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RoadPeace: Join a local group
RoadPeace help victims of road accidents by providing advice, emotional and practical support; and advocacy. You can get involved by joining or running your own campaign for your local area in the aim of helping RoadPeace continue to deliver it's services.
Addaction: Organise a fundraising event
Addaction run a range of services to help people with the consequences of drug and alcohol misuse. They provide services such as family support, residential rehabilitation, aftercare, help getting back into work and information on drugs and alcohol. You can help support the charity by running your own fundraising event.
http://www.addaction.org.uk/page.asp?section=163§ionTitle=
Organise+your+own+event
Fundraise for Headway Devon
Headway Devon provide essential services to people in Devon who have brain injuries. Headway Devon run rehabilitation centres, provides support for carers, gives information and advice and campaign to raise awareness. You can help by fundraising and helping spread the awareness of the charity.
The Stroke Association: Protect the Mobility Component of the DLA
The Stroke Association supports those that have suffered from a stroke by researching stroke prevention, better methods of rehabilitation and helping families and sufferers through daily life. The 'Protect the mobility Component of the DLA' campaign aims to protect those who are in residential care from the government cuts. You can help by e-mailing Marissa Miller, the minister for disabled people and letting her know you care about this subject.
Improve Health and wellbeing in Exeter
Devon County Council and Devon Primary Care Trust have worked together to produce a review of what people need from their health services. You can view the review and give feedback on it and on what the priorities for the next five years are.
Give Blood
96% of people rely on the 4% of the population that give blood. Blood only keeps for 35 days so having regular donations is very important. Find out more on the Blood Donor website.
https://donor.blood.co.uk/
BloodDonorOnline/Signin/Signin.aspx
South Western Ambulance Service feedback
Give feedback on any experiences that involve the Great Western Ambulance Service to help them maintain a high standard of patient care and improve on services.
http://www.swast.nhs.uk/ppi/index.html
Create a School Nutritional Action Group
The idea of a School Nutritional Action Group (SNAG) is to promote the consumption of healthy food in schools. In setting up a SNAG, the lives of your local school pupils will be changed for the better. Information about setting up a SNAG group can be found on the Kent County Council Website.
The Resistance Campaign: contact your MP
The resistance campaign hopes to protect disabled or terminally ill people against the threat of legalised assisted suicide and euthanasia. Use the Search to find if your MP has signed the petition and get the contact details so you can write to them and persuade them to sign the charter.
'The Resistance Campaign' petition
The Resistance Campaign hopes to protect disabled or terminally ill people from the threat of legalised assisted suicide and euthanasia. You can help by signing the petition.
Campaign for 'Sense for Deafblind People'
Sense is an organisation that aims to provide specialist services to deafblind people, their families, carers and professionals that work with them. By contacting your local councillor you can help to ensure that social care services are not reduced in the future.
'Abolish Unfair Prescription Charges' petition
People with long term conditions often find it hard to pay prescription charges and sometimes even have to choose between getting their medication or paying the bills. That is why 24 charities have come together to call on the government to make prescriptions fair for all. You can help the cause by signing the petition.
St John Ambulance: fundraising
St John Ambulance aims to save the lives of people who are in a medical emergency by teaching as many people as possible the basic first aid skills required to save a life. By organising a fundraising event for St. Johns Ambulance, you can help the organisation to continue its provision of first aid lessons.
http://www.sja.org.uk/sja/support-us/organise-your-own-fundraiser/organise-your-own-event.aspx
MNDA campaigning
The 'Motor Neurone Disease Association' funds and promotes research to help bring an end to motor neurone disease and help those suffering from the disease to receive the best care and have the best quality of life available. You can campaign to help raise the awareness of your local MNDA branch which, in turn, will increase the awareness of the disease.
http://www.mndassociation.org/get_involved/
Action for Blind People: Service User Participation Groups
Action for Blind People is a charity that gives help and advice to blind or partially sighted people with the aim of improving their service users lives. If you have used an Action for Blind People service then you are a service user which allows you to take part in the service user participation groups, giving you a chance to express your views about the services provided with the aim of improving services.
LIFE
LIFE is a charity that aims to save and transform the lives of some of the most disavantaged children in the UK by supporting vulnerable pregnant mothers and young families through difficult times.
LIFE tries to provide residential centres and supported accommodation, give supported care to those who are going through a crisis pregnancy or are suffering the loss of a baby.
LINk Devon
LINk Devon makes sure that health and social care services are planned and delivered to meet the needs of the people in Devon that use them. They take views and experiences of health and social care services in Devon.
Sharing information that your group has collected, joining a task group about a particular issue that interests or has affected you and becoming an ambassador of LINk Devon are ways you can get involved.
Mencap
Mencap works with people who have learning disabilities and aims to change laws and services, challenge prejudice and directly support thousands of people to live their lives as they choose.
Senior Council for Devon
The Senior Council for Devon gives older people a voice, provides a way of engaging with them, listens to their views and aspirations, and works in partnership to develop practical ideas and actions to address their concerns.
County Carers forum
The aim of this Group is to support the carers' role within Devon by identifying needs and issues that they face. Meetings are to be held every four months.
Devon Partnership Trust
The 'Devon Partnership Trust' work in partnership with other health and social care providers across Devon to deliver high quality services to support the recovery of people with mental health needs. By becoming a member you will be able to have a greater influence in how the trust develops and will receive more information and feedback
http://www.devonpartnership.nhs.uk/Getting-Involved.232.0.html
Be Involved Devon
BID supports people who want to get involved, and organisations who want to involve people, in having their say on Mental Health and well being services in Devon.
http://www.beinvolveddevon.org.uk/index.php?option=com_rsform&Itemid=9
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