Older People’s Directory of Services Horsham District Wellbeing Tel: 01403 215111 Email: [email protected] @horshamhealth www.horshamdistrictwellbeing.org.uk Rusper Kingsfold Faygate Warnham Rudgwick Colgate Broadbridge Heath Slinfold HORSHAM Five Oaks Mannings Lower Heath Beeding Barns Green Billingshurst Southwater Cowfold Coolham Dial Post Pulborough Partridge Green West Chiltington Henfield Ashington Coldwaltham Sullington Small Dole Storrington Washington Amberley Upper Beeding Steyning Horsham District Council | Older Peoples Directory 2 Contents Emergency Services Contacts ..........................................................................6 Armed Forces ...................................................................................................7 Benefits and Pensions ......................................................................................8 Charities .........................................................................................................10 Community Groups, Day Centres, Lunch and Social Clubs.............................20 Councils .........................................................................................................27 Crime .............................................................................................................29 Disability and Mobility .....................................................................................30 Education, Learning and Volunteering .............................................................32 Health Information and Support ......................................................................34 Hobbies, Dance, Music, Singing and the Arts .................................................37 Housing ..........................................................................................................39 Independent Living .........................................................................................40 Libraries .........................................................................................................43 Loneliness, Mental Health and Wellbeing ........................................................44 Memory, Dementia and Alzheimers .................................................................49 Parish Councils ...............................................................................................50 Really Useful Information ................................................................................53 Sport, Fitness and Exercise ............................................................................57 Transport and Travel .......................................................................................60 Wills, Living Wills, Probate, Inheritance Tax ....................................................63 Your Rights and Legal Matters ........................................................................64 Disclaimer .......................................................................................................67 This symbol denotes a dementia-friendly service Horsham District Council | Older Peoples Directory 3 GET ACTIVE COURSES IT’S ALL ABOUT ME Free courses to encourage you Why not join a FREE 12 week to become more active weight management course and create your healthier lifestyle Exercise to Music Learn to Run Swimming/Aqua • Do you feel you are overweight or obese? • Have you been putting on the pounds recently? • Are you ready to change your lifestyle and Outdoor Military Fitness create healthier habits and behaviours? Subject to eligibility criteria Subject to eligibility criteria • Weight/BMI • Bone Mass • Body Fat % • Physical Activity • Hydration % FREE WELLBEING MOT AND • Alcohol • Visceral Fat ONE-TO-ONE SUPPORT • Smoking PREDIABETES IMPROVE YOUR PROGRAMME STRENGTH AND BALANCE AND KEEP MOBILE Are you at risk of developing type 2 diabetes? Our FREE STEADY ON Family history? Overweight? course may be for you Unfit? Blood test results? @horshamhealth Tel: 01403 215111 Horsham District Email: [email protected] Wellbeing www.horshamdistrictwellbeing.org.uk Horsham District Council | Older Peoples Directory 4 Older Peoples Directory of Services Horsham District Council is committed to We aim to promote the empowerment and supporting older people in a variety of ways, wellbeing of older people through these services. including: We work in partnership with a number of statutory and voluntary organisations to develop • Helping them have their say projects and activities to meet the needs of older • Providing support for them to stay in their people across the District. homes longer • Improving the availability of information and Some of the initiatives we support in relation to advice older people are: The Council’s older people’s