Advice, Advocacy and Benefits
This directory covers disability organisations, services and charities in Shropshire and, where relevant, throughout the UK.
You can search the complete list alphabetically (below), by category (page left), or using the search feature (page right). You can leave comments about the organisations and you can contact us if you would like to suggest an organisation, or offer new information on an existing one.
Directory listings are for information only and should not be considered recommendations. Comments may be edited by the site moderator. SDN is not responsible for the content of external websites.
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Meet on 1st Friday of month (NOT August and December) between 2pm and 4pm.
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Action for Advocacy (A4A) is the central point of information on independent advocacy.
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Free, confidential and impartial information, advice and advocacy on all aspects of disability, to people with disabilities, their families and carers as well as health and social care professionals.
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Action for Blind People is an expert national organisation who ensure that blind and partially sighted people receive practical support in all aspects of their lives.
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Action for M.E. is a charity dedicated to improving the lives of people with M.E.
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RNID has changed its name! It is now Action on Hearing Loss Their new website with useful information can be accessed via www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk Information Line: Telephone 0808 808 0123 (freephone) Textphone 0808 808 9000 (freephone Email: informationline@hearingloss.org.uk Address: 19-23 Featherstone Street, London EC1Y 8SL The Action on Hearing Loss is Britain’s leading charity working with [...]
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ASBAH is the leading UK registered charity providing information and advice about spina bifida and hydrocephalus.
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Shropshire council launch a new service called Tell Us Once on 1 December 2011 which should help those coping with the loss of a loved one. Shropshire Council has teamed up with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to deliver a new service that will reduce stress and red tape when reporting a birth [...]
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The national charity for limbless serving and ex-servicemen and women and their dependants and widows.
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The British Tinnitus Association is a world leader in providing support and advice about tinnitus. We provide accurate, reliable and authoritative information, much of it written by medical professionals or clinical researchers.
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The Campaign wants power and control to shift from government to citizens, families and communities. It rejects the government’s ‘Big Society’ if that means a loss of basic human rights and unfair cuts focused on the most vulnerable.
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The website links below are links to websites that specifically support the needs of Carers. some of them are local to Shropshire, and others are national or regional. Please let us know if you findany thatyou think would be helpful to others and we will add them too. If you are registered on the website just [...]
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If you provide unpaid help or look after a family member or friend who is ill, disabled, frail or elderly who can’t manage without your support then you are a Carer. You can benefit from information and support for yourself to help you in your caring role Are you feeling isolated and lonely? We are [...]
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We offer free support, information and advice to carers in Telford & Wrekin.
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Short Breaks provide opportunities for disabled children and young people to spend time away from their primary carers. This includes day, evening, overnight or weekend activities, which can take place in the child’s own home, the home of an approved carer, or a residential or community setting. Short Breaks can also be provided through a [...]
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CInCH(Community Involvement in Care and Health) is a Shropshire LINk. CInCH a network of local people, organisations and groups in Shropshire that want to make care services better.
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The Citizens Advice service helps people to resolve their legal, money and other problems, provides free, independent and confidential advice and influencing policymakers. There are 11 bureaus in Shropshire.
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The purpose of the Community Council of Shropshire is to maintain and improve the quality of life in Shropshire, particularly its rural communities. We encourage, facilitate and enable voluntary effort and activity and work for productive partnerships between the statutory, voluntary and private sectors.
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The Council of Disabled People (CDP) is a Charity organisation that exists to promote and realise the interests of Disabled people regardless of class, colour, race, sexuality, gender and/or age.
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The purpose of the site is ultimately to provide the UK with a huge counselling support network, enabling those in distress to find a counsellor close to them and appropriate for their needs.
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“All people are born equal in freedom and dignity”
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Clubs for deaf and hard of hearing people in Shropshire.
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deafPLUS is a registered medium-sized charity and company limited by guarantee working to encourage integration and equality between deaf and hearing people in all areas of life.
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A national organisation for a network of approximately 130 local Disability Information and Advice Line services (DIALs) run by and for disabled people. DIAL information and advice services are based throughout the UK and provide information and advice to disabled people and others on all aspects of living with a disability.
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DirectGov provides a range of information on a wide range of matters including government, legal, employment, benefits and disabled rights.
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Disability Alliance is a national registered charity with the principal aim of relieving the poverty and improving the living standards of disabled people. Our eventual aim is to break the link between poverty and disability.
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The Disability Law Service (DLS) provides high quality information and advice to disabled and Deaf people.
