Links
Crossroads
Provides support to people with care needs and respite relief for carers:
Crossroads (Scotland) - Caring for Carers
24 George Square
Glasgow
G2 1EG
TEL: 0141 226 3793
Crossroads (England / Wales) - Caring for Carers
10 Regent Place
Rugby
Warwickshire
CV21 2PN
Tel: 01788 573653
Website: www.crossroads.org.uk
Enable
Provides support to people with learning disabilities and their families.
Enable (Scotland)
6th Floor
7 Buchanan Street
Glasgow
G1 3HL
Tel: 0141 226 4541
Website: www.enable.org.uk
Headway
A charitable organisation whose aims are to promote understanding of all aspects of head injury and to provide information, support and services to people who have suffered a head injury, their family and carers.
Headway - The Brain Injury Association
4 King Edward Court
King Edward Street
Nottingham
NG1 1EW
Tel: 0115 924 0800
Headway Edinburgh
Headway House
Astley Ainslie Hospital
Canaan Lane
Edinburgh
EH9 2HL
Tel: 0131 537 9116 / 9557
Headway Glasgow
Head Injury Thro Care Project
Southern General Hospital
1345 Govan Road
Glasgow
Tel: 0104 201 2359
Website: www.headway.org.uk
Momentum
Provides an early intervention job retention scheme, community integration project and brain injury vocational rehabilitation:
Momentum
7th Floor
Savoy Towers
77 Renfrew Street
Glasgow
G2 3BZ
TEL: 0141 333 0567
Website: www.momentumscotland.org
Carers UK
Information and advice on all aspects of caring to both carers and professionals:
Carers UK
Ruth Pitter House
20 -25 Glasshouse Yard
London
EC1A 4JT
Tel: 020 7490 8818
Freephone Carers Line: 0808 808 7777
Website: www.carersuk.org
Alcoholics Anonymous
Advice and support for people with alcohol problems:
Alcoholics Anonymous
Po Box 1
Stonebow House
Stonebow
York
YO1 7NJ
Tel: 01904 644 026
National Help Line: 7833 0022
Website: www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk
Speakability
Information and advice and support for people who have aphasia (difficulty communicating after a stroke or brain injury):
Speakability
1 Royal Street
London
SE1 7LL
Tel: 020 7261 9572
Helpline: 080 8808 9572
Website: www.speakability.org.uk
Legal Advice
For legal advice and details of solicitors in your area contact:
Law Society of Scotland
26 Drumsheugh Gardens
Edinburgh
EH3 7YR
Tel: 0131 226 7411
Law Society (England / Wales)
114 Chancery Lane
London
WC2A 1PL
Tel: 020 7320 5793
Website: www.lawscot.org.uk
Website: www.lawsociety.org.uk
Citizens Advice Bureau
For financial advice contact your local benefits agency or Citizens Advice Bureax. For details of your local Citizens Advice Bureau contact:
Citizens Advice Bureax
Myddelton House
115 - 123 Pentonville Road
London
N1 9LZ
Tel: 020 7833 2181
Website: www.citizensadvice.org.uk
Job Centre Plus
See Job Centre Plus for more information on the following benefits:
- Severe Disablement Allowance
If you are aged 16 or over and under 65, have been unable to work for at least 28 weeks and cannot get Incapacity Benefit. - Disability Living Allowance
If you are aged under 65 and need help looking after yourself or getting around. - Disabled Persons Tax Credit
If you are aged 16 or over, disabled and working 16 hours a week or more. - Incapacity Benefit
If you were not working when you became sick or were self-employed or were sick for more than 28 weeks. - Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (accidents)
If you have had an accident at work.
Website: www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk
Scottish Head Injury Forum
An national umbrella organisation within Scotland that represents the interests of survivors of brain injuries, their families and those who work with them.
Scottish Head Injury Forum
c/o Fife Traumatic Brain Injury Service
Social Work Service
70 Stenhouse St.
Cowdenbeath
KY49DD
Tel: 01383 602201
Fax: 01383 313293
Website: www.shif.org.uk
Scottish Society of Rehabilitation
Provides a multidisciplinary forum for health and social services workers in clinical and academic practice who are interested in effective rehabilitation.
