Epilepsy organisations - UK and Ireland

• International Organisations

The organisations listed below are all members of the Joint Epilepsy Council of the UK and Ireland (JEC), an umbrella body that exists to enable organisations in the UK and Ireland to work together for the benefit of people with epilepsy.

• National Society for Epilepsy
  The largest medical charity in the field of epilepsy in the UK.

• Epilepsy Scotland
  Works to enable people with epilepsy in Scotland to maximise their choices in life.

• Epilepsy Wales
  Aims to help people with epilepsy in Wales, their families and carers by offering services - a bi-lingual service is provided wherever possible

• Brainwave (Irish Epilepsy Association)
  Aims to improve the quality of life of people with epilepsy in Ireland.

• National Centre for Young People With Epilepsy
  The major provider of specialist services for young people with epilepsy in the UK

• Epilepsy Research UK
  The UK’s only national charity dedicated to epilepsy research (formed from the merger, in 2007, of the Epilepy Research Foundation and the Fund for Epilepsy)..

• Gwent Epilepsy Group
  Offers information and support to people with epilepsy, their families and friends in the Gwent area

• Quarriers Village
  Amongst other work, Quarriers provides epilepsy fieldwork services in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Moray and Glasgow.

• Epilepsy Connections
  Provides community-based support to people living with epilepsy in the Greater Glasgow area.

• Enlighten - Tackling Epilepsy
  Provides epilepsy support, information services and training in Edinburgh and East and Mid Lothian.

• Epilepsy Bereaved
  Works towards the prevention of deaths form epilepsy through raising awareness and promoting research and provides information and support to people bereaved by epilepsy.

• David Lewis Centre for Epilepsy
  The Centre, in Cheshire, cares for adults and children with severe epilepsy and associated problems.

• The Meath Trust
  Provides residential and day centre services for people with severe epilepsy, in Godalming in Surrey.

• The Epilepsy Unit
  Affiliated to the North Glasgow Hospitals University NHS Trust and to the University of Glasgow, the Unit's aims include providing a specialist clinical service for patients with suspected and established seizure disorders and to undertake research into the causation of epilepsy.

• St Elizabeth's Centre
  One of only six centres caring for children and adults with epilepsy in the UK, based in Much Hadham in Hertfordshire.

• Parkhaven Trust
  Provides an extensive range of care services in parkland settings in Maghull near Liverpool.

• Epilepsy West Lothian
  Providing services relevant to epilepsy to the people of West Lothian

• Mersey Region Epilepsy Association
  Working towards improving the quality of life for people with epilepsy and their families across Merseyside and Cheshire.