Maggie's centre in Cardiff offers a space for those living with a brain tumour and their loved ones to speak to others going through a similar experience and find advice, support and strategies for coping. It covers both emotional and practical concerns, from the day-to-day impact of diagnosis to help with money worries.

Maggie's centre in Cambridge offers a space for those living with a brain tumour and their loved ones to speak to others going through a similar experience and find advice, support and strategies for coping. It covers both emotional and practical concerns, from the day-to-day impact of diagnosis to help with money worries.

Maggie's centre in London, Barts, offers a space for those living with a brain tumour and their loved ones to speak to others going through a similar experience and find advice, support and strategies for coping. It covers both emotional and practical concerns, from the day-to-day impact of diagnosis to help with money worries.

Barnsley Hospice offer a support and wellbeing service, The Orangery, which offers complimentary therapies and weekly support programmes focusing on different topics, such as – “Time to Talk”, “Craft Corner”, “Guided Relaxation” and “Practical Self Care” – to develop a self-care toolkit for all conditions. Patients are also offered support to consider advance care planning in a safe and caring environment.This is a referral-only service. Referrals may be made by GPs, community nursing teams, hospital or community palliative care teams or other health and social care professionals directly involved in a patient’s care.

With brainstrust's 24/7, 365 days a year support line, patients, carers and families can pick up the phone or email and know that they will have an immediate response, an empathetic response that is grounded in reliable source material, and one that is personal.

Yorkshire's Brain Tumour Charity provides welfare advice and hardship grants for people affected by a brain tumour diagnosis in Yorkshire.

Brain Tumour Support offer a range of online and face to face support groups These groups are open to anyone affected by a brain tumour. Full details can be found on the website: www.braintumoursupport.co.uk or by phoning 01454 422701, or emailing support@braintumoursupport.co.uk

Headway Rotherham provide information and support to people with a brain injury, their families and carers.

Treetops Hospice offer support and counselling to children and adults who have been bereaved from any cause.

All services are provided free of charge, and are not means-tested.

The service is available to all users of Treetops Hospice services and people registered with a GP practice in Derby city or Southern Derbyshire.

This services offers carers in the Sheffield area;

1. Carer Advice Line

Call us for personalised expert advice on anything related to your caring role. One of the team is an Urdu and Punjabi speaker, and we use an interpretation service for other languages.

2. Carer Card

This offers discounts on a wide range of services, products and activities from local and national businesses; plus there is space to record two emergency contact numbers.

3. Carer Activities

We organise a range of regular activities for carers to have a break from their caring role and look after their own wellbeing. Event details are kept up-to-date on the 'activities' page of our website.

4. Carer Support Groups

The Support Groups take place at various locations around Sheffield on a regular basis. They provide a great opportunity to meet other people with caring roles.

5. Carer Connect

This is our telephone support service that provides regular phone calls from volunteers to reduce social isolation and connect carers with their local communities.

6. Legal Advice Clinic

Free 30-minute individual legal advice sessions with a legal expert, offering advice around topics such as wills, estate planning and power of attorney. Clinics are held on a monthly basis.

7. Emergency Planning

We provide information to help carers make an emergency plan if something unexpectedly stopped them from looking after the person they care for.

8. Carer Money Matters

This project can help carers with fuel costs, energy efficiency, and home safety including specialist support from Citizens Advice Sheffield.

9. Information and resources

Easy access to a range of information and resources on our website from expert sources covering more than 20 topics to help with your caring role.

10. Digital Resources for Carers

Carers can access the free online ‘Digital Resources for Carers’ which is provided by Carers UK and Sheffield City Council, that includes information, eLearning, resources, and the Jointly app.

11. Carers News!

This free monthly E-newsletter provides up-to-date information about our services and activities, along with key news items that affect carers.

If you are caring for an adult who lives in Sheffield you can also access the following support:

12. Carer's Assessment

A carer’s assessment provides an opportunity to discuss the impact of your caring role with one of our Carer Advisors, who will discuss the support you might need and help put this in place.

