Local Help and Support

 LOCAL GOVERNMENT & NHS SERVICES

Apply for a Care Needs Assessment:

Find out about or buy daily living aids:

Find out about NHS Wheelchair services:

Mobility:

Apply for/renew a Blue Badge:

Apply for/renew a Concessionary Bus Pass:

Join the Cambridge Dial a Ride scheme (subsidised accessible door to door transport):

Join the Cambridge Taxicard scheme (free money off taxi vouchers for disabled people on low incomes):

 
Cheap rides for mobility-restricted local residents in Caldecote, Dry Drayton & Hardwick: 07464 052521, 07387 395296, 07464 069483 (volunteers)

Healthwatch Cambridgeshire – feedback & support on health & social care:

 
 

Apply for Council Tax Reduction:

Cambridge City:

South Cambs:

East Cambs:

Fenland:

Huntingdonshire:

 

Request assistance putting bins out:

Cambridge City & South Cambs:

East Cambs:

Fenland:

Huntingdonshire:

 

Book to join a Shopmobility Scheme:

Cambridge:

Ely:

Huntingdon:

Newmarket/Haverhill/Bury St Edmunds:

Peterborough:

 
 

Join the Cambridgeshire libraries at home scheme:

 
 

FOOD HUBS & FOOD BANKS

Contact your local community food hub from the list here:

Contact your nearest foodbank to arrange getting a voucher & delivery if you can’t get there:

Cambridge (multiple locations): https://cambridgecity.foodbank.org.uk/
Ely (multiple locations inc villages): https://ely.foodbank.org.uk/
Godmanchester & Huntingdon: https://godmanchester.foodbank.org.uk/

 

GETTING REDUCTIONS ON UTILITY BILLS

Apply for a discount on your water bill if on a low income:

Cambridge Water:

Anglian Water:

Affinity Water:

 
 

LOCAL CHARITIES, BUSINESSES & COMMUNITY SUPPORT

 
 

Sign up to an online pharmacy to get prescriptions delivered to home:

 

Hire a manual wheelchair for 2-20 weeks:

 

Care Network Cambridgeshire – short term practical help at home:

 

Disability Huntingdonshire (The Cambridge service shut down 😦 but these guys will help) – get advice including help with benefits applications/appeals:

 

Age Space Cambridgeshire – help and advice for older people:

 

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