Self Help Groups

AgeCare
AgeCare is the working name of one of Britain's oldest medical charities, the Royal Surgical Aid Society. Founded in 1862 as the Royal Surgical Aid Society it spent the next 90 years providing people who could not afford to buy them with 1,929,2l0 surgical aids - artificial limbs, trusses, ear...
AICA - Association of Independent Care Advisers
AICA (the Association of Independent Care Advisers) represents member organisations around the country who are helping people decide on the best choice of care. AICA can put individuals in touch with a local Care Adviser, a member of the Association abiding by its Code of Practice, who will guide...
Althea Park Specialist Services
Althea Park was conceived in the mid 1990s to provide a female only residential alternative to hospital for complex and enduring eating disorder clients, who otherwise had become caught up in a cycle of repeated admissions. Offering a psycho-social model alongside more standardised intervention,...
Anchor Trust
Anchor's purpose, mission and vision are: Purpose - to improve the lives of older people. Vision - to be the first choice provider of support and care services for older people. Mission - to anticipate and respect the lifestyle choices of older people by providing services they value....
Assist UK
Assist UK is the headquarters of an independent voluntary organisation with a network of Disabled Living Centres throughout the UK. Centres offer a range of products and equipment designed to make life easier for people who have difficulty with such daily activities such as bending, reaching,...
A-Z Care Homes Guide
A-Z Care Homes Guide is a guide to the care homes sector in the United Kingdom. The publication (over 750 pages) is divided into three main sections - Care Homes, Independent Hospitals & Clinics and A-Z Buyers Guide for Care Homes. The classifications index at the back of the Care Homes...
Barnardo's
Barnardo's is the UK's biggest and best known children's charity. There are some 394 services working with more than 115,000 children, young people and families a year. The charity continues to fight the old problems of poverty, homelessness, and child prostitution, and new issues of children...
BAWSO - Black Association of Women Step Out
Established in 1995 BAWSO is an all Wales, voluntary organisation, providing specialist holistic services to black and minority ethnic women and children, who are, or are about to be made homeless through a threat of domestic abuse, suffering or fleeing domestic abuse in Wales. It is affiliated to...
BRITISH LIMBLESS EX-SERVICE MEN'S ASSOCIATION (BLESMA)
BLESMA is a national charity for limbless serving and ex-service men and women. The Association also accepts responsibility for the dependants of its members and, in particular their widows. The objects of the Association are to promote the welfare of all those of either sex who have lost a...
Brookdale Care
Provides residential care for individuals with autistic spectrum disorders, autism and Asperger syndrome. Homes are in North London, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.