Anya is an app providing parents practical and emotional support on the overwhelming journey into parenthood.
Using smart technology, the app offers parents and parents-to-be support on their breastfeeding and parenting journey, anytime, anywhere.
The Loss Foundation is a UK national cancer bereavement charity. It provides bereavement support to adults who have had a loved one die from cancer.
Check out ongoing events and free online workshops.
You can also access group support and bereavement and grief counselling by visiting The Loss Foundation website.
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 03002 004112
Beyond Words is the UK’s national charity for visual literacy and emotional wellbeing. Everyone knows pictures can be more powerful than words. Being able to ‘read’ the images we see is how we know a green light means go, a smile means someone is happy to see us, or that a piece of art is telling us a story. This is the core of visual literacy – the ability to make meaning from the pictures in front of us.
Beyond Words works with people with lived experience to co-create word-free picture stories that help people understand and communicate their feelings, learn about new experiences and tell their own stories.
Access resources on Beyond Words website.
24/7 online resource.
Action Disability Kensington and Chelsea (ADKC) is a user-led disabled people’s organisation and works to enhance opportunities for disabled people (with physical, sensory and hidden impairments), living or working in the borough.
ADKC supports residents through the following services:
Supporting ADKC members to share their experience to become campaigning leaders.
Delivering food, prescriptions and other essentials to isolated local disabled people.
The project assists people with disability related enquiries. Help to fill in forms including Employment Support Allowance, Personal Independence Payment, Taxi card, Freedom pass.
This service is for disabled people who need additional support to live an independent life. They offer information, and group support for people who have a social care need, including help with assessments, monitoring and recruiting personal assistants.
This is another part of the Independent Living project - to identify or improve your skills and expand your interests. Supporting you to use your experiences for peer support for other members.
Specialist legal advice on disability-related benefits, discrimination and general casework.
Supporting people to be less isolated. Offering emotional support and the opportunity to explore the activities you would like to participate in.
Campaigning to make Kensington and Chelsea a more accessible place for Disabled people.
Developing the skills and confidence of young disabled people to become more influential.
You can contact the service via email or call. Find contact details below.
Voice of Experience Project: Monday and Thursday.
Volunteer Project: Tuesday between 9.30am and 5pm.
Information and Advice Project: Monday to Friday between 9.30am and 5pm.
Independent Living and Personal Budgets Project: Monday to Friday between 9.30am and 5pm.
Personal Development: Wednesday and Thursday mornings.
Legal Advice Project: Monday to Friday between 9.30am and 5pm.
Disability Connection Project: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday between 9.30am and 5pm.
Access Project: Thursday and Friday afternoon.
Young Disabled Leaders Project: Monday and Friday.
| Project | Telephone | |
|---|---|---|
| General enquiries | 020 8960 8888 | [email protected] |
| Voice of Experience Project | Theresa, 07729 573963 | [email protected] |
| Volunteer Project | Mary Ann, 07762 190971 | [email protected] |
| Information and Advice Project | Marian, 07545 506114 | [email protected] |
| Independent Living and Personal Budgets Project | Jenny, 07922 811281 | [email protected] |
| Personal Development | - | [email protected] |
| Legal Advice Project | - | [email protected] |
| Disability Connection Project | Simone, 07595 968587 | [email protected] |
| Access Project | - | [email protected] |
| Young Disabled Leaders Project | - | [email protected] |
The main purpose of Woodfield Child Development Service is to offer children and young people, who have neuro-developmental disorders, a comprehensive assessment service that identifies, investigates, assesses their development needs and offers appropriate support, intervention and advice.
The core team includes paediatricians, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, clinical psychology, clinical nurse specialists and music therapy. The service works in close partnership with community and acute service providers, education, social services and voluntary sector services. It also provides a local service for pupils attending Westminster Special Schools.
To request a referral form, please contact the Woodfield Child Development Service by telephone or email. Find contact details below.
Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm.
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 020 7266 8777
ASSIST provides free support for adults on the autism spectrum. It is intended for residents aged 18 and over, in Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster, who have or who are actively seeking a diagnosis of autism.
