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Action for Blind
People helps 20,000 blind and partially sighted
people each year. |
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To prevent
abuse in old age by raising awareness,
education, promoting research,
collection and dissemination of information. |
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Age-Net
is an ‘Age Friendly’ site for the UK's
Over 50s. It seeks to provide a platform
for your interests and answers to your
questions. |
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Not-for-profit
provider of support, care and housing for older
couples and single people, whether able-bodied
or requiring added care with a range
of purpose-built accommodation, or help
people to stay in their own home. |
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askNCVO is
an online best practice resource for the
voluntary sector, providing advice
on trusteeship to employment
law. |
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The Beehive
Community Network provides community organisations
in Wales with free website presence
to publicise their activities. |
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CAF helps non
profit organisations in the UK and overseas
to increase, manage and administer their resources
and promotes the exchange of ideas, opinions
and information. |
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.....the internet’s
unique guide to care and the rights of the
elderly, aiming to empower people with the
information they need to make informed
choices, giving them continuing control
in their lives, or the lives of their loved
ones. |
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The Care Directory
has been set up to provide a guide to care
homes, nursing homes (care homes with nursing)
and care agencies throughout England, Scotland,
Wales and Northern Ireland. |
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Careuk.net,
an NHFA website, aims to signpost individuals
to some of the numerous sources of support,
advice and information available throughout
the UK. |
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Ceartas provide
information and advocacy for older people and
people with dementia in East Dunbartonshire. |
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The Charity
Commission exists to promote public confidence
in the integrity of charities. |
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Charity
Flowers is a flowers-by-post service wholly-owned
by Age Concern. It is run for the benefit of
charities and 15% of your order value will
go to Contact the Elderly when you select us
as your preferred charity. |
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CharityNet
is a free service offering searchable databases,
listings, links and other electronic tools
as a resource. |
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Citizens Online
explores the social and cultural impact of
the Internet on society. We believe that access
to the Internet is essential
for every 21st Century citizen. |
Contact has several such
micro-sites; follow this link  |
CommuniGate
provides FREE Internet micro-sites for every
charity and community organisation in UK. |
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CSV (Community
Service Volunteers) is the UK’s leading volunteer
organisation creating opportunities for people
to take an active part in the life of their
community through volunteering, training and
community action. |
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Connects is
a worldwide, interactive, personalised forum
for sharing information by people whose lives
are touched by mental health problems and/or
learning disabilities. |
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DIAL UK is a
national organisation for a network of 140
local disability information and advice line
services run by and for disabled people. |
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Do-it offers
the public volunteer opportunities from an
online database, searchable by your interests
and your location. |
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Elizabeth
Finn Care helps people in need (and their
spouse and children) whose former careers
have been interrupted or ended through physical
or mental problems, loss of work and family
breakdown or those struggling on low income
in retirement. |
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ExtraCare is
a charitable trust with a unique approach to
housing and support for older people, offering
a lifestyle that challenges traditional outmoded
concepts of ageing. |
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The 'everybodyonline'
project targets disadvantaged communities across
the country where levels of Internet connectivity
and access to information communication technology
(ICT) are amongst the lowest in the UK. |
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50 Connect operates
the UK’s leading content led internet channel
dedicated to today’s over 50’s. |
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G-Nation is
a countrywide campaign in the UK aiming to
demonstrate to young people how to change the
world by giving. |
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Grace Care was
founded over 30 years ago and has advised over
100,000 families throughout the UK, helping
them to source the very best care to suit both
their care needs and their wishes. |
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Hearing Concern
helps to overcome the frustration, isolation
and loneliness experienced by millions of people
in the UK who have hearing loss, providing
advice and support and promoting awareness
of the communication needs of deaf and hard
of hearing people. |
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HousingCare
is an independent and not-for-profit site,
designed to help older people make choices
about their future housing, and any supportive
services or care they may need. |
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The place for
news, views and product information for the
elderly and less able |
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Keep Able supply
a broad range of products to make everyday
living easier for elderly and disabled people,
from walking sticks and kitchen gadgets to
mobility scooters and stairlifts. Order on-line
or request a FREE Mailorder Catalogue. Call
08705 20 21 22. |
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Listening Books
provides a postal audio book library to people
throughout the UK who have difficulty holding
a book, turning a page or reading in the normal
way. |
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The one-stop
resource for all your over 50 needs that helps
you make the most out of life. |
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National Association
of Councils for Voluntary Service supports
over 280 Councils for Voluntary Service (CVS)
throughout England. CVS are local development
agencies formed and run by voluntary and community
groups providing a range of support services. |
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This UK key
event allows healthcare professionals and their
clients to keep up to date with developments
in the homecare market. May 11-13, 2004, NEC
Birmingham. |
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The National
Benevolent Fund for the Aged responds to the
changing demands of an ever-increasing number
of older people in the UK and especially to
the growing number of frail and disabled older
people who are socially excluded. |
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The National
Council for Voluntary Organisations is the
umbrella body for the voluntary sector in England,
with sister councils in Wales, Scotland and
Northern Ireland. |
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The National
Council of Women speaks for women across Great
Britain - to make changes in the way things
are done and to create a better tomorrow by
acting today - via Government agencies, departments
and decision-making bodies. |
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The Nursing
Home Fees Agency (NHFA) provides older people,
their families and carers with free advice
and information on obtaining and paying for
all types of care. |
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The Queen’s
Nursing Institute stands at the heart of community
nursing: promoting best practice in community
nursing care; providing both professional and
financial support for innovative community
nursing projects and working alongside leading
healthcare agencies to encourage the highest
standards of public health. |
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REACH helps
voluntary organisations benefit from the business,
managerial, technical and professional expertise
of people who want to offer their skills, working
as volunteers in part-time, unpaid roles with
nearby voluntary organisations, free of charge. |
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Research into
Ageing is the UK national medical research
charity dedicated to understanding and challenging
the diseases and disabilities which become
more common in later life, with the aim to
establish a difference between healthy ageing
and illness. |
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The Royal National
Institute for the Blind (RNIB) offers practical
support and advice to anyone with a sight problem. |
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RNID is the
largest charity representing the 8.7 million
deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK.
