Specific Carers' Groups
These Groups are for those who are caring for people with a specific illness or disability.
Many Groups arrange for speakers to come along to give carers information about the illness or disability, as well as about services or equipment specific to that condition.
The Groups are informal and have a social element to them. Some Groups have books, videos and tapes available for carers to loan.
Would you gain from sharing with others who have similar caring responsibilities?
Why not try the relevant Group and see?
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Dementias
Alzheimer's Wakefield Social Group
Alzheimer's Society Office, 21 King Street, Wakefield
1st Monday each month, 12.00 noon - 2.00pm
Alzheimer's Society Out and About Group
Denise Arstall: (01924) 373264
Please ring for details
Alzheimer's Society Forget Me Not Cafes
Denise Arstall: (01924) 373264
Please ring for details
Alzheimer's Society Support Group for Carers of People with Early Onset Dementia
Denise Arstall: (01924) 373264
Please ring for details
Alzheimer's Society Art Group
Alzheimer's Society Office, 21 King Street, Wakefield
Every Monday, 1.00pm - 3.00pm, please ring for details
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
West Yorkshire ADHD Support Group
Medical Education Centre, Pinderfields Hospital, Aberford Road, Wakefield
1st Tuesday each month, 7.30pm - 9.30pm approx
(Optional £5 membership, £1.00 donation to cover expenses and refreshments.)Open to parents, sufferers, adult sufferers and professionals. No children allowed.
Autism
The Wakefield Support Group for Autism
Various venues for carers and also youth groups
Please ring (01924) 305544 for group contact details
Brain Injured
Move Ahead (Time for You Carers Group)
Bevin Community Centre, Outwood
3rd Tuesday each month
Please ring (01924) 305544 for group contact details
Downs Syndrome
Wakefield & District Downs Syndrome Parents Support Group
Surestart Sunbeam Childrens Centre, Lupset, Wakefield
1st Saturday each month, 10.00am - 12.00 noon
Drugs
GASPED
Group meetings in Wakefield, Pontefract, Hemsworth & Grandparents Group
0845 146 0002
Please ring for details
(Group awareness & support for parents, partners, families & friends of drug users)
HIV / AIDS
BEGIN
Drop -in:
Tuesdays, 1.00pm - 4.00pm
Thursdays, 5.00pm - 8.00pm
Saturdays, 1.00pm - 4.00pm
(01924) 211117
Please ring for details
Learning Disability
GOSH
Ossett Health Centre, New Street, Ossett
1st Monday each month, 10.00am - 12.00 noon
Kinglands CAPS (Carer and Parent Support)
Support group for parents and carers of children with special needs
Please ring 07917853487 for details of dates and venues
Mental Illness
Rethink Carers Group
Elizabethan Gallery, Brook Street, Wakefield
3rd Thursday each month, 1.30pm - 3.30pm
Wakefield Self-Help Depression Support Group
Horbury Health Centre, Rear of Methodist Church
Every Tuesday, 1.00pm - 3.00pm
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