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- Room to Heal is a specialist charity working therapeutically with refugees and asylum seekers who have survived torture and other forms of organised violence. We aim to use the power of community to enable our members to heal from their traumatic experiences, find renewed meaning…
- Services are: Chinese Housebound - Domiciliary care services, Elderly services, volunteering, Nursery, Youth, Community development, Volunteering, Advice, Needs Assessment and Advocacy sevices. The Housebound service provides a comprehensive and quality service with multi Chinese dialect support, specialises in care for the elders but available to…
- Voyage Care supports thousands of people with learning and physical disabilities, brain injuries, autism and other needs across England, Scotland and Wales.We offer person centred care and support in a range of settings and have experience of supporting people to move from one type of…
- The Friendship Network is a befriending project. We offer social support to isolated older people living in Islington. If you find it hard to get out and about and would like someone to chat with, we will match you with a volunteer who will visit…
- We are open: Monday to Thursday 9am-7pm, Friday 9am-5pm, Saturday and Sunday 11am-3pm.Community Warm Space in colder months and Cool space in heatwaves: Drop-in, refreshments, dining room, study room (in the evenings) and wrap-around support. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 9-7pm Friday 9-5pm Saturday and Sunday 11-3pm Run by St Luke's Trust, this large, modern centre offers a…
- RNIB Low Vision Service (previously Judd Street) is based at the new RNIB building in London. We provide NHS funded low vision assessments and NHS eye tests for adults living with sight loss in Islington or Camden. We also provide eye care for adults in…
- FirstStop Advice is an independent, free service offering advice and information for older people, their families and carers about housing and care options in later life. It is led by the charity Elderly Accommodation Counsel (EAC) working in partnership with other national and local organisations.Our…
- Daily lunch club for Islington residents aged 55+ provided at St Lukes Community Centre. The St Luke’s Lunch Club offers a very generous subsidy on top of the already very low prices. On Tuesday - Friday our 3 course lunch set costs only £5.50. Lunch is served between…
- St Catherines is a residential and dementia care home for the Elderly situated in Leytonstone. We offer long term care and also short term respite care, and day care to allow the carers to have that much needed break. We have trained staff on duty…
- A community based project for stroke survivors and their families and friends. The project runs a number of different services: ANS: advocacy, navigation and support. This service aims to ensure that the needs of the individual are met as much as possible. Assistance can be given in completing…
- Penderels Trust offers advice, guidance and practical solutions to enable people with disabilities to live independently in their own homes, to achieve their goals in life and to help them play an active part in their community.We are a not-for-profit organisation and have been supporting…
- North London Cares brings people together across generations, backgrounds and experiences to build community and connection. Our vision is of socially connected communities in which people feel less lonely, more united and that they belong. We run free intergenerational social clubs across Islington and Camden boroughs…
- We support with home-based personal care and daily living tasks, such as: Assisting services users to get up Assisting service user to go bedice Dressing and Undressing Medication reminders/prompting Personal Hygiene - toileting, washing, bathing, shaving, hair care and oral hygiene. Assisting with eating and…
- This centre offers therapy for young people and adults from Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic and Refugee communities. Our main work covers providing psychotherapy and counselling services, including family, couple and child therapy, to members of cultural minority groups. Staff at Nafsiyat includes analytically trained psychotherapists and counsellors. The…
- The Disabled Afloat Riverboats Trust provide boating holidays for people with physical, visual, aural or learning disabilities together with their carers, families and friends.We welcome unaccompanied individuals; People with a carer(s); People with other family members; People with friends; Small groups with one or more…
- This educational charity makes grants for projects that help children and young people to get the most from their education or to prepare for work.
- Different Strokes is a registered charity providing a unique, free service to younger stroke survivors throughout the United Kingdom. Our services and the number of stroke survivors benefiting from them have grown dramatically since we were formed in 1996. We are run by stroke survivors…
- Main duties are to provide advice and information to anyone affected by Huntington's disease (HD). Regional Care Advisers visit people at home or wherever they live; in hospital, at work etc. A specialist youth worker is also available for young people. Training and educating professionals…
- Maytree offers email and telephone support between 8am and 8pm daily. Maytree is a residential respite centre for people who are feeling suicidal. We are not a crisis intervention centre that can be accessed immediately. Telephone support is offered between 8am and 8pm daily. Due…