Here you can find organisations that are willing to help you and your carer and others.
Advocacy Resource Exchange www.advocacyresource.org.uk Email: advocacyfinder@advocacyresource.org.uk Tel: 02380 234 904 Provides information and advice about advocacy also a source of help to find an advocacy service local to you.
Alzheimers Society www.alzheimers.org.uk Email: enquiries@alzheimers.org.uk Tel: 020 7423 3501 Works to improve the quality of life of people affected by Dementia.
Anxiety UK www.anxietyuk.org.uk Email: info@anxietyuk.org.uk Tel: 08444 775 774 Promotes the relief and rehabilitation of people suffering with anxiety disorders through information and the provision of self help services.
Association for Post Natal Illness www.apni.org Email: on site form Tel: 020 7386 0868 For mothers suffering from post natal illness.
B-eat www.b-eat.co.uk Email: info@b-eat.co.uk Tel: 0300 123 3355 Provides information help and support for people with eating disorders and their families.
Campaign Against Living Miserably www.thecalmzone.net Email: info@thecalmzone.net Tel: none For males aged between 15 - 35. Provides information on a number of issues.
Carers UK www.carersuk.org Email: info@carersuk.org Tel: 020 7378 4999 Carers UK is the voice of carers. Helping to improve their lives by providing information, advice, support and by campaigning for change.
The Catch-a-Fiya Network www.catchafiya.org Email:
info@catchafiya.org Tel: 020 7852 0456 Black Minority Ethnic Mental Health
Survivors Network.
Centre For Mental Health www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk Email: contact@centreformentalhealth.org.uk Tel: 020 7827 8300 Working to improve quality of life for people experiencing mental distress by influencing policy and practise with a focus on criminal justice and employment.
Child Brain Injury Trust www.cbituk.org Email: info@cbituk.org Tel: 01869 341 075 Provides information, support and training to anyone affected by childhood acquired brain injury.This includes the child or young person themselves, their family and the professionals who support them.
Counselling Directory www.counselling-directory.org.uk Email: claire@counselling-directory.org.uk Tel: 0844 8030 233 The purpose of the site is ultimately to provide the UK with a huge counselling
support network, enabling those in distress to find a counsellor close to them and
appropriate for their needs. This is a free, confidential service that will
hopefully encourage those in distress to seek help.
Depression Alliance www.depressionalliance.org Email: information@depressionalliance.org Tel: 0845 123 23 20 Working to relieve and to prevent this treatable condition by providing information and support services.
Depression Uk www.depressionuk.org Email: info@depressionuk.org Tel: none Self Help group for people suffering from depression.
Dyspraxia Foundation www.dyspraxiafoundation.org.uk Email: dyspraxia@dyspraxiafoundation.org.uk Tel: 01462 455 0166 Supporting children, families and adults with dyspraxia.
Emergence www.emergenceplus.org.uk Email: office@emergenceplus.org.uk Tel: 0208 741 3987 Provides services, information and training on Personality Disorders
First Signs www.selfharm.org.uk Email: info@firstsigns.org.uk do not email from Hotmail/MSN Tel: none On line support network raising awareness of self-injury and providing information and support to people of all ages affected by self-injury.
First Steps www.first-steps.org Email: first.steps@btconnect.com Tel: 0845 841 0619 Aims to help, in a practical way, those who suffer from phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder, general anxiety, panic attacks and those who wish to come off tranquillisers, together with help for their carers.
Harmless www.harmless.org.uk Email: root@harmless.org.uk Tel: none Harmless is a national voluntary organisation for people who self injure, their friends, families and professionals.
Hearing Voices Network www.hearing-voices.org Email: info@hearing-voices.org Tel: 0114 271 8210 They offer information, support and understanding to people who hear voices and those who support them.
Horses Mouth www.horsesmouth.co.uk On line social networking for informal mentoring.
Jewish Association for the Mentally Ill www.jamiuk.org Email: on site form Tel: 020 8458 2223 Provides services and support to people in the Jewish community and their carers.
Journeys www.journeysonline.org.uk Email: info@journeysonline.org.uk Tel: 029 2069 2891 Welsh site supporting people to find their route to recovery from depression
Male Health www.malehealth.co.uk Email: on site form Tel: none Help, advice and information on mens health.
Manic Depression Fellowship www.mdf.org.uk Email: mdf@mdf.org.uk Tel: 020 7793 2600 MDF The BiPolar Organisation aims to enable people affected by bipolar to take control of their lives through the services that they offer members.
