Fife Carers Centre

Ableize

Address: http://www.ableize.com

UK disability and Health web directory. Site includes advice, information, disabled goods, facilities and services with comprehensive listings of specific disabilities, mobility and care aids, access information, education and the arts

Age Concern Scotland

Address: http://www.tourismforall.org.uk

Age Concern Scotland is an independent, recognised charity working throughout Scotland to help make the lives of older people more secure, comfortable, dignified and enjoyable.

Alzheimer Scotland

Address: http://www.alzscot.org

Alzheimer Scotland helps people with dementia, their carers and families. Our members include carers, relatives, and people with dementia, professionals, groups and organisations.

Arthritis Care Scotland

Address: http://www.arthritiscare.org.uk/InyourArea/Scotland/

Arthritis Care in Scotland is the voice for people with arthritis in Scotland. Decisions about how to implement Arthritis Care’s mission in Scotland are made by a Scotland Committee, consisting of representatives of branches throughout Scotland. This means that they can make sure that Arthritis Care’s work in Scotland is relevant to people in Scotland.

Aspire

Address: http://www.aspire.org.uk

ASPIRE works with people with spinal cord injury to offer practical support and innovation from the moment of their injury for the rest of their lives. Its founding principle is and remains integration. Everything that the charity does is geared towards creating an environment - whether it be in the home, the office or the world of sport and leisure - where the barriers that divide able-bodied and disabled people are removed.

Attention Fife

Address: http://www.attentionfife.info

A Fife-wide support and information network for children and families affected by difficulties of attention, hyperactivity and impulsivity, including ADD and ADHD.

Back-Up Trust

Address: http://www.backuptrust.org.uk

The Back-Up Trust is a national charity for people who are paralysed through spinal cord injury (SCI). Back-Up works to enable people with SCI to surpass their aspirations. Back-Up works with over 2,000 spinally injured people of all ages by providing a range of courses, skills training and peer led mentoring to help each and every one get their lives back on track.

BCODP

Address: http://www.bcodp.org.uk

The British Council of Disabled People (BCODP) was formed in 1981 and acts as a co-ordinating and representative body for disabled people and organisations controlled by disabled people. Their mission is to secure by all democratic means, full and equal human and civil rights as disabled people in the U.K.

Breathing Space

Address: http://www.breathingspacescotland.co.uk

Breathing Space is a free and confidential phoneline service for any individual, who is experiencing low mood or depression, or who is unusually worried and in need of someone to talk to.

Cancer Network Fife

Address: http://www.cancernetworkfife.org.uk

Cancer Network Fife provides practical and emotional support, information and advice to anyone in Fife affected by the diagnosis of Cancer.

Cancerbackup

Address: http://www.cancerbackup.org.uk

Cancerbackup's mission is to give cancer patients and their families the up-to-date information, practical advice and support they need to reduce the fear and uncertainty of cancer.

Capability Scotland

Address: http://www.capability-scotland.org.uk

Capability Scotland is one of the country's leading disability organisations working for a just Scotland. They work with children, adults and families living with disabilities to support them in their everyday lives.

Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland

Address: http://www.chss.org.uk

Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland aims to improve the quality of life for people in Scotland affected by chest, heart and stroke illness through medical research, advice and information, and support in the community.

Citizens Advice and Rights Fife (CARF)

Address: http://carf.cas.org.uk

CARF exists to tackle inequality, discrimination and disadvantage in Fife through the provision of high quality information, advice and representation services that are: -independent, free, confidential, accessible and non-judgemental. CARF is a full member of Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS).

CLIC Sargent

Address: http://www.clicsargent.org.uk

CLIC Sargent is a charity that supports children and young people with cancer and their family and carers. They do this both locally and nationally.

Contact a Family

Address: http://www.cafamily.org.uk/scotland/index.html

Contact a Family is a UK charity which helps families who care for children with any disability or special need. We are a main source of information about rare disorders and are able to assist affected adults as well as children. Contact a Family may also be able to help with information and contacts for conditions not listed.

Counsel and Care

Address: http://www.counselandcare.org.uk

Counsel and Care is a national charity getting the best care and support for older people, their families and carers. They do this by providing advice, information and financial support and by influencing policies, services and funding.

Cruse Bereavement Care Scotland

Address: http://www.crusescotland.org.uk

Cruse Bereavement Care Scotland is a national organisation that offers a free confidential bereavement counselling service to people of all ages. Cruse volunteers are trained to listen and to help you to work through your grief. They have all undertaken a full training and are regularly supervised.

