Northampton based Dostiyo is an Asian Women and Girls Organisation, a charity serving the Asian community. They offer support to women who are going through issues suce as domestic abuse, loneliness, psychological issues or even employment-related problems.

Website: https://www.dostiyo.co.uk/

Tel: 01604 816080 or 07572 896361

Email: info@dostiyo.org.uk

EVE is a family refuge based in Northamptonshire. They provide a safe place in their refuge for women and their children who have escpaed from domestic abuse.

Website: https://eveda.org.uk/

Tel: 01604 230311

Email: eve2eve@eve.org.uk

National LBGQ and Domestic Advice Helpline

Website: https://galop.org.uk/

Tel: 0800 999 5428

Email: help@galop.org.uk

ManKind Initiative is a national charity that provides help and support for male victims of domestic abuse and domestic violence.

Website: https://www.mankind.org.uk/

Tel: 01823 334244

A free fast emergency injunction service to survivors of domestic abuse and violence, regardless of their financial circumstances, race, gender or sexual orientation.

Website: https://www.ncdv.org.uk/

Tel: 0800 970 2070

Email: office@ncdv.org

Text: NCDV to 60777

The Freephone 24 Hour National Domestic Violence Helpline, run in partnership between Women’s Aid and Refuge, is a national service for women experiencing domestic violence, their family, friends, colleagues and others calling on their behalf.

Tel: 0808 2000 247

NDAS support women and men as well as children to help them recover from the trauma of domestic abuse.

Website: https://www.ndas.co/

Tel: 0300 0120 154

Email: advice@ndas-org.co.uk

NADASA is made up of different services across the county working together to support adults and children who risk or have experienced domestic or sexual abuse.

Website: https://www.nadasa.co.uk/

Services that can help: https://www.nadasa.co.uk/domestic-violence/services-that-can-help/

Support for anyone affected by sexual abuse, assault or rape

Website: https://www.northamptonshirerapecrisis.co.uk/

Tel: 01604 250721

Email: info@northamptonshirerapecrisis.co.uk

Voice is a free, confidential support service for anyone affected by crime in Northamptonshire. Support is available for anyone living in Northamptonshire, regardless of when, where or how crime happened to you. Services are free, confidential and you don’t have to have reported anything to the police.

Website: https://www.voicenorthants.org/

Tel: 0300 303 1965

Email: info@voicenorthants.org

A national organisation offering a range of services aimed at female victims of domestic abuse.

Website: https://refuge.org.uk/

Tel: 0808 2000 247

Men’s Advice Line: a confidential helpline for any man experiencing domestic violence and abuse from a partner (or ex-partner).

Website: https://mensadviceline.org.uk/

Tel: 0808 8010327

Email: office@ncdv.org

Serenity Northants is a Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) who provide a sensitive and confidential service to anyone in Northamptonshire who has been a victime of rape or serious sexual assault.

Website: https://www.nhft.nhs.uk/serenity/

Tel: 01604 601713 for urgent support and advice, any time, any day

Email: serenity@nhft.nhs.uk

Northamptonshire Sunflower Centre provides free, confidential advice and support across: crisis intervention, risk assessment and individual safety planning to help keep you and your family safe; advice and support on civil and criminal court proceedings; signposting to other services such as crime prevention, immigration advice, legal adice, group work and counsellors.

Website: https://www.voicenorthants.org/about-voice-northants/sunflower-centre/

Tel: 01604 888211

Email: sunflowercentre@northants.pnn.police.uk

SupportLine provides a confidential helpline offering emotional support to any individual on any issue. The Helpline is primarily a preventative service and aims to support people before they reach the point of crisis. It is particularly aimed at those who are socially isolated, vulnerable, at-risk groups and victims of any form of abuse.

SupportLine – Confidential Emotional Support for Children, Young Adults and Adults

Helpline: 01708 765200

Women’s Aid is the national charity working to end domestic abuse against women and children.

Home – Women’s Aid (womensaid.org.uk)

Live chat service online

Support for people affected by someone else’s drinking.

Website: https://al-anonuk.org.uk/

National Helpline: 0800 0086 811

Online contact Form: https://al-anonuk.org.uk/contact/send-an-email/

Website: https://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk/

Tel: 0800 9177650

Email: help@aamail.org

Live chat available on the website

Towcester Reflections: Mondays at Riverside Resource Centre, 7.30pm

Local Helpline: 01604 637788

Bridge is a substance misuse programme based in Northampton but working throughout the country.

Primarily, Bridge is a mentoring programme that offers physical and other activities to its members either alongside or independent of a mentoring relationship.

Self-referrals accepted. Telephone 01604 621259

Bridge Substance Misuse Home Page (https://www.bridge-northants.org.uk)

Help for people injured by defective drugs and medical devices. Drugwatch provides information on high-risk medical products and health issues, and helps people take legal action if they’ve been injured.

Drugwatch https://www.drugwatch.com/

If you are affected by someone else’s gambling then Gam-Anon can help! Our meetings are for anyone who has been affected by a loved one’s gambling problem. We have been where you are now. By sharing in our rooms you will find that you are not alone!

Website: https://gamanon.org.uk/

Gamblers Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who have joined together to do something about their own gambling addiction and to help other compulsive gamblers to do the same. Physical meetings are held in Northampton, Milton Keynes and Banbury.

The website offers various aids for the compulsive gambler including a forum, a chat room, literature and most importantly a meeting finder.

Website: https://www.gamblersanonymous.org.uk/

National Helpline: 0330 094 0322

Email: info@gamblersanonymous.org.uk

Make changes to your gambling behaviours and take those first steps today…

Website: https://www.gamcare.org.uk/

National Helpline: 0808 8020 133

Website offers support via Chat, WhatsApp, Messenger and Group Chat

Gordon Moody offers residential courses for people with gambling problems. It also runs the Gambling Therapy website, which offers online support to people with gambling problems and their friends and family.

Website: https://gordonmoody.org.uk/

Tel: 01384 241 292

Email: help@gordonmoody.org.uk

Live Chat available on the website

NA offer support If you have a problem with drugs. They hold physical and online meetings, there are multiple meetings surrounding Towcester – these can be found on the UKNA meetings search on their website.

Website: https://ukna.org/

National Helpline: 0300 999 1212 (10am-midnight)

Age UK Northamptonshire is an independent charity providing support and services to older people in Northamptonshire. Age UK offer a wide range of help including day care at home, money management, information and advice on benefits such as attendance allowance claims, advocacy, home help, foot care, handypersons services, exercise classes, transportation and much more.

Website: https://www.ageuk.org.uk/northamptonshire/

Website: https://www.ageuk.org.uk/information-advice/health-wellbeing/relationships-family/bereavement/

Tel: 01604 611207 – Advisors are available from 9am-12pm on Wednesdays and Thursdays

National Helpline: 0800 678 1602

Email: access@ageuknorthants.org.uk

National and local organisation offering advice on a wide range of issues from benefits, work, debt and money, housing, family, immigration and much more.

Central and East Northamptonshire Citizens Advice is closest branch. 03444 889 629

Citizens Advice National phone line on 0800 144 8848 which is open from 9 am to 5 pm Monday to Friday.

General website Citizens Advice

Northamptonshire Carers offer support services to carers in Northamptonshire. They support, advocate for, champion and connect carers across the UK, so that no one has to care alone.

Website: https://www.northamptonshire-carers.org/

Tel: 01933 677907

Email: carers@northamptonsire-carers.org

Northamptonshire Carers offer a drop-in at the Renew-169 Wellbeing Café in Towcester every 1st and 3rd Tuesday each month between 12pm and 1pm.

Renew is located at 169 Watling Street, Towcester NN12 6BX – no appointment needed

Mind offer mental health services including crisis support, counselling, one to one support, group and peer support and wellbeing courses. More information can be found on the website.

Website: https://www.northamptonshiremind.org.uk/

Tel: 01604 634310

Email: enquires@northamptonshiremind.org.uk

Cost of Living Support, including household bills, rent, council tax, help with buying food, childcare costs as well as other important daily essentials.

Cost of living support | West Northamptonshire Council (westnorthants.gov.uk)

Tel: 0300 126 7000 (Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm)

If you are facing homelessness call the Housing Team on 0300 126 7000 as soon as possible.

Information on finding a home, affordable housing and private rental on the website Housing | West Northamptonshire Council (westnorthants.gov.uk)

Age UK Northamptonshire is an independent charity providing support and services to older people in Northamptonshire. Age UK offer a wide range of help including day care at home, money management, information and advice on benefits such as attendance allowance claims, advocacy, home help, foot care, handypersons services, exercise classes, transportation and much more.

Website: https://www.ageuk.org.uk/northamptonshire/

Website: https://www.ageuk.org.uk/information-advice/health-wellbeing/relationships-family/bereavement/

Tel: 01604 611207 – Advisors are available from 9am-12pm on Wednesdays and Thursdays

National Helpline: 0800 678 1602

Email: access@ageuknorthants.org.uk

Northamptonshire Carers offer support services to carers in Northamptonshire. They support, advocate for, champion and connect carers across the UK, so that no one has to care alone.

Website: https://www.northamptonshire-carers.org/

Tel: 01933 677907

Email: carers@northamptonsire-carers.org

Northamptonshire Carers offer a drop-in at the Renew-169 Wellbeing Café in Towcester every 1st and 3rd Tuesday each month between 12pm and 1pm.

Renew is located at 169 Watling Street, Towcester NN12 6BX – no appointment needed

Mind offer mental health services including crisis support, counselling, one to one support, group and peer support and wellbeing courses. More information can be found on the website.

Website: https://www.northamptonshiremind.org.uk/

Tel: 01604 634310

Email: enquires@northamptonshiremind.org.uk

VoiceAbility supports people who face disadvantages or discrimination to have a voice that counts. They provide free and independent advocacy and user-involvement services. VoiceAbility’s advocates can work with people in a variety of ways to ensure they understand all the options and get the best outcome for them.

Website: https://www.voiceability.org/

Tel: 01604 592702

Email: helpline@voiceability.org

​Anxiety UK is a national charity delivering a wide range of services including: therapy service, helpline and text service, courses and groups, webinars, anxious times magazines.

National charity helping people with Anxiety – Anxiety UK

Helpline 03444 775 774, Text Support 07537 416 905

Tips for coping with anxiety, sign up for anxiety-easing emails, information on support and treatment for anxiety.

​Website: Every Mind Matters – NHS (https://www.nhs.uk)

NHFT Talking Therapies works with people across Northamptonshire who are trying to get back on track, although they may feel stressed, low or anxious.

Initial assessment by telephone and can offer a range of evidence-based talking therapies. Can provide therapy by phone, through video link, or face to face. This could be on a one-to-one basis or as part of a group.

Alternatively, you can sign up for our online programme and webinars, working at your own pace, in your own home.

www.nhft.nhs.uk/iapt

The National Organisation for Phobias, Anxiety, Neuroses, Information, and Care (NO PANIC) is a registered charity that helps people deal with phobias, anxiety disorders, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and tranquilliser withdrawal.

Helpline 0300 772 9844 10am – 10pm

Website: Home – NoPanic

Mind offer mental health services including crisis support, counselling, one to one support, group and peer support and wellbeing courses. More information can be found on the website.

Website: https://www.northamptonshiremind.org.uk/

Tel: 01604 634310

Email: enquires@northamptonshiremind.org.uk

Courses are related to mental health, physical health, as well as workshops on wellbeing and opportunities to become more involved in our community.

Courses are available for over 18’s who are NHFT current and previous service users, their family and friends, carers, members of partner organisations, and NHFT staff and are free to attend.

