UK Organisations
DisabledGo would like to thank many of the following Organisations for their feedback and letters of support:
Ableize
UK disability and Health web directory. Site includes advice, information, disabled goods, facilities and services with comprehensive listings of specific disabilities, mobility and care aids, access information, education and the arts.
Access All Areas
Disability Discrimination Act DDA access audit service.. Offering compliance reports to all UK businesses and service providers via reasonable adjustment.
Arthritis Care
Arthritis Care is the only national voluntary organisation working with and for all people with arthritis. It aims to promote their health, well-being and independence through services, support, self-help, information and influence. It has around 600 branches and groups and 66,000 committed supporters.
For more details about Arthritis Care and printed information about arthritis telephone 0845 600 6868 (open 24 hours)
Aspire
ASPIRE works with people with spinal cord injury to offer practical support and innovation from the moment of their injury for the rest of their lives. Its founding principle is and remains integration. Everything that the charity does is geared towards creating an environment - whether it be in the home, the office or the world of sport and leisure - where the barriers that divide able-bodied and disabled people are removed.
Back-Up Trust
The Back-Up Trust is a national charity for people who are paralysed through spinal cord injury (SCI). Back-Up works to enable people with SCI to surpass their aspirations. Back-Up works with over 2,000 spinally injured people of all ages by providing a range of courses, skills training and peer led mentoring to help each and every one get their lives back on track.
"What Back-Up offers is beyond your wildest imagination when you are lying in a hospital having been told you will never walk again" Andy (31) cause of injury – climbing
BCODP
The British Council of Disabled People (BCODP) was formed in 1981 and acts as a co-ordinating and representative body for disabled people and organisations controlled by disabled people. We now have 116 member groups and many hundreds of individual members covering about 400,000 disabled people in all. We are genuinely a representative voice of disabled people in the United Kingdom.
Our mission is to secure by all democratic means, our full and equal human and civil rights as disabled people in the U.K.
Changing Places
The Changing Places campaign is calling for Changing Places toilets, with a height-adjustable changing bench, hoist and plenty of space to be installed in all big public places, including city centres, shopping malls and arts venues. Without these facilities, carers are often forced to change disabled family members on a dirty toilet floor. But the alternative is to not go out at all.
Contact a Family
Contact a Family is a UK charity which helps families who care for children with any disability or special need. We are a main source of information about rare disorders and are able to assist affected adults as well as children. Contact a Family may also be able to help with information and contacts for conditions not listed - please call the Contact a Family Helpline on 0808 808 3555. Freephone for parents and families (10am-4pm, Mon-Fri).
Disability alliance
Disability Alliance provides information on benefits through publications (like the Disability Rights Handbook), and free factsheets and briefings. It campaigns for improvements to the social security system.
Disability Rights Commission
The Disability Rights Commission (DRC) is an independent body set up by the Government to help secure civil rights for disabled people. Its statutory duties are:
- To work to eliminate discrimination against disabled people.
- To promote equal opportunities for disabled people.
- To encourage good practice in the treatment of disabled people.
- To advise the Government on the working of disability legislation (the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1995 and the Disability Rights Commission Act 1999).
Help the Aged
Help the Aged aims to attack and remove the major barriers to active and fulfilled later lives. We are working to combat poverty, reduce isolation, defeat ageism and challenge poor care standards.
IFI - Inclusive Fitness Initiative
The Inclusive Fitness Initiative is a Sport England Lottery Funded project which works alongside local authority fitness facilities to support them to offer and inclusive fitness provision. This is achieved through support in four key areas of equipment, training, marketing and sport development. The Inclusive Fitness Initiative is a programme of the English Federation of Disability Sport Operating Company.
JMU Access Partnership
JMU Access Partnership is a pan-disability access consultancy, supported by the RNIB. Our aim is to help enable disabled people lead full and independent lives through improving access to the urban, built and transport environment. This is achieved through our consultancy, training, publications, research and policy activities.
For more information contact 020 7391 2002 or look at our website.
Low Incomes Tax Reform Group
The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) was initiated by the Chartered Institute of Taxation to give a voice to the unrepresented in the tax system. Our latest report recommends rationalising and extending the VAT reliefs available for supplies to disabled customers
Mencap
Mencap is the UK's leading learning disability charity. 1.5 million people in the UK have a learning disability, which will affect their social and intellectual development all their lives. We provide services, advice and support to meet people's needs and choices throughout their lives. And we fight for equal rights, campaign for greater opportunities and challenge attitudes and prejudices.
