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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• Safety: Accidents
  Department of Health's pages on accidental injury,intended to act as a focal point for general information on this subject.
  
• Safety: Barnados
  Charity No 216250 Children's charity aiming to help vulnerable children and young people transform their lives and fulfil their potential.
  
• Safety: Childline
  24-hour UK helpline for children and young people in trouble or danger. Call ChildLine free on 0800 1111.
  
• Safety: Children 1st - Royal Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty To Children
  Charity No SC016092 Dedicated to protecting children in Scotland from abuse and neglect.
  
• Safety: Fire Safety
  Safety tips you should know to keep you and your family safe from fire.
  
• Safety: Kerbcraft - Road Safety
  Department for Transport - Kerbcraft - Smart Strategies for Pedestrian Safety
  
• Safety: NSPCC
  National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Child Protection hotline: 0808 800 5000.
  
• Sarah Matheson Trust
  Charity No 1062308 Information for health professionals and people diagnosed with MSA.
  
• Sarcomas: Cancer Care Society
  Emotional support for lives touched by cancer.
  
• Sarcomas: CancerBACUP
  Charity No 1019719 Providing high quality and up to date information, practical advice and support for cancer patients and their families.
  
• Sarcomas: Cancerhelp UK
  Free information service about cancer and cancer care for the general public, brought to you by The Cancer Research Campaign.
  
• Sarcomas: Cancerlink
  Charity No 326430 Resource for approximately 500 cancer support and self-help groups throughout the UK.
  
• Sarcomas: Christian Lewis Children's Cancer Care
  Charity No 801856 Child-centred care focusing on 'quality of life' issues, bereavement support, play therapists and holidays.
  
• Sarcomas: CLIC
  Charity No 802396 Help for children affected by cancer, promotion of research, and financial grants to families.
  
• Sarcomas: 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.
  
• Sarcomas: Sargent Cancer Care for Children (Scotland)
  Charity No 1085616 Sargent is a Scottish based charity offering support to children and their families.
  
• Sarcomas: Teenage Cancer Trust
  Charity No 1062559 Focuses on the needs of UK teenagers and young adults with cancer, leukaemia, Hodgkin's and related diseases.
  
• Schilder's Disease: ALD Family Support Trust
  Charity No 1024690 Support for families affected by Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD).
  
• Schizophrenia: Anna Freud Centre
  UK charity, dedicated to improving the mental health of children locally, nationally and internationally.
  
• Schizophrenia: Mind
  Charity No 219830 Promotes mental health throughout England and Wales, and works for a better life for everyone with experience of mental distress.
  
• Schizophrenia: NSF (Scotland)
  Charity No 13649 Support for people affected by mental illness including carers
  
• Schizophrenia: Rethink
  Charity No 271028 Formerly known as the National Schizophrenia Fellowship.
  
• Schizophrenia: Scottish Association for Mental Health
  Charity No SC008897 Offers a range of community based services throughout Scotland.
  
• Schizophrenia: Young Minds
  UK national charity committed to improving the mental health of all children and young people.
  
• School Travel
  Department for Transport - School Travel
  
• School-leavers: After 16 : what's new?
  Aimed at teenagers and young people in the UK who have an impairment or disability and are wondering what opportunities and services there should be when they leave school.
  
• School-leavers: AHEAD
  Independent voluntary organisation working to promote improved access for persons with disabilities to 3rd Level Education in Ireland.
  
• Scleroderma: Raynaud's & Scleroderma Association
  Charity No 326306 established in 1982 as the Raynaud's Association and renamed to include Scleroderma in 1990.
  
• Second Arch Syndrome: Treacher Collins Family Support Group
  Charity No 1006300 Also covers First and Second Arch syndromes, Atresia of the Ear, and conditions combining conductive deafness with facial/head malformation.
  
• Self-Defence: Anti-Bullying Network (Scotland)
  Forum for teachers, parents and young people sharing ideas about how bullying should be tackled.
  
• Self-harm: NSF (Scotland)
  Charity No 13649 Support for people affected by mental illness including carers
  
• Self-harm: Rethink
  Charity No 271028 Formerly known as the National Schizophrenia Fellowship.
  