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Capacity Building for Disabled People’s Organisations in England
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The Disability Network is dedicated to ensuring that disabled people have immediate access to all relevant information, resources and advice that the web can offer.
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A web-zine of international disability news and views.
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A web-zine which provides useful and day to day information for the disabled from the disabled.
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DLF is a national charity that provides impartial advice, information and training on daily living equipment and assistive technology.
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A web link directory & message board, for people with disabilities and online assistive technology store.
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The Disabled Workers Co-operative provides disabled workers, and companies that employ a significant number of disabled workers in meaningful employment, with a free way of marketing the goods and services they have to offer.
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Supplying Disability Information, Opportunities, Products and Resources to the Worldwide Disability Community, Disabled World is an online community for disabled persons featuring the latest news and articles for people with disabilities.
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UK-wide charity providing support, advice and information for anyone affected by the neurological movement disorder known as Dystonia.
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Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service is committed to achieving equality throughout all areas of the organisation and service delivery.
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This organisation works with people with learning disabilities, their families and the people who support them.
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Guide to benefit changes taking place during 2010.
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Please find below links to paper copies of a number of documents produced by Shropshire solicitors Wace Morgan which will help in providing you with advice to consider when planning for your future. As their representative said to SDN ”Hope for the best and prepare for the worst” and these documents explain all the things you need to [...]
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Listen not Label, a User-Led Organisation developing under the umbrella of the Council for Voluntary Services in Telford and Wrekin.
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Mind helps people take control of their mental health. We do this by providing high-quality information and advice, and campaigning to promote and protect good mental health for everyone. How can we help you?
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The Multiple Sclerosis Resource Centre (MSRC) is a proactive and innovative charity, passionately committed to supporting anyone affected by Multiple Sclerosis through access to unbiased information and advice.
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The MS Society is for people affected by multiple sclerosis (MS) – about 100,000 people in the UK. Information and support is available to anyone affected by MS from a network of over 350 local branches. Branches in Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Telford.
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Shropshire’s ‘My Life, My Choice’ programme will be an exciting way of giving more choice and control to people who need support with their care.
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The NDPA is a staff association and registered Charity set up to support disabled people both in the police service and the wider community.
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The Parent Partnership Services (PPS) are statutory services offering information advice and support to parents and carers of children and young people with special educational needs (SEN).
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Provides information, education, support and advocacy for people with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Contact for information about Telford and Wrekin Group.
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Office for Advice, Assistance, Support and Information on Special needs.
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OSCA works to find ways of enabling people with learning disabilities to take more control over their own lives.
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Created by Qube Multimedia, this site aims to bring together all voluntary and community sector organisations in Oswestry together into one web directory.
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Parents and carers of children with a disability or an additional need often find it difficult to make their voices heard when seeking to influence the provision of services that affect them and the children in their care.
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POhWER currently provides two statutory advocacy services in Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin. The Independent Complaints Advocacy Service (ICAS) offers support and information to anyone wanting to complain about NHS care or treatment recieved. POhWER works to support individuals to share experiences with the NHS so that improvements can be made were necessary. Independent Mental [...]
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A charity which aims to improve quality of life and empower those members of the community marginalised through age, health, disability or rural isolation, to fully participate in society.
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We are a network for individual Disabled People, groups, and organisations of Disabled People living and working throughout the West Midlands.
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Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is the UK’s leading charity offering information, support and advice to over two million people with sight loss.
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Partnership between service users and service providers established with the objective of “improving cancer services in Shropshire & Mid Wales”.
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Provides links to Bridgnorth, Market Drayton, Oswestry, Shrewsbury, South Shropshire, and Whitchurch & Wem Senior Citizens Forums
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The directory contains information on groups which can offer advice and support on some of the issues or concerns any family may encounter.
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Shropshire Family Information Service (0-19) provides free information, advice and support on all aspects of family life, whether you are expecting a baby or the parent or carer of a teenager.
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This website has been produced as a result of the announcement of the Government’s Comprehensive Spending Review. It supports the view that there is an alternative to cuts involving job losses and the reduction of public services.
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SIAS’s mission is to establish an Independent Mental Health Advocacy service, throughout the County of Shropshire and the Borough of Telford & Wrekin.
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The Shropshire Infrastructure Partnership is a consortium of several voluntary sector organisations, all of which provide support to other voluntary and community groups across Shropshire. By working together the partners can maximise the impact of their services.
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PCAS is an advocacy service for people with any type of disability, helping people who live in Shropshire or Telford and Wrekin boroughs.
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Shropshire Scope is over 40 years old and is run by those with cerebral palsy, their parents and carers and those with an interest in the subject.
