Support Organisations: A to Z

We've put together an alphabetical list of support organisations, many of which we hope you will never need to use but in case you do...

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• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Obsessive Action
  The UK national organisation for people with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  
• Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation (UK)
  International not-for-profit organization for people with OCD and related disorders, their families, friends, and professionals.
  
• OCD: Obsessive Action
  The UK national organisation for people with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  
• OCD: Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation (UK)
  International not-for-profit organization for people with OCD and related disorders, their families, friends, and professionals.
  
• Oesophageal Atresia: TOFS
  Charity No 327735 Support and information on Oesophageal Atresia (failure of the 'gullet' to form a continuous tube) and Tracheooesophageal Fistula (an unnatural communication between the windpipe and gullet).
  
• One-Parent Families: National Council for One Parent Families
  Promotes the welfare of lone parents and their children and aims to overcome the poverty, isolation and social exclusion which many may face.
  
• One Space
  The parenting website for all single parents. Offering a lively online community supported by experience single parenting specialists. Information on parenting alone, life after separation, health and wellbeing, work and training and much more.
  
• Orthopaedic: Wishbone
  Charity No 1044609 Represents and supports orthopaedic research.
  
• Orthopaedics: STEPS
  Charity No 327662 Support for any condition that can affect walking ability such as clubfoot, or congenital dislocation and developmental dysplasia of the hip.
  
• Osteogenesis Imperfecta: Brittle Bone Society
  Charity No 272100 The charity It offers advice, encouragement and practical help for affected individuals and families.
  
• Osteopetrosis Support Trust - OST
  Charity No 1013052 Offers support after diagnosis and bereavement, and links families where possible.

• Palliative Care: Association of Children's Hospices
  Represents all the voluntary sector children's hospices and brings together over 37 voluntary sector organisations in Great Britain dedicated to the care of terminally ill children.
  
• Palliative Care: Cancer Care Society
  Emotional support for lives touched by cancer.
  
• Palliative Care: CancerBACUP
  Charity No 1019719 Providing high quality and up to date information, practical advice and support for cancer patients and their families.
  
• Palliative Care: Cancerhelp UK
  Free information service about cancer and cancer care for the general public, brought to you by The Cancer Research Campaign.
  
• Palliative Care: Cancerlink
  Charity No 326430 Resource for approximately 500 cancer support and self-help groups throughout the UK.
  
• Palliative Care: Children with Leukemia Trust
  Established in 1991 in order to help relieve the financial burden of bone marrow testing and transplants.
  
• Palliative Care: Children's Hospice Association Scotland
  Charity No SC019724 Providing hospice facilities to terminally or seriously ill children in Scotland.
  
• Palliative Care: Children's Hospice South West
  Charity No 1003314 Offering respite, palliative and terminal care to children in the South West..
  
• Palliative Care: Children's Leukaemia Trust
  Charity No 1000341 Supporting leukaemia research, and improving the quality of life of sufferers.
  
• Palliative Care: Christian Lewis Children's Cancer Care
  Charity No 801856 Child-centred care focusing on 'quality of life' issues, bereavement support, play therapists and holidays.
  
• Palliative Care: CLIC
  Charity No 802396 Help for children affected by cancer, promotion of research, and financial grants to families.
  
• Palliative Care: Leukaemia CARE Society
  Charity No 259483 Offers immediate contact with local organisers. In some cases financial help is available.
  
• Palliative Care: Leukaemia Society (UK)
  Charity No 1040984 Offers support to affected children, families and carers, and has a special interest in bone marrow transplantation.
  
• Palliative Care: Neuroblastoma Society
  Charity No 326385 Help and information on neuroblastoma, a highly malignant childhood cancer.
  
• Palliative Care: Sargent Cancer Care for Children
  Charity No 256435 Counselling and financial support for children and young people affected by cancer, leukaemia, or Hodgkin's Disease.
  
• Palliative Care: Sargent Cancer Care for Children (Scotland)
  Charity No 1085616 Sargent is a Scottish based charity offering support to children and their families.
  
• Palliative Care: Teenage Cancer Trust
  Charity No 1062559 Focuses on the needs of UK teenagers and young adults with cancer, leukaemia, Hodgkin's and related diseases.
  
• Palliative care:Derian House Children's Hospice for the North West
  Charity No 1005165 Glasgow based charity encouraging development in children with a wide range of learning disabilities.
  
