Physical & Sensory Impairment
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Support Planning and Brokerage
Support plans - A Support Plan identifies a persons individual needs and how a personal budget will be used to ensure the needs are met in a person centred way.
Brokerage - This is the term used to describe help in finding support and care services.
Click on the button below for details of Support Planning and Brokerage providers.
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 button below for details of these organisations.
Advice and Information
Click on the button below for details of organisations which provide advice, information and advocacy services.
Advice Centres
Use the dropdown box below to find a Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) or an independent advice service in your postal district area.
Advocacy
Click on the button below to find details of organisations which will assist you to contact or help you deal with organisations, especially large statutory organisations.
Assistive Technology
Click on the button below for details of organisations which give support with Assistive Technology.
Click on the button below to find details of organisations which sell, loan or provide funding for all kinds of equipment/assistive technology including, wheelchairs, scooters, commodes, bath seats, radios etc.
Local Factsheets:
Click on the link below for information on Information Technology. This useful Information Technology factsheet is provided by The Sheffield Centre for Independent Living (SCIL)
Befriending
Click on the button below for befriending groups and services.
Brain Injury
Click on the button below to find organisations which provide support for people with a brain injury.
Care Alarms
Click on the button below to find out about the City Wide Care Alarms Service which provides the security of a care alarm in your home.
Carers Support
Children and Young People
Click on the button below to find details of organisations for children and young people.
Computers
Click on the hyperlink below for details of access to computers and basic computer courses. You will find free access to computers in all Sheffield Libraries. To find your local library scroll to the libraries section on this page.
Local Factsheets:
Click on the link below for information on Information Technology. This useful Information Technology factsheet is provided by The Sheffield Centre for Independent Living (SCIL)
Day Care/Day Centres & Day Opportunities
Employment
Click on the button below to find details of organisations which provide employment support.
Equipment and Adaptations
Click on the button below to find details of organisations which sell, loan or provide funding for all kinds of equipment including, wheelchairs, scooters, commodes, bath seats, radios etc.
National Websites:
Disabled Living Foundation - Disabled Living Foundation have a website which gives clear practical advice on equipment which can help make daily living easier.
Events
Click on the button below to see our calendar of weekly one-off events. This calendar is new and events will start to appear on it soon.
Funding
The Reception, Reference and Information Section in the Central Library hold information on Funding. They hold the Directory of Grant Making Trusts and the Guide to Grants for Individuals in Need. For more information contact them on 0114 273 4712 or call into the library on Surrey Street.
Gardening
Click on the button below to find details of gardening services and gardening groups.
GP Surgeries
Click on the button 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.
Handyperson Services
Click on the button below to find details of handyperson services.
Health Conditions
Click on the button below for support groups for people with specific health conditions.
Healthy Living/Wellbeing
Click on the button below for details of healthy living/wellbeing activities. Activities include health walks and other sporting activities, help with healthy eating.
Holidays and Breaks
Click on the button below to find details of organisations on Help Yourself which provide holidays, funding for holidays and support when on holiday.
National Websites:
Home Care/Home Support Providers
Click on the button 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.
Find Home Support in your area and by services provided
Click on the button below for details of individual Personal Assistants (PA) who can provide support or care in the home.
Click on the button below for details of organisations which will help you to recruit a Personal Assistant (PA).
Click on the button below for details of organisations which will help you to employ a Personal Assistant (PA).
Home Nursing
Click on the button below for details of organisations which provide home nursing.
Home Safety
Click on the buttons below for details of South Yorkshire Police and South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Safety Schemes.
Housebound Services
There are a variety of organisations that provide services to housebound people. Services include, dental, chiropody, libraries, befriending.
Housing
Click on the button below for care homes, respite care, day care and tenancy support.
Click on the button below for a list of Housing Associations, Housing Co-Operatives and Housing Trusts.
Click on the button below for organisations which provide tenancy support.
Local Factsheets:
Click on the link below for information on Accessible Housing. This useful Accessible Housing factsheet is provided by The Sheffield Centre for Independent Living (SCIL)
Leisure and Sport
Click on the button below for leisure and sport activities for people with physical or sensory impairments. Activities include football, mobile library service, gardening, crafts, outings and wheelchair sports.
There are hundreds of sport and leisure activities on Help Yourself for everyone. Click on the buttons below for a selection of groups on offer.
To see all the sport and leisure activities on offer on Help Yourself use the Keyword search box below.
