Links

Buckinghamshire websites 

County and district councils

• Buckinghamshire County Council - www.buckscc.gov.uk  
• Aylesbury Vale District Council - www.aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk
• Chiltern District Council - www.chiltern.gov.uk
• South Bucks District Council - www.southbucks.gov.uk  
• Wycombe District Council - www.wycombe.gov.uk  
• Milton Keynes Council - www.milton-keynes.gov.uk

Travel

• Aylesbury Vale Dial-A-Ride - www.dialaride.org.uk
• Buckinghamshire & Milton Keynes' Guide to Alternative Transport Schemes - www.alt-transport.org.uk
• Chiltern Railways - www.chilternrailways.co.uk
• National Rail - www.nationalrail.co.uk
• Arriva buses - www.arrivabus.co.uk
• Traveline South East - www.travelinesoutheast.org.uk - public transport journey planner
• also see travel section on Buckinghamshire County Council pages

Housing

• Vale of Aylesbury Housing - www.vaht.co.uk  
• Housing 21 - www.housing21.org.uk  
• Radian - www.radian.co.uk
• Guinness Partnership - www.guinnesspartnership.com
• Paradigm Housing - www.paradigmhousing.co.uk

Health 

Two Primary Care Trusts cover Buckinghamshire

• Buckinghamshire Primary Care Trust - www.buckspct.nhs.uk
• Milton Keynes Primary Care Trust - www.miltonkeynes.nhs.uk 

Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health NHS Trust - www.obmh.nhs.uk

Local Involvement Networks (LINks) are groups of people who are striving to make health and social care services better in their community. There are two groups in the county: 

• www.buckinghamshirelink.co.uk covers most of Buckinghamshire
• www.miltonkeyneslink.co.uk covers the north of the county

Employment 

• Bucks Workability - www.bucksworkability.com

Disability-specific groups

• BucksVision - www.bucksvision.co.uk - provides services for those with sight loss
• Buckinghamshire Mind - www.bucksmind.org.uk - mental health education, campaigning, and services
   

Other

• Thomley Activity Centre - thomleyactivitycentre.org - a recreational facility for disabled children, their families, friends, schools and groups

National websites

General organisations and information

• Radar - www.radar.org.uk - the largest disability campaigning organisation 
• Disabled Parents Network - www.disabledparentsnetwork.org.uk - a national organisation of and for disabled parents, those who hope to become parents, families and supporters 
• Carers UK - www.carersuk.org - a voice for carers
• Care Quality Commission - www.cqc.org.uk - independent regulator of health and social care in England
• Employers for Carers - www.employersforcarers.org - a service for employers to help you retain the 1 in 7 employees in your workforce caring for a family member
• BBC Ouch! - www.bbc.co.uk/ouch - disability website from the BBC
• Disability Now - www.disabilitynow.org.uk - disability magazine
• DisabledGo - www.disabledgo.com  - disability information
• Disability Alliance - www.disabilityalliance.org - working to improve the living standards of disabled people

Accessibility Tools

• BrowseAloud - www.browsealoud.com - reads web pages aloud

Benefits, work and rights information 

• UK government information and services -  www.directgov.org.uk - includes information previously found at the Jobcentre Plus website
• Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service - www.acas.gov.uk - employment relations and human resources
• Equality and Human Rights Commission - www.equalityhumanrights.com
• Office for Disability Issues - www.odi.gov.uk
• Department of Health - www.doh.gov.uk 

Disability-specific groups 

• Asthma UK - www.asthma.org.uk 
• The National Autistic Society - www.autism.org.uk
• Asperger's Syndrome Foundation - www.aspergerfoundation.org.uk 
• Arthritis Care - www.arthritiscare.org.uk
• Arthritis Research UK - www.arthritisresearchuk.org
• Childrens Chronic Arthritis Association - www.ccaa.org.uk 
• Scope - www.scope.org.uk - "About cerebral palsy.  For disabled people achieving equality" 
• Cystic Fibrosis Trust - www.cftrust.org.uk 
• Diabetes UK - www.diabetes.org.uk 
• Downs Syndrome Association - www.downs-syndrome.org.uk 
• British Dyslexia Association - www.bdadyslexia.org.uk 
• Dyspraxia Foundation - www.dyspraxiafoundation.org.uk 
• Epilepsy Action - www.epilepsy.org.uk
• National Society for Epilepsy - www.epilepsysociety.org.uk
• Child Growth Foundation - www.childgrowthfoundation.org - supporting children and adults with growth-related problems
• Headway - www.headway.org.uk - the brain injury association
• Mencap - www.mencap.org.uk - the voice of learning disability
• Association of Young People with ME - www.ayme.org.uk
• Muscular Dystrophy Campaign - www.muscular-dystrophy.org
• Trailblazers - www.mdctrailblazers.org - fighting against the social injustices experienced by young people living with muscle disease, run by the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign
• Sickle Cell Society - www.sicklecellsociety.org.uk
• IA (the ileostomy and internal pouch support group) - www.iasupport.org
• Action for Blind People - www.actionforblindpeople.org.uk
• Royal National Institute of Blind People - www.rnib.rg.uk - supporting blind and partially sighted people
• Royal National Institute for Deaf People - www.rnid.org.uk - RNID is a nationwide charity tackling hearing loss and making hearing matter. They have an office and an equipment service in Buckinghamshire