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Disability: Brain and Spine
Help charities that rehabilitate people paralysed by spinal cord injury – offering them hope and inspiration.

Registered charity
No. 1014834
Alzheimer's Concern Ealing

Alzheimer's Concern Ealing is a local organisation that provides emotional support and practical services to meet the changing needs of people with dementia and their carers.


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Registered charity
No. 296645
Alzheimer's Society

The Alzheimer's Society is the leading UK care and research charity for people with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, their families and carers. To find out more about fundraising for the Society log on to www.alzheimers.org.uk/events


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Registered charity
No. 1114145
Angioma Alliance UK

Angioma Alliance UK aims to provide advice and support for those with cavernous angioma through its organisational skills and by providing a service which makes the general public aware of cavernous angioma.


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Registered charity
No. 1116512
Anna's Hope

Anna's Hope assists in the rehabilitation of children and young people who have suffered from a brain tumour or who have had brain surgery . It also will fund research into the causes , treatment and cure of childhood brain tumours


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Registered charity
No. 1121464
Anna's Room

Anna was in the Wessex Neurological Centre at Southampton General Hospital for nearly 3 years suffering from encephalitis (her third episode). The charity's aim is to provide portable sensory equipment to aid recovery and sensory environments. Hence Anna's Room! The charity supports neurological recovery and rehabilitation wherever it is required.


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Registered charity
No. 1007416
ARCOS

ARCOS exists to improve life for children and adults who have communication and/or swallowing problems, their families and others involved. Many clients have complex, life-long disabilities. Its goal is to enable them to benefit from the latest advances in knowledge, understanding, skills and technology.


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Registered charity
No. 249338
ASBAH - Association For Spina Bifida And Hydrocephalus

ASBAH employs area Advisers in many parts of England, Wales and Northern Ireland. They provide a solid foundation on which to provide a range of flexible and innovative services, tailored to the needs of individual service users.


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Registered charity
No. 1075317
Aspire

Aspire's projects and services have a very simple goal - to provide the practical support needed for people with spinal cord injury, from injury to independence.


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Registered charity
No. 326194
B.I.R.D Charity

B.I.R.D. helps children & adults with brain injury and learning difficulty achieve their potential through 'developmental reflexive rehabilitation'.


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Registered charity
No. 256751
BackCare

BackCare (registered as the National Back Pain Association) is an independent national charity that helps people manage and prevent back pain by providing information, promoting self help, encouraging debate and funding research into better back care. HRH, The Prince of Wales, is its patron.


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Registered charity
No. 1072216
The Back-Up Trust

The Back-Up Trust is a national charity that supports people; young or old with spinal cord injury. Back-Up encourages self-confidence, independence and motivation following a traumatic life changing incident resulting in spinal cord injury. We also support friends, families and colleagues to encourage integration and promote disability awareness and collaboration.


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Registered charity
No. 518806
BASIC (Brain And Spinal Injury Centre)

BASIC (Brain And Spinal Injury Centre) is a registered charity which supports patients, carers and families from all over the country who are recovering from traumatic brain injuries and neurological conditions such as brain haemorrhage, brain tumour, stroke, head or spinal injury, MS, and brain cancer.


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Registered charity
No. 1084908
Batten Disease Family Association

Batten Disease is a group of rare, progressive neurodegenerative, genetic metabolic diseases that occur in children and adults worldwide. The BDFA's Vision is to bring light to Batten Disease by being the central point of excellence in the UK for supporting affected families and to facilitate research into the disease.


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Registered charity
No. 1098528
Brain and Spine Foundation

The Brain and Spine Foundation aims to maximise the quality of life for people with neurological disorders and to reduce neurological disability by providing a national focus for research, education and information.


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Registered charity
No. SC021490
Brain Tumour Action

Brain Tumour Action provides help and support to people diagnosed with a brain tumour by way of support groups throughout the UK, information leaflets and aromotherapy treatment. It is also part funding brain tumour research projects in the UK.


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Registered charity
No. 295895
Brain Tumour Research Campaign

BTRC (in assocation with Way Ahead) works with a Neurosciences team at Charing Cross Hospital/Imperial College London to promote research into the causes and treatment of brain tumours, to raise public awareness of the need for this research and the current lack of funding.


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Registered charity
No. 1073238
The Brainwave Centre Ltd

Brainwave, established in 1982,supports brain injured children from throughout the UK. It provides home based programmes of rehabilitation Families stay at the Centre, whilst the child is fully assessed. Exercises are prescribed which are taught to the parents. Children are reassessed at intervals of six months.


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Registered charity
No. 298098
British Neurological Research Trust

The British Neurological Research Trust is dedicated to supporting the research of the Spinal Repair Unit, Institute of Neurology, towards the repair of injury in the central nervous system. This research is focused on the translation of newly discovered science for human clinical benefit.