Website: Recovery College | NHFT

Renew 169 Wellbeing Café offers a quiet space where it is okay not to be okay. It is a safe space where people with emotional and mental health difficulties are welcomed, with an aim to reduce loneliness and isolation. Visitors can be assured of a warm welcome and someone to listen. Attendees have the opportunity to take part in activities, based on the ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’.

Open Monday to Wednesday 10am – 3pm, no appointment required. 169 Watling Street, Towcester NN12 6BX

Tuesday 12pm – 1pm Carers Supporting Carers

Email: manager@renew169.org.uk

Shout is a free and confidential, 24/7 text messaging support service for anyone who is struggling to cope.

Free, 24/7 mental health text support in the UK

Website: Shout 85258

Text `Shout’ to 85258 anytime, day or night

Warriorkind is a free online mental health community dedicated to encouraging conversations about mental health and well being.

Website: WarriorKind – Empower – Inspire – Support

Age UK Northamptonshire is an independent charity providing support and services to older people in Northamptonshire. Age UK offer a wide range of help including day care at home, money management, information and advice on benefits such as attendance allowance claims, advocacy, home help, foot care, handypersons services, exercise classes, transportation and much more.

Website: https://www.ageuk.org.uk/northamptonshire/

Website: https://www.ageuk.org.uk/information-advice/health-wellbeing/relationships-family/bereavement/

Tel: 01604 611207 – Advisors are available from 9am-12pm on Wednesdays and Thursdays

National Helpline: 0800 678 1602

Email: access@ageuknorthants.org.uk

Helping bereaved people find support and wellbeing. AtaLoss provides a national signposting website, training and online bereavement support.

Website: https://www.ataloss.org/

Tel: 07736 949869

Email: office@ataloss.org

The Bereavement Advice Centre offers an extensive range of information including advice on what to do when someone dies, probate and legal procedures, money and tax issues and advice on coping with bereavement.

Website: https://www.bereavementadvice.org/

Free Helpline: 0800 634 9494. Open from 9am to 5pm Mon – Fri.

Care for the family offer support for those coping with the pain and heartache of a close bereavement.

Website: https://www.careforthefamily.org.uk/

Tel: 029 2081 0800

Email: mail@cff.org.uk

The Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady Immaculate and St. Thomas of Canterbury (Mother Church of the Diocese of Northampton). The Cathedral holds a Bereavement Support Session on the first Saturday of each month in the Cathedral between 2:30pm and 4:30pm. The sessions are broken down into three parts: A reflection and prayer service (including lighting of candles); light refreshments; group sharing (you can just listen).

Website: https://northamptoncathedral.org/parish-groups/bereavement-group/

For more information please contact the Parish office on 01604 714556 and speak to Philly.

Child Bereavement UK helps children, young people, parents and families to rebuild their lives when a child grieves or when a child dies.

Website: ​https://www.childbereavementuk.org/

Helpline: 0800 02 888 40

Cruse Bereavement Care is here to support you after the death of someone close. For those who need specialist help, Cruse offers free confidential support for adults and children, and this can be by telephone, email or face-to-face.

Tel: 07772 428532

Cruse is the largest UK bereavement charity and offers free car and bereavement counselling to people suffering from grief.

Their helpline is run by trained bereavement volunteers who offer emotional support to anyone affected by grief, you can call them for free on 0808 808 1677

They also have a CruseChat on their website as well as one to one support and local branches which can be contacted via the website Home – Cruse Bereavement Support

Marie Curie offer a bereavement support service if you want to talk to someone following a bereavement.

Website: https://www.mariecurie.org.uk/help/support/marie-curie-support-line

Helpline: 0800 090 2309

Mind offer mental health services including crisis support, counselling, one to one support, group and peer support and wellbeing courses. More information can be found on the website.

Home | NorthamptonshireMind

Tel: 01604 634310, Email: enquires@northamptonshiremind.org.uk

Mind offer appointments at the Renew-169 Wellbeing Café every Thursday and Friday from 10am to 3pm – this is strictly by appointment. Renew is located at 169 Watling Street, Towcester NN12 6BX – renew169 Wellbeing Café | Towcester, England)

The Sands National Helpline provides a safe, confidential place for anyone who has been affected by the death of a baby. Whether your baby died long ago or recently they are there for you.

Website: https://www.sands.org.uk/support-you/how-we-offer-support/helpline​

Helpline 0808 164 3332

Email: helpline@sands.org.uk

SoBS exist to meet the needs and overcome the isolation experienced by people over 18 who have been bereaved by suicide.

Website: https://uksobs.org/

Telephone, email, forum and local support groups.

National Support Line: 0300 111 5065 (Monday and Tuesday 9am – 5pm)

Support for men following bereavement. Grief can cause severe emotional and physical health conditions which are often overlooked and ignored, especially in men.

We are StrongMen | StrongMen

Sue Ryder’s online bereavement support makes it easy to connect with the right support for you.

Website: https://www.sueryder.org/how-we-can-help/online-bereavement-support​

Tel: 0808 164 4572

Email: supportercare@sueryder.org

The Lullaby Trust raises awareness of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), provides expert advice on safer sleep for babies and offers emotional support for bereaved families.

Bereavement Helpline 0808 802 6868. Open Weekends and Public Holidays 6pm – 10pm

The Lullaby Trust – Safer sleep for babies, Support for families

Mental Health Awareness and Suicide Prevention. Support includes raising awareness for mental health and suicide prevention, training and education right through to provide counselling and postvention support.

Qualified therapists can offer 1:1 counselling for individuals and families navigating their way after a suicide loss. We offer immediate support following a suicide in Northamptonshire.

We Mind & Kelly Matters (wemindandkellymatters.org.uk)

Live chat, support and counselling

Tel: 07720 231660 Email: info@wemindkellymatters.org.uk

WAY is the only National Charity in the UK for people aged 50 or under when their partner died. Peer to peer support group operating with a network of volunteers who have been bereaved at a young age themselves.

Website: https://www.widowedandyoung.org.uk/

Tel: 0300 201 0051

Bipolar UK is the only national charity dedicated to empowering individuals and families affected by bipolar. Peer support is at the core of our work.

Bipolar UK National UK Charity

Email: info@bipolaruk.org

Local Support Group meets in Northampton on the last Thursday of each month (Northampton | Bipolar UK) and online support meetings are also available (see website)

Mind offer mental health services including crisis support, counselling, one to one support, group and peer support and wellbeing courses. More information can be found on the website.

Home | NorthamptonshireMind

Tel: 01604 634310, Email: enquires@northamptonshiremind.org.uk

Mind offer appointments at the Renew-169 Wellbeing Café every Thursday and Friday from 10am to 3pm – this is strictly by appointment. Renew is located at 169 Watling Street, Towcester NN12 6BX – renew169 Wellbeing Café | Towcester, England)

Sane Textcare is designed to provide emotional support and connection at the times you need it most. This is a confidential service for those aged 16 and over, and each message sent will be individually written for you based on the information you give. For this reason, you need to submit your request a minimum of 72 hours before the time you would like to receive a message. Only one message can be sent in a seven day period.

Textcare – SANE

SANE is a leading UK mental health charity improving the life of anyone affected by mental illness.

SANEline remains the only out of hours national specialist mental health helpline, available 365 days a year to people in crisis.

Helpline 0300 304 7000 4pm – 10pm

Home – SANE

Time2Talk is a mental health charity that offer a range of free services for young people in the Daventry District and Northamptonshire areas.

This includes counselling (in Towcester) for young people aged 11 – 18, which can be accessed by calling 01327 706706 (by appointment only).

Time2Talk drop in times Monday – Friday 10am – 5:30pm and Saturday 10am – 4pm.

Time2Talk, The Abbey, Market Square, Daventry NN11 4XG.

Crisis Café for young people aged 12-18. Monday 4pm – 8pm. Café Track 18 Market Square, Northampton NN1 2DL and Thursday 4pm – 8pm YouthWorks, Keystone, 97 Rockingham Road, Kettering NN16 9HX.

Time2Talk – Your Time to Talk, Our Time to Listen. | time2talk

Age UK Northamptonshire is an independent charity providing support and services to older people in Northamptonshire. Age UK offer a wide range of help including day care at home, money management, information and advice on benefits such as attendance allowance claims, advocacy, home help, foot care, handypersons services, exercise classes, transportation and much more.

Website: https://www.ageuk.org.uk/northamptonshire/

Website: https://www.ageuk.org.uk/information-advice/health-wellbeing/relationships-family/bereavement/

Tel: 01604 611207 – Advisors are available from 9am-12pm on Wednesdays and Thursdays

National Helpline: 0800 678 1602

Email: access@ageuknorthants.org.uk

Carers Trust is a national charity for, with and about carers. They work to improve support, services, and recognition for anyone living with the challenges of caring.

Homepage – Carers Trust

Dementia Carers Count (DCC) is the only charity solely focused on supporting the 700,000 families living with dementia across the UK.

Website: https://dementiacarers.org.uk/

Free Support Helpline: 0800 652 1102 – open 9am – 5pm Monday to Friday.

Email: Info@dementiacarers.org.uk

Carer’s assessments – NHS (www.nhs.uk)

Northamptonshire Carers offer support services to carers in Northamptonshire. They support, advocate for, champion and connect carers across the UK, so that no one has to care alone.

Website: https://www.northamptonshire-carers.org/

Tel: 01933 677907

Email: carers@northamptonsire-carers.org

Northamptonshire Carers offer a drop-in at the Renew-169 Wellbeing Café in Towcester every 1st and 3rd Tuesday each month between 12pm and 1pm.

Renew is located at 169 Watling Street, Towcester NN12 6BX – no appointment needed

Northamptonshire Young Carers Service provides assessment and support for Young Carers and Young Adult Carers aged 5 to 25 who help care for someone who has a long term illness or disability.

Needs assessment, support planning, 1:1 support, targeted groups, social activities and awareness training.

Tel: 01933 677907, Option 3 or Email: YoungCarersTeam@northamptonshire-carers.org.

Young Carers | Home | Northamptonshire Carers Association (northamptonshire-carers.org)

Renew 169 Wellbeing Café offers a quiet space where it is okay not to be okay. It is a safe space where people with emotional and mental health difficulties are welcomed, with an aim to reduce loneliness and isolation. Visitors can be assured of a warm welcome and someone to listen. Attendees have the opportunity to take part in activities, based on the ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’.

Open Monday to Wednesday 10am – 3pm, no appointment required. 169 Watling Street, Towcester NN12 6BX

Tuesday 12pm – 1pm Carers Supporting Carers

Email: manager@renew169.org.uk

Adult social care – Adult social services – West Northamptonshire

Private practice based in Towcester. They work with adults individually and with couples across a range of issues such as trauma, including PTSD, complex trauma and dissociative identity disorder, anxiety and depression, low self-esteem and loss of identity, loss and bereavement issues and underlying addiction for those in recovery from active addiction

Counselling | Changing Space Psychotherapy and counselling | Towcester

Tel: 07501 477555, email: pamela@changingspace.co.uk

Cruse is the largest UK bereavement charity and offers free car and bereavement counselling to people suffering from grief.

Their helpline is run by trained bereavement volunteers who offer emotional support to anyone affected by grief, you can call them for free on 0808 808 1677

They also have a CruseChat on their website as well as one to one support and local branches which can be contacted via the website Home – Cruse Bereavement Support

NHFT Talking Therapies works with people across Northamptonshire who are trying to get back on track, although they may feel stressed, low or anxious.

Initial assessment by telephone and can offer a range of evidence-based talking therapies. Can provide therapy by phone, through video link, or face to face. This could be on a one-to-one basis or as part of a group.