ASSIST offer one to one appointments as well as group meetings.
Appointments: One to one appointments providing an opportunity to talk about and find ways of managing a wide range of issues- these might include employment, education, housing, coping strategies, physical and mental wellbeing, domestic skills and welfare.
Groups: There are weekly and monthly groups for people to develop their social networks and friendship groups. These groups include social activities, information seminars, museum trips, board games, gardening music and more.
Community: They deliver autism awareness classes for professional organisations which can help promote autism awareness in the community.
To receive support from ASSIST you need to:
You can access this service by appointment. Appointments can take place in a variety of locations such as the centre in Ladbroke Grove, coffee shops, libraries and they also can visit people at home.
Monday to Friday between 9am and 4pm.
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 020 8962 3015
Heart n Soul is an award-winning creative arts company and charity. They believe in the talents and power of people with learning disabilities, providing opportunities for people to discover, develop and share this power and talent as widely as possible. Projects include a creative taking part group (aged 18+), Heat and Soul Choir and other creative groups.
To access online and in person events visit Heart n Soul website.
If you have any questions, please call or email them. Find contact details below.
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 020 869 41632
Learning Disability Network London is a charity which supports adults and children with learning disabilities and their families across London. They provide different levels of support, from a few hours a week up to round-the clock care.
Services include supported living, domiciliary care, outreach, respite, family and community support.
Early Help Advice service provides information for parents on what services are available, helps parents navigate the education, health and care plan process and can act a point of contact for clinicians and social workers.
Portage is a home-visiting educational service for pre-school children with SEND and their families to enable children to reach their full potential and families to have a better quality of life.
The network works with families to help develop a quality of life and experience, for themselves and their young children, in which they can learn together, play together, participate and be included in their community in their own right.
Their aim is to play a part in minimising the disabling barriers that confront young children and their families.
The service offers free home visits to deliver Portage service to early years children (five and under) with any delay, educational difficulty or disability. There is support for children with or without a diagnosis.
Family Support Service offers support to families with children and young adults, up to the age of 25 years, with special educational needs and disabilities. There is support to parent carers of adults with learning disabilities in Westminster. Support can be long term or one-off and the LDN London team can visit families in their own homes or at other community based sites including LDN Community Hub Westminster.
To refer yourself to Family Services, complete the referral form by visiting the LDN London website.
Refer yourself forEarly Help Advice.
If you want to access the Community Hub, please fill in this form. It is free to come to The Hub, you can just come along. Once you attend some of the sessions, you will be invited to become a member of the Community Hub. This is a free membership and will include access to special events.
Learning Disability Network London is located in Westminster on 16a Croxley Road, W9 3HL.
Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm.
Telephone: 020 8968 2682
Visit the Learning Disability Network London website
Community Learning Disability Team (CLDT) for people with learning disabilities works with people and carers to promote independence. They offer advice and support to people on every aspect of living with a learning disability including:
Our learning disability services are run in people's homes, health centres, nursing and residential homes throughout Barnet, Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, and Westminster.
This service is for people who have a learning disability, are 18 years or older or moving from children to adult services and have a GP in Kensington and Chelsea.
If you have a health related concern regarding your learning disability, you can refer yourself or ask someone refer you to the service. They can be your family, friend, GP, social worker or other professional.
You can make a referral by contacting CLCH SPA. You can email or call them. They will help you to make the referral. Find contact details below.
Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm.
Email: [email protected] (for referrals)
[email protected] (for more information)
Telephone: 020 8102 3889
The Learning Disabilities Resource Centre is a social services day service for adults with complex physical and learning disabilities.
The centre provides a person-centred service that supports individuals to access their own community, college and centre-based activities/experiences focused on:
The centre-based work focuses on the needs of the service users that attend the service, offering physiotherapy exercises, speech and language assessments, eating and drinking guidelines and individual timetables for all service users. The centre works in conjunction with the Health and Care Management Learning Disability Team.
For more information, please contact Steve O'Sullivan via telephone or email. Find contact details below.
Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm.
Email: Steve.O'[email protected]
Telephone: 020 7313 6825