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Disability
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AbilityNet is a national charity helping disabled adults and children use computers and the internet by adapting and adjusting their technology. Our special expertise is ensuring that whatever your age, health condition, disability or situation you find exactly the right way to adapt or adjust your ICT to make it easier to use.
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For disabled young people in transition to adulthood
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Our mission is to promote the well-being of all older people and to help make later life a fulfilling and enjoyable experience
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We are a national network of individuals, families and groups who work together to help change our education system
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Assist UK leads a UK wide network of locally-situated Disabled Living Centres. Each centre includes a permanent exhibition of products and equipment that provide people with opportunities to see and try products and equipment and get information and advice from professional staff about what might suit them best.
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We are the only UK-wide charity providing advice, information and support to the parents of all disabled children. undefined undefined |
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A national organisation for a network of approximately 120 local disability information and advice services run by and for disabled people.
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DPN provides information, advice and peer support to disabled parents, their families and supporters. We campaign on a local and national level to improve services for disabled parents.
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A web portal for Equality and Diversity practitioners - news, events, jobs, directory, links, forum, etc.
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Employers' Forum on Disability is the world's leading employers' organisation focused on disability as it affects business. Our mission is to enable companies to become disability confident by making it easier to recruit and retain disabled employees and to serve disabled customers.
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Help the Aged is an international charity fighting to free older people from poverty, isolation and neglect.
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Mencap is the voice of learning disability. Everything we do is about valuing and supporting people with a learning disability and their families and carers.
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Mind helps people take control of their mental health. We do this by providing high-quality information and advice, and campaigning to promote and protect good mental health for everyone. |
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The MS Society is the UK's largest charity for people affected by multiple sclerosis (MS) - about 100,000 people in the UK
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Our vision is a world in which people living with HIV are treated as equal citizens with respect, dignity and justice, are diagnosed early and receive the highest standards of care, and in which everyone knows how and is able to protect themselves and othersfrom HIV infection.
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A National support, advice and consultancy organisation that aims to enable disabled people to be equal citizens with choice, control, rights and full economic, social and cultural lives.
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A consultancy service which supports organisations with all aspects of meeting their obligations under the Disability Discrimination Act, related legislation and good practice.
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Our vision is a just and equal society whose strength is human difference. Our mission is to enable individuals, networks and policy-makers to do things differently
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Our vision is a world where disabled people have the same opportunities to fulfil their life ambitions as non-disabled people. |
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Aims to create employment opportunities for disabled people through the development and support of Social Firms.
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BME
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Seeks to enable the Black & Minority Ethnic (BME) VCS to influence the regional agenda for the benefit of BME organisations and communities.
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Business
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A unique independent business-led charity whose purpose is to inspire, engage, and support and challenge companies, to continually improve the impact they have on society.
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Impartial and expert information, support and advice to help develop and make your East Midlands business more successful. Contact
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An initiative aimed at encouraging and providing support for disabled people to start their own business.
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Charity
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Category listings of charities, news of the charity and voluntary sector, assisting people in giving to charities.
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Established by law as the regulator and registrar for charities in England and Wales. Aim is to increase charities' effectiveness and public confidence and trust.
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Features and news analysis on financial, legal, fundraising, marketing, technology, management issues for charities, voluntary groups & non-profits.
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Community
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National Federation for Community Organisations - promoting and supporting action in response to social, educational and recreational needs in neighbourhoods and communities.
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Promoting the vision of prosperous and cohesive communities, offering a safe, healthy and sustainable environment for all.
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Development
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1 of 9 Regional Development Agencies in England, set up by Government in April 1999 to bring a regional focus to economic development.
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Working to help voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations achieve more. Part of ChangeUp.
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Education
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ContinYou uses learning to tackle inequality and build social inclusion by creating programmes and services that build learning communities.
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Improving the skills of England's young people and adults to ensure the UK has a competitive workforce. Derbyshire LSC |
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Employment
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For Disabled People on incapacity benefits - Job Brokers throughout England, Scotland and Wales provide help and support matching skills and abilities to what employers need.
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Equalities
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Working towards racial equality helps your business stay within the law. It can also make you more competitive, and enhance your reputation as a good employer.
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Equality
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Champions equality and human rights for all, working to eliminate discrimination, reduce inequality, protect human rights and to build good relations, ensuring that everyone has a fair chance to participate in society.
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Finance
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Works in the areas of procurement, fundraising, social enterprise, and financial management. Part of ChangeUp.
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Funding
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Grants information for the British charitable and non-profit sector. Latest funding information from Central Government, National Lottery, devolved governing bodies, EU and quangos.
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Awards grants of Ł300 to Ł10k for people to take part in art, sport, heritage and community activities, and projects that promote education, the environment and health in the local community.
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Lottery fund distributor.
