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Gateshead and South Tyneside Sight Service
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Tel: 0191 478 5959
The Bradbury Centre for Sight
Unit 2B, Stonehills Business Park
Pelaw
Gateshead
Tyne and Wear
NE10 8SB
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Sight Service is the leading local provider of services and support for people who are visually impaired and live in Gateshead or South Tyneside. Our advice, information and support can enable visually impaired people to have the quality of life which many sighted people take for granted. We also...
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Carers Centre Newcastle
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Tel: 0191 275 5060
135-139 Shields Road
Byker
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE6 1DN
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Carers Centre Newcastle is a independently registered charity working citywide to provide dedicated support and information. We provide services on a universal offer approach: inclusion; identification; outreach; and tailored information and advice and are a hub for carers in Newcastle.
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Our services are available for any carer aged 18 and over who lives in Newcastle or who cares for someone living in Newcastle. Support is also available for former carers who have received our services whilst being a carer.
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Newcastle Library Home Delivery Service
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Tel: 0191 278 7878
Fenham Library
Fenham Hall Drive
Fenham
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE4 9XD
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Newcastle Libraries can deliver a bag of books or audiobooks to your door each month. You can use this service if: you are unable to visit your local library due to either permanent or temporary ill health, or you have a permanent disability.
To find out more about this service, please contact ...
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Anyone living in Newcastle who due to ill health permanently or temporarily is unable to regularly visit the library. Also anyone who has caring responsibilities.
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Deaflink North East
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Tel: 0191 281 2314
4 Glendale Terrace
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE6 1PB
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Deaflink offers a range of services for D/deaf (with a capital 'D' referring to British Sign Language users), Hard-of-Hearing and Deafblind people, including forums and Support groups each month.
Deaflink can help organisations to be more inclusive and deaf aware through staff training.
Deafl...
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Deaf, Deafblind, Hard-of-Hearing and Deafened people and their families.
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Butterfly Thyroid Cancer Trust
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Tel: 01207 545469
PO Box 205
Rowlands Gill
Tyne and Wear
NE39 2WX
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The only registered charity in the UK dedicated solely to the support of people affected by thyroid cancer.
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10am - 4pm: Helpline avaliable for anyone affected by thyroid cancer
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Pelaw Youth Centre Phab Club
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Tel: 0191 438 6636
Pelaw Youth Centre
Shields Road
Pelaw
Gateshead
Tyne and Wear
NE10 0QD
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The Phab Club is a national organisation that works to promote the integration of people with or without physical disabilities.
The Pelaw Phab Club is a place where 11 - 25 year olds can come together on equal terms to have fun and meet new friends. We meet every Tuesday 6.30pm - 8.30pm to take ...
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St Cuthberts Care Alan Shearer Short Break Centre
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Tel: 0191 267 8128
West Denton Hall
West Denton
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE15 7LT
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The Alan Shearer Short Break Centre is a tailored holiday-style short break service for children and adults with physical and learning disabilities, autism and Asperger's syndrome. Our guests can visit for as long as they wish, choosing to enjoy a weekend, mid-week break or a longer holiday with ...
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Anyone over 8 with a disability.
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Contact A Family North East
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Tel: 0191 213 6300
The Dene Centre
Castle Farm Road
Gosforth
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE3 1PH
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Contact a Family is the only UK wide charity providing advice, information and support to the parents/carers of all disabled children aged 0 to 19. We also enable parents and carers to get in contact with other families, both on a local and naitonal basis. We produce a range of information inclu...
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Sunderland Parent Carer Forum
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Tel: 0739 3129 858
NE38 7QW
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We are parents and carers working together to create change, so all our children and young people can learn, make friends, have a voice and be part of everyday community and school life.
We support families with children and young people who have disabilities, special education needs and/or addi...
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Parent/carers and service providers. We are an inclusive group, where everyone is welcome.
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Niemann-Pick Disease Group (Uk)
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Tel: 0191 415 0693
Suite 2, Vermont House
Concord
Washington
Tyne and Wear
NE37 2SQ
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When a child or individual is diagnosed with Niemann-Pick disease it adversely affects the whole family. Hopes and dreams for the future are destroyed, leaving families feeling distressed, frightened and isolated. The path to this diagnosis is often a difficult one, due to the rarity of the condi...
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