Services and Support Groups to Help Independence and Healthy Living Wakefield District
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Services and Support Groups to help independence and healthy living Wakefield District This information has been compiled by the Live Well Wakefield Service South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. We aim to provide accurate and useful information and every effort has been made to ensure this information is correct. This directory was updated on the date shown below. If that date is not within the last 6 months there will be a more up to date version available. Please note: This directory is not exhaustive and inclusion is not an endorsement. No responsibility can be taken for advice or services provided by any support service or social group listed. If you notice any errors or would like more information, please telephone our office on 01924 255363. Live Well Wakefield, The Agbrigg and Belle Vue Community Centre, Montague Street, Agbrigg, Wakefield WF1 5BB Updated March 2019 Index Category Page No. Befriending Schemes 3 and 4 Bereavement 5 and 6 Carer Support Services 7 District Wide Health and Wellbeing Services 8 - 32 Finances and Legal Services 33 - 35 Housing and Home Maintenance 35 - 43 Learning and Education 43 and 44 Meal Delivery and Shopping Services 44 and 45 Mobility 46 Out of Area 46 - 50 Recreational and Specialist Activities 50 - 55 Support Groups 56 - 63 Other Useful Contacts 63 and 65 Page 2 of 65 Updated March 2019 Befriending Schemes & Services Organisation Address Details Age UK Wakefield phone: 01977 552114 Volunteers offer support and friendship to District email: [email protected] isolated older people in their home. Community fax: 01977 518549 Companions postal address: Age UK Wakefield District, 7 Bank Street, Telephone befriending also offered - see Age UK Befriending Castleford, WF10 1JD Telephone Befriending. Service website: www.ageuk.org.uk/wakefielddistrict/Our- services/Befriending-Scheme/ Age UK Wakefield phone: 01977 552114 Regular telephone contact & friendship offered District email: [email protected] by volunteers. Telephone fax: 01977 518549 Befriending postal address: Age UK Wakefield District, 7 Bank Street, Castleford, WF10 1JD website: http://www.ageuk.org.uk/wakefielddistrict/our- services/befriending-scheme/ Contact the national phone Number: 0800 716543 Organise monthly Sunday afternoon tea parties Elderly for small groups of older people, aged 75 and website: http://www.contact-the-elderly.org.uk/ over, who live alone. Each older person is collected from their home by a volunteer driver and taken to a volunteer host’s home for the Local contact e mail: [email protected] afternoon. phone: 01535 280002 3groups in the Wakefield area 1 group in Ackworth, Pontefract Page 3 of 65 Updated March 2019 Befriending Schemes & Services Organisation Address Details The Silver Line free helpline: 0800 470 80 90 open 24 hours a day 7 days a week A helpline and friendship service for people aged 55 and over website: www.thesilverline.org.uk Silver Line Helpline – confidential information and advice Silver Line Telephone Friends – a Silver Line Friend (a volunteer) can provide a regular weekly friendship telephone call Silver Letters – for people who may be hearing impaired or just prefer the written word. It provides a regular exchange of correspondence. All postage is free for both parties and sent via a mail centre. Silver Circles – are facilitated group calls with people of shared interests who can discuss topics of interest with the group. Page 4 of 65 Updated March 2019 Bereavement Organisation Address Details Age UK Wakefield phone: 01977 552114 Bereavement Advice and Support Service offers District email: [email protected] practical advice and emotional support to Bereavement postal address: Age UK Wakefield District, 7 Bank Street, bereaved people over the age of 18. Advice & Support Castleford, WF10 1JD Service (BASS) Mutual support groups in Castleford, Pontefract website: www.ageuk.org.uk/wakefielddistrict/Our- and Wakefield. services/Bereavement-advice--support/ Bereavement phone: 01977 552476 Bereavement support provided in a group setting advice and support address: Various locations across the Wakefield District or on an individual basis for adults aged 18 years plus Cruse phone: 01977 708335 Free national bereavement support service. Bereavement Care email: [email protected] website: www.cruse.org.uk Star Bereavement phone: 01924 574071 Bereavement service for children and young Service people aged 4-19yrs, also provide support website: www.starwakefield.org.uk around other forms of loss i.e. when a parent is seriously ill. Page 5 of 65 Updated March 2019 Bereavement Organisation Address Details Facing the Future phone: 0208 939 9560 Free group