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The SAD association is a voluntary organisation and registered charity which informs the public and health professionals about SAD and supports and advises sufferers of the illness. It produces a newsletter three times a year and other publications, holds meetings, has a network of contacts and local groups, a lightbox hire scheme and raises money for research into SAD. In order to continue its work and provide sufferers with information and support, SADA is obliged to charge for the information pack and membership.
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Campaigns to combat the prejudice and intolerance surrounding mental illness, and improve attitudes and services for sufferers and their families. Run Saneline, a national telephone run by trained volunteers who provide emotional support and information on mental health issues. Telephone helpline open daily 2-12pm. DLF Checked.
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Aims to support all young people with cancer and their families through high quality counselling, financial help and practical care. Teams of Sargent Social Workers are based in cancer units throughout the UK. Offers respite breaks for children and their families in their holiday homes in Scotland and Northern Ireland and adventure camps for teenagers in the Lake District. DLF Checked.
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Aims to work together with children to create a better future for children. In the UK, Save the Children combines practical work on the ground, often in partnership with other agencies, with research and campaigning activities to tackle the needs of children.
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Website which aims to inform and educate the world about modern day slavery. DLF Checked.
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Helps people diagnosed as having a schizophrenic-type illness. Helps families and the general public to understand the nature of schizophrenia. Free information packs are available on request. Newsletters are sent out twice a year. Carry out research into the causes of schizophrenia. DLF Checked.
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The society provides quarterly newsletters, information leaflets and holds group meetings for those with Scleroderma. DLF Checked.
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Aims to put people with scoliosis and parents of children with scoliosis in touch with each other, and inform the public of the importance of early detection. Produces a newsletter twice a year. Information and advice about clothing can also be provided. DLF Checked.
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Aims that all disabled people achieve equality. Scope's work is focussed on four main areas early Years; employment; education and Daily Living. In addition to a range of national and local services, Scope has over 250 affiliated local groups.
Helpline is open from Mon-Fri 9am-9pm, Sat-Sun 2pm-6pm. Information and advice is provided on all aspects of cerebral palsy and disability issues as well as information about and referral to Scope services as appropriate. A team of trained Counsellors provides clients with emotional support and initial counselling. DLF Checked.
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Develop, support and encourage sporting opportunities for people with disabilities. Organise sports events for those with a physically, sensory or learning disability. Offers a training programme, which provides participants with an opportunity to examine issues associated with sports for people with a disability. Range of publications available to promote its programme of activities and provide information relating to disability sport issues. DLF Checked.
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Works to ensure that people with MND secure the care and support they need. Activities include a network of MND clinical specialists throughout Scotland; specialist equipment loan service; library and information service; study days for health and social care professionals. Provide grants to individuals in need. Produce a quarterly newsletter 'AWARE, and a range of publications.
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Website which offers an information service for those with sensory impairment. DLF Checked.
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Range of self-catering holiday homes across the country to cater for families with special needs. Provide a range of activities and children's clubs; 24 hour answerphone service. Publications: Holiday Homes Trust Magazine, Handouts.
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Aims to raise awareness regarding diving and disability and to enable people to participate in scuba diving and snorkelling. Activities include: liaising with international diver training agencies and organisations concerned with disability issues; providing specialist and adapted diving equipment; seeking grants and funding to subsidise the extra costs incurred by people with a disability training as recreational scuba divers. DLF Checked.
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Provides services, advice, support and information for deafblind people of all ages, their families and professionals in the field. Families are supported through a national network of parent's self-help groups. Runs holidays for deafblind children and adults, offers respite care, further education and rehabilitation services. Long term residential care is available in group homes for deafblind individuals throughout the UK. Works and campaigns with local authorities and other voluntary organisations to develop services for deafblind people, and to raise awareness. Produces a quarterly magazine. DLF Checked.
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Aims to enable people with sensory and other disabilities to gain full access to, and enjoy, the natural world. Produce a range of publications. DLF Checked.
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Aims to assess needs and provide communication equipment for disabled adults and children. DLF Checked.
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To provide housing and associated amenities for older people, families, single people and people with special needs. DLF Checked.
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Uses movement and drama with mentally and physically challenged people. Runs training courses, workshops and demonstrations. The organisation runs a full time postgraduate course for people who wish to be practitioners in the Sesame method - course runs from the Central School of Speech and Drama.
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A recovery programme from sexual addiction. SA is for people who can no longer control their sexual behaviour. The organisation consists of a series of self-help groups and members follow a programme of abstinence based on the 12 steps originally devised by Alcoholics Anonymous. Membership is open to anyone with the desire to stop their self-destructive sexual thinking and behaviour. DLF Checked.
