As well as Hourglass, there are a number of other useful organisations that can provide advice, assistance, and information for those seeking help for a variety of different situations.
The Harley Harries Charity
Financial Services
Charity makes annual grants to poor elderly/old people of the parish of Wem.
N/A
England
The Hartley Cottage Homes
Housing Advice Organisations
Administers twenty Almshouse properties to those in need.
N/A
England
The Haven Centre
Counselling or Therapy Organisations
Counselling, dementia support, therapies, peer support
Outreach in Blantyre, Wishaw and Forth
Scotland
The Haven Centre
Counselling or Therapy Organisations
Counselling, dementia support, therapies, peer support
Outreach in Ballantyne, Wishaw and Forth
Scotland
The Haven Charity (Known Locally As The Haven Almshouses, Napley)
Housing Advice Organisations
Provide affordable housing for the elderly.
N/A
England
The Haven Kilmacolm
Male Victim Organisations
Rehab centre for men
N/A
Scotland
The Haven Wolverhampton
Age Related Organisations
The Haven Wolverhampton aims to provide support to women and dependent children who are vulnerable to violence and abuse. The Haven achieves this by providing safe, temporary, emergency accommodation and support services to women and dependent children affected by domestic and other forms of violence.
N/A
England
The Havering & Brentwood Bereavement Service
Other Advice and Support Organisations
Offers a professional service to local residents in cases of bereavement.
N/A
England
The Hawthorns
Care and Nursing Homes (see CQC website)
Residential care home, day centre, activities, dementia support. Run by the Salvation Army.
N/A
England
The Heckington Area Voluntary Car Service
Disability Support Organisations
To provide transport for persons in the parishes participating, who, by reason of being housebound, aged, disabled or poor, and are in need of some form of medical treatment or those persons who otherwise face difficulties on using public transport, by providing a voluntary car service for the transport of such persons.
N/A
England
The Henfield Shed
Age Related Organisations
Opportunities to engage in creative activities are provided in a workshop for members. These opportunities, which mostly involve working in wood, benefit members and the wider community local to Henfield, West Sussex by helping build friendships and social capital by encouraging wider community engagement and cohesion. Hence the activities also help to prevent and reduce risks of social isolation.
N/A
England
The Henhayes Centre
Other (Please clarify type)
Provides social and catering facilities for people of Crewkerne and surrounding area.
N/A
England
The Henley-On-Thames And District Talking Newspaper Association
Blind Support Organisations
Providing weekly recordings on audio memory sticks from our local (weekly) newspaper for visually impaired and any people in the area who are unable to read for whatever reason
N/A
England
The Highfield Health Promotion Group
Other Advice and Support Organisations
The relief of persons suffering from arthritis in particular by: the provision of items, services or facilities which are to alleviate the suffering or assist in the recovery of such persons- the provision of information, support and advice to the public.
N/A
England
The Hop 50+
Age Related Organisations
Social, centre & cafe, groups, activities, trips
N/A
England
The Hope Programme
Rape and Sexual Abuse Response Services
Help, support, counselling
Tue - Thur, 10 - 4
England
The Hopkins And Sneyd Almshouse Charity
Housing Advice Organisations
Provision of housing accomodation for persons in need residence in the ancient parish of Rugeley, Staffordshire.
N/A
England
The Horsleys Community Bus Association
Disability Support Organisations
The Horsleys Community Bus functions in and around the Horsleys in Surrey providing shopping and social outing services on a weekly basis. By operating a door to door service it caters for elderly or infirm residents or those who are geographically remote and have no other convenient means of transport. Social outings are also provided for residents of a local Residential Care Home.
N/A
England
The Horton Almshouses
Housing Advice Organisations
Providing accommodation for elderly people over the age of retirement who are unable to house themselves.
N/A
England
The Houghton-Le-Spring And District Centre For The Blind
Blind Support Organisations
A place for the blind community to socialise and interact. Offers advice and information.
N/A
England
The Hounsfield Pensions Charity
Age Related Organisations
To provide pensions for men, unmarried women and widows aged 50 or over who are members of the established Church of England, in reduced, needy or poor circumstances. Applicants must reside in England or Wales. The numbers of men and women pensioners must be as equal in numbers as possible.
N/A
England
The HUb
Local Authority/ Local Government/ Social Service Organisations
Centre for small charities inc pensioners lunch club, free logs and kindling for pensioners, internet, rent deposit schemes, war blinded group
Mon - Fri, 9 - 5
Scotland
The Inverclyde Men's Shed
Homelessness Organisation
Social group for men.
N/A
Scotland
The Ipswich And District Talking Newspaper
Blind Support Organisations
Weekly talking newspaper for the blind and visually impaired residents of Ipswich.
N/A
England
The Ipswich Disabled Advice Bureau
Disability Support Organisations
To provide free and confidential information & advice to people with disabilities, their families and carers, provide information to organisations & agencies serving people with disabilities, work for improved statutory services, educate public opinion, and undertake research.
N/A
England
The J D Cook And Beard Homes
Housing Advice Organisations
Provision of affordable housing to people of lesser means from the local area.