strategy ‘Preparing • Age with Confidence for an Ageing Population’ recognises that by • Emergency Alarms for the Elderly and 2026, the number of over 65 year olds living Vulnerable in the Horsham District will increase by 60%. • Horsham Museum Reminiscence service Some older people will be able to lead active, • Activities for the Over 50’s independent lives, while 18% of residents aged • Older Peoples Directory 65 or older would be considered vulnerable. • Shopmobility The strategy responds to the views of older • Working in Partnership with the Horsham people as expressed through the principles of District Older Peoples Forum ‘Life is for Living’ and the Horsham District Older Peoples Forum, as well as other consultation mechanisms. Horsham District Older Peoples Forum (HDOPF) The Horsham District Older Peoples Forum (HDOPF) is a free to attend, non-political, voluntary group that acts as the ‘ears’ and gives a ‘voice’ for people aged 60 and over who reside in the Horsham District Council area or who care for someone that does. It also enables anyone to raise issues that affect local people. The Forum is also an information hub and consultative group for anyone seeking the views of older people in the district on plans, topics or schemes that may affect older people including Horsham District Council (HDC) and West Sussex County Council (WSCC). Come along to a friendly 10.30am-1pm (tea/coffee 10.15am) quarterly public meeting held around the district in a village hall or community centre, share your opinion and hear others; listen to our guest speakers. Telephone: 07435 969772 Website: www.horshamdistrictolderpeoplesforum.btck.co.uk Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/horshamolderpeoplesforum/ Twitter: @hdopf Email: [email protected] Horsham District Council | Older Peoples Directory 5 Emergency Services Textphone: For deaf, hard of hearing or speech impaired: 18001 101 Ambulance Emergencies Minicom: (text service only, Telephone 999 cannot be used as a voice People are seriously ill or injured. Someone’s medium): 01273 483435 life is at risk. Minor Injuries Unit (MIU) Non Emergency medical questions Staffed by Emergency Nurse Practitioners and advice Telephone 111 and other nursing and ancillary staff, we provide assessment and treatment of a If you are feeling ill you can call the NHS range of minor injuries in both adults and Helpline for non-emergency medical advice. children. Following assessment patients may be treated and discharged or, if appropriate, Fire Emergencies Telephone 999 referred to other health care providers. A fire is detected. People are injured or in danger. Address: Horsham Hospital, Hurst Road, Horsham, RH12 2DR Police Emergencies Telephone 999 Monday to Friday 9am-5pm A crime is being committed now. The excluding bank holidays offender is still there or nearby. People are Telephone: 01403 227000 ext. 7202 injured or in danger. Website: www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk Social Media: Typetalk Emergency Line (for deaf and Facebook: www.facebook.com/ speech impaired people): dial 18000 sussexcommunitynhs/ Emergency Text (for deaf and speech Twitter: @nhs_sct impaired people): text 65999 Email: [email protected] Police Non-emergencies Urgent Care Centre Textphone 18001 101 Treatment of most injuries or illnesses that are Telephone 101 urgent but not life threatening. For example, sprains and strains, broken bones, minor Report www.sussex.police.uk/help- burns and scalds, minor head and eye online: centre/report-something- injuries, bites and stings. You do not need to online/ book an appointment – just turn up and you Email: [email protected]. will be seen promptly by a doctor or nurse. police.uk Telephone: From within UK call 101 (calls Address: Crawley Hospital, West Green cost a flat rate of 15p per call) Drive, Crawley, RH11 7DH Local call: You can also dial 01273 470101 24hrs a day, 7 days per week, 365 days a year Horsham District Council | Older Peoples Directory 6 Telephone: 01293 600300 ext. 4141 Royal British Legion or 4142 UK’s leading Service charity providing care Website: www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk and support to serving members of the Armed Social Media: Forces, veterans of all ages and their families. Facebook: www.facebook.com/ sussexcommunitynhs/ Telephone: 0808 802 8080 Twitter: @nhs_sct Website: www.britishlegion.org.uk Social Media: Armed Forces Facebook: www.facebook.com/ OfficialPoppyLegion/ Twitter: @PoppyLegion Royal Air Forces Association Email: [email protected] (RAFA) Address: Horsham and Storrington Royal Navy Association Branch RAFA: The Needles Association for ex-members of the Royal Navy. Farm Buildings, Branch HQ & Club, Three Acres, Blackbridge Telephone: 023 9272 3747 Lane, Horsham, Horsham,