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Aims to support family based short break services in England, Wales
and Northern Ireland. These services link disabled children to support families/carers who offer periods of care. Shared Care Network provides an information service, lobbies to promote appropriate services, produces good practice guides to raise standards of care, and organises training conferences. Membership varies according to size of scheme. Publications include Shared Care Network Directory of care providers, Quarterly newsletter, various other publications.
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Provide information, counselling and advice and support to sickle cell sufferers and their families, as well as working to raise the level of awareness about the disorder. DLF Checked.
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Aims to promote long-term support accommodation and continuing care in the community, aiding progress towards independence. Activities include: housing projects - supportive long term accommodation, providing self contained studio flats wit the back-up of housing support workers. Day care services - Clubhouse for deaf people. Advocacy and outreach work. DLF Checked.
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Booking service for interpreters. Provides advice and information about Sign Language Interpretation and communication equipment. DLF Checked.
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Signalong is a sign-supporting system based on British Sign Language.
Is designed to help children and adults with communication difficulties, mostly associated with learning disabilities. The Signalong Group has researched and published the widest range of signs in Britain. DLF Checked.
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Aims to promote opportunities for young people and adults with any kind of disability in post-16 education, training and employment across the UK.
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Aims to overcome the stigma and shame and to improve upon the current public perception of, and reaction to, skin diseases and disfigurement. Activities include UK wide network of support groups and telephone helpline. DLF Checked.
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Advice on practical matters relating to sleep apnoea. DLF Checked.
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Helps parents to help their own children who suffer with cerebral palsy and other forms of motor and sensory impairment. Works with parents who have children aged from birth to five years, on all areas of their development, using principles of conductive education. DLF Checked.
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The Smooth Ride Guides - Freewheeling Made Easy - are a series of comprehensive guides for travellers in wheelchairs. The fourth guide Smooth Ride Guide to France, written in English, was published on June 1st 2004 and is funded by a National Lottery-Community Fund award. This is the first time a comprehensive ACCESS guide to France has been published, enabling people with mobility difficulties or the wheelchair-bound traveller and their families to find the French holiday they are all looking for. DLF Checked.
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Provide grants for students with physical disabilities in further, higher education and training studying at college/university within the UK. Grants can be up to 2,000 p.a. (2,500 in exceptional circumstances) for one or two years towards disability related costs of study ie computer equipment, note taker/communicator costs, wheelchairs, travel etc. Applicants usually 17-25 yrs of age although older applicants will always be considered funds permitting. DLF Checked.
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Runs groups around the country that meet once a week, to paint or draw together, using a range of media, with experienced guidance. Arranges social occasions; gives artists opportunities to enter paintings in exhibitions. Runs an annual exhibition. DLF Checked.
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Act as a support to parents whose children are suffering from these disorders to bring about a greater public awareness of Mucopolysaccaride diseases, and to raise fund for research into their treatment. DLF Checked.
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Run a 24hr help and information telephone helpline on all issues of autism. Organise training courses, lobby parliament and hold Europe's largest collection of books, tapes and videos relating to Autism. DLF Checked.
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Professional organisation for state registered chiropodists, which aims to look after the interest of members, enabling them to practice more effectively. Encourages activities to enhance professional development and supports health promotion awareness, provides facilities including legal advice, information and research and carries out educational, trade union and public relations work. Produce a range of leaflets and publications.
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Promotes and disseminates information regarding good foot health and quality shoe fitting. Trains the shoe industry and health professionals in the art of shoe fitting. Can supply foot health information and register of members. DLF Checked.
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National support group for families with children with trisomy 13 (Patau's Syndrome) and 18 (Edwards Syndrome), and related chromosome disorders. Provide information and advice on the syndromes and can link families together for mutual support. DLF Checked.
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Provide a welfare and advisory service for the families of service and ex-service men and women; to help them to obtain all benefits from statutory services to which they may be entitled and also from Service and regimental funds; to help with temporary gratns those who are in distress; to represent the cause of these families to the appropriate government department. DLF Checked.
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Sound Sense is the UK development agency for community music. They promote the significance and value of community music, and assist the professional development of people practising and participating in it.For specialist advice, they run the National Music and Disability Information Service, which puts people in touch with other disability organisations, gives details of musical instruments adapted for disabled users, and provides sources of information and funding. DLF Checked.
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Information Service website directory aimed at professionals working with children, young people, their families and carers in the Southwark area of London. DLF Checked.
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Provide support, advice and literature for dysphasic people and their families. Educate the general public about dysphasia and support those who wish to set up groups for dysphasic people and their families. Campaigns for better services for people with aphasia and their carers. Run a training programmes for professionals and volunteers; communication training scheme for care staff of elderly, communication impaired people. Produces various publications, videos and audio tapes and newsletter. Membership scheme and quarterly newsletter. DLF Checked.
