View all services for the public

Useful organisations - C

• 0-9 • A • B • C • D • E • F • G • H • I • J • K • L
• M • N • O • P • Q • R • S • T • U • V • W • X • Y • Z

• C H Facilities Ltd
  Provide full travel insurance cover for people with disabilities and pre-existing medical conditions.

• CADET Technologies Ltd
  Provide a comprehensive guide for access to any place. Produce 'The Accessibility Guide' which is an information source giving details on accessibility to virtually everywhere. Registration for membership to the Accessibility Guide is free.

• Calibre
  Aims to improve the quality of life of blind, partially sighted and disabled people of all ages by providing a free postal library of unabridged recorded books on standard cassette that can be played back on a commercially available listening device.

• Calvert Trust
  Organise activity holidays and self-catering holiday homes for people with disabilities; respite care with 24 hour care. VAT is added to prices for non disabled guests. Has three centres in Kielder, Keswick and Exmoor.

• Campaign Against Domestic Violence
  Aims to increase awareness of domestic violence, fights for legal reform and campaigns for resources and services for women experiencing violence and abuse. Local groups in most large cities.

• Camphill Village Trust Ltd
  Aims to achieve social renewal through community living based on the fundamental social law given by Rudolph Steiner, which hold an ideal of community life where each person, according to ability contributes to the well-being of other members of the community. How this ideal is approached varies widely from community to community. These include schools for children in need of special care, young people's colleges of further education and training, apprenticeships etc, mutual help communities for adults with varying degrees of physical disability or learning difficulty.

• Camping and Caravanning Club
  Produce free guide 'Camping and Caravanning for all - Information for the Disabled'. Details organisations and companies providing services and products. Also lists campsites with accessible facilities.

• Can be Done
  Tour operator and organiser of leisure 'days out' for disabled and less agile people. Aims to enable those who have disabilities, to have access to the same holiday and leisure facilities as those who are able-bodied, if at all practical. Co-ordinates accommodation, transport and visits to most areas of the world.

• Can I Get In
  Provide information on wheelchair accessible establishments in South Yorkshire. All places listed have been visited to check their accessibility.

• Canal Boat Project
  Aim to provide a boating experience for children, young people and adults with disabilities, along with their families, friends, carers, on the local inland waterways.

• Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood
  Helps young people under 21 years who have any form of cancer or leukaemia, and their families. Aims to improve treatment and clinical care, promote research and support children and their families by providing accommodation near to the hospital where the child is being treated; providing care and counselling; support local nursing teams; provide short term holiday accommodation for crisis breaks; and provides cash grants in cases of individual need.

• Cancer Black Care
  Provides practical and emotional support for people from ethnic minorities affected by cancer, their families and friends. Has a volunteer befriending scheme that provides hospital and home visits.

• Cancer Care Society
  Offer free confidential counselling, emotional support and practical help to anyone whose life is affected by cancer. Run a telephone link scheme putting people in touch with one another for mutual support. Run holiday accommodation for cancer patients and their families needing respite breaks.

• Cancer Help Centre
  Offer a healing programme that deals with the whole person and is complementary to medical treatment. There are also educational programmes for health professionals.

• Cancer Research UK
  Aims to attack and defeat the disease of cancer in all its forms, and promote its cure by research into its causes, distribution, symptoms, pathology and treatment.

• CancerBacup
  Provide a free, national confidential support and information service. Helps people with cancer, their families and friends. Nurses provide information, emotional and practical advice by telephone or letter.

• Cancerkin
  Provide emotional and practical support for people with breast cancer and their families. Also provide information, complementary services, courses and seminars. Has a newsletter and social events.

• Cancerlink
  Run a helpline for people affected by cancer including information lines in Hindi and Bengali. Provide emotional support and information in response to all aspects of cancer.

• Canine Partners
  Aims to transform the lives of people with disabilities by providing them with highly trained assistance dogs, enabling them to live independently and enjoy an enhanced lifestyle.

• Capability Scotland
  Information and advice for people with disabilities, particularly for those with cerebral palsy. Also stock a wide range of books, videos, audio cassettes and journals about cerebral palsy and other disabilities, which can be borrowed at any time. Opening Hours: 9am-5pm with answer machine.

