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| ORGANISATION | BAND |
| CONTACT | Andy Hazeldine |
| ADDRESS | 0, 68 St George's Road, Bolton, Lancashire, BL1 2DD |
| TELEPHONE | 01204-521-673 |
| DESCRIPTION | Registered charity and Limited Company. |
| SERVICES | Support to ten drop-ins, offering a social, recreational and educational facility;one-to-one support for people wanting to get into leisure/education/voluntary work; employment training initiative, offering training and work placements. |
| AREA COVERED | Local - Bolton |
| ORGANISATION | Bury and District Mental Health Service User Groups Alliance |
| CONTACT | Don Mills |
| ADDRESS | 0, 28 Toon Crescent, Bury, Lancashire, BL8 1JB |
| TELEPHONE | 0161-763-5249 |
| DESCRIPTION | Resolutely working together for the benefit of all persons who suffer from the problems of mental ill health and their friends, families and allies. |
| SERVICES | |
| AREA COVERED | Local |
| ORGANISATION | Bury Combined User Voice |
| CONTACT | Don Mills |
| ADDRESS | 0, 28 Toon Crescent, Bury, Lancashire, BL8 1JB |
| TELEPHONE | 0161-763-5249 |
| DESCRIPTION | All embracing collective voice for helping to improve services. Provides crisis support and problem solving service. |
| SERVICES | Vigorously developing 'peertherapy', counselling and crisis support. |
| AREA COVERED | Local |
| ORGANISATION | Catholic Caring Society |
| CONTACT | Ged Edwards |
| ADDRESS | 0, 111 Shrewsbury Road, Birkenhead, Lancashire, L43 8SF |
| TELEPHONE | 0151-652-1281 |
| DESCRIPTION | Diocesan social work and community work organisation. |
| SERVICES | Fostering and adoption of children; day service; outreach and advocacy services for adults with learning disabilities; support for carers/enablers; pastoral and social work for people with impaired hearing. |
| AREA COVERED | Regional |
| ORGANISATION | Distress Awareness Training Agency |
| CONTACT | Andrew Hughes |
| ADDRESS | 0, 5 Wellbank Close, Oldham, Lancashire, OL8 1NX |
| TELEPHONE | 0161-627-1391 |
| DESCRIPTION | Distress Awareness Training Agency, established in 1988, is a collective of people with direct experience of mental and emotional distress. D.A.T.A provides training, consultancy and research to social services, health service providers and purchasers,universities, colleges and mental health service user/ survivor groups. |
| SERVICES | Effective ways of developing user empowerment; consciousness raising; user perspectives on services and treatment; organisation of training events; consultancy to statutory and other bodies on user involvement; user based research; input to staff;user and mixed programmes of training. |
| AREA COVERED | Regional - North-West England |
| ORGANISATION | Getting Voices Heard |
| CONTACT | Margaret Brown |
| ADDRESS | Bury Council for Voluntary Service, 6 Tenterden Street, Bury, Lancashire, BL9 0EG |
| TELEPHONE | 0161-763-6275 |
| DESCRIPTION | Generic advocacy development. |
| SERVICES | Training; advocacy; information; help to set up groups, put in advocacy bids; projects; ideas. |
| AREA COVERED | Local - Bury |
| ORGANISATION | Nugent Care Society |
| CONTACT | Doreen Botha |
| ADDRESS | Margaret Roper House, 447 Liverpool Road, Birkdale, Southport, Lancashire, PR8 3BW |
| TELEPHONE | 01704-574-348 |
| DESCRIPTION | The Nugent Care Society provides residential and fieldwork services for people with a variety of special needs, including fostering and adoption and care of the elderly. |
| SERVICES | Fostering and adoption; care of elderly people, children and adults with learning disabilities, people in need of mental health care, physically disabled adults, children and young people in care, children in need of special education;court welfare work; advice and information. |
| AREA COVERED | Regional |
| ORGANISATION | People Power Mental Health Advocacy Project |
| CONTACT | Mark Baker |
| ADDRESS | Ormskirk and District General Hospital,, Wigan Road, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L39 2JW |
| TELEPHONE | 01695 598 485 |
| DESCRIPTION | We provide an advocacy service to in-patients on the psychiatric ward. The project employs trained volunteers, who support service users in ensuring that their rights and needs are met. |
| SERVICES | In-patient advocacy; support for the Patients' Council. |
| AREA COVERED | West Lancashire |
| ORGANISATION | S.U.N. |
| CONTACT | Andrew Hughes |
| ADDRESS | 0, 5 Wellbank Close, Oldham, Lancashire, OL8 1NX |
| TELEPHONE | 0161-627-1391 |
| DESCRIPTION | We produce a monthly newsletter, ezine and website. These resources seek to facilitate links between individual users of mental health services and groups, to highlight positive action and to share information and other resources. |
| SERVICES | Free newsletter and/or ezine and access to website. |
| AREA COVERED | Regional - North-West England |
| ORGANISATION | Scarisbrick Unit Patients Council |
| CONTACT | George Walker |
| ADDRESS | Scarisbrick Unit, Ormskirk and District General Hospital, Wigan Road, Ormskirk, Lancashire, |
| TELEPHONE | 01695-583184 |
| DESCRIPTION | Mental health patients' council, offering support and information to patients on the Scarisbrook psychiatric in-patient unit. |
| SERVICES | Weekly drop-in; individual advocacy,support and information. |
| AREA COVERED | Local - Ormskirk Hospital |
| ORGANISATION | West Lancashire District Council |
| CONTACT | Clair Harris |
| ADDRESS | Westell House,, 52 Derby Street,, Lancashire, L39 2DQ |
| TELEPHONE | 01695-577-177 |
| DESCRIPTION | Local government services; environmental health protection (health promotion); health education |
| SERVICES | Environmental health, leisure and development. Develops health promotion projects and initiatives to serve the West Lancashire population. |
| AREA COVERED | Local |