courses of one week's duration to people who have become deafened as adults, with irreversible total or severe loss. DLF Checked.
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Provides a free postal audio library service to disabled people. Stocks over 3,500 titles for both adults and children, updated on a monthly basis to include the latest bestsellers. Can also supply specially adapted equipment. DLF Checked.
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Website with a category for adapted homes for sale in the UK. Fee payable. DLF Checked.
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Offers a free postal library service, distributing touch and sound packs to blind and partially sighted people. Cassette tapes guide a person round a raised copy of a picture. Their albums cover a variety of topics including paintings, architecture, tapestry and birds. For children they adapt regular picture books by adding raised coloured 'feely pictures', clear Braille pages and a tape describing the illustrations. Other Picture Packs are also available. DLF Checked.
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Organisation which aims to help people with disability and organisations to work in liasion with each other. DLF Checked.
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Aims to increase the participation of disabled people in disability arts. DLF Checked.
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Offer support, information, counselling and listening support to lesbians. Run a national helpline open 7.30pm-10.00pm daily. DLF Checked.
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The London Sports Forum for Disabled people is a registered charity promoting the sporting interest of the one million disabled young people and adults in the Greater London area. The LSF aims to ensure that all disabled people, including people with learning disability, physical impairment, visual impairment and deaf people, have more opportunities to get involved in a sport at a level of their choice. Promote the sporting interest and needs of disabled people, and work to enable organisations and groups to improve opportunities across the whole of the capital. DLF Checked.
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Aims to respond to and enable families through support, advice and information, and working with appropriate agencies to promote improved services everywhere.
Activities include: bringing together local groups of families facing similar problems to share information and mutual support. Provides information directly for parents, professionals and organisations concerned with partially sighted children. Gives access to the latest ideas and developments in the education, care and health of children with partial sight. Monitors current medical and social research and public debate on the issues of concern to families with partially sighted children. Co-operates with all medical, voluntary and statutory agencies concerned with partial sight. Produces a quarterly magazine 'Look'. DLF Checked.
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Daily newspaper where advertisements for second hand equipment may be placed. Includes a section on wheelchairs and transport equipment DLF Checked.
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Lovebyrd.com exists for the purpose of providing an interactive online forum where disabled adults can connect in friendship and support and hopefully find someone who shares their interest, fall in love and start a new and lasting relationship. DLF Checked.
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Provide information and support to people with lymphoedema. Run a telephone helpline and produces a quarterly newsletter and a wide range of fact sheets. Works to raise awareness of lymphoedema and campaigns for better national standards of care. DLF Checked.
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National network providing emotional support and information related to Hodgkin's disease and Lymphoma. Telephone helpline open Mon-Fri, 10am-8pm. DLF Checked.
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