• Cardiomyopathy Association
  Provide information and advice to suffers, health professionals, insurance companies and others. A counselling service is planned for people with Hypertrophic, Dialated, ARVC or Restrictive Cardiomyopathy and their families.

• Care and Health
  Care and Health was established in October 2000 to facilitate and promote professional information and communication exchange within the social care and health sectors. By delivering common sense and professionally-led solutions to the practical management recruitment, communications and information needs of social care and health professionals, Care and Health proposes to become the definitive information exchange for the social care sector in the UK - helping to change the face of social care in the UK.

• Care and Repair England
  Aims to develop and promote new initiatives that will help people remain independent and in their own home and campaigns at a national level for improvements in services.

• Care and Rural Enterprise
  CaRE is a national network of rural and farm-based bed & breakfast and self-catering providers offering specialist holiday accommodation for disabled people, older people, carers and their families. Its members have opened up their homes to offer B&B or have converted and/or built accommodation specifically for self-catering holidays with the disabled or less mobile people and carers in mind.

• Care Centre
  The Centre d'Activities Recreatives et Educatives is a day-centre that operates out of Marymount Academy. Offer a program of recreational and educational activities to young adults over 21 with severe physical disabilities. The program is offered in English.

• Care Directions
  The internet's unique guide to care and the rights of older people. Packed with information and guidance - to help empower preferred lifestyle choices. Register for regular e-newsletter.

• Care Directory
  Website containing information relating to care and care provision in older age. Contains a nationwide listing of care providers

• Careinfo.org
  Website designed to provide information to professionals in the long term sector including residential and nursing homes, dementia care, assisted living and homecare. There is a balance between providing the information on the site itself and providing useful links to other organisations in the sector.

• The Carer
  Tips and advice to all carers on getting help, everyday practicalities, accommodation, health issues, money matters and bereavement.

• Carers Scotland
  Aims to encourage carers to recognise their own needs; develop appropriate support for carers; provide information and advice; bring the needs of carers to the attention of government and other policy makers.

• Carers UK
  Acts as the voice of carers and the leading campaigning, policy and information organisation for carers. Offers advice and information on all aspects of caring, to both carers and professionals. Runs over 120 local support groups, and campaigns and lobbies policy makers for a better deal for all carers. Range of publications available including the quarterly magazine, 'The Carer' which explores issues related to disability. Advertisements for second hand equipment may be placed. Helpline open Mon-Fri, 10am-12pm, 2-4pm.

• Carers.gov.uk
  Aims to ensure that government departments provide on the Internet, details of the services or benefits affecting carers. Provide facts and figures and definitions about carers. Also has links to related websites.

• Carewell Holidays
  Specialises in providing, promoting and advertising of accessible holiday accommodation including care and support if required, on behalf of property owners in the UK, Europe and the USA.

• Carousel
  Promote the involvement of people with learning difficulties in arts.

• Cassette Library of Recorded Books
  Provide a free lending library of books recorded on to ordinary standard cassettes for anyone unable to read printed books.

• Catholic Children's Society Crusade of Rescue
  Help children and families in crisis within the community. Range of services include: adoption and fostering; counselling; family therapy; child psychotherapy; play groups and after-school groups. Homeless teams offer practical assistance to refugees, families living in bed and breakfast accommodation and the travelling community.

• Cenmac
  Promote the use of technology to help children whose educational progress is hindered by their disabilities. Central resource for pupils with physical disabilities, and is supported by the inner London boroughs. Manned by a team of advisory teachers with backgrounds in mainstream and special schools, they assess the needs of pupils from nursery to the end of secondary. Loan equipment and train staff and pupils how to use it, and they take care of maintenance and review the situation every year.

• Central Council of Physical Recreation
  Umbrella organisation for the national governing and representative bodies of sport and recreation in the UK. Promote, protect and develop the interests of sport and physical recreation. Provide advice to policy making organisations whose decision impact sport and recreation. Ensure that members are kept informed of changes in Government policy and UK and EU law.

• Centre for Accessible Environments
  CAE provide information on accessible design, and act as a training body on the accessibility of the built environment. The centre is committed to the provision of buildings and spaces that are safe, convenient and enjoyable to use by everyone, including disabled and older people. Services include: information and advice by letter, telephone, fax and email; advice on Part M building regulations and the DDA; training on legislation and design; in-house training; design guides; handbooks and fact sheets. Publish a quarterly journal called 'Access by Design'. Hold a specialist reference library at Nutmeg House.

