This is Contact a Family's office for the London Borough of Ealing. In addition, we have a Contact a Family office in Southall specifically aimed at supporting Asian families.

We can be contacted at:

Contact a Family Ealing
Room 3, First Floor
St Andrew's Church Centre
Mount Park Road
London
W5 2RS
Tel: 020 8810 8151
e-mail: ealing.office@cafamily.org.uk

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The office is staffed by:

• Project Manager, Stefan Wrana, e-mail: stefan.wrana@cafamily.org.uk
• Co-ordinator, Heather Matthews, e-mail: heather.matthews@cafamily.org.uk

Family Workers

• BME Family Worker, Ursula Zemek, e-mail: ursula.zemek@cafamily.org.uk

Contact a Family Ealing can help by:

• Offering information, advice and support to parents and carers of children with any special need or disability as well as professionals working with families
• Giving advice on specific issues such as education, welfare rights, housing and social services. We are also able to assist parent carers with any correspondence, grant and benefit applications and liaison with other organisations.
• Offering access to a well-stocked library covering specific disabling conditions and syndromes, current legislation and details of national and local support networks for parent carers. We also provide free access to the Internet for any parent member.
• Holding "Parent-Link" drop-in sessions during term time to which guest speakers are invited. In addition we run support groups on particular issues such as transition and rare syndromes. All provide an opportunity to talk to other parents, share ideas and information and meet relevant professionals. We can also link you with other families in the UK via our National Helpline.

For more information about Contact a Family Ealing, download our leaflet (0.1Mb) in Adobe Acrobat pdf format

Membership of Contact a Family Ealing

Contact a Family Ealing has a membership of over 250 families. Members receive a bi-monthly newsletter, which keeps them up to date with news and developments both locally and nationally. Our UK office also produces a range of publications and factsheets relevant to parents. These are also available from the Ealing office.

Opportunities for Volunteering

Contact a Family Ealing provides student work placements for young people with disabilities as well as volunteering opportunities at our office base to gain charity administration experience. We also recruit volunteers over the age of sixteen to staff our holiday playschemes, outings and parties.

Fundraising

Contact a Family Ealing receives grant aid from Ealing Council but we rely heavily on donations from individuals and grant-giving organisations. If you would like to help our project by making a donation or taking part in a fundraising event, we would be pleased to hear from you.

Contact a Family Ealing gratefully acknowledges support from the following organisations:

• BBC Children in Need
• Capital Radio "Help a London Child"
• Capital Radio "Share a Capital Christmas"
• Ealing Focus ~ Do It All
• Glaxo Wellcome
• London Borough of Ealing
• West London TEC Charitable Trust

If you would like to find out more about Contact a Family Ealing, please telephone, write or e-mail us at the above address.

Debt advice in London

Contact a Family has entered into a pilot project with Citizens Advice Bureau to improve the supply of face to face debt advice to families with disabled children. The Greater London area is one of the pilot areas in which the new service has started. There are seven workers based in Camden CAB who offer advice and help for families with disabled children anywhere in the Greater London area. They will arrange to visit you at home anywhere in London. If you would like to make an appointment, please call the Contact a Family helpline on 0808 808 3555 and we will arrange an appointment for you.