Links - work experience for disabled people also education, training, money advice, travel support, health and wellbeing also resources for voluntary organisations or the third charity sector
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Overview
- Links for vulnerable people
- Parenting for those with a disability
- Work Experience for Disabled People
- Voluntary & Self-employed Work
- Education & Training
- Money Matters
- Travel & Transport
- Support Services
- Health & Well-being
- Resources for Voluntary Organisations
Links for Vulnerable People
- Aberdeen Cyrenians — care and support for vulnerable people in the North East
- Aberdeenshire Council — Community Learning Disability Service
- Apply for or renew a Blue Badge
- Autistica — helping autistic people have a long, happy, healthy life
- Breathing space
- Childline
- Clear your head
- Crimestoppers
- Get help from the Police even if you cannot speak
- Get Self Help
- Give Us A Shout
- Harmless — support for those that self-harm
- Inspiring Scotland — Improving Understanding of Autism in Scotland Regional Advisory Forums
- Mencap — the voice of learning disability
- Mind — the mental health charity
- Mental Health Foundation
- Mental Welfare Commission
- Mental Welfare Commission — Human Rights in Mental Health Services
- NHS 111
- NHS 24
- NHS Alcohol misuse treatment
- NHS Inform
- NHS Inform — Suicide
- One Stop Shop Aberdeen — providing information, training, one to one support, consulting and signposting services to people with Autism and their friends and families
- Penumbra Aberdeen — support for those with mental health issues
- Prevent Suicide app
- Samaritans
- Scottish Association for Mental Health
- Scotland's Mental Health First Aid
- VSA — Support for People with Learning Disabilities
- Whizz Kidz — wheelchairs for kids
Parenting for those with a disability
- Aberdeen City Council — Apply for a school clothing grant
- Aberdeenshire Council — Early learning, nurseries and childcare
- Aberdeen City Council — Education maintenance allowances
- Aberdeen City Council — School closures and transport disruptions
- Aberdeenshire Council — Work placement opportunities for pupils
- Aberdeen City Music School at Dyce Academy
- Anna Ritchie School — Peterhead
- Disabled Parents Network
- Education Scotland — for Scotland's learners with Scotland's educators
- Hill of Banchory School
- The National Parent Forum of Scotland
- Parent Club — Family Support Directory: help for parents and carers
- Parentzone Scotland
- Scottish Book Trust — Transforming lives through reading and writing
- Scottish Book Trust — Bookbug Song and Rhyme Library
Work Experience for Disabled People
- Aberdeenshire Council — Employability Support
- Get support in work if you have a disability or health condition (Access to Work)
- Capability Scotland
- Help with moving from benefits to work
- Institution of Occupational Safety and Health
- Looking for work if disabled
- Work Experience Opportunities with NHS Grampian
- North East Sensory Services
- Realise Support and Learning Services
- Remploy
- Work and Health Programme
North Aberdeenshire
- BEAT Recycling (Banff)
- Can-Do Community Recycling (Fraserburgh)
- Ellon Day Opportunities
- Glendaveny Teddy Bears (Peterhead)
- Howford Training (Strichen)
- Robertson Road Resource Centre (Fraserburgh)
- Willows Animal Sanctuary (New Pitsligo, Fraserburgh)
- Wood shop, the trading arm of social enterprise Wood Recyclebility (Udny, Pitmedden)
Central and South Aberdeenshire
- Computers and Integration (Inverurie)
- Cornerstone
- Fly Cup Catering (Inverurie)
- Foxlane Garden Centre (Westhill)
- Inspire
- Pitcaple Environmental Project
- The Seed Box (Aboyne)
Aberdeen
- Pathways
- Camphill Village Trust – Newton Dee
- Community Food Initiatives North East
- Easter Anguston Farm Training Centre – residential training in land-based skills
- Glencraft – craft work making fire retardant mattresses, beds and divans
- Iceberg Print and Design
- Inspire
- Rosie's Social Enterprises – catering, picture framing and wedding stationary
- Solstice Nurseries
- Solstice Nurseries on Facebook
- The Bread Maker
Moray
- Moray Employment Support Service
- Out of the Darkness Theatre Company (Elgin)
- Moray Waste Busters (Forres)
Voluntary & Self-employed Work
- Aberdeenshire Voluntary Action
- Business Gateway
- Gordon Rural Action
- HM Revenue & Customs
- Prince's Scottish Youth Business Trust
- Reach
- Royal Voluntary Service (formerly WRVS)
- Shell LiveWIRE
- Voluntary Service Aberdeen
- Voluntary Action Scotland
- Volunteer Scotland
Education & Training
- Aberdeen City Council — Apply for a school clothing grant
- Aberdeen City Council — Education maintenance allowances
- Aberdeen City Council — School closures and transport disruptions
- Aberdeen City Music School at Dyce Academy
- AbilityNet
- BBC Bitesize
- Cornerstone
- Education Scotland — for Scotland's learners with Scotland's educators
- Law training in Scotland — for teachers and students
- Lead Scotland
- The National Parent Forum of Scotland
- My World of Work
- Parentzone Scotland
- Scottish Qualifications Authority
- Scotland's Rural College — Edinburgh
- Skills Development Scotland
- Skill – the National Bureau for Students with Disabilities
- The Open University – Disability support
- University guide for disabled students
Aberdeen
- Aberdeen University – Part-time Study
- North East Scotland College
- RGU – The Inclusion Centre: Disability and Dyslexia Service
- RGU – Online Learning Courses
- RGU – Study Support Services
Moray
- Findhorn College
- Moray Community Learning and Development
- Moray Essential Skills Service
- Moray Resource Centre
- Moray College – Study Support
- Moray Training
Money Matters
- Attendance Allowance
- Armed Forces Independence Payment (AFIP)
- The Association of Charity Officers — the national umbrella body for charities that give grants and welfare support to individuals in need
- Banffshire Educational Trust
- Benefit cap
- Benefit cap: When you're not affected - GOV.UK
- How much is the Benefit cap?
