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 Primrose Hospice Limited
Age Related Organisations
Offers clinical care, support and advice to adults with cancer and other life limiting illness from North East Worcestershire area. In addition, they offer support and advice to the families, carers and friends of patients and a bereavement counselling service that is BACP accredited.
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England
The Provincial Grand Chapter Of Worcestershire Charity Fund
NHS or Health Organisations
To consider and approve if agreed applications put forward by members of the organisation to local charities and charitable organisations in and around Worcestershire to provide support to those in need through poverty sickness disability or age.
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England
The Pulse
Other Advice and Support Organisations
Community based charity, providing a venue for a range of groups and activities, with a view to improving the physical and mental wellbeing in Skelmersdale.
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England
The Queen Alexandra Hospital Home
Suicide Prevention Organisations
To provide permanent and short term accomodation for former members of HM Armed forces and their spouses who are in need of such accomodation by reason of age, sickness or disability and who require nursing or medical care.
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England
The Rayne Foundation
Other (Please clarify type)
Looks for creative ways of tackling entrenched social issues through the arts, health, wellbeing and education. Supports projects that can be replicated and led by people with vision. Looks to improve quality of life for carers and for older people.
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England
The Redditch Association For The Blind
Age Related Organisations
Support blind and partially sighted people in the area of Redditch by providing an annual grant and financial support in some cases to help make life easier and more fulfilling.
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England
The Redditch Association For The Blind
Age Related Organisations
Support blind and partially sighted people in the area of Redditch by providing an annual grant and financial support in some cases to help make life easier and more fulfilling.
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England
The Retreat Almshouses
Housing Advice Organisations
Provision and running of 5 Almshouses for the elderly in Downham Market.
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England
The Richmond Fellowship
Mental Health Organisation
National provider of care and rehabilitation for people living with mental health problems. Crisis support, residential, employment and community schemes, well-being projects and domestic violence services.
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England
The Rita Project
Female Victim Organisations
Domestic violence and homeless support. NOT a crisis centre. Information & advice.
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England
The Roddam Charity
Other (Please clarify type)
To provide relief in cases of need for people resident in the TF10 postcode area who may be sick, convalescent, disabled, handicapped or infirm. Help may be provided by paying for items, services or facilities which are calculated to alleviate suffering or assist with recovery where help is not readily available from other sources, but not for the relief of rates, taxes or other public funds.
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England
The Rotherham Hospice Trust
Care and Nursing Homes (see CQC website)
The aim of the charity is to provide excellence in care for all those throughout Rotherham affected by a terminal illness. This Hospice care is delivered through a Day Hospice, an Inpatient Unit and in the community through the Hospice Community Team.
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England
The Ryedale Talking Magazine
Blind Support Organisations
Production of monthly magazine CD for distribution to blind and partially sighted people.
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England
The Safe Haven
Counselling or Therapy Organisations
Out-of Hours Crisis and Counselling service for people who are experiencing emotional crisis or mental distress. Open from Saturday evening to Tuesday evening, 6pm - 2am. Offers a non-referral drop-in, phone support and counselling to the people of North Northants, and phone support and counselling to South Northants.
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England
The Sainsbury Veterans Welfare Scheme
Age Related Organisations
To relieve aid amongst Sainsbury Veterans and former Sainsbury employees. Assistance is provided through the provision of physical aids, respite care and convalescence care.
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England
The Samaritans of Boston, Lincolnshire
Suicide Prevention Organisations
Support for anyone, of any age, facing any kind of issue. You do not have to be suicidal to call.
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England
The Samaritans of Bromley and Orpington
Suicide Prevention Organisations
Support for anyone, of any age, facing any kind of issue. You do not have to be suicidal to call.
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England
The Samaritans of Southport and District
Suicide Prevention Organisations
Support for anyone, of any age, facing any kind of issue. You do not have to be suicidal to call.
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England
The Sansaw Men's Shed
Friendship and Social Interaction Organisations
A social charity mainly aimed at older men. The activities are of a practical nature mainly centred around making and repairing things out of wood. The charity brings together men who have time on their hands and it helps men avoid loneliness, boredom and gives them a sense of purpose when they collaborate on making various things for the local community.
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England
The Seeing Dogs Alliance
Blind Support Organisations
The relief of blind and partially sighted people, mainly by training and providing guide dogs known as "Seeing Dogs" and training those people instruction in the use, care and control of Seeing Dogs. Breeding, purchasing or otherwise lawfully acquiring dogs of a nature and physique appropriate for training as Seeing Dogs.
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England
The Selby And District Mencap Society
Disability Support Organisations
Independent self-funded charity working with disabled people, with a range of services and activities for disabled people, and their parents and carers.
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England
The Senior Centre
Age Related Organisations
Social, activities, holidays, transport, cafe
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Scotland
The Shakespeare Hospice
Care and Nursing Homes (see CQC website)
Provide expert, holistic, specialist care and support for every young person and adult living in the community with a life limiting illness, and for those who matter to them. Care is delivered on a non-residential basis at the Hospice and in the community by specialist nursing and care teams.
