UK People Charities
Shelter understands the damage that bad housing causes. Every day we deal with the effects it has on people's lives. This is why we're working hard to ensure that everyone has a suitable, decent and affordable home. We help 170,000 people a year fight for their rights, get back on their feet, and find and keep a home.
Action for Blind People is an expert national organisation, ensuring blind and partially sighted people get practical support in all aspects of their lives. We are an ambitious and growing organisation. Last year we introduced 38,000 visually impaired people, family, friends and partner organisations to our services.
For well over a decade, Bag Books, a charity and not-for-profit company, has been producing a growing range of multi-sensory story-packs. Initially, the story-packs were written just for children, but today there are story-packs which are age-appropriate for everyone from youngsters to older adults.
Deafblind UK is a national charity that offers over 2.6 million people across the UK living with Deafblindness, or a combined loss of sight and hearing, practical support and access to information. Deafblind people rely on human contact to convey vital information and are often excluded from aspects of everyday life. One of the effective ways in which Deafblind UK helps this unique group of people is by providing one-to-one human support to assist with daily life choices. In a society that encourages diversity, people are largely unaware that Deafblindness even exists. Because of this, those living with the disability are still striving for independence and acceptance in a constantly evolving world. And it’s their world too. Deafblind UK also raises awareness through events, campaigns and appeals, with a focus on educating a cross-section of society to redress the lack of empathy for people living with Deafblindness in their own community.
Association for Spinal Injury Research Rehabilitation
ASPIRE creates opportunity, choice and independence for spinally injured people. Its' work includes purchasing equipment for individuals through the Human Needs Fund, promoting integration between disabled and non-disabled people at The ASPIRE National Training Centre, funding research into the effects of long-term wheelchair use on shoulder joints and research into reducing the risk of pressure sores at the ASPIRE Centre for Disability Sciences and finally providing temporary interim housing for spinally injured people who are ready to leave hospital but cannot yet return home through the ASPIRE Housing & Independent Living programme.