It provides extra comforts for the patients and benefits for the nursing staff in the mental health services of the Warrington Community, St Helens and Knowsley and Wigan and Leigh districts.
Abbeyfield is one of the largest voluntary sector UK-wide providers of housing and care for older people, committed to alleviating loneliness while maintaining independence. Founded in 1956, Abbeyfield has grown to include around 750 houses managed by professional staff and volunteers, providing support, care and friendship for around 8,000 residents.
We offer rural communities a source of independent, expert support on the particular issues that affect them and manage programmes designed to find new ways of meeting their needs. We work with rural people in Sussex to make sure their voice is heard locally, regionally and nationally. As a result we often step in when there is a risk that services needed by rural people could easily be forgotten.
Action on Elder Abuse works to protect, and prevent the abuse of vulnerable older adults. It does this through the provision of a freephone helpline, training and educating key workers, and also by challenging government to make essential changes to the law which protect those at risk of abuse.
Age Concern Bristol believes older people are entitled to equal rights and treatment, including services, goods, employment and education. It is committed to involving older people in the running of the organization as well as striving to challenge all forms of discrimination and poverty.
Age Concern Calderdale promotes the well-being of older people in calderdale (age 50+) by providing good quality services and support, influencing policy and practice, consulting older people and finding innovative ways of meeting their needs and working in partnership with other local agencies to better serve older people within the community
Age Concern Cheshire is committed to making later life a fulfilling and enjoyable experience for all older people in Cheshire. It seeks to achieve this by providing a range of care and support services to empower and enable older people.
Age Concern is the UK's largest organisation working for and with older people. In England, we are a federation of over 400 charities working together to promote the well-being of all older people. Age Concern's work ranges from providing vital local services to influencing public opinion and government. Every day we are in touch with thousands of older people from all kinds of backgrounds - enabling them to make more of life.
Together Age Concern’s in London are working to improve the influence, status and quality of life of older people. There is at least one Age Concern Charity in every London Borough providing services to thousands of people including; information and advice, care and other services relating to the health and well-being of older Londoners.
Age Concern Lambeth supports and work with older people to achieve a full and enjoyable quality of life. It provides a range of services including information & advice, handyperson service, healthy living classes, and day care services.
Poverty, disadvantage, ill-health and discrimination can prevent older people from living their lives with dignity, security and opportunity. Age Concern Swindon exists to promote the well-being of all older people in and around the borough and helps make later life a fulfilling and enjoyable experience.
Age Concern Westminster exists to promote the wellbeing of older people in the City of Westminster and help to make later life a fulfilling and enjoyable experience.
AgeCare is dedicated to the care and wellbeing of older people who are frail or suffering from dementia, promoting and researching best practice in residential and nursing care in its homes. The AgeCare Awards scheme offers nurses and carers throughout the profession a structured training scheme with nationally recognised qualifications.
Alzheimer's Support supports people suffering with Alzheimers and other dementias and their families through a range of flexible specialist services to maitain as much independence and control over their lives as possible
It helps the frail elderly with social inclusion and finacially with annuities, grants and loans.
The Argus Appeal's objectives are to relieve sickness, poverty, hardship and to provide benefits for lonely, needy old people and underprivileged children and other persons considered appropriate by the trustees in the Sussex area. All funds raised are used to support causes where they can “make a difference”.
It's aim is to make a difference to the lives of older people and adults with a disability and to support practical solutions that lead to increased personal independence, self-sufficiency and dignity, by making grants to individuals and organisations, with identified health and social care needs which cannot be met by the statutory public sector.
Bede is a community based charity offering opportunities for people in Bermondsey, Rotherhithe and Southwark. It aims to help people develop their skills, talents and confidence and contribute to the community. It offers youth work, services for adults with learning disabilities, help for victims of hate crime especially domestic violence and homophobic crime and community development work
The Benevolent Society was founded in 1886 to make a real difference to the daily lives of those who have worked in the drinks industry and now need help. Today, it helps more than 500 people from across the industry, providing financial grants, sheltered accommodation, care home facilities and support.
