{"id":19,"date":"2010-06-25T11:16:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T11:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicolewitts.org.uk\/?p=19"},"modified":"2010-06-25T11:16:13","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T11:16:13","slug":"how-to-get-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"How to Get Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_20\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/EEG_early_studies_edited11.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20\" title=\"EEG_early_studies_edited\" src=\"http:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/EEG_early_studies_edited11-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taking a break during brain scans<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brain Cancer charities in the UK support a range of help  services which you can draw upon whether you are a patient, a carer, a  friend or a relative. There are telephone helplines, email help  addresses, online forums, support groups and special funds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Telephone Help Lines<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Samantha Dickson Brain Tumour Trust Helpline: <strong>0845 130 9733<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brain Tumour UK Helpline: <strong>0845 4500 386<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brain and Spine Foundation Helpline: <strong>0800 808 1000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brainstrust Helpline: <strong>01983 292405<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brain Tumour Action (Scotland) <strong>0131 466 3116<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brainwaves (Northern Ireland) <strong>028 9335 3995<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Support Groups<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brain Tumour Research maintain a comprehensive list of support groups  which meet around the UK. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.braintumourresearch.org\/index.php\/support-\/support-groups-.html\">Click  here for the list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Online Forums<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brain Tumour Action run an active online help forum \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/health.dir.groups.yahoo.com\/group\/btuk\/\">click here for  more details and to join<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Special Funds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Denny Care and Relief Fund was founded in1998 to provide  financial assistance to those diagnosed with a brain tumour and their  affected families or carers with a view to enabling them to enjoy an  improved quality of life and independence in the community. Following  submission of an application form and supporting documentation, and  consideration by the Fund\u2019s Assessment Panel, one-off grants of up to  \u00a3500 may be awarded. The Fund is administered by Brain Tumour UK \u2013  contact them on <strong>0845 4500 386.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Help by Email<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:support@braintumouruk.org.uk\">Brain Tumour UK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:support@hammerout.co.uk\">Hammer Out<\/a> (South West  England)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:administrator@braintumouraction.org.uk\">Brain Tumour  Action<\/a> (Scotland)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:brainwavesni@hotmail.com\">Brainwaves<\/a> (Northern  Ireland)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brain Cancer charities in the UK support a range of help services which you can draw upon whether you are a patient, a carer, a friend or a relative. There are telephone helplines, email help addresses, online forums, support groups and special funds. Telephone Help Lines Samantha Dickson Brain Tumour Trust Helpline: 0845 130 9733 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[14,15,20,21,22,24,27,28,29,40,49,60,61,62,63,79,85,94,96,98],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}