As the local group covering Bristol & Bath for the MND Association we improve care and support for people with MND, their families and carers in our community, we help fund and promote research that leads to new understanding and treatments, and brings us closer to a cure for MND and we campaign and raise awareness so the needs of people with MND and everyone who cares for them are recognised and addressed by wider society.

We help people who are involuntarily addicted to prescribed psychotropic medication, mainly tranquillisers, sleeping pills and anti-depressants. We were set up in 1985 and become a registered charity in 1996. We run withdrawal groups and provide individual counselling . We run a helpline 4 days a week. We also run an outreach group on Tuesday afternoons at the NHS Walk-in Centre in Knowle, and on Thursday mornings at Southmead Health Centre. We are funded by the Bristol Primary Care... More

BASF supports people affected by a stroke, including their carer or family members. We do this by visiting individuals at home, assessing their needs, providing information, signposting where necessary and providing support ourselves through home visits, counselling, weekly groups and short-term groups with specific aims such as Conversation or therapy groups.