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Help and advice for community groups and voluntary organisations who are seeking funding.
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FunderFinder develops and distributes software to help individuals and not-for-profit organisations in the UK to identify charitable trusts that might give them money.
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Provides a range of services to support public, private and the voluntary and community sector in accessing UK, EU and other grants/funding.
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Online portal to grants for the voluntary and community sector from government funders.
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Developed to advise and guide both industrial and professional clients on all matters relating to grant aid.
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Comprehensive information on grants, financial assistance, subsidies, and in-kind help, for business and voluntary groups - updated daily.
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Lottery Funding is a joint website run by all Lottery funders in the UK.
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Profunding offers a unique set of services that provide up-to-date news and information to all those involved in raising funds for not for profit organisations.
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Governance
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Partnership of organisations providing services and resources to improve the quality of governance in the voluntary and community sector. Part of ChangeUp.
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Health
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East Midlands public health network, providing strategic-level engagement for stakeholders in improving health and addressing inequalities.
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ICT
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Delivering a co-ordinated framework of Information & Communications Technology guidance, good practice, advice and support for VCS organisations. Part of ChangeUp.
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Independent Living
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Disabled Peoples' International is a network of national organisations or assemblies of disabled people, established to promote human rights of disabled people through full participation, equalisation of opportunity and development.
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The work of EDF covers all fields of European Union competence and a great number of initiatives.
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The European Network on Independent Living (ENIL) is a European wide network of disabled people. It represents a forum intended for all disabled people, independent living organisations and their non-disabled allies on the issues of independent living and the independent living movement.
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The Independent Living Institute (ILI) is a policy development center specializing in consumer-driven policies for disabled peoples' self-determination, self-respect and dignity
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Information
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Helping people to exercise their rights and responsibilities and to obtain fair treatment under the law, thereby improving their lives. GoogleMap of local CAB |
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The regional observatory for the East Midlands - a complete single-point access to data, information and intelligence about the region including statistics and strategy reports.
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Helping charities communicate by providing information and training.
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Statistics about Britain's economy, population and society at national and local level.
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An independent UK weekly news magazine dedicated to physical and social community regeneration.
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Magazine covering charaties, vountary organisations and social enterprises.
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Aims to make it quick and easy to get to useful information on anything to do with running a voluntary organisation.
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Legal
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Information and advice throughout Europe on international human rights law, including the rights of individuals under the provisions of European Community Law
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offers free, confidential and independent legal advice for residents of England and Wales. |
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DLS prides itself on providing a quality service in areas of public and social welfare law, and hopes to demystify the legal system by giving concise and timely legal advice and information
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Providing free legal advice and representation to disadvantaged people
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specialises in Human Rights Act issues and may be able to provide you with free advice
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PLP is an independent, national legal charity which aims to improve access to public law remedies for those whose access is restricted by poverty, discrimination or other similar barriers
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Monitoring & Evaluation
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Training, consultancy, advice and information for the voluntary sector on quality and evaluation systems, with the aim to increase effectiveness.
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Regional
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With ten government departments under one roof, GOEM is the hub of central government in the East Midlands.
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Security
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Helps organisations in the public, private and voluntary sectors by identifying candidates who may be unsuitable to work with children or other vulnerable members of society.
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Social Care
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Social Care Institute for Excellence website – your online source of good practice guidance, research and learning materials for social care and social work
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Support
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A membership organisation that represents and supports organisations helping deprived neighbourhoods across the UK.
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Training
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Learning & Skills Council service designed to help businesses get the training they need to succeed. Support ranges from advice and guidance through to financial contributions. East Midlands Region |
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Over 25,000 courses that can be browsed and searched through intelligent search tools.
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National online resource for learning and training in the voluntary and community sector. Directory of VCS infrastucture organisations supporting training. Resources section.
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Voluntary Sector
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Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations - the professional body for the third sector’s chief executives.
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Aims to be an internationally recognised independent source of information and support to voluntary and community sectors worldwide.
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National database of volunteering opportunities in the UK, as part of the registered charity YouthNet
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Helps to promote voluntary and community action by supporting CVS and by acting as a national voice for the local voluntary and community sector.
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Umbrella body for the voluntary sector in England, helping voluntary organisations to achieve the highest standards of practice & effectiveness.
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Works with partner agencies to support the voluntary and community sector in contributing to the development of the East Midlands region.
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Social issues news from the Guardian newspaper, including a section on the voluntary sector.
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Works to promote volunteering as a powerful force for change, both for those who volunteer and for the wider community.
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Work on strategy and management; information dissemination; good practice; management development; modernising infrastructure. Part of ChangeUp.
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Deals with: learning and skills; employment practice; promoting the sector as a positive place to work and volunteer; leadership and management development. Part of ChangeUp.
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