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• EasyLivingHome
  Consultancy specialising in the marketplace for consumers aged 50+, offering a full range of "inclusive" design, training and consultancy services geared to the specialist design of residential facilities and related consumer products.

• Eating Disorders Association and Disabled People
  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

• Education Otherwise Association Ltd
  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.

• Ehlers-Danlos Support Group
  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.

• Elderly Accommodation Counsel
  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.

• Electronic Aids for the Blind
  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.

• Electronic Immigration Network
  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.

• Elfrida Society
  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.

• Elimination of Leukaemia Fund
  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.

• Elizabeth Finn Care
  Charity that provides practical and financial support to people from a wide range of backgrounds - people who have slipped into poverty due to, or made worse by, physical or mental illness, family breakdown, bereavement or redundancy and older people on inadequate pensions.

• Elizabeth Fitzroy Support
  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.

• Employers' Forum on Disability
  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.

• Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities
  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.

• Employment Rights Advice Service - Low Pay Unit
  Offer advice for low paid workers, their advisers, trade unions and people concerned about low pay, poverty, employment rights and social security benefits.

• Empower
  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.

• Enable
  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.

• Enable Solutions UK
  A Disability Equality company that produces training materials and courses for schools, local government and businesses.

• Enable Date
  Enable date is an international dating/contact/penfriend service for people with disabilities and anybody else looking for new friends.

• Enable Lives
  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.

• Encephalitis Support Group
  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.

• Energy and Vision
  Aims to solve the problems of the society in relation to drugs by targeting young people with well-informed advice.

• Energywatch
  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.

• English Heritage
  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.

• English Sports Association for People with Learning Disabilities
  Campaign, initiate and provide opportunities for physical recreation in England for those who have a degree of learning disability.

• English Table Tennis Association
  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.

• Enuresis Resources and Information Centre
  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.

• Epilepsy Action
  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.

• Epilepsy Bereaved
  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.

• Epilepsy Scotland
  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.

• Equal Opportunities Commission
  Works towards the elimination of discrimination; promotes equality of opportunity between men and women generally and keeps under review the working of the Sex Discrimination Act and Equal Pay Act.

• Equality and Human Rights Commission
  The Equality and Human Rights Commission works to eliminate discrimination, reduce inequality, protect human rights and to build good relations, ensuring that everyone has a fair chance to participate in society. The new commission brings together the work of the three previous equality commissions (the Equal Opportunities Commission, the Commission for Racial Equality, and the Disability Rights Commission) and also takes on responsibility for the other aspects of equality: age, sexual orientation and religion or belief, as well as human rights. The Equality and Human Rights Commission acts not only for the disadvantaged, but for everyone in society, and can use its new enforcement powers where necessary to guarantee people's equality. It also has a mandate to promote understanding of the Human Rights Act. The Equality and Human Rights Commission is a non-departmental public body (NDPB) established under the Equality Act 2006 - accountable for its public funds, but independent of government.

• eQuip For Life
  Free classified website advertising used equipment for people with disability.

• Equipment and Adaptations Monitoring Group
  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.

• Erb's Palsy Group
  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.

• Ergonomics Society
  The Ergonomic Society 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. Maintain a register of professional ergonomists, and registered consultancies. Publish advice and basic information.

• Erna Low
  Offer advice for people who have a physical disability who wish to ski independently with their families or friends. Focus 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.

• European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel
  Provide relief to people living with or at risk of pressure ulcers, in particular through research and the education of the public. The panel has produced guidelines on pressure ulcer prevention and set up a number of groups to liase with industry and facilitate further development of research guidelines.

• Evangelical Alliance Disability Network
  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.

• Ex-Services Mental Welfare Society
  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.

• EXTEND
  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.

• Eyecare Information Service
  Provide advice and assist on all eye related matters including eye care and eye wear.

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