• Self-harm: Samaritans
  Confidential emotional support to anyone who is suicidal or despairing. Call 08457 90 90 90 (UK) or 1850 60 90 90 (Eire).
  
• Self-harm: Scottish Association for Mental Health
  Charity No SC008897 Offers a range of community based services throughout Scotland.
  
• Self-harm: Young Minds
  UK national charity committed to improving the mental health of all children and young people.
  
• Self-Help: Ukselfhelp.info
  An on-line directory providing the telephone numbers of over 760 UK self help groups and hyperlinks to over 560 web sites.
  
• Senility: Alzheimer's Society
  Charity No 296645 The UK's leading care and research charity for people with all forms of dementia and their carers.
  
• Severe Disablement Allowance: Benefits Agency
  The Benefits Agency (BA) website has merged with a new Department of Social Security (DSS) website.
  
• Sexual Abuse: Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Centre
  Free, confidential and non-judgemental help and support. Helpline 0208 239 1122 Mon-Friday 12-2.30pm & 7-9.30pm Weekends/ public holidays 2.30-5pm.
  
• Sexual Health: Marie Stopes International
  Marie Stopes’ mission is to ensure the right of all people to have children by choice not chance, by providing reproductive healthcare worldwide.
  
• Sickle Cell Society
  Charity No 1046631 Support, financial assistance and holiday schemes for affected children.
  
• SIDS: Babes in Arms (Researching into Cot Death)
  Charity No 1002286 Offers support to families touched by cot death.
  
• SIDS: Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths
  Charity No 262191 Major funder of all cot death research and support in the UK, and offers personal support to families by letter and telephone
  
• Siezures: British Epilepsy Association
  Information and support for people with epilepsy.
  
• Siezures: David Lewis Centre For Epilepsy
  Charity No 1000392 Multi-disciplinary teams providing assessment and treatment for severe epilepsy and related conditions.
  
• Siezures: Epilepsy Action
  Charity No 234343 founded in 1950. It offers a nationwide network of branches.
  
• Siezures: Epilepsy Action Scotland
  Charity No 311877 Epilepsy Resource Centre, St Piers School for children up to 16 and a Further Education Centre with residential or day places.
  
• Siezures: National Society for Epilepsy
  Charity No 206186 Nursing care, medical and paramedical facilities for treatment and care of people with epilepsy.
  
• Sight Problems: International Glaucoma Association
  Charity No 274681 Children's support group 'Tadpoles' (details on request).
  
• Sight Problems: Royal National Institute for the Blind
  Practical support and advice to anyone with a sight problem.
  
• Sight Problems: Uveitis Information Group
  Charity No SC028439 Uvetis (term given to a number of rare eye conditions) is a Scottish charity which offers support by telephone, post or e-mail.
  
• Sign Language: British Deaf Association
  The largest national UK charity run by deaf people, for deaf people.
  
• Sign Language: deafPLUS
  Charity No 1073468 Founded upon the idea of self-help and committed to a policy of deaf/hearing integration.
  
• Sign Language: National Deaf Children's Society
  Charity No 1016532 Advice and information on any aspect of childhood deafness and family support through a UK wide network of local groups.
  
• Sign-Language: Royal National Institute for the Deaf
  Charity No 207720. Working to ensure deafness and hearing loss are not barriers to opportunity and fulfilment.
  
• Single Parents: Gingerbread
  Support organisation for lone parent families in England and Wales. Advice Line 0800 018 4318 Open 10am - 4pm Monday - Friday
  
• Single Parents: 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.
  
• Single Parents:Parents At Work
  Parents At Work is a national charity committed to the welfare of children of working parents.
  
• Sixth-form: After 16 : what's new?
  Aimed at teenagers and young people in the UK who have an impairment or disability and are wondering what opportunities and services there should be when they leave school.
  
• Skeletal Abnormalities: TAR Syndrome Support Group
  Self-help group offering support and telephone contact with others in a similar situation where possible.
  
