Breathtakers

Supporting sufferers of Obliterative Bronchiolitis and other Rare Lung Disease

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Useful links

  

If you have any helpful contacts

please let us know via our Contact Us page or lynne@breathtakers.co.uk

 

  Contact a family

www.cafamily.org.uk

Contact a Family provides advice, information and support to the parents of all disabled children. It enables parents to get in contact with other families, both on a local and national basis.


British Lung Foundation
www.lunguk.org

Supports people affected by lung disease through the individual challenges they will face. Has nationwide network of Breathe Easy support groups.


Motability

www.motability.co.uk

Aims to help disabled people and their families to become mobile more effectively

 


Dept for Work and Pensions
    www.dwp.gov.uk 

DWP is responsible for a range of benefits and services for people who are sick or disabled, and their carers.


www.orpha.net

ORPHANET is a database dedicated to information on rare diseases and orphan drugs. Access to this database is free of charge.
ORPHANET offers services adapted to the needs of patients and their families, health professionals and researchers, support groups and industry.


Every Disabled Child Matters

http://www.edcm.org.uk

 Latest government and other news realting to children with disabilites


www.hypnotherapy-directory.org.uk


This website is a support network of UK hypnotherapists, with information on their training and experience, areas of hypnotherapy, fees and contact details. This service is free, confidential and easy to use.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ChILD Lung Foundation UK is a new organisation formed to support children and families affected by Childrens’s Interstitial Lung Disease (ChILD).

 

www.childlungfoundation.org

 


  Blue Badge
www.direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople/MotoringAndTransport

The Blue Badge scheme provides a range of parking benefits for disabled people with severe mobility difficulties who travel either as drivers or as passengers.


Parent Partnership Service

 www.parentpartnership.org.uk

Offers impartial advice, information and support to parents/carers of children and young people with special educational needs


British Paediatric Orphan Lung Diseases (BPOLD) www.bpold.co.uk

BPOLD aims to establish a registry of nine rare lung diseases in children in the UK. (OB is one) The registry will provide data on the prevalence and incidence of individual rare lung diseases and inform research projects which will increase our understanding of these diseases and ultimately improve treatment strategies for these children.


Gift- The Children's Transplant Charity

www.htft.org.uk

Gift is a registered national charity that offers support to children and families who are affected by transplantation. We aim to provide both emotional and practical support throughout the journey of transplantation.

 


Awards for all

http://www.awardsforall.org.uk/england/index.html

Awards for All England is supported by the Arts Council England, the Big Lottery Fund, the Heritage Lottery Fund and Sport England.            

 


 

The Australasian Registry Network for Rare Orphan Lung Disease

 

http://www.arnold.org.au/