• Centre for Brain Injury, Rehabilitation and Development
  Aims to improve the quality of peoples lives and obtain improvements in functional ability. This charity, and the Learning Development Centre treats children with many mild neurological dysfunctions (eg Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, attention Deficit Disorder or educational under achievement).

• Centre for Disability Studies
  Aims to be involved in a wide range of teaching and research on disability issues. The approaches are grounded in the social models of disability which recognises that disablement is above all a form of institutional discrimination and social exclusion rather than a product of physical difference between individuals. Members of the DRU are involved in a wide variety of disability research projects including: future of services led by disabled people; performing arts and disability arts; representation of disability in TV soap operas; independent living and personal assistance; disability information services; measuring disablement in society; multiple oppression of black disabled women in employment; disabled people's movement and community care polices; disability in China; disability in Jordon.

• Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion
  National charity for unemployed young people. Provide information on unemployment, benefits, training and employment. Through its publications, CESI provides up to date information on developments in Government legislation and opportunities for training and study. Several booklets on training issues for young people with disabilities.

• Centre for Policy on Ageing
  Concerned with spreading good practice enabling older people to lead fulfilled and independent lives, improving services for older people and developing public policies which further their interests. It has an extensive reference library, which is open to the public by appointment, and an information service dealing with enquiries related to research on older age issues.

• Centre for social and Communication Disorders
  Aims to provide a complete diagnostic assesssment and advice service for children, adolescents and adults with social and communication disorders throughout the UK.

• Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education
  Provide information about inclusive education and related issues. Work towards an end to segregated education. Publish the Index for Inclusion to help ordinary schools break down barriers to learning and participation. Produce and sell booklets on good practice, summaries of law and conference reports.

• Centrepoint
  Aims to help thousands homeless young people with accommodation and advice and assists them with finding a job and a permanent place to live.

• Cerebral Palsy Sport
  Cerebral Palsy Sport aims to help people with cerebral palsy to express themselves through sport and recreation by providing opportunities at all levels of ability. Committed to catering for all needs, from the first introduction to sport through to involvement with international teams in World Championships. Offer the chance to become involved for the pursuit of excellence or just plain fun and enjoyment.

• Challenging Arthritis
  Aims to enable people with arthritis to manage their lives more effectively.

• Challenging Behaviour Foundation
  Provide an authoritative first point of reference for those involved with individuals with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour. Aims to be an easily accessible source of information and current developments within this field. Provide and source support, advice and information, in addition to raising public awareness of challenging behaviour.

• Change
  Change is a national organisation run by disabled people. Some people do not respect the rights of disabled people. Deaf and blind people with learning disabilities are often forgotten about. Change fights for the rights of learning disabled people especially people with learning disabilities who are deaf or blind.

• Changing Faces
  Provide information, support and counselling for anyone who has a disfigurement (and their families). Run social skill training workshops and regional events around the UK. Publish a number of practical self help style booklets.

• Charities Evaluation Services
  Aims to improve services delivered by the voluntary sector through evaluation and work on quality.

• Charity Commission
  The Charity Commission aims to give the public confidence in the integrity of charities. Commissioners are appointed under the Charities Act, 1993 principally to further the work of charities by giving advice and information and checking abuses. Maintain a public register of charities, investigates misconduct and the abuse of charitable assets, and takes/recommends remedial action. Provide advice to charity trustees about their roles and responsibilities. Information and most services are free.

• Charitylibrary.co.uk
  Website with a searchable database of charities.

• Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
  Professional institute for the management and development of people. Provides a range of information services on all aspects of personnel, training and development. There may be a charge for non-members.

• Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
  Professional and educational body and trade union for the UK's 44,000 chartered physiotherapists, physiotherapy students and assistants. Can provide members and the public with advice and produces and sells a range of relevant publications. Produces a monthly journal 'Physiotherapy Frontline'.

• Child Accident Prevention Trust
  Investigate all aspects of accident prevention and children's safety. Networks information between professionals in health and local authorities, government departments, voluntary organisations, professional bodies and the commercial sector. Initiates research and provide training, information and resources for childcare workers and parents.

