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There are a range of local specialist shops throughout Sheffield which sell and rent equipment, including: CareCo. Unit 3 Burton St, Penistone Rd, S6 2HH. Call: 0114 551 1569 or visit: www.careco.co.uk/sheffield-showroom.htm. Clark & Partners. 496 Ridgeway Rd, S12 2JX. Call 0114 239 0610… 0114 437 2329 or visit: www.parkgatemobility.co.uk/mobility-shops . Premier Community. 17-21 Abbey Lane, Woodseats, S8 0BJ. Call 0800 3689923 or visit: www.premiercommunity.co.uk/find-our-showrooms/woodseats-sheffield-showroom/ . Sheffield Mobility. 96 Bradfield Rd, S6 2BZ. Call 0114 231 5131 or visit: www.sheffieldmobilitysolutions.co.uk . Sheffield Royal Society for the Blind. 5 Mappin Street, City Centre, S1 4DT. Call 0114 272 2757 or visit: srsb.org.uk/Equipment-Centre . Wicker Independent Living Store. 61-67 Wicker, S3 8HT. Call 0114 272 3729 or visit: rosscare.co.uk/pages/wicker…
for your equipment, contact the Council. They can give you advice and if you need support, they will assess your needs and arrange support with you. They will ask you about your finances so they can decide how much you can afford to pay towards your support. Sheffield City Council: Equipment… towards your support. Sheffield City Council: Adapting your home . Moving home. There are other options you can consider, including: moving to a home that better suits your needs, or moving to a home closer to a relative or friend that can support you. This is called medical priority re-housing. swapping the home you rent with someone else. This is called mutual exchange. There is a scheme for this in Sheffield and a national website to link you with thousands of other tenants across the country. Moving home (medical priority re-housing and mutual exchange). Next: equipment…
Scams and fraud Age UK has lots of good advice about the different types of scams and fraud, including door step scams, postal scams, phone scams and cold calling. And they have dedicated advice on what to do if you're scammed. Age UK: Scams and Fraud . What to do . Trading Standards run a 'Not Born Yesterday' campaign which helps protect vulnerable people from scams and rogue traders. Sheffield City Council: Trading Standards . Crime prevention South Yorkshire Police has advice and tips on how you can prevent a burglary and how to secure your property. South Yorkshire Police: Crime prevention .…
lunch-clubs, lunchclubs There’s a host of local lunch clubs in the city. lunch clubs Contact the Lunch Club Referral Service at Voluntary Action Sheffield (VAS) to find a club near you. Voluntary Action Sheffield: Lunch club referral service . Call: 0114 253 6650 to leave a message and someone will get back to you. Email: lunchclub@vas.org.uk . Many of the lunch clubs can provide transport to and from the club and many of them also provide social activities. If a lunch club isn’t for you, there are Friendship Lunches around the city, where you can eat lunch and meet new people and make friends. You can find a full list of Friendship lunches on this directory. Friendship Lunches .…
your health and wellbeing from the Move More website. Move More: Health and Wellbeing activities . Thousands of people in Sheffield have used this one-stop-shop to: find activities, things to do and events in your area download the ‘Move More’ app to keep you motivated develop your own activity tracker to record your progress get support with your wellbeing from a local organisation. And if you have a health condition or disability and want to be more active get professional advice from Move Well (formerly called Sheffield Physical Activity Referral Scheme, or SPARS… and active with advice from a Health Trainer or Health Champion. Sheffield City Council: Community Wellbeing . The directory also has details of local sports and leisure activities to help keep you healthy and help your mental wellbeing. Sports activities . Culture and leisure activities…
door’ to alcohol treatment in Sheffield, if you want to talk to someone about your, or someone else’s alcohol use. Likewise . Likewise can offer the following: assessment advice and support to anyone wanting to make changes to their alcohol use a range of treatment options following… of problem drinkers whether the alcoholic is still drinking or not. Al-Anon Family Groups: Find a meeting . They run a helpline 10am -10pm 365 days a year which you can call for confidential help. They also hold regular meetings in Sheffield where members share their own experience of living… confidentially with someone. Drug support Likewise is the single ‘front door’ to drug treatment in Sheffield. They will support you to achieve your goals around your drug use through a range of treatments. That might be stopping completely or just cutting down. You can set your own goals. Likewise…
michael.mcenery@sheffield.gov.uk cancer There’s a lot of information, advice and support to help you deal with the effects of cancer and your treatment, and support from other people who have had cancer (also called peer support). Sheffield NHS services include: Support from your GP… . Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. Support for patients and outpatients, specialist advice on chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and physiotherapy. Cancer services . Patient support . Support groups and services . Weston Park Hospital. Part of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Weston Park…, and support to manage your recovery. Macmillan: Cancer information and support . Call: 0808 808 0000 . Age UK Sheffield Cancer Support Service. If you’re living with or recovering from cancer, or if you’re caring for someone with cancer, you might need a little extra support to help you to regain…
to listen, to give you expert information and advice that’s tailored to your situation, to champion your rights and support you in finding new ways to manage at home, at work, or wherever you are. Sheffield Carers Centre Sheffield Carers Centre is your first stop for local information about support for carers. Visit their website or call the Centre for a welcome pack full of information and advice – and to get a regular copy of their quarterly newsletter. Sheffield Carers Centre . Call: 0114 272 8362 . The Carers Centre also offers the following services: Carer advice line. Carer…
an excellent cancer advice page packed with information for you. cancer support . Sheffield Talking Therapies (formerly called IAPT) provides a range of short-term talking therapies to anyone (aged 18 or over who lives or works in Sheffield) experiencing stress, anxiety and depression. Sheffield Talking Therapies . Their Health and Wellbeing service provides support to people who are experiencing anxiety, stress and low mood from living with a long-term physical health condition. Sheffield Talking Therapies: Health and Wellbeing Service . Sheffield Talking Therapies can support people… the service. Sheffield Talking Therapies: How we can help . Call: 0114 226 4380 . They run courses including: Living Well with a Long-Term Condition (Low Mood) . Living Well with a Long-Term Condition (Anxiety) . Managing Stress . Living well with pain . Book courses online or give them…