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Registered charity
No. 803772
British Scoliosis Research Foundation

British Scoliosis Research Foundation is the only charity that exists solely to promote research into the treatment of spinal deformities. The BSRF works closely with the Scoliosis Association UK and the British Scoliosis Society. It funds research into scoliosis and holds an international symposium to spread the knowledge gained from research.


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Registered charity
No. 299912
The Caroline House Support Group

To help patients and former patients (and their families) of Caroline House who are sick, convalescent, disabled or handicapped and generally to support the work of the unit and support quality of life activities for the residents.


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Registered charity
No. 1119095
Christopher Clarke Cancer Research Fund

It is working to raise awareness and fund a research post at the Christie Hospital to examine the causes and treatment of brain tumours.


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Registered charity
No. 1079845
The Clarke Lister Brain Haemorrhage Foundation

Established by Clarke’s parents in 1996 when 10-year old Clarke Lister died suddenly of a brain haemorrhage. We promote and assist research into causes and treatment of brain haemorrhage and share the useful results for public benefit, as well as providing support services for families affected by brain haemorrhage


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Registered charity
No. 1106530
The Daisy Garland

Family run National charity providing active support for children with epilepsy and their parents/carers. One of their key activities is to provide NHS hosptials with ketogenic dietitians - a medically recognised and accepted way of treating drug resistant epilepsy. This diet is not widely available on the NHS due to lack of funding.


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Registered charity
No. 1000392
The David Lewis Centre

The David Lewis Centre at Alderley Edge provides residential services for people of all ages who have complex epilepsy. There is a special needs school, a specialised college and a variety of adult care and assessment services. It has an active fundraising and development programme for improving facilities as well as providing many important 'extras' such as play equipment and excursions.


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Registered charity
No. 234343
Epilepsy Action

Epilepsy is the UK’s most common serious neurological condition affecting an estimated 1 in 131 people. Epilepsy Action helps over 550,000, people every year through its range of services including its advice and information centre, branch network and accredited volunteer scheme. The organisation’s award-winning website, www.epilepsy.org.uk, receives over 100,000 visitors a month. The Epilepsy Helpline on freephone 0808 800 5050 is available Monday-Friday, 9.00 am - 4.30 pm (4.00 pm on Fridays). Over 90% of its income is in the form of voluntary contributions and its vital work would not be possible without the support of people such as yourself.


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Registered charity
No. SC030677
Epilepsy Connections

Epilepsy Connections provides information, advice and support (in English, Urdu, Punjabi and Cantonese) to anyone affected by epilepsy in the Greater Glasgow and Forth Vally areas of Scotland. We run a Befriending Service for adults, a Schools Project and a Mainstreaming Project which helps adults get back into work or training.


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Registered charity
No. 1117194
Flicker.ms

Flicker.ms aims to raise awareness and improve understanding of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) among young people.


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Registered charity
No. 1115377
Friends of O.S.C.A.R

Friends of O.S.C.A.R is a national charity that supports children diagnosed with brain and/or spinal tumours and their families. It provide days out weekends away and help with sourcing holidays and insurance, wigs etc. Friends of O.S.C.A.R also provides written information for families as well as a family conatct service.


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Registered charity
No. 1008537
Groundwork Devon and Cornwall

Groundwork Devon and Cornwall help communities to regenerate living spaces throught Caradon, Plymouth, Restormel and Torbay. It covers Business, land, employment, youth, education and community. Its Horticultural Healing Project offers horticulture as a form of therapy to people with mental ill health and/or aquired brain injury.


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Registered charity
No. 1102750
Hammer Out

Hammer Out is a registered charity that supports people with brain tumours and their families. Established in 2002, we are based in Thornbury, near Bristol and now have a committed team working towards raising awareness of brain tumours and the devastating effects that they have on both patients and those who love them. As well as offering a personalised support package, agreed with patients and their families, we also raise money to fund vital research into this incurable form of cancer. We aim to support children and adults across the South West region who are affected by brain tumours. To date, we have raised over £400,000 and currently support 80 families across the region.


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Registered charity
No. 1025852
Headway - the brain injury association

Every year, more than 11,000 people will sustain a brain injury, which will leave them in need of lifelong care. Headway - the brain injury association is the UK’s leading charity dedicated to promoting understanding of all aspects of brain injury and to providing support, information and services to brain injury survivors, their families and carers.


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Registered charity
No. 1007207
Headway Bristol Brain Injury Association Limited

Headway Bristol provides information, support and advice for people with brain injuries, their families and carers. A daytime resource and activity centre provides an environment where people can learn new skills and gain confidence and coping strategies to deal with everyday situations that most people take for granted.


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Registered charity
No. 1063221
Headway Cardiff

Headway Cardiff provides support and services to people with an acquired brain injury, their families and carers in south east Wales. It offers information, advice, support, counselling, a carer's group, a specialist day centre and a young persons' community based social reintegration programme.


