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Tel: 01388 731444
Tow Law Community Association
Ironworks Road
Dan's Castle
Tow Law
County Durham
DL13 4AY
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Offers a range of community activities such as an IT drop in, solicitors surgery and youth groups.
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Blind Life In Durham (Blind)
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Tel: 01388 763501
8 Brookside Avenue
Crook
County Durham
DL15 8LB
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Blind Life in Durham (B.L.I.N.D.) is a young organisation established in 2004, managed by a committee of visually impaired volunteers, to help and support the blind and partially sighted community in County Durham.
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Visually impaired people and carers
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Crossroads Care Gateshead
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Tel: 01207 549780
The Old School
Smailes Lane
Highfield
Rowlands Gill
Tyne and Wear
NE39 2DB
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We are a leading local provider of quality support services for Carers, the people they support and their families. We work with over 900 families in the Gateshead area, helping Carers to make a life of their own outside their caring responsibilities.
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Carers and their families
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Durham County Council Welfare Rights
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Tel: 0191 370 8787
DH1 5TS
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DCC Welfare Rights Team offer information, advice and representation at tribunals for disabled people and their carers on benefits and tax credits. The team offers a service to anyone living in County Durham.
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Durham Children And Young People'S Network
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Tel: 03000 265 792
DH1 5UG
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We must keep a register of children and young people with disabilities, up to the age of 25. In County Durham we call this the Children and Young People's Network.
The register helps us to make better plans around what services are needed and in what areas. The register creates a virtual networ...
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Children and young people between the ages of 0-25, who live in County Durham, who have a physical or mental condition which has a "substantial and long-term adverse effect on his or her ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities" (Equalities Act 2010). This definition includes the followi...
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Durham County Council Social Care Direct
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Tel: 03000 26 79 79
Social Care Direct
Spectrum 8
Spectrum Business Park
Seaham
County Durham
DH1 5UG
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Provides Adult social services
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Adults, children, young people, older people and those who care for them
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Waddington Street Centre
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Tel: 0191 386 0702
Waddington Street Centre
3 Waddington Street
Durham
County Durham
DH1 4BG
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The Waddington Street Centre offers support and opportunities to people in the North Durham area who experience enduring mental health problems.
The Centre provides a wide range of quality services based around education and training within a welcoming environment. Waddington Street Centre is ...
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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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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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