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• Talkeczema.com
  Website that aims to helps eczema sufferers to help each other help themselves.

• Talking Newspaper Association of the United Kingdom
  Provide newspapers and magazines in alternative formats for those people who cannot read printed material, including the visually impaired and otherwise disabled people. A subscription service offering over 200 titles nationally. Over 1,100 titles available from local groups mainly on audio tape.

• Tall Persons Club GB and Ireland
  Promotes the interests of tall people and provides information for tall people and for the parents of tall children. Group holds various social events. Website features general information including a chat room and bulletin and a product review section. Membership available.

• Taxaid Charitable Trust
  Aims to provide free and independent tax advice and assistance to individuals in financial need. To engage in public education to empower people to handle their own tax affairs. Provides a full time service in the UK giving free tax assistance to indiviuals who cannot afford professional advice. Most work is done by unpaid volunteers who are qualified accountants or solicitors. Telephone back-up service for other voluntary workers having clients with tax problems.

• Tbilife.com
  Website for people who have had a head injury. Includes questions and answers with an online feedback form; poetry; links; writings and experiences.

• Tekability
  Provide information on services and assistive products available for people of all ages with sensory and/ or physical disabilities. Offer welfare benefit advice and advocacy, new technology product reviews, environmental controls and electronic gadgets. Readers can correspond via email with questions on any disability issue.

• Telangiectasia Self Help Group
  Aims to mantain a register of sufferers and to put affected families in touch with one another.

• Telecare Aware
  Telecare Aware is a free news service for anyone interested in telecare and telehealth developments. Sign up to be alerted by email each time that the news is updated, usually once or twice a week.

• Telecommunications Action Group
  Aims to ensure that people who are deaf have access to telephone services and facilities at equivalent cost and with similar ease of use to that enjoyed by people able to hear. Other bodies such as BT Age and Disability and the Government's Disability Unit liase with TAG about the telecom needs of people needing specific help with hearing. Aim to ensure people have telephone equipment and services appropriate to their hearing needs. TAG does not provide direct services to the general public.

• Terrence Higgins Trust
  Provide services consistent with the needs of service users and make referrals to other agencies. Promote an understanding of HIV and Aids by collecting and disseminating medical and social information. Provide training and consultancy services. Helpline open Mon-Fri 12-10pm.

• Thalidomide Trust
  Association of parents and/or people affected by Thalidomide. Work to obtain medical/educational and other aid/advice.

• The Homecare Industry Information Service (THIIS)
  Monthly magazine, weekly email bulletin and website that provides up-to-date market news to equipment manufacturers, suppliers, dealers and retailers.

• The Outside Clinic
  The Outside Clinic is the longest established domiciliary optician in the United Kingdom. Years of experience have enabled to create an eye-care system tailor made to the ' at home ' patient, giving to all the residents access to the services which is their right.

• The Site
  The site lists organisations throughout the UK, enabling young people to find the right people with the right advice as easily as possible.

• The Solicitors Room
  Online panel of solicitors acting for disabled clients and Disability Alliance in all areas of law. Advise and act through secure and confidential online files on which the client will be able to take advice and monitor progress.

• The Stationery Office
  Publishes a 'Social Issues Catalogue' and a 'Medicine and Health Catalogue'.

• Theatre Resource
  The Business is one-year accredited training programme for people with learning disabilities, who want to work in the arts and creative industries. Now in its third year, The Business is going from strength to strength and is providing to be a fantastic pathway for people with learning disabilities to become employed within the arts. A current student from The Business was a cast member of a Theatre Resource production called Macbett which completed a six-date national tour earlier this year.

• Therapeutic Holidays
  Charity that offers holidays in Crete, Greece combined with an extensive range of healing programs and activities for people with learning difficulties, challenging behaviour, autism, mental sickness and social harassment problems. Activities offered include therapeutic riding, ergotherapy (occupational therapy), trekking and swimming.

• Thrive
  Thrive provide information and advice related to gardening for people with disabilities or mental health problems.

