National Support & Self-Help Groups

• Action For Blind People
• Afasic - Unlocking Speech and Language
• Alzheimer's Society The UK's leading care and research charity for people with dementia, their families and carers. 
• ARCOS - Association for Rehabilitation of Communication and Oral Skills
• Barnardo's run almost 400 projects around the UK from drug misuse to disability; youth crime to mental health; sexual abuse to domestic violence; poverty to homelessness.
• The Bromley Trust makes grants to UK charities working in Human Rights, Prison Reform and Conservation and Sustainability.
• BSA - British Stammering Association
• Citizens' Advice Bureau 
• Crossroads Care provides support for carers and the people they care for, working with over 35,000 individuals and their families, helping carers to make a life of their own outside caring.  Services are provided through a network of local providers across England and Wales, each offering our core service where a trained carer support worker comes into the home to take over the caring responsibilities. Each local provider is an independent charity, which has its own funding streams and is therefore able to provide additional services according to funding and demand at a local level.
• Dyspraxia Foundation - recognising developmental co-ordination disorders.
• Farm Crisis Network provides pastoral and practical support to farming people during periods of anxiety, stress and problems relating to both the farm household and the farm business.
• HMS Glamorgan Falklands 1982 includes a Memorial to our shipmates who did not return in 1982 and a support network for those who lost loved ones onboard and for any shipmates who have suffered long-term problems as a consequence of the ship’s activities in 1982.
• Jewish Women's Aid is a registered national charity run by Jewish women for Jewish women and their children who have experienced or are experiencing domestic abuse. They run a refuge in London where Kashrut, Shabbat and festivals are strictly observed, and offer a national confidential free-phone helpline. 
• MIND Mind is the leading mental health charity in England and Wales. 
• The National Autistic Society
• NACC - The National Association for Colitis and Crohn's Disease
• National Literacy Trust is an independent charity that campaigns to improve public understanding of the importance of literacy, delivers projects to those seeking to improve literacy, and more.
• NEPACS - building bridges for prisoners and their families
• Rural Stress Helpline offers a confidential, non judgemental listening service to anyone in a rural area feeling troubled, anxious, worried, stressed or needing information.
• Stop look go is a domestic violence website for Chinese communities 
• Farming Help brings together three national charities which work to benefit the farming community. Each charity provides different but complementary forms of help and support to meet a wide range of needs
• Women's Aid is the key national charity working to end domestic violence against women and children, with a network of over 500 domestic and sexual violence services across the UK. You'll find local services on the website 
   
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