Its aim is to enable Carers in Bexley to have a break from their caring responsibilities; it does this by providing trained Care Support Workers who look after the cared for person in their home or take the person out while the carer has a break from their caring responsibilities.
One in four of us will experience a mental health problem at some point in our lives. Bromley Mind is a small local charity with a large remit to help local residents recover from mental ill health and support people suffering from dementia and their carers in LB Bromley
CPC helps pre school children who have Cerebral Palsy achieve their full physical, mental and social potential using "Conductive Education". This service is FREE. CPC offers "Care in the community" enabling Elderly and disabled of all ages to retain their independence. The "Day Centre" for the elderly and disabled gives a welcome break from the confines of home. The "Life Skills Group" enables young adults to explore their potential and live as independently as possible, learning new skills and making friends in a safe environment.
Calvert Trust Exmoor is an outdoor activity centre for people with disabilities. Its specially adapted facilities aim to challenge disability through outdoor adventure and enable people of all ages and with all types of disability to benefit from the Calvert Experience, an opportunity that leads to real personal achievement. Activities such as horse riding, carriage driving, abseiling, climbing, canoeing, kayaking, sailing, archery and orienteering are all offered at our 40 acre site, along with caring qualified staff to ensure visitors have a safe and enjoyable experience.
It offers practical and emotional support and advice for Visually Impaired People living in Cambridge and the rural areas of South and East Cambridgeshire. Services include a Resource Centre for specialist equipment, training in mobility and daily living skills, and a rural network of peer support groups.
Caravan is the charity for people in the grocery, provisions, greengrocers and off-licence industries. We assist around 1,500 former workers from warehousemen and delivery drivers to sales representatives and checkout operators who, for a variety of different reasons, are struggling to cope. Assistance consist of quarterly cash payments and help with the essentials of modern day living and an annual home visit from our assessors. Caravan is the trading name of the National Grocers Benevolent Fund, A Registered Charity Reg. No 1095897 & Scottish Registered Charity No SC 039255. A company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales No 4620683.
The Cardiff Institute for the Blind provides direct services and aid to visually impaired people throughout the Counties of Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan. It also supports individuals throughout South Wales through contact at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff
Carers UK is an organisation of carers providing vital information and support for carers. Many carers' health, finances and careers are severely affected as a direct consequence of providing unpaid care. Carers UK campaigns for a better deal for carers.
Central & Cecil is dedicated to providing quality homes care and support that contribute to the health and vitality of communities in and around London. Central & Cecil is a not-for-profit organisation. Central & Cecil's key client groups are homeless men and women, frail and active older people and people with mental health support needs.
The prime objective is to provide "care according to need".It provides a high standard of residential & nursing care for the elderly whilst maintaining the individual's privacy, dignity and self esteem.
It provides hostel and other Housing Association accommodation together with any associated amenities for persons of necessitous circumstances upon the terms appropriate to their means, all such activities to be undertaken in strict compliance with and obedience to the Foundation, Aims and Doctrinal Basis of Christian Alliance.
The Civil Service Benevolent Fund is the principal occupational charity for all current, former, and retired civil servants, and employees of associated public sector organisations. It provides help, advice, and grant giving services, and last year alone gave nearly £4 million in financial assistance to over 9,000 people.
Compton Hospice, a local charity in Wolverhampton, is a specialist provider of palliative care and education. In collaboration with others we influence quality of life through excellence in patient care, whilst ensuring effective use of available resources.
It grant funds to charities in England and Wales to provide music and access to the arts for the elderly. The annual "Concertina Young Musicians Concert" provides a platform for outstanding young musicians at a prestigious venue and gives free tickcets to the elderly and their carers.
