Voluntary Organisations
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General Advice and Support
- Advice NI
Advice NI provide a broad range of information regarding social welfare and legal matters
- Bryson House
One of Northern Ireland's oldest charities, Bryson house provides services to the elderly and frail, families and children, unemployed people and at-risk youth, along with a range of environmental programmes and recycling services
- Carer's National Association Northern Ireland
This is the voice of Carers in the United Kingdom
- The Citizens Advice Bureau
This bureau offers free, confidential, impartial and independent advice
- The Citizens Advice Online Bureau Adviceguide
This online service provides independent advice on your rights.
- The Community Relations Council
This Council takes a leading role in addressing communal divisions in Northern Ireland
- Disability Action
Disability Action works to ensure that people with disabilities attain their full rights as citizens.
- Eaga Partnership
This partnership manages the Warm Homes scheme on behalf of DSD and provides access to grants for heating and insulation improvements to households in receipt of certain benefits
- Gingerbread
Gingerbread Northern Ireland is a self help community development organisation for one parent families regardless of age, sex, race, disability, religious or political persuasion
- Help the Aged
Help the Aged works throughout Northern Ireland and is committed to bring lasting change to the lives of older people
- Law Centre NI
The Law Centre (NI) is primarily concerned with the enforcement and development of social welfare lay in Northern Ireland. Includes the Encyclopedia of Rights
- Macmillan Cancer Relief
this is a United Kingdom charity that works to improve the quality of life for people living with cancer
- Ulster Community Investment Trust
This trust provides loan finance and support to the community economic sector in Northern Ireland and the Border Counties of the Republic of Ireland
- Victim Support
This is the national charity for people affected by crime. It is a completely independent organisation, offering a free and confidential service, irrespective of whether or not a crime has been reported
- Voluntary Service Belfast
This service provides general volunteering opportunities and specialist volunteering programmes
- Volunteer Development Agency
This Agency provides support for volunteers and voluntary organisations including training, promotional activities, grants and an information service
- Women's Resource and Development Agency
The Women’s Resource and Development Agency's mission as a Northern Ireland regional organisation is to advance women’s equality and participation in society by working to bring about social, political and economic change for women
Physical Disabilities
Learning Disabilities and Mental Health
- Autism NI (PAPA)
PAPA is the northern Ireland charity for autism and Asperger's syndrome
- Downs Syndrome Association
this Association supports the parents and carers of people with Downs syndrome and improves the lives of people with the condition
- First Steps to Freedom
Offers a helpline for those who suffer from anxiety of stress related disorders such as general anxiety, phobias, panic attacks, obsessive compulsive disorder and body dysmorphic disorder, together with tranquilliser withdrawal
- C.A.U.S.E for Mental Health
This is a local charity providing peer-led emotional and practical support to carers and families of people with serious mental illness. C.A.U.S.E. services include a helpline, support groups, Carer advocacy, educational programmes and representation of Carer's views
- The Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
This foundation provides information about issues which effect the lives of people with learning disabilities and works with people with learning disabilities to improve the quality of their lives
- Mencap
Mencap offers information, support and a range of services for children and adults with a learning disability
- National Schizophrenic Fellowship
The National Schizophrenic Fellowship provides facts, information and advice on a wide range of related subject
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