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Ability Housing
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Ability Housing - services for people with disabilities
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ACAS - South Eastern Region
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Advice, information and support for older people Reading, Wokingham
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AgeUK Offices
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Alcohol
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Al-Anon Support for families
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Alcohol Concern
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Alcoholics Anonymous Berkshire
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Alcoholics Anonymous UK
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Support and information links from Reading Borough Council
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See also Substance Abuse, CIRDIC
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ARC - Counselling service
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The Ark Trust - see also Dis:course
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Berkshire
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Berkshire Information
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Berkshire Lesbian and Gay information network
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Berkshire Carers Centre (The Princess Royal Trust)
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Berkshire Counselling Centre
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Berkshire Credit Union - see Community Savings and Loans
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Berkshire Nurses and Relief in Sickness Trust - see Charities
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Berkshire Women’s Aid
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Bracknell Citizens Advice Bureau
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Bracknell Forest Council
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Council Tax and Benefits
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Housing Advice and Homelessness
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British Legion - See Royal British Legion
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Business Link in the South East
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Care and Nursing Homes - rated by Care Quality Commission
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Chambers of Commerce - See Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce
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Charities
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Berkshire Nurses and Relief in Sickness Trust
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The Earley Charity
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Local charities and financial support - Reading, Wokingham
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Register of Charities - to search for a charity
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Child care finder from Family Information Directory, Dept. of Education;
see also Families
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CIRDIC centre
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Citizens Advice Bureaux
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Bracknell Citizens Advice Bureau
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Maidenhead Citizens Advice Bureau
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Reading Citizens Advice Bureau
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West Berks Citizens Advice Bureau
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Wokingham Citizens Advice bureau
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Community Legal Service - CLS Directory
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Community Savings and Loans
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Clubs and Associations - see Reading, Wokingham
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Community Furniture Project - Newbury
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Community Information
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See Berkshire
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See Reading
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See West Berks
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See Wokingham
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Coroner
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Councils
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See Bracknell Forest Council
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See Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
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See Reading Borough Council
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See West Berks Council
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See Wokingham Borough Council
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Courses In Berkshire from Floodlight
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Council Tax
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Bracknell
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Reading
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West Berks
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Windsor and Maidenhead
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Wokingham
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Counselling
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See Arc, Berkshire Counselling Centre, Cruse, MIND, Relate, Samaritans
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Counselling Directory to find a counsellor locally
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Courts
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Court information and addresses search from HM Court Service
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Reading County Court - use HM Court Service search above
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Reading Crown Court - use HM Court Service search above
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Reading Magistrates Court - use HM Court Service search above
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Credit Union - See Community Savings and Loans
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Cruse
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Dentists - see NHS
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Dis:course Indpendent Disability Information from The Ark Trust
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Divorce - see Courts, Counselling, Domestic Abuse, Legal Advisers, Mediation,
Pastoral Support
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Diasabilities - See Ability Housing, Ark Trust, Dis-course, Reading BC, West Berks,
Wokingham BC, Wokingham Information Network
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Domestic abuse
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See Berkshire Womens Aid
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See Emergency Accommodation
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See Thames Valley Police
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See Reading Borough Council
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See Wokingham Borough Council
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Drugs - see Substance Abuse
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Earley Charity - see Charities
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Earley Town Council
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Emergency Accommodation
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See also Homelessness
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Salvation Army
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YMCA
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Employment Tribunal Offices
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Environmental Health - See Reading Borough Council, Wokingham Borough Council
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Families
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Family Information Service for Bracknell, Reading, West Berks.
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Wokingham Information Network
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Fifty Plus information
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From Berkshire Age Concern
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From Earley Charity
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Financial Advisers
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Find a qualified member of the Personal Finance Society
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Find an Independent Financial Adviser using Unbiased.co.uk
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Floating Support - Wokingham (SCDT)
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Forced Marriage Unit
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Furniture re-use
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Christian Community Action- Reading
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Community Furniture Project - Basingstoke
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Community Furniture Project - Newbury
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Furniture re-use in South East
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Oxfam - furniture shop Bracknell
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Re-cycling including furniture in Slough
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Thames Hospice- Furniture Mart Windsor and Bracknell
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See also - Re-cycling
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Gamblers Anonymous
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Health, see Fifty Plus, NHS, NHS Trusts
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HMRC - Revenue and Customs Enquiry Centres
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Homelessness
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See also Emergency Accommodation
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See Bracknell Forest Council
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See Reading Borough Council
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See Wokingham Borough Council
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Hospitals - see NHS, NHS Trusts
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Housing - see Councils
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Housing Associations - find using Yell.Com
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Immigration
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IAS Local Office
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Immigration Law Practitioner’s Association
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Refugee Council
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See also Reading CAB
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Insolvency Service - Reading
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Job Seeking
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Job Centre Plus - How to contact
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Find your nearest Job Centre Plus
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Jobsearch Support Groups in Thames Valley
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Wokingham Job Support Centre
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Law Society
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Land Registry - Offices
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Legal Advisers finding - see CLS, Law Society
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Letting Agents - search via Yell.Com
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Libraries
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Reading
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Wokingham
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Loans - see Community Savings and Loans
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Local Housing Allowance in England (with figures for reduced rate
for new claims from April 1st 2011)
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Local Housing Allowance - see Reading Borough, Wokingham Borough Council
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Maidenhead Citizens Advice Bureau
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Mediation
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Berkshire Family Mediation
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Thames Valley Family Mediation
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West Berks - Resolve
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Mind in your area
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MPs and MEPs (local)
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