MENCAP www.mencap.org.uk Email: information@mencap.org.uk Tel: 020 7454 0454 Mencap is the voice of learning disability. Everything they do is about valuing and supporting people with a learning disability and their families and carers.
Mens Health Forum www.menshealthforum.org.uk Email: on site form Tel: 020 7922 7908 The centre of excellence for mens health policy and practice.
Mental Healthcare www.mentalhealthcare.org.uk Email: on site form Tel: none The website provides information for family and friends of people who have psychosis.
Mental Health Matters www.mentalhealthmatters.com Email: On site form Tel: 0191 516 3500 One of the UK's most innovative organisations working with people with mental health needs.
Mental Health Providers Forum www.mhpf.org.uk Email:
info@mhpf.org.uk Tel: none Representative body for voluntary sector
mental health provider organisations.
MIND www. mind.org.uk Email: contact@mind.org.uk Tel: 020 8519 2122 National Mental Health Charity providing information and advice and campaigns to promote and protect good mental health.
NSUN National Survivor User Network www.nsun.org.uk Email:
info@nsun.org.uk Tel: 0207 820 8982 National Service User /
Survivor Network.
National Youth Advocacy Service www.nyas.net Email: main@nyas.net Tel: 0151 649 8700 Provides information, advice, advocacy and legal representation to children and young people up to the age of 25, through a network of advocates throughout England and Wales.
No Panic www.nopanic.org.uk Email: ceo@nopanic.org.uk Tel: 01952 590 005 For people suffering from anxiety, panic and OCD and their families and carers.
Obsessive Compulsion Disorder Action www.ocdaction.org.uk Email: support@ocdaction.org.uk Tel: 020 7253 5272 National charity providing support and information to anybody affected by OCD and striving to secure a better deal for them.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder UK www.ocduk.org Email: admin@ocduk.org Tel: 0845 120 3778 Leading national charity, independently working with and for people with Obssesive-Compulsive Disorder.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Support www.ptsd.org.uk Email: enquire@ptsduk.org.uk Tel: none Anyone who has contact with, or has been diagnosed with, PTSD - no matter how the PTSD developed.
Rethink www.rethink.org Email: info@rethink.org Tel: 0845 456 0455 Working together to help everyone affected by severe mental illness recover a better quality of life.
Sane www.sane.org.uk Email: info@sane.org.uk Tel: 020 7375 1002 To provide help and information to those experiencing mental health problems, their families and carers.
Scope www.scope.org.uk Email: response@scope.org.uk Tel: 0808 800 3333 we support disabled people and their families through practical information and support, particularly at the time of diagnosis and in a child’s early years
Seasonal Affected Disorder
Association www.sada.org.uk Email: none Tel:
none The SAD Association informs the public and health professions
about SAD and supports and advises sufferers of the condition.
SELF-INJURY SUPPORT www.selfinjurysupport.org.uk Email: bcsw@btconnect.com Tel: 0117 97 600 Office contact A national organisation that supports girls and women in emotional distress. Particularly women who harm themselves.
Shaping Our Lives Network www.solnetwork.org.uk Email:
information@shapingourlives.org.uk Tel: 0845 241 0383 This
website is for finding out about what service user organisations are
doing and also what non-service user organisations are doing for service
users.
The Stroke Association www.stroke.org.uk Email: info@stroke.org.uk Tel: 0303 303 3100 For help, information and advice about Strokes.
United Response www.unitedresponse.org.uk Email: info@unitedresponse.org.uk Tel: 020 8246 5200 Supports people with learning disabilities, mental health needs and physical disabilities to live in the community.
Voice UK www.voiceuk.org.uk Email: voice@voiceuk.org.uk Tel: 01332 291 042 A national charity supporting people with learning disabilities and other vulnerable people who have experienced crime or abuse, also their families, carers, and professional workers.
Voice Young People www.voiceyp.org Email: info@voiceyp.org Tel: 020 7833 5792 Offers advocacy to young people who are living in care or have recently left care.
WISH A voice for womens mental health www.womenatwish.org.uk Email: info@womenatwish.org.uk Tel: 020 7017 2828 Campaigns for better mental health services for women.
Young MINDS www.youngminds.org.uk Email: on site form Tel: 020 7336 8445 Committed to improving the mental health and emotional well-being of all children and young people.
