Age UK Teesside (Head Office)

Advice and information for older people and their carers. social clubs, befriending Service Middlesbrough, Redcar and Stockton Area, Dementia Advisory Service Middlesbrough and Redcar Area, Carers Support service Redcar Area only

Age UK Bournemouth, Poole & East Dorset

Information and Advice for older people and their carers and family. Community Connections. Befriending. Day centre. Dementia Day Centre. Pub Lunch Club. Yoga. Energetic Walking Group. Toenail cutting service. Community based activities for the over 55s. Making Memories Groups treatment for people with a diagnosis of mild to moderate dementia . Help at Home such as light cleaning, shopping, and garden maintenance.

Age UK Coventry and Warwickshire

Information and advice for older people, their carers and relatives. Range of care services to support independence including benefits advice, gardening and home support, psychological support/counselling, befriending and dementia day opportunities.

Sight Concern Worcestershire

Support, advice, guidance and activities for people who are blind or partially sighted. Services include home visiting, activity clubs across the county, resource centre offering a range of activities and courses, low vision clinic, sight MOT and technology advice to enable people to maintain their independence.

Disability First

Advice and information for people with physical disabilities, sensory impairments, learning disabilities or mental health problems. Information on disability related issues, including benefits, holidays, transport, sport and leisure, education and access. Run by and for disabled people.

MySight York

Equipment & Information Centre for blind and partially sighted people, their families and carers. Provides advice, equipment, information, technology ,volunteer visiting service, social and support groups and a quarterly newsletter in large print, audio or Braille. Eye Clinic Liaison Officer Information and support service at York Hospital. Also offers training on sight loss awareness for other organisations and businesses, and a National Lottery-funded outreach project helping visually impaired people to access groups and activities in the community. Also offer support and advice for people with sight loss across Yorkshire and Humber who are working towards employment.

Age UK County Durham

Telephone helpline offering information and advice for older people and their carers on benefits, care, consumer, respite care, disability, housing rights, transport and mobility, money.

Tynemouth Blind Welfare Society

Day centre which provides Midday meal available at small charge. Free transport to and from the centre. Services also available to families and friends who give support to visually impaired people. Also has 12 residential flats.

Break

Break’s core business is the provision of children’s homes for Looked After Children in their home Local Authority. Break has six mainstream children’s homes in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire and a Therapeutic Fostering Service offering single placements to young people who will have experienced significant trauma. Young people leaving Break’s care continue to be supported by our in-house Staying Connected Team. In addition to the mainstream homes, Break has two children’s home for young people with profound learning and physical disabilities and a short-break scheme for children with disabilities. Break also provides a range of assessment and support services to children at risk through a Residential Family Centre in Lowestoft and a range of community-based services, including assessment work, across East Anglia.

Independent Advocacy North East

Case advocacy service for people with mental health issues, physical disabilities, vulnerable older people, people who come under the Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA) criteria and where applicable those with learning disabilities. Develop and facilitate self-advocacy groups and also provide short term case advocacy.