Our vision is a world where deafness and hearing
loss are not barriers to opportunity and fulfilment. |
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The
UK's leading charity safeguarding the welfare,
interests and memory of those who have served
in the Armed Forces and their dependants, providing
financial, social and emotional support to
millions of all age groups. |
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The Royal Scottish
Corporation, founded in the early seventeenth
century by expatriate Scots, helps Scots suffering
hardship in London. Anyone born in Scotland,
of Scots parentage, or married to a Scot, and
living within 35 miles of Charing Cross, can
call for help. |
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Founded in 1876
to promote continuous improvement in human
health through education, communication and
the encouragement of scientific research. |
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The Retired
and Senior Volunteer Programme, is part of
the national Community Service Volunteers and
encourages those aged 50 plus to participate
in voluntary work in their local area. |
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Rukba,
The Royal United Kingdom Beneficent Association,
is a national charity which helps older
people on low incomes hold on to their
independence. Now known as Independent
Age. |
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Society for
the Assistance of Ladies, founded in 1886,
assists women permanently resident in the UK
living alone and genuinely in need, irrespective
of social status. Often they are elderly
ladies who require help towards their day-to-day
living expenses. |
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An information
resource for older people in the UK with
channels on health, money, campaigns, computers
and leisure. Operates a Bulletin Board with
forums on topical items. Free mini-web sites
for selected Pensioners groups. |
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The
essential seniors resource directory. Includes
retirement, senior health, mobility, ageing,
finance, activities and many more helpful
organisations for the over 50s & senior
citizens. |
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"Solicitors
for the Elderly" is a national organisation
solicitors, barristers
and legal executives who are committed to providing
and promoting robust, comprehensive and independent
legal advice for older people, their family
and carers. |
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Offers a range
of technology products, services and solutions
supporting the needs of charities and enabling
employers and employees to get more involved
in their communities in terms of giving time
and giving money. |
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A worldwide
organisation for women in management and
professions working through service projects
to advance human rights and the status of
women. There are currently over 93,000 members
in 122 countries. |
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Staywarm from
Powergen is a fixed price gas and electricity
service designed exclusively for the over 60s.
It offers those who need it most an affordable
way to keep warm without the worry of unexpected
large bills. We supply all the gas and electricity
you need for a price that is fixed for 12 months,
based on the number of people and bedrooms
in your home not how much gas and electricity
you use. |
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SSAFA is the
national charity helping serving and ex-Service
men, women and their families in need, suffering
or distress, regardless of age or condition. |
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For the best
local businesses, local news, events and local
information wherever you are... |
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TimeBank
is a national campaign to raise awareness
of the value of giving time and to inspire
a new generation of TimeGivers; it acts
as the single entry point to the voluntary
sector. |
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provide the
opportunity for women everywhere to be part
of an organisation within which members offer
support, friendship and encouragement for women,
confronting radical contemporary issues. |
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Around the country
groups of people organise themselves for the
purpose of learning and in the UK there are
more than 400 groups with total membership
of some 112,000. |
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The Universal
Beneficent Society is a national charity which
helps older people in the UK who are living
on very low incomes. UBS provides its beneficiaries
with a regular additional income, grants for
emergencies and bedding packs. |
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An
on-line directory providing the telephone
numbers of over 760 UK Self Help Groups
and hyperlinks to over 560 web sites. |
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The WI is a
modern organisation that speaks with reason
and integrity on a range of important issues
facing us today - from GM crops to the closure
of rural post offices. |
