Our Financiers
Barnwood House Trust
www.barnwoodhousetrust.org
Barnwood House Trust is an independent and endowed registered charity
able to meet special needs arising from serious physical or mental disabilities
among the people of Gloucestershire. The term "mental disabilities"
includes mental illness and learning disability. The Trust is empowered
to provide accommodation, care services and grants and to support medical
research into the causes and treatment of disabilities. The trust have
provided Gloucestershire Lifestyles with funding for the Access Project
and to set up this website.
The Henry Smith Charity
www.henrysmithcharity.org.uk
Henry Smith was born in Wandsworth, South London, in May 1548. He was
a successful salter by trade and purchased estates in various parts
of England. During his life he created a number of charitable trusts
for the relief of the poor and he died in 1628 leaving his Trustees
the sum of £2000. The charity still exists to provide support
to the sick and disabled. The Henry Smith Charity have provided Gloucestershire
Lifestyles with valuable funding for the Warehouse Project.
SCOPE
www.scope.org.uk
Scope is the disability organisation in England and Wales whose focus
is people with cerebral palsy. Their aim is that disabled people achieve
equality: a society in which they are as valued and have the same human
and civil rights as everyone else. SCOPE have provided funding for the
Gloucestershire Disability Forum.
Lloyds TSB
www.lloydstsb.com
Lloyds TSB have provided funding support for Gloucestershire Lifestyles' Access Project.
Gloucester City Council
www.gloucester.gov.uk
Gloucester City Council have provided funding support for Gloucestershire Lifestyles' Access Project.
Lincoln Finance
www.lincolnuk.co.uk
Lincoln Financial Group is a financial services group offering pension
and life assurance plans, health and disability cover, investment plans,
unit trusts and ISAs – all designed to help customers achieve
financial security. Lincoln Finance have provided funding support for
Gloucestershire Lifestyles' Warehouse project.
Member’s Sites
Dean Birders – Birding for the disabled in the
Forest of Dean
www.deanbirders.co.uk
Two One2One scheme members from the Forest of Dean, with the help of Ken
Shaw and Tim Fretter from Forest Voluntary Action Forum and money from
Give it a Go Millennium Awards have set up and been running, for about
two years, a project called Bird Theatre in the Forest of Dean. The project
supplies bird boxes and bird tables together with a starter pack of bird
food to elderly and/or disabled people to bring an interest of bird watching
into people's own back yards. They also produced a newsletter with useful
information and news about the birds you might expect to see at certain
times of the year. It became very popular, but unfortunately had to cease
due to the funding running out. We have a funding bid in at the moment,
which we hope will be successful so that the project can start again.
Other Lifestyles Projects
Worcestershire Lifestyles
www.worcestershire-lifestyles.org.uk
Like Gloucestershire Lifestyles, Worcestershire Lifestyles are an independent
charity established in 1991 to enable disabled people to exercise freedom
of choice, extend their horizons and make decisions about the lifestyle
they wish to pursue.
Herefordshire Lifestyles
www.lifestyles.demon.co.uk
The whole of Herefordshire Lifestyles is dedicated to enabling individual
disabled people to fulfil their aims and ambitions in any area of their
life.
Birmingham Lifestyles
www.bhamlifestyles.org.uk
Birmingham Lifestyles works to enable people with physical and/or sensory
disabilities to improve their quality of life.
By providing support in all areas of life we endeavour to enable our
members to be able to work towards and achieve personal goals, find
out about rights and support structures and create a better quality
of life for themselves.
We work with the community to find volunteer befrienders to provide
support, friendship and assistance with overcoming barriers.
Gloucestershire Lifestyles Beehive Website
beehive.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/default.asp?WCI=SiteHome&ID=5016
Gloucestershire Lifestyles also has a presence on the Beehive website,
which is Gloucestershire's online network devoted to the county's community
groups.
