Online directory

Advice and Information – 3 March 2021

This online directory lists useful sources of information and advice for carers.
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Welcome to our online directory! The directory contains useful information available for unpaid carers.

To navigate the directory, just click on the most relevant category, and the listed organisations will expand for you to view.

Local Organisations 

Hampshire-wide Organisations

National Organisations

We’re still populating this list, but if there is an organisation that is not listed here and you would like it to be, please e-mail your details to us.

Local Organisations

  • Aldershot Carers Hub - website link (Carers group in Aldershot)

  • Alton Community Support Directory - website link (Directory of local groups)

  • Andover  Parkinson’s Support Group - website link (Local support group)

cambrose@parkinsons.org.uk    0344 225 3744

  • Andover Mind - website link (for people with mental health needs)
  • Andover Young Carers - website link  (local support for young carers)

info@andoveryoungcarers.co.uk       01264 333788

  • Basingstoke & District Disability Forum - website link  (support for people with disabilities and their carers)

info@bddf.org.uk     01256 423869

  • Basingstoke MENCAP (local support group for people with learning disabilities) 

office@basingstokemencap.org.uk    01256 423886

  • East Hants Mind Mental Health (for the Havant area) - website link

info@easthantsmind.org.uk     023 92498916

  • Eastleigh and Romsey MENCAP - website link  (local support for people with learning disabilities)

info@ebrmencap.org.uk       07799 370043

  • Eastleigh Young Carers - website link (support for young carers)

hmalcolm@1community.org.uk     02380 902465

  • Fareham and Gosport Young Carers - website link (support for young carers)

young.carers@kids.org.uk     01329 312312 / 07584 230190

  • Farnborough Carers Hub - website link (local group for carers in Farnborough)
  • Fleet Carers Hub - website link (local group for carers in Fleet)
  • Gosport Day Service (for adults with learning disabilities)

023 9258 0635

  • Hart and Rushmoor Young Carers - website link  (support for young carers)

youngcarers@hartvolaction.org.uk    M: 07983 030689 /T: 01252 815652

  • Hope New Forest - website link  (support for older people)

enquiries@hopenewforest.org   01425 629009

  • Kids - Basingstoke and Waterlooville - website  (families with disabled children) 

KIDS Waterloville: 0132 931 2312

KIDS Basingstoke: 01256 464750

  • New Forest Young Carers - website link (young carers support)

marie.shotbolt@cfirst.org.uk   01425 482773

  • One Community based in Eastleigh Borough Carers Centre - website link (support for people wishing to live independent lives)

info@1community.org.uk    02380 902404

Romsey Young Carers - website link (young carers support)

  Admin@RomseyYoungCarers.org.uk        01794 515908   

  • Solent Mind - Mental Health (for Fareham and Gosport) - website link

info@solentmind.org.uk    023 8202 7810

  • South East Hampshire Young Carers - Off The Record - website link (young carers support)

enquiries@otr-south.org.uk    07709 552130        

  • The Kings Arms - Young Carers - website link (young carers support)

info@thekingsarms.org.uk   01730 231292 / 07769 991552

The King's Arms Petersfield: 01730 231292 

The King's Arms Alton Tel: 07769 695480 

  • Winchester GOLD - website (for adults and children with learning disabilities)

info@winchestergold.org.uk    01962 600281

Hampshire-wide Organisations

  • Action Hampshire - website link (supporting not for profit organisations)

info@actionhampshire.org    01962 854971

  • Admiral Nurse Hampshire - British Legion (specialist nursing support)

sphilpott@britishlegion.org.uk

  • Age Concern Hampshire - website link (support and advice for older people)

info@ageconcernhampshire.org.uk       01962 892447

  • Age Concern Hampshire - Village Agents - for those in rural areas - website

VA Team : 01962 892443

  • Autism Hampshire - website link (support and advice for people with autism)

info@autismhampshire.org.uk   01489 880 881

  • Carers Support Workers - Mental Health Team - website link 
  • Carers Together - website link (local support for all unpaid carers)

admin@carerstogether.org.uk    01794 519495

Carers Active Listening Line: 08000 3 23456

  • Connect to Support Hampshire website - website link (care and support advice)
  • Hampshire Adult Social Care Services

website link for information on services

FAQs and online contact form

Adult Services 0300 555 1386

Out of Hours 0300 555 1373

  • Hampshire blue badge parking scheme - website link (for disabled drivers)
  • Hampshire Older People Forum - website link (support for older people)
  • Hampshire Parent Carer Network - website link (support for parents of children with disabilities)
  • Hampshire Young Carers Alliance - website link (support for young carers)
  • Help Hampshire Stroke Network - website link (support for those who've had strokes)

enquiries@helphampshire.co.uk    01962 624932

  • Good Neighbours Network - website link (general community support and help)

info@goodneighbours.org.uk    023 9289 9671

  • MND Association (MND Connect Area Coordinators) - website link (for those with MND)

mndconnect@mndassociation.org   0808 802 6262

  • Princess Royal Trust for Carers in Hampshire - website link (support for all unpaid carers, including emergency planning help and advice)

info@carercentre.com    01264 835246

  • Rose Road Association - website link (charity for people with disabilities)

askus@roseroad.org.uk    023 8072 1221

  • Southern Health NHS Trust Carers Groups - website link (carers groups run by the NHS locally)
  • Stepping Stone DS Hampshire - website link (for families of children with Down's Syndrome)

enquiries@steppingstonesds.co.uk    01252 417014

  • Stroke Association Hampshire (for those who have had a stroke)

email helpline@stroke.org.uk  

The Sunflower Cafe - website link  (dementia friendly cafe)

thesunflowercafe@outlook.com   07553 881 474

 

 

National Organisations

Enquiries@alzheimers.org.uk  Dementia Connect Support Helpline 0333 150 3456

24/7 Carer Helpline 0808 802 0202

info@carers.org   0300 772 9600

info@carersuk.org    020 7378 4999

Carersline: 0808 808 7777

  • Citizens Advice: Carers: help and support - website link (support for all carers)
  • Contact - website link (for families with disabled children) 
  • Headway (brain injury association) - website link (for those with brain injuries)
  • Macmillan Cancer Support - website link (for those with cancer)

Online community for people affected by cancer, including discussion groups for family and friends and carers

  • Mind (mental health) - website link (for those with mental health needs)
  • MS Society (multiple sclerosis) - website link (for those living with MS)

Online community for people affected by MS, including discussion groups for carers

  • NHS social care and support guide - website link (for all carers)
  • Parkinson’s UK - website link (for those living with Parkinson's)
  • Social care and support guide (NHS) - website link (for all carers)

 

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