Blue Badge - scheme helps you park closer to your destination if you’re disabled.

https://www.hillingdon.gov.uk/blue-badge

Dial-a-Ride - is TfL's free door-to-door service for those with permanent or long-term disabilities.

https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/dial-a-ride/membership?intcmp=4002

The London Taxicard - This scheme provides subsidised door to door journeys in licensed taxis and private hire vehicles for London residents who have serious mobility or visual impairments.

https://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/services/taxicard/apply-taxicard-your-borough

Public Transport - You might be able to get free or reduced travel if you are travelling with the person you care for to help them get around by bus, train or coach.

Taking a break from the emotional and physical demands of a caring role can be invaluable, ensuring the carer can relax and recharge.

Whether it’s an hour, a day or a week’s holiday, taking a break as a carer has numerous benefits.

There are many options available:

Holiday Information guide - The Holiday information guide is packed with information to help people with learning disabilities and those closest to them choose an accessible, disability-friendly holiday.

https://www.hft.org.uk/our-services/family-carer-support-service/fcss-updates/holiday-information-guide/

Family Holiday Charity - The Family Holiday Assoc. provides breaks at holiday sites, or grants to help with the cost of a holiday to low-income families. You will need to be referred by your Social Worker, GP, Health Visitor or a Advisor at Carers Trust Hillingdon.

https://familyholidaycharity.org.uk

Revitalise - Revitalise provides respite holidays for disabled people and their carers.

https://revitalise.org.uk

Your local library can offer more than just borrowing books. Its a great place to find support and meet other people

All Hillingdon’s libraries are accessible and easy to get around, especially if the person you care for has mobility issues. They are a local Community Information Hub

Remember you can borrow a lot more that just books from your local library, there are eBooks, audiobooks, DVDs and console games. They also have large print or books in Braille.

All libraries have computers and IT equipment that you can use for free, staff can show you how to use them. They also provide learning workshops on how to use a computer.

All the libraries have something going on everyday whether its a group session, activities, events or a carers group meet-up.
Some libraries have facilities such as a café or rooms for hire.

They are dementia friendly with staff being able to support the person you care for. Most libraries offer the Toveltafel, which is a games console designed for use with service users of dementia or other disabilities.

Borrowing a book if you can’t visit a library

Hillingdon has a Home Library Service which can deliver books and other items to your home if you can’t get out to a library. They even offer eBooks and audiobooks that you can download onto a computer, laptop or tablet for free.

Visitor attractions and Leisure Centres may offer discounts or free entry to carers.

CarerSmart - offer benefits and discounts to carers and people with care needs. CarerSmart is a Carers Trust club that is open to carers, people with care needs and staff and volunteers from across the Carers Trust network.

https://carers.org/grants-and-discounts/carersmart-discount-club

Hillingdon Theatres - Compass Theatre, Winston Churchill Theatre and Manor Farm. Tickets are free to carers on request. Wheelchair friendly, disabled badge holder car parking spaces and assistance dogs are welcome. The auditoriums are fitted with an induction loops for those with hearing difficulties.

https://discover.hillingdon.gov.uk/our-theatres

Beck Theatre - provides complimentary tickets to carers on providing proof of receipt of certain benefits DLA, PIP or AA also VIC (visual impaired). They also offer dementia film screening, different slightly from a regular cinema performance.

https://discover.hillingdon.gov.uk/beck-theatre

Cinema CEA - The CEA Card is a national card scheme developed for UK cinemas that enables a disabled cinema guest to receive a complimentary ticket for someone to accompany them.

https://www.ceacard.co.uk/

Sports and Leisure Centres - Botwell Green, Highgrove, Hillingdon, and Queensmead. Carers attending any leisure centre in order to assist a disabled person will be admitted free of charge. The Hillingdon LeisureLink scheme provides savings on leisure activities to a number of concessionary groups.

https://www.hillingdon.gov.uk/leisurelink

Keeping Active - doesn't necessarily mean going to the gym or doing sports – walking, dancing, active housework, washing the car and gardening are also good ways to keep active. It has both physical and mental benefits. There are different activities you can pursue.

Arts and Culture - Local history and heritage, Battle of Britain bunker.

Search the appropriate categories here to see the local history and heritage activities and areas available.

https://discover.hillingdon.gov.uk/events

Local Parks - Across the borough, there are lots of beautiful parks and greens spaces for residents and visitors to enjoy.

https://www.hillingdon.gov.uk/local-parks

National Trust - The Essential Companion card makes it simple to bring one or two carers or companions with you, free of charge.

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/

Care and Connect

Dementia Friendly Places app helps you to find places that are dementia friendly.  If you care for someone with dementia, or are a person living with dementia, use this app to discover new places to visit.

Download from here: iTunes

Or follow the link below:

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/care-connect-dementia-friendly/id985980528