42ND Street provides free support and advice services to young people under stress aged 13 to 25 across Manchester, Salford & Trafford. As well as counselling and individual support, 42nd Street offers a wide range of youth work interventions including drop-ins, groups, self-help resources and a Participation Programme.
Multi-media for a change! Acting Up helps people with communication difficulties take greater control of their lives. Isolated older people, people with learning difficulties, mental health service users and others use the power of multi-media to get involved and make community care services more aware and more responsive to their needs.<p> If you would like more information, please visit our website: http://www.acting-up.org.uk
Alcohol Concern is the national agency on alcohol misuse. We work to reduce the incidence and costs of alcohol-related harm and to increase the range and qualityof services available to people with alcohol-related problems and their families.
Alzheimer Scotland provides a range of services around Scotland including specialist day care, help in the home, befriending, carer support, counselling and a confidential 24-hour Helpline.
Alzheimer's Concern Ealing is a local organisation that provides emotional support and practical services to meet the changing needs of people with dementia and their carers.
The Alzheimer's Society is the leading UK care and research charity for people with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, their families and carers. To find out more about fundraising for the Society log on to www.alzheimers.org.uk/events
The Brighton & Hove branch of the Alzheimer's Society is concerned with providing information and practical and emotional support to people in the City of Brighton & Hove living with, or affected by dementia, including carers, working to improve their quality of life.
Alzheimer's Support supports people suffering with Alzheimers and other dementias and their families through a range of flexible specialist services to maintain as much independence and control over their lives as possible
Support for men and women facing unplanned pregnancy, abortion or miscarriage.
It supports people who experience mental ill health from the age of 18 to 65+. It provides support services on an individual basis, both in its day centre and out in the wider community. Its goal is to enable people to achieve their potential and participate in society.
Provides support and evidence-based therapy for those suffering the effects of psychological trauma, in particular Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Autism Initiatives supports people with autism across the UK. The Number 6 project specifically works with adults with Asperger Syndrome in the Lothians (Scotland), providing a mix of one-to-one support (for things like employment, benefits, housing) and social groups.
It is focused on the creation of new communities to provide a future for the increasing number of children with autism. These new environments will provide adults with autism a home for life: where they can work, live and improve their skills and talents in a creative and supportive environment.
Aware Defeat Depression works in N.I. for people with the devastating illness of depression, cited in 75% of suicides.In 2007, 5 people a week took their life in N.I. Many of them were young & should have had a long & happy life. Instead they felt unable to ask for help when they needed it. Donations to the charity will save lives & help people to lead fulfilling lives again.
B.I.R.D. helps children & adults with brain injury and learning difficulty achieve their potential through 'developmental reflexive rehabilitation'.
It's aim is to make a difference to the lives of older people and adults with a disability and to support practical solutions that lead to increased personal independence, self-sufficiency and dignity, by making grants to individuals and organisations, with identified health and social care needs which cannot be met by the statutory public sector.
This is a club that meets every Saturday for activities and days out for children and young people with special needs. This, in turn, also offers respite to parents and carers.
BIBIC exists to maximise the potential of children with conditions affecting their sensory, social, communication, motor and learning abilities including autism, ADHD, cerebral palsy and developmental delay.The charity works with children and their families to enable the child to develop and attain its true potential, whatever that may be. Individually tailored therapy programmes are devised and families are invited back at regular intervals.
Birchwood Highland is a charity dedicated to support some of the Highland's most vulnerable adults and young people. It aims to improve the quality of life of people with mental health issues and complex needs by promoting recovery, inclusion and independence. It provides residential and outreach support covering Inverness, Easter Ross, Lochaber and Caithness.
BRACE (Bristol Research into Alzheimer’s and Care of the Elderly) was set up to support the work of the Bristol Dementia Research Group through an endowment fund. The group is recognised by the research community as a major centre for Alzheimer's disease and dementia research.
The Brain Research Trust is the main fund raising arm of the world-renowned neurological research centre, the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London. It funds research into diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, multiple sclerosis and motor neurone, and disabling neurological conditions such as brain tumours, epilepsy, stroke, and migraine.
As the leading independent mental health organisation in Brent, Brent Mind offer high quality services to local residents seeking mental health information and support.
Bristol Crisis Service for Women helps girls and women who self-injure. It provides a helpline service Text and email support coming soon. It also provides information leaflets and booklets, and training for professional who work with people who self-injure. Please see the website for more information: www.selfinjurysupport.org.uk
One in four of us will experience a mental health problem at some point in our lives. Bromley Mind is a small local charity with a large remit to help local residents recover from mental ill health and support people suffering from dementia and their carers in LB Bromley
Carers Network Westminster is a voluntary organisation working with carers within Westminster. our work includes outreach to identify carers, information and advice to help carers access services and general support services to help carers cope.
It helps bereaved adults and children in Islington by offering free confidential counselling visits to anyone bereaved and runs a cold weather shelter for homeless people during the winter months, offering a warm venue, a hot meal and a bed for the night.
