LOCAL GOVERNMENT & NHS SERVICES
Apply for a Care Needs Assessment:
Cambridgeshire County Council – care needs assessment
Find out about or buy daily living aids:
Find out about NHS Wheelchair services:
https://cambridgeshireandpeterborough.wheelchair.services/
Wheelchair service eligibility criteria:
https://cambridgeshireandpeterborough.wheelchair.services/eligibility/
Apply for/renew a Blue Badge:
Cambridgeshire County Council – Blue Badges
Apply for/renew a Concessionary Bus Pass:
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority – free bus passes
Join the Cambridge Dial a Ride scheme (subsidised accessible door to door transport):
https://cambridgedialaride.org.uk/
Join the Cambridge Taxicard scheme (free money off taxi vouchers for disabled people on low incomes):
https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/taxicard
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:
https://www.healthwatchcambridgeshire.co.uk/
Apply for Council Tax Reduction:
Cambridge City: https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/make-a-benefit-claim
South Cambs: https://www.scambs.gov.uk/council-tax/council-tax-support/
East Cambs: East Cambridgeshire – Council Tax discounts and support
Fenland: https://www.fenland.gov.uk/counciltax
Huntingdonshire: https://huntingdonshire.gov.uk/benefits/council-tax-support/
Request assistance putting bins out:
Cambridge City & South Cambs: Cambridge City Council – help putting your bin out
East Cambs: East Cambridgeshire – assisted collections
Fenland: https://www.fenland.gov.uk/assistedcollection
Huntingdonshire: Huntingdonshire – assisted collections
Book to join a Shopmobility Scheme:
Cambridge: https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/shopmobility
Ely: Ely Shopmobility, The Ely Museum, The Old Gaol, Market Street, Ely CB7 4LS. Tel: 01353 666655
Newmarket/Haverhill/Bury St Edmunds: West Suffolk – Shopmobility
Peterborough: Peterborough – Shopmobility
Elsewhere: find other schemes through Shopmobility UK
Join the Cambridgeshire libraries at home scheme:
Cambridgeshire Libraries – Library at Home service
FOOD HUBS & FOOD BANKS
Find emergency food support in Cambridge:
Cambridge Sustainable Food – emergency food access
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/
Wisbech: https://wisbech.foodbank.org.uk/
Ramsey: https://ramsey.foodbank.org.uk/
Peterborough: https://peterborough.foodbank.org.uk/
Haverhill: https://www.reachhaverhill.org.uk/
Saffron Walden: https://uttlesford.foodbank.org.uk/
St Neots: https://stneots.foodbank.org.uk/
GETTING REDUCTIONS ON UTILITY BILLS
Apply for a discount on your water bill if on a low income:
Cambridge Water: Cambridge Water – Assure tariff
Anglian Water: Anglian Water – LITE tariff
Affinity Water: https://www.affinitywater.co.uk/billing/lift
LOCAL CHARITIES, BUSINESSES & COMMUNITY SUPPORT
Sign up to an online pharmacy to get prescriptions delivered to home:
https://www.pharmacy2u.co.uk/
https://www.boots.com/online/pharmacy/
https://lloydspharmacy.com/pages/online-prescription-services
https://www.well.co.uk/prescriptions/prescription-delivery
Hire a manual wheelchair for 2-20 weeks:
https://www.redcross.org.uk/get-help/hire-a-wheelchair
Care Network Cambridgeshire – short term practical help at home:
https://care-network.org.uk/service/help-at-home/
