Family information directory

The Asperger's Syndrome Foundation is a registered charity committed to promoting awareness and understanding of Asperger's Syndrome. It provides training seminars for parents and professionals helping those with Asperger's Syndrome, as well as information and resources through its website. Read more

CICRA is a charity dedicated to creating a wider understanding of Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis. It provides support and information for affected children and their families, through telephone and email as well as through booklets and newsletters.  It also raises funds to support approved medical and scientific… Read more

The BDA is the UK’s leading membership organisation and registered charity run by deaf people for deaf people. It delivers a range of services to achieve its aims of empowering deaf people to overcome difficulties that they face daily. Read more

Stagetext is a registered charity which provides captioning and live subtitling services to theatres and other arts venues to make their activities accessible to people who are deaf, deafened, or hard of hearing. Read more

The charity work to improve the lives of children and young people by providing practical help (such as Sunshine Coaches, bespoke wheelchairs, and specialist sensory and recreational equipment) and memorable childhood experiences. Grants are available to individuals as well as organisations. Read more

The Dickie Bird Foundation aims to assist young people under 16 years of age to participate, to the best of their ability, in the sport of their choice irrespective of their social circumstances, culture or ethnicity and to ensure that, in doing so, they improve… Read more

Dreamflight is a UK charity that changes young lives through taking children with a serious illness or disability, without their parents, on the holiday of a lifetime to Orlando, Florida.  Read more

The NTF is a charity organisation which aims to provide help, support, and advice to all those living with all forms of tremor irrespective of age. Read more

The BDFA offers informed guidance and support to families and the professionals who work with them as well as actively increasing awareness of the disease and funding future research to identify potential therapies and a cure. Read more

JoLt is a small charity run which aims to make a positive lasting difference to the lives of disabled, ill, neglected and abused young people. Every two years it organises expeditions all over the world for groups of young people (from 14 to 21 years)… Read more