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Central Bedfordshire Council - services for children
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Tel: 01582 818499
Vernon Place
Dunstable
Bedfordshire
LU5 4HA
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Provide social care services for children and young people
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Children, young people and those that care for them
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Families United Network
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Tel: 01582 523691
The Disability Resource Centre
Poynters House
Poynters Road
Dunstable
Bedfordshire
LU5 4TP
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Families United Network (F.U.N) is a group designed to offer support to Bedfordshire families who have a child with a disability or special need.
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Families who have a child with special needs/disability
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Hearing Dogs For Deaf People
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Tel: 01844 348100
The Grange (Head Office)
Wycombe Road
Saunderton
Princes Risborough
Buckinghamshire
HP27 9NS
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Nearly nine million of the UK population experience some degree of hearing loss. That's one person in every seven. Over 650,000 of these people could benefit from a hearing dog.
We train dogs to respond to specific sounds which hearing people often take for granted, such as the alarm clock, door...
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Severely and profoundly deaf people; their families; carers; health specialists, etc
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Thomas Ball Children'S Cancer Fund
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Tel: 01494 890157
18 Sixty Acres Road
Prestwood
Great Missenden
Buckinghamshire
HP16 0PD
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The Thomas Ball Children's Cancer Fund was founded in 1999 by Thomas Ball, then aged 9 and himself undergoing treatment for neuroblastoma stage four which had been diagnosed some 20 months earlier.
The main objective of The Thomas Ball Children's Cancer Fund is to relieve sickness and distress a...
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Children suffering from cancer and their families
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South Bedfordshire Dyslexia Association
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Tel: 01582 752444
c/o 29 Brandreth Avenue
Dustable
Bedfordshire
LU5 4JP
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We are a small group of dedicated parents and teachers, many of us with specialist dyslexia training, who offer practical help and guidance to children and adults. We are an independent registered charity, entirely self funded.
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Home Library Service - Buckinghamshire
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Tel: 01494 475573
Great Missenden Library
High Street
Great Missenden
Buckinghamshire
HP16 0AL
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Do you find it difficult to visit a library due to mobility problems or poor health? Are you a full-time, unpaid carer & cannot get to a library? If so a Home Library Service Volunteer could deliver this FREE service to you.
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Carers and public. Buckinghamshire residents who are housebound due to age, illness or disability and also available to full-time, unpaid carers.
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Oxfordshire Advocacy Hub
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Tel: 0300 200 0082
Barton Community Centre
Underhill Circus
Barton
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX3 9LS
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The Oxfordshire Advoacy Hub provides advocacy support through statuory and community advocacy. POhWER provides Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA) including Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) and Relevant Person’s Paid Representative Service (RPPR)
Independent Mental Health Advocacy...
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Mental Health / Mental Capacity / NHS complaints / Care Act (not carers assessments) / Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards / Community Advocacy
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Living With Cah
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Tel: 01525 717536
2 Windrush Close
Flitwick
Bedfordshire
MK45 1PX
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We are a sub group of CLIMB (Children Living with Inherited Metabolic Diseases).
We exist to give support to families and sufferers and to increase awareness of the condition, Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia.
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Heads2Gether
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Tel: 0800 023 4550
ENT Department
The West Wing LG1
The John Radcliffe Hospital
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX3 9DU
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We offer support to anyone affected by head and neck or mouth cancer. We run coffee mornings and a packed schedule of social events, an opportunity to meet and talk to others who have already been treated for the disease.
We offer telephone and face to face support using trained former patients...
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People Affected by Head & Neck Cancer.
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Huntington'S Disease Association - Oxfordshire
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Tel: 0151 331 5444
OX3 9DU
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The HDA (Huntington’s Disease Association) is a national charity which provides support for families affected by Huntington’s Disease (HD).
We are part of the national organisation, but more informal as well as more local. We hold regular meetings, go on social outings together, and meet and sha...
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Carers, people who have Huntington's Disease, people at risk of developing Huntington's Disease.
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