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Mencap Gateshead
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Tel: 0191 440 0131
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
557 The Crescent
Durham Road
Low Fell
Tyne and Wear
NE9 5EY
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Gateshead Mencap Society is a registered charity run entirely by volunteers. We are here to improve the lives and opportunities of children and adults with a learning disability. We offer support to their families and carers.
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ICA (North East NHS Independent Complaints Advocacy)
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Tel: 0808 802 3000
Room 312, Floor 3
Adrian House
Sunderland Road
Gateshead
Tyne and Wear
NE8 3HU
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North East NHS Independent Complaints Advocacy
Unhappy with your NHS treatment or care? Want to make a complaint but you’re not sure where to start? This is where North East NHS Independent Complaints Advocacy (ICA) can help.
ICA is free, independent and confidential,.
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Mental Health Matters Pathways
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Tel: 0191 490 0579
Room 203
Aidan House
Gateshead
Tyne and Wear
NE8 3HU
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Advice Workers can provide you with advice and practical help on a variety of issues that may be putting you under pressure and affecting your well-being: this includes issues with Welfare Benefits, debt, housing and employment issues. Advice Workers will provide you with the information you need...
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This service is for people aged 18 years or over, living in Gateshead, who are struggling with their mental health (you do not need a formal diagnosis).
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Gateshead Carers
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Tel: 0191 490 0121
11 Regent Terrace
Gateshead-On-Tyne
Gateshead
Tyne and Wear
NE8 1LU
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We support, advise, represent, advocate and campaign for carers living or working within Gateshead.
We support all carers no matter what the disability or illness of the cared for person and will support you with your needs as a carer.
Whether you need advice from housing to care packages or ju...
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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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Carers Centre Newcastle
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Tel: 0191 275 5060
135-139 Shields Road
Byker
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE6 1DN
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Carers Centre Newcastle is a independently registered charity working citywide to provide dedicated support and information. We provide services on a universal offer approach: inclusion; identification; outreach; and tailored information and advice and are a hub for carers in Newcastle.
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Our services are available for any carer aged 18 and over who lives in Newcastle or who cares for someone living in Newcastle. Support is also available for former carers who have received our services whilst being a carer.
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Streetwise
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Tel: 0191 230 5533
35 - 37 The Groat Market
Bigg Market
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE1 1UQ
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We are a young people's project based in the city centre of Newcastle upon Tyne. We work with young people from all over the north-east - you don't have to live in Newcastle to come in!
Streetwise has an information and advice drop-in staffed by project workers, and contraception and sexual heal...
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Young people aged 11 - 25 years.
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Specialist Regional Care Advisor North East & Cumbria
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Tel: 0191 241 8761
Genetics Department Muscle Team
International Centre for Life
Central parkway
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE1 3BZ
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We lead the fight against muscle disease.
We provide free practical and emotional support.
We fund world-class research to find effective treatments and cures.
We campaign to raise awareness and bring about change.
We award grants towards the cost of specialist equipment, such as powered wheelcha...
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Anyone with a Neuromuscular condition, their carers and family.
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Eating Distress North East (EDNE)
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Tel: 0191 221 0233
The Old Post Office
5 Pink Lane
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE1 5DE
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EDNE aims to provide support to all those living in Northumberland, Tyne and Wear and County Durham whose lives are affected by eating distress or eating disorders. We do this by providing a range of services including one-to-one counselling, group support, information and training.
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Anyone whose life is affected by eating distress.
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Newcastle Vision Support
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Tel: 0191 232 7292
3rd Floor
MEA House
Ellison Place
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE1 8XS
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Who we are
Our organisation was founded in 1867. Our ethos is “to help sight impaired people to become and to remain independent through information and learning activities, keeping in touch with people services, social groups and empowerment work.”
We are a completely independent local society ...
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Blind and partially sighted people
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