Carr-Gomm provides high quality housing, care, and support and for some of the most disadvantaged people in England. Whether vulnerable through mental ill-health, disability, substance misuse, or escaping violence in the home or as a refugee, Carr-Gomm enables individuals to create a valued future of their choice.
Central & Cecil is dedicated to providing quality homes care and support that contribute to the health and vitality of communities in and around London. Central & Cecil is a not-for-profit organisation. Central & Cecil's key client groups are homeless men and women, frail and active older people and people with mental health support needs.
For over 10 years Challenge Adventure Charities has organised charity bike rides, mainly in France. The Charity has raised over 2 million pounds for mainly medical and children's charities, but also for lots of other extremely worthwhile causes.
Founded by his family to commemorate Charlie Waller, CWMT aims to raise awareness of the nature and dangers of depression, reduce stigma, provide training to primary care staff and encourage those who may be depressed to seek help. Please see www.cwmt.org for further details.
CMHA is an organization that specialises in community mental health work. Our services include counselling, a telephone helpline and raising the profile of mental health issues within the Chinese community in Britain and beyond.
It advances the views, needs and ambitions of people with mental health challenges. It challenges discrimination and promotes inclusion. It influences policy and promotes equal rights through campaigning, education and the development of innovative and quality services.
The Clive Project provides active support and care to people under 65 with dementia, and their families and friends. Individually tailored support enables the person to pursue activities they enjoy and value.
The Cog-wheel Trust (established in 1988) offers individual counselling and family and play therapy with a sliding scale of fees to enable disadvantaged people to access services in Cambridge, Soham and Sawston . It offered 3554 sessions in 2007 and its annual fund-raising challenge is at least 70,000.
CoolTan arts exist to inspire the well-being, creativity and participation of a diverse range of people with mental distress through the production of quality art.
CornerHouse is a local venue for the provision of mental health services by a wide range of non-statutory and voluntary sector organisations in the Woking area. CornerHouse actively encourages and fosters the creation of voluntary groups. It assists them in their activities by providing advice, support and a place where meetings and social events can be held.
Cosgrove Care provides services for people and families affected by learning disabilities and complex needs. For adults, these include registered accommodation, supported independent living, volunteer befriending, employment, further education, supported employment and recreational activities. For children and young people, Cosgrove provides developmental training after-school and during holidays.
CrossReach is one of the biggest care providers in Scotland. Each day we help support over 4000 of the most vulnerable people in Scotland. We have 80 different services providing care and support in these areas: Addictions, Children & Families, Counselling & Support, Criminal Justice, Homelessness, Learning Disabilities, Mental Health, Older People.
for dementia supports the carers and families of people with all forms of dementia, both informal and professional. It provides Admiral Nurses for carers and training for care workers.
Depression Alliance is the leading UK charity for people with depression. It works to relieve and prevent this treatable condition by providing information, support and understanding to those who are affected by it. It also campaigns to raise awareness amongst the general public about the realities of depression.
Two babies are born every day with Down's syndrome. Through information and support for people with Down's syndrome, their families and professionals, the Down's Syndrome Association helps these people live full and rewarding lives.
Samaritans provides confidential emotional support for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those with suicidal thoughts. Money is raised to support telephone, face-to-face, email and text-message support as well as outreach and education activities. The Ealing, Hammersmith & Hounslow branch has around 120 volunteers and answers over 20,000 calls annually.
A committed organisation to ensuring that people with experience of mental ill health are able to fully participate in the communities in which they live and in the services, which they receive. East Suffolk Mind seeks to ensure that a full and varied range of resources and services are available to meet the needs of such people.
Equilibrium aims to become the foremost international partnership organisation working to advance the understanding, treatment and deal with the stigma and prejudice around bipolar disorder.
The Family Care Trust is dedicated to helping care for people of all ages whilst developing peoples' choices, independence and dignity. It has been established for ten years and works with people who are suffering with problems ranging from learning disabilities, mental health problems, physical disabilities and confusional illnesses.
FCL helps anyone under stress by means of a telephone helpline staffed by trained volunteers, face to face counselling, and a Family Centre offering support to local parents and pre school children.
It provides structured day care, therapy and support to clients with drug and alcohol problems. It also provides Aftercare, Family Support and Parenting Groups. It is an abstinence based facility with 8 quasi-residential beds available.
The Fortune Centre of Riding Therapy is a specialist further education college for horse-motivated young people with special needs. A three year residential Further Education Through Horsemastership Course enables students to relate more successfully to others and to have greater and more appropriate control over their own lives.
We are a community based organisation helpiong marginalised people to reclaim their heritage and training them in the lost skill of traditional boatbuilding
It helps provide relief by means of therapeutic services to men and women (serving or formerly serving in H M Armed Forces)who are suffering mental health problems.
Mental Illness affects one in four of us and the numbers are rising. Suicide continues to be the biggest killer of young men in the UK. We cant afford to do nothing. Gofal Cymru supports people to recover, challenges stigma and campaigns for change. Help us afford to do more.