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England
The Sharp End
Age Related Organisations
Full name is the 'Seniors Health & Active Retirement Project'. Healthy living centre for people aged 50 and over living in Hackney. Offers a wide range of services and activities to promote the health and well-being of older people. Building fully accessible to people using wheelchairs.
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England
The Shaw Mind Foundation
Mental Health Organisation
The Shaw Mind Foundation is a dynamic charity, passionate about tackling the stigma that can accompany mental health issues. Overarching goal is to support anyone who may have lost hope; both the sufferer and those who support them.
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England
The Sheffield Dial-A-Ride Club
Other (Please clarify type)
Provision of accessible door to door transport services.
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England
The Sheffield Firth Almshouses
Housing Advice Organisations
A select development of 32 modern one-bed homes for eligible elderly people operating on an incorporated basis, having been founded in 1869. The trust operates an equal opportunities policy. A resident warden oversees the welfare of residents and provides services that help residents enjoy their freedom and independence within a comfortable and secure environment and offering social activity.
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England
The Sheffield Royal Society For The Blind
Blind Support Organisations
The Charity provides a comrehensive range of services to support visually impaired people in the city of Sheffield.
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England
The Sheppard Trust
Housing Advice Organisations
Small charitable housing trust, provides warden-assisted sheltered housing for 29 elderly ladies on small fixed incomes.
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England
The Shuttlewood Clarke Foundation
Age Related Organisations
Providing support, care and friendship for the elderly through the provision of day facilities. These offer companionship for the socially isolated, craft clubs for people with disabilities, a befriending scheme, a free mobility aid loan scheme, access to wheelchair friendly woodland walks and bird hides.
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England
The Silver Line Helpline
Age Related Organisations
Signposting service to link them into the many and varied services that existed around the country, a friendship service to combat loneliness, and a means of empowering those who may be suffering abuse and neglect and, if appropriate, transferring them to specialist services.
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England
The Silver's Workshop
Age Related Organisations
local group of The Men's Shed organisation. Social group for men
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England
The Silverwood And Slater Eventide Homes
Housing Advice Organisations
To provide residencies for poor and aged persons residing in the borough of Keighley, West Yorkshire who is or are over the age of sixty years.
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England
The Sir John And Lady Bodinnar's Trust
Disability Support Organisations
Makes grants to individuals residing in Calne for the relief of need, hardship or distress. In particular the elderly and young people.
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England
The Sir John Corah Lodge Benevolent Fund
Financial Services
To deal with any call for financial assistance from any poor and distressed member, their wives, widows, children and dependants for the relief of their suffering or maintenance.
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England
The Skyway Club
Disability Support Organisations
The Skyway Club is a club run by and for adults with learning disabilities. The club provides a range of social activities and opportunities for club members to learn life skills, and to ensure that people with learning disabilities are not socially excluded but instead have opportunities to socialise, learn new skills and take part in activities within the community. The club members are supported by staff from Belfast Health and Social Care Trust to run the club, with club members deciding upon the programme of activities they wish to partake in.
Northern Ireland
The Smith Teal Homes For The Aged
Age Related Organisations
Provides buildings, facilities and open space.
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England
The Solihull Borough Talking Newspaper Association
Blind Support Organisations
Provision of a weekly newstape for the blind and partially sighted of the Borough.
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England
The Solihull Society For The Physically Handicapped
Disability Support Organisations
Once a month meetings for members, half day and day trips subsidised for members, plus annual xmas party.
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England
The South Bank Fund For Poor Women Of West Lavington
Financial Services
Makes small grants to elderly women in the local area.
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England
The South Tyneside Blind Welfare Association
Blind Support Organisations
Provides small grants for visually impaired people, who are residents of South Tyneside, to contribute to or pay for specialist goods or services which will improve the quality of their lives.
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England
The Southport Talking Newspaper
Blind Support Organisations
Supplies weekly audio tapes of local news to registered blind and partially sighted people in Southport and District.
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England
The Spencer Homes Charity
Housing Advice Organisations
Providing seven social housing units in a rural area with no public transport or shop and which provides often low income employment.
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England
The Sponne And Bickerstaffe Charity
Other (Please clarify type)
Relief of poverty, and provision of Almshouses.
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England
The Sproughton Almshouse And Relief In Need Charity
Housing Advice Organisations
Letting and maintenance of two almshouses in Sproughton village.
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England
The St Helens Housing Association Trust
Age Related Organisations
Make grants to social housing providers operating in the St Helens area for the benefit of tenants and residents, who are elderly and live in the St Helens area. The objective is assist in the provision of housing and associated benefits for such tenant and residents.
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England
The Stable Lad's Welfare Trust Housing Association Limited
Housing Advice Organisations
Provision of affordable housing principally for those working in, or retired from, the horseracing and thoroughbred breeding industry.
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England
The Stafford And District Disabled Persons Association
Disability Support Organisations
Disability club that meets every three weeks for people in Stafford.
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England
The Stonor Almshouses
Housing Advice Organisations
Owns and maintains almshouses for the benefit of people in South Oxfordshire.
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England
The Stowmarket And District Talking Newspaper Association
Blind Support Organisations
Supply a monthly memory stick of local news and information to visually impaired.
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England