Disability Information
Walks on Wheels
www.cotswoldsaonb.org.uk/page.asp?pageID=44
Walks on Wheels is a project to provide information, descriptions and
maps of 15 walking routes in the Cotswolds that can be enjoyed by people
using wheelchairs, power scooters or buggies. Information about each
route can be downloaded for free from the website of the Cotswold Area
of Outstanding Natural Beauty. More information is also available by
ringing the Cotswolds Conservation Board on 01451 862000.
Guide Information
www.guide-information.org.uk/guide1.html
Guide, based in Gloucestershire, provide a free and confidential health,
social care and disability information service for both the public and
professionals. Their database has over 4,000 local and national services
and organisations. The database is available on this web site, as well
as in 140 locations around the county.
Gloucester Dial-a-Ride
www.gloucesterdialaride.org.uk
Gloucester Dial-a-Ride provides a friendly, door-to-door minibus service
for Gloucester residents unable to use public transport and without
regular access to their own vehicle.
Yercombe Lodge
www.yercombelodge.co.uk
Yercombe Lodge is a Residential Home and Day Centre. The Residential
Home provides short stay respite care and a small number of long-term
residential rooms for the elderly and younger physically disabled people.
The Day Centre provides day care for people with physical disabilities
aged between 18 and 65 years.
Enable Holidays
www.enableholidays.com
Now there is a holiday company that specialises in providing package
holidays for people with mobility disabilities, their families and friends.
‘Enable Holidays’ is the first British tour operator to
offer a specially selected, personally audited range of resorts and
holiday accommodation to meet your needs.
Possum Controls
www.possum.co.uk
For over 40 years Possum has designed and supplied a range of products
to enhance the independence and quality of life for people with special
needs.
Disability UK
www.disabilityuk.com
An easy to use site operated by disabled people for everyone. Covering
topics such as health, medicines, alternative cures, law & legal,
charities, help groups, social and housing benefits, disabled products,
carers, tips, tricks, help, search the web portal, links to other sites,
even the national lottery and a whole lot more. There is something here
for everybody, young and not so young alike.
RADAR – The disability network
www.radarsearch.org
RADAR is an accommodation search engine for disabled people. They give
information on the accessibility and services for disabled guests at as
wide a range of accommodation as possible, whether this is used for traditional
holidays or other stays away from home.
Disability Now
www.disabilitynow.org.uk
This UK disability site gives essential information: news and feature
articles, advice, adverts, links, an archive and a chat forum.
Disabled Living Foundation
www.dlf.org.uk
The Disabled Living Foundation is a national UK Charity with a vision
to provide the best possible choice for people who use equipment to live
a more independent life.
Ability Net
www.abilitynet.org.uk/content/home.htm
AbilityNet is a national charity and the UK’s leading provider of
expertise on computing and disability. They offer a one-stop shop for
need assessment, technical expertise, advice and support as well as supplying
adapted computer equipment for people with a wide range of disabilities.
Disabled Workers Co-operative
www.disabledworkers.org.uk
The Disabled Workers Co-operative is a great place to find traditional
skills that have almost disappeared from our fast moving commercial
world. Skills such as Chair-Caning, Basket-Weaving, and Wood-Turning,
can all be found by searching the Disabled Workers Co-operative Database;
along with modern skills such as Website-Design, Word-Processing and
Translation-Services. If you are a disabled worker, a sheltered workshop
or another qualifying organisation you can register your details Free
on the Disabled Workers Database.
Techdis
www.techdis.ac.uk
The JISC TechDis service aims to improve provision for disabled staff
and students in higher and further education through technology. Achieving
this takes several routes. TechDis provides an advice and information
resource via extensive web-based databases and an email helpdesk. These
resources should be the first port of call for anyone in education who
has a question relating to disability and technology.
Dial UK
www.dialuk.org.uk
Dial UK is a national organisation for a network of over 140 local disability
information and advice services run by and for disabled people. Last year
DIALs helped over a quarter of a million disabled people.
Modern Eyes
www.modern-eyes.co.uk
Modern-Eyes aims to share up to the minute news, views and information
on all aspects of living with a visual impairment.