• Child Bereavement Trust
  Offers training to professionals, so that they in turn can offer care and help to bereaved parents and their families.

• Child Brain Injury Trust
  Provide support to help in the recovery and rehabilitation of head injured children and their families and run a hardship fund scheme. Run meetings and conferences putting individuals in contact with each other.

• Child Death Helpline
  Child Death Helpline offers confidential service for anyone affected by the death of a child of any age, at any time and under any circumstances. The helpline is open every evening 7-10pm Mon, Wed; Fri 10am-1pm.

• Child Flight
  Provide flights and holidays for sick and deserving children of all ages, for example children who require medical treatment abroad or have missed out on childhood experiences due to illness or who are socially deserving.

• Child Poverty Action Group
  Promote action for the relief, directly or indirectly, of poverty among children and families with children.

• ChildLine
  Telephone helpline for children and young people providing confidential counselling for any child with any problem, 24 hours a day. Where a child is in danger, ChildLine works with other helping agencies to ensure the child's protection.

• Children Living with Inherited Metabolic Diseases
  Helps all young people affected by a metabolic disease.

• Children Nationwide
  Help sick children with research into all areas of children health including cancer, diabetes, liver disease, Down's Syndrome, eczema, asthma, autism, blindness and premature birth.

• Children with Disabilities in Sunderland
  Website for children who are disabled, have special educational needs, or a long term health condition. Designed for young people living in Sunderland who are disabled, have special educational needs, or a long term health condition, and their families. Resource professionals working with them.

• Children with Leukaemia
  Aims to fight and improve treatments for children who suffer with leukaemia.

• Children's Chronic Arthritis Association
  Provide a support network for children with arthritis and their families. Provide practical help and support through a network and area family contact and provide various educational and recreational opportunities.

• Children's Liver Disease Foundation
  Provide emotional support to families of children affected by liver disease. Supply information fact sheets and are active in the promotion of research.

• Children's Trust
  Aims to assist in the prevention, care, rehabilitation and relief for profoundly disabled children, and for the prevention of illness, disability, disease and infirmity. Provide short term specialised respite care for children with profound disabilities ages 0-16 throughout the year.

• Citizen Advocacy Information and Training
  Provide information on citizen advocacy to individuals and to voluntary and statutory organisations. Maintain a list of citizen advocacy schemes. Provide support and training for citizen advocacy staff, managers and other interested parties. Publish a quarterly newsletter and maintain the UK database of CA schemes. Provides a CA evaluation service for local groups.

• City Lit
  City Lit is an adult education college which organises a wide variety of courses for deaf people. Also provide lipreading courses for people with acquired deafness and run a number of professional training courses for people who wish to work in a deaf related field.

• Civic Service Retirement Fellowship
  The CSRF aims to relieve the problems of beneficiaries in retirement, including loneliness, suffering, hardship, and distress. Everyone who has been a Civil Servant at anytime and is retired, together with their partners, is a beneficiary of the Fellowship and is entitled to turn to it for help or take part in its activities. Membership available.

• CJ Mobility - Byfleet
  CJ Mobility provide the highest quality home healthcare equipment, supplies and services to all customers. Wheelchair accessible showroom. Hire of Equipment Home demonstration. Repair Service. Equipment sold:- Manual and powered wheelchairs, scooters, ramps, walking aids, stairlifts and through floor lifts, evacuation chairs, bath lifts, commodes, grab rails, riser/recliner and high seat chairs, beds, incontinence supplies, small daily living aids.

• CJD Support Network
  CJD Support Network offer and provide support to individuals and families concerned with all forms of Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (CJD). Provide a national helpline with information and advice, emotional support for carers and to link families with similar experiences. Financial support for families in need. Promote good quality care for people with all forms of CJD, and promote research into CJD.

• Classic Homes (UK) LTD
  Classic Homes Careline (UK) Ltd is a free public service, operating to provide information and advice for people and their families seeking nursing or residential care. The telephone advisors are trained to discuss the most appropriate type of care to meet the individual's needs. Careline holds on file details of residential and nursing homes that are registered with the local inspecting authority.

