Links

Advisory

• Able Magazine www.ablemagazine.com
  Able Magazine (formerly Disability View) highlights and promotes lifestyle issues important to disabled people in the UK today: through real-life stories, accessible holiday ideas, first-hand reports on thrilling sports and leisure activities, and advice on employment and education.

• Acquired Brain Injuries www.ukabif.org.uk
  The United Kingdom Acquired Brain Injury Forum is a charity that aims to promote understanding of all aspects of Acquired Brain Injury and to provide expert input to policy makers, service providers and general public.

• Asperger Syndrome www.nas.org.uk
  The National Autistic Society exists to champion the rights and interests of all people with autism and to ensure that they and their families receive quality services appropriate to their needs. The website includes information about autism and Asperger syndrome, the NAS and its services and activities.

• Backup Trust www.backuptrust.org.uk 0208 8751805
  Back-up is a national charity dedicated to providing opportunities for spinally injured and able bodied individuals to experience the buzz of outdoor activities together and so increase self-belief, independence and motivation.

• Caring www.carersuk.org
  Caring is Carers UK's quarterly magazine for carers. It's full of informative and interesting articles about what real life is like as a carer.

• Caring Times www.careinfo.org
  Caring Times is the management magazine for the long term care sector. Published since 1988, Caring Times reflects the opinions of the long term care sector, focussing on news affecting the private, public and not-for-profit provider's of nursing and residential care.

• Cerebral Palsy www.scope.org.uk - Helpline 0808 8003333
  Scope is the disability organisation in England and Wales whose focus is people with cerebral palsy. Our aim is that disabled people achieve equality: a society in which they are as valued and have the same human and civil rights as everyone else.

• Disability Now www.disabilitynow.org.uk
  Disability Now produces the UK’s biggest selling disability related publications including magazines and online newspapers.

• Epilepsy www.epilepsy.org.uk - Helpline 0808 8005050
  Epilepsy Action aims to improve the quality of life and promote the interests of people living with epilepsy.

• Good Access Guide www.goodaccessguide.co.uk
  The all new Good Access Guide is a directory of services for disabled people and anyone whose life is made easier by better access to goods, services, and amenities.

• Headway www.headway.org.uk 0808 8002244
  Headway promotes understanding of all aspects of brain injury and provides information, support and services to people with brain injury, their family and carers.

• Multiple Sclerosis www.mssociety.org.uk - free MS Helpline 0808 8008000
  The MS Society is the UK's largest charity for people affected by Multiple Sclerosis (MS) - about 85,000 people in the UK.

• Muscular Dystrophy Campaign www.muscular-dystrophy.org 0207 7208055
  The Muscular Dystrophy Campaign is the only UK charity focussing on all muscular dystrophies and allied disorders. We have pioneered the search for treatments and cures for over 40 years. We also provide practical, medical and emotional support for people affected by the conditions.

• Spinal Injuries Association (SIA) www.spinal.co.uk 0845 6786633
  SIA was founded primarily to meet the needs of newly spinal cord injured people and their families, for whom there seemed to be little or no information about the effects of such an injury and the prospects for living an independent life as a disabled person.

• Spinal Injuries Centres

  Belfast	0289 0902000
  Rookwood	0292 0415414
  Glasgow	0141 2012555
  Middlesborough	0164 2850850
  Oswestry	0169 1404000
  Salisbury	0172 2336262
  Sheffield	0114 2715644
  Southport	0170 4704346
  Stanmore	0208 9542300
  Stoke Mandeville	0123 9315818
  Pinderfields	0192 4201688
  Dublin	003531 2854777

  
  

• Spinal Net www.spinalnet.co.uk
  Spinal Net gives information on spinal cord injury healthcare. The site is dedicated to sharing information on healthcare, day to day life issues, personal experiences and much more.
  

Equipment

• Ableworld www.ableworld.co.uk 01270 627185
  Ableworld are one of the leading stores for a large number of quality mobility products. Ableworld has a specialist division for occasions where clients require bespoke or made to measure equipment.

• Bromakin www.bromakin.co.uk 01509 217569
  Bromakin can help with mobility and independent living needs through wheelchairs from leading manufacturers, powered wheelchairs and scooters, rise-recline chairs and beds, wheelchair sport and leisure walking and everyday living aids, and service and maintenance.

• Cyclone www.cyclone-mf.co.uk 0151 3462310
  Cyclone Mobility and Fitness Equipment are specialists in lightweight wheelchair solutions.

• Gowrings Mobility www.gowringsmobility.co.uk 01635 529500
  Gowrings Mobility and Chairman car conversions are synonymous with customer service and engineering quality. The company is a market leader in providing affordable, motability approved transport solutions for wheelchair users and their families.

• Ideal Mobility – Mobility Products www.idealmobility.co.uk
  The ideal mobility online store – the mobility specialists. We sell products to aid comfort and independent living.

• MB’s www.mbees.co.uk 01744 637809
  MB’s is a specialist retailer of Disability equipment. It is a company run by the disabled for the disabled since 1999.

Services

• AbilityNet – Adapting Technology www.abilitynet.co.uk
  

  AbilityNet can supply assistive technology to all individuals who have been assessed and who wish to use our services. We are totally independent of all commercial suppliers, and have no catalogue of products. This means there are no limits to what we can look at during the assessment, or recommend as a result.

  Many people with whom we have worked value the fact that we can be a ‘one-stop-shop’ – from assessing their assistive technology and software requirements to being able to supply the computer with all the adaptations set up ad configured to work properly.

  We can come to your home and set up on the computer, and we offer lifetime support.