| Organisation (Please click for more info) | Organisation Description | Services Provided |
|---|---|---|
| Age UK Bexley |
Our aim is to enable people to lead full and active lives and stay safe and independent within their homes. We are an independent charity providing support and a wide range of services to the over 50s in Bexley. |
At Home with Age UK - Help with the little things that make a big difference. Welfare Benefits advice – trained staff that will provide guidance about the welfare benefits available to older people |
| Advocacy First |
Advocacy First offers a free and independent advocacy service for people in the community, patients in hospital and in care/nursing homes in Bromley. We offer a variety of advocacy services that is required by all our clients. |
Free and independent advocacy service |
| Magpie Dance |
Magpie Dance is the UK’s leading dance charity working with people with learning disabilities. Since 1985, we have been running workshops and dance classes for children and adults. Our participants have a range of learning disabilities and are aged eight +, with no upper age limit on taking part. Through dance, our participants gain significant life, social and communication skills with measurable health and wellbeing benefits. Participants stage regular performances and national tours, many in prestigious performing arts venues. Ambitious and talented dancers are supported through professional progression pathways. We also deliver professional training for education, dance, health and business clients nationally, and we work in partnership with the NHS to provide in-patient work for clients with dementia and a range of complex learning disabilities. |
• Weekly dance classes for dancers with learning disabilities |
| Alzheimer's Society (Bexley Branch) |
Alzheimer’s Society is the UK’s leading support and research charity for people with dementia, their families and their carers. We provide information and support to people with any form of dementia and their carers through our publications, National Dementia Helpline, website and local services. We campaign for better quality of life for people with dementia and greater understanding of dementia. We also fund an innovative programme of medical and social research into the cause, cure and prevention of dementia and the care people receive. |
Dementia Adviser and Dementia Support Services. |
| BCU Lifeskills Centre |
BCU aims to address the basic needs of people to be valued, respected and active members of Society by providing support, advice and training for the unemployed, ethnic minorities, women returners, disabled adults and the socially disadvantaged. We aim to enable adults to cope with their individual circumstances and equip them in the longer term with the skills and confidence necessary to either return to the work-force or into education. |
Drop-In, Women’s Day; Support Group; One to one counselling, advice and signposting to specialist organisations, voluntary work experience, courses |
| Bexley Archaeological Group |
Bexley Archaeological Groups aims are to investigate, research, excavate and promote the archaeology within the London Borough of Bexley and surrounding areas. |
Excavation and research at on-going site in Bexley, |
| Bexley Borough Pensioners' Forum |
The Forum are a non party-political equal opportunity organisation. Their principal aim is to promote the welfare and interests of pensioners within the London Borough of Bexley. Produces a quarterly newsletter and holds general meetings regularly where matters of concern can be raised, discussed and policies developed. They make representations to Bexley Council, MP, MEPs, Health Authorities and the Greater London Council. |
Information sharing |
| Bexley Turkish Elderly Day Centre |
To encourage the Turkish speaking elderly to meet once a week and socialise. |
Freshly cooked meals, tea and coffee |
| Bexleyheath & District Club for the Disabled |
Our aim is to engage elderly disabled people (over 70) and encourage them to make friendships, whilst partaking in a variety of activites. We provide the opportunity to meet, gain support, and enjoy social interaction in a caring, homely atmosphere. |
Activities includings; |
| British Polio Fellowship (NW Kent Branch) |
To help people who have had POLIO, and those who are now suffering with post-polio syndrome |
We meet 1st Saturday of the month 2pm till 5pm with tea, sandwiches, cake. We also arrange outings |
| Gateway Care Services |
Opening times : 9.30am - 4.30pm |
Personal Care Service |
| North West Kent Countryside Partnership |
The North West Kent Countryside Partnership works throughout the boroughs of Bexley, Sevenoaks, Dartford and Gravesham on a wide variety of community conservation projects. Our Partnership has four main strands of work: Landscape & Biodiversity |
Volunteering group (conservation activities) |
| Belvedere Asian Women's Group |
The Asian women's Group is open to all Asian women living and working in the London Borough of Bexley. It provides an opportunity for women to meet to discuss issues of concern to them and share their experiences. The Belvedere Asian Women's Group provides an opportunity for Asian women to come together to socialise, access information and advice on a range of issues and most importantly to have some time for themselves. |
Meetings every Wednesday 10.30 AM to 1.30PM |
| Bexley Multicultural Centre CIC |
Social and activity club open to all Cultures. Yoga, Bingo, Language practice, help with freedom passes and getting around London |
Social Club |
| Bexley Gujarati Samaj |
To provide advice and support to the Gujarati community in Bexley to help integrate into the British Society. |
Yoga classes (Tues eve & Wed pm) |
| Contact The Elderly |
Contact the Elderly brings happiness and companionship back into the lives of older people suffering from loneliness and social isolation. They organise monthly Sunday afternoon tea parties for people aged 75 and over who live alone, with little or no contact with friends or family and who find it difficult to get out and about by themselves. The simple concept of a cup of tea and some conversation helps the older guests to feel part of their community again, make new friends and gives them something to look forward to. Older guests are collected from their home each month by a volunteer driver and taken to a volunteer host’s home, where they meet with a small group for tea, conversation and companionship. |
Sunday afternoon tea parties for older people. |
| Bexley Christian Life Centre |
We are a Church with a community heart reaching out to people of all ethnic groups, young and old, families and the isolated with the love of Christ. |
The Diamond Jubilee Club for over 65’s with music as reminiscence therapy meeting on the last Tuesday of each month 10.30am – 12.15pm |
| Belvedere Advice Sessions |
To provide advice, help and support to welfare benefits, social housing, income related entitlements, advocacy and casework support on welfare benefits and other welfare. |
Advice Help and support |
| Crossroads Care South East London |
A range of practical, personal, emotional and information services to support carers, people living with physical, learning, mental health and complex needs across Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham |
1:1 support services to carers of disabled children and young people |
| Bexley Carers Counselling Service |
We offer counselling to anyone in Bexley Borough that is a carer and wants support. |
1 to 1 counselling |