Mobility Advice Line
Mobility Advice Line is a public enquiry service for all UK based disabled people, and their carers, about how to retain or enhance their mobility and independence, via adapted personal transport where necessary.
We also offer a specialist information service to staff in public and voluntary organisations.
Mobility Friendly Homes
We are a web based company which helps people to market their own accessible and/or adapted property for sale or to rent on our site. We operate throughout the UK and are currently in the process of introducing the mobility friendly homes concepts to town based Estate Agents, this, we hope will enable people to sell their own adapted/accessible property with ease, without having to remove any mobility/access features to achieve a sale. We also maintain a database for people to register their property requirements on and from that database we try to match properties with applicants.
PA Pool
PA Pool is a website for PA Users (disabled people) who are recruiting and for PAs (carers) who are looking for work.
PA Pool provides members with a searchable database of PAs and PA users, giving instant access to available people whenever the need arises - and for less than the cost of conventional advertising.
Queen Elizabeth's Foundation
Queen Elizabeth's Foundation encourages and enables adults with disabilities to increase independence and improve life skills. The Foundation's aim is to ensure that all adults in the United Kingdom with disabilities can access the training and support required to achieve their goals.
The Foundation is based in southeast England and provides vocational training for mainstream employment, brain injury rehabilitation, mobility assessment and training, coaching for life in the community and a national information service for people with disabilities.
RNIB
There are around two million people in the U K with sight problems. RNIB's pioneering work helps anyone with a sight problem - not just with braille, Talking Books and computer training, but with imaginative and practical solutions to everyday challenges. We fight for equal rights for people with sight problems. We fund pioneering research into preventing and treating eye disease. We need your support to fund our vital work. As a charity we rely on your generosity. If you or someone you know has a sight problem, RNIB can help. Call the RNIB Helpline on 0845 766 9999 or visit our website.
Scope
Scope is a disability organisation in England and Wales whose focus is people with cerebral palsy. Our aim is that disabled people achieve equality: a society in which they are as valued and have the same human and civil rights as everyone else.
If you need information, advice or just someone to talk to, get in touch with Scope's Cerebral Palsy Helpline. Call free on 0808 800 3333. It's free, friendly and confidential.
Sense
Sense is the national voluntary organisation supporting and campaigning for people who are deafblind or have associated disabilities, their families, their carers, and professionals who work with them. People of all ages and with widely varying conditions use Sense's specialist services. Founded as a parents self-help group in 1955, Sense is now the leading national organisation working with deafblind people.
Shape
Shape is the country's leading Disability Organisation specializing in access to arts, leisure and culture for deaf and disabled people. Through our Open the Door Programme, we offer organisations working within these sectors the most comprehensive training and access audit service currently available.
Spinal Injuries Association
The Spinal Injuries Association is the leading national charity for spinal cord injured people and all those concerned with their well-being.
Established in 1974, with HRH The Princess Royal as its Patron, SIA offers information, advice and on-going support to spinal cord injured people on all aspects of living with their disability. SIA's services include a Helpline providing information and advice, a Peer Support scheme to assist those undergoing treatment in Spinal Injuries Centres and a range of expert publications, including a bi-monthly magazine, addressing a wide spectrum of issues of interest and concern to spinal cord injured people.
Membership of SIA is open to all.
The Multiple Sclerosis Society
The MS Society is the UK's largest charity for people affected by Multiple Sclerosis (MS) - about 85,000 people in the UK.
The Society funds MS research, runs holiday homes and respite care, provides grants, education and training on MS. It produces numerous publications on MS and runs a freephone specialist helpline on 0808 800 8000.
The MS Society is committed to bringing high standards of quality health and social care within reach of everyone affected by MS and to encourage and support medical and applied research into its cause and control.
The National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS)
The National Deaf Children's Society is an organisation of parents, families and carers which exists to support parents in enabling their child to maximise their skills and abilities; and works to facilitate this process by every means possible.
NDCS is working for all deaf children and young people. For information and support about your child's hearing, please call the NDCS Freephone helpline 0808 800 8880 (voice and text) or email helpline@ndcs.org.uk
The Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID)
RNID is the largest charity representing the 9 million deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK. RNID's vision is of a world where deafness and hearing loss are not barriers to opportunity and fulfilment.
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