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Tel: 01242 246298
Patient Helpline - 0300 303 1395
GL53 0QJ
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Sue Ryder Hospice provides specialist palliative care to adults in Gloucestershire. Services include inpatient care, day hospice, Hospice at Home and outpatient services.
We offer a bereavement programme as part of our family support service. This includes bereavement follow-up through phone cal...
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Carers only but enquiries welcome from all.
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Home Start Wyre Forest Wyre Forest
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Tel: 01562 825896
MCF Complex
60 New Road
Kidderminster
Worcestershire
DY10 1AQ
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Home-Start offer befriending and support to families with children 0 - 18 years old who are experiencing difficulties.
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Any parent or expectant parent with at least one child under 18 years old who live in Wyre Forest District and have a support need.
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Rethink Gloucestershire Self Harm Helpline
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Tel: 0808 801 0606 or text 07537 410022
GL1 3ND
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A free telephone, text and webchat support service for anyone affected by self harm, including carers, family, friends and professionals.
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Carers, professionals, people who self harm
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Independence Trust
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Tel: 0345 863 8323
GL1 2NE
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Independence Trust is a Gloucestershire Charity. We support individuals, families, and communities with concerns about mental health, alcohol or drugs. We help people to build self esteem and confidence, so that they can take more control of their lives, become more independent and realise their ...
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Service uses, carers, relatives, friends, members of the general public.
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Family Link
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Tel: 01452 426860
Shire Hall
Westgate Street
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
GL1 2TG
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Family Link provides family based short breaks for children and young people with disabilities, aged 0-18 the children placed are generally aged between 4 and 18 years old. Carers are assessed and approved in a similar way to foster carers and have a young person to their house for anything from ...
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Young people with a disability who have been assessed as needing the service
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Gloucestershire Chinese Women'S Guild
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Tel: 01452 382886
Voluntary Agencies Unit
1st Floor
75-81 Eastgate Street
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
GL1 1PN
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The Gloucestershire Chinese Women's Guild offers support and advice to chinese women and their families and through its Interpretation service, acts as a bridge to Local Authorities for those for whom English is not their first langauge .
Languages : Cantonese, Hakka, Mandarin and English.
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The Chinese community throughout Gloucestershire. All age groups.
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Veterans Welfare Service (Vws) Kidderminster
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Tel: 01562 82 5527
DY10 2BY
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The Veterans Welfare Service (VWS) is committed to enhancing the quality of life for Veterans and beneficiaries of SPVA pensions and compensation schemes, and all their dependants. It also focuses upon providing support that will enable the seamless transition from Service to Civilian life, assi...
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Veterans and their dependants
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Cirencester Mental Health Carer Support Group
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Tel: 0300 111 9000
GL1 1HX
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Carer Support Group for those caring for somebody of working age with a mental health problem.
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Tel: 01452 617456
46 Carisbrooke Road
Hucclecote
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
GL3 3QP
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The Ebony Community Carers Group was launched in October 2004, and aims to assist black and ethnic minority carers access mainstream services. They provide a safe, relaxed environment where carers can socialise, have fun, and take time out for themselves.
We are currently meeting weekly on a We...
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Referral on behalf of carers and families.
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Gloucestershire Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre
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Tel: 01452 419246
GMSITC
71-75 Frampton Road
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
GL1 5QB
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The Gloucestershire Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre was set up in 1985, by a group of local people with MS who wanted to get together, to improve the therapy options available in their area. Since then, the Centre has flourished. Run largely by volunteers with or without MS, it has developed to...
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The Centre is open to anyone with MS, their friends and families (and to those with other neurological illnesses)
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