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Registered charity
No. 1083910
Headway East London

Headway East London is a voluntary organisation dedicated to providing a better quality of life for people with acquired brain injury, their families and carers. Headway East London runs a Headway House - a social environment where people come to regain lost skills, increase their confidence and make new friends.


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Registered charity
No. 1085311
Headway East Northants

Headway East Northants provides support and care for people who are brain injured. They have an activity centre and a minibus and employ five paid members of staff and six volunteers. The charity needs to raise £140,000 per year to maintain this service.


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Registered charity
No. 1008807
Headway Essex

Headway Essex is the only charity in Essex providing care and support for survivors of brain injury and their families and carers. Serious brain injury does not just affect the individual but will often devastate the whole family. Each year the Headway Essex Brain Injury Advisory Service supports over 250 families and the Day Centre provides over 2000 places.


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Registered charity
No. 299805
Headway Gloucestershire

It is the only charity in Gloucestershire that helps anyone who suffers an acquired brain injury, whatever the cause. We provide therapies, advice, advocacy to enable sufferers and their families to access services and live independently. We operate a day service, individual support sessions and are developing an outreach service.


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Registered charity
No. 1086140
Headway Portsmouth And South-East Hampshire

It provides support to people with head injury and other forms of acquired brain injury, their family members, carers and interested professionals.


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Registered charity
No. 1049461
HEADWAY SOUTH WEST LONDON

HSWL is a self-help group run by members who understand the life-changing effects of brain injury. It aims to promote understanding of all aspects of brain injury and help provide support and information to those with a brain injury, their families, carers and relevant professionals


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Registered charity
No. 1046863
HEADWAY SURREY

HEADWAY SURREY Supports people who are affected by head injury. It provides information & support for the head injured, their families and carers. HEADWAY SURREY was started as a self help group in 1985, by carers and professionals and the charity has since grown to offer a range of support services.


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Registered charity
No. 1021036
Headway Swindon And District

Headway Swindon & District provides support to people with brain injury, their families and carers. Through cognitive and social rehabilitation they encourage and Support people with brain injury to attain the highest possible quality of life and assist them to independent living.


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Registered charity
No. 900591
Headway Thames Valley

It provides support, various Neurological Therapies, and social integration opportunities for people with brain injury so that they may improve their lives after brain injury. It provides training for professionals working with the brain injured and provides support, training and information for families and carers of the brain injured.


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Registered charity
No. 1062884
Headway Tunbridge Wells And District

Damage to the brain can affect the whole person. Memory problems, personality changes, lack of self confidence and physical difficulties are just a few of the effects. Headway supports people with a brain injury and their families who are coping with the aftermath of such a traumatic event.


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Registered charity
No. 702490
Headway Worcester Trust Ltd

Headway Worcester Trust Ltd supports people who have suffered an acquired brain injury and their families and carers. It has a day opportunities facility a cafe and book shop. It also has a dedicated team of outreach support workers who help clients with daily living skills.


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Registered charity
No. SC033927
Hearts and Balls

Hearts and Balls role is to assist catastrophically injured rugby players and their families by offering financial support and advice on fundraising.


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Registered charity
No. 1107273
Integrated Neurological Services (INS)

INS provides long-term rehabilitation and support to people with deteriorating neurological conditions such as Parkinson's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis or who have suffered a Stroke. The aim is to encourage self-help and enable people to maintain their independence and have an optimum quality of life. Family carers are also supported.


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Registered charity
No. 1106815
Jennifer Trust for Spinal Muscular Atrophy

The Jennifer Trust for Spinal Muscular Atrophy works with children and adults who have spinal muscular atrophy, and their families. The charity offers a range of support services to help families cope with both the emotional and practical issues that the diagnosis brings, whilst funding research to find answers for tomorrow.


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Registered charity
No. 1018320
Kent Kids Miles of Smiles

KKMOS have an excellent reputation for the quality and care for children/youg people with profound and multiple disabilities, they believe that they are people first who have the right to make choices about their lifestyle. The fully trained staff and key workers provide a safe, loving and caring homley enviroment


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Registered charity
No. 263171
League Of Friends Of Hurstwood Park Neurological Centre

It helps, Patients & Relatives, Surgeons & Staff and all amenities of the Centre, which cares for Brain Tumours, Aneurysms, Strokes, Road Traffic Accidents, M.S., Alzheimer's, Motor Neurone Disease, etc.


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Registered charity
No. 200359
The Meath Epilepsy Trust

The Meath Epilepsy Trust supports and provides a caring home to 70 people over the age of 18 who have complex epilepsy, usually coupled with either a learning disability or physical disability. It also provides a range of day care learning opportunities, including painting, printing and drawing.


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