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If you are caring for someone who cannot manage without your support and you're not employed to do this, then you are a carer. Anyone can become a carer at any point in their life. We're here to listen and support you.
Kids Kabin provides regular creative activities to enable personal development. We engage kids from disadvantaged areas in creative activities to support their learning and personal development. For ages 8 to 13 years
Kids Kabin’s main location is in Walker; however, we run activity hubs in locations all over the city – from Pottery Bank to Cowgate and places in between.
Kids Kabin runs specialist workshops for kids in multiple areas, including:
Fun, Educational & Award Winning music classes for newborns to toddlers!
Locations across NORTH SHIELDS, GOSFORTH, WHITLEY BAY, WIDEOPEN, BLYTH, HEATON, NEWBURN, SHIREMOOR, CRAMLINGTON AND RISING SUN.
Our award-winning multi-sensory music classes help to enhance the development of babies and toddlers.
Rhythm Time offers fun, quality music sessions to help nurture and develop your child's innate musical ability. The activities are specifically designed to ENHANCE EVERY CHILD'S DEVELOPMENT and build their confidence, creativity and co-ordination.
Since its inception South North has been the Premier League’s most successful club winning the league championship ten times in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015, the Banks Salver in 2000, 2007 and 2012 and the 2nd Division in 2004 and 2008. 2006 proved an extremely successful year with the 1st XI also winning the prestigious Cockspur Cup, claiming the title of best club side in Britain. The 1st XI added to this in 2008 by being crowned champions of the inaugural Cockspur 20/20 Cup at the finals day held at the SWALEC Stadium in Cardiff.
JET is a registered charity who work in and around Tyne & Wear to support those with English as a second language and from an ethnic background. This includes those from the settled community with English as their first language, as well as refugees and asylum seekers, EU migrants and third country nationals, many who have come to the UK through marriage . We can give you support to help you to move nearer to finding work, including specialist employment related ESOL classes, integration activities and trips, as well as using NARIC through our National Careers Service contract to pres
A group of women in the North East (18+) with any kind of disability to make new friends, do new things and feel safe whilst doing it.
Trips out, coffee morning, pamper sessions and MORE.
On the second Wednesday each month.
Skills for People is a user-led, voluntary organisation based in Newcastle upon Tyne. Since 1983 we have been working to make sure that disabled people and their families can be in control of their own lives; strong, confident and involved in the communities of their choice. Skills for People and North East Special Needs Network merged in 2017 to make one organisation.
Our Family Advice and Support team (FAS) work with parents and carers of disabled children and young people up to the age of 25 years to provide co-ordinated support.
Skills for People helps disabled children and adults and their families to be in control and to have better lives. We also work with children with special educational needs.
We offer help with planning, meeting other disabled people and their families, advocacy, advocacy groups, social activities, self help meetings and individual development. We work with people who have an individual budget and those who do not.
A group of mothers with learning disabilities come together to share experiences and learn from each other on the first Wednesday of the month from 11am until 2pm
We meet twice a month for friendship, support, advice and speaking up. Join us to share your views and ideas, to have lunch, fun and to try new things.
Help and Connect is a service offered by Skills for People.
If you live in Newcastle upon Tyne and are aged 16 or over, our Help and Connect team can help you to get your support right and to make the most of what’s going on in your area.
What does Help and Connect offer?
Our team will help you make the most of the information we have. You can find out about:
We are parents of children with disability. We help families with a disabled child to find and create mutual support. We do this through social media and by meeting up. We help families find all the information that they need in order to have the best possible family life as full members of their communities.
We believe that parent to parent support is really important. We are a wide network. We want to support all parents of disabled children in Newcastle including those who have an individual or personal budget.
A group for anyone who has autism. Meet the first Wednesday of the month at Skills for People. It runs from 6pm to 8pm If you would like to come please ring the office on 0191 281 8737 and let us know.
Gosforth Basketball Club was established in September 2011 for children aged 10 – 16 and will compete in the Eagles Community Foundation Central Venue League.
Training (£2.50 per session) is every Monday as follows:
U16′s (16.30 – 18.00)
U12′s & U14′s (18.00 – 19.00)
Please get in touch if you have any questions.
Here at The Prince’s Trust, we offer various programmes aiming to get young people between the ages of 11 and 30 into education, training or employment. We do this by delivering programmes based around building confidence, employability and wellbeing skills. We offer work experience programmes as well as employment opportunities. We also have free funding and build your own business programmes. Wherever you’re at in your journey to getting into education or employment, we’re here to listen and we’re here to help!
We are kind and caring and offer:
Children North East (CNE) is a large North East regional children’s charity, with some of our work extending across England, Wales and Scotland. CNE exists because growing up can be hard. We want all babies, children and young people to be happy and healthy and to grow up feeling:
Looking after your Welfare and Wellbeing
Help and support is available in Newcastle.
Support with money, employment, family, caring, health.
Please visit the Newcastle City Council website for details at Citylife Line: Looking after your Welfare and Wellbeing
The National Breastfeeding Helpline offers friendly, non-judgemental, independent, evidence based breastfeeding support and information to anyone in the UK who needs it. The helpline is provided by the Breastfeeding Network and the Association of Breastfeeding Mothers.
Personal Alarm Watch is the highest rated alarm service in the UK.
They provide a unique personal alarm for the elderly that with the press of a button can get you emergency help anywhere you go.
Unlike traditional Lifeline Alarms or Telecare which only works inside your home, the Personal Alarm Watch makes emergency calls whether you are at home, in the garden or down at the shops. It has GPS for emergencies and can even track your steps and heart rate.
For over 35 years we've led the way in providing specialist care, education and services for children, young people and adults with autism, across the North-east of England.
Recognised for our innovation and excellence, everything we do stems from an unswerving belief in providing bespoke person-centered support. It’s at the heart of who we are to recognise the uniqueness of every human being, and to understand that as a spectrum condition no two people with autism will have the same needs or wants.
For refugees living in the West End of Newcastle Practical help, advice and advocacy are provided through daily drop-in advice sessions, run by WERS’ multi-lingual support worker and trained volunteers.
WERS also offers home visits for those who find it difficult to visit WERS’ offices, a clothing store, where good quality second-hand clothing and household items are offered free of charge and a hardship fund, providing emergency payments to clients in extreme need. Emotional support is offered through the accredited befriending scheme
Family Fund supports families living across the UK who are who are raising a disabled or seriously ill child or young person up to the age of 17. Our support is focused on those on low incomes with a child/children who have a high level of additional support needs.
At Family Fund, we believe that all families raising disabled or seriously ill children and young people should have the same choices, quality of life, opportunities and aspirations as other families.
This is a FREE service for children aged 5 and under going through the diagnostic process or with a diagnosis of autism.
Trained autism practitioners will run sessions that aim to:
Autism North East is a Social Enterprise, non-profit-making organisation providing assessment, diagnosis and intervention for children, young people and adults where this is a concern related to an Autism Spectrum Condition.
Free tandem or tag-along bike to anyone with a disability or additional need.
What we do:
We lend, at no cost (i.e. for free), tandems and tag-alongs to (and only to) people with disabilities or additional needs, who are unable to ride a bike safely on their own, so that they can enjoy the wonders of cycling.
What you need to do:
The Nystagmus Network is a registered charity in England and Wales supporting people living with nystagmus. Nystagmus is a complex eye condition, characterised by involuntary movements of the eye. The eyes appear to wobble or flicker from side to side, up and down or round and round. Nystagmus causes impaired vision, affecting the ability to focus, speed and depth perception and facial recognition. At least 1 in 1,000 people are born with nystagmus and many more acquire the condition later in life.