13. Time for a Break Grant

Small grants for short breaks or activities that support wellbeing and help you take a break from your caring role. We’ll assess your eligibility as part of a Carers Assessment.

This service is provided through telephone advice, hospital and office appointments. Access to the service is by referral from any health professional or self referral. Specific services include: applying for benefits, challenging benefits decisions and tribunals, accessing Macmillan and other charitable grants, applying for blue badges and help with bereavement benefits.

This telephone support line, run by trained volunteers, offers information and guidance to all those caring for a child or young person, who has someone important in their life, who has died or is dying. They also offer support groups across the County of Hampshire. They provide children and their families with safe, creative and compassionate spaces where they can explore their grief. Groups are gently guided by volunteers through organised activities, games, and stories.

The Disabled Pass entitles disabled people to free off-peak travel on buses across England (plus additional concessions in South Yorkshire) through the English National Concession Travel Scheme (ENCTS).

Rotherham Hospice provide support for people over the age of 18 who are living with a terminal illness and their families. The services they provide include: counselling, practical advice, complementary therapies, inpatient services and hospice at home.

Maggie's centre in Dundee offers a space for those living with a brain tumour and their loved ones to speak to others going through a similar experience and find advice, support and strategies for coping. It covers both emotional and practical concerns, from the day-to-day impact of diagnosis to help with money worries.

Citizens Advice Wandsworth & Croydon and Macmillan Cancer Support work in partnership to provide specialist support for people living with cancer.

This service provides information and advice on benefits, grants and being able to access support needed to pay the bills or meet extra expenses.

This service is open to everyone living or receiving treatment near Croydon, Kingston, St George's and Epsom and St Helier hospitals.

The Macmillan Information and Support Centre in Queen's Hospital, Romford, provides information and support for people living with and being treated for cancer within Barking, Havering and Redbridge University NHS Trust. Services include benefits and welfare advice, wig referrals and complementary therapies.

A confidential, impartial and independent welfare benefits service for people living with cancer, their families and carers living in the Barnet area.Regular Outreach location times are as follows:

Mondays

10am to 2pm at St Mary’s Church Hall, 30 Hendon Lane, N3 1TR

Tuesdays

12pm to 2pm at Chipping Barnet Foodbank†, 63 Somerset Rd, New Barnet, Barnet EN5 1RF

Wednesdays

9:30AM to 12:30PM at Jim’s Cafe, St James Church, 71 East Barnet Road, New Barnet, EN4 8RN

Saturdays

10:00AM to 12:00PM at Chipping Barnet Foodbank†, 63 Somerset Rd, New Barnet, Barnet EN5 1RF

Led by Volunteer Walk Leaders, Clan's walking group meets every Monday at 10.30am at Clan House, Aberdeen. This is an opportunity to engage in some gentle exercise, peer support and the chance to pop into Clan House for a cuppa and a chat afterwards. Please note sessions for 2024 have now concluded and this group will restart from January 6, 2025.

Based in Aberdeen, The Rosemount Centre offers a wide range of therapies and workshops, such as cognitive behavioural therapy, rational emotive behavioural therapy, hypnotherapy, acupuncture and mindfulness life coaching. Please give the centre a call or send an email for both inquiries into therapies and to book an appointment.

A website with a wealth of information to help you following a brain tumour diagnosis. Sections include, brain tumour support, brain tumour treatment, resources, brain tumour symptoms and diagnosis, patient stories, information for carers, survivorship and more.

This charity offer free, confidential and independent advice on a wide range of issues including employment, benefits, housing, debt, consumer rights, discrimination and relationship breakdowns to everyone regardless of age, income, ethnicity, gender or religion.

Clan offers emotional support through a team of trained staff and support volunteers. Clan can give you time and space to talk to someone who understands your feelings. You do not need to make an appointment, support is available at all centres. Clan also offers a professional counselling service for those who feel they would benefit from more in-depth support. Counselling provides opportunities for those seeking help to work through issues which are troubling them. Please contact Clan to make an appointment with one of their counsellors.

