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Action on Elder Abuse runs the UK’s only national, freephone helpline for anyone concerned in any way about the abuse of older people. It is accredited by the Telephone Helplines Association as providing a quality service that meets their rigorous standards.
Action for Leisure is a small national charity working to promote play, leisure and recreation with and for disabled adults and children. Established in 1988 by Save the Children Fund and now based in Warwickshire they offer services to people from all over the country.
Age Concern England has launched a discussion forum for people to get more involved and get more out of the internet. The board has different topic sections, such as IT and the Internet and a useful 'None of the Above' section if you can't find what you're looking for.
Anchor Trust is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to helping older people to live safely, securely and independently, with a choice of services to meet all needs.
A UK-wide network of locally situated Disabled Living Centres. Each centre includes a permanent exhibition of products and equipment that provides people with opportunities to see and try products and equipment and get information and advice from professional staff about what might suit them best.
The Association of Wheelchair Children provides specialist wheelchair training, assessments and therapy advice through a series of 1,2 and 3 day mobility skills training courses across the UK. These courses benefit over 240 wheelchair-using children and young adults many of whom would receive no other wheelchair training.
BCODP is the UK's national organisation of the worldwide Disabled People's Movement. We were set up in 1981 by disabled people to promote our full equality and participation in UK society, and we now represent some 122 groups with a total membership of around 350,000 disabled people.
An extraordinary charity that helps disabled people to communicate and participate in day-to-day activities, by providing them with recycled internet-ready computers, giving them an alternative means of keeping in touch.
Contact the Elderly groups organise gatherings for frail, elderly people who live alone. One Sunday afternoon a month, volunteer drivers take elderly people on regular visits to hosts’ homes.
A site offering wide-ranging advice and care for older people
Now known as Assist UK - see above
Derbyshire Coalition for Inclusive Living is
an organisation of
disabled people working for full participation and equality. The site
has a lot of useful information, primarily but not exclusively relevant
to Derbyshire.
The Disabled Living Foundation - information about products to help with daily living.
Membership organisation which lobbies on behalf of disabled motorists, and offers a range of benefits from free travel information to discounts on car servicing, insurance and holidays.
English Federation of Disability Sport - the website of the governing body for disability sport in England provides a range of information from sports events to training and funding.
The English Sports Association for People with Learning Disability - ESAPLD - provides sport resources for people with learning disabilities in England.
The Family Fund. Our purpose is to ease the
stress on families in the UK who care for severely disabled children under
16, by providing grants and information related to the care of the child.
The national co-ordinating body for Home Improvements Agencies, which help homeowners and private sector tenants who are older, disabled or on low income, to repair, maintain or adapt their homes. The website includes a searchable database of local agencies and their services.
Greater London Action on Disability (GLAD)
Campaigning for the rights of disabled Londoners since 1952. Providing
advice, information and training
Harrow's Organisation of Disabled People - a really clear, easy to navigate site with plenty of information.
As part of Scope's "Time to get equal" campaign, In the Picture aims to promote the inclusion of disabled children in early years' picture books, to address the problem of some 770,000 disabled children in the UK who have virtually no role models in literature.
A national charity dedicated to helping older people remain independent, IndependentAge provides financial help in times of crisis, a regular small extra income, equipment to aid independence such as power bath seats and the friendship of a volunteer visitor. The free information guides 60-Wise and 60-Wise at Home give details of the help available to older people. (Formerly RUKBA)
An international resource which serves self-help organizations of disabled people who work for equal opportunities, self-determination and self-respect.
The Independent Living Funds were set up as a national resource dedicated to the financial support of disabled people to enable them to choose to live in the community rather than in residential care.
NCIL was created to: promote independent living; to set up a forum for discussion of independent living; to contribute to national policy development relating to independent living; to promote and support the use of direct payments to enable independent living; to ensure that the options of independent living and direct payments are available to all who want them, on a basis of equality.
Queen Elizabeth's Foundation promoting equality for disabled people. A national charity serving over 100,000 disabled people annually.
RADAR's vision is of a society where human difference is routinely anticipated, expertly accommodated and positively celebrated. Our mission is to enable disabled people and disability organisations to initiate, develop and encourage change and campaign for a fully inclusive society.
Now known as Independent Age (see above)
The original telephone helpline. Now celebrating its 50th anniversary and still largely dependent on volunteers to field phone calls and emails. 4.6 million calls were made to Samaritans last year.
Scope's aim is that disabled people achieve equality: a society in which they are as valued, and have the same human and civil rights as everyone else.
The organization, formed in 1857, exists to alleviate the problems faced by the most disadvantaged and isolated older people, especially those living alone in inner-cities. They provide lifelong friendship and financial support without distinction of class, creed, nationality or sect, through services such as phone calls, personal visits and social events, along with cards and newsletters; financial support through a regular income and grants in emergencies; together with bedding and thermal slippers; hampers and Christmas gifts.