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Direct Payment Support
Click on the buttons below to find organisations and individuals who will help you if you receive a Direct Payment/Individual Budget from Social Services.
There are many other clubs, groups and services on Help Yourself for Direct Payment holders and self funders (eg care homes, leisure activities, support groups). To see more return to the previous page and click on one of the purple buttons.
- Organisations which provide advice on Direct Payment/Individual Budgets.
- Organisations and individuals who will help you plan your care and support.
- Organisations which will help you find care and support services.
- Organisations which will help you recruit a Personal Assistant.
- Organisations which will help you employ a Personal Assistant.
- Individual Personal Assistants
- Organisations which will help you train a Personal Assistant.
- Organisations which provide a payroll service to help you pay your personal assistant.
- Organisations which will help you manage your money.
- Organisations which will give support with Individual Service Funds.
- Organisations which provide a wide range of day opportunities which you can purchase with your Direct Payment/Individual Budget. These can range from cookery, gardening, dance, crafts, social groups etc.
- Organisations which provide a wide range of other services which you can purchase with your Direct Payment/Individual Budget. These can range from handyperson services, gardening services, help to move home, IT support, befriending services and care for your pets.
- Home Support/Home Care Providers
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
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