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Dorset Library - Home Library Service
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Tel: 01305 225000
Library Headquarters
Dorset County Council
Colliton Park
Dorchester
Dorset
DT1 1XJ
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Dorset Council's Home Library Service delivers books to the housebound, those living in their own homes or sheltered housing for free. We offer a wide range of fiction as well as information books on country life, cookery, travel, biography and other popular subjects. You can request specific boo...
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The service is available to housebound people living in their own homes or sheltered housing. If you live in a residential home we have other services available to you. Please contact your local library.
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The Home Library Service - Dorset and BCP
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Tel: 01305 236666
Royal Voluntary Service
The Old School House
49 High West Street
Dorchester
Dorset
DT1 1UT
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If you are housebound, are unable to get to your local library and have no one to collect items for you, we can arrange for them to be delivered to your home.
The service is delivered free of charge, every 3 weeks
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People who are unable to access the library and their carers
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Parkinson's UK Weymouth and Dorchester
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Tel: 01305 835108
Memorial Hall Upwey and Broadwey Weymouth
Victoria Ave
Weymouth
Dorset
DT3 5NQ
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Offer information, friendship and support to local people with Parkinson's, their families and carers.
Also organise regular events and social activities - join and meet other people affected by Parkinson's in your area.
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People with Parkinson's, their families and carers.
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Dorset County Council – services for adults
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Tel: 01305 221016
Adult Access Team
Pullman Court, Station Approach
Weymouth Avenue
Dorchester
Dorset
DT1 1GA
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Provide social care services for adults
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Adults and those that care for them
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Assist Teignbridge
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Tel: 01626 889288
The Manor House
Old Town Street
Dawlish
Devon
EX7 9AW
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Assist Teignbridge provide a range of services to support carers and older people to live independently at home. These services include a sitting service, nail trimming service, home help, enabling and the completion Attendance Allowance and Carers Allowance forms.
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Learning Disability Partnership Board Dorset
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Tel: 01305 225616
Partnership Board Project Officer
Dorchester Local Office
Acland Road
Dorchester
Dorset
DT1 1SH
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The people who come to the meetings are all interested in improving services for people with learning disabilties.
People come from the NHS, social services, Dorset People First, carers groups and many other organisations.
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A-Stars
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Tel: 01305 778032
Asperger's Base
Budmouth Technology College
Chickerell Road
Weymouth
Dorset
DT4 9SY
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The Club is for children aged 5 and over, with Asperger's Syndrome or an Autism Related Condition (ASC), and their families. They offer a safe yet stimulating non - judgemental environment for children with an ASC and their families to meet others in a similar situation.
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Children aged 5+ with Asperger's Syndrome or an Autism Related Condition (ASC), and their families.
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The Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia Support Group
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Tel: 01305 772 286
DT3 5AF
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The HSP/FSP Support Group helps people diagnosed with Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia [also known as Familial Spastic Paraparesis]. It is a UK based Registered Charity and was started as a 'self-help' group in 1989 by Stephanie Wyatt to support her affected husband and son. We now have over 300 me...
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Helps people diagnosed with Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia [also known as Familial Spastic Paraparesis] and their families
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Parkinson'S Uk Mendip Branch
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Tel: 0344 225 3695
Bovemoor Sheltered Housing Scheme
Strode Road
Street
Somerset
BA16 0DY
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Offer information, friendship and support to local people with Parkinson's, their families and carers.
Also organise regular events and social activities - join and meet other people affected by Parkinson's in your area.
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People with Parkinson's, their families and carers.
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Mendip Mallards
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Tel: 01935 478032
Strode Swimming Pool, Strode Road
Street
Somerset
BA16 0AS
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The Mendip Mallards was formed over 40 years ago as a means for people of varying ages and degrees of physical and mental ability to swim within a protected atmosphere. Since then, the group has thrived, meeting every Sunday at Strode Pool, Street, where the pool is closed to the general public b...
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