If you are aged 18 and above, and resident in Lower Marr (Deeside), you can make your initial appointment by phoning MHA's confidential number to leave a message. They will discreetly return your call, usually within three working days, to agree an initial meeting. This meeting lasts around 30-60 minutes at which time you can discuss:

What has prompted you to seek counselling

The kind of help that matches your needs

What One to One can offer you, as a client

Whether we know of any other more appropriate services

You will then be added to their waiting list and matched with a suitable counsellor as soon as one becomes available.

Maggie's centre in Nottingham offers a space for those living with a brain tumour and their loved ones to speak to others going through a similar experience and find advice, support and strategies for coping. It covers both emotional and practical concerns, from the day-to-day impact of diagnosis to help with money worries.

Online information about types of brain tumours for adults and children.

This charity hosts monthly meeting for people affected by brain injuries. These meetings usually have a speaker on a diverse set of subjects which is followed by time to chat and socialise and have a coffee or tea.

This hospice supports families whose children are living with a life-limiting health condition. Their purpose-built hospice is located in Beckton, East London and the majority of the families that they support live in East and North London. Support available includes: hospice at home, respite care, family support and end-of-life care.

VSA offers emotional, social, and practical care and support to children, young people and their families. Their work focuses on a wide range of issues such as abuse, difficult behaviours, through to giving parents the support and information they need to respond and care for their child's needs.

A powerful campaigning organisation, Brain Tumour Research is a leading voice of the brain tumour community. They are a national charity focused on finding a cure for all types of brain tumours. The Brain Tumour Research website provides an overview of the different types of brain tumours, brain tumour symptoms and some of the brain tumour treatment options.

Demelza deliver expert care to Children with serious or life-limiting conditions, providing support for all the family, from first diagnosis and for as long as they are needed. The support they provide includes family support, short breaks and therapies. Services are available either at one of their three sites in Kent, South East London and East Sussex, in the community, virtually, or in their own home.

Clan offers a dedicated, confidential service through their team of support workers for children, young people and families. Through its work, the team aims to provide information, listen to the individual, and allow children and young people to explore their difficult feelings in a safe and secure environment. Support is offered at Clan House in their dedicated space for young people. Their team regularly visit individual’s homes or schools depending on each situation. Team members are also based at Mintlaw, Elgin, Orkney and Shetland.

Clients can make an appointment or are welcome to drop in to the local centres to find out more.

Most National Health Service (NHS) treatment is free but there can be charges for some things. You may be able to get help with NHS health costs if for example you're on a low income. You may be able to get help with health costs like:

1. prescription costs
2. dental costs
3. eyecare costs
4. healthcare travel costs
5. wigs and fabric supports

Brain Tumour Action runs a friendly monthly support group in Edinburgh. The group is held at the Maggie’s Centre Edinburgh in the Western General Hospital every month. The meeting is aimed at patients, families and friends of those diagnosed with a brain tumour.

This charity offer free, confidential and independent advice on a wide range of issues including employment, benefits, housing, debt, consumer rights, discrimination and relationship breakdowns to everyone regardless of age, income, ethnicity, gender or religion. They do not offer drop in services.

Young Lives vs Cancer have grants to support families financially. To help immediately, the charities offers a registration grant of £100. They also have other grants to support children under the age of 19 who have a brain tumour.

This charity can offer various therapies designed to support and alleviate some of the physical and emotional side effects that comes with a patient's cancer journey. We would recommend that you keep your GP and/or consultant advised of any therapies taken. These include therapies such as massage therapy, oncology massage, scar tissue massage, aromatherapy, reflexology and reiki. These therapies are also available at various centres throughout the highlands.

This charity offer free, confidential and independent advice on a wide range of issues including employment, benefits, housing, debt, consumer rights, discrimination and relationship breakdowns to everyone regardless of age, income, ethnicity, gender or religion. They offer face to face support onMondays and Thursdays 9.30am – 3pm.