• Pancreatitis Supporters Network
  Charity No 1027443 This charity offers support and help to families affected by pancreatitis.
  
• Parental Leave: Benefits Agency
  The Benefits Agency (BA) website has merged with a new Department of Social Security (DSS) website.
  
• Parenting Education and Support Forum
  The national umbrella body bringing together those who work to provide parenting education and support for parents and families
  
• Parenting: E-Parents (NFPI)
  Independent charity working to improve the lives of paretns and families by promoting a more family-friendly society.
  
• Parenting: National Family & Parenting Institute
  Independent charity working to support parents in bringing up their children, to promote the wellbeing of families and to make society more family friendly.
  
• Parenting: Parentline Plus
  Parentline Plus offers help and information to over 85,000 parents and families each year.Helpline 0808 800 2222.
  
• Parkinson's Disease Society of the UK
  Charity No 258197 Information on the latest research and support and advice for people with Parkinson's, their carers and families.
  
• Partially-Sighted: Retinoblastoma Society
  Charity No 327493 A national charity offering support and information to people with retinoblastoma (eye cancer) and their families.
  
• Partially-Sighted: Royal National Institute for the Blind
  Practical support and advice to anyone with a sight problem.
  
• Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome: PDA Contact Group
  Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome is a pervasive developmental disorder related to, but significantly different from, autism and Asperger syndrome.
  
• PDA Contact Group
  Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome is a pervasive developmental disorder related to, but significantly different from, autism and Asperger syndrome.
  
• PDD: Autism Independent UK
  For increased awareness of autism, and information about diagnosis, assessment, education and treatment.
  
• PDD: Autismconnect
  Free, non-commercial service which aims to be the first port of call for anyone interested in finding up-to-date information about autism and related autistic spectrum disorders.
  
• PDD: Autistic Society
  Encourage a better understanding of autism and to pioneer specialist services for people with autism and those who care for them.
  
• PDD: National Autistic Society
  Charity No 269425 Information, advice and support, training courses and conferences, and the promotion of research.
  
• PDD: Scottish Society for Autism
  Scottish Charity No SC 009068, Education, care, support and opportunities for people with autism/Asperger syndrome in Scotland.
  
• Phenylketonuria: National Society for Phenylketonuria (UK) Ltd
  Charity No 273670 Support for families affected by PKU, a genetic disorder which prevents the normal use of protein food.
  
• Phobias: National Phobics Society
  Charity No 262715 National Phobics Society is a charity which offers information and support for parents and carers of children with phobia and other anxiety disorders.
  
• Pituitary Disorders: Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus/The Pituitary Foundation
  Charity No 1058968 The Pituitary Foundation offers help and and information on childhood diabetes and other endocrine disorders.
  
• Pituitary Foundation
  Charity No 1058968 Offers the services of a nurse counsellor and has a network of regional support groups.
  
• PND: Association for Post-Natal Illness
  Support for mothers suffering from post-natal illness.
  
• PND: Meet A Mum Association
  Created to try and help thousands of mothers who feel depressed and isolated when their babies are born.
  
• PND: Postnatal Depression Group
  Advises and supports women with post-natal depression and can put you in touch with local volunteers.
  
• Poliomyelitis: British Polio Fellowship
  Charity No 206690 The first organisation to be started by disabled people (Poliomyelitis: Polio: Infantile Paralysis) for disabled people.
  
• Polycystic Kidney Disease: British Kidney Patient Foundation
  Charity No 270288 This charity offers information on Nephronopthisis and other kidney diseases.
  
• Polymicrogyria (PMG): Lissencephaly Contact Group
  Formed in 1989. It offers contact with others where possible and mutual support through newsletters and telephone, e-mail or letter.
  
• Port Wine Stain': Birthmark Support Group
  Charity No 1090952 Birthmark Support Groups offers help and information on vascular birthmarks.
  
• Port Wine Stain': Changing Faces
  Charity No 1011222 established in 1992. It provides information, support and advice to anyone with a disfigurement and their family.
  
• Postnatal Depression Group
  Advises and supports women with post-natal depression and can put you in touch with local volunteers.
  
• Post-Natal Depression: Meet A Mum Association
  Created to try and help thousands of mothers who feel depressed and isolated when their babies are born.
  
