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Parkinson's UK Durham Branch
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Tel: 0344 225 3604
Newton Hall Community Centre
Kira Drive
Durham
County Durham
DH1 5GU
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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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Headway Wearside
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Tel: 0191 522 7113
St. Mary and St. Peters Community Project
Springwell Road
Sunderland
Tyne and Wear
SR3 4DY
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Headway Wearside aims to provide information, support and social activities for brain injury survivors, their families and carers in the Sunderland area. Working with the local community, relevant professionals and organisations to promote the understanding of Acquired Brain Injury.
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Brain injury survivors, carers, family and friends.
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Crossroads Care Easington District
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Tel: 0191 518 0753
Pride House
28 Crawford Avenue
Peterlee
County Durham
SR8 5EG
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Crossroads Care Easington District is a specialist voluntary organisation committed to providing practical support to carers in their own home by taking over their care responsibilities, helping them make a life outside of caring. We are a member of the Crossroads Care Association, working within...
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Sunderland City Council - services for adults
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Tel: 0191 520 4845
Sunderland City Council
Leechmere Centre
Leechmere Industrial Estate
Sunderland
Tyne and Wear
SR2 9TS
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Provide social care services for adults
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Adults and those that care for them
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Hereditary Multiple Exostoses (Hme) Support Group
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Tel: 07961540768
HME Support Group
PO Box 207
Chester-le-Street
County Durham
DH3 9AR
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Advice and support regarding rare bone disorder (also known as Diaphyseal Aclasis and Familial Bone Spurs).
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Anyone affected by rare bone disorder (also known as Diaphyseal Aclasis and Familial Bone Spurs) carers, families and professionals
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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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Sunderland Breast Care Support Group
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Tel: 0191 567 8203
SR2 9NA
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The group meets in the refectory of Sunderland Royal Hospital to encourage members who have breast care problems to share their experiences with others in the same or similar circumstances. Very informal talks by professionals and others.
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People who have breast care problems and others in the same or similar circumstances.
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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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Durham Deafened Support
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Tel: 0191 518 3358
14 Upper Yoden Way
Castledene Shopping Centre
Peterlee
County Durham
SR8 1BB
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Durham Deafened Support was established in 1998 to promote the relief, integration, rehabilitation, welfare and education of people who have become isolated because of hearing loss, enabling them to cope with their disability through advocacy, support, education, information and other ways of hel...
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General public and other service providers
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