• Cleaford Christian Trust
  British based charity working in Romania to help churches, schools, old folk and the 300 bed Brasov Children's Hospital. Provides grant for churches, pastors, widows' pensions, etc, and ship humanitarian aid.

• Cleft Lip and Palate Association
  National charity offering unbiased information and support for all those with and affected by cleft lip and/or cleft palate.

• Clinic Access.net
  Website that gives guidance on self certification for compliance with the Disability Discrimination Act for clinics.

• CMT United Kingdom
  Self-help support group for those people who have Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (also known as Peroneal Muscular Atrophy, and hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathy) and their families. Offers a service of support, advice and information.

• College of Occupational Therapists
  The professional body of Occupational Therapists. It's aims include maintenance of the highest possible standards of service to users of Occupational Therapy; education, development and support of it's members; promotion of research and innovation in the profession and the involvement of all members in decisions about the profession. The college also provides information on occupational therapy as a career and how to access occupational therapy services.

• Comfrey Counselling
  Face to face counselling with wheelchair access. Online counselling for a wide range of personal problems. Disabled people are people first and disabled second.

• Comic Relief
  Comic Relief was set up in 1984 with the aim of helping disadvantaged people in the UK and Africa to realise their aspirations and potential, by raising and allocating funds.

• CommunicAbility - The James Powell UK Trust
  Aims to help disabled people overcome communication problems. Supply simple communications equipment and give advice.

• Communication Aids Centre - Aberdeen
  Offer full assessment of people with severe speech impairment to establish whether an alternative/augmentative means of communication would be appropriate and beneficial. There are several centres around the country and they may vary slightly in the range of services that they provide, but these could include: - training guidelines to the local speech and language therapist and carers; - reassessment of patients to establish whether there is any change in communication needs; - provision of active assistance in the adaptation of any suitable device or system; - advice on any system's permanent acquisition; - provision of up to date information on a range of issues relating to the field of augmentative and alternative communications; - evaluation of prototype and commercially available communication devices; - provision of equipment for loan to clients of the service.

• Communication Aids Centre - Birmingham
  Offer full assessment of people with severe speech impairment to establish whether an alternative/augmentative means of communication would be appropriate and beneficial. There are several centres around the country and they may vary slightly in the range of services that they provide, but these could include: - training guidelines to the local speech and language therapist and carers; - reassessment of patients to establish whether there is any change in communication needs; - provision of active assistance in the adaptation of any suitable device or system; - advice on any system's permanent acquisition; - provision of up to date information on a range of issues relating to the field of augmentative and alternative communications; - evaluation of prototype and commercially available communication devices; - provision of equipment for loan to clients of the service.

• Communication Aids Centre - Bristol
  Offer full assessment of people with severe speech impairment to establish whether an alternative/augmentative means of communication would be appropriate and beneficial. There are several centres around the country and they may vary slightly in the range of services that they provide, but these could include: - training guidelines to the local speech and language therapist and carers; - reassessment of patients to establish whether there is any change in communication needs; - provision of active assistance in the adaptation of any suitable device or system; - advice on any system's permanent acquisition; - provision of up to date information on a range of issues relating to the field of augmentative and alternative communications; - evaluation of prototype and commercially available communication devices; - provision of equipment for loan to clients of the service.

• Communication Aids Centre - Edinburgh (national remit)
  Offer full assessment of people with severe speech impairment to establish whether an alternative/augmentative means of communication would be appropriate and beneficial. There are several centres around the country and they may vary slightly in the range of services that they provide, but these could include: training guidelines to the local speech and language therapist and carers; reassessment of patients to establish whether there is any change in communication needs; provision of active assistance in the adaptation of any suitable device or system; advice on any system's permanent acquisition; provision of up to date information on a range of issues relating to the field of augmentative and alternative communications; evaluation of prototype and commercially available communication devices; provision of equipment for loan to clients of the service.

• Communication Aids Centre - Newcastle upon Tyne
  Offer full assessment of people with severe speech impairment to establish whether an alternative/augmentative means of communication would be appropriate and beneficial. There are several centres around the country and they may vary slightly in the range of services that they provide, but these could include: - training guidelines to the local speech and language therapist and carers; - reassessment of patients to establish whether there is any change in communication needs; - provision of active assistance in the adaptation of any suitable device or system; - advice on any system's permanent acquisition; - provision of up to date information on a range of issues relating to the field of augmentative and alternative communications; - evaluation of prototype and commercially available communication devices; - provision of equipment for loan to clients of the service.

