Useful contacts continued RNIB Supporting people with sight loss. BNIB Peterborough, Midgate House, Midgate, Peterborough PE1 1TN Tel: 0303 123 9999 Email: helpline@rnib.org.uk Web: www.rnib.org.uk Samaritans Available 24-hours a day to provide confidential emotional support for people who are experiencing feelings of distress, despair or suicidal thoughts. 17 Hungate, Lincoln LN1 1ES Tel: 01522 528282 Email: jo@samaritans.org Web: www.samaritans.org Shine Network Award-winning network of people and organisations involved in mental health. Queens Park Community Hub, South Park, Lincoln LN5 8EW Tel: 07969 872804 Email: info@lincsshine.co.uk Web: www.lincsshine.co.uk The Silver Line The only national free confidential helpline providing information, friendship and advice to older people, open 24-hours a day, every day of the year. 19-23 Featherstone Street, London EC1Y 8SL Tel: 0800 470 8090 Email: info@thesilverline.org.uk Web: www.thesilverline.org.uk
South Lincolnshire Blind Society A major provider of services for blind and partially sighted people and their carers, who live in the districts of North Kesteven, South Kesteven, Boston Borough and South Holland. 14 Finkin Street, Grantham NG31 6QZ Tel: 01476 592775 Email: slbs@blind-society.org.uk Web: www.blind-society.org.uk St Barnabas Hospices Provides specialist palliative and end of life care so that everyone can access and receive the support they need to live well and ease the process of dying. In-Patient Unit, 36 Nettleham Road, Lincoln LN2 1RE Tel: 01522 511566 Email: enquiries@stbarnabashospice.co.uk Web: www.stbarnabashospice.co.uk Stroke Association Provides practical advice, essential information and emotional support for stroke survivors, carers and families. Stroke Association House, 240 City Road, London EC1V 2PR Tel: 0303 303 3100 • Text: 18001 0303 3033 100 Email: info@stroke.org.uk Web: www.stroke.org.uk Total Voice Lincolnshire Lincs2Advice, 5 Mill House, Carre Street, Sleaford NG34 7TW Tel: 01529 400479 Email: TVL@voiceability.org Web: www.totalvoicelincolnshire.org
Visit www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/adultcare for help and information
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