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Phone No. |
Email |
Website |
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| AA Disability Helpline |
0800 26 20 50 |
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(Mon–Thurs 24 hours, Fri–Sun 7am–11pm) Also have a Minicom: 0800 328 2810
(Mon–Fri 8am–7pm, weekends 9am–5pm) |
| Acorn Action Group |
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Click here to email |
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This group are a self advocacy forum for people with learning difficulties |
| Adult Disability Team |
01625 534851 |
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| Adults with Special Needs Team |
01270 505128 |
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| Advocacy Learning Disabilities |
01606 42688 |
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| Advocacy Mental Health |
01606 596396 |
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| Advocacy Physical Disability CCIL |
01606 872760 |
Click here to email |
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This is a user led organisation of disabled people and has been providing support to disabled people since 1992 and promoting the philosophy of independent living. Provides the Direct Payents service for Chesire County Council Community Services. |
| Advocate Deaf / Blind |
01606 47831 |
Click here to email |
Click here to visit the website |
Now come under Deafness Support Network |
| Advocate Health Complaints CAB |
01606 869310 |
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| Advocate Mental Health |
01606 331850 |
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| Age Concern |
01606 881660 |
Click here to email |
Click here to visit the website |
Opening Times: Week Days: 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM |
| Alcohol Services |
01270 580243 |
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Work to reduce the incidence and costs of alcohol-related harm |
| Alzheimer's Helpline |
0845 3000336 |
Click here to email |
Click here to visit the website |
national helpline is open 08.30 - 18.30 from Monday to Friday |
| Alzheimer's Society South Cheshire Branch |
01270 501901or 216910 |
Click here to email |
Click here to visit the website |
for General info. advice and befriending |
| Alzheimer's Society Vale Royal |
01606 351112 |
Click here to email |
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General Advice info and Support |
| Arthritis Care National |
0808 8004050 |
Click here to email |
Click here to visit the website |
Arthritis Care exists to support people with arthritis. |
| Arthritis Care Northwich |
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Meets at Dane Walk Community Centre, Northwich. 2nd Friday each month 7:30pm. |
| Arthritis Care Winsford |
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Meet at the Dingle Centre, High Street
On third Thursday in month at 7.30 - 9.15pm |
| Asbestos Support Group |
0151 236 1895 |
Click here to email |
Click here to visit the website |
Monday - Friday: 9am - 4.30pm |
| Autism Society |
0151 494 9909 |
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| Autistic Society |
0845 070 4004 |
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Click here to visit the website |
Autism Helpline provides impartial and confidential information, advice and support Open Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm |
| Blindness: IRIS Vision Resource Centre |
01270 250316 |
Click here to email |
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IRIS Vision Resource Centre, 14 Chapel Street, Crewe, Cheshire, CW2 7DQ |
| Blue Car Badge application |
0845 113 1133 |
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Click here to visit the website |
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| British Brain Tumour Association |
0151 929 3229 |
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(National Information Line)Best time to telephone: 10am - 4pm |
| British Heart Support |
0207 487 7110 |
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| British Red Cross |
01565 650201 |
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| British Royal Legion |
01606 74800 |
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| Cancer - St Lukes Hospice |
01606 551246 |
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| Cancer Helpline |
0800 132905 |
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| Carers Allowance |
01772 899655 |
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| Carers Centre Helpline |
0800 0850307 |
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| Carers Support Crossroads |
01606 49989 |
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| Carers UK |
0808 8087777 |
Click here to email |
Click here to visit the website |
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| CCC Welfare Rights |
01244 603062 |
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| Central & East Cheshire Primary Care Trust |
01606 275303 |
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| Cerebral Palsy SCOPE Frodsham |
01928 734120 |
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| Cheshire Carers Centre |
01270 257331 |
Click here to email |
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Older Peoples Project |
| Cheshire Centre for Independent Living (Direct Payments) |
01606 872760 |
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| Cheshire Highways Office |
01270 537574 |
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| Cheshire Sport Develop |
01606 871812 |
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| Cheshire Travel Line |
