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Home Library Service - Buckinghamshire
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Tel: 01494 475573
Great Missenden Library
High Street
Great Missenden
Buckinghamshire
HP16 0AL
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Do you find it difficult to visit a library due to mobility problems or poor health? Are you a full-time, unpaid carer & cannot get to a library? If so a Home Library Service Volunteer could deliver this FREE service to you.
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Carers and public. Buckinghamshire residents who are housebound due to age, illness or disability and also available to full-time, unpaid carers.
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Huntington'S Disease Association - Oxfordshire
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Tel: 0151 331 5444
OX3 9DU
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The HDA (Huntington’s Disease Association) is a national charity which provides support for families affected by Huntington’s Disease (HD).
We are part of the national organisation, but more informal as well as more local. We hold regular meetings, go on social outings together, and meet and sha...
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Carers, people who have Huntington's Disease, people at risk of developing Huntington's Disease.
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Heads2Gether
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Tel: 0800 023 4550
ENT Department
The West Wing LG1
The John Radcliffe Hospital
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX3 9DU
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We offer support to anyone affected by head and neck or mouth cancer. We run coffee mornings and a packed schedule of social events, an opportunity to meet and talk to others who have already been treated for the disease.
We offer telephone and face to face support using trained former patients...
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People Affected by Head & Neck Cancer.
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Maggie's Oxford
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Tel: 01865 751882
Maggie's Centre
Churchill Road, Old Road
Headington
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX3 7LE
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Maggie's Centre is a support centre for people with cancer and their families.
Maggie's Centre is a place to turn to for help with any of the problems, small or large, associated with cancer.
Under one roof you can access help with information, benefits advice, psychological support both indivi...
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People affected by cancer
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The MedicAlert Foundation
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Tel: 01908 951045
Suite 1
Liscombe South
Liscombe Park
Soulbury
Buckinghamshire
LU7 0JL
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We are a registered charity providing a life-saving identification system for individuals with hidden medical conditions and allergies. This takes the form of body-worn bracelets or necklets (known as MedicAlert Emblems) bearing the MedicAlert symbol on the disc and supported by a 24 hour emergen...
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Individuals with hidden medical conditions and allergies, their carers, general public, and health care professionals
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The Art Room
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Tel: 01865 779779
Oxford Spires Academy
Glanville Road
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX4 2AU
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The Art Room offers 'art as therapy' to children and young people between the ages of 5 and 16, using art to raise their self-esteem, self-confidence and independence.
Some of the students may have specific learning difficulties or have had an interrupted education. Some have recently arrived in...
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Children and young people aged 5 to 16 who are facing major challenges in their lives.
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Telangiectasia Self Help Group
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Tel: 01494 528047
39 Sunny Croft
Downley
High Wycombe
Buckinghamshire
HP13 5UQ
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The Telangiectasia Self Help Group provides information packs for sufferers of Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia (Osler, Weber, Rendu Syndrome). If requested, and permission is given, members are put in touch with one another. An occasional Newsletter is produced whenever new research or t...
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Anyone affected by Telangiectasia
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Retina UK
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Tel: 01280 821334 ; Helpline: 0300 111 4000
Whiteleaf Business Centre
11 Little Balmer
Buckingham
Buckinghamshire
MK18 1TF
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Retina UK supports people affected by inherited sight loss to lead better lives today and invests in medical research to provide hope for tomorrow.
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Restore Ltd
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Tel: 01865 455 822
Manzil Way
Cowley Road
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX4 1YH
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Restore is an Oxfordshire mental health charity. Since 1977 Restore has helped people to stay out of hospital, regain confidence and wellbeing, and rediscover and develop skills. We exist to empower people to take control of their own recovery, move on and lead meaningful lives.
Other than sympt...
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People with severe and enduring mental ill-health.
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KEEN Oxford
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Tel: 07806 743 595
St Clement's Centre
Cross Street
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX4 1DA
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Our work has three strands to it. We run our own programme of regular, inclusive projects including sports clubs, trips and art workshops every week. Secondly, we support other organisations to be more inclusive, for example through our Sports Partner Programme, working in partnership with many l...
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Children and Adults with additional needs / disabilities
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