Contacts

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If you have any comments about the website, please contact Jo.

Your ideas and suggestions for the site would be very welcome. We would also like to include some case histories and anecdotes.

Useful Organisations in Cambridge

Disability Cambridgeshire  - The information and advice service for disabled people, older people and carers who live in Cambridge City, South Cambridgeshire or East Cambridgeshire.

Disability Cambridgeshire provides free, confidential and impartial information and advice to disabled people of all ages to enable them to live as independently as possible.

How to get in touch:

Information line: 01223 569600
Monday to Friday 10.00am - 4.00pm    (Answerphone outside office hours.)
Fax: 01223 506470

Write to:
1, Orwell Furlong
Cowley Road
Cambridge, CB4 0WY

Website: www.disabilitycambridgeshire.org.uk
e-mail: info@directions-plus.org.uk

Drop in Sessions
Tuesday and Friday 1.00pm - 4.00pm
Addenbrooke's Advice Centre
Addenbrooke's Hospital
Cambridge, CB2 2QQ

Cambridge Independent Advice Centre (CIAC)

The centre offers free specialist advice and advocacy for people in receipt of low incomes. They are independent and confidential and they specialise in welfare benefits, housing, employment, debt and immigration.

How to get in touch:

Tel: 01223 712 222
Fax: 01223 712 294

41 Mill Road (opposite the Salvation Army shop)
Cambridge
CB1 2AW

e-mail: ciac@gn.apc.org

Call in Mon - Thurs: 1000 - 1300 (you don't need an appointment at these times - or just phone for advice). Home visits are possible.

Useful National addresses

Action for ME
P0 Box 1302
Wells
Somerset
BA5 lYE
Tel: 01749 670799

AYME (Association of Young People with ME)
Box 605
Milton Keynes
MK2 2XD
Tel: 01908 373300

ME Association
4 Top Angel
Buckingham Industrial Park
Buckingham
Buckinghamshire
MK18 1TH
Tel: 01280 816115

Tymes Trust
01245 401080
(11am-1pm, 5pm-7pm weekdays)
www.tymestrust.org

Samaritans
Local branch 01223 364455
National number 08457 909090
www.samaritans.org