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Please search alphabetically for the organisation you are looking for... We aim to give you a short summary of our members' services and link you to their own sites wherever possible. @21 Leek Town Centre Youth Project
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Please contact: Kate Carter, Millward Hall, Salisbury Street, Leek (t) 01538 383877 1st St Andrews Porthill Scout Group 5th Leek (St Mary's Scout Group) The Group is made up of three sections, Beavers Age 6-8 years, Cubs Age 8-10 years, Scouts Age 10 - 14 years, and has a current membership of approximately 36, plus leaders, assistants and other helpers. Activities are carried out in accordance with the Scout Association policy, organisations and rules. These include both indoor and outdoor activities, ie: camping, hiking, hobbies, first aid, general interests, social and cultural. For further information please contact: Mr Philip Ward, 104 Buxton Road, Leek ST13 6EE (t) 01538 371406 email: phil_j_ward@hotmail.com 60 (Leek) Squadron Air Training Corps The Air Training Corps is a voluntary youth organisations for the air minded. It is under the sponsorship of the Ministry of Defence, but its units are based on their local communities and are part of their own city, town or village. The Corps is a uniformed organisations offering a wide range of activities, from sports to learning to fly gliders and powered air craft. Skills in radio procedure, model making are encouraged and there is a big commitment to the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme. For further information please contact: 60 Squadron, Leek ATC, Rear of Bowling Club, Beggars Lane Bowling Club, Leek ST13 8DV (t) 01538 387009 email: 60atc@tiscali.co.uk A Action Line ADSIS Age Concern North Staffordshire Age Concern North Staffordshire provides services and activities to meet the needs of older people (i.e. aged 50+) across North Staffordshire. Provision includes Information and Advice (a comprehensive, confidential service); Hospital discharge and Accident & Emergency Discharge to home; Fifty & Counting Team (FACT) - making your voice heard; Ageing Well activities; Befriending; Social Rehabilitation; Volunteering opportunities; Insurance Services.
Our main office in Hanley is open Monday to
Friday 9.00 to 4.30
Our Information & Advice drop in varies at
each location. Please call numbers below for details.
Contact details: Hanley 01782 286209
Newcastle 01782 713822
Leek 01538 387732
Biddulph 01782 511774
Alstonefield Memorial Hall & Community Centre Alstonefield & District Friendship Club We aim to enable people to continue living independent lives by encouraging physical and social activity and to build community spirit in this remote area. We provide transport to meetings of a social and educational nature and for visits to a variety of places. For further information please contact: (t) 01335 310353 Hope Mount Farm, Alstonefield, Ashbourne DE6 2FR Alton Castle The mission of Alton Castle is to promote the continued personal, social and spiritual development of each young person, through a combination of outdoor and indoor activities in such a way that they will be helped to live life to the full. For further information, please contact: Lynda Box, Alton Castle, Castle Hill Road, Alton ST10 4TT (t) 01538 703224 email: lynda@altoncastle.co.uk www.altoncastle.co.uk Alton SRB Approach (Supporting Older Minds) Approach aims to enhance the quality of life for older people with mental health needs, by providing small specialised day-care groups while offering valuable respite for their carer. We also offer an Alzheimer Cafe for carers of people with dementia and offer support and information with guest speakers in an informal cafe setting. For further information please contact: Cauldon Chambers, 10 Stoke Road, Shelton, ST4 2DP (t) 01782 214999 email: approach-daycare@btconnect.com ASIST Asist is an independent organisation providing advocacy services for anyone with a disability or mental health need in Staffordshire. For further information please contact: Hilary Stefanelli , Operations Manager, Asist Winton House, Stoke Road, Stoke on Trent ST4 2RW 01782 845584 email: hils@asist.co.uk
B Beat the Cold Bethel Congregational Church Project, Cheadle We are a Christian Church trying to serve the communities through a town centre building. Beth Johnson Foundation
The
Foundation was established in 1972 to develop new approaches to ageing
that link policy, research and practice.
