New Forest Disability Information Service
Our charity provides free, impartial, confidential disability-related information, advice and guidance to anyone in the New Forest, of any age, who is affected by any disability.
Call us, email us, drop into our office or visit one of our pop-up Local Advice Hubs.
Please support our vital work
Donations are a tremendously important source of income to New Forest Disability Information Service.
There are many ways of supporting us, including regular and one-off donations with Gift Aid, pledging a gift in your will, playing the New Forest Community Lottery and helping us fundraise. Your support will help us to help people affected by disability in the New Forest area.
Make a donation
Every regular or one-off donation, of any size, helps us to provide guidance and support for families living with disabilities.
Play the lottery
Play New Forest Community Lottery in support of New Forest Disability Information Service, with a chance to win cash prizes.
Leave a gift in your will
A gift in your will of any size will help our charity to support families living with a disability into the future, providing a lasting legacy.
News and events
Celebrating our Volunteers
At our Annual Public Meeting on Wednesday 26 October we celebrated our wonderful volunteers by presenting their long service certificates. Bronze for 1 month – 4 years; silver 5 – 9 years; gold 10 – 14 years; Platinum 15 – 19 years & Diamond 20 – 25 years. from L to R: Callum 5 years.…
Purple Tuesday
Has your business or organisation signed up for this year’s Purple Tuesday on 1st November? If not, you could be missing out! A surprising statistic is that 80% of disabled people have an invisible or hidden impairment, but only 10% of organisations have a plan in place to access the growing market of the Purple…
Praise for New Forest Disability Just Got Home service
New Forest Disability (NFD) Just Got Home (JGH) programme provides a professional Hospital to Home service that is available to New Forest residents from Lymington, Fordingbridge and Romsey Hospitals. A recent Just Got Home client reported to us that they found the service extremely useful, and went on to say ‘the information provided by the Just…
Update from Mark Parker’s Cape Wrath walk
Mark Parker is walking the Cape Wrath trail and has just sent us an update. This is what he says: On 14 September I began walking the Cape Wrath Trail, one of the world’s finest long distance walks. The route crosses the north west of Scotland from Fort William to Cape Wrath through the…
Just Got Home service expands into Fordingbridge Hospital
Funds boost for Forest disability service A charity’s work supporting disabled New Forest residents when they are discharged from hospital has won extra funding to expand one scheme and launch another. The district council’s cabinet member for housing and homelessness services, Cllr Jill Cleary, has decided to award New Forest Disability Information Service (NFDIS) an…
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