Alternatively, you can sign up for our online programme and webinars, working at your own pace, in your own home.

www.nhft.nhs.uk/iapt

Mind offer mental health services including crisis support, counselling, one to one support, group and peer support and wellbeing courses. More information can be found on the website.

Home | NorthamptonshireMind

Tel: 01604 634310, Email: enquires@northamptonshiremind.org.uk

Mind offer appointments at the Renew-169 Wellbeing Café every Thursday and Friday from 10am to 3pm – this is strictly by appointment. Renew is located at 169 Watling Street, Towcester NN12 6BX – renew169 Wellbeing Café | Towcester, England)

Relate offer counselling services including individual counselling, online and telephone counselling and relationship counselling

Home | Relate

Appointments.Northants@relate.org.uk

01604 634400

Based in Towcester, Room to Talk offer both short-term and long-term therapy enabling you to discuss any difficult feelings or problems you may have in a confidential and safe space.

Services include one-to-one counselling, couples counselling and school counselling.

Room To Talk Counselling – A safe and confidential place for you

Number 0800 448 0828

CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) offers a guide to self-harm.

Telephone Helpline 0800 58 58 58

Self-harm | Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) (thecalmzone.net)

Mind Cafés have professional mental health workers who can offer you a safe space. Our aim is to support people to reduce any immediate crisis and to safety plan; drawing on strengths, resilience, and coping mechanisms to manage their mental health and wellbeing.

Professionals can also refer and direct you to further services if required.

Crisis Cafes are open to anyone 18 years old or over who are finding themselves in crisis or need support with their mental health. No appointment required just drop in:

Anchor House @ Northampton Mind, 6/7 Regent Square, Northampton NN1 2NQ, Tel: 01604 634310/624951.

Open Monday 12 – 10pm, Tuesday 12 – 10pm, Saturday 2 – 10pm

Crisis cafés | NHFT – visit website for most up to date information and timetable for crisis cafes throughout Northamptonshire.

National Suicide Prevention Helpline UK is a helpline offering a supportive listening service to anyone with thoughts of suicide.

We are open from 6pm to midnight everyday on 0800 689 5652. Anybody over 18 is welcome to call us if you need to talk.

NHS Advice and Support

Menopause – Help and support – NHS (www.nhs.uk)

Mind offer mental health services including crisis support, counselling, one to one support, group and peer support and wellbeing courses. More information can be found on the website.

Home | NorthamptonshireMind

Tel: 01604 634310, Email: enquires@northamptonshiremind.org.uk

Mind offer appointments at the Renew-169 Wellbeing Café every Thursday and Friday from 10am to 3pm – this is strictly by appointment. Renew is located at 169 Watling Street, Towcester NN12 6BX – renew169 Wellbeing Café | Towcester, England)

Samaritans.org or call 116 123 for free.

Help for anyone struggling with suicidal idealization. Open 7 days/week, SapChat service via Facebook Messenger, Website and Instagram.

SAP;UK – Non Profit CIC (suicideapuk.co.uk)

National Charity offering mental health, wellbeing and suicide support

Poor mental health and suicide (sossilenceofsuicide.org)

Helpline 0808 115 1505

Mental Health Awareness and Suicide Prevention. Support includes raising awareness for mental health and suicide prevention, training and education right through to provide counselling and postvention support.

Qualified therapists can offer 1:1 counselling for individuals and families navigating their way after a suicide loss. We offer immediate support following a suicide in Northamptonshire.

We Mind & Kelly Matters (wemindandkellymatters.org.uk)

Live chat, support and counselling

Tel: 07720 231660 Email: info@wemindkellymatters.org.uk

Age UK Northamptonshire is an independent charity providing support and services to older people in Northamptonshire. Age UK offer a wide range of help including day care at home, money management, information and advice on benefits such as attendance allowance claims, advocacy, home help, foot care, handypersons services, exercise classes, transportation and much more.

Website: https://www.ageuk.org.uk/northamptonshire/

Website: https://www.ageuk.org.uk/information-advice/health-wellbeing/relationships-family/bereavement/

Tel: 01604 611207 – Advisors are available from 9am-12pm on Wednesdays and Thursdays

National Helpline: 0800 678 1602

Email: access@ageuknorthants.org.uk

Alzheimer’s Research UK is the UK’s leading dementia research charity, dedicated to causes, diagnosis, prevention, treatment and cure.

Website: https://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/

Tel:0300 111 5555

Email: enquiries@alzheimersresearchuk.org

Alzheimer’s Society are a vital source of support and a powerful force for change for everyone affected by dementia.

Website: https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/

Tel: 0333 150 3456 – Monday to Wednesday 9am – 8pm, Thursday and Friday 9am -5pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am – 4pm

Contact Us Form: https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/form/contact-us-general-enquiries

The Contented Dementia Trust, formerly known as SPECAL, is an independent charitable organisation with an innovative approach to the care of people with dementia.

The Contented Dementia Trust provides a range of courses, advice and information based on the SPECAL Photograph Album understanding of dementia and the associated SPECAL method.

Website: https://contenteddementiatrust.org/

Email: info@contenteddementiatrust.org

Helping people with dementia to retain a sense of adventure by getting outdoors, connecting with nature, themselves through holidays and training.

We offer small group holidays and individually tailored holidays for people living with dementia and the people who are for them.

Website: dementiaadventure.org

Tel: 01245 237 548

Email: info@dementiaadventure.co.uk

Dementia Carers Count (DCC) is the only charity solely focused on supporting the 700,000 families living with dementia across the UK.

Website: https://dementiacarers.org.uk/

Free Support Helpline: 0800 652 1102 – open 9am – 5pm Monday to Friday.

Email: Info@dementiacarers.org.uk

The Dementia Information Service guides you through the time after a dementia diagnosis, which can be difficult. You can sign up to emails which can support you if you have just found out, or accepted, that you or a loved one has dementia.

Website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/dementia/dementia-information-service/

Dementia UK offer Information and Advice about Dementia and Alzheimer’s.

Website: https://www.dementiauk.org/

National Helpline: 0800 888 6678 – open 9am – 9pm Monday to Friday and 9am – 5pm Saturday and Sunday.

Email: info@dementiauk.org

We have formed part of the Northamptonshire Dementia Action Alliance since the alliance was formed in 2013. With the diverse needs of the County we feel that Northampton would benefit from a localised Dementia Action Alliance so that we can focus on local needs.

Website: https://www.dementiaaction.org.uk/local_alliances/22873_northampton_dementia_action_alliance

Email: dementiaactionalliance@alzheimers.org.uk

Mind offer mental health services including crisis support, counselling, one to one support, group and peer support and wellbeing courses. More information can be found on the website.

Home | NorthamptonshireMind

Tel: 01604 634310, Email: enquires@northamptonshiremind.org.uk

Mind offer appointments at the Renew-169 Wellbeing Café every Thursday and Friday from 10am to 3pm – this is strictly by appointment. Renew is located at 169 Watling Street, Towcester NN12 6BX – renew169 Wellbeing Café | Towcester, England)

Northamptonshire Carers offer support services to carers in Northamptonshire. They support, advocate for, champion and connect carers across the UK, so that no one has to care alone.

Website: https://www.northamptonshire-carers.org/

Tel: 01933 677907

Email: carers@northamptonsire-carers.org

Northamptonshire Carers offer a drop-in at the Renew-169 Wellbeing Café in Towcester every 1st and 3rd Tuesday each month between 12pm and 1pm.

Renew is located at 169 Watling Street, Towcester NN12 6BX – no appointment needed

Rare Dementia Support (RDS) is a world-leading, UK-based service provided by the UCL Dementia Research Centre (DRC) and partners and funded by The National Brain Appeal.

RDS supports people affected by 7 of the rare dementias including carers and bereaved carers. These are: Familial Alzheimer’s disease (FAD), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), familial frontotemporal dementia (fFTD), posterior cortical atrophy (PCA), primary progressive aphasia (PPA), Lewy body dementia (LBD) and Young-onset Alzheimer’s disease (YOAD).

Website: https://www.raredementiasupport.org/

Tel: 020 3325 0828

Email: contact@raredementiasupport.org

Royal Voluntary Service mobilises volunteers in every corner of Britain to support people in need and the NHS.

We’re here to help people keep leading independent, healthy and happy lives, by offering a helping hand where it’s needed. Our volunteers offer practical support by taking care of the things the people we serve are less able to do for themselves, like shopping or getting to and from social activities.

Volunteers also provide social and emotional support, just by being there in person or on the phone once or twice a week. Sometimes that also means organising, running or simply attending local classes in anything from Tai Chi to IT.

The UK National Volunteer Charity | Royal Voluntary Service

0330 555 0310 Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm

The Brain Charity provide practical help on all aspects of living with Dementia/Alzheimer’s, emotional support such as counselling, phone befriending and group therapy and social activities to people with Alzheimer’s from all over the UK from their centre in Liverpool.

Website: https://www.thebraincharity.org.uk/

Tel: 0151 298 2999 – The friendly reception team will direct your call to the correct department

Dementia Workshops: kym.ward@thebraincharity.org.uk

Adult social care – Adult social services – West Northamptonshire

CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) offers a guide to self-harm.

Telephone Helpline 0800 58 58 58

Self-harm | Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) (thecalmzone.net)

Mind Cafés have professional mental health workers who can offer you a safe space. Our aim is to support people to reduce any immediate crisis and to safety plan; drawing on strengths, resilience, and coping mechanisms to manage their mental health and wellbeing.

Professionals can also refer and direct you to further services if required.

Crisis Cafes are open to anyone 18 years old or over who are finding themselves in crisis or need support with their mental health. No appointment required just drop in:

Anchor House @ Northampton Mind, 6/7 Regent Square, Northampton NN1 2NQ, Tel: 01604 634310/624951.

Open Monday 12 – 10pm, Tuesday 12 – 10pm, Saturday 2 – 10pm

Crisis cafés | NHFT – visit website for most up to date information and timetable for crisis cafes throughout Northamptonshire.

Depression UK is a National Self Help Organisation that helps people cope with their depression. They are a charity run by a team of volunteers who are there to help you.

Depression UK promotes mutual support between individuals affected by or at risk of depression, with the aim of encouraging self-help, recovery and personal growth.

Depression UK • Support for those affected by or at risk from depression.

info@depressionuk.org

Aimed at people who want to improve their mental health, sessions provide a stress-free opportunity to learn new things, share ideas and create a beautiful space for people and wildlife.

Sessions take place in Milton Malsor on Wednesday afternoons.

To find out more email healthandwellbeing@guhg.co.uk

www.guhg.co.uk

Life at No.27 is a leading horticultural therapy and mental health counselling provider, built with passion at its core and designed to improve lives.

The Towcester allotment therapy site is based in the heart of the town.

All our programmes are designed upon using conversation, creativity in gardening, confidence boosting exercises, mindfulness and goal setting to help you express yourself and explore any challenges.

Cost: £0 with GP, social worker or psychiatrist referral. We do accept self-referrals as the first contact, but will require a professional referral following your first visit.

Eligibility criteria applies – visit website or email enquiries@lifeatno27.com

Life at No.27 (lifeatno27.com)

NHFT Talking Therapies works with people across Northamptonshire who are trying to get back on track, although they may feel stressed, low or anxious.

Initial assessment by telephone and can offer a range of evidence-based talking therapies. Can provide therapy by phone, through video link, or face to face. This could be on a one-to-one basis or as part of a group.

