Disability Information & Guidance 55+
Are you looking for help with:
Motability:
Help with getting around to maintain independence:
- Motability scheme Motability Scheme
- Motability dealer in Torbay All Motability Scheme Car dealers in Torquay, South West
- Support to stay mobile Home support service older people Torbay – Age UK
- Mobility support Walking aids, wheelchairs and mobility scooters – NHS
- Mobility Torbay Mobility
Financial:
Support and advice with money matters:
- Support and advice for people with a learning disability Access Learning Disability Advice and Support – Mencap
- Financial advice Financial advice – Torbay Council
- Disability service centre Contact the Disability Service Centre – GOV.UK
- Torbay Help Hub Community Help Hub | TorbayHelpHub
- List of local food banks FOOD BANKS | Torbayhelphub
- Torbay Community Development Trust Torbay Community Development Trust
- Path Torbay PATH food and support – Neighbourly
- Cold weather payment Cold Weather Payment: Overview – GOV.UK
- Warm home payment Warm Home Discount Scheme (£140 cold weather payment) – Age UK
- Torbay Age concern Welcome to Age UK Torbay
- Welfare support fund Welfare Support – Torbay Council
Housing:
Housing support and advice:
- Extra care housing Devon County Council Extra care housing – Devon County Council
- Devon Home Choice Devon Home Choice: DHC Home page
- Torbay age concern Housing Age UK Torbay | Help with Housing Benefit, Council Tax
- Housing, Devon Home choice Devon home choice: Devon home page
Legal:
Legal support and advice:
- Solicitors Scott Richards Solicitors
- Citizens advice bureau Citizens Advice Torbay
- Local Will service Wills and Probate Lawyers in Torquay | Almy & Thomas Solicitors
- Pension credit advice Pension Credit: Overview – GOV.UK
Social:
Activities to socialise locally:
- Roc Active ROC Skills & Wellbeing – United Response
- Phab Club Torquay Phab Torbay
- Space Space | Torbay: HOME
- Memory cafe Babbacombe Memory Cafe Alzheimer’s Society Torbay
- The Filo Project The Filo Project | Award winning dementia day care
Family Support:
Support and advice for families in times of bereavement:
- Power of attorney Wills and Trusts Service for parents and carers | Mencap
- Funeral planning Public funerals – Torbay Council
- Families in grief Families in Grief: Help for grieving children & families
- Local Funeral service KJ Lack Family Funeral Service covering Torquay, paignton …
- Rowcroft Rowcroft Hospice: Home
- Macmillan Cancer support The Lodge Cancer Support and Information Centre
Carers:
Advice and support for unpaid carers:
- Carers service Torbay Torbay Carers Service – Torbay and South Devon NHS FT
- Young Carers Young carers – Torbay Council
- Social prescribing team Social Prescribing Link Workers « Pembroke House Surgery
- Age UK Age UK | The UK’s leading charity helping every older person who …
- Home support Home support service older people Torbay – Age UK
- Home support Getting someone to help in your home – Torbay Council
Additional Useful Links:
- Mencap Torbay Mencap | Helping People with Learning Disabilities
- Speech and language Speech and Language Therapy – Torbay and South Devon NHS FT
- John Parkes Unit John Parkes Unit – Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
- Child Mental Health Service Torbay Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)
- Memory Cafe Babbacombe Memory Cafe Alzheimer’s Society Torbay
- Read Easy, supporting adults to learn to read Read Easy Torbay – ReadEasy
- Cinema card CEA Card: Home
- Disability Focus Disability Focus – Supporting people to live independently
- Imagine this Imagine This Torbay: Home
- Lifeworks Lifeworks Charity | Learning Disability Champions
- MASH team Torbay’s Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH)
- Carers Torbay Torbay Carers Service – Torbay and South Devon NHS FT
- Citizens advice bureau Citizens Advice
- Sound Communities Sound Communities: Front Page
- Devon advocacy Service Torbay self-referral – Devon Advocacy Consortium
- Age UK Age UK | The UK’s leading charity helping every older person who …
- Local motion Torbay Torbay – LocalMotion
- Local Spark Torbay LOCAL SPARK TORBAY | Community Supported Enterprise
- Seetec Meet your Torbay team – Seetec Pluss
- Devon link up HOME. Devon Link-up
- NRS Healthcare, Technology Enabled Care Services NRS Healthcare Technology Enabled Care Service
- Learning Disability Annual Health Check Annual Health Checks – Learning disabilities – NHS
- Free Childcare Free childcare for 2 year olds – Torbay Council
- Taxfree Childcare Vouchers Help with childcare costs – Torbay Council
- Whats your problem? What’s Your Problem?
- Torbay youth trust Torbay Youth Trust: HOME
- Internet for low income families Broadband social tariffs for low income households – Uswitch.com
- Sky badger Sky Badger – Finding help for disabled children and their families
- Wiltshire Farm foods Wiltshire Farm Foods: Ready Meals Delivered
- Ace ACE Torbay
- Family support network Your support network – Family Action
- YES! Brixham YES Brixham Home
- Disabled Sailing Association Disabled Sailing Association
- The good care group Live in Care by The Good Care Group – Outstanding CQC Rating
Concern for the welfare of a person:
If you are concerned for the safety or wellbeing of someone, please contact the MASH team (Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub) by visiting the following link: Hub – Torbay Safeguarding Children Partnership.
You can also find information here: Safeguarding Adults – Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