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Organisation providing advice and materials on the special educational needs of children. Aimed at teachers, parents and others who work with children in England, providing publications and regular updates, as well as background information, and what steps to take if a child has special educational needs. DLF Checked.
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Special needs Kids is an Information Directory and shopping site to help parents and carers of children with special needs. Information on products and services for special needs kids, events and campaigns, disability issues, support groups, respite care, clothing, equipment, toys, leisure activities and days out, holidays, where to go for help and advice, and much more. DLF Checked.
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Provide year round sports training and events for people with a learning disability. There are 150 local groups throughout England, Scotland and Wales providing regular training in some or all of the following sports disciplines: summer sports; aquatics; athletics; basketball; bowls; cycling; equestrian; football; gymnastic; roller skating; softball; tennis; tenpin bowling; volleyball
Winter Sports: alpine skiing; cross country skiing; figures skating; floor hockey; speed skating.
Demonstration Sports: badminton; golf; powerlifting; table tennis; team handball; sailing. DLF Checked.
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Resource for those with a spinal cord injury, or other disabling injury or disease of the spine. Provides health information and resources related to spinal cord injuries. DLF Checked.
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The Spinal Injuries Association enable people with spinal injuries to control their lives and achieve their goals. Represent the interests of all spinal cord injured people, regardless of how the impairment occurred. Support all those affected by spinal cord injury, including the friends and family of the disabled person.
Provide an up to date, accurate and comprehensive information service covering a wide range of issues to do with spinal cord injury.
Provide a Link Scheme to put spinal cord injured individuals wishing to discuss particular issues in touch with other SCI registered members of the scheme.
Provide a list of solicitors, specialising in personal injury claims, who will provide an initial interview free of charge.
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Sportability uses sport and challenging pursuits for disabled people. Centres in Gloucestershire, East Midlands and East Anglia offer sailing, gliding, landyachting, jetskiing, quad-biking, archery and many more activities. DLF Checked.
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St John Ambulance is a charitable organisation with its members committed to teaching, providing First Aid and caring for people. DLF Checked.
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Provide the opportunity to people with disabilities to live the life of their choice to their fullest potential. DLF Checked.
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Provide captions for people with a hearing loss who wish to enjoy theatre performance. Offer scripted captioning for theatre productions in the same way that sub-titles are made available for may television programmes. Offer real-time captioning using the same equipment meetings and workshops. DLF Checked.
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Starlight Children's Foundation UK is a registered charity which aims to brighten the lives of seriously and terminally ill children between the ages of 4 and 18 by granting their wishes and entertaining them when they are in hospital. The 'wishes' fall into four main categories: travel wishes, experience wishes, tangible items and celebrity wishes. In addition to the wishes, Starlight works in hospitals by organising parties,outing, and providing Starlight Fun Centres which are mobile entertainment nits incorporating a TV, video unit and Nintendo Game Cube. The above website includes details of the organisation, fundraising and events as well as its services for children. DLF Checked.
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Provide support and information for families with lower limb abnormalities. Aims: to put families in touch with one another; develop a network of branches and any groups providing help and advice, including the use of specialist equipment; gather and exchange information with parents and health professionals through publications and national conference. DLF Checked.
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Aims to raise awareness of Stickler Syndrome amongst medical professionals and the general public. DLF Checked.
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Provides the most up to-date information for Fibromyalgia patients in the UK. The charity publishes the longest running monthly newsletter for fibromyalgia patients in the UK. DLF Checked.
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Theatre company for people with disabilities. They devise and choreograph their own productions. They run workshops in schools, colleges, day centres and social services establishments as well as vocational training programmes in theatre and drama.
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Support for people and their families, who have experienced stroke related illness and disability. Provide information, family support, welfare, stroke clubs, Dysphasia support, campaigns and research. Volunteers work to improve communication skills of people post stroke.
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Website aims to help stroke victims and Cerebellar stroke victims. DLF Checked.
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Support dogs assist and support their disabled owners wtih their specific disability, by raising the alarm, picking up dropped items, operating buttons and switches, retrieving specific objects or any other task which may help the disabled person lead a fuller and more independent life.
Each dog is trained for the individual needs of its owner, and both dog and owner work together as a team throughout the training. Support dogs also train dogs to help people with epilepsy. DLF Checked.
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Works to reduce the impact and incidence of violence and aggression in society, by providing personal safety training and resources to help people minimise risks and avoid potential conflict. The trust is keen to expand its work with vulnerable groups such as a children, young people and the elderly. DLF Checked.
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Aims to help children who have undiagnosed, or unnamed conditions find support. Help family to get in touch with other families in a similar situation. Collect information from members all over the country in order to help people with the same problem. Publications include a newsletter and information pack on benefits. DLF Checked.
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