Optua (Formerly Rethink Disability)
Optua is a Stowmarket based charity which provides a wide range of services for disabled people, including a disability advice and advocacy service, accessible community transport services, leisure activities and events, and also runs Mid Suffolk Volunteer Centre in Stowmarket, which recruits and places volunteers with many different organisations and promotes volunteering. Web Site

National Volunteering Organisation
The National Volunteering Database is a database which displays volunteering opportunities throughout the country. Organisations can contact their local Volunteer Centre to give details of their volunteering vacancies and have them entered on the website, and when using the website, members of the public enter their post code, the times they wish to volunteer and the database will come up with a selection of opportunities to fit their criteria, and a contact for more information Web Site

Suffolk County Council Childcare Information Service
Find out about local childcare and pre-school facilities in your area. Tel. 0845 60 800 33 . Web Site
 
Midsuffolk Action In Partnership (MAP)
Based at the Red Gables Resource Centre in Stowmarket, MAP is a charity whose role is to provide support to the voluntary and community sector throughout Mid Suffolk. If an organisation needs help with anything, they can contact us and we’ll either help or use our extensive range of contacts to find someone who can. Web Site