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Are you troubled by someone else's drinking? Al-Anon could be for you! Al-Anon Family Groups provide support to anyone whose life is, or has been, affected by someone else's drinking, regardless of whether that person is still drinking or not. We meet every Thursday 19.45.
Meeting Room, United Reformed Church (entrance on Rock St), Thornbury BS35 2BA
www.al-anonuk.org.uk
Brain Tumour Support's aim is that no-one feels alone when facing the effects of a brain tumour diagnosis. The charity's dedicated to being there for patients, carers, friends and families following a brain tumour diagnosis.
They offer an individualised support service which provides specialist information, practical guidance, emotional support, help coping with bereavement and much more.
Crucially, help is there for as long as it is needed, and that can often be years.
First Floor, 29a High Street, Thornbury BS35 2AR
www.braintumoursupport.co.uk
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Bristol Pituitary Support Group
The group aims to provide support for patients with pituitary disorders, their families and carers. We include South Gloucestershire, and meet on the third Wednesday of every month, except July and August at The Academic Centre, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, at 7.30pm.
We are a friendly open group who have all had experience of these problems and will make new members feel very welcome.
For more information please contact our Chairman Jenny West, 3 Chipping Close, Symn Lane, Wotton-Under-Edge, Glos. GL12 7BB, 01454 843497 (home) or 07919 620498.
For publicity, please contact Jenny Fumpson, Tanglewood, 4B Highfield Drive, Redcliffe Bay, Portishead, N. Somerset, BS20 8JG, 01275 847286.
Carers Support Centre
Carers Support Centre provides a range of practical services for carers of all ages in Bristol and South Gloucestershire.
It also provides a voice for carers and gives advice on making organisations more carer aware.
Covering Bristol and South Gloucestershire
www.carerssupportcentre.org.uk
Carers' Groups
Carers' groups take place across South Gloucestershire. They are open to all carers so that they can:
- Meet other carers
- Have a cup of tea and chat
- Pick up information
Some groups are open to all carers and some are for specific carers.
If you are able to spare an hour or two there are a number of opportunities to meet with other carers to find out more about the support available to you. Why not try and come along? For more information contact the Carers Line or click below for the list of groups.
www.southglos.gov.uk/health-and-s...
Dementia Support South Gloucestershire
Dementia support workers offer information and practical guidance to help people understand dementia, cope with day-to-day challenges and prepare for the future. They offer support face to face, over the phone or in writing. The service is for people with Dementia and their carers, family and friends.
Call our office for more information or see our website below.
www.alzheimers.org.uk/local-infor...
DHI South Glos (Developing Health and Independence)
Do you want to talk to someone about your drug and alcohol use?
We support anyone over 18 throughout South Gloucestershire who needs help and advice around their use of drugs and alcohol. We also support families and carers struggling with someone else's drug and alcohol use. Just call us.
Tel: 0800 0733011 (free)
www.dhi-online.org.uk
Friendship group for adults with physical or learning difficulties
This is a new group for adults with physical or learning difficulties. It is EVERY Friday morning from 10am until 12. It is FREE of charge.
It is run by Wendy and Michael who have been so kind as to offer their home. Their home has been completely adapted for disabled people having fostered for many years.
The group is sponsored by South Gloucestershire and has been set up to provide a place where adults can come to mix, make friends and do fun things.
Wendy and Michael have; Hydrotherapy pool, sensory equipment, tennis courts, indoor swing, large garden, cricket, books, games, wheelchair access, trampolene... everything you can think of!
The Old Rectory (Down the lane in front of the Cricket Club), Rockhampton GL13 9DT
Happiness Circles
These are small groups of people willing to understand, practise and maintain the skills of happiness. The power is through group process, self-commitment and journaling leading to ongoing maintenance networks using for example, creative visual journalling.
Current for Thornbury community, these offer two hourly sessions weekly for six weeks in small interactive groups with donations. After that the network widens and meets monthly when the focus shifts to creating a visual journal to support and maintain learning and practice.
www.maggiejeffery.co.uk
Haven Memory Café at the URC
Haven Memory Cafe offers a warm welcome to people diagnosed with memory problems or dementia, along with a relative, friend or carer. It meets in a comfortable setting in the centre of Thornbury, in the United Reformed Church building.
It provides a welcoming social atmosphere, with tea, coffee and home-made cake, and an opportunity to chat to friends and volunteers. At each session there is a short activity, which is often musical, usually with an invitation to join in, or a demonstration or slide-show. NB The cafe is not a clinic, though there is often a Dementia Support Worker present.
The Memory Cafe meets on the first and third Friday mornings of each month, from 10.15am - 11.45am. The entrance is in Chapel Street, and is accessible to mobility scooters. There is car parking around the church, although it is often busy on a Friday morning.
