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Tel: 0300 005 1213
Enterprise House
Enterprise City
Meadowfield Avenue
Spennymoor
Co Durham
DL16 6JF
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Durham County Carers Support is a registered Charity and Company Limited by Guarantee. We are a voluntary organisation that provides free high quality services and support to unpaid Carers over the age of 18 who support someone living the County Durham area.
A Carer is someone who, without pa...
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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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Phab in Durham
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To promote and encourage people of all abilities to come together on equal terms, to achieve complete integration within the wider community.
We meet once a week with activities to suit all who come, whatever disability, either in our premises or out and about in the community. We have able-bod...
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Anyone with a physical or learning disability, and also able bodied volunteers
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Durham Area Disability Leisure Group
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Tel: 07592 366454
Unit 15, Vane Tempest Hall
Maynards Row
Gilesgate
Durham
County Durham
DH1 1QF
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Providing sports, leisure and social opportunities for children and young people with disabilities, living within Durham and surrounding areas.
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Children and young people with disabilities / siblings / parents / carers
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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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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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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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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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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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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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