Alternatively, you can sign up for our online programme and webinars, working at your own pace, in your own home.

www.nhft.nhs.uk/iapt

Northampton Depression Support – Facebook

Mind offer mental health services including crisis support, counselling, one to one support, group and peer support and wellbeing courses. More information can be found on the website.

Home | NorthamptonshireMind

Tel: 01604 634310, Email: enquires@northamptonshiremind.org.uk

Mind offer appointments at the Renew-169 Wellbeing Café every Thursday and Friday from 10am to 3pm – this is strictly by appointment. Renew is located at 169 Watling Street, Towcester NN12 6BX – renew169 Wellbeing Café | Towcester, England)

Courses are related to mental health, physical health, as well as workshops on wellbeing and opportunities to become more involved in our community.

Courses are available for over 18’s who are NHFT current and previous service users, their family and friends, carers, members of partner organisations, and NHFT staff and are free to attend.

Recovery College | NHFT

Renew 169 Wellbeing Café offers a quiet space where it is okay not to be okay. It is a safe space where people with emotional and mental health difficulties are welcomed, with an aim to reduce loneliness and isolation. Visitors can be assured of a warm welcome and someone to listen. Attendees have the opportunity to take part in activities, based on the ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’.

Open Monday to Wednesday 10am – 3pm, no appointment required. 169 Watling Street, Towcester NN12 6BX

Tuesday 12pm – 1pm Carers Supporting Carers

Email: manager@renew169.org.uk

Sane Textcare is designed to provide emotional support and connection at the times you need it most. This is a confidential service for those aged 16 and over, and each message sent will be individually written for you based on the information you give. For this reason, you need to submit your request a minimum of 72 hours before the time you would like to receive a message. Only one message can be sent in a seven day period.

Textcare – SANE

SANE is a leading UK mental health charity improving the life of anyone affected by mental illness.

SANEline remains the only out of hours national specialist mental health helpline, available 365 days a year to people in crisis.

Helpline 0300 304 7000 4pm – 10pm

Home – SANE

Shout is a free and confidential, 24/7 text messaging support service for anyone who is struggling to cope.

Free, 24/7 mental health text support in the UK

Website: Shout 85258

Text `Shout’ to 85258 anytime, day or night

Time2Talk is a mental health charity that offer a range of free services for young people in the Daventry District and Northamptonshire areas.

This includes counselling (in Towcester) for young people aged 11 – 18, which can be accessed by calling 01327 706706 (by appointment only).

Time2Talk drop in times Monday – Friday 10am – 5:30pm and Saturday 10am – 4pm.

Time2Talk, The Abbey, Market Square, Daventry NN11 4XG.

Crisis Café for young people aged 12-18. Monday 4pm – 8pm. Café Track 18 Market Square, Northampton NN1 2DL and Thursday 4pm – 8pm YouthWorks, Keystone, 97 Rockingham Road, Kettering NN16 9HX.

Time2Talk – Your Time to Talk, Our Time to Listen. | time2talk

Warriorkind is a free online mental health community dedicated to encouraging conversations about mental health and well being.

Website: WarriorKind – Empower – Inspire – Support

Consensus provide tailored support and accommodation in residential and supported living services, as well as community support within Northamptonshire for individuals with learning disabilities, autism and complex needs. The people we support may also have additional physical and cognitive needs and behaviours which others may find challenging.

Northamptonshire Supported Living Services for Those Affected by Learning Disabilities (consensussupport.com)

Tel: 0808 223 5320

Deafblind is a National Charity supporting people who are deafblind, their families and carers with anything from emotional support to help around the home – and everything in between.

Deafblind UK | Supporting Deafblindness in the UK

Tel: 0800 132320

Email: info@deafblind.org.uk

Deafconnect is the only charity in Northamptonshire supporting deaf people of all ages.

Deafconnect offer a wide range of services; from specialist Hard of Hearing service to Equipment help; to drop in service to Advocacy. They offer family signing lessons and accredited sign language courses.

HOME – Deafconnect

Tel: 01604 589 011

DIAL offers free, confidential information, advice and
support on any issue around disability and disability rights –

01327 701646 Monday to Friday 10am – 1pm

Email: dialdaventy1@btinternet.com

The Down Syndrome Group Northamptonshire is a local charity which supports families and friends in the community who have a connection to people with Down Syndrome.

Down Syndrome Group Northamptonshire (downgroupnorthants.co.uk)

The National Autistic Society is the UK’s leading charity for autistic people.

The Northamptonshire is located just outside Irthlingborough. The centre provides bespoke, person centred, outcomes-based services to autistic adults.

Northamptonshire Centre (autism.org.uk)

Northampton Mencap are a very well established and managed local charity offering a variety of social and leisure opportunities for young people and adults with a learning disability, this includes three social clubs run with the help of a dedicated team of volunteers.

Northampton Mencap – The voice of learning disability in Northampton

Tel: 01604 874710

Email: muriel@northamptonmencap.org.uk

As Northamptonshire’s local sight loss charity, NAB provides advice, support and products to help visually impaired people live a full life.

NAB will visit you in the comfort of your own home, offering practical and emotional support , helping you to adjust to living with sight loss.

Northamptonshire Association For The Blind | NAB | Sight Loss Charity

Helpline 01604 719193

helpline@nab.org.uk

Northamptonshire Carers offer support services to carers in Northamptonshire. They support, advocate for, champion and connect carers across the UK, so that no one has to care alone.

Website: https://www.northamptonshire-carers.org/

Tel: 01933 677907

Email: carers@northamptonsire-carers.org

Northamptonshire Carers offer a drop-in at the Renew-169 Wellbeing Café in Towcester every 1st and 3rd Tuesday each month between 12pm and 1pm.

Renew is located at 169 Watling Street, Towcester NN12 6BX – no appointment needed

The services comprises both community teams (CTPLD) for people with learning disabilities and the Intensive Support Team (IST)

The CTPLD team provide a specialist healthcare service for people with learning disabilities and related health needs. The IST team provides community assessment and treatment to adults with learning disabilities experiencing mental health of behaviour that challenges.

Learning Disabilities | NHFT

If you are someone with a learning disability, a parent, family member, carer or work as a care or health professional, then the Caring & Sharing Trust has developed a website just for you.

Information on the services and opportunities throughout Northamptonshire can be accessed from a single point.

Northamptonshire Learning Disability

Northamptonshire Sport is Northampton’s leading physical activity, health and wellbeing charity.

Our programmes focus on creating opportunities for people who are facing barriers to leading a more active lifestyle. The programmes we deliver have a particular focus on helping those who are inactive, living with health conditions, disabilities, frailty and facing disadvantages in society.

Home – Northamptonshire Sport

Telephone 01604 389 976, email info@northamptonshiresport.org

Scope is a Disability Equality Charity providing practical information and emotional support when it’s most needed.

Scope

Free Disability Helpline 0808 800 333 Monday – Friday 9am – 6pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am – 6pm.

Email: helpline@scope.org.uk

Online community where you can ask questions, make friends and find support Scope’s online community

Sign Health is the National Deaf Health Charity.

The work is varied and aims to promote easier access to healthcare and information. They partner with the NHS and other services and take on projects, carry out research, and raise awareness.

They also deliver their own services to reach deaf people in their shared language in their moment of need, through crisis textlines, domestic abuse support, therapy advocacy and residential services.

The Deaf Health Charity – SignHealth

Contact information can be found here: Contact SignHealth – The Deaf Health Charity

Spectrum is a charity based in Northants supporting vulnerable adults.

Spectrum offer a range of Personal Development, Education and Courses including Independent Living Skills, Wellbeing and Expressive Arts, Customer Service, Employability and Social.

Skills Training & Education Resource Centre » Spectrum Northants

Email: info@spectrumnorthants.co.uk

Tel: 01604 754120

Based in Northampton, The Cube Disability provide a fun and modern care provision for adults, aged 18 and over, with learning disabilities and autism.

The Cube Disability

Tel: 01604 843777

Email: hello@thecubedisability.co.uk

VoiceAbility supports people who face disadvantages or discrimination to have a voice that counts. They provide free and independent advocacy and user-involvement services. VoiceAbility’s advocates can work with people in a variety of ways to ensure they understand all the options and get the best outcome for them.

Website: https://www.voiceability.org/

Tel: 01604 592702

Email: helpline@voiceability.org

The Riverside Resource Centre is a wellbeing hub that offers services to support adults with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD). A key-worker will work with them to put together a plan that meets their individual needs and supports their choices about how they want to live their life.

Northamptonshire Adult Social Services: Riverside Resource Centre – WNC – Local Offer

Email: adultcare.ncc@westnorthants.gov.uk

The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) is the specialist supported employment team. They provide bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment.

Employment and Disability Service – Adult social services – West Northamptonshire

Charity dedicated to raising awareness and furthering information about Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder.

ARFID Awareness UK

Beat is a National Charity supporting people with eating disorders including bulimia, binge eating disorder, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder and anorexia.

The UK’s Eating Disorder Charity – Beat (beateatingdisorders.org.uk)

Helpline 0808 801 0677

Email: help@beatingdisorders.org.uk

Malevoiced is a charity which recognises and values the lived experience of males who have experienced, or are experiencing, eating and exercise related difficulties and associated co-morbid conditions.

Resources and support available on website.

Home (malevoiced.com)

Information about eating disorders.

Eating disorders | Mental Health Foundation

The NCFED provides resources for people with eating disorders.

Eating disorders | Professional treatment and training | The National Centre (eating-disorders.org.uk)

Tel: 0845 838 2040

Mind offer mental health services including crisis support, counselling, one to one support, group and peer support and wellbeing courses. More information can be found on the website.

Home | NorthamptonshireMind

Tel: 01604 634310, Email: enquires@northamptonshiremind.org.uk

Mind offer appointments at the Renew-169 Wellbeing Café every Thursday and Friday from 10am to 3pm – this is strictly by appointment. Renew is located at 169 Watling Street, Towcester NN12 6BX – renew169 Wellbeing Café | Towcester, England)

The healthcare has an eating disorder service at Campbell House in Northampton.

The Northamptonshire Eating Disorder Service is a countywide, psychology led, community/outpatient service. They offer assessment and interventions to adults with a diagnosed eating disorder

They can be contacted on 01604 658907 and emailed at Eating.disorders@nhft.nhs.uk. They are open Monday to Friday from 09:00 till 17:00.

Information and resources for people with eating disorders.

Home – SEED | Eating Disorders Support Service

Advice Line 01482 421525

Talk ED provides an essential support service for people struggling with eating disorders, and their loved ones.

Talk ED is a national, peer-led charity supporting anyone affected by eating disorder.

1:1 support calls via telephone, video or online chat. Nutritional guidance support calls. Peer support groups.

home – TalkED (talk-ed.org.uk)

You can book a call via the website.

We have nearly 40 years of experience in supporting women affected by domestic abuse. Whatever your background, language or cultural experience we understand the impact it has on people, whether it is emotional, physical, situational, financial.

Our helpline staff is able to help you in a number of languages, including English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Gujarati, Tamil, Bengali.

We provide advice and information to women affected by domestic abuse on benefits and welfare rights, immigration issues (including no recourse to legal funds and the rights of non-British citizens), children’s and young people’s issues, legal support, housing and financial support.

Support Line 0800 0124 924 open Monday – Friday 9am to 10pm. Email info@aanchal.org.uk

Home – Aanchal

The Africa Advocacy Foundation works to empower individuals to take control of their health and wellbeing through accurate information, advice and guidance.

Migrant Communities in UK and Europe | Africa Advocacy Foundation | England (africadvocacy.org)

Providing empowerment and support to African families.