N/A
England
The Jack Heath Club For The Mentally Handicapped
Mental Health Organisation
To promote the care, welfare and treatment of people with mentally handicapped persons resident in South Tyneside and in particular to provide or assist in the provision and facilities for recreation or other leisure time occupation in the interest of social welfare and with the object of improving the conditions of the life of such persons.
N/A
England
The James Lloyd Almshouses
Housing Advice Organisations
Provision of almhouse accommodation to 31 elderly women.
N/A
England
The Jane Maddock Homes
Housing Advice Organisations
The principal activity is to provide accomodation for the beneficiaries of the trust created for the benefit of single women of necessitous circumstances with preference being given to those who live in the Alsager area
N/A
England
The Jason Spencer Trust
Crime Prevention Organisations
Support families bereaved due to violent crime in the Nottinghamshire and East Midlands area. Offering one to one peer support at Nottingham and Nottinghamshire offices,working with families referred from FLO's, Victim Support and self referrals. Also engage in fighting serious crime including knife crime.
N/A
England
The Jull Housing Trust
Disability Support Organisations
The principal activity of the trust is the provision of housing accommodation for necessitous persons.
N/A
England
The K Woods Foundation
Age Related Organisations
Providing support to individuals living with dementia, and their carers. Provide a drop-in social support group - the group provide free activity and cognitive engagement and support for both the individual with dementia, and their carers. Can access the provision of short respite breaks if required.
N/A
England
The Kenilworth Senior Citizens' Club
Age Related Organisations
Social gatherings including weekly whist, keep fit and bingo sessions. Lunches and coffee mornings. All held in the Clubhouse at Abbey End, Kenilworth. Summer and winter holidays and day outings.
N/A
England
The Kenneth and Barbara Boardman-Weston Charitable Trust
Housing Advice Organisations
Provides residential accommodation to needy persons over the age of 55 years and relieve persons who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress as a result of local, national or international disaster or by reason of their social and economic circumstances.
N/A
England
The Kensington Foundation
Homelessness Organisation
To promote the relief of homelessness, poverty, deprivation and distress. Holiday accommodation for respite breaks, grants aid to those in need of assistance, and offers day cruises and short residential breaks.
N/A
England
The L M Kendon Settlement
Housing Advice Organisations
The principal objective is to utilise its fund for the benefit of the elderly people of the London Borough of Newham. Principally achieved through the operation of high dependency sheltered accommodation within the borough.
N/A
England
The League Of Friends Of The Lady Forester Community Nursing Home
Care and Nursing Homes (see CQC website)
Provision of extra facilities for patients/residents of Extra Care Home.
N/A
England
The Leap Project
Age Related Organisations
Handy person, befriending, social, activities
N/A
Scotland
The Leckie Senior Citizens Club
Age Related Organisations
The Club is a social venue for over 55s and has a current membership of 78 male and female. Open six days per week for various activities including, recently, technology facilities. Has outings and holidays throughout the year and various sport participation, ie Bowling and external social event.
N/A
England
The Leeds Society For Deaf And Blind People
Age Related Organisations
To raise awareness, through education and training, of the daily communication and accessibility issues facing the growing number of people with sight or hearing loss & provide support/resources in line with Memorandum & Articles of Association. Provision of one of the largest BSL Interpreting Agencies in the North of England.
N/A
England
The Leicester Counselling Centre
Counselling or Therapy Organisations
Individual counselling for adults, aged 18 years and over, who are experiencing mental health, social and emotional difficulties that affect their everyday life. Service open to individuals across Leicester.
N/A
England
The Leiston And District Talking Newspaper Trust
Blind Support Organisations
Recording a weekly tape for blind and partially sighted people with news taken from local newspaper.
N/A
England
The Listening Centre
Counselling or Therapy Organisations
The Listening Centre provides an affordable counselling service to individuals on limited incomes who live in and around Oxford. Counsellors & Psychotherapists in training support the service on an unpaid basis.
N/A
England
The Local Carers Network
Disability Support Organisations
Promotes and advances the knowledge, education and well-being in life of all persons with special educational needs or disabilities, and supports their families (including siblings) by delivering training, independent advocacy, representation and family focused activities.
N/A
England
The Long Sutton Men's Shed
Age Related Organisations
To promote the social inclusion (particularly older men), within Long Sutton and the surrounding area, from being socially excluded. For those people they hope to assist them to integrate into society through the provision of facilities in which they can meet jointly or individually. To learn or pass on skills and knowledge, and support each other.
N/A
England
The Louisa Lilley Almshouses
Other (Please clarify type)
The trust provides general needs, unsupported housing.
N/A
England
The Lowestoft And District Talking Newspaper Association
Blind Support Organisations
Produces digital editions on USB drives for visually impaired persons in the local area. Weekly news, fortnightly information and a monthly magazine.
N/A
England
The Lowestoft Church And Town Almshouse Charity
Housing Advice Organisations
This Charity administers 67 almshouses at Church Green Off St. Margarets Road Lowestoft. These almshouses are a warden assisted sheltered housing complex for the elderly.
N/A
England
The Lucy Brangwyn Homes
Other Advice and Support Organisations
Accommodation for elderly persons.
N/A
England