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Newcastle Library Home Delivery Service
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Tel: 0191 278 7878
Fenham Library
Fenham Hall Drive
Fenham
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE4 9XD
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Newcastle Libraries can deliver a bag of books or audiobooks to your door each month. You can use this service if: you are unable to visit your local library due to either permanent or temporary ill health, or you have a permanent disability.
To find out more about this service, please contact ...
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Anyone living in Newcastle who due to ill health permanently or temporarily is unable to regularly visit the library. Also anyone who has caring responsibilities.
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Contact A Family North East
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Tel: 0191 213 6300
The Dene Centre
Castle Farm Road
Gosforth
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE3 1PH
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Contact a Family is the only UK wide charity providing advice, information and support to the parents/carers of all disabled children aged 0 to 19. We also enable parents and carers to get in contact with other families, both on a local and naitonal basis. We produce a range of information inclu...
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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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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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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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Multiple Sclerosis Society North Tyneside
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Tel: 0746 8855 286
NE28 7RY
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We are a welcoming group of people affected by MS ourselves . Our mission is to provide assistance and support to those who are affected by Multiple Sclerosis in the North Tyneside area.
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St Cuthberts Care Alan Shearer Short Break Centre
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Tel: 0191 267 8128
West Denton Hall
West Denton
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE15 7LT
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The Alan Shearer Short Break Centre is a tailored holiday-style short break service for children and adults with physical and learning disabilities, autism and Asperger's syndrome. Our guests can visit for as long as they wish, choosing to enjoy a weekend, mid-week break or a longer holiday with ...
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Anyone over 8 with a disability.
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The Percy Hedley Foundation
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Tel: 0191 266 5491
NE12 8YY
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The Percy Hedley Foundation is a charity providing specialist services for disabled people in the North East of England, promoting the rights, needs and aspirations of disabled children and adults through specialist, high quality services.
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Disabled children and adults in the North East of England.
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