Supporting parents, whose children have/are at risk of being excluded, training with families on effective parenting strategies and family mediation for African families.

African Family Support | AFRICAN FAMILY SUPPORT FOUNDATION

AWRC offers support to women and children who have been affected by domestic abuse, forced marriages, honour based and faith based abuse.

AWRC | Women’s services Brent | Welfare advice Brent | Women’s services Brent (asianwomencentre.org.uk)

Their mission is the bridge the gap and improve communication between the UK mainstream and BAME communities.

Provide domestic abuse support. Advocate for equality, diversity and justice. Promote overall health and mental health support programmes.

BAME Hub-UK Network – A Community For all Ethnic Minorites in The UK. (bamehubuk.org)

Black Minds Matter UK is a fully registered charity operating in the UK; connecting Black individuals and families with free mental health services – by professional Black Therapists to support their mental health.

blackmindsmatteruk.com

Free information, advice and support to disadvantaged Chinese people living in the UK

Chinese Information and Advice Centre — free information, advice and support to disadvantaged Chinese people living in the United Kingdom (ciac.co.uk)

Northampton based Dostiyo is an Asian Women and Girls Organisation, a charity serving the Asian community. They offer support to women who are going through issues suce as domestic abuse, loneliness, psychological issues or even employment-related problems.

Website: https://www.dostiyo.co.uk/

Tel: 01604 816080 or 07572 896361

Email: info@dostiyo.org.uk

The Muslim Community Helpline is a confidential, non-judgemental listening and emotional support service.

National organisation for women, men, youth and children. Contact times and numbers on website.

Muslim Community Helpline – Confidential, non-judgemental listening & emotional support service

Northamptonshire Sport is Northampton’s leading physical activity, health and wellbeing charity.

Our programmes focus on creating opportunities for people who are facing barriers to leading a more active lifestyle. The programmes we deliver have a particular focus on helping those who are inactive, living with health conditions, disabilities, frailty and facing disadvantages in society.

Home – Northamptonshire Sport

Telephone 01604 389 976, email info@northamptonshiresport.org

Northants Diversity is a charity organisation focusing on the disadvantages of BAME in the Northampton community.

Online sessions with black ethnic minority children and adults who have been affected directly or indirectly by the pandemic.

Northants Diversity – Connecting Communities

Tell MAMA is an independent and confidential support service for those who face anti-Muslim hatred and prejudice across the UK.

Report in Anti-Muslim Hate or Islamophobia (tellmamauk.org)

The Helpline is a confidential and anonymous helpline supporting individuals from the Jewish Community facing challenges.

Home – The HelpLine

Women for Refugee Women support women who are seeking refuge from persecution, including rape and other torture, to rebuild their lives and communicate their own needs and stories.

Women for Refugee Women : Empowering Refugee Women

Zimwomen Association is a voluntary organisation based in Northampton.

Zimwomen provide specialist support for women in the African community- family support, health and wellbeing, and life skills training.

Zimwomen’s Association – Home (zimwomenassociation.org)

Age UK Northamptonshire is an independent charity providing support and services to older people in Northamptonshire. Age UK offer a wide range of help including day care at home, money management, information and advice on benefits such as attendance allowance claims, advocacy, home help, foot care, handypersons services, exercise classes, transportation and much more.

Website: https://www.ageuk.org.uk/northamptonshire/

Website: https://www.ageuk.org.uk/information-advice/health-wellbeing/relationships-family/bereavement/

Tel: 01604 611207 – Advisors are available from 9am-12pm on Wednesdays and Thursdays

National Helpline: 0800 678 1602

Email: access@ageuknorthants.org.uk

All Advisors are experts in debt advice and the service is always free.

Tel: 0800 197 6026 Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm

Debt Advice Foundation – Call Our Debt Advisers Free On 0800 043 40 50

Web chat service available

Christians Against Poverty offer money and debt advice, information on support with the cost of living, debt information and benefits calculator.

CAP UK | Home

National and local organisation offering advice on a wide range of issues from benefits, work, debt and money, housing, family, immigration and much more.

Central and East Northamptonshire Citizens Advice is closest branch. 03444 889 629

Citizens Advice National phone line on 0800 144 8848 which is open from 9 am to 5 pm Monday to Friday.

General website Citizens Advice

Citizens Advice will be at the foodbank in Towcester on Tuesdays and Friday ready to give confidential advice.

12 noon until 2pm, St. Johns Ambulance Hall, Islington Road, Towcester NN12 6UA

Community Law Service (Northampton and County) is a registered charity and an independent specialist social welfare advice provider. The aim of the organisation is to improve the health and wellbeing of local residents through tackling social and financial exclusion, alleviating poverty and advancing education. This is achieved through the provision of specialist advice, casework and representation currently in the fields of Welfare Benefits, Debt, Financial Capability, Energy Advice, Housing and Immigration.

Community Law Service

Tel: 01604 621038

Debt Advice Foundation is a registered national advice and education charity offering free, confidential advice to anyone worried about loans, credit and debt.

Free telephone debt counselling service

Tel: 0800 043 40 50

Debt Advice Foundation – Call Our Debt Advisers Free On 0800 043 40 50

Clear, practical advice and support for people experiencing issues with mental health and money.

Mental health and money : Mental Health & Money Advice (mentalhealthandmoneyadvice.org)

National Debt Helpline (Citizens Advice)

National Debt Help – Write Off Debt Today

Free debt advice – Payplan help with contacting people you owe money to and arranging lower payments to make things more affordable.

PayPlan | Free Debt Advice and Free Debt Management. IVAs & DMPs

Tel: 0800 280 2816

StepChange Debt Charity provide free, expert debt advice.

StepChange Debt Charity – Free Expert Debt Advice.

Helpline 0800 138 1111 Monday – Friday 8am – 8pm, Saturday 9am – 2pm.

Turn2Us helps people in financial need to gain access to welfare benefits, charitable grants and other financial help – online, by phone and face to face through partner organisations.

Free easy to use benefits calculator.

Fighting UK Poverty – Turn2us

Cost of Living Support, including household bills, rent, council tax, help with buying food, childcare costs as well as other important daily essentials.

Cost of living support | West Northamptonshire Council (westnorthants.gov.uk)

Tel: 0300 126 7000 (Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm)

Citizens Advice will be at the foodbank in Towcester on Tuesdays and Friday ready to give confidential advice.

12 noon until 2pm, St. Johns Ambulance Hall, Islington Road, Towcester NN12 6UA

Towcester Community Fridge is free and open to everyone, with short-dated food surplus rescued from local supermarkets and businesses and distributed during regular drop-in sessions.

Three sessions a week and the food is free and open to everyone regardless of circumstances. Located at the Methodist Church on Brackley Road in Towcester.

Open Monday and Wednesday at 10am (9:30am for tea/coffee) and Friday at 4pm (3:30pm for tea/coffee). Keep up to date with sessions times and news by following on Facebook Towcester Community Fridge | Towcester | Facebook

Towcester Community Larder (TCL) partners with local supermarkets, businesses and food surplus providers to distribute affordable food throughout the community and reduce food waste.

TCL operate a membership programme that provides access to surplus groceries at heavily discounted rates.

TCL is located at Towcester Town Football Supporters Club, 19 Islington Road, Towcester NN12 6AU

Opening hours Wednesday 4:15pm – 6:00pm, Thursday 10:00am – 11:15am and Fridays (larder leftovers) 3pm – 4pm.

TowFood Towcester Community Food – Community Larder & Fridge

Opening Hours Tuesday 12pm – 2pm and Friday 10:30am – 12:30pm.

Just turn up during opening hours or phone 07724 832

If you have a voucher or voucher number then bring this with you, but you do not need to have one to visit us. Vouchers can be issued by supporting organisations, including WNC Money Advice Team 01327 322275 during office hours.

As well as food they can also supply items such as toilet paper, cat and dog food and items for babies (but not infant formula or baby milk).

Foodbank are based at St. John Ambulance Hall, Islington Road, Towcester NN12 6AU.

Towcester Foodbank | Helping Local People in Crisis

Citizens Advice are at the Towcester Food Bank ready to give confidential advice. They are available Tuesday 12pm-2pm and Friday 10.30am-12.30pm.

Warm Spaces – a safe and welcoming space where people can come together to stay warm, enjoy a hot meal or a cup of tea and a biscuit.

Looking for warm spaces | West Northamptonshire Council (westnorthants.gov.uk)

Cost of Living Support, including household bills, rent, council tax, help with buying food, childcare costs as well as other important daily essentials.

Cost of living support | West Northamptonshire Council (westnorthants.gov.uk)

Tel: 0300 126 7000 (Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm)

Amicus Trust provides support and accommodation for homeless individuals in Northamptonshire.

Website Amicus Trust

Tel: 01234 358478

National and local organisation offering advice on a wide range of issues from benefits, work, debt and money, housing, family, immigration and much more.

Central and East Northamptonshire Citizens Advice is closest branch. 03444 889 629

Citizens Advice National phone line on 0800 144 8848 which is open from 9 am to 5 pm Monday to Friday.

General website Citizens Advice

Community Law Service (Northampton and County) is a registered charity and an independent specialist social welfare advice provider. The aim of the organisation is to improve the health and wellbeing of local residents through tackling social and financial exclusion, alleviating poverty and advancing education. This is achieved through the provision of specialist advice, casework and representation currently in the fields of Welfare Benefits, Debt, Financial Capability, Energy Advice, Housing and Immigration.

Community Law Service

Tel: 01604 621038

If you are a single adult or couple under pension age, on the street. HandUp service hours are currently 11:30am – 1:30pm Monday to Saturday.

Food, clothing, advice and support to access housing options.

Northampton Hope Centre, Oasis House, 35-37 Campbell Street, Northampton NN1 3DS. Tel: 01604 214300

Advice and support for the homeless – Hope Centre (northamptonhopecentre.org.uk)

Shelter is a National Housing Charity.

Emergency helpline, online housing advice and webchat available.

Helpine 0808 800 4444

Website – Shelter England

Warm Spaces – a safe and welcoming space where people can come together to stay warm, enjoy a hot meal or a cup of tea and a biscuit.

Looking for warm spaces | West Northamptonshire Council (westnorthants.gov.uk)

Cost of Living Support, including household bills, rent, council tax, help with buying food, childcare costs as well as other important daily essentials.

Cost of living support | West Northamptonshire Council (westnorthants.gov.uk)

Tel: 0300 126 7000 (Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm)

If you are facing homelessness call the Housing Team on 0300 126 7000 as soon as possible.

Information on finding a home, affordable housing and private rental on the website Housing | West Northamptonshire Council (westnorthants.gov.uk)

LGBTQ support services for children and young adults in Northamptonshire

Confidential Helpline Service for 12-25 year olds: 01604 622223

LGBTQ Support (asknormen.co.uk)

Barnardos support LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and those questioning their sexual or gender identity) children, young people and their families in the UK.

Provide direct support to LGBTQ children and young people around their gender and sexual identities. We also work with parents, carers and families.

LGBTQ young people | Barnardo’s (barnardos.org.uk)

Help for people injured by defective drugs and medical devices. Drugwatch provides information on high-risk medical products and health issues, and helps people take legal action if they’ve been injured.

Drugwatch https://www.drugwatch.com/

Supports the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ veterans, service personnel and their families – in particular those most impacted by the ban on LGBTQ+ personnel serving in the armed forces prior to January 2000.

Fighting With Pride: The LGBT+ Military Charity

National LBGQ and Domestic Advice Helpline

0800 999 5428

Galop – the LGBT+ anti-abuse charity

The LGBT Foundation provide a wide range of services to support lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people.