• Skin Problems: Acne Support Group
  Providing support and advice for acne sufferers and relatives of sufferers.
  
• Skin Problems: Albinism Fellowship
  Charity No SC009443 Offers contact with other people with an interest in Albinism.
  
• Skin Problems: Ichthyosis Support Group
  Charity No 1084783 Ichthyosis Support Group is a charity aimed at informing parents and carers on ichthyosis and other skin diseases.
  
• Skin Problems: National Eczema Society
  Charity No 1009671 Telephone advice and information together with support through a national network of regional telephone contacts.
  
• Skin Problems: Stop Spots
  Charity No 1026654, founded in 1992. The Group also supports those with Rosacea. It offers support to those affected and their families.
  
• Skin Problems: Vitiligo Society
  Charity No 1069607 Offers mutual support and understanding to affected persons.
  
• Sleep: Bedwetting.co.uk
  Solutions for nocturnal enuresis.
  
• Sleep: Narcolepsy Association (UK)
  Charity No 326361 Site is run by UKAN as a service to people interested in or suffering from narcolepsy as well as members of the Association.
  
• Sleep: Serene incorporating CRY-SIS
  Support for families with excessively crying, sleepless and demanding babies and young children. Helpline 020 7404 5011 (24 hours).
  
• Smoking: Action on Smoking and Health
  Anti-smoking charity, working to tackle the epidemic of tobacco-related disease.
  
• Social Exclusion: Child Poverty Action Group
  Charity No 294841 Dedicated to fighting child poverty and injustice in the UK.
  
• Social Exclusion: Children's Country Holidays Fund
  Charity No 206958 Providing 2000 London children in need with holidays every year.
  
• Social Exclusion: Extern
  Reg. Charity No X33714 Dedicated to combating social exclusion in children.
  
• Social Fund: Benefits Agency
  The Benefits Agency (BA) website has merged with a new Department of Social Security (DSS) website.
  
• Social Inclusion: British Sports Trust
  Charity No 299810 Encourages social inclusion through community volunteer programmes.
  
• Social Security: Benefits Agency
  The Benefits Agency (BA) website has merged with a new Department of Social Security (DSS) website.
  
• Social Security: Child Poverty Action Group
  Charity No 294841 Dedicated to fighting child poverty and injustice in the UK.
  
• Social Welfare: Jewish Care
  Jewish Care is Anglo-Jewry's largest social services provider, providing care to the most vulnerable members of the Jewish community across London and the South-East.
  
• Social Welfare: Joseph Rowntree Foundation
  The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is the UK's largest independent social research and development charity.
  
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• Solvent Abuse: Drugscope
  The UK's leading centre of expertise on drugs, aiming to inform policy development and reduce drug-related risk.
  
• Solvent Abuse: European Association for the Treatment of Addiction (UK)
  The European Association for the Treatment of Addiction (UK) is an independent charity, which aims to help ensure that people who are dependent on drugs or alcohol get timely access to the treatment they need.
  
• Solvent Abuse: Trashed
  Drug information: about, origins, effects, the law, composition, emergency and risks (NHS Promotion site).
  
• Special Needs: Contact-a-Family
  Helping families who care for children with any disability or special need
  
• Special-Care Babies: Bliss
  National neonatal charity with a mission to act as an advocate for the most fragile, vulnerable members of the UK population.
  
• Speech Problems: ACE Centre Advisory Trust
  Focusing technology for communication-impaired young people.
  
• Speech Problems: AFASIC
  Charity No 1045617 Combats communication impairment in children.
  
• Speech Problems: British Stammering Association
  UK organisation to initiate and support stammering research, identify and promote effective therapies, offer support to those lives are affected by stammering.
  
• Speed: Drugscope
  The UK's leading centre of expertise on drugs, aiming to inform policy development and reduce drug-related risk.
  
• Speed: European Association for the Treatment of Addiction (UK)
  The European Association for the Treatment of Addiction (UK) is an independent charity, which aims to help ensure that people who are dependent on drugs or alcohol get timely access to the treatment they need.
  
