Welcome!

Link-Upp (Birmingham) exists to:

• promote support groups to parents and carers of disabled children, those with special needs and professionals from statutory and voluntary organisations.
• provide information sharing and networking for support groups for parents and carers of disabled children and children with special needs.

Membership is free - please click here for details.

We hope you'll find our new website helpful - if you have any questions or suggestions please contact feedback@link-upp.org.uk.

Latest News

To see older news stories, go to the news archive.

09/02/2012 Newsletter

To view our latest newsletter, click on the link: http://www.pageflip-flap.com/read?r=vdqgmSXVjVqwsNUMQ or copy and paste into your browser.

31/10/2011 Face2Face Bi-lingual helplines

Face 2 Face offers emotional support to parents of children who have been newly recognised as having a special need or disability. Face2Face in Birmingham is part of the Link-Upp Charity. In Birmingham as well as the main befriending service, we also offer a bi-lingual befriending service and we have 3 telephone Helplines for speakers of Urdu, Punjabi and Hindi. These lines are especially for parents who do not feel confident accessing information and support in English. The phone will be answered by fully trained volunteer befrienders in your own language. Urdu: 07796 133 230 Punjabi: 07796 133 157 Hindi: 07833 014 094 To contact the Face 2 Face co-ordinator for Birmingham about any matter: Tel: 07827 472 659 or e-mail: face2face-birmingham@live.co.uk

31/10/2011 Parent Carer Support Groups!!!!

We are still aware that some of the contact details for Parent Carer Support Groups on this website are out of date! PLEASE, if you are a member of such a group, can you take 5 minutes to check the details and inform us if they are correct, or need up-dating. We rely on your help for this.