0870 6082608 |
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| Community & Hospital Support Service |
01270 255141 |
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| Community Transport |
01244 603269 |
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| Companion Scheme |
01606 351687 |
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| Continence Advisor |
01606 564116 |
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| Countess of Chester Hospital |
01244 365000 |
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| Crewe & Nantwich Borough Council |
01270 537777 |
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| Crewe & Nantwich Voluntary Action |
01270 211545 |
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| Crewe Citizens Advice Bureau |
01270 212401 |
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| Crewe Library Information Point |
01270 505335 |
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| Crossroads Care |
01606 49989 |
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| Cystic Fibrosis |
01606 852975 |
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| Daily Living Helpful Equipment - Boots |
01270 212252 |
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| Deafness Support Network Northwich |
01606 47831 |
Click here to email |
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| Deafness Youth Community Runcorn |
01928 574869 |
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| Diabetes UK (Crewe & Nantwich Contact) |
01270 567447 |
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Contact Name Bryan Bossons: Monthly Meeting Held 2nd Wednesday every month (not Jan or July) at St Lukes Church Hall, Coppice Rd Willaston, Crewe, Cheshire |
| Diabetic Association UK Chester |
01244 675688 |
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| Diabetic UK Mid Cheshire |
01606 592282 |
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| Dial House Chester |
01244 345655 |
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| Dial-a-Ride Transport |
01270 211884 |
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Disability Information & Services |
| DICE Ellesmere Port |
01513 551420 |
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| Direct Payment Advisers |
01606 888255 |
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| Disability Benefits Helpline |
0800 882200 |
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| Disability Benefits Helpline |
08457 123456 |
Click here to email |
Click here to visit the website |
Disability Living Allowance Unit or Attendance Allowance Unit
Warbreck House
Warbreck Hill
Blackpool
Lancashire
FY2 0YE |
| Disability Discrimination Act |
0845 7622633 |
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| Disability Information Bureau Macclesfield |
01625 501759 |
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| Disability Resource Exchange |
01270 501535 |
Click here to email |
Click here to visit the website |
Fully accessible premises. |
| Disability Sport |
01714 904919 |
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| Down's Syndrome Association |
0151 2265158 |
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| Drugs Helpline National |
0800 776600 |
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| Drugs Helpline Substance Abuse |
0808 8002345 |
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| Drugs South Cheshire |
01270 216118 |
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| Drugs Team Community |
01270 216118 |
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| Drugs Turnpoint |
01270 588500 |
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| Dyslexia |
01625 530158 |
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| Elderly Care |
01606 351687 |
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| Epilepsy Helpline |
0808 8005050 |
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| Fire Service Assessment |
0800 3890053 |
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| FISH Insurance |
01772 724442 |
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| Form Completion Services |
0800 441144 |
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| Friends for Leisure |
01625 613433 |
Click here to email |
Click here to visit the website |
Working with children and young people with disabilities to give them opportunities to join or belong to clubs, make friends with other young people or take part in everyday leisure activities. This organisation will soon be expanding to cover Crewe. |
| Help the Aged - Senior Line |
0808 8006565 |
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| HIV Body Positive |
01244 400415 |
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| Holiday Care Service |
0845 1249971 |
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| Homestart Central Cheshire |
01270 252719 |
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Contact: Clare Robinson |
| Housing Office |
0845 1221205 |
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| Independent Living Fund |
0845 6018815 |
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| Jobcentre Direct |
0845 6060234 |
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| Learndirect Helpline |
0800 100900 |
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| Legal Advice |
0845 6081122 |
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| Leighton Hospital |
01270 255141 |
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| Les Welch - Community out reach transport |
01565-682308/ 07843-468007 |
Click here to email |
