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Scope is a leading disability charity, with a proud tradition of investing in the lives of people with cerebral palsy. Scope's campaigning work over the last five decades has brought many positive changes to the lives of disabled children and adults.
Although cerebral palsy is Scope's area of expertise, our mission extends to driving the change to make our society the first where all disabled people achieve equality. This means creating a society where disabled people are as valued, and have the same human and civil rights as everyone else.
Scope supports disabled people throughout their lives providing professional support and opportunities for those with additional support needs while fundamentally challenging society's barriers so that all disabled people can reach their full potential and achieve equality.
To ensure this, Scope provides a range of support services - including early years, independent living, education and employment services - to meet the needs of over 20,000 disabled people and their families each year, at every stage of their lives.
Our services offer opportunities for empowerment and enable disabled people to have choice and control over their everyday lives. Scope believes that disabled people should make their own decisions about how they want to live, and what they want to achieve in their own lives, in order to gain as much control and independence as possible. Moreover, all of Scope's services and activities are led by disabled people - their lived experiences are at the heart of everything we do.
Scope Response is our free information and guidance service to disabled people and their families. It is the first point of contact for people who would like information on cerebral palsy, a wide range of disability issues and all of Scope's services.
Scope campaigns on a range of issues that affect disabled people's lives. Our flagship campaign, Time to Get Equal, focuses on beating disablism (the discrimination disabled people face), the right to communicate, confronting the social care crisis and making rights a reality.
www.scope.org.uk
Every year in the UK hundreds of young people under the age of 24 take their own lives. Under the age of 35 the number rises to well over 1,000. Shocking statistics - and just the tip of the iceberg. Many thousands of young people contemplate suicide and a considerable number of those go on to make a suicide attempt.
But there is hope. Suicide need not be the inevitable result of feeling suicidal and early intervention can save lives. PAPYRUS is a national charity dedicated to the prevention of young suicide. It was formed in 1997 by parents who had lost a son or daughter through suicide: parents determined not to see another life lost in this way.
Suicidal young people can feel isolated. Those around them may be 'walking on egg shells', worried - and therefore hesitant - that what they say might tip that person over the edge.
PAPYRUS has helped hundreds of people to help others. Its helpline, HOPELineUK, is staffed by trained professionals who provide practical advice, information and support - how to cope, what to say and do - to anyone concerned that a young person may be at risk of harming themselves. If you are worried or indeed are a young person feeling suicidal yourself you should never hesitate to call. Total confidence and anonymity are guaranteed.
As well as raising awareness of the danger signals PAPYRUS produces a range of resources for different sectors of the community - parents and families, young people, young offenders, ethnic and minority groups, mental health professionals, universities and colleges. It initiates research into suicide prevention, is represented in policy-making decisions and campaigns to protect vulnerable young people being groomed for suicide on the internet.
www.papyrus-uk.org for more information.
Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is the UK's most common life-threatening inherited disease. It affects over 8,000 children and young adults by clogging up the internal organs with thick sticky mucus making it hard to breathe and digest food.
Each week five babies are born with CF and each week three young lives are lost. Sadly, average life expectancy is just 31.
Cystic Fibrosis is caused by a single faulty gene. 1 in 25 of us carries this faulty gene and if two carriers start a family, each baby has a 1 in 4 chance of having Cystic Fibrosis.
The Cystic Fibrosis Trust is the UK's only national charity dealing with all areas of Cystic Fibrosis. The CF Trust provides information, advice and support to families. It campaigns for fair health care for those with CF and most importantly, it funds research to treat and cure Cystic Fibrosis.
Beth is seven and has Cystic Fibrosis. To stay well, Beth has to take lots of medicines and do lots of treatment every day. This includes getting up early and having 40 minutes of physiotherapy and inhaling drugs to clear the chest.
Beth has to take dozens of pills with every meal or snack to let her digest the food she is eating.
If she has a chest infection, Beth also has to have injected antibiotics to fight this – her chest is quite weak and infections can cause permanent damage to the lungs. Lung damage is the cause of death for 90% of those with Cystic Fibrosis.
In the evening, Beth has to have more physiotherapy and more inhaled drugs. This routine has to go on every day without exception.
For more information about Cystic Fibrosis and the work of the CF Trust, visit www.cftrust.org.uk
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