If you want to search for a leisure activity near you scroll down to the bottom of the page and use the keyword & postal district search there.
Libraries
Meal Deliveries
Click on the button below for details of companies which deliver frozen and hot meals to your home.
Mobility and Motability
Click on the button below for details of services which can assist you with mobility problems eg, Shopmobility, Blue Badge Scheme, Bus Passes, wheelchair loan services etc
National Websites:
The Motability Scheme enables disabled people to exchange either their Higher Rate Mobility Component of Disability Living Allowance or their War Pensioners' Mobility Supplement to obtain a new car, powered wheelchair or scooter.
Adapted Vehicle Hire specialises in the hire of adapted cars and wheelchair accessible vehicles (WAVs) for disabled passengers, drivers or their Carers. With a network of strategically placed locations across the country.
Resources and Support Services
Click on the button below to find details of welfare and support organisations for armed service and ex-service personnel.
Click on the button below for details of bereavement support organisations.
Click on the button below for details of citywide resources and support services. Services include respite care, day centres, holiday relief, advocacy & information services, painting, decorating & gardening services. You will also find details of Radar Keys and Changing Places Toilets.
Click on the button below to find details of groups which provide support in their local community. Help includes sitting services, befriending, dog walking, decorating and gardening.
Click on the button below for details of social & support groups and services for blind/visually impaired people. These include craft groups, writing groups, gardening groups, sports clubs, walking groups, information services and self help groups. Here you will find details of Sheffield Talking News.
Click on the button below for details of social & support groups and services for deaf/hearing impaired people. These include support groups for tinnitus, sign language tuition and lunch clubs.
Click on the button below to find details of social and support groups for black and minority ethnic people.
Respite Care
Click on the button below to find details of organisations which provide respite care.
Sensory Impairment
Click on the buttons below to find organisations specifically for people with sensory impairments. Please note, there are many other groups and services on this page for people with a sensory impairment, please scroll through the page to find out what else is on offer.
Sexual Health & Relationships
Local Factsheets:
Click on the link below for information on Sexual Health and Relationships. This useful information factsheet is provided by The Sheffield Centre for Independent Living (SCIL)
Sign Language
Click on the button below to find details of organisations and individuals that provide sign language courses.
Sure Start Children's Centres
Click on the button below for details of Sure Start Children's Centres which are a way of supporting families with children under 5. They offer integrated childcare and education, health and family support, help with finding jobs and training, drop-in sessions and groups.
Therapy Services
Click on the button below for details of therapy services, including art therapy. For therapy services for specific health conditions see the Health Conditions section to find eg Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre.
Toilet Facilities
Click on the buttons below for details of disabled toilet facilities.
Click on the button below for members of the Community Toilet Scheme. Members of the public can use the Toilet Facilities in the premises during the normal opening hours. No purchase of goods or services is required.
Click on the button below for Public Toilets in Sheffield.
Transport and Travel
Click on the button 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 button below to find details of disabled person's parking.
Click on the button 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 button below for details of Radar Keys, which allow you to access disabled toilets nationwide.
Click on the button 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.
Click on the button below for details of Sheffield City Council's Travel Solutions Team who will help you find solutions to your travel problems.
Click on the button below for details of the Travel Solutions Team's Travel Guide and Referral Form.
Local Wheelchair Accessbile Taxi Websites:
Local Factsheets:
Click on the link below for information on the Blue Badge Scheme. This useful information factsheet is provided by The Sheffield Centre for Independent Living (SCIL)
National Websites:
Adapted Vehicle Hire specialises in the hire of adapted cars and wheelchair accessible vehicles (WAVs) for disabled passengers, drivers or their Carers. With a network of strategically placed locations across the country.
Women's Health
Click on the button below to find details of women's health groups and services. Groups include healthy eating and health activites. Services include menopause clinics.
Click on the button below to find details of organisations which provide advice about and support with pregnancy and child birth. Services include NCT classes, breastfeeding support, antenatal classes, termination advice and counselling, post natal depression support.
Useful Information
Click on the button below for other useful information and useful hyperlinks.
Local Factsheets:
Click on the hyperlink below for information on the Social Model of Disability.
Other Searches
Local Services
Find out what else is available in your neighbourhood (some of these clubs, groups and services are free)
Keyword Searches
Search for groups or services using a keyword or refine your search by combining a keyword with a postal district or 2 keywords
(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