ADVICE & TELEPHONE SUPPORT
Citizens Advice Bureaux
offer free information and advice on a wide range of issues: financial, benefits, consumer, legal, housing etc. at their offices, by telephone, online and by email. They might also be able to visit people in their homes. Use ‘Search’ to find contact details for the offices in the Haverfordwest district (including Fishguard, Goodwick, Milford Haven, Narberth & St Davids) & Pembroke Dock district (including Kilgetty, Pembroke & Tenby).
Connect For Disability Rights Advice
aims to help people with all kinds of disabilities, in Pembrokeshire and beyond, to obtain community care, disability benefits, etc.
Pembrokeshire Access Group
provides information about accessibility to buildings, outdoor activities, etc for people with disabilities.
Samaritans
provide confidential emotional support, 24 hours a day for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, by phone 08457 90 90 90 (for the cost of a local call) or email. To visit the local office at Haverfordwest, ring 01437 766699
Welfare Advice Service
offers information on welfare and social security benefit entitlements in order to achieve higher levels of benefit take up, and also undertakes advocacy and representation to challenge decisions about welfare rights.
CARERS
Pembrokeshire Association of Voluntary Services
Carers support
Pembrokeshire Crossroads
aims to give practical support, usually in the home, to give carers some respite. Tel. 01437 764639. email
Pembrokeshire Young Carers
aims to support children and young people between the ages of 11 & 16 who provide care for another person.
Princess Royal Trust Pembrokeshire Carers Centre
in Haverfordwest aims to deliver a wide range of local support services to meet the needs of carers in their own communities.
EDUCATION
Learning Pembrokeshire
HEALTHCARE
Pembrokeshire Community Health Council
offers information and advice about health and related services in our area to local people. They also advise and support people who wish to make complaints about NHS Services.
Pembrokeshire and Derwen NHS Trust
provides an integrated, community and acute health care service at hospitals and outreach clinics.
Pembrokeshire Local Health Board
is responsible for monitoring and developing primary care services (GPs, dentists, opticians, pharmacists) and for tackling health inequalities.
Local Doctors, Dentists, Pharmacists and Opticians
HOUSEHOLD REPAIRS & ALTERATIONS
Care and Repair Pembrokeshire
offers help with carrying out house repairs and installing disability livings aids for people over the age of 65, and also vulnerable disabled people who do not have any existing support network, i.e. single with no care/family support. There is a special service for those due for discharge from hospital.
LIBRARY SERVICES
SOCIAL CARE & DISABILITY SUPPORT
The British Red Cross
can lend items of medical equipment, such as wheelchairs, bed rests and commodes, to people on a short-term basis.
Pembrokeshire Lifeline
an emergency alarm service.
Social services: Children with disabilities
Social services: Community care for adults
SHOP MOBILITY
PIPPA (Physically Impaired People of Pembrokeshire Association)
lends scooters & wheelchairs at Bridgend Square, Haverfordwest (between Multi storey Car Park & Tourist Information Centre). Advance booking required. Also lends disability aids & can deliver within Pembs. 01437 760665
TRANSPORT
Cars for Carers
aims to provide transport for unpaid carers looking after family members, friends or neighbours: essential journeys for shopping, appointments, contact with friends and organisations.
Contact Rachel Evans 01437 768195 email
Country Cars
offers a service to all residents of Pembrokeshire, regardless of age, who do not have transport for essential journeys.
Contact WRVS County Co-ordinator 01437 762911
Pembrokeshire Community Transport
help people and groups who don’t have access to their own transport and who don’t have or can’t use conventional public transport services.
Red Cross - Transport and Escort Service
offers suitable transport, with escort if required or an escort service on public transport. Wheelchair users can only be accommodated if they can move unaided from chair to vehicle. Based at South Pembrokeshire Hospital, Pembroke Dock.