Lighthouse Central Competitors

Able Child Africa is a UK registered charity that works to secure equal rights for children and young people with disabilities in Africa. We are the leading UK charity working solely to improve the lives of children with disabilities in Africa, working with some of the most vulnerable children in the world. Working alongside local partners in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Zambia and Malawi we deliver high-quality programmes that protect, educate and empower children with disabilities, breaking down barriers to inclusion so they can fulfill their potential. We fight for the rights of children with disabilities, creating change on a national scale by influencing governments and other agencies with our lessons learnt. And we strengthen local organisations on the ground to ensure they can deliver lasting change in the countries where we work. We have over 35 years’ experience working with local partners across Africa to improve the lives of children with disabilities. Initially founded in 1984 as the Uganda Society for Disabled Children (USDC), we became Able Child Africa in 2007 and began supporting local partners other countries in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Zambia and Malawi. We now use the expertise we have built up over the last 35 years to make lasting change for children with disabilities across Africa.

At Wiltshire Treehouse, we believe every child and young person should have access to support during their grieving process. We enable those in our local communities to improve the coping strategies, skills and confidence needed to better manage daily life.

Blackpool Carers Centre are a charity working directly to support carers living in Blackpool who are providing unpaid care for a loved one, friend, neighbour or family member. Our aim is to make life better for carers and help them manage their caring role alongside the stresses of everyday life. The team at Blackpool Carers offers both practical and emotional support to carers as young as 5 years old, although there are no age limits to say when an unexpected caring role can strike and the training and support offered covers a wide-range of physical and mental health conditions. There are projects specifically for families and those who are engaging with support for substance misuse, as well as training and support for those caring for Dementia or mental ill-health. For those who need wider support, we engage and work alongside other agencies to ensure the right measures are in place and offer respite activities and one to one support. Often the best support we can give is the carer simply knowing that they are not alone. Carers come in all shapes and sizes and look after loved ones with a variety of illnesses and conditions including mental ill-health and substance misuse. Many of our carers don’t even see themselves in a caring role because looking after a loved one or family member “is just something that you do” but we help them see that they don’t have to do it alone. We work in partnership with Blackpool businesses to promote our services and give organisations the knowledge and support they need to help them maintain a looked after work-force, raising their profile as a caring employer and helping them develop an engaged workforce and giving them excellent staff retention and improving their candidate levels when recruiting.