Useful Contacts

The Brain Injury Hub is an informative website run by The Children’s Trust. At the Brain Injury Hub, you can learn more about your child’s injury, meet other parents with children suffering from the same or similar injuries, and discover how to help your child through their recovery process. With access to forums where you can talk with other parents, a multitude of events for parents and children, and comprehensive information on how to help your child learn and adapt to their injury, the Brain Injury Hub is dedicated to helping parents and children alike.

www.braininuryhub.co.uk

LG01 Lincoln House

Kennington Park

1-3 Brixton Road

London

SW9 6DE

The Brain and Spine Foundation – a registered charity funded almost entirely by donations – is committed to helping people across the UK living with neurological conditions. By providing both the victims of neurological conditions and the carer's of these victims with reliable information and support to help them adapt and understand the conditions they’re living with, they hope to reduce anxiety and help inform the choices that are made by everyone affected. 

www.brainandspine.org.uk

Child Brain Injury Trust

Unit 1, The Great Barn

Baynards Green

Nr Bicester OX27 7SG

Child Brain Injury Trust is a charity dedicated to supporting everyone affected by brain injuries in children; from the children themselves and their families, to the professionals who hope to help them adapt and understand the injuries they’ve acquired. By educating people about brain injuries, and by hosting events aimed at teaching children and their families how they can find the support that they need to deal with their brain injury.

www.childbraininjurytrust.org.uk

Contact a Family
209-211 City Road
London EC1V 1JN

Contact a Family is the only National Charity that supports the families of disabled children, no matter what their condition or disability is. They aim to ensure that, despite their disability, these children and their families can still continue to live the lives they want to. By working with the families of affected children, Contact a Family hope to be able to end the isolation and pain felt by these families, and help them support their child.

www.cafamily.org.uk

Different Strokes
9 Cannon Harnett Court
Wolverton Mill
Milton Keynes MK12 5NF

Different Strikes is a national charity run by younger stroke survivors for younger stroke survivors, for the purpose of active self-help and mutual support. The first charity set up to specifically help younger stroke survivors, Different Strokes is dedicated to getting these survivors the help they need when they’re glossed over too often. 

www.differentstrokes.co.uk

The Encephalitis Support Group is the only resource of their kind that provides support specifically for people affected by Encephalitis. Whether they’re suffering from it or their loved ones are, the Encephalitis Support Group helps people across the world come to terms with how Encephalitis affects them, and teaches them how to understand and adapt to it so they can continue their life without unnecessary stress caused by lack of knowledge or understanding.

www.encephalitis.info

Epilepsy Action
New Anstey House
Gate Way Drive
Yeadon
Leeds LS19 7XY

The UK’s leading epilepsy organisation, Epilepsy Action is a member-led association that’s dedicated to supporting people across the UK who suffer from Epilepsy. Epilepsy Action knows that to get the help that people with Epilepsy need, everyone needs to learn more about Epilepsy and how it affects both the people who suffer from it, and their friends and family.

www.epilepsy.org.uk

HemiHelp

89 Albert Embankment

London

SE1 7TP

Phone:  0845 120 3713 

HemiHelp’s vision is a world where, not only does everyone understand what Hemiplegia is, the people who are affected by it and their families are able to receive the support that’s needed to make sure that the children and young people affected are able to reach their full potential. By holding events to spread the awareness of Hemiplegia and offering support services, they strive to help everyone across Hemiplegia across the UK.

www.hemihelp.org.uk

Headway is a UK charity supporting people with brain injuries and their careers, by providing information, helping to establish support groups and day centres, fundraising and campaigning to prevent head injuries and raise awareness. With more than a 100 groups and branches across the UK, Headway helps people of all ages to improve their life after suffering from a brain injury.

www.headway.org.uk

Meningitis Research Foundation
Midland Way
Thornbury
Bristol BS35 2BS

Meningitis Research Foundation's vision is a world free from meningitis and septicaemia.  The charity fights death and disability from meningitis and septicaemia, and supports people affected by these diseases.  The Foundation  funds vital scientific research into the prevention, detection and treatment of meningitis and septicaemia, raises awareness of the diseases and offers support through in-depth information and befriending.

www.meningitis.org

Meningitis Now
Fern House
Bath Road
Stroud
Gloucestershire

Meningitis Now offers counselling and support to those affected by meningitis. Meningitis Now was founded in 2013 by bringing together the founders of the meningitis movement in the UK, Meningitis UK and Meningitis Trust. They provide support for people suffering because of meningitis across the UK, and work to educate the wider public about the effect meningitis has both on the people suffering from it, but on their family and friends as well.

www.meningitisnow.org