Services include a range of support groups; face-to-face counselling; a helpline, email and pop-in service; a befriending scheme; a sexual health programme, a substance-misuse project; organisational training; a range of guides and resources; a national website; advice surgeries; LGBT infrastructure support; various research projects and policy campaigning.

Tel: 0345 3 30 30 30

LGBT Foundation – Home

MindOut is a mental health service run by and for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) people.

Online service is available globally. Check website for opening hours.

MindOut | Mental Health Charity for LGBTQ community

Mind offer mental health services including crisis support, counselling, one to one support, group and peer support and wellbeing courses. More information can be found on the website.

Home | NorthamptonshireMind

Tel: 01604 634310, Email: enquires@northamptonshiremind.org.uk

Mind offer appointments at the Renew-169 Wellbeing Café every Thursday and Friday from 10am to 3pm – this is strictly by appointment. Renew is located at 169 Watling Street, Towcester NN12 6BX – renew169 Wellbeing Café | Towcester, England)

Gender Identity Clinic (17+)

Gender Identity Clinic | NHFT

Stonewall stand for lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer, questioning and ace (LGBTQ+) people everywhere.

Stonewall provides advice and signposting support to the LGBTQ+ community.

Stonewall

Hub for all young LGBTQ+ people thinking about their next steps.

Stonewall Young Futures | Stonewall

The lowdown is Mental Health charity, providing free and confidential support services for 11- 25 year olds in Northamptonshire.

Services include counselling, wellbeing drop-ins, LGBTQ+ support, practical support and sexual health.

Tel: 01604 634385+

07585 737482 LGBTQ Group

The Lowdown | Free and confidential support for 11-25 year olds

Email: info@thelowdownnorthampton.co.uk

The LGBTQ and Allies Forum provides an inclusive and safe space for individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning, or who have an interest in LGBTQ equality, to express their needs and views on services we provide and future plans for the town.

The Forum meets every 2 months on a Tuesday evening at 7pm. This alternates between a formal meeting at the Guildhall, and a social meeting at a venue chosen by members.

LGBTQ and Allies Forum | West Northamptonshire Council (westnorthants.gov.uk)

Ability Community Transport was set up as a not-for-profit community interest company, with the primary goal of reducing social isolation and loneliness.

Their fleet of modern, luxury minibuses offer a bus service that is completely FREE to holders of a concessionary bus pass and connects people with the places that they need the most. You may live in a remote rural area that has lost a valuable regular bus service, where you live may not be quite near enough to the bus stop, or the buses don’t go to the shops that you need.

Bus Service – Local Free Travel with ABILITY Northants cic (abilitycic.org.uk)

Email: admin@abilitycic.org.uk

Tel: 01327 604123 (Monday – Friday 9am – 2pm)

Age UK Northamptonshire is an independent charity providing support and services to older people in Northamptonshire. Age UK offer a wide range of help including day care at home, money management, information and advice on benefits such as attendance allowance claims, advocacy, home help, foot care, handypersons services, exercise classes, transportation and much more.

Website: https://www.ageuk.org.uk/northamptonshire/

Website: https://www.ageuk.org.uk/information-advice/health-wellbeing/relationships-family/bereavement/

Tel: 01604 611207 – Advisors are available from 9am-12pm on Wednesdays and Thursdays

National Helpline: 0800 678 1602

Email: access@ageuknorthants.org.uk

Free confidential support line for advice on loneliness 0808 196 3651

Get help with loneliness | British Red Cross

Aimed at people who want to improve their mental health, sessions provide a stress-free opportunity to learn new things, share ideas and create a beautiful space for people and wildlife.

Sessions take place in Milton Malsor on Wednesday afternoons.

To find out more email healthandwellbeing@guhg.co.uk

www.guhg.co.uk

Life at No.27 is a leading horticultural therapy and mental health counselling provider, built with passion at its core and designed to improve lives.

The Towcester allotment therapy site is based in the heart of the town.

All our programmes are designed upon using conversation, creativity in gardening, confidence boosting exercises, mindfulness and goal setting to help you express yourself and explore any challenges.

Cost: £0 with GP, social worker or psychiatrist referral. We do accept self-referrals as the first contact, but will require a professional referral following your first visit.

Eligibility criteria applies – visit website or email enquiries@lifeatno27.com

Life at No.27 (lifeatno27.com)

Northampton Linking Lives is a befriending service aimed at adults who find themselves requiring some extra friendship and support.

Service available to adults living in Northampton.

Tel: 07405 318627 for further info.

Northampton Linking Lives – Linking Lives UK

Mind offer mental health services including crisis support, counselling, one to one support, group and peer support and wellbeing courses. More information can be found on the website.

Home | NorthamptonshireMind

Tel: 01604 634310, Email: enquires@northamptonshiremind.org.uk

Mind offer appointments at the Renew-169 Wellbeing Café every Thursday and Friday from 10am to 3pm – this is strictly by appointment. Renew is located at 169 Watling Street, Towcester NN12 6BX – renew169 Wellbeing Café | Towcester, England)

Free Virtual Buddying Service for disabled people who are experiencing loneliness

Chat online or on the phone once a week with your buddy from the comfort of home.

Virtual Buddying befriending service – Sense

snvb supports local people to provide services and help to residents so that they can lead healthy and enjoyable lives and to strengthen the voluntary and community sector so that it can thrive and make a difference to those who live and work in South Northamptonshire.

Garden Buddies is a community gardening service in which volunteers provide practical help to elderly and disabled people, who have no other means of support, enabling them to maintain and enjoy their gardens. Eligibility criteria applies.

Men into Extra Time is a new project run by snvb in conjunction with Brackley Town Football Club to develop ways of reducing social isolation and loneliness in older men. Both these are major contributory factors to poor physical and mental health.

Volunteer Centre, Whittons Lane, Towcester NN12 6YZ. Open Monday – Thursday 9am – 4pm. Drop in for a chat, no appointment needed. If you are unable to visit the centre then please call 01327 358264 or email info@snvb.org.uk and they will arrange for a friendly advisor to meet you.

Home – SNVB

Space have partnered with Delapre Abbey to host wellbeing and wellness activities and groups at the Abbey.

Groups, activities and events meet at The Coach House Wednesdays and Saturdays 10:30 – 13:30

Walk and Talk Sessions – gentle walks around Daventry Country Park and Delapre Abbey – see website for dates and to book

Wellbeing | Space To Talk | Northampton (space-wellbeing.co.uk)

Telephone 01327 437020, Email info@space2talk.co.uk

Loneliness and wellbeing charity aiming to fight the battle against loneliness and social isolation.

Online support groups for anyone feeling lonely

Sunshine Charity

The Silver Line offer friendship, conversation, and support for people aged 55 and over, especially those experiencing feelings of loneliness and isolation.

The Silver Line is a free, 24 hour telephone service.

Tel: 0800 4 70 80 90

The Silver Line Helpline

Directions For Men provides groups for men to come and talk about whatever it is that is affecting their mental health. We support each other through difficult times and we help each other by talking about what worked for us when we were going through difficult times.

On Friday’s at 7pm there is a Friday night check in and chat online talk group. Email hello@directionsformen.org.uk for the link.

Directions For Men – Support groups for men

Malevoiced is a charity which recognises and values the lived experience of males who have experienced, or are experiencing, eating and exercise related difficulties and associated co-morbid conditions.

Resources and support available on website.

Home (malevoiced.com)

ManKind Initiative is a national charity that provides help and support for male victims of domestic abuse and domestic violence.

Male Victims of Domestic Abuse – Please call 01823 334244 to speak to us confidentially – (mankind.org.uk)

Tel: 01823 334244

MEN TOO ARMY provides a supportive platform and awareness to everyone who needs help with men’s mental health. Since 2017, our one-of-a-kind Resource Centre is composed of experienced support groups, with individuals who are ready to listen, share advice, and offer whatever they can to help those going through a tough time.

Mental Health Support | Men Too

Men’s Minds Matter is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the prevention of male suicide by building psychological resilience and emotional strength.

Men’s Minds Matter – Suicide Intervention and Prevention Specialists – Men’s Minds Matter Male suicide prevention and intervention (mensmindsmatter.org)

Formed in 2006 to help provide practical advice and support to men who have been abused, Men’s Aid has grown to represent the views of many individuals both male and female and is committed to helping those who have suffered from bias in the legal system, Family Courts or any other areas.

Helpline 0333 567 0556

Home (mensaid.co.uk)

Mentell provides circles for men aged 18+ to talk in a safe and confidential space, free from advice and judgement.

Mentell – Men, is it time to talk?

Support for men following bereavement. Grief can cause severe emotional and physical health conditions which are often overlooked and ignored, especially in men.

We are StrongMen | StrongMen

Survivors UK help sexually abused men as well as their friends and family, no matter when the abuse happened, and challenge the silence of attitudes.

1:1 chat sessions with trained support workers, in confidence.

Monday – Sunday 12pm – 8pm

Chat online or via SMS 020 3322 1860

SurvivorsUK | We challenge the silence to support sexually abused men

Daisy Network is a charity for women with premature menopause.

Support for women, along with their families and partners, who have been diagnosed with Premature Menopause.

Charity for Women with POI | The Daisy Network

Menopause and Me is a website dedicated to supporting women throughout the menopause journey.

Symptoms checklist, coffee catch up videos, podcasts and other resources.

Menopause and Me|Official Website

Menopausematters.co.uk is an award winning, independent website providing up to date, accurate information about the menopause, menopausal symptoms and treatment options.

Menopause Matters, menopausal symptoms, remedies, advice

Menopause Support is a not for profit community interest company who offer lots of free resources. They also offer private support via the telephone and video consultations.

menopausesupport.co.uk – Supporting You Through Change

NHS Advice and Support

Menopause – Help and support – NHS (www.nhs.uk)

Free online Talking Therapies workshop on how to help manage the symptoms of the menopause.

Join webinars on how to manage menopause | Latest updates | NHFT

Website providing resources for people who identify at LGBT+

Menopause resources for LGBTQIA+ people — Queer / LGBTQIA+ Menopause (queermenopause.com)

The Menopause Charity works to help everyone understand perimenopause and menopause.

They provide inclusive fact-based information, advice and support.

The Menopause Charity – Menopause Facts, Advice and Support

WHC provides a confidential, independent service to advise, inform and reassure women about their gynaecological, sexual and post reproductive health.

Women’s Health Concern | Confidential Advice, Reassurance and Education (womens-health-concern.org)

Ability Community Transport was set up as a not-for-profit community interest company, with the primary goal of reducing social isolation and loneliness.

Their fleet of modern, luxury minibuses offer a bus service that is completely FREE to holders of a concessionary bus pass and connects people with the places that they need the most. You may live in a remote rural area that has lost a valuable regular bus service, where you live may not be quite near enough to the bus stop, or the buses don’t go to the shops that you need.

Bus Service – Local Free Travel with ABILITY Northants cic (abilitycic.org.uk)

Email: admin@abilitycic.org.uk

Tel: 01327 604123 (Monday – Friday 9am – 2pm)

Age UK Northamptonshire is an independent charity providing support and services to older people in Northamptonshire. Age UK offer a wide range of help including day care at home, money management, information and advice on benefits such as attendance allowance claims, advocacy, home help, foot care, handypersons services, exercise classes, transportation and much more.

Website: https://www.ageuk.org.uk/northamptonshire/

Website: https://www.ageuk.org.uk/information-advice/health-wellbeing/relationships-family/bereavement/

Tel: 01604 611207 – Advisors are available from 9am-12pm on Wednesdays and Thursdays

National Helpline: 0800 678 1602

Email: access@ageuknorthants.org.uk

Information about Elderly and Disabled Support in the Towcester area including transport, clubs and voluntary services available.

