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Standby Volunteer Group
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Tel: 0118 930 6419
RG7 5AS
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The aim of the Standby Volunteer Group is to provide transport for people who do not have access to or cannot use public services to take them to hospital and surgery appointments - including chiropodist, dentists, opticians, etc and then return them safely home.
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Areas covered - Bradfield, Theale, Englefield, Stanford Dingley and westward journeys from Calcot.
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Dimensions
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Tel: 0300 303 9001
Building 1430
Arlington Business Park
Theale
Reading
Berkshire
RG7 4SA
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In 1976, armed with a single phone in a rented office, Dimensions began supporting people with learning disabilities, autism and complex needs out of institutions, helping them lead ordinary lives in their local communities.
Forty years on, our work is fundamentally unchanged: we support people ...
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Living Paintings
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Tel: 01635 299771
Unit 8 Kingsclere Park
Kingsclere
Newbury
Berkshire
RG20 4SW
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Living Paintings is a charity that provides a free lending library of touch and sound packs for visually impaired people of all ages.
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People who are visually impaired, their carers, parents, teachers or professionals.
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4 Cancer
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Tel: (01273) 597 452
RG20 5PJ
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The 4 Cancer Group is a charity based organisation that aims to improve the quality of life for individuals and their families who have been affected by cancer. The charity offers a variety of days out and short-breaks for individuals and their families affected by cancer, the recently bereaved a...
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Individuals and their families affected by cancer, the recently bereaved and carers.
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Thrive
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Tel: 0118 988 5688
The Geoffrey Udall Centre
Beech Hill
Reading
Berkshire
RG7 2AT
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Thrive is a small national charity that uses gardening to change lives. Our Vision is to enable those touched by a disability to transform their lives using gardening.
Our activities are varied but focus on championing the benefits of gardening to individuals and organisations, as well as teachi...
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People with a disability or suffering from mental health problems
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Parent2Parent Service West Berkshire
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Tel: 01635 279700
Parenting Support Team
Riverside Community Centre
Rosemoor Gardens, Off Curling Way
Newbury
Berkshire
RG14 2FG
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West Berkshire Parent2Parent Service is an independent, impartial service which aims to promote partnership and understanding between parents, schools, professionals and other organisations; to support parents with understanding SEN related processes and to help them take an active part in improv...
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General public/professionals.
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THE NEWBURY COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE –TRAINING AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT PROJECT
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Tel: 01635 43933
Unit F, Hambridge Road Industrial Estate
Bone Lane
Newbury
Berkshire
RG14 5SS
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The Newbury Community Resource Centre runs a number of projects aimed at helping disadvantaged people in West Berkshire and North Hampshire, including two furniture projects, a horticultural therapy and environmental education centre and the Training and Community Support Project (TCS).
TCS is ...
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Service users and their families/ carers, general public
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Carebus
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Tel: 0118 930 4837
c/o 7 Mountbatten Close
Newbury
Berkshire
RG14 2HT
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Carebus is a local non-profit-making Voluntary Community Transport organisation established over 40 years ago which is managed by a community based committee of representatives from local Parish Councils, caring organisations, and service users.
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People with disabilities, community groups and families
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Headway Basingstoke
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Tel: 01256 962 849 / 01256 314 969
Headway Place
Homefield Way
Basingstoke
Hampshire
RG24 9SP
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Headway Basingstoke is a registered charity providing information and support services to people living with brain injury, their carer’s and families living in the North Hampshire area. We provide a range of education and activities to support service users self-manage their health and wellbeing ...
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Brain injury survivors, carers, family and friends.
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Disability Information In West Berkshire
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Tel: 01635 552064
Ormonde Resource Centre
Newbury College Campus
Monks Lane
Newbury
Berkshire
RG14 7TD
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The Disability Information in West Berkshire website is created and maintained by disabled people and provides disability information in West Berkshire.
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