Charities

Shaw Trust Accessibility Services supports businesses, public sector organisations and charities to create an accessible digital environment. We offer a free accessibility shapshot that provides details on the basic level of accessibility for your digital platforms. Out team of disabled testers can provide unique insights that will help you develop more accessible tools for your customers/users. We can also support you on your accessibility journey and provide a certification that can be displayed on your digital tools. For more information please get in touch with our team.

Sheffield Environmental Movement (SEM) is a Charity focusing on engaging Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic people & Refugees (BAMER) to enable access and participation in the natural environment to improve health and well-being.

The Shingles Support Society supplies information and advice on both medical treatment and self-help methods to deal with post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN) which can follow a bout of shingles, particularly in older patients. Shingles is caused by the herpes varicella-zoster (chickenpox) virus - in fact it is a recurrence of chickenpox. PHN can be excruciating and debilitating. If PHN develops, the sooner treatment starts, the greater the likelihood of eliminating it. Conventional painkillers will have no effect on the neurogenic pain of PHN so specialised treatment is required which many GPs are unaware of. We send out a 17-page information pack, which includes, a section for the GP by a consultant neurologist who specialises in pain relief, and self-help tips from other sufferers. We promote the shingles vaccine(s) and we are involved in helping patients to get involved in medical trials. We assist the media in obtaining the facts and case histories to raise awareness of the problem and its prevention and treatment.