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The Bream Voluntary Car Service
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Tel: 01594 560257
Lyndhurst
Brockhollands Road
Bream
Lydney
Gloucestershire
GL15 6ND
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We offer transport services to the elderly and infirm, carers, those who are being cared for and young carers, single parents with children that need medical attention (often young teenage mothers who are under driving age), the poor and rurally isolated.
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Addison's Disease Self Help Group
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Starling House
1600 Bristol Parkway North
Bristol
Avon
BS34 8YU
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The Addison’s Disease Self-Help Group (ADSHG) is the UK & Ireland charity working to improve the lives of people with Addison’s Disease, adrenal insufficiency and all who support them.
Addison’s is a rare disease affecting adrenal gland function and can be life threatening. It affects approxi...
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Swindon And District Talking Newspaper Swindon
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Tel: 01793 522511
SN1 3BU
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Swindon and District Talking Newspaper (STAN) produces a weekly cassette/sound file which is sent to our listeners each week.
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Blind and partially sighted
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Bath And District Mencap
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Tel: 01225 851417
285 London Road East
Batheaston
Bath
Somerset
BA1 7RL
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We offer opportunities for people with learning disabilities families and carers who live in and around Bath. We offer our members a wide variety of sporting, social and fun activities. We organize holidays and day trips that would normally be inaccessible to many who attend. We can provide infor...
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Forest Sensory Services
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Tel: 01594 827711
Foxes Bridge
Valley Road
Cinderford
Gloucestershire
GL14 2LJ
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Forest Sensory Services is an independent, proactive charity, within the Forest of Dean, whose aim is to help and support sensory impaired people. They provide information and advice on all aspects of sensory loss. Forest Sensory Services also run training and rehabilitation courses including aw...
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Carers, general public,sensory impaired persons.
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Swindon Stroke Support Group
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Tel: 01793 529693
Registered Charity Address
25A Swindon Road
Wroughton
Swindon
Wiltshire
SN4 9AG
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Aims to further the abilities of people who have had a stroke and help them to socialise as they did previously. Outings, holidays and a social group. Also provides support for carers.
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Stroke survivors and carers
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Cotswold Riding For The Disabled
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Tel: 01242 584420
Cheltenham Racecourse
Prestbury Park
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
GL50 4SH
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Cotswold RDA was founded in 1965 and is a member of the National Riding for the Disabled Association. We operate from our riding school based on Cheltenham Racecourse and keep our ponies on adjoining land. Riding facilities are provided for 150-200 adults and children on a weekly basis (including...
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Cotswold Riding for the Disabled enables people with disabilities to ride, to benefit their health and wellbeing, and to achieve their goals.
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Headway Bristol
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Tel: 0117 414 3222
Frenchay Beckspool Building
Frenchay Park Road
Frenchay
Bristol
Avon
BS16 1LE
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Headway provides social and cognitive rehabilitation for adults with brain injury and support and respite for their families.
They individually tailor programmes that are designed to maximise quality of life, independence and self-esteem.
Free carer advice and support services are available.
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Brain injury survivors, carers, family and friends.
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Parkinson's UK Swindon and District Branch
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Tel: 07976 413 875
Grange Leisure Centre
Grange Drive
Swindon
Wiltshire
SN3 4JY
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Swindon Parkinson’s provides friendship, emotional support, advice and signposting to those who can provide the appropriate help and support. In 2019, the Branch was awarded the prestigious HM The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Services for services to the People of Swindon (the equivalent to an MB...
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All those affected by Parkinson's whether they are members of the Branch or of Parkinson’s UK, their families and their carers.
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Motor Neurone Disease Association North Wiltshire
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Tel: 0808 802 6262
SN3 1LA
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The Motor Neurone Disease Association is striving for a World Free of MND and we are dedicated to supporting people affected by MND and funding research into the disease.
Our North Wiltshire Group covers all the areas that have an SN post code, including Swindon, Wroughton, Wootton Bassett and ...
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Anyone in contact with MND.
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