Advice and Support Services


Action Unlimited Trust - Practical & financial assistance for local people with disabilities ...

Advocacy Alliance, Warwickshire Independent - Provides a free advocacy service to adults who ...

Alcoholics Anonymous - AA exists to help those with problems of alcoholism. Meetings 3 times ...

Alzheimer's Society - Provides information & support to people living with dementia, their ca...

Arthritis Care, Alcester - Only national charity offering practical support to people with a...

autism. west midlands - Provides information advice and support, education, residential and d...

British Heart Foundation - Charity leading the fight against heart disease....

Cancer BACUP - Provides cancer support services for people with cancer, their relatives & fri...

Cancer Relief Macmillian Fund - Funds training of Macmillan Nurses, awarding patient grants, ...

Cancer Research UK - Fund raising for research in causes & cures of cancer....

Cancer Telephone - For sufferers & families, a listening ear & help with information concerni...

Carers' Support Service (South Warks) - Provides emotional support, advice, advocacy & assis...

Citizens Advice Bureau Shipston-on-Stour - Advice and information service - visit only*...

Citizen's Advice Bureau, Alcester - Advice and information service - visit only.*...

Citizen's Advice Bureau, Southam - Advice and information service - visit only....

Citizen's Advice Bureau, Stratford-upon-Avon - Advice and information service....

Colitis & Crohn's Disease, Nat'l Assoc of

Community Alcohol Service - Support, advice & information, counselling and referral for speci...

Compassionate Friends - A nation-wide self-help organisation of parents whose child of any ag...

Council for Voluntary Service, North Warks

Council for Voluntary Service, Nun. & Bed. - Chair: Mr Stuart Hall...

Council for Voluntary Service, Rugby - Chair: Mrs Sheila Hammond...

Council for Voluntary Service, Stratford - Mrs Clarissa Roberts, Volunteer Centre Manager. T...

Council for Voluntary Service, Warwick District - Chair: Mrs Terry Cadbury...

Council of Disabled People, S/Avon - Resource workers, disability information. Independent O...

Council of Disabled People, Warwickshire & Coventry - Resource workers, information. Black d...

Coventry Voluntary Service Council

CRUSE - Bereavement - Cruse is a national organisation which aims to help those who have suff...

Disability West Midlands - DWM is involved in projects which empower disabled people in the a...

Dyslexia Rights Action Group - Support group for Parents, Adults & Children with dyslexic pro...

Dyslexia, South Warks Association - Specialised tuition for dyslexic children in small groups...

Escape Community Art in Action - Escape Community Art in Action is a charity using creative a...

Guide Dogs for the Blind - Stratford Branch raises funds to train guide dogs and blind people...

Headway Coventry & Warwickshire - Support, Information and Signposting For people with an Acq...

HIV/AIDS Helpline - HIV Directory available from Coventry Health Promotion Services, tel 024 ...

Information Service on Disability - Provides help & advice on a wide range of disability-rela...

ITCH Network - ITCH is a network of computer literate volunteers who assist disabled people f...

Jennifer Trust for Spinal Muscular Atrophy - Support services, UK wide, for children and adul...

Leukaemia Research Fund

M E Support Group (Warwickshire) - ME group for support and information to carers and suffere...

Marriage Care - Professionally trained counsellors available helping anyone with difficulties...

Mencap Residential Care Centre

Mencap Society Stratford & District - Provides residential care, supported living and respite...

Meningitis/Septicaemia Helpline - A national helpline offering information and support regard...

Mid-Warwickshire Mind - A Registered Charity providing information and support services 1 : 1...

Miscarriage Support

Motor Neurone Disease - South Warwickshire branch support group....

Multiple Sclerosis Society - Gives help & support to local people with Multiple Sclerosis. Ph...

Mustard Tree Project - A Christian Housing Project which provides semi-independent, supported...

Myasthenia Gravis Association - Provides support and advice to Myasthenics and their families...

