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Do something DEMANDing...
Take on a challenge for DEMAND
(Design & Manufacture for Disability)
In the UK over 10 million people have disabilities. DEMAND provides solutions when no other help is available. We design and make equipment for children and adults often with profound multiple disabilities, using the skills of experts to fulfil each particular need.
There are thousands of individuals of all ages who need the invention, skill and loving care of DEMAND.
Help us make a difference to the lives of disabled people.
For information on all our challenges, contact lesley.mcginty@demand.org.uk or call her on 01923 682400
Registered Charity No. 1008128 |
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Across the UK, a child is diagnosed with a severe disability every 25 minutes. Contact a Family is the only UK-wide charity providing advice, information and support to parents of children with any kind of disability or rare disorder.
During the past year we have reached more than 275,000 families with a disabled child through face-to-face contact, telephone, email and postal enquiries, workshops, and distributing publications and factsheets. This means we are in touch with 1 in 3 families with a disabled child.
More information can be found at www.cafamily.org.uk. Our Freephone Helpline number is 0808 808 3555.
Registered Charity No.284912 |
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The Foundation for Conductive Education offers children and adults with incurable physical disabilities more independence and dignity by teaching them how to overcome their disability in every day life.
Conductive Education benefits people with cerebral palsy, dyspraxia, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, strokes and head injuries – and their families.
The Foundation for Conductive Education is a charity dedicated to making Conductive Education more widely available through providing services, training, research and awareness-raising.
The Foundation’s UK flagship centre is the National Institute of Conductive Education in Birmingham, which offers services across the lifespan, carers’ courses, training and information services.
Registered Charity No. 295873 |
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The Thistle
Foundation provides flexible and responsive services that enable
disabled people and their families to live independent and
integrated lives within their own local communities throughout
Scotland. They aim to challenge inequality of opportunity and the
barriers in society that exclude disabled people from full
participation.
Many of the
people that The Thistle Foundation supports have recently moved from
hospitals and care homes and are living for the first time in their
own home. The Thistle Foundation supports people through life
changes and assists them to plan for their future and to make these
plans a reality.
Registered Charity No.
SC016816 |
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Working
closely with its partner organisations Special Olympics, Mencap/Gateway
and the English Federation of Disability Sport, we aim to campaign for,
initiate and provide, opportunities in sport and recreation for people
in England who have a learning disability. Registered Charity No.
1045816 |
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John Grooms is a national
charity which together with its sister organisation, John Grooms Housing
Association, works with disabled people, enabling them to have greater
independence, choice and freedom. Registered Charity
No.212463 |
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ASPIRE works with
people with spinal cord injury to offer practical support and innovation
from the moment of their injury for the rest of their lives.
Its founding principle
is and remains integration.
ASPIRE’s projects
include the ASPIRE National Training Centre, a sport and leisure centre
dedicated to integrated sport between disabled and non-disabled people,
the ASPIRE Human Needs Fund which is available to people with spinal
cord injuries to purchase specialist equipment such as a lightweight
wheelchair, ASPIRE Research including the Male Fertility Research and
ASPIRE Housing for newly discharged spinally injured patients to learn
to live independently in the community whilst their housing needs are
being resolved.
Registered Charity No.1075317 |
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Founded
in 1979, The Disabilities Trust is now a leading national charity
providing quality support services for people with profound physical
impairments, autism, acquired brain injury and learning disabilities. We
aim to improve the quality of life for people with particularly complex
and challenging needs and to offer imaginative, progressive services
where little or no provision exists.
We operate a network of centres
nationwide, from Sunderland in the North to Devon in the South, offering
a range of specialist accommodation, rehabilitation and personal
support, all aimed at empowering each beneficiary of our services to
live more fulfilling and independent lives.
Registered Charity No. 800797 |
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National association for Bikers with a
Disability (N.A.B.D.)
Everyone who has ever ridden a motorcycle
will know it's a unique form of transport that makes travelling a
pleasure, so much so that the journey often becomes more important than
the destination.
The NABD believe that everyone who wishes
too should have the freedom to partake of that enjoyment, regardless of
physical problems. All that is needed is the will to succeed, with that
and the help of the NABD; the freedom to ride is there for everyone.
The will to succeed comes from within and
may only need a little encouragement but adaptations can be rather
expensive, that’s where the NABD helps, with grants ranging from £300 to
£1200, as each adaptation is tailor made to suit both rider and bike.
Each fundraising challenge will not only
be a lifetime adventure but it will also help someone’s dreams come
true, something that is beyond value.
Registered Charity No.1040907 |
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Skill is
a national charity promoting opportunities for people with all kinds of
disabilities – physical and sensory disabilities, learning and mental
health difficulties – in education, work-based learning and transition
to employment. Skill provides an information and advice service free to
disabled people, their families and key advisers through a telephone
helpline, emails and letters, and a 500+ page website with Frequently
Asked Questions and downloadable information including information
booklets and up-to-date policy briefings.
Skill promotes good practice
in post-16 provision through publications and events including topical
thematic conferences, and influences government and statutory agencies
on the impact of national policies.
Registered Charity No.801971 |
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