• Communication Matters
  National voluntary organisation concerned with the needs of people with complex communication needs. Can provide information and support with augmentative and alternative communication systems. Members include people who use augmentative and alternative communication and their family and enablers, as well as people from all disciplines that work with people who have complex communication needs. It is the UK branch of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ISAAC). Currently encouraging and supporting the establishment of augmentative and alternative communication user groups for both adults and children.

• Community Fund
  Community Fund is an independent body set up by Parliament to distribute funds to support charitable, benevolent and philanthropic organisations. The Board's main aim is to give grants to help meet the needs of those at greatest disadvantage in society and also to improve the quality of life in the community. Decisions on grants are made by the members.

• Community Service Volunteers
  Matches the interests, experience and skills of volunteers with people throughout the UK who need their help eg homeless people, young offenders, carers and disabled people. Also offer support to students with disabilities who need extra help to attend college. CSV volunteers are available year-round to work in return for accommodation, food, pocket money, travel expenses.

• Community Transport Association (UK)
  Provide advice and information on community transport; driver training for minibus and accessible transport operation - national organiser of MiDAS; training on vehicle passenger access, safety and legal aspects at regional training days or to suit an organisation. Bi-monthly magazine and range of publications available.

• Compaid Trust
  Registered charity based in Kent which works with disabled adults, helping them use computers for therapeutic, educational and recreational activities that aid communication and develop cognitive and motor skills.

• Companion Cycling
  Scheme which enables people who are unable to ride for whatever reason, to enjoy the pleasure of cycling.

• Compassionate Friends
  Nationwide organisation of bereaved parents offering friendship and understanding to other bereaved parents after the death of a son or daughter from any cause. Personal and group support. Quarterly newsletter, postal library and range of leaflets. Support for bereaved siblings and grandparents. Befriending rather than counselling.

• Conquest Art - Enriching the Lives of Physically Disabled People
  Runs art classes for physically disabled people. Organises exhibitions of member's art work. Holds training days for potential class leaders and helpers, Occupational Therapists and carers from resource centres, nursing and residential homes. Talks given on request. A magazine is published three times a year which is available on tape. Videos on their methods are available for purchase.

• Conservative Disability Group
  Aims to promote awareness of disability issues. To encourage action on disability issues within the Conservative Party.

• Contact a Family
  Links with a network of more than 1,000 self help and mutual support groups for families caring for children with special needs and disabilities. Local groups usually cover a range of special needs, but more than 400 are run nationally for families where children have a specific, sometimes rare disorder. Offers support and training to parents involved in running these groups both locally and nationally. The information and advice service links families together and encourages mutual support between parents. Provide a helpline and publishes a quarterly newsletter, range of leaflets, and the CAF Directory of specific conditions and support groups. Helpline open Mon-Fri, 10am-4pm.

• Contact the Elderly
  Aims to relieve the loneliness and isolation of elderly people living alone with limited support from family, friends and statutory services and to bring companionship into their lives. Local groups organise monthly group outings into 'hostesses' homes. There are approximately 230 groups nationwide.

• Continence Foundation
  Provide information and advice to the general public and those professionally concerned with continence issues. Raises awareness and campaigns for continence products to be given higher priority in healthcare. Activities include production of leaflets, fact sheets and reports; a directory of all continence products on the UK market; an index of local continence services and a telephone helpline open Mon-Fri, 9.30am-1pm.

• Coronary Prevention Group
  Provide an information base for members of the public, journalists, heart professionals and others, covering all aspects of coronary heart disease and methods by which it may be prevented.

• Cot Death Society
  Protect and preserve the health of babies deemed to be at risk from cot death, in particular by the free provision of respiration monitors on medical referral.

• Cottage and Rural Enterprises Ltd
  Registered charity organisation providing accommodation and workshops for people with learning disabilities.

• Council for Advancement of Communication with Deaf People
  Aims to improve communication between deaf and hearing people by the development of curricula and examinations in communication skills. Offers certification in British Sign Language, Lip speaking, communicating with Deafblind people and Deaf people.

