Charity and community support
Listed below are details of charitable and support organisations in the community that you may find useful.
Support for mental health
- Merseycare Urgent Care Team: 0800 145 6570 (Sefton/Liverpool)
- North West Boroughs Urgent Care Team: 0800 051 1508 / 0800 0513 253
- North West Boroughs Switch Board: 01925 664 000
- Cheshire & Wirral Urgent Care Team: 0800 145 6485
- Cheshire Wirral Switchboard: 01244 397 397
The Neurological Alliance
Phone: 01923 882 590
Email: info@neural.org.uk
Healthwatch
Call: 03000 683 000
Spinal Injuries Association
Call: 0800 980 0501
Multiple Sclerosis Society UK
Call: 0808 800 8000
Macmillan Cancer Support
Call: 0207 840 7840
Brain and Spine Foundation
Call: 0808 808 1000
Brain Tumour Action
Call: 0131 466 3116
Brain Tumour UK
Call: 0845 4500 386
Epilepsy Action
Call: 0808 800 5050
Epilepsy Society
https://epilepsysociety.org.uk
Call: 01494 601 400
SUDEP Action
Call: 01235 772850
Mersey Regional Epilepsy Association
info@epilepsymersey.org.uk
Call: 07795 345 280
The Brain Tumour Charity
Call: 0808 800 0004 / 0151 298 2999
Brains Trust
Call: 01983 292 405
Anna’s Hope
Call: 01780 740 492
Brainwaves
Call: 028 9337 2505
North West Ataxia Support Group
www.thelivewelldirectory.com/Services/128
Call: 0845 644 0606
Headway
www.headway.org.uk/supporting-you/in-your-area/groups-and-branches/north-west/headway-liverpool/
Call: 07967 770 772
Dystonia UK
www.dystonia.org.uk/liverpool-merseyside
Call: 0845 899 7126
Stroke Association
www.stroke.org.uk/finding-support/support-services/liverpool-emotional-support
Call: 0151 305 0025
FND Hope UK
www.fndhope.org/about-fnd-hope/fnd-hope-uk/fnd-treatment-uk/
Encephalitis Society
Call: 01653 699 599
Sue Ryder: Palliative, neurological and bereavement support
Call: 0808 164 4572
Carers UK
Call: 0207 378 4999
Citizens Advice
Advice Line: 0800 144 8848 (England)
Advice Line: 0800 702 2020 (Wales)
Samaritans
Call: 116 123
Beacon Counselling Trust
Beacon Counselling Trust support individuals and their families, affected by, or at risk of, being affected by gambling-related harms. For more information click here
Liverpool Philharmonic Music Mondays
Liverpool Philharmonic Music Mondays are free informal interactive music sessions led by Ian Stephens, a musician from Liverpool Philharmonic. Music Mondays are part of Liverpool Philharmonic’s Social Prescribing programme, and are open to adults in the Liverpool City Region. The sessions aim to combat low mood and isolation through learning about music and connecting with others in a relaxed, fun and safe environment. No prior musical knowledge is needed to get involved. For more details click here
English National Ballet’s Dance for Parkinson’s
Liverpool offers people living with Parkinson’s the benefits of a recognised and evidence-based dance programme with live music and wider cultural engagement opportunities for better health and wellbeing. No previous dance experience required. For more details click here.
Safe and Found - A dementia safeguard programme
The MedicAlert Foundation, in partnership with Thames Valley Police, have launched a dementia safeguarding programme, Safe and Found. This new initiative supports those living with dementia and other memory or cognitive conditions.
Safe and Found is available nationally and enables people living with dementia to securely store their Herbert Protocol form digitally. This document contains information that aids a missing person search, giving the police a better understanding of who they are looking for, what they have done previously and what they may be likely to do in the future. It includes places of importance, routines and habits, their connections, medical details and more.
The Herbert Protocol is a proven strategy in reducing search time and increasing the chance of the individual being found safe and well. MedicAlert is helping to speed up the process by providing quick access to this critical information in an emergency.
The support of The McLay Dementia Trust makes the Safe and Found programme even more accessible. MedicAlert and The McLay Dementia Trust will be providing the first year of MedicAlert membership free to anyone living with dementia in the UK.
To find out more about Safe and Found or how to apply for free membership through The McLay Dementia Trust grant, please visit the links below:
www.medicalert.org.uk/mclay-dementia-trust
www.medicalert.org.uk/safe-and-found