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Information and Resources for Disabled People
Services for Disabled People
Ableize Disability
Directory
Resource directory of UK adult and children's disability
services. Includes advice and information, access, recreation
and sports, plus the arts and education. Also information on
specific disabilities and updated news.
Active
Sports
Disability Sport is a fully inclusive
element of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Sports
Partnership.
Cinema Exhibitors'
Association
This card scheme entitles the holder to one free ticket for a
person accompanying them to the cinema. To apply, a person will
need to meet one of the following criteria-
1) Be in receipt of Disability Living Allowance
2) Be a registered blind person
Application forms may be collected from cinemas or printed off from
the website
Disability Arts Development
Agency
Dada-South is the South-East’s thriving
Disability Arts Development Agency, always raising the profile of
Deaf and Disabled artists in the region and creating new and
exciting opportunities, to accelerate Deaf and Disabled people’s
careers in the Arts.
Eastleigh and District Disability Forum
What can they do for you?
This group exists for all people with impairment and their
carers, if appropriate.
Membership is £1. New members always welcome.
Meetings are held on the last Friday of every month from 1.30pm to
3.30pm at Wells Place Centre, Eastleigh Baptist Church, Wells Place
and are open to all. The meetings deal with individual concerns as
well as general issues of interest to people with an
impairment.
For more information telephone Jenny Parker on 02380 615027 or
Community Development on 02380 688017.
e-mail community.development@eastleigh.gov.uk
Disabled Parking in Eastleigh
Information on Blue Badge parking and residents bays.
Eastleigh Disability
Leisure Access Group (EDLAG).
Information about sports clubs and services for people with
impairments. For more information view their page EDLAG under
Sports and Recreation.
Eastleigh Hearing Information Centre
Age Concern building, Romsey Road, Eastleigh
Every Tuesday 2pm to 4pm.
Free drop-in session where you can try out a range of equipment
to help with hearing the TV and when on the telephone.
Contact Debbie Hallmann at Sensory Direct on 023 8028 6343
info@sensorydirect.org
Equality and Human
Rights Commission
Our job is to create a fairer
Britain and a society without prejudice, to raise awareness of your
rights and implement an effective legislative framework for the
future.
The Home
Information Support Project (HISP)
What can they
do for you?
This service is part of One Community. The service is for
people who find it difficult to access information easily i.e. the
housebound (of any age), elderly people and people with
impairments.
Telephone: 023 8090 2467 or e-mail hisp@1community.org.uk
The Eastleigh and District Disability Forum and HISP have
produced a guide called `Getting Through The
Maze`.
For a full copy or a copy in an alternative format contact
HISP direct on telephone 023 8090 2467 or
email hisp@1community.org.uk
Listening
Books
Audio books for anyone who suffers from an
illness or disability and finds it difficult or impossible to hold
or read a book. This service works through a postal lending
library.
The Royal National Institute for
Deaf and Hard of Hearing People (RNID)
Free confidential and impartial information for deaf and hard of
hearing people in the borough of Eastleigh. Contact
Rachel Timson on 0808 808 0123 or email rachel.timson@rnid.org.uk
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