Elderly & Disabled Support – Blisworth Life (blisworthvillage.org)

National and local organisation offering advice on a wide range of issues from benefits, work, debt and money, housing, family, immigration and much more.

Central and East Northamptonshire Citizens Advice is closest branch. 03444 889 629

Citizens Advice

National phone line on 0800 144 8848 which is open from 9 am to 5 pm Monday to Friday

Whatever happens as we get older, we all want to remain independent and live life on our own terms. Independent Age can provide you and your family with clear, free and impartial advice on the issues that matter: care and support, money and benefits, health and mobility.

Helpline No. 0800 319 6789

Independent Age | Supporting people facing financial hardship in later life

Men’s Advice Line: a confidential helpline for any man experiencing domestic violence and abuse from a partner (or ex-partner).

Domestic Abuse Helpline for Men | Men’s Advice Line UK (mensadviceline.org.uk)

Tel: 0808 8010327

Northampton Linking Lives is a befriending service aimed at adults who find themselves requiring some extra friendship and support.

Service available to adults living in Northampton.

Tel: 07405 318627 for further info.

Northampton Linking Lives – Linking Lives UK

Mind offer mental health services including crisis support, counselling, one to one support, group and peer support and wellbeing courses. More information can be found on the website.

Home | NorthamptonshireMind

Tel: 01604 634310, Email: enquires@northamptonshiremind.org.uk

Mind offer appointments at the Renew-169 Wellbeing Café every Thursday and Friday from 10am to 3pm – this is strictly by appointment. Renew is located at 169 Watling Street, Towcester NN12 6BX – renew169 Wellbeing Café | Towcester, England)

Northamptonshire Carers offer support services to carers in Northamptonshire. They support, advocate for, champion and connect carers across the UK, so that no one has to care alone.

Website: https://www.northamptonshire-carers.org/

Tel: 01933 677907

Email: carers@northamptonsire-carers.org

Northamptonshire Carers offer a drop-in at the Renew-169 Wellbeing Café in Towcester every 1st and 3rd Tuesday each month between 12pm and 1pm.

Renew is located at 169 Watling Street, Towcester NN12 6BX – no appointment needed

Community based team working to give service in people’s homes and in the community for people aged 65 +.

Older Adults Community Mental Health Team (OACMHT) | NHFT

Northamptonshire Sport is Northampton’s leading physical activity, health and wellbeing charity.

Our programmes focus on creating opportunities for people who are facing barriers to leading a more active lifestyle. The programmes we deliver have a particular focus on helping those who are inactive, living with health conditions, disabilities, frailty and facing disadvantages in society.

Home – Northamptonshire Sport

Telephone 01604 389 976, email info@northamptonshiresport.org

Reading Friends is a UK wide programme from The Reading Agency to tackle loneliness by bringing people together to read, chat and share stories.

Northamptonshire Libraries and Information Services are offering free, friendly and fun Reading Friends Sessions. It is a chance to chat and connect to new friends through the sharing of stories, poems and articles.

In-person group session meets regularly on the 3rd Wednesday of each month 11 to midday at Northamptonshire Central Library (Abington Street, Northampton NN1 2BA).

Northamptonshire – Reading Friends

Renew 169 Wellbeing Café offers a quiet space where it is okay not to be okay. It is a safe space where people with emotional and mental health difficulties are welcomed, with an aim to reduce loneliness and isolation. Visitors can be assured of a warm welcome and someone to listen. Attendees have the opportunity to take part in activities, based on the ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’.

Open Monday to Wednesday 10am – 3pm, no appointment required. 169 Watling Street, Towcester NN12 6BX

Tuesday 12pm – 1pm Carers Supporting Carers

Email: manager@renew169.org.uk

Royal Voluntary Service mobilises volunteers in every corner of Britain to support people in need and the NHS.

We’re here to help people keep leading independent, healthy and happy lives, by offering a helping hand where it’s needed. Our volunteers offer practical support by taking care of the things the people we serve are less able to do for themselves, like shopping or getting to and from social activities.

Volunteers also provide social and emotional support, just by being there in person or on the phone once or twice a week. Sometimes that also means organising, running or simply attending local classes in anything from Tai Chi to IT.

The UK National Volunteer Charity | Royal Voluntary Service

0330 555 0310 Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm

snvb supports local people to provide services and help to residents so that they can lead healthy and enjoyable lives and to strengthen the voluntary and community sector so that it can thrive and make a difference to those who live and work in South Northamptonshire.

Garden Buddies is a community gardening service in which volunteers provide practical help to elderly and disabled people, who have no other means of support, enabling them to maintain and enjoy their gardens. Eligibility criteria applies.

Men into Extra Time is a new project run by snvb in conjunction with Brackley Town Football Club to develop ways of reducing social isolation and loneliness in older men. Both these are major contributory factors to poor physical and mental health.

Volunteer Centre, Whittons Lane, Towcester NN12 6YZ. Open Monday – Thursday 9am – 4pm. Drop in for a chat, no appointment needed. If you are unable to visit the centre then please call 01327 358264 or email info@snvb.org.uk and they will arrange for a friendly advisor to meet you.

Home – SNVB

Towcester Door to Door community transport is a friendly, affordable service which helps people attend their medically related appointments and access services which contribute to their wellbeing.

Tel: 01327 810300

Home | Towcester Area Door to Door (towcesterareadoor2door.com)

The Silver Line offer friendship, conversation, and support for people aged 55 and over, especially those experiencing feelings of loneliness and isolation.

The Silver Line is a free, 24 hour telephone service.

Tel: 0800 4 70 80 90

The Silver Line Helpline

VoiceAbility supports people who face disadvantages or discrimination to have a voice that counts. They provide free and independent advocacy and user-involvement services. VoiceAbility’s advocates can work with people in a variety of ways to ensure they understand all the options and get the best outcome for them.

Website: https://www.voiceability.org/

Tel: 01604 592702

Email: helpline@voiceability.org

Adult social care – Adult social services – West Northamptonshire

Action for Children offer parenting help and guidance in person and through their online services.

Parenting programmes

Free and confidential 1:1 Chat through Parent Talk.

Action For Children | Children’s charity | For safe and happy childhoods

Action on Postpartum Psychosis is the national charity for women and families affected by postpartum psychosis (PP). PP is a severe mental illness which begins suddenly following childbirth.

For general enquiries telephone 020 33229900

Action on Postpartum Psychosis | National charity supporting women and families affected by postpartum psychosis (app-network.org)

The APNI is the leading organisation in its field. It is a charity offering support to anyone suffering from or affected by post-natal illness, including partners, family/friends.

Tel: 0207 386 0868 Monday to Friday 10am – 2pm or use the chat box on their website.

APNI – Association for Post-Natal Illness | Post Natal Depression

Cry-sis is the only UK charity offering help and support to parents with babies who cry excessively or have sleep problems.

Cry-sis Helpline 0800 448 0737 9am – 10pm 7 days/week

Support For Crying And Sleepless Babies | Cry-sis

Family Lives offers a confidential and free helpline for families in England and Wales (formerly called Parentline).

Call on 0808 800 2222 for emotional support, information advice and guidance on any aspect of parenting and family life. Monday – Friday 9am – 9pm, weekends 10am – 3pm. If you don’t get an answer first time then please try again.

Parenting and Family Support – Family Lives (Parentline Plus) | Family Lives

Support for single parents through group sessions, webchat advice, local groups, and information pages.

Helpline contact 0808 802 0925

Home | Gingerbread

Home-Start in West Northamptonshire is a voluntary organisation committed to promoting the welfare of families with at least one child under five years of age and living in the Borough of West Northamptonshire.

Home Start is a local community network of trained volunteers and expert support helping families with young children through their challenging times.

Our support is informal, friendly, and confidential; delivered through carefully selected and prepared volunteers, who are parents themselves. Home-Start believes that children need a happy and secure childhood and that parents play a crucial role in giving their children a good start in life, helping them achieve their full potential.

Home Start Daventy and South Northants Tel: 01327 353139, Email: admin@homestart-davsn.org.uk

https://www.homestart-davsn.org.uk/

Little Lullaby was created in response to the increased risk of babies born to mums under 20 dying of sudden infant death syndrome. Babies born to mothers below the age of 20 are four times more likely to die from SIDS.

Little Lullaby is an online support community for young parents and parents-to-be.

Chat, tell your story and share advice with other young mums and dads through pregnancy, birth and beyond.

Young parents support network by young mums and dads | Little Lullaby

The National Breastfeeding helpline offers friendly, non-judgemental, independent, evidence-based breastfeeding support and information to anyone in the UK who needs it.

Helpline 0300 100 0212 9.30am – 9.30pm every day of the year.

National Breastfeeding Helpline – Helpline

NCT provide evidence-based information, signposting and access to support services to expectant and new parents through their website.

Antenatal and postnatal courses delivered by skilled practitioners, a range of free community-based activities and breastfeeding and infant feeding advice.

Support line 0300 330 0700

The UK’s leading charity for parents | NCT

Information for new parents including registering your baby with a GP, child health clinics, local advice centres and support groups.

Links to other services and support for new parents.

Services and support for parents – NHS (www.nhs.uk)

Mind offer mental health services including crisis support, counselling, one to one support, group and peer support and wellbeing courses. More information can be found on the website.

Home | NorthamptonshireMind

Tel: 01604 634310, Email: enquires@northamptonshiremind.org.uk

Mind offer appointments at the Renew-169 Wellbeing Café every Thursday and Friday from 10am to 3pm – this is strictly by appointment. Renew is located at 169 Watling Street, Towcester NN12 6BX – renew169 Wellbeing Café | Towcester, England)

Northamptonshire Children’s Trust ​is an independent, not-for-profit organisation established in November 2020. Our responsibility is to deliver children’s social care and targeted early help services on behalf of North Northamptonshire Council and West Northamptonshire Council.

Our teams across all of our front-line children and families support services will listen to your concerns and offer information, advice, and signposting to services that may be able to help.

If you are worried or concerned about something that has happened to you, a friend or someone you know, please call us on 0300 126 7000.

Welcome to Northamptonshire Children’s Trust (nctrust.co.uk)

We aim to give you more information that will be useful to you and to your family. Here you will find information, both local to our service and more national information.

You can also contact our 0-19 Admin Hub via the Live Chat tool or via the telephone 0800 170 7055

Children’s resources, tips and advice hub | NHFT

PANDAS offer hope, empathy and support for every parent or network affected by perinatal mental illness.

They have a team of trained and dedicated volunteers, many or whom are studying and/or working within healthcare, midwifery or health services.

Free Helpline open 7 days per week, 11am – 10pm. 0808 1961 776

WhatsApp, Email and online support available.

Home – PANDAS Foundation UK

Renew 169 Wellbeing Café offers a quiet space where it is okay not to be okay. It is a safe space where people with emotional and mental health difficulties are welcomed, with an aim to reduce loneliness and isolation. Visitors can be assured of a warm welcome and someone to listen. Attendees have the opportunity to take part in activities, based on the ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’.

Open Monday to Wednesday 10am – 3pm, no appointment required. 169 Watling Street, Towcester NN12 6BX

Tuesday 12pm – 1pm Carers Supporting Carers

Email: manager@renew169.org.uk

The Lullaby Trust raises awareness of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), provides expert advice on safer sleep for babies and offers emotional support for bereaved families.

Bereavement Helpline 0808 802 6868. Open Weekends and Public Holidays 6pm – 10pm

The Lullaby Trust – Safer sleep for babies, Support for families

Children’s centres in Northamptonshire offer information, advice, and activities to all local families 0-19 years-old.