Current initiatives include: The Centre for Intergenerational Practice, The Welsh Strategy for Intergenerational Practice, The North Staffordshire Health Improvement Project, The Advocacy and Dementia Project, and two specialist employment projects for people in midlife. The Foundation also hosts the Older People's Advocacy Alliance (UK) and the International Consortium for Intergenerational Programmes. For more information see: Biddulph Citizens Advice Bureau To ensure that individuals do not suffer through lack of knowledge of their rights and responsibilities, or of the services available to them, or through an inability to express their needs effectively, and equally, to exercise a responsible influence on the development of social policies and services. The bureau offers generalist advice in all areas and specialist debt and welfare rights advice. The service operates from the main bureau five mornings a week and from an outreach on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday mornings. Please contact: 10 Tunstall Road, Biddulph ST8 6HH (t) 01782 379239 email: biddulphcab@ukonline.co.uk http://beehive.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/biddulphcab Biddulph in Bloom Borderland Voices Borderland Voices is a pioneering arts and mental health voluntary group. We offer creative space to any adult interested in self expression and the promotion of mental health. We have just received funding to run a pilot "arts on referral" project which will run from April 2006 - 2007. For further information please contact: Borderland Voices, 50 Queens Drive, Leek ST13 QF6 (t) 01538 384142 www.borderlandvoices.org.uk email: info@borderlandvoices.org.uk Breathe Easy North Staffordshire Bridle Gate For further information please contact; Kath Riley, The Mill, Winkhill, ST13 7PP (t) 01538 308020 Brindley Mill Preservation Trust The Brindley Mill Preservation Trust (Registered Charity) is set up to preserve the Brindley Mill , Leek, as a museum to demonstrate the early work and life of James Brindley as a millwright. This 18th century corn mill demonstrates the use of water power to grind corn, and as such is both a tourist attraction and educational. The trust is run entirely by volunteers and provides an interest to the many retired people who maintain the mill and act as stewards. Open limited periods Easter to end of September. For further information please contact: website: www.brindleymill.net email: info@brindleymill.net Tel: (Tourist information) 01538 483741 or (Hon.Secretary) 01298 83423. C Cheadle & District Home Link Scheme Cheadle & District Home Link Scheme is a voluntary organisation serving the elderly/housebound across the Staffordshire Moorlands, with day care, elderly support groups, befriending, transport (both by car and fully accessible minibuses), drop-in and other supportive services. It has over 200 volunteers plus paid staff and has contact with over 500 older people a week. For further information please contact 17 Charles Street, Cheadle, Staffs. ST10 1EE (t) 01538 750511 or visit the website: Cheadle Citizens Advice Bureau To ensure that individuals do not suffer through lack of knowledge of their rights and responsibilities, or of the services available to them, or through an inability to express their needs effectively, and equally, to exercise a responsible influence on the development of social policies and services, both locally and nationally. Please contact: CAB, Harborne Road, Cheadle ST10 1JY (t) 01538 753189 email: cheadle.cab@virgin.net Cheadle Hospital League of Friends The Friends undertake fundraising to provide extra comfort to in patients at Cheadle Hospital and specialist equipment to support both the hospital and the local community. Working clearly with NHS patients to ensure optimum care available for the locality of Cheadle. Please contact: Cheadle Hospital, Royal Walk, Cheadle, Staffs ST10 1NS (t) 01538 487500 Cheadle Town Juniors FC Cheadle Town Juniors FC was established in 1996 to provide free football coaching to all boys and girls in the local area. The club meets every Saturday morning at the Cheadle Primary School field, to provide, any child, above 5 years of age, the opportunity to learn football skills in an enjoyable environment, regardless of their ability. Please contact the Secretary: Mrs Sharon Booth: 27 The Birches, Cheadle, S-O-T ST10 1EH (t) 01538 756050 email: sjbooth05@aol.com Cheadle (Staffs) U3A
Cheadle
(Staffs) U3A, University of the Third Age, reg. Charity
No.1072364, began June 1997, has 540 members, about 40 separate
activities, and is affiliated to the Third Age Trust.
Members are middle aged or older people who share educational, recreational and creative activities in a friendly atmosphere. No qualifications are needed nor are any awarded. For more information visit the website at http:/www.cheadleu3a.org or the Third Age Trust at www.u3a.org.uk
Contact Hon
Sec Joan Barrow on 01538 757221 or e-mail at
joan.barrow@btopenworld.com.
ChildTalk
ChildTalk offers free,
confidential counselling to children
and young people affected by the
divorce and separation of
their parents.
Referrals are received from parents, school staff and health professionals. Through counselling and support children are provided with the opportunity to develop the necessary coping strategies to come to terms with conflict within their families and to learn to live with the ways in which their family life may be changing. For more information about the service please contact: Alison O'Donovan 01782 416666 email: enquiries@childtalk.co.uk www.childtalk.co.uk Winton House (3rd Floor), Stoke Road, Shelton ST4 2RW Clive Leicester Trust (COOL) The Client Orientated Open Learning Centre The provision to Adult Students of education in Literacy, Numeracy and Basic Computer skills, additional to statutory provision and aimed at those persons requiring a different learning environment. The enablement of adult students to acquire new skills or refresh and improve on existing ones thereby enhancing their knowledge, esteem and self-confidence. For further information please contact: L. Alan Johnson: email: a.jay@mail.adsl4less.com 25 Greenacres Avenue, Blythe Bridge, ST11 9HU (t) 01782 392260 Crossroads Staffordshire Caring for Carers D Disability Solutions
Disability Solutions is a voluntary organisation and a
registered charity, controlled and run by local disabled people with
services available across the whole of North Staffordshire. Tel: 01782 683800 Minicom: 01782 683804 Fax: 01782 683803 Email – general@disability-solutions.net Web site: www.disability-solutions.net Disability West Midlands Dyslexia Association of Staffordshire For further information please contact: www.nsda.org.uk email: nsda@nsda.org.uk 2 Fellgate Court, Froghall Street, Newcastle-under_lyme ST5 2AU E E.L.I.T.E Ellastone Action Group Endon & District Friendship Club Endon & District Friendship Club has one of its aims in its title - it is to befriend and help older people to enjoy a social and interesting active life in the community. We meet every alternate Thursdays and have a variety of speakers, afterwards relaxing with tea and refreshments. During the year we have four or five outings, members having decided by vote which places they would like to visit. For further information please contact: Mrs Neill, 15 Highview Road, Endon, S-O-T ST9 9HT (t) 01782 503403
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