United Reformed Church, Chapel Street, Thornbury BS35 2BA
www.thornburyurc.org
Jigsaw Thornbury
Joining In, Gaining Support, Awareness and Wellbeing
A small welcoming group set up by parents to support families with children and young people with any additional needs. This may be learning problems such as dyslexia to complex disabilities or health problems and may be without diagnosis. We run a term-time support group Tuesdays 9.30-11.30am.
The Bakery Annexe, 4-7 Chapel Street, Thornbury BS35 2AW
jigsawthornbury.org.uk
2nd Saturday each month –7.30 or 8am
Since December 2005 men in the area have been meeting monthly to discuss 'hot topics' affecting men, usually followed by a good breakfast at Shelly's in Thornbury.
Whilst the Men's Breakfasts have a Christian element to them they are open to all irrespective of their beliefs. For more information contact the Thornbury Baptist Church office on 01454 419118.
www.thornburybaptistchurch.co.uk
Parkinson's Local Support Group in Thornbury
Our support group meets at the Chantry on the last Friday of every month, 10am-12noon.
We offer a friendly welcome and the chance to chat with people with Parkinson's and their family carers in a relaxed and informal atmosphere.
We have quite a spread of group knowledge with varying levels of experience of the disease and the local support available from the NHS and Parkinson's UK.
So if you fancy a chat with people in a similar position to you, come and have a coffee and meet us.
For more information call Sally Derham on 01454 632910 or email below.
Meeting at The Chantry, Castle Street, Thornbury BS35 1HB
Re-engage (formerly Contact the Elderly)
Supported by a network of volunteers, Re-engage organises monthly Sunday afternoon gatherings for small groups of older people aged 75 and over who are dealing with loneliness and social isolation.
Once a month, normally on a Sunday afternoon, each older guest is collected from their home by a Volunteer Driver, and taken to a Volunteer Host's home, where they join a small group for refreshments, talk and companionship. The group is warmly welcomed by a different host each month, but the charity's drivers and older guests remain the same. This means that over the months and years, acquaintances turn into friends and loneliness is replaced by companionship.
www.reengage.org.uk
Remap Bristol
Remap Bristol is a branch of Remap, a national charity that provides custom-made equipment for disabled people in the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire areas. Our 30 or so skilled volunteers provide innovative, practical solutions to everyday challenges encountered by disabled people.
We are always keen to recruit new members who could help us expand the range of help that we offer.
bristol.remap.org.uk
Smokefree South Gloucestershire
www.southglos.gov.uk/smokefree
Thornbury and District Stroke Support Group
Our group exists to encourage stroke sufferers with their rehabilitation by providing regular fortnightly social activities, a weekly swimming session, and fortnightly art and bowling groups. We meet on alternate Thursdays in the Jubilee Hall in Alveston during the winter months and in summer we arrange trips out by coach or car.
For further information please contact John Forss on 01454 528407 or click below.
www.thornburystroke.co.uk
Thornbury Diabetes Support Group
We offer support, information and social events for people with diabetes living in the Thornbury area. Our activities range from fundraisers and film shows to talks and quizzes, and we occasionally go to London to see a show, or head to a pub for a meal.
Thornbury Harcombe Diet Support Group
The Harcombe Diet is all about eating real food and ditching fake food. Weekly meetings at 35 Gloucester Road, Thornbury Wednesdays 2.30-3.15pm. For more information contact Perry Poole on 01454 419336 or by email below.
Thornbury Macular and Low Vision Social Group
Thornbury Macular and Low Vision Social Group meets on the first Tuesday of the month (except August) 10.30am-12.30pm. Contact John Paton for details.
Thornbury Methodist Church Hall, off High Street, Thornbury BS35 2AQ
Thornbury Memory Café
The Cafe has now been successfully running for over 7 years, and continues to be "open" on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month 10.15-11.45am.
We have many regular visitors who come every fortnight, but we also have many newcomers who rapidly become "regulars". Visitors with memory problems should come along with their carers, e.g. husbands, wives or others.
New visitors will be made very welcome, so come along and give it a try. We are not a "clinic", but we find that carers also benefit from the chance to chat to others in similar situations.
The setting is a normal "cafe" style, with our volunteers serving coffee, tea, soft drinks, biscuits and fruit, for which there is no charge, though we do have a voluntary contribution box. There is a lot of chatter and constant exchange of thoughts and ideas, and there is either entertainment or a visit from a speaker on a topical matter of interest.
Parking is very easy just outside for "BlueBadge" holders or in the nearby car park. Contact Sue Rowley on 01454 412941 or Louise Wright on 01454 260371 for further information, or just turn up, and we are sure you will enjoy the experience and the fun.
Willow Tree Centre
We offer free, unbiased support to anyone facing an unplanned pregnancy or needing help after a miscarriage, still birth or abortion. We support women and their partners as well as other family members.
We are based in Yate, but arrange appointments for people in different locations, including Thornbury. Please call our 7 day a week helpline for confidential support: 01454 324080, or click below to visit our website.
www.thewillowtreecentre.org.uk