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Shropshire Voluntary Helping Hand Association organises pastoral care by home, hospital, hospice and residential home visiting, and social outings, for members.
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Parent Partnership Services offer information advice and support to parents and carers of children and young people with special educational needs (SEN).
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Sign Health has been working for over 20 years to improve the health of deaf people – initially in mental health and now more generally.
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A group for parents and families of children with insulin dependent diabetes (associated with Diabetes UK).
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We are a national charity promoting opportunities for young people and adults with any kind of impairment in post-16 education, training and employment.
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Welcome to Social Welfare Training. We provide quality welfare benefits training and consultancy based on legal rights. We can also provide courses on immigration and debt advice.
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Works to raise awareness of the needs and problems disabled people have in relation to access issues.
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Speakability is the national charity that works with people with aphasia.
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The STAA group in Telford meets to support the parents and carers of children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder including Asperger’s Syndrome and ADHD
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Group for parents/carers of adults (16+) with Asperger’s Syndrome within the Telford & Wrekin and Shropshire area.
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Steps – local helpline for parents/carers of children with lower limb abnormalities.
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We have a Facebook page : http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wrekin-Telford-Stroke-Club/255975447768167 with basic information on the group. There is also a secondary page where people can be added to as ‘friends’ if they wish. Our contact information by phone is: 0845 833 95 85 (a number kindly loaned by Lions Club of Telford for the group) which allows anyone to call [...]
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Information on the rights of disabled children in education; contacts to local government providers; charitable organisations concerned with the disabled and education; organisations that provide information on accessible technology.
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SVAB is a registered charity that helps and supports blind and visually impaired people of all ages in Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin.
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TAG runs a helpdesk dealing with questions or concerns about the condition, or for those who want to speak with someone who understands the issues involved.
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An advocacy group for adults with learning disabilities, working throughout Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin.
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NTN&M provides national newspapers and magazines in a variety of accessible formats, for visually impaired and print disabled people who find reading a strain.
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This website, Focus on Disability, for Disabled People and their Carers, provides contact details for a large number of helplines and services focused on Disability. Just follow the link below to see what it offers. Disability – Telephone Helplines for Disability and Carers Please be aware that the website also contains advertisements and SDN cannot provide [...]
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This website provides a list of up to date phone numbers and web and email contact details for a large number of helpline services, with a particular focus on the likely needs of those with disability and their carers. Follow this link to the website to find out if there is anything there to help [...]
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The objectives of The Telephones for the Blind Fund are the relief of the blind by providing telephones for the benefit of the blind residents
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Maintain a Clubs & Societies database which contains information on many diverse organisations such as choirs and theatre groups, family history and walking groups.
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Telford Mind provides a diverse range of quality services, across the County for the one in four people and their families acknowledged to be affected by mental or emotional distress.
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Our current staff and projects are about addressing inequalities and tackling discrimination and harassment in Telford & Wrekin.
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THE CHARITY provides educational, recreational and leisure facilities for mentally, physically and sensory disabled users.
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The word Arthrogryposis literally means curved joint, implying that it is fixed or stuck in the curved position.
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The Disabled Motorists Federation offer a variety of services to assist disabled drivers
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The Project Group is a voluntary arts based community business whose members are, or have been, in touch with Adult Mental Health Services. Membership is achieved through a successful referral process, initiated by a mental health worker, psychiatrist or GP within Shropshire and South Staffordshire.
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The main objective of the Sequel Trust is to provide relief to children and adults who are severely disabled and depend on electronic communication aids and adaptations to alleviate their problems.
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A national charity that provides training and work opportunities for people who are disadvantaged in the labour market due to disability.
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The Stroke Association is concerned with combating stroke in people of all ages.
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THT is a registered charity that offers a very wide range of support services for people affected by HIV
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helps people access the money available to them – through welfare benefits, grants and other help.
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UCanDoIT is a charity teaching blind, deaf and disabled people a range of computer skills including email, the Internet and basic word processing in their own homes.
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Victim Support is the independent national charity which helps people cope with crime.
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Provides professional communication services for Deaf, deafblind and hard-of-hearing people living in Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin.
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The Wellington Cottage Care day centre offers day care to adults with disabilities and nursing care needs from qualified nurses, therapists and health care assistants.
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A voluntary organisation situated in We provide support, training, work opportunities and recreational activities for people with learning disabilities in Ludlow, South Shropshire.
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WRVS can help in the home, in the community, in hospitals, in emergencies and disasters and with the Armed Forces.