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This service will operate as a transport service to assist those people who are either in receipt of a Choice-quip prescription or who wish to travel from their own homes to a shop to obtain equipment and are unable to do so due to isolation or mobility. |
| Link Group Northwich |
01606 871502 |
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| Mavis Advice |
01344 661000 |
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| MENCAP |
01606 350610 |
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| MENCAP |
01928 722385 |
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| MENCAP Helpline |
0808 8081111 |
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| Meningitis Merseyside Support Group |
0151 4244402 |
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| Mental Health Link Northwich |
01606 871502 |
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| Metabolic Diseases (CLIMB) |
0870 7700325 |
Click here to email |
Click here to visit the website |
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| Mid Cheshire Hospital - Leighton |
01270 211545 |
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| MIND |
01606 863305 |
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Click here to visit the website |
This is an informal drop in centre for people who have had or currently experiencing mental health problems. |
| Mobility Information Service |
01743 761889 |
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| Motability Helpline |
0845 456566 |
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| Motor Neurone Disease |
0151 2892597 |
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| MP House of Commons |
02072 193000 |
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| Multiple Sclerosis S E Cheshire |
01270 812089/761570 |
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| Multiple Sclerosis Society National Helpline |
0808 8008000 |
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| Multiple Sclerosis Vale Royal |
01606 852222 |
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| Muscular Dystrophy |
01606 46526 |
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| Muscular Dystrophy Group: (Crewe) |
01270 625521 |
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Contact Mr G Cundall |
| Myasthenia Gravis Association |
01606 832781 |
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Can also contact Pam Broadhead on 01270 760374 |
| Myasthenia Gravis National Helpline |
0800 919922 |
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The Myasthenia Gravis Association (MGA) has as its objective the promotion of the welfare of sufferers |
| National Housing Helpline |
0808 8004444 |
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| National Rail Enquiries |
08457 484950 |
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| Neighbourhood Centre Winsford |
01606 551766 |
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| Neuromuscular Centre Winsford |
01606 861733 |
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| New Deal Helpline |
0845 6062626 |
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| NHS DIRECT |
0845 4647 |
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| NHS Wheelchair Repairs |
01302 796269 |
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| Northwich Clinic (I.C.C) |
01606 564126 |
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| Open University Disabled Students |
01908 653745 |
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| Parkinson Disease |
01925 654890 |
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| Parkinsons Disease Association (Crewe) |
01270 661358 |
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To ease the lives of people with Parkinson's disease and their families and carers by promoting a constructive dialogue between science and society |
| Patient Advice and Liaison |
01270 612346 |
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Occupational Health, based within Leighton Hospital Crewe |
| Petty Pool Learning Difficulties |
01606 889097 |
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| PHAB |
01244 383908 |
Click here to email |
Click here to visit the website |
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| Police General Conflict |
0845 4580000 |
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| Prescription Renewal |
0845 8500030 |
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| RAC Insurance |
0870 5722722 |
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| RADAR |
02072 503222 |
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| Radar Toilet Key |
01270 537777 |
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Available from DRE Crewe |
| RELATE |
01606 350995 |
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| SAAFA Cheshire & North West |
01565 723330 |
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Click here to visit the website |
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| Samaritans |
01606 43211 |
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| Schizophrenia Fellowship National |
01565 633141 |
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| SCOPE |
0845 8003333 |
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| Sexuality & Disability |
01925 240832 |
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| Shopmobility Chester |
01244 398566 |
Click here to email |
Click here to visit the website |
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| Shopmobility Crewe |
01270 580031 |
Click here to email |
Click here to visit the website |
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| Shopmobility Northwich |