DAPL (Drug & Alcohol Project Levenmouth)

Address: http://www.dapl.net

DAPL’s main aim is to offer counselling, support, information and advice to individuals and their families who are affected by substance use within Levenmouth, Glenrothes, Kirkcaldy and North East Fife. In addition, DAPL’s Homeless service and DAPL’s Drug Court service is available Fife Wide.

Diabetes UK Scotland

Address: http://www.diabetes.org.uk/In_Your_Area/Scotland/

Diabetes UK Scotland is a leading charity working for people with diabetes in Scotland – funding research, campaigning and influencing and providing care and support for people living with the condition.

Disability Alliance

Address: http://www.disabilityalliance.org/about.htm

Disability Alliance is a national registered charity with the principal aim of relieving the poverty and improving the living standards of disabled people. Their eventual aim is to break the link between poverty and disability. They provide information on social security benefits and tax credits to disabled people, their families, carers and professional advisers; undertake research into the needs of disabled people, with particular emphasis on income needs and promote a wider understanding of the views and circumstances of all disabled people.

DisabledGo

Address: http://www.disabledgo.info/Default.asp

DisabledGo provides free detailed access information for disabled people across the UK. Their detailed access information will empower you to judge the disabled access to venues for yourself.

Equality and Human Rights Commission

Address: http://www.drc.org.uk/

The Equality and Human Rights Commission is an independent body set up by the Government to help secure civil rights for disabled people.

Enable/ Lend-a-Hand

Address: http://www.enable.org.uk/

ENABLE Scotland helps people by campaigning, providing services, supporting people to do things in new and innovative ways, and by helping children, young people and adults to have a say in the decisions which affect them. They keep children and adults with learning disabilities and their carers are at the heart of everything they do.

ENeRGI

East Neuk Resource Group Initiative Providing support and Information for people with Mental Health Problems and their carers.

Tel: 01333 730477
Email: energirecovery@tiscali.co.uk

Epilepsy Scotland

Address: http://www.epilepsyscotland.org.uk

Epilepsy Scotland provides a confidential advice and support for those affected by Epilepsy.

Fife Action on Autism

Address: http://www.fifeactiononautism.org.uk/

Information, advice and support are offered to parents about the nature of autism and Asperger Syndrome, benefits, support in education, employment and independent living. Home visits are offered. For professionals working with people with autism, information is offered either through meetings or at their place of work.

Fife Council

Address: http://www.fife.gov.uk

Fife Council is responsible for delivering all local government services in the kingdom.

Fife Headway

Address: http://www.digitalfife.org.uk/Index.asp?ID=26

The Fife Headway Group is a charitable organisation that offers support to people who have sustained a brain injury. In addition, the group offers support to carers, friends and families of a person with brain injury.

Fife Racial Awareness and Equality (FRAE)

Address: http://www.fraefife.co.uk

Working to raise awareness amongst the public, private and voluntary sector of Ethnic Minority issues. To promote equality of opportunity and access to information and services.

Fife Society for the Blind

Address: http://fsbinsight.co.uk

Fife Society for the Blind offer specialised services to help visually impaired people achieve and maintain their independence. They supply some services on behalf of large organisations such as Fife Council or NHS Fife, but also help support local social groups and offer many other services through their Volunteer Service.

Hearing Voices Network (Fife)

Address: http://www.nsfscot.org.uk

Promotes networks of Peer Support for people who hear voices. The project facilitates groups which meet throughout Fife and focuses upon a behavioural approach to the management of voices within an integrated model of care.

Help the Aged

Address: http://www.helptheaged.org.uk/en-sc/trad.htm

Help the Aged aims to attack and remove the major barriers to active and fulfilled later lives. They are working to combat poverty, reduce isolation, defeat ageism and challenge poor care standards.

HIV Scotland

http://www.hivscotland.com

HIV Scotland is a national voluntary agency that seeks to improve the health and well-being of people living with HIV and affected communities, and to prevent the spread of HIV infection.

Home-Start

Address: http://www.home-start-eastfife.org.uk

A network of nearly 16,000 trained parent volunteers support thousands of parents who are struggling to cope. Families need support for many reasons including post-natal illness, disability, bereavement, the illness of a parent or child, or social isolation.

Huntingtons Association

Address: http://www.hdscotland.org

Advice and support to families, carers and professionals who are in anyway connected with Huntington's Disease. Management clinics are now available as well as a monthly family group.

Macmillan Cancer Support

Address: http://www.macmillan.org.uk

Macmillan Cancer support improves the lives of people affected by cancer. They provide practical, medical, emotional and financial support and campaign for better cancer care.

