Support for carers

There are a number of local and national voluntary and statutory organisations that can provide carers with information and advice.

Some will also advocate on your behalf. Some have set up carers' groups where you can meet with other carers.

Opening days and times vary from organisation to organisation, so give them a call for up-to-date details.

Lambeth Carers

Lambeth Carers offers a number of services for carers and former carers.

These include:

• Information and advice
• Advocacy
• Support
• Consultation and representation
• Improving services
• Outreach
• Register of carers

Lambeth Carers
336 Brixton Road
London
SW9 7AA
Telephone: 020 7733 9600
Email: info@lambethcarers.org.uk
Website: www.lambethcarers.org.uk

Disability Advice Service Lambeth (DASL)

DASL offers general advice and information to carers on all aspects of disability to support them in their caring roles. DASL can also provide casework to carers in relation to their cared for person's benefits, housing issues or community care services.

DASL can also provide information and advice for Lambeth's direct payments scheme which is available to adult carers and parent carers. They can help with recruitment and management of personal assistants, training in managing direct payments, and regular meetings where you can talk with other direct payments users.

Disability Advice Service Lambeth (DASL)
336 Brixton Road
London
SW9 7AA
Tel: 020 7738 5656
Textphone: 020 7978 8765
Email: enquiry.line@disabilitylambeth.org.uk
Website: www.disabilitylambeth.org.uk

Age Concern Lambeth

Age Concern Lambeth has an information and advice service for people aged over 50 and their carers.

Issues covered include benefits and support services.

Age Concern Lambeth
336 Brixton Road
London 
SW9 7AA
Telephone: 020 7733 0528
Email: admin@aclambeth.org.uk
Website: www.ageconcernlambeth.org.uk

Mencap

Mencap provides support to people with learning disabilities aged 18 and over and to their families and carers.

They can provide information and advice on community care, employment, housing, and welfare benefits.

Mencap
123 Golden Lane
London
EC1Y 0RT
Telephone: 020 7454 0454
Email: information@mencap.org.uk
Website: www.mencap.org.uk

Lambeth Mind

This is a group run by mental health service users and survivors.

They provide a telephone information line for people living in Lambeth and Southwark, providing information on issues such as community care, debt, housing and mental health.

The service can be used by mental health service users, carers, professionals, people experiencing mental distress, their families and friends.

Lambeth MIND
The Co-op Centre
Unit 29
11 Mowll Street
London
SW9 6BG
Telephone: 020 7735 3505
Email: info@slmind.freeserve.co.uk
Website:www.lambethmind.org.uk

Lambeth Chinese Community Association

This association provides advice, support and access to services for Chinese residents of Lambeth.

Lambeth Chinese Community Association
69 Stockwell Road
London
SW9 9PY
Telephone: 020 7733 4377

Contact a Family

Contact a Family help and support for children with disabilities their parents and carers.

They organise a range of activities and groups.

Lambeth Contact-a-Family
256 Brixton Hill
Brixton
SW2 1HF
Telephone: 020 8671 7665

Family Link

This organisation offers support to children with disabilities and their families.

They provide family based short break care through trained volunteers for children and young people aged 0-19 who have a disability and live in Lambeth.

These breaks also provide the children and young people with the opportunity of making new relationships outside the family home.

Family Link
Laburnum Court
1 Barstow Crescent
Palace Road
London
SW2 3NS
Telephone: 020 8671 8939
Email: administrator@lambethfamilylink.org.uk
Website: www.lfl.org.uk

Lambeth Elderly Association of Vietnam

Information, advice and advocacy for Vietnamese and Chinese elders and their carers.

Lambeth Elderly Association of Vietnam
56b Courland Grove
London
SW8 2PU
Telephone: 020 7498 2465
Email: elderlyproject@yahoo.co.uk

Lambeth Crossroads

Lambeth Crossroads give practical support to carers. It includes two projects:

Breaks for Carers

We send trained and experienced care attendants to carers' homes on a regular basis to care for ill or disabled adults or children so that the carer can have a break. Our care attendants provide companionship, light domestic work and personal care. They can also take the cared for person on outings from the home. The service is available 24 hours per day (including overnights) and every day of the week. There is a specialist palliative respite care service for carers of people with a terminal illness.

The service is free for people referred by social services or for the specialist palliative respite care service. Carers can also refer themselves and buy this service privately or using direct payments.

Carers' Breaks Project (Director: Jenny Ochera)
Tel: 020 8671 6188
email: coordinators@lambethxroads.org.uk

Young Carers Project

Information, advice and support for children and young people (5-19) caring for a family member with an illness or disability.

The project offers

• Holiday trips and outings
• Homework clubs
• Youth clubs
• One-to-one support

Open to professional and self-referrals

Young Carers Project (Manager: Sheila Hammond)
Tel: 020 8678 5605
email: youngcarers@lambethxroads.org.uk

Lambeth Crossroads
Laburnum Court
Barstow Crescent
Palace Road
London SW2 3NS

Lambeth Mental Health Carer Support Service (Making Space)

Support is offered to unpaid adult carers of a friend or family member with a mental health issue. Information and advice is available on a range of issues such as housing, welfare benefits, further education, employment and mental illness. In addition Making Space offers sign-posting, advocacy and one-to-one emotional support. They also run a BME mental health carers support group and are looking into respite options. 

The eligibility criteria are as follows:

• A person who is an unpaid carer for someone with a mental health issue;
• The carer must be aged between 18-65 years, and...
• Care for a friend or family member who is also aged 18-65 years;
• The carer can either reside in Lambeth or outside the borough. The cared for adult must reside in Lambeth;
• If the carer wants ongoing one-to-one support (defined as 3 or more sessions) they must have an up-to-date Carer's Assessment completed by the service user's Care Co-ordinator and the service user must meet the councils FACS criteria.

Carers can be referred by any professional or alternatively they can self refer. Please make referrals via post, phone, or email:

Making Space
Lambeth Accord
336 Brixton Road
London 
SW9 7AA
Telephone: 0207 326 0298
Email: lambethcarerssupport@makingspace.co.uk
Website: www.makingspace.co.uk (This is the general Making Space website and does not include information about individual services.)