support services
Health groups operating within the Banbridge District include:
| Name: | Action Multiple Sclerosis (Banbridge Group) |
| Contact: |
Barbara Moore |
| Address: | Scarva Street, Banbridge, Co. Down |
| Meeting Place: | Social Services, Banbridge |
| Meeting Time: | 2nd Thursday of month |
| Activities: | Concerned with issues affecting people with multiple sclerosis |
| Name: | Banbridge & Craigavon Area Carers Support Group |
| Contact: |
Patricia Jordan |
| Address: | Old Technical Building, Downshire Road, Banbridge, Co. Down BT32 3JY |
| Activities: | Self-help organisation providing information, advice and training |
| Name: | Banbridge Arthritis Care Group |
| Contact: |
Margaret Stevenson |
| Address: | 3 Huntly Road, Banbridge, Co. Down BT32 3BS |
| Meeting Place: | Social Services Centre, Iveagh Suite Room, Banbridge |
| Meeting Time: | Third Monday of each month from 7.30 – 9.30pm |
| Activities: | Enabling arthritis suffers to get out and about |
| Name: | Banbridge Coronary Support Group |
| Contact: |
Anne Mackin |
| Address: | 18 Doyles Road, Katesbridge, Co. Down BT32 5NL |
| Meeting Place: | Copperfields |
| Meeting Time: | 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month at 8.00pm |
| Activities: | Provides both an aftercare service and preventitive advice |
| Name: | Cancer Research NI (Banbridge Branch) |
| Contact: |
Nan White T: 028 4062 3719 |
| Address: | 8 Listullyard Road, Banbridge, Co. Down |
| Meeting Time: | Varies Tuesday/Wednesday at 7.30pm |
| Activities: | Fund-raising activities |
| Name: | Community Health Information Project |
| Contact: |
Ann Conde F: 028 4062 9930 |
| Meeting Place: | Rooms D4 & D5, Old Technical Building, Banbridge |
| Activities: | Provides health information to the community |
| Name: | Craigavon & Banbridge Arts Care Committee |
| Contact: |
Edel Benett |
| Address: | Bannvale House, 10 Moyallen Road, Gilford BT36 5JX |
| Activities: | Delivers quality programmes of art in healthcare environments |
| Name: | Craigavon & Banbridge Home Accident Prevention |
| Contact: |
Ann McCleland |
| Address: | C/o 1 Carn Drive, Carn Industrial Estate, Portadown, BT63 5RN |
| Name: | Dromore Branch of the Ulster Cancer Foundation |
| Contact: |
M.E. Mackey |
| Address: | 4 Mackey’s Lane, Dromore, Co. Down BT25 1NQ |
| Meeting Place: | RJ Poots & Co. Offices |
| Meeting Time: | One Tuesday each month |
| Activities: | Raise money for research, education and care of patients |
| Name: | Drugs Awareness Project |
| Contact: |
David Boyd |
| Address: | TASSK Healthy Living Centre, Banbridge |
| Activities: | Tackling drug and alchol use and misuse |
| Name: | Lurgan, Portadown & Banbridge Spina Bifida & Hydrocephalus Association |
| Contact: |
Brendan Byrne |
| Address: | 6 Holymount Road, Laurencetown BT63 6AT |
| Meeting Time: | 2nd and 4th Tuesday each month at 8.00pm |
| Activities: | Promote the welfate of spina bifida victims living locally |
| Name: | Palliative Care Project |
| Contact: |
Victoria Elliot |
| Address: | TASSK Healthy Living Centre, Banbridge |
| Activities: | Free service of 10 sessions of counselling and complementary therapy |
| Name: | ROSPA (Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents) |
| Contact: |
Janice Bisp |
| Address: | Nella House, Dargan Cresent, Belfast BT3 9JP |
| Activities: | Enhance quality of life by exercising accident prevention |
| Name: | St. John’s Ambulance Brigade |
| Contact: |
TBC |
| Address: | TBC |
| Meeting Place: | Social Education Centre, 1a Meeting House Road, Banbridge |
| Meeting Time: | Monday from 8.00pm – 10.00pm |
| Activities: | Provide first-aid cover at sport and public events |
| Name: | Suicide Awareness Project |
| Contact: |
Victoria Elliot T: 028 4062 5167 |
| Address: | TASSK Healthy Living Centre, Banbridge |
| Activities: | Looks at prevention, intervention and bereavement issues |
| Name: | TASSK (Targeting Access to Services Skills and Knowledge) |
| Contact: |
Ann McCusker F: 028 4062 9930 |
| Address: | TASSK Healthy Living Centre, Banbridge |
| Activities: | Improve the health and well-being of disadvantaged individuals |
| Name: | The Samaritans |
| Contact: |
T: 028 3833 3555 |
| Address: | 162 Thomas Street, Portadown |
| Activities: | Providing confidential emotional support to those in need |
| Name: | Volunteer Training Project |
| Contact: |
Louise McCauley F: 028 4062 9930 |
| Address: | TASSK Healthy Living Centre, Rooms D4 & D5, Banbridge |
| Activities: | Promotes volunteering as a key to community development |
| Name: | Wah Hep (Chinese Community Association) |
| Contact: |
Paul Yam |
| Address: | 1 Legahory Centre, Brownlow, Craigavon BT65 5BE |
| Activities: | Interpreting, adult education, senior citizens, after schools club |