Please find below a list of useful websites. Please feel free to
contact us with your useful links or resources.
The Disability Alliance website allows provides information on the changes to ESA, DLA and other benefits, click here
The DIVA project is about bringing information on voluntary and community groups together in a single database - from sports and leisure clubs, through support and self-help groups, community centres and campaign groups to local non-profit bodies, advice centres and branches of national charities, click here
Bradford and
District Learning Disability Partnership Board, click here
www.radar.org.uk
RADAR is a national network of disability organisations and disabled
people. We represent our members by fast-tracking your opinions
and concerns to policy-makers and legislators in Westminster and
Whitehall, and launching our own campaigns to promote equality for
all disabled people.
Formed in 1977 as the Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation,
RADAR is a national organisation run by and working for disabled
people. We have a membership of about 600 disability organisations
and individuals.
www.bluebadgenetwork.org.uk
The primary object of the Blue Badge Network is to assist all disabled
people, and their families, of all ages. To help them integrate
more effectively with society through the European Union, by co-operation,
to overcome access and mobility problems. The Network also seeks
to maintain the integrity and validity of the concessionary parking
permit by the prevention of fraud and misuse of this valuable asset.
www.bhf.org.uk
The British Heart Foundation
www.drc-gb.org
At the Disability Rights Commission has one key goal: "A society
where all disabled people can participate fully as equal citizens".
If you have an impairment or a long-term health condition that has
an impact on your day-to-day life you are likely to have rights
under the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA). The Disability Rights
Commission (DRC) website outlines what the Disability Discrimination
Act covers.
www.mencap.org.uk
Mencap is the UK's leading learning disability charity working with
people with a learning disability and their families and carers.
www..mindinbradford.org.uk/
Mind in Bradford is an independent organisation affiliated to Mind (National Association for Mental Health) that works towards a better life for people experiencing mental ill health and distress. We operate both a drop-in service known as the Mind Drop-in and a telephone helpline service known as Guide-Line.
www.mind.org.uk
Mind is the leading mental health charity in England and Wales.
They work to create a better life for everyone with experience of
mental distress by:
• advancing the views, needs and ambitions of people with
mental health problems
• challenging discrimination and promoting inclusion
• influencing policy through campaigning and education
• inspiring the development of quality services which reflect
expressed need and diversity
• achieving equal rights through campaigning and education.
www.nas.org.uk The National Autistic Society champions the rights
and interests of all people with autism and ensures 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
www.uksdpc.org
The United Kingdom's Disabled People's Council (UKDPC) was set up
by disabled people in 1981 to promote our full equality and participation
within society. They are an umbrella organisation that represents
some 80 organisations run and controlled by disabled people.
UKDPC is the only national umbrella organisation to be democratically
set up by disabled people themselves to represent their interests
at the national level.
They are seen as the disabled people's movement in Britain and they
are recognised by the United Nations through a membership of the
world disabled people's movement; Disabled Peoples' International
(DPI).
UKDPC is extremely proactive as the national representative body
for organisations controlled by disabled people. Through the promotion
of the social model of disability, UKDPC has had a profound effect
on the thinking on disability issues in the UK. They are active
on a wide range of issues affecting disabled people
www.cafamily.org.uk
Contact a Family is a national registered charity, founded in 1979,
for families with disabled children.
Their website says “At our heart is a unique and powerful
combination of:
• expert and comprehensive knowledge about rare disorders
and all aspects of disability
• a wealth of personal experience and contacts
• an approach driven first and foremost by parents' points
of view”
There aim is never to dictate to families but always to enable them
to organise their own systems of support and contact. It is this
enabling rather than running approach that allows us to deliver
social change far beyond our resources and size.
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