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Tel: 01388 731444
Tow Law Community Association
Ironworks Road
Dan's Castle
Tow Law
County Durham
DL13 4AY
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Offers a range of community activities such as an IT drop in, solicitors surgery and youth groups.
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Crossroads Care Gateshead
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Tel: 01207 549780
The Old School
Smailes Lane
Highfield
Rowlands Gill
Tyne and Wear
NE39 2DB
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We are a leading local provider of quality support services for Carers, the people they support and their families. We work with over 900 families in the Gateshead area, helping Carers to make a life of their own outside their caring responsibilities.
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Carers and their families
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Blind Life In Durham (Blind)
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Tel: 01388 763501
8 Brookside Avenue
Crook
County Durham
DL15 8LB
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Blind Life in Durham (B.L.I.N.D.) is a young organisation established in 2004, managed by a committee of visually impaired volunteers, to help and support the blind and partially sighted community in County Durham.
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Visually impaired people and carers
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ADDER
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Tel: 07765 743 656
Kibblesworth Millennium Centre
Grange Terrace
Kibblesworth
Gateshead
Tyne and Wear
NE11 0XN
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Action for Dystonia, Diagnosis, Education & Research (ADDER) has four main aims:
• to advance the education of the public in relation to the sickness and distress caused by dystonia
• to promote the treatment of people with dystonia and other related movement disorders
• to offer support and w...
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General public but mainly members of the charity.
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Blaydon Youth And Community Centre
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Tel: 0191 414 7849
Shibdon Road
Blaydon
Tyne and Wear
NE21 5LT
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The centre has excellent facilities: a large sports hall, social area with TV, pool table and air hockey, providing adequate seating, there is a well equipped kitchen, two multi purpose rooms, used for training and meetings.
There is a large playroom and outdoor play area, which is used on a dai...
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Headway Gateshead And South Tyneside
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Tel: 07725 232527
Blaydon Primary Care Centre
Shibdon Road
Blaydon
Gateshead
Tyne and Wear
NE21 5NW
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Headway Gateshead and South Tyneside is affiliated to Headway UK – the national brain injury association. In April 2010 Headway Gateshead and South Tyneside employed their first member of staff – a community development officer. The community development officer works with people affected by bra...
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Brain injury survivors, carers, family and friends.
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Headway Central Northumberland
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Tel: 0191 283 4623 / 07552101559
c/o North East Regional Co-ordinator
Blaydon Primary Care Centre
Shibdon Road
Blaydon
Tyne and Wear
NE21 5NW
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It is estimated that approximately 30,000 adults in the North East are living with long term effects of a traumatic brain injury. Headway’s groups in the North East are there to support these people and many more in the area affected by conditions such as stroke, meningitis encephalitis and tumour.
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Brain injury survivors, carers, family and friends.
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Durham County Council Welfare Rights
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Tel: 0191 370 8787
DH1 5TS
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DCC Welfare Rights Team offer information, advice and representation at tribunals for disabled people and their carers on benefits and tax credits. The team offers a service to anyone living in County Durham.
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Durham Children And Young People'S Network
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Tel: 03000 265 792
DH1 5UG
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We must keep a register of children and young people with disabilities, up to the age of 25. In County Durham we call this the Children and Young People's Network.
The register helps us to make better plans around what services are needed and in what areas. The register creates a virtual networ...
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Children and young people between the ages of 0-25, who live in County Durham, who have a physical or mental condition which has a "substantial and long-term adverse effect on his or her ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities" (Equalities Act 2010). This definition includes the followi...
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Durham County Council Social Care Direct
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Tel: 03000 26 79 79
Social Care Direct
Spectrum 8
Spectrum Business Park
Seaham
County Durham
DH1 5UG
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Provides Adult social services
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Adults, children, young people, older people and those who care for them
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