• Council for Disabled Children
  Provide a national forum for the discussion and development of a wide range of policy and practice issues relating to service provision and support for children and young people with disabilities and special educational needs.

• Council for Music in Hospitals
  Aims to use high-quality live music as a therapeutic agent for patients and residents in hospitals, hospices and homes, and to improve the quality of life for all who live therein.

• Council of Disabled People, Warwickshire and Coventry
  Organisation run and controlled by Disabled people that exists to promote the rights and the full participation of Disabled people economically, socially and politically.

• Counsel and Care
  Provide advice and information to people over 60, their carers, friends and relatives. Offer immediate and extended support on a range of issues including community care, hospital discharge, continuing NHS care and the process of finding suitable accommodation. Provide information by telephone, letter and e-mail. Range of fact sheets can be downloaded from their website.

• Country Cousins
  Country Cousins aim to offer flexible, live-in caring assignments with Clients in all parts of the UK. Country Cousins use their own life-skills to support elderly people who would otherwise be forced to move from a well loved home.

• Countryside Agency
  Publications include: 'Sense and Accessibility', a book on how to improve access to the outdoor environment including country paths, parks and trails for disabled people; 'Informal Countryside recreation for Disabled People' a design manual on disability provision with reference to countryside recreation.

• Crafts Council
  Compiles a national register of makers and runs an information service providing details on training, exhibitions and business practice.

• Cricket Federation for People with Disabilities
  Promote league and international cricket for disabled people. Aims to create a structured plan for disabled cricketers to participate in International and World Cup matches. Organise tournaments in different parts of the United Kingdom and also overseas. Advises how standard proven coaching methods can be applied to coaching disabled people.

• Crimestoppers Trust
  Crimestoppers was initially introduced in the UK in January 1988. Following many months of research and fact-finding it became the first force-wide scheme. In the meantime the charity, Community Action Trust, had already been set up by several businessmen, led by Lord Michael Ashcroft. Crimestoppers was the scheme adopted by the charity and a few businesses subscribed funds to get the project started. Lord Ashcroft has maitained his support for Crimestoppers Trust and is chairman of the trustees. The name was changed in June 1995.

• Crisis
  Help homeless people fulfil their potential and transform their lives and help them to overcome problems such as addictions and mental health issues.

• Crohn's In Childhood Research Appeal
  Aims to promote public awareness and research of Crohn's disease and related disorders.

• Crossroads Caring for Carers
  Promote, offer, support and deliver high quality services for Carers and people with care needs. Crossroads considers that Carers should be entitled to practical support to reduce the stress of caring, giving Carers time to be themselves.

• CRUSAID
  Crusaid educate people about Aids. Raise money towards a hardship fund and grants to people in need as a result of HIV/Aids.

• Cruse - Bereavement Care
  Offers personal and confidential help to all bereaved people and those who care for them; information on financial, practical and bereavement issues; support groups; publications; national and local training for bereavement counsellors and organisations.

• Cue and Review Recording Services
  Aims to provide visually impaired people with a comparable range of magazines to that available in print for sighted young people. People unable to read magazines due to other physical disabilities may also be eligible for this service on payment of postage. They also help organisations meet their responsibilities. Applications should be made through local Social Services Department.

• Cued Speech Association UK
  Promotes Cued Speech, the communication tool for hearing impaired people based on sounds of speech. Runs courses for individuals, teachers and other interested parties. Also assists hearing people who have speech and language difficulties. Liases with international organisations concerned with Cued Speech.

• Cyclemagic
  Promote access to cycling for all people regardless of age, ability, race, gender and circumstance. Increase participation in cycling for both leisure and transport so as to benefit people's health, environment and community. Promote all forms of human powered vehicle - land, sea, and air. Projects include bike recycling, special needs cycles for hire, bike ride teaching.

• Cycling for All (Croydon LCC)
  South London project to encourage and enable cycling for people with disabilities and special needs, using adapted and unadapted tricycles.

• Cystic Fibrosis Trust
  Support children and adults with Cystic Fibrosis and their families. Improve current methods of treatment and help promote early diagnosis in children. Activities include: medical research; raising public awareness; providing information support and advice; fundraising; campaigning; financial support; respite care.

Back to top