• Post-natal: National Childbirth Trust
  The NCT offers support in pregnancy, childbirth and early parenthood, aiming to give every parent the chance to make informed choices
  
• Post-Natal: Serene incorporating CRY-SIS
  Support for families with excessively crying, sleepless and demanding babies and young children. Helpline 020 7404 5011 (24 hours).
  
• Prader-Willi Syndrome Association (UK)
  Charity No 284583 Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is a chromosomal disorder, which can affect people of both sexes.
  
• Pre-Eclampsia: APEC
  Charity No 1013557 Action On Pre-Eclampsia
  
• Pre-Eclampsia: Pre-Eclampsia Society (PETS)
  Charity No 326206 The society offers support and information to expectant parents.
  
• Pregnancy: APEC
  Charity No 1013557 Action On Pre-Eclampsia
  
• Pregnancy: ARC (Antenatal Results and Choices)
  Charity No 299770, founded as SATFA (Support Around Termination for Fetal Abnormality) and renamed as ARC in November 1998.
  
• Pregnancy: British Pregnancy Advisory Service
  Reproductive choice charity.
  
• Pregnancy: CARE for Life
  Care for Life offers advice and counselling to women facing a crisis pregnancy or following abortion.
  
• Pregnancy: National Childbirth Trust
  The NCT offers support in pregnancy, childbirth and early parenthood, aiming to give every parent the chance to make informed choices
  
• Pregnancy: Pre-Eclampsia Society (PETS)
  Charity No 326206 The society offers support and information to expectant parents.
  
• Premature Babies: Bliss
  National neonatal charity with a mission to act as an advocate for the most fragile, vulnerable members of the UK population.
  
• Pre-Natal: APEC
  Charity No 1013557 Action On Pre-Eclampsia
  
• Prenatal: ARC (Antenatal Results and Choices)
  Charity No 299770, founded as SATFA (Support Around Termination for Fetal Abnormality) and renamed as ARC in November 1998.
  
• Pre-Natal: CARE for Life
  Care for Life offers advice and counselling to women facing a crisis pregnancy or following abortion.
  
• Pre-Natal: National Childbirth Trust
  The NCT offers support in pregnancy, childbirth and early parenthood, aiming to give every parent the chance to make informed choices
  
• Pre-Natal: Pre-Eclampsia Society (PETS)
  Charity No 326206 The society offers support and information to expectant parents.
  
• Primary Immunodeficiency Association
  Charity No 803217 Charity aimed at educating parents and carers on Primary Immunodeficiencies which are the result of defects in the immune system.
  
• Prion Disease: National Prion Clinic
  The National Prion Clinic is a specialist service of St Mary's Hospital. Assessment, diagnosis, information, advice and support are available for patients, families, and health care professionals.
  
• Profound Disabilities: BREAK
  BREAK provides residential and day care services for profoundly disabled children, adults and families with special needs.
  
• Progressive Supranuclear Palsy: PSP Association
  Charity No 1037087 Support for people with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and their families.
  
• Proteus Syndrome Foundation (UK)
  Charity No 1077796 Finding the cause, discovering a cure, and supporting the children with this rare genetic disorder.
  
• Psychiatry: NSF (Scotland)
  Charity No 13649 Support for people affected by mental illness including carers
  
• Psychiatry: Rethink
  Charity No 271028 Formerly known as the National Schizophrenia Fellowship.
  
• Psychiatry: Scottish Association for Mental Health
  Charity No SC008897 Offers a range of community based services throughout Scotland.
  
• Psychiatry: Young Minds
  UK national charity committed to improving the mental health of all children and young people.
  
• Psychology: Anna Freud Centre
  UK charity, dedicated to improving the mental health of children locally, nationally and internationally.
  
• Psychology: Arbours Association
  Provides personal, psychotherapeutic support and places to live outside mental hospitals for people in emotional distress.
  
• Psychotherapy: British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
  Useful FAQs and directory of UK counsellors in your area.
  
• Psychotherapy: NSF (Scotland)
  Charity No 13649 Support for people affected by mental illness including carers
  
• Psychotherapy: Rethink
  Charity No 271028 Formerly known as the National Schizophrenia Fellowship.
  
• Psychotherapy: Scottish Association for Mental Health
  Charity No SC008897 Offers a range of community based services throughout Scotland.
  
• Psychotherapy: Young Minds
  UK national charity committed to improving the mental health of all children and young people.

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