- Bereavement Support Payment
- Carer's Allowance
- Consumer Affairs
- Compensation Recovery Unit
- Council Tax Reduction
- Credit action — Financial resources for people with disabilities
- Disabled Facilities Grants
- Disability Grants
- Disabled Students Allowance
- Disability Rights UK
- Disability Premiums
- Disability Rights UK — The official and only genuine Radar Key
- Employment and Support Allowance
- Funding and Scholarships — RGU
- Get help with funeral costs (Funeral Expenses Payment)
- Gov.uk Television licence discount
- Gov.uk financial help if you are disabled
- Gov.uk VAT relief for disabled people
- Gov.uk Armed forces compensation for disabled people
- Housing Benefit
- Incapacity Benefit
- Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit
- Maternity Allowance
- Maternity Pay and leave
- Money Advice Scotland
- Mygov.scot — Benefit overpayments
- NHS Low Income Scheme
- Pension Credit
- Permitted work factsheet
- Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
- Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)
- The Student Awards Agency for Scotland
- Scottish Welfare Fund
- Severe Disablement Allowance
- Sure Start Maternity Grant
- Tax Credits
- Turn2us
- Universal Credit
- Warm Home Discount Scheme
- War Widow(er) Pension
- Water sure scheme for water meters
- Widowed Parent's Allowance
Travel & Transport
- Aberdeen Airport Disabled Access Guide
- Aberdeenshire TaxiCard
- Accord Card Scheme (Aberdeen)
- Concessionary Travel
- Disabled Persons Railcard
- ENABLE Scotland — Learning disabilities, Autism and Down's Syndrome
- National Entitlement Card — Aberdeenshire
- National Entitlement Card - Scotland-wide Free Bus Travel (Moray)
- Scotland-wide free bus scheme (National Entitlement Card)
- Trip Buzz — Wheelchair Accessible Travel Guide
Support Services
- Aberdeen Action on Disability
- Advocacy North East
- Advocacy Service Aberdeen
- Association of Disabled Professionals (ADP)
- Bookbug Song and Rhyme Library
- Companion Stairlifts
- ENABLE Scotland
- Future Choices — social inclusion and recreational activities for the disabled community in Aberdeen
- Parent Club — Family Support Directory: help for parents and carers
- Grampian Autistic Society
- Grampian Regional Equality Council
- Home Energy Scotland
- Leonard Cheshire Disability
- North East Sensory Services
- Reachout — 5 ways to get your parents to really listen to you
- The Scottish Association for Mental Health
- Scottish Book Trust — Transforming lives through reading and writing
- Scottish Book Trust — Bookbug Song and Rhyme Library
- Scottish Commission for Learning Disability
- Scottish Woman's Aid — Information Support
- Sense Scotland
- Social farms and gardens
- Stairlift Helper
- Stairlifts Reviews
- Turning Point Scotland
- Quarriers Adult Disability
- Values Into Action Scotland
Health & Well-being
- Alcoholics Anonymous
- Alcohol Change
- Alcoholism and Problem Drinking — Patient.info
- ARC Scotland — a charity that advances knowledge, practice and policy in health and social care for the benefit of people with learning disabilities or other additional support needs
- Beat — The UK's eating disorder charity
- Bipolar Help and Support Group in Aberdeen
- Carers UK — making life better for carers
- The Butterfly Trust — Cystic Fibrosis Charity
- CELCIS — improving childrens lives in Scotland
- Child Brain Injury Trust
- Community Care - Day Centres - Towerview (Moray)
- Dementia Aberdeenshire
- Drugs.ie — Drug and Alcohol Information and Support
- Dyslexia Scotland North East
- Gov.uk — Terminal illness benefits
- NHS in Scotland — GO Health Services
- Healthy Working Lives
- Healthy Working Lives Support for employees with health conditions
- The impact of sleep on the body
- Life Coach Directory
- Marie Curie — a DS1500 Form for benefits when you are dying
- Moray Occupational Therapy
- NHS Grampian
- Paramount Care Aberdeen
- Release, Drugs, The Law & Human Rights
- Scotland's Health on the Web — Grampian
- The Safe Effective Quality Occupational Health Service
- Stroke Carer Training
- Support In Mind Scotland — for those with mental health issues
- Talk to Frank: Honest information about drugs
- Travelling with Diabetes
Resources for Voluntary Organisations
- Aberdeen Council of Voluntary Organisations
- Aberdeenshire Voluntary Action
- Disability Confident employer scheme and guidance
- GOV.UK (Formerly Directgov)
- The London Gazette Official Public Record — Queen's Awards for Enterprise press books
- The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service
- The Queen's Award for Enterprise
- Scottish Mentoring Network
- The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations
- Social Enterprise Network Scotland — connecting, informing and developing social enterprise in Scotland
- Scottish Mentoring Network — Disability and Health
- tsiMoray — helps to grow and develop volunteering, community groups, charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises across Moray
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