support to help those bereaved by email: [email protected] suicide to understand grief and cope with loss. Suicide meeting place: 37-39a Charlotte Street, Wakefield WF1 1UL Provided by the Samaritans and Cruise Bereavement Bereavement Care. Support Group website: www.facingthefuturegroups.org For more information and to attend the group please phone. Wakefield Hospice contact names: Carol Vaux, Chris Ineson and Sarah Naylor day: Mondays (excluding Bank Holidays)1pm – Bereavement Drop phone: 01924 213900 7pm Thursday 9.13am – 3.30pm In address: Wakefield Hospice, Aberford Road, Wakefield, WF1 4TS The Bereavement Drop In Service is for anyone website: www.wakefieldhospice.org/Our-Services/What-We- who has been bereaved and who has been Do/Bereavement known to Wakefield Hospice as a Carer. For example, you may be a family member or a friend of someone who has been a patient of our Drop In Service or an inpatient who has sadly died. You may have been a Carer/relative attending the Drop In Service in your own right but who is now bereaved. Page 6 of 65 Updated March 2019 Carer Support Services Organisation Address Details Carers Wakefield phone: 01924 305544 and District email: [email protected] Provide support, information and advocacy to postal address: 25 King Street, Wakefield, WF1 2SR adult carers across the district. website: www.carerswakefield.org.uk Group/ 1:1 / telephone support ‘My Time’ grant fund Training for carers and professionals Carers Forum Carers Walking Group Carers Reading Group Parent Carer’s support group Palliative care carers support group Ladies BME carers support group Men’s group Wakefield Young adult carers Learning disability carer support worker GOSH Carers phone: 01924 260701 Peer support group for parents / carers of Support Group people with a severe learning disability i.e. Downs syndrome / Cerebral Palsy. Wakefield District phone: 01977 722860 For carers aged 5-18. Young Carers email: [email protected] postal address: Room 240, Castleford Civic Centre, Ferrybridge Offer information, advice and advocacy. Road, Castleford, WF10 4JH Page 7 of 65 Updated March 2019 District Wide Name Address Details Age UK phone: 01977 552114 Free and independent and aims to support older people Wakefield District email: [email protected] to make informed decisions about their life, often at Advocacy postal address: Age UK Wakefield District, 7 Bank Street, critical times. Service Castleford WF10 1JD website: http://www.ageuk.org.uk/wakefielddistrict/our- services/advocacy-service/ Age UK phone: 01977 552476 / National Helpline 0800 169 6565 Provide a range of information and advice services to Wakefield District fax: 01977 518549 older people, their carers and professionals on a wide Information & email: [email protected] range of issues including housing, social care, Advice Service postal address: 7 Bank Street, Castleford, WF10 1JD residential care and maintaining independence. website: Equipment loans also provided. http://www.ageuk.org.uk/wakefielddistrict/information--advice/ Age UK phone: 01977 552114 Provides support for patients who are 65 and over living Wakefield District email: [email protected] with breast, colorectal or prostate cancer. Macmillan postal address: Age UK Wakefield District, 7 Bank Street, Cancer Support Castleford, WF10 1JD Programme website: http://www.ageuk.org.uk/wakefielddistrict/our- services/macmillan-cancer-support-programme/ Page 8 of 65 Updated March 2019 District Wide Name Address Details Age UK phone: 01977 664860 or 0786 752 3357 A free service to enable older people who have Wakefield District email: [email protected] experienced significant change to regain confidence and Social Contact fax: 01977 518549 independence. The significant change could be through Scheme postal address: Social Contact Scheme Coordinator, a hospital admission, medical condition, or other altered 20 Carlton Street, Castleford, WF10 1AY personal circumstance. website: www.ageuk.org.uk/wakefielddistrict/Our- services/Home-support/ Alzheimer’s phone: 01924 373264 Side by Side is an Alzheimer’s Society service in Society – Side by contact: Engagement and Involvement Officer Wakefield & Five Towns which helps people with Side website: alzheimers.org.uk/sidebyside dementia to keep doing the things they love - and try new things - with the support of a volunteer. Alzheimer’s phone: 01924 373264 Day and time: Society - meeting places: Pontefract - 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month, Singing for the Pontefract Congregational Church, Finkle Street, 1pm-3pm Brain (opposite Morrisons) WF8 1QG Kettlethorpe - 1st and 3rd Thursday 1pm-3pm Kettlethorpe Community Centre, Standbridge Lane, No experience or talent required! Kettlethorpe (opposite the Crematorium) WF2 7NW Both groups are currently full. Please