Scottish Society of Rehabilitation
Moira Colvan
Administrative Secretary
24 Kingsland Drive
Glasgow G52 2NE
Tel: 0870 770 5865
Website: www.ssr.org.uk
Enquire
Advice service for additional support for learning.
Freephone: 0845 123 2303
Textphone: 0131 222 2439
Fax: 0131 228 9852
Email: info@enquire.org.uk
Enquire
Children in Scotland
5 Shandwick Place
Edinburgh
EH2 4RG
Website: www.enquire.org.uk
Calvert Trust
A company who specialize in providing outdoor activities for people with disabilities.
Website: www.calvert-trust.org.uk
Calvert Trust Exmoor
Wistlandpound
Kentisbury
Barnstaple
Devon
EX31 4SJ
Tel: 01598 763221
Fax: 01598 763063
Calvert Trust Kielder
Kielder Water
Hexham
Northumberland
NE48 1BS
Tel: 01434 250232
Fax: 01434 250015
Calvert Trust Lake District
Little Crosthwaite
Keswick
Cumbria
CA12 4QD
Tel: 01768 772255
Fax: 01768 771920
Richmond Fellowship
Provider of community care services.
Richmond Fellowship
Head Office/ General enquiries
80 Holloway Road,
London,
N7 8JG
Tel: 020 7697 3300
Fax: 020 7697 3301
Website: www.richmondfellowship.org.uk
Accessible Travel and Leisure
Specialists in providing accessible travel holidays for the less mobile.
Accessible Travel and Leisure
Avionics House
Naas Lane
Quedgeley
Gloucester
GL2 2SN
Tel: 01452 729 739
Fax: 01452 729853
Website: www.accessibletravel.co.uk
Tourism for all
A national charity dedicated to making tourism welcoming to all.
c/o Vitalise
Shap Road Industrial Estate
Shap Road
Kendal
Cumbria LA9 6NZ
Tel: 0845 124 9971
Fax: 01539 735567
Website: www.tourismforall.org.uk
Spinal Injuries Scotland
Spinal Injuries Scotland is the national voluntary organisation concerned with new and long-term spinal cord injured people, their relatives and friends, along with those involved in the management, care and rehabilitation of the injury.
Spinal Injuries Scotland
Festival Business Centre
150 Brand Street
Govan
Glasgow
G51 1DH
Tel: 0141 427 7686
Freephone Line: 0800 0132 305
Text Line: 07700 38 1323
Fax: 0141 427 9528
Website: www.sisonline.org
Visualise
Action group for multi disabled visually impaired adults and children in Scotland.
Visualise
Norton Park
57 Albion road
Edinburgh
EH7 5QY
Website: www.visualise.org.uk
Cerebra
Cebra is a unique charity set up to help improve the lives of children with brain related conditions through researching, educating and directly supporting children and their carers.
Cerebra
Second Floor Offices
The Lyric Building, King Street
Carmarthen, SA31 1BD
Tel: +44 (0) 1267 244200
Fax: +44 (0) 1267 244201
Website: www.cerebra.org.uk
BABICM British Association of Brain Injury Case Managers
BABICM is a professional association which was established in 1996 to promote the development of case management in the field of acquired brain injury.
BABICM
P O Box 199
Bury
BL8 9EJ
Tel: 07002 222 426
Fax: 0161 764 0602
Website: www.babicm.org
CMSUK Case Management Society UK
CMSUK is a non-profit association of Case Managers, committed to the delivery of quality case management through standards of best practice while promoting the individual and collective development of case management throughout the United Kingdom.
CMSUK
PO Box 293
Sutton
SM1 9BH
Tel/Fax: 0870 850 5821
Website: www.cmsuk.org
BRAKE
Brake is a registered charity which aims to prevent death and injury on the roads through education of all road users and campaigning for road safety; and to care for people bereaved or affected by serious injury in a road crash through support services by our division BrakeCare.
BRAKE
PO Box 548
Huddersfield
HD1 2XZ
Tel: 01484 559909
Fax: 01484 559983
Website: www.brake.org.uk