Myton Hamlet Hospice - Only hospice providing extensive in-patient care for patients with lif...

Myton Hamlet Hospice

NAVCA (National Association for Voluntary and Community Action) - NAVCA is the national voice...

Parent Support Group, Studley

Parents & Drugs - Support group for parents who have experienced drug problems....

Parkinson's Disease Society - Mr. Philip Hart, Hon.Chairman Tel: 01789 295720 Information & a...

Pregnancy Advisory Service - Services include pregnancy testing, non-directive pregnancy coun...

Relate South Warwickshire Relate South Warwickshire - Initial consultation with a counsellor....

Remap Panel - Design & make special one-off devices for individual disabled people where no c...

Rethink - Day Service Resource Café for those who have severe and enduring mental illness, Wa...

Riding for the Disabled - Provides physical & mental exercise & stimulation through riding....

Royal British Legion - Promotes the welfare of serving & ex-servicemen & women & their depend...

Royal British Legion, Women's Section - Helps servicemen, ex-servicemen widows & familes of s...

S.O.B.S, South Warwickshire - Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide. Self-help group to meetthe...

Safeline - Support for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Helpline, counselling, supp...

Samaritans - Samaritans provides a 24 hour confidential listening service for the suicidal, d...

SCOPE - Help & advice to people with cerebral palsy as well as families and/or carers. Nation...

Shakespeare Hospice - The Life Well at the Shakespeare Hospice offers specialist advice and c...

Shopmobility - Free hire of electric scooters and attendant wheelchairs to people with perman...

Solace - Helpline for those suffering from depression, with particular reference to physicall...

Spina Bifida & Hydrocephalus, Assoc for - Advice & information to people with spina bifida an...

Spinal Injuries Assoc - Self help group with link to national organisation. Meetings mainly s...

Springfield Mind - Support for people with mental/emotional/stress problems, including day ca...

SSAFA - Forces Help - SSAFA provide help & support to service & ex-service personnel & famili...

Stonham Housing Association - Provides accommodation for the single homeless, particularly ex...

Stroke Association, Regional Office - Information centre offering free & confidential advice ...

SWiGG - SWiGG is the only society in the South Warwickshire area dedicated to providing suppo...

Talking Newspaper for the Blind for the Blind - Produces audio cassettes supplying news from...

Terrence Higgins Trust - The HIV & Aid Charity for life offers, support, counselling and educ...

The Rowan Organisation - Disability Information Services for advice and information on all di...

Victim Support, Stratford & S.Warks. Stratford & Sth Wark - Victim Support works for the righ...

Volunteer Centre, Alcester - Recruits Volunteers, operates Community Transport Scheme, wheelc...

Volunteer Bureau, North Warwickshire - Recruits Volunteers and signposts them to appropriate ...

Volunteer Bureau, Nuneaton & Bedworth - Recruits Volunteers, operates Community Transport Sch...

Volunteer Bureau, Rugby - Recruits Volunteers, operates Community Transport Scheme. Mrs Eva A...

Volunteer Centre, Shipston-on-Stour - Recruits Volunteers, operates Community Transport Schem...

Volunteer Centre, Southam - Recruits Volunteers, operates Community Transport Scheme, Wheelch...

Volunteer Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon - Recruits Volunteers, operates Community Transport Sch...

Volunteer Development England - Full name is National Association of Volunteer Bureaux...

W R V S, Stratford-upon-Avon

Warwickshire Association for the Blind (WAB) - Provides advice, information, leisure and reha...

Warwickshire Rural Community Council - Advice, information & small grants to initiate project...

WDVSS - Support & counselling to families suffering domestic violence. 24 hour helpline freep...

Welfare Rights Advice Service, Warwickshire - Training, publications & consultancy support fo...

West Midlands Rural Stress Support Network (Warwickshire)

Witness Service - Offers help & assistance to victims, witnesses, families and friends of per...

Women's Refuge - Emergency accommodation for women victims...


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