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Raises funds for sick, disabled and disadvantaged children. Membership comprises people from the world of entertainment who volunteer their time, talents and skills. DLF Checked.
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National advice service that answers questions about VAT, customs, excise duties, insurance premium tax, landfill tax, aggregates levy, air passenger duty, climate change levy and mineral oils. DLF Checked.
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Promote a way of life entirely free of animal products for the benefit of people, animals and the environment. Encourage the development and use of alternatives of all commodities normally derived from animals. DLF Checked.
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Aims to increase the number of vegetarians in the UK in order to save animals, benefit human health and protect the environment and world food resource. DLF Checked.
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Self help group for women with polycystic ovaries. Produce a newsletter and hold meetings four times a year. DLF Checked.
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Victim Support is the Independent charity which helps people cope with the effects of crime. Provide free and confidential support and information to help with the personal experience of crime. DLF Checked.
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Agency that encourages advertisers to use people with disabilities as models. Activities include an annual modelling competition for disabled people aged 16 or over with prizes, vouchers and modelling training offered. Application forms are available from Leonard Cheshire. DLF Checked.
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Aims to help people overcome the challenges of vision impairment through worldwide leadership in vision rehabilitation services, education, research, prevention and advocacy. DLF Checked.
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Carries out research, teaching and training, and provide advice and resources in the area of visual impairment and education. Open Mon-Fri, 10am-4pm. DLF Checked.
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National charity providing essential services for disabled people, visually impaired people, and carers. Provides breaks for disabled adults, children and carers at five fully accessible UK Centres. DLF Checked.
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Provide support, information and advice to people with vitiligo - a skin condition in which patches of skin turn white through loss of pigment. Psychological support on how to live with. DLF Checked.
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Aims to enable blind and partially sighted people to experience live theatre through developing the art of audio description. Provides an audio description service, which is a live verbal commentary that describes the stage, set, characters, costumes, facial expression, body language and action during silent intervals in a piece of theatre. DLF Checked.
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National network committed to empowering children and young people in public care and campaigning for change to improve their lives. Services offered include advocacy for children in local authority care and independent person services for agencies.
Opening Hours:
Office: 9.00am - 5.00pm
Advocacy service: 9.30am - 5.30pm DLF Checked.
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SEN website resource providing help, advice, support, information, and key documents for parents or carers, including assessments, statements, exclusion, appeals and legal contacts. Regularly updated. Campaigns to improve provision for all, regardless of circumstances, and to make it easier to achieve that. DLF Checked.
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Aims to build a network of information and support so that families can help each other to overcome the possible isolation of learning to use and understand the Alternative Communication System. DLF Checked.
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Provide a telephone support and information line for people with learning disabilities who have suffered crime or abuse and to their families and carers. Voice UK can put them in touch with other professionals and further offer meetings, teleconferences, training and workshops. Campaign for changes in law and practice. DLF Checked.
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Campaigns to change the law so that an adult, who is incurably ill and suffering unbearably, can receive a doctor's help to an immediate, peaceful death if that is their firm and considered wish. Strict safeguards are proposed to regulate the practice. Distribute living wills for refusing unwanted life-prolonging treatment and advises on their usage. Living wills are legally enforceable. DLF Checked.
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National body for volunteering in England, providing a single voice for volunteering. It is a membership organisation, offering a range of benefits to its members. DLF Checked.
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Provide people with an understanding of the terminology, causes and treatment of vuval pain. Raises awareness of vulval pain syndromes and vulval problems in general as an important aspect of women's health to the general public via the media. Holds quarterly workshops around the country. Publish a handbook on vulval problems. DLF Checked.
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