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A carer is someone who looks after someone else, usually a family member, who is unable to cope on their own due to disability, severe illness or frailty. In Sheffield, around one person in 11 takes care of someone else and research suggests that in the UK, the value of care provided by unpaid carers is around £87 billion per year – greater than the entire cost of the NHS. Carers often struggle to maintain their own health, juggle caring with work and with other family responsibilities and often don’t even recognise themselves as carers and therefore do not ask for help. However, there are many organisations and services that can help carers and the links below will give you information about lots of these. The Sheffield Carers Centre helpline can also help any carer to navigate the care system to find the support they need. |
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Sheffield Carers Centre
Advice Centres
Click on the hyperlink below to find a Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) or an independent advice service in your postal district area.
Care Alarms
Click on the hyperlink below to find out about the Citywide Care Alarms Service.
Carers
Click on the hyperlinks below for details of social and support groups for carers.
Direct Payment Support
There are many organisations which will help Direct Payment holders. They can provide help with managing your budget, recruiting a Personal Assistant, employing a Personal Assistant and can give advice on and support with choosing your care and support. Click on the hyperlink below for details of these organisations. This is a generic list therefore some of the organisations may not apply to you.
GP Surgeries
Click on the hyperlink below to be taken to the NHS Choices website. Here you can type in your postcode to find a GP in your postal district area.
Healthy Living/Wellbeing
Click on the hyperlink below for details of healthy living/wellbeing activities. Activities include health walks and other sporting activities, help with healthy eating.
Home Support/Home Care Providers
Click on the hyperlink below for details of organisations which can provide support or care in the home, from help with personal care, to help with shopping, cleaning, making a meal etc.
Leisure and Sport
There are hundreds of sport and leisure activities on Help Yourself for everyone. Click on the hyperlinks below for a selection of groups on offer.
To see all the sport and leisure activities on offer on Help Yourself scroll down to the bottom of the page and use the Keyword search.
Transport and Travel
Click on the hyperlink below for details of community transport providers. These organisations can provide transport to visit friends, go on holiday, go shopping, go to the doctors or hospital.
Click on the hyperlink below to find services which provide support when travelling eg support travelling on the train. Here you will also find details of the Blue Badge Scheme, Mobility permits and Disabled Persons Railcards.
Click on the hyperlink below for details of Radar Keys, which allow you to access disabled toilets nationwide.
Click on the hyperlink below for details of travel information services eg rail and coach, bus and tram. This information also includes all the travel information shops in Sheffield.
Useful Information
Click on the hyperlink below for other useful information and useful hyperlinks.
Other Searches
Local Services
Find out what else is available in your neighbourhood (some of these clubs, groups and services are free)
Further Searches
Search for groups or services using a keyword or refine your search by combining a keyword with a postal district
(some of these clubs, groups and services are free)
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Help Yourself is an online directory of community groups, support groups, health and social care organisations in Sheffield. Here you will find leisure activities such as dancing, drama, reading and writing groups, art, music and youth clubs. You will find sports activities such as martial arts, yoga and pilates, rambling, swimming, keep fit, cycling, cricket, boxing. You will find groups for older people, people with mental health issues, learning disabilities, physical disabilities, homeless people, asylum seekers, refugees. You will find self help and support groups for drugs and alcohol, domestic violence, carers, gay lesbian and bisexual people, people with alzheimers, dementia and other health conditions. You can also plan your care and support and find home care/home support, residential care, respite care, lunch clubs and support if you receive an individual budget or direct payment. You can also find details of places of worship whatever your faith, recycling facilities and conservation groups, community centres, Taras, venues for hire, private tutors, literacy and numeracy and so much more.
Sheffield Community Information Service, Central Library, Surrey Street, Sheffield S1 1XZ,
Tel: 273 4763
The Help Yourself Database is provided on the Internet as part of a joint project between Sheffield Libraries & Information Services, Information School at The University of Sheffield and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.
Any comments or questions regarding the database should be sent to Heather Baxendale at scis@sheffield.gov.uk