• Speed: Trashed
  Drug information: about, origins, effects, the law, composition, emergency and risks (NHS Promotion site).
  
• Spina Bifida: Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus (ASBAH)
  Charity No 249338 Advice and services for people with spina bifida and/or hydrocephalus, and to their carers.
  
• Spinal Injuries Association
  Comprehensive spinal injury site with information, links, and the opportunity to add posts and photos on interactive pages, plus a dedicated chatroom.
  
• Spinal Injuries: British Brain and Spine Association
  Aimed at improving the prevention, treatment and care of people with brain and spine disorders. Helpline 0808 808 1000.
  
• Spots: Acne Support Group
  Providing support and advice for acne sufferers and relatives of sufferers.
  
• Spots: Stop Spots
  Charity No 1026654, founded in 1992. The Group also supports those with Rosacea. It offers support to those affected and their families.
  
• Stammering: British Stammering Association
  UK organisation to initiate and support stammering research, identify and promote effective therapies, offer support to those lives are affected by stammering.
  
• Statutory Maternity Pay: Benefits Agency
  The Benefits Agency (BA) website has merged with a new Department of Social Security (DSS) website.
  
• Stillbirths and Neonatal Deaths
  Charity No 299679 Sands offers support and information for parents touched by stillbirths and neonatal deaths.
  
• Strawberry Mark: Birthmark Support Group
  Charity No 1090952 Birthmark Support Groups offers help and information on vascular birthmarks.
  
• Strawberry Mark: Changing Faces
  Charity No 1011222 established in 1992. It provides information, support and advice to anyone with a disfigurement and their family.
  
• Streptococcus: Lee Spark NF Foundation
  Charity No 1088094 Lee Spark NF Foundation offers support for people touched by necrotising facsiitis and streptococcus.
  
• Stroke: British Heart Foundation
  Founded in 1961 - the UK's leading heart charity.
  
• Stroke: Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY)
  Charity No 1050845 CRY raises awareness of undiagnosed cardiac problems in young people and offers counselling to those who have been bereaved.
  
• Stroke: Children's Heart Federation
  Charity No 800525 Providing medical and emotional support to children and their families.
  
• Stroke: NICHSA
  Charity No 1057472 Helpline staffed by stroke survivors, counselling and information on benefits, further and higher education, special training and work opportunities.
  
• Stroke: NICHSA
  Charity No XN 47338 The Northern Ireland Chest Heart and Stroke Association (NICHSA).
  
• Stroke: Stroke Association
  Charity No 211015 Support and contact with other parents of children affected by stroke.
  
• Subcortical Band Heterotopia (SBH): Lissencephaly Contact Group
  Formed in 1989. It offers contact with others where possible and mutual support through newsletters and telephone, e-mail or letter.
  
• Substance Abuse: Aberlour Childcare Trust
  Charity No SC007991 Helps mothers with addictions and their children with related learning and emotional problems.
  
• Substance Abuse: Al-Anon
  Family groups providing support for anyone whose life is, or has been, affected by someone else’s drinking.
  
• Substance Abuse: Alcohol Concern
  National agency on alcohol misuse.
  
• Substance Abuse: Alcohol Problems Advisory Service
  Working to reduce the harm alcohol causes to individuals, families and the communities they live in.
  
• Substance Abuse: Alcoholics Anonymous
  Fellowship of men and women who have lost the ability to control their drinking, offering help and support.
  
• Sudanophilic Leukodystrophy: ALD Family Support Trust
  Charity No 1024690 Support for families affected by Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD).
  
• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: Babes in Arms (Researching into Cot Death)
  Charity No 1002286 Offers support to families touched by cot death.
  
• Sun Protection: Albinism Fellowship
  Charity No SC009443 Offers contact with other people with an interest in Albinism.
  
• Swyer's Syndrome: Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group
  Charity No 1073297 AISSG offers telephone support to families and affected adults.
  
• Syncope Trust and Reflex Anoxic Seizures (STARS)
  Charity No 1084898 Syncope Trust and Reflex Anoxic Seizures (STARS )offers information and support for parents and carers of children suffering from Reflex Anoxic Seizures.

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