Additional support for carers links Q-T
If you are a carer, you may find the organisation's listed below useful. (Caring with Confidence does not endorse any of the organisations or services offered).
St Mary’s Hospice South Cumbria
Carers Direct
Website: www.nhs.uk/carersdirect
Tel: 0808 802 0202
Carers Direct is a practical and comprehensive information, advice and support service for carers.
Call the Carers Direct helpline if you need help with your caring role and want to talk to someone about what options are available to you. The helpline advisers can give you information to help you make decisions about your personal support needs and the needs of the person you're looking after. This information includes assessments, benefits, direct payments, individual budgets, time off and maintaining, leaving or going back to work or education.
The helpline staff will also tell you how to complain if anything goes wrong with any of the services you use or put you in contact with your local authority or NHS services. Our helpline advisers can put you in touch with specialist national or local sources of help, including social care, health and self-help networks and resources.
React (Rapid Effective Assistance for Children with potentially Terminal illness)
Web: www.reactcharity.org
Tel: 020 8940 2575
React is a dynamic charity working to improve the quality of life for children with potentially terminal illnesses living in financially disadvantaged families throughout the UK. React provides vital support in the form of:
- specialist equipment
- domestic equipment
- educational equipment
- hospital travel & subsistence expenses
- respite breaks at one of React’s 8 holiday homes
- funeral expenses and memorial headstones
St Mary’s Hospice South Cumbria
Web: www.stmaryshospice.org/carers
Tel: 01229 580305
The St Mary's Hospice Carers Project aims to enable people in South Cumbria to be more informed and confident about providing care in their own homes. It also helps carers to look after their own health, which is essential if they are going to manage the physical and emotional demands of caring. The services provided offer support to carers regardless of the illness that their loved one is suffering from.
Target Ovarian Cancer
If you are a woman newly-diagnosed or struggling with ovarian cancer, it is important to know you are not alone. Carers provide a vital role for women with ovarian cancer and Target Ovarian Cancer wants to support them too with useful information and guidance. We want to be there every step of the way with women and their carers, taking on their concerns and pushing for improvements in health care. We aim to improve and save lives now and in the future and have launched the biggest ever study – the Target Ovarian Cancer Pathfinder Study - into the experiences of women with ovarian cancer in the UK. Change is long overdue. Ovarian cancer has been underfunded, ill understood and neglected compared to other cancers. Visit
to find out more.