Health services, such as ante-natal support and post-natal support (from midwives), and scans from health visitors can also be accessed in children’s centres.

Riverside Centre, Islington Road, Towcester NN12 6AU

Website Towcester Children’s Centre

Tel: 01604 362500

Number 0800 448 0828

Action on Postpartum Psychosis is the national charity for women and families affected by postpartum psychosis (PP). PP is a severe mental illness which begins suddenly following childbirth.

For general enquiries telephone 020 33229900

Action on Postpartum Psychosis | National charity supporting women and families affected by postpartum psychosis (app-network.org)

Mind Cafés have professional mental health workers who can offer you a safe space. Our aim is to support people to reduce any immediate crisis and to safety plan; drawing on strengths, resilience, and coping mechanisms to manage their mental health and wellbeing.

Professionals can also refer and direct you to further services if required.

Crisis Cafes are open to anyone 18 years old or over who are finding themselves in crisis or need support with their mental health. No appointment required just drop in:

Anchor House @ Northampton Mind, 6/7 Regent Square, Northampton NN1 2NQ, Tel: 01604 634310/624951.

Open Monday 12 – 10pm, Tuesday 12 – 10pm, Saturday 2 – 10pm

Crisis cafés | NHFT – visit website for most up to date information and timetable for crisis cafes throughout Northamptonshire.

Hearing Voices Network focus on helping to create respectful and empowering spaces, whilst challenging the inequalities and oppressive practices that hold people back.

Information and resources available on the website

Hearing Voices Network: Welcome (hearing-voices.org)

Information and resources available on the website.

Living With Schizophrenia | Information & Support (livingwithschizophreniauk.org)

NHFT Talking Therapies works with people across Northamptonshire who are trying to get back on track, although they may feel stressed, low or anxious.

Initial assessment by telephone and can offer a range of evidence-based talking therapies. Can provide therapy by phone, through video link, or face to face. This could be on a one-to-one basis or as part of a group.

Alternatively, you can sign up for our online programme and webinars, working at your own pace, in your own home.

www.nhft.nhs.uk/iapt

Information and advice on mental health conditions.

Self-harm – NHS (www.nhs.uk)

The National Organisation for Phobias, Anxiety, Neuroses, Information, and Care (NO PANIC) is a registered charity that helps people deal with phobias, anxiety disorders, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and tranquilliser withdrawal.

Helpline 0300 772 9844 10am – 10pm

Website: Home – NoPanic

Community Mental Health Adult – Early Intervention N’Step

Our early intervention service delivers low dose anti-psychotic medication, psycho-education, medication management, cognitive behavioural therapy, family intervention and relapse prevention

Community Mental Health Adult – Early Intervention N’Step | NHFT

Mind offer mental health services including crisis support, counselling, one to one support, group and peer support and wellbeing courses. More information can be found on the website.

Home | NorthamptonshireMind

Tel: 01604 634310, Email: enquires@northamptonshiremind.org.uk

Mind offer appointments at the Renew-169 Wellbeing Café every Thursday and Friday from 10am to 3pm – this is strictly by appointment. Renew is located at 169 Watling Street, Towcester NN12 6BX – renew169 Wellbeing Café | Towcester, England)

Mind offer mental health services including crisis support, counselling, one to one support, group and peer support and wellbeing courses. More information can be found on the website.

Website: https://www.northamptonshiremind.org.uk/

Tel: 01604 634310

Email: enquires@northamptonshiremind.org.uk

OCD Action works for a society where OCD is better understood and diagnosed quickly.

The OCD Action Helpline is an unbiased source of information and support for people with OCD and the people in their lives. The service can offer you a safe and understanding space where you can find out more about the conditions, what can help, and how to access the right support for you or your loved one.

Helpline No: 0300 636 5478

Email: support@ocdaction.org.uk

OCD Action

OCD Youth aims to increase awareness and access support for anyone under 25 affected by OCD.

OCD Youth is run by young people for young people with OCD.

Helpline No: 0300 636 5478

OCD Youth – OCD Action

OCD-UK is a national charity working with and for children and adults affected by obsessive compulsive disorder.

We are here to educate, offer hope and support people through the difficult times, right through to recovery and everything in between.

Advice line 01332 588112 9am to 12pm (Monday to Friday)

Email support@ocduk.org

OCD-UK | A national OCD charity, run by, and for people with lived experience of OCD (ocduk.org)

Sane Textcare is designed to provide emotional support and connection at the times you need it most. This is a confidential service for those aged 16 and over, and each message sent will be individually written for you based on the information you give. For this reason, you need to submit your request a minimum of 72 hours before the time you would like to receive a message. Only one message can be sent in a seven day period.

Textcare – SANE

SANE is a leading UK mental health charity improving the life of anyone affected by mental illness.

SANEline remains the only out of hours national specialist mental health helpline, available 365 days a year to people in crisis.

Helpline 0300 304 7000 4pm – 10pm

Home – SANE

St Andrew’s Healthcare is a charity providing specialist mental healthcare for patients with some of the most complex, challenging mental health needs.

They provide a range of specialist services for men, women and young people covering trauma, personality disorder, psychosis, autism, learning disability, brain injury, complex dementia and Huntington’s disease.

Referrals can be made by anyone, including the person.

Tel: 01604 616552

Home » St Andrew’s Healthcare (stah.org)

Honest information about drugs.

Honest information about drugs | FRANK (talktofrank.com)

Call Frank 0300 123 6600 24 hours/day, 7 days/week

Text a question to Frank 82111 and Frank will text you back

Live chat services 2pm – 6pm, 7 days/week

Voice Collective is a UK–wide project that supports young people up to 25 who hear voices, see visions, or have other sensory experiences or beliefs.

Voice Collective also offer support to parents/families.

Voice Collective

Number 0800 448 0828

Alumina is a free, online 7 week course for young people (11 – 19 years old) struggling with self-harm. Each course has up to 14 young people, all accessing the sessions from their own phones, tablets or laptops across the UK.

The courses take place on different evenings of the week and are run by friendly, trained counsellors and volunteer youth workers. You don’t need an adult to refer you or sign you up, and no-one will see or hear you during the sessions – you’ll just join in via the chatbox.

https://www.selfharm.co.uk

We are a small, dedicated, 100% survivor-led and run charity offering local, regional, national as well as international support around self-harm.

Battle Scars run virtual groups for parents/family/friends of people who self-harm.

Email: info@battle-scars.org.uk

Battle Scars – Home (battle-scars-self-harm.org.uk)

CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) offers a guide to self-harm.

Telephone Helpline 0800 58 58 58

Self-harm | Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) (thecalmzone.net)

Mind Cafés have professional mental health workers who can offer you a safe space. Our aim is to support people to reduce any immediate crisis and to safety plan; drawing on strengths, resilience, and coping mechanisms to manage their mental health and wellbeing.

Professionals can also refer and direct you to further services if required.

Crisis Cafes are open to anyone 18 years old or over who are finding themselves in crisis or need support with their mental health. No appointment required just drop in:

Anchor House @ Northampton Mind, 6/7 Regent Square, Northampton NN1 2NQ, Tel: 01604 634310/624951.

Open Monday 12 – 10pm, Tuesday 12 – 10pm, Saturday 2 – 10pm

Crisis cafés | NHFT – visit website for most up to date information and timetable for crisis cafes throughout Northamptonshire.

Harmless support people who do or are at risk of self-harm.

Home – Harmless

The forum aims to support individuals who self-harm to reduce emotional distress also to provide support and provide information to families and carers of people who self-harm.

The NSHN Forum

NHFT Talking Therapies works with people across Northamptonshire who are trying to get back on track, although they may feel stressed, low or anxious.

Initial assessment by telephone and can offer a range of evidence-based talking therapies. Can provide therapy by phone, through video link, or face to face. This could be on a one-to-one basis or as part of a group.

Alternatively, you can sign up for our online programme and webinars, working at your own pace, in your own home.

www.nhft.nhs.uk/iapt

Information and advice on mental health conditions.

Self-harm – NHS (www.nhs.uk)

Mind offer mental health services including crisis support, counselling, one to one support, group and peer support and wellbeing courses. More information can be found on the website.

Home | NorthamptonshireMind

Tel: 01604 634310, Email: enquires@northamptonshiremind.org.uk

Mind offer appointments at the Renew-169 Wellbeing Café every Thursday and Friday from 10am to 3pm – this is strictly by appointment. Renew is located at 169 Watling Street, Towcester NN12 6BX – renew169 Wellbeing Café | Towcester, England)

Sane Textcare is designed to provide emotional support and connection at the times you need it most. This is a confidential service for those aged 16 and over, and each message sent will be individually written for you based on the information you give. For this reason, you need to submit your request a minimum of 72 hours before the time you would like to receive a message. Only one message can be sent in a seven day period.

Textcare – SANE

SANE is a leading UK mental health charity improving the life of anyone affected by mental illness.

SANEline remains the only out of hours national specialist mental health helpline, available 365 days a year to people in crisis.

Helpline 0300 304 7000 4pm – 10pm

Home – SANE

Self-Injury Support run a UK-wide multi-channel support service for women and girls affected by self-injury, trauma and abuse.

The website includes information, resources and self-help tools. The helpline is temporarily closed but hopes to re-open summer 2023.

Self Injury Support

Shout is a free and confidential, 24/7 text messaging support service for anyone who is struggling to cope.

Free, 24/7 mental health text support in the UK

Website: Shout 85258

Text `Shout’ to 85258 anytime, day or night

SupportLine provides a confidential helpline offering emotional support to any individual on any issue. The Helpline is primarily a preventative service and aims to support people before they reach the point of crisis. It is particularly aimed at those who are socially isolated, vulnerable, at-risk groups and victims of any form of abuse.

SupportLine – Confidential Emotional Support for Children, Young Adults and Adults

Helpline: 01708 765200

Youth Mental Health Foundation offer a free online course for parents of a self -harming child : Learn how you can support your self-harming child’s healing.

Youth Mental Health Foundation

A specialist service for victims of road traffic collisions in Northampton, delivered in conjunction with Voice.

Assist Trauma Care employs experienced therapists to provide help and support after road traffic collisions, including specialist support following traumatic loss.

Voice Roads • Assist Trauma Care

Mental Health Care for veterans and families.

Tel: 0300 303 9888

UK Armed Forces and military veterans charity | Help For Heroes

KidsAid is a Northampton Charity providing therapeutic support for children and young people who have suffered any form of trauma.

KidsAid works with children and young people aged 3 – 18 who have experience trauma ranging from anxiety, illness, peer pressure and bullying through to family breakdown, attachment issues, bereavement, behavioural difficulties, domestic violence, neglect, physical and sexual abuse.

KidsAid offer a range of 1:1 therapies and therapies to parents, carers and siblings.

Anyone can refer via the referral form on their website of calling 07471 762737

KidsAid | Childrens Charity Northampton

NDAS support women and men as well as children to help them recover from the trauma of domestic abuse.

Website: https://www.ndas.co/

Tel: 0300 0120 154

Email: advice@ndas-org.co.uk

Mind offer mental health services including crisis support, counselling, one to one support, group and peer support and wellbeing courses. More information can be found on the website.

Home | NorthamptonshireMind

Tel: 01604 634310, Email: enquires@northamptonshiremind.org.uk

Mind offer appointments at the Renew-169 Wellbeing Café every Thursday and Friday from 10am to 3pm – this is strictly by appointment. Renew is located at 169 Watling Street, Towcester NN12 6BