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The Home Library Service - Dorset and BCP
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Tel: 01305 236666
Royal Voluntary Service
The Old School House
49 High West Street
Dorchester
Dorset
DT1 1UT
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If you are housebound, are unable to get to your local library and have no one to collect items for you, we can arrange for them to be delivered to your home.
The service is delivered free of charge, every 3 weeks
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People who are unable to access the library and their carers
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Dorset Library - Home Library Service
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Tel: 01305 225000
Library Headquarters
Dorset County Council
Colliton Park
Dorchester
Dorset
DT1 1XJ
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Dorset Council's Home Library Service delivers books to the housebound, those living in their own homes or sheltered housing for free. We offer a wide range of fiction as well as information books on country life, cookery, travel, biography and other popular subjects. You can request specific boo...
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The service is available to housebound people living in their own homes or sheltered housing. If you live in a residential home we have other services available to you. Please contact your local library.
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Dorset County Council – services for children
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Tel: 01305 221000
County Hall
Colliton Park
Dorchester
Dorset
DT1 1XJ
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Provide social care services for children and young people
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Children, young people and those that care for them
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Greenwood Centre For Independent Living
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Tel: 033 300 30010
Maiden Castle Road
Dorchester
Dorset
DT1 2ER
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If you need information and advice on disability products, national and local suppliers, organisations and services, we can help you find it. In addition, there are computer facilities available for you to search our extensive information databases, either with or without help from our experience...
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The Centre for Independent Living is designed for people of all ages and disabilities, their carers and families, health and social care professionals, voluntary, community and business organisations.
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Handy Van Repair Service - East Boro Housing Trust
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Tel: 01202 883503
Faulkner House
31 West Street
Wimborne
Dorset
BH21 1JS
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East Boro’s Handy Van Repair Service launched in April 2008 and provides a friendly, professional repair service, providing practical, useful help around the home.
All you pay for is the cost of materials needed for your repair as the Handy Van Repair Service is funded by the Borough of Poole an...
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Dorset Gastrectomy And Oesophagectomy (Go) Support Group
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Tel: 01305 255710
Dorset County Hospital
Williams Avenue
Dorchester
Dorset
DT1 2JY
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The GO Support Group provides support, information and advice to anyone throughout Dorset who has undergone surgery for stomach cancer.
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SENDiass4BCP
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Tel: 01202 128181
(post only – we are not office based, no drop in available)
c/o Branksome Outreach Centre
Branksome
Poole
Dorset
BH12 1AW
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SENDiass4BCP provide a free, confidential, and impartial service for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) who live across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, and their parents or carers. We are arms’ length from the local authority.
We can help if you...
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Parents/Carers/Young People needing impartial advice on Special Educational Needs or Disabilities in the educational setting 0 - 25 years
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Tel: 01305 751160
St John Ambulance
St John House
Bridport Road
Dorchester
Dorset
DT1 2NH
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St John Ambulance Dorset provides a Carers Support Programme to help people in a caring role.
The Carers Support Programme is a free 4 session course (held over one morning for four weeks) and is available to any adult who looks after another, in caring capacity. The course material is accredite...
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The Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia Support Group
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Tel: 01305 772 286
DT3 5AF
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The HSP/FSP Support Group helps people diagnosed with Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia [also known as Familial Spastic Paraparesis]. It is a UK based Registered Charity and was started as a 'self-help' group in 1989 by Stephanie Wyatt to support her affected husband and son. We now have over 300 me...
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Helps people diagnosed with Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia [also known as Familial Spastic Paraparesis] and their families
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Dorset Advocacy
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Tel: 0300 343 7000
13-15 Jubilee Court
Paceycombe Way
Poundbury
Dorchester
Dorset
DT1 3AE
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Dorset Advocacy works in the Dorset and BCP Council area with disabled people, carers, people with learning disabilities or difficulties, and those who lack mental capacity. We help you to speak up so that you get the social and health care services that you need. We can also provide support if...
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People with learning difficulties, disabled and older people.
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