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| Ability Net | Barnardo's | British Society for Music Therapy | Children Today |
| The Children's Society | The Children's Trust | Contact a Family | The Disabilities Trust |
- AbilityNet is a national charity helping disabled adults and children use computers and the internet by adapting and adjusting their technology. Our special expertise is ensuring that whatever your age, health condition, disability or situation you find exactly the right way to adapt or adjust your ICT to make it easier to use.
AbilityNet has over 20 years experience helping people adapt and adjust their information and communications technology (ICT). We’re unique in what we do, working across the UK and beyond.
Our special expertise is ensuring that whatever your age, health condition, disability or situation you find exactly the right way to adapt or adjust your ICT to make it easier to use.
There are a confusing number of adaptations that change frequently, and a huge range of prices. We’ll always point out the low cost and free solutions first and let you try various solutions, so you avoid making costly mistakes
Contact:
AbilityNet Head Office
AbilityNet Thames Valley
AbilityNet Thames Valley is hosted by Microsoft in Reading:
AbilityNet Thames Valley
c/o Microsoft Ltd,
Microsoft Campus,
Thames Valley Park,
Reading
RG6 1WG.
Tel: 0870 2404455.
Fax: 0870 2407240
Email: southeast@abilitynet.org.uk
Web: www.abilitynet.org.uk
- Barnardo’s vision is that the lives of all children and young people should be free from poverty, abuse and discrimination. Barnardo’s believe in the abused, the vulnerable, the forgotten and the neglected. We pledge to support them, stand up for them and bring out the best in each and every child.
This vision is the same as the one Thomas Barnardo had when he came to London in 1866 and found children sleeping in the streets and being forced to beg for food. It was in 1867 that he set up the Ragged School and starting helping the abused, vulnerable, forgotten and neglected children of east london and his work still continues today.
By the time Thomas Barnardo died in 1905, the charity he founded ran 96 homes caring for more than 8,500 children. Following his death his work continued and now Barnardo’s helps more than 100,000 children, young people and their families every year. Like Thomas Barnardo, we believe that every child deserves the best start in life and the chance to fulfil their potential.
Contact:
Barnardo's
Tanners Lane
Barkingside
Ilford
Essex
IG6 1QG
Tel: 0208 550 8822
Fax: 0208 551 6870
Email: See the website
Web: www.barnardos.org.uk
The British Society for Music Therapy was founded in 1958 by Juliette Alvin and her colleagues under the name of 'Society for Music Therapy and Remedial Music' with the object of promoting the use and development of music therapy. This is still, in 2010, our aim. The BSMT is a Registered Charity, Number 260837.
At that time music therapy was scarcely known as a profession, although music had been acknowledged as a means of healing for thousands of years. The BSMT was vital in supporting the work of the early pioneers and in helping the developing profession to gain the respect and status which it now enjoys. The BSMT has grown into an organisation which reaches people with an interest in music therapy all over the UK and worldwide.
The BSMT acts as an advisory body and is a centre of information and dissemination on services, training, bibliography and research, receiving from home and abroad a vast number of enquiries on all aspects of music therapy.
Contact:
British Society for Music Therapy
24-27 White Lion Street
London
N1 9PD
Tel: 020 7837 6100
Fax: 020 7837 6142
Email: info@bsmt.org
Web: www.bsmt.org
- Children Today is the charity that raises funds to provide specialised equipment for children and young people with disabilities throughout the UK. Our aim is to ensure that every disabled child and young person fulfils their potential and leads an active childhood.
Children Today was founded in 1994 to help disabled children and young people up to the age of 25 enjoy a better quality of life by providing them with the specialised equipment they need.
Often children and young people with disabilities remain excluded from a lifestyle which other people may take for granted. They want to join in and take part in the same sorts of activities, within their capabilities, as other children. They want to gain more independence from their parents as they get older, but are often prevented from doing so.
We believe the provision of specialised equipment has a direct and immediate impact on a child's quality of life and independence, and is vital in helping them to overcome obstacles and achieve their potential. Equipment can include wheelchairs, walking frames, tricycles and other mobility aids, as well as communication aids, multi-sensory equipment and other information technology.
Contact:
Children Today Charitable Trust
The Moorings
Rowton Bridge
Christleton
Chester
CH3 7AE
Tel: 01244 335622
Fax: 01244 335473
Email: info@childrentoday.org.uk
Web: www.childrentoday.org.uk
The Children's Society is a leading children's charity committed to making childhood better for all children in the UK.
We take action to prevent, rescue and support children facing life trapped in a vicious circle of fear and harm.
A national network of projects, pioneering research, influential campaigning, the UK’s first independent national inquiry into childhood...and more.
Contact:
The Children's Society
Edward Rudolf House
Margery Street
London
WC1X 0JL
Tel: 0845 300 1128
Email: supportercare@childrenssociety.org.uk
Web: www.childrenssociety.org.uk
- The Children's Trust, Tadworth provides care, education, therapy and rehabilitation to children with multiple disabilities, complex health needs and acquired brain injury
Our services include the UK's largest paediatric brain injury rehabilitation centre, support in the community for children and young people with acquired brain injury (ABI), St Margaret's School for pupils with profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD), short breaks, transitional, palliative and long-term nursing care.
Contact:
The Children's Trust
Tadworth Court
Tadworth
Surrey
KT20 5RU
Tel: 01737 365 000
Email: See Website
Web: www.thechildrenstrust.org.uk
- Contact a Family provides support, advice and information for families with disabled children, no matter what their condition or disability.
Contact a Family became a registered charity in 1979 and we have over 30 years of experience of working with families with disabled children.
Our vision
Contact a Family's vision is that all families with disabled children are empowered to live the lives they choose to live, and achieve their full potential, for themselves, for the communities they live in and for society.
Contact a Family's mission and purpose is to remove the barriers imposed by society which prevent families with disabled children achieving their full potential, and to empower these families to live the lives they want to lead.
Our work
Last year, Contact a Family helped over 300,000 families with disabled children.
Tel: 0808 808 3555
Email: helpline@cafamily.org.uk
Web: www.cafamily.org.uk
- The Disabilities Trust is a fast-growing charity offering leading-edge services to people with disabilities across the UK
The Disabilities Trust was founded in 1979 to provide an imaginative new concept of personal care and specialist housing for people with special needs.
Since then our services have expanded to include purpose-built accommodation, community-based housing, respite care, education, community enabling and rehabilitation.
Our services are divided into four divisions to meet the needs of:
- people with autism
- people with acquired brain injury
- people with profound physical disability
- people with a learning disability.
Contact:
The Disabilities Trust
First Floor
32 Market Place
Burgess Hill
West Sussex
RH15 9NP
Tel: 01444 239123
Fax: 01444 244978
Email: info@thedtgroup.org
Web: www.disabilities-trust.org.uk