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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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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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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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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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Useful Vision
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Tel: 0191 447 2600 / 07544 301166
Useful Vision
Newburn Activity Centre
Grange Road
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE15 8ND
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Useful Vision (UV) is a registered charity established in the North East to help blind and visually impaired children get the most out of life. We’re doing this through the delivery of family support services, imaginative events and educational activities designed to meet the needs of visually im...
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Families with vision impaired children
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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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Parkinson's UK Northumberland Tyne and Wear Active Persons Branch
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Tel: 020 7963 3693
Gateshead
Tyne and Wear
NE11 9XF
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Offer information, friendship and support to local people with Parkinson's, their families and carers.
Also organise regular events and social activities - join and meet other people affected by Parkinson's in your area.
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People with Parkinson's, their families and carers.
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