01606 353524/01606 353525 |
Click here to email |
Click here to visit the website |
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| Shopmobility Winsford |
01606 557550 |
Click here to email |
Click here to visit the website |
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| Skill (Information Services) |
0800 3285050 |
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| Skin Camouflage Service Red Cross |
01565 650201 |
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| Social Service - Out of Hours Emergency Team |
01606 76611 |
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| Social Services Crewe & Nantwich & C&N Access Team |
01270 375100 |
Click here to email |
Click here to visit the website |
Formally called Social Service Reception Crewe |
| Social Services Northwich & Northwich Access Team |
01606 814900 |
Click here to email |
Click here to visit the website |
Formally Called Social Services Northwich Reception |
| South Cheshire Crossroads |
01270 753487 |
Click here to email |
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Providing support to Carers in their own homes, giving Carers “time” to be themselves. |
| Speakability Helpline |
0808 8089572 |
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| Spina Bifida / Hydrocephalus |
01733 555988 |
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| Spina Bifida: Elizabeth Myers |
01490 450360 |
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| Spinal Injuries Association Helpline |
0800 9800501 |
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| St. Lukes Winsford (Hospice) |
01606 551246 |
Click here to email |
Click here to visit the website |
There are lots of different contact numbers depending on what individuals needs are. These are detailed on their web site |
| Stepping Stones |
01606 330633 |
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| Stroke Association Crewe & Winsford |
01270 612237 |
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This organisation is based within Leighton Hospital |
| Stroke Association Dysphasic Support (Crewe & Natwich) |
01270 872190 |
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Contact for this number is Susan Whalley. Meeting times: Monday 2pm- 4pm & Tuesday 2pm- 4pm |
| Stroke Association Dysphasic Support (Vale Royal) |
01606 43466 |
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Contact Elizabeth Wenham. Meeting Times Tuesday 10:30 am to 12:30 |
| Stroke Club (Crewe) |
01270 650361 |
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Meeting Times: 2nd & 4th Tuesday, 7:30pm- 9:30 pm. Contact Miss E Moss |
| Sue Hughes |
0844 225 3756 |
Click here to email |
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This contact is the Information and Support Worker Central and East Cheshire
Parkinsons Disease Society |
| Survive |
01270 250051 |
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This organisation provide support for survivors of sexual assault, |
| Telecare |
01606 813444 |
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| Text Deaf / Speech Difficulty |
0800 243335 |
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| Tourettes Syndrome Association Helpline |
0845 4591252 |
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| Train Journey Care |
0845 7443366 |
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| Tuberous Sclerosis Helpline |
0808 8083555 |
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| Vale Royal Borough Council Northwich |
01606 353501 |
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RADAR KEY |
| Vale Royal Borough Council Winsford |
01606 862862 |
Click here to email |
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RADAR KEY |
| Vale Royal Disability Services |
01606 888400 |
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| Vale Royal Disability Services Learning Centre |
01606 333673 |
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| Vale Royal Disability Services Outreach Learning |
01606 888604 |
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| Vale Royal Voluntary Action |
01606 723180 |
Click here to email |
Click here to visit the website |
They Provide an Information point for the local community & services to some the most disadvantaged groups in the area |
| Victoria Royal Infirmary Hospital |
01606 564000 |
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| Vision Resource Centre |
01606 564060 |
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| Vision Support |
01244 382222 |
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| Visually Impaired Services |
01606 815716 |
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| Warm Front Scheme |
0800 0720151 |
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Click here to visit the website |
Grants to make homes warmer |
| West Cheshire Primary Care Trust |
01244 650300 |
Click here to email |
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There is also a free phone number 0800 132996 |
| Wheelchair Assessment Unit - Chester |
01513 571070 |
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| Wheelchair Assessment Unit - Congleton & Macclesfield |
01625 661064 |
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| Wheelchair Assessment Unit - Crewe |
01270 612348 |
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| Winter Fuel Payment |
08459 151515 |
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Payment aged 60 or over |
| Youth Information Cheshire |
01270 587543 |
Click here to email |
Click here to visit the website |
National Youth Agency for Young people & all those working with them. |