Connect is a national charity. Our vision is a world where people with aphasia and communication disability find opportunity and fulfilment. We work with people with aphasia to promote effective services, new opportunities and a better quality of life for people living with aphasia. Aphasia is a communication disability which is usually caused by stroke but it can also arise from head injury and tumour. People with aphasia find it hard to speak, write, understand language and use numbers. One in every 200 people in the UK has aphasia. To find out more please visit our website: www.ukconnect.org
It provides regular, monthly outings for small groups of isolated elderly people, who share a nice cup of tea and a chat with a volunteer and their family.
Cornwall Care provides help and accommodation to over 1,500 older people every week either through residential care or care in peoples own homes
Counsel and Care is a national charity getting the best care and support for older people, their families and carers. We do this by providing advice, information and financial support and by influencing future policies, services and funding. We are seen as the experts in eldercare.
CrossReach is one of the biggest care providers in Scotland. Each day we help support over 4000 of the most vulnerable people in Scotland. We have 80 different services providing care and support in these areas: Addictions, Children & Families, Counselling & Support, Criminal Justice, Homelessness, Learning Disabilities, Mental Health, Older People.
CSV builds safer and stronger communities for everyone through volunteering. Each year 230,000 volunteers transform spaces, places and lives for the better, by: · Mentoring children in care · Bringing independence to disabled people · Protecting children at risk of abuse · Befriending lonely elders · Transforming the environment and much more!
for dementia supports the carers and families of people with all forms of dementia, both informal and professional. It provides Admiral Nurses for carers and training for care workers.
East Cheshire Crossroads Caring for Carers provides high quality support services to carers and people with care needs. Caring for a sick or disabled person is a very demanding role so it is vital that carers get support. Crossroads gives carers the chance to share the responsibility for a while.
The Parish Centre is a much-needed community facility providing access for all. It will provide for youth work, additional before-and-after school child care, parenting skills, post-55 mobility classes, bereavement care, luncheon club and be available for other community groups.
The fund seeks to help all people who have worked for English National Opera and Welsh National Opera, where there is a very real need. Some beneficiaries have had their careers ended overnight because of ill health or injury.
We support a variety of South African Jewish charities that face an ageing population and a diminished pool of resources to maintain the very necessary support they provide. The changing economic and social structure of South African society have left in its wake an increasing number of Jewish families who are dependent on welfare. The needs of theese charities grow continuously.
It leads in the provision of remedial movement to music for the over 60s and those of any age with special needs or learning difficulties. It achieves this through training 'teachers' to conduct regular classes in community centres and care homes in the public, private and voluntary sectors.
ExtraCare is the UK pioneer in the development of affordable retirement and sheltered housing schemes for older people. Our model is unique accommodation designed to provide a home for life and extensive village centre facilities and activities that promote a stay-active and healthy lifestyle. ExtraCare has developed an innovative, award winning Well-Being programme which achieves significantly higher levels of wellness and much improved public sector economics associated with caring for our village residents and elderly friends in the surrounding community. ExtraCare is running major capital appeals for villages in Sheffield, Nottingham, and Milton Keynes in 2007 and 2008.
The relief of poverty, hardship and the the distress in the world particularly in India,Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
Father Hudson's Society is the social welfare agency of the Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham. It reaches out to those in need through Adoption, Fostering agencies and Origins services, residential care for older people and those with dementia, residentialand day care for people with disabilities and innovotive community based work.
Every 30 seconds in the UK, fire fighters are called to an incident, putting their lives on the line, and often sustaining physical injuries whilst carrying out their duties. The Fire Fighters Charity is here for fire fighters during their times of need, and assists over 11,000 individuals every year, by providing pioneering treatment and support services. Our modern, dynamic and award-winning charity has three UK centres, located in Cumbria, Devon and West Sussex, which offer varying combinations of therapy and recuperations services. Our pioneering new Beneficiary Support Service also offers local and remote assistance to people in need nationwide. It costs over £9 million every year to keep the Charity running, and with no government funding, we are completely reliant upon donations from the fire general public and fire community. Want to find out more? Visit www.firefighterscharity.org.uk