• Through the Roof
  The vision of Through the Roof is to make the Christian message of salvation through Jesus Christ available to disabled people and those in their immediate circle. This is achieved by: equipping and training churches and other organisations to be inclusive, encouraging disabled people for leadership and providing support and fellowship for disabled people and their families.

• Timebank
  Aims to encourage people to give up their time and skills for the benefit of the community. Run a project, supported by the BBC which gives the opportunity for people to give their time to improve local communities. Provide a time raising pack which is available both on the net and from the organisation in paper form giving details of the number of hours they are willing to give up to help their local communities. Publish a newsletter.

• Tissue Viability Society
  Works to bring together the multi-disciplinary skills of healthcare professionals in order to raise standards of good practice in the prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers and chronic wounds. During the past 20 years the Society has provided training for medical professionals placing great emphasis on research based mutual education by and of its own members. The society promotes the consideration of all aspects of the patient physical, social and psychological, for promoting tissue integrity. Publications include the Journal of Tissue Viability.

• Topaz Postline
  Free friendly postal counselling and befriending for anyone facing problems they find hard to talk about, or who cannot reach or afford other help. Counselling is open to all and is via letters or tapes. Please allow a few days for a reply.

• Totallydisabled.co.uk
  Website with information on equipment, holidays, accommodation, transport, sports, and stories.

• Tourette Syndrome UK Association
  Aims to assist and support people with Tourette Syndrome and their families. Involved in funding for relevant research in the UK. Range of publications available.

• Tourism for All
  Tourism for All works to create, develop and support accessibility and social inclusion in the hospitality and tourism industry, for customers and staff, regardless of age, disability or income. It is a UK-wide umbrella organisation which provides a national focus and co-ordinating role.

• Toxoplasmosis Trust
  Provides advice for people with toxoplasmosis and their families. Raises awareness of toxoplasmosis among health professionals and the general public. Publishes a wide range of information which is free to individual inquirers.

• Trauma Aftercare Trust
  Help people who have survived various types an magnitudes of disaster and who are suffering psychological effects (PTSD). Offers a contact point and referral network for the counselling and treatment of sufferers, has a 24 hour helpline.

• Travelbility (J & M Insurance Servies UK)
  Provide travel insurance for people with disabilities and pre-existing medical conditions

• Travelcare Ltd
  Offer comprehensive travel insurance cover for people with disabilities. Basic cover excludes claims resulting from a pre-existing medical condition if treated as a hospital in-patient or been under the care of a specialist consultant within the last two years, or even been treated for a heart or breathing related condition, or diagnosed as having cancer. In any of these cases it may be possible to obtain full cover for the condition concerned by contacting the medical Line on (0345) 020303.

• Tree of Hope Children's Society
  Provide funds of specialist medical treatment and therapy for sick and disabled Children in the UK. Some children need to go abroad for life saving treatment. Others are able to have treatment in the UK, but it needs to be funded, giving a better quality to their young lives.

• Treloar's
  Treloar's provides education, independence training, therapy and opportunities for over 300 physically disabled young people from all over the UK.

• Tripscope
  Advise disabled people on the best way to travel around London and abroad. Advisors have a personal understanding of disability and offer advice and information to people with impaired mobility and older people.

• Triumph Over Phobia
  Help sufferers of phobia or obsessive compulsive disorder to become ex-sufferers. Run a national network of structured self-help groups led by trained lay volunteers, teaching people who suffer from phobia or OCD self-management of their problem.

• Tuberous Sclerosis Association
  A self-help group for parents, sharing problems and information to enable them to further their children's best interests; to promote understanding of tuberous sclerosis and promote research into the condition.

• Tunna Resources
  A help site for disabled people and web-design beginners by a new disabled web-designer to help them build more accessible website's no matter the skill level.

• Turning Point
  To offer residential rehabilitation, counselling and information to those experiencing drink, drug, mental health and learning disabilities. To offer support to families and friends of the drug or alcahol user and to offer advice and assistance to non-specialist professional workers.

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