Useful organisations 
Action Cerebral Palsy
Improving public, professional and political awareness of the issues facing children and young people with cerebral palsy.
Adult Cerebral Palsy Hub
Seeking to improve the lives of the 130,000 UK adults living with Cerebral Palsy – Care Parity for CP.
Age UK
In the UK, we help millions of people every year, providing support, companionship and advice.
Alzheimer Scotland
The work we do is to make sure nobody faces dementia alone.
Alzheimer’s Society
Forgetting things from time to time is usually normal. But if memory loss is affecting your daily life, it’s a good idea to seek help.
Amputation Foundation
Seeking to assist amputees with many of their support needs and providing information that will be relevant to starting a new life as an amputee.
APIL
Association of Personal Injury Lawyers – a not-for-profit organisation representing injured people.
ARNI
ARNI Stroke Charity website for stroke survivors and families: providing specialist rehabilitation and exercise support after hospital and community physiotherapy finishes.
Behind the Gray
Support community for those whose lives have been affected by a SAH/Subarachnoid Haemorrhage or Stroke.
BLESMA
Providing support to limbless and injured veterans for life.
Brain Injury Hub
A resource for families, teachers and anyone who would like to know more about acquired brain injury in children (part of the Children’s Trust).
Brain Tumour Charity Trust
Whether you’ve been diagnosed with a brain tumour or a family member or friend has, we are here to help.
British Geriatrics Society
Improving healthcare for older people.
British Heart Foundation
Funds medical research related to heart and circulatory diseases and their risk factors.
Charcot Marie Tooth
Charity dedicated to supporting people living with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, the most common inherited neurological condition in the world.
Colostomy UK
Colostomy UK is a charity that supports and empowers people living with a stoma. We’re here if people have questions, need support or just want to talk to someone who lives with a stoma. We also run projects to empower ostomates to return to sports, hobbies and other interests and give them the confidence to take up fresh challenges. We are advocates for ostomates’ rights and their voice on the bigger issues. Our campaigns raise awareness and encourage organisations to make their facilities more inclusive.
Dementia UK
Whether you have a question that needs an immediate answer or need emotional support when life feels overwhelming, our dementia specialist Admiral Nurses have the time to listen and the knowledge to solve problems.
Different Strokes
We help younger stroke survivors and their families to reclaim their lives through active peer support
Disability Horizons
Disability Horizons magazine is an online disability lifestyle publication that aims to give disabled people a voice.
Disabled Living Foundation
Practical solutions supporting disabled adults, children and older people.
Douglas Bader Foundation
www.douglasbaderfoundation.com
The Douglas Bader Foundation exists to advance and promote the physical, mental and spiritual welfare of persons who are born without or have lost one or more limbs, or are otherwise physically disabled.
Elwell
We help you look after your parents as they get older. Senior care support, information, product advice and more.
Erbs Palsy Group
The only UK-based organisation offering advice, information and support to families affected by Erb’s Palsy.
Finding Your Feet
We support families affected by amputation or limb absence through a range of sporting initiatives and social inclusion projects designed to positively affect both physical and mental wellbeing. Isolation is a huge problem for many amputees. It has been proven that quality of life and even life expectancy is greatly reduced without social inclusion, with as many as 30% of vascular amputees not surviving to one-year post amputation. FYF is key in addressing this issue. We are directly saving lives.
GAIN Charity
GAIN is the only organisation dedicated to helping people affected by Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), CIDP and the associated inflammatory neuropathies.
Headway
The Brain Injury Association – Improving life after brain injury.
Independent Age
Independent Age can provide you and your family with clear, free and impartial advice on the issues that matter: care and support, money and benefits, health and mobility.
Limbless Association
Information, advice and support for amputees, their family and friends and professionals.
MS Society
The MS Society fund world-leading research, share the latest information and campaign for everyone’s rights.
MS Trust
Whatever your question about multiple sclerosis, our A–Z contains a wide range of information, including symptoms, treatments and living with MS.
MS-UK
MS-UK is here for anyone affected by multiple sclerosis, to empower them to live healthier and happier lives by improving the understanding of MS and providing support where it is needed most.
Older Mobility
Improving mobility for an ageing population.
Re-engage
Re-engage provides vital, life-enhancing social connections for older people at a time in their lives when their social circles are diminishing.
Scope
Scope, the disability equality charity in England and Wales. We provide practical information and emotional support when it’s most needed, and campaign relentlessly to create a fairer society.
Sight Advice
Online advice for the public relating to sight.
Silver Lining Brain charity
Brain injury: helping to encourage a social support network for the injured, their family members, and the wider community.
Spinal Muscular Atrophy UK (SMA UK)
Were here for anyone affected by SMA. Since 1985, we have worked with the SMA Community to ensure that everyone affected by SMA has access to the best care, support and treatments and that research continues to bring much needed breakthroughs.
Our Community Support Team can provide both practical and emotional support.
Spinal Injuries Association
Our range of services support everyone who needs to access expert information, advice and support.
Spinal Injuries Scotland
www.spinalinjuriesscotland.org.uk
We are ambitious to achieve positive change so that people with a spinal cord injury can live their daily lives in a more equal environment.
Spotlight YOPD
The charity for those with Young Onset Parkinson’s Disease (YOPD), run by those with YOPD.
Steel Bones
Helping all amputee families live life to the full.
Stroke Association
We can help stroke survivors and their families live fuller, happier lives.
Stroke information
Stroke Information supplies online and telephone support to anyone around the UK looking for advice and motivation from people with experience.
The Brain Charity
We help people with all forms of neurological condition to lead longer, healthier, happier lives.
The Dementia Network
The Dementia Network empowers you with practical advice that will enable you, and those around you, to live well with dementia.
The Lewy Body Society
Funds research into Lewy body dementia seeks to raise awareness of the disease.
Transport for All
Advice line: 0800 368 6102
Email: contactus@transportforall.org.uk
Website: www.transportforall.org.uk
Transport for All is the disabled-led group breaking down barriers and transforming the transport system so disabled people can make the journeys we want, with freedom, dignity, ease and confidence. They work with their members to campaign for change and influence the Government, transport industry and the public; and offer an accessible transport adviceline, run by and for disabled people.
UKABIF
We aim to promote better understanding of all aspects of acquired brain injury.