Maggie’s Centres

Address: http://www.maggiescentres.org/maggies/maggiescentres/home/centres/fife/introduction.html

A Maggie's Centre is a place anyone affected by cancer can turn to for help. They are open to everyone - not just to people who have been diagnosed with cancer, but also to their families, friends and carers. Their services are free of charge and they work in partnership with local NHS Trusts.

Marie Curie Cancer Care

Address: http://www.mariecurie.org.uk/inyourarea/scotland/

Marie Curie Nurses provide free nursing care to cancer patients and those with other terminal illnesses in their own homes. They work through the night or during the day to provide care for patients in the comfortable and familiar surroundings of their own home. The nurses are also there for families and carers - providing practical and emotional support at what can be an exhausting time. Marie Curie Nursing is always free of charge to patients and carers.

Mobility Advice Line

Address: http://www.mobility-advice.org.uk

Mobility Advice Line is a public enquiry service for all UK based disabled people, and their carers, about how to retain or enhance their mobility and independence, via adapted personal transport where necessary.

Scottish Motor Neurone Disease Association

Address: http://www.mndscotland.org.uk

The Scottish Motor Neurone Disease Association exists to help all those affected by Motor Neurone Disease (MND) within Scotland; those living with the disease, their families, carers and those health and social care professionals who contribute to the care of people with MND.

Multiple Sclerosis Society Scotland

Address: http://www.mssocietyscotland.org.uk

The Multiple Sclerosis Society Scotland is Scotland's largest charity for people affected by multiple sclerosis.

NHS 24 Helpline

Address: http://www.nhs24.com

NHS 24 is designed to help you to get the right care from the right people at the right time.

NHS Fife Carers Strategy Plan 2007 -2010

Address: http://www.nhsfife.scot.nhs.uk/about_us/corporatedocuments/Carer Info Str update nov07.doc

The NHS Fife Carers Strategy for 2007 –2010 identifies responsibilities towards Carers and the Action plan in place to achieve meeting them.

National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS)

Address: http://www.ndcs.org.uk

The National Deaf Children's Society is an organisation of parents, families and carers which exists to support parents in enabling their child to maximise their skills and abilities; and works to facilitate this process by every means possible.

Pain Association Scotland

Address: http://www.painassociation.com

The Association recognises that it is not only pain sufferers who experience distress, but carers, relatives and friends may also need support. Support groups and Training offers the opportunity to be listened to, to talk about how you feel, hear how others cope with similar problems and learn actively to control pain.

PAMIS

Address: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/pamis/

PAMIS - the organisation in Scotland working with people with profound and multiple learning disabilities, their family, carers and professionals who support them.

Parkinson’s Disease Society

Address: http://www.parkinsons.org.uk

A Charity dedicated to supporting all people with Parkinson’s, their families, friends and Carers.

RNIB Scotland (The Royal National Institute for the Blind)

Address: http://www.rnib.org.uk

RNIB Scotland has opened a dedicated Benefits Help line providing blind and partially sighted people in Scotland with information on the benefits and services to which they are entitled.

RNID (The Royal National Institute for Deaf People)

Address: http://www.rnid.org.uk/about/in_your_area/scotland/

RNID is the largest charity representing the 9 million deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK. RNID's vision is of a world where deafness and hearing loss are not barriers to opportunity and fulfilment.

Samaritans

Address: http://www.samaritans.org

Samaritans Provides confidential, non-judgemental emotional support, 24 hours a day, for those experiencing feelings of distress or despair including those which could lead to suicide.

Sense Scotland

Address: http://www.sensescotland.org.ukk

Sense Scotland has been working for over 20 years with children and adults who have communication support needs because of deafblindness, sensory impairment, learning and physical disabilities

SNIP

Address: http://www.snipinfo.org

Special Needs Information Point SNIP provides advice and information on services available to children with additional support needs and their Carers.

Social Work Offices

Address: http://www.fifedirect.org.uk

Access to all Social Work Services including Child Protection, Community Alarms, Community Care, Criminal Justice, Family Placement, Home Care, Meals on Wheels, Mental Health Services, Occupational Therapy Services, Collection and Delivery Services.

Spinal Injuries Association

Address: http://www.spinal.co.uk

The Spinal Injuries Association is the leading national charity for spinal cord injured people and all those concerned with their well-being.

Waverley Care

Address: http://www.waverleycare.org/content/ourservices/108/

Waverley Care offer a wide range of services to meet the needs of everyone living with HIV, Hepatitis C and similar conditions in Scotland.