Coventry Carers' Centre
024 7663 2972
Website Links
General Information for carers
- Princess Royal Trust for Carers - comprehensive carer support services in the UK
- Carers UK - the voice for carers
Finance
- The Pension Service - information for over 60s
- Benefits Agency - information on all Welfare Benefits and Tax
- Carers Allowance -
- Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance
Transport
- West Midlands Special Needs Transport - including useful links to Ring and Ride, Community Transport, CENTRO, Shopmobility
- Motability car scheme
- RADAR - national network of disability organizations and disabled people
- Blue Badge Scheme
- Exemption from Vehicle Excise Duty (Car Tax)
- Mobility Equipment
Residential Care
- The Relatives and Residents Association - information and support for those needing residential care, and their families
- NHFA - care fees advice
- Coventry City Council - list of Residential/Nursing homes and Supported Living Accommodation
- Commission for Social Care Inspection - independent reports on registered care homes and care agencies
Holidays
- Holiday Care Service - information on hundreds of accessible hotels and attractions in the UK
- RNIB - produce an hotel guide for people with visual impairment
- Vitalise - formerly Winged Fellowship, breaks for disabled people and their carers
- Grooms Holidays - accessible holidays
Equipment
- Midland Mobility - local supplier of aids and equipment
- Polymorit - local supplier of aids and equipment
Local/National Support & Advice Organisations
- Age Concern - the UK's largest charity working with and for older people
- Alzheimer's Society, Coventry Branch - provide help and information to people affected by dementia and their carers
- Arthritis Care - the UK's largest organisation working with and for all people who have arthritis
- Coventry Children's Information Service - available to talk to you about all aspects of childcare for children between the ages of 0 and 14 years (16 years if your child has special needs)
- Coventry Citizens Advice Bureau - provide information on Debt, Benefits, Housing, Family, Employment, Public Law and many other general areas of advice
- Council of Disabled People - Coventry & Warwickshire, exists to promote and realise the interests of Disabled people regardless of class, colour, race, sexuality, gender and/or age
- Coventry Law Centre - specialise in the following areas of law: Community Care, discrimination, housing, immigration, employment, welfare benefits, mental health, education and public law and human rights
- Diabetes UK - the largest charity in the UK devoted to the care and treatment of people with diabetes in order to improve the quality of life for people with the condition
- Headway, Coventry & Warwickshire - a local charity that provides support to people with an acquired brain injury and to their families, friends and carers
- Mencap - the UK's leading learning disability charity working with people with a learning disability and their families and carers
- MIND, Coventry - provides support for people with mental health issues and related illness
- Motor Neurone Disease Association - a national organisation dedicated to the support of people with MND and those who care for them
- MS Society, Coventry - support all people affected by MS, their families and carers in the Coventry district
- National Debtline - free confidential and independent advice on how to deal with debt problems
- Parent Partnership, Coventry - information and support to parents whose children have special educational needs
- Parkinsons Disease Society, Coventry - support and advice for people with Parkinsons Disease and their carers
- Rethink - national voluntary sector provider of mental health services with 340 services and more than 130 support group, and by providing information on mental health problems
- SCOPE - the disability organisation in England and Wales whose focus is people with cerebral palsy
- Spinal Injuries Association - support people with Spinal Cord Injury and their carers
- Terrence Higgins Trust - the leading HIV and AIDS charity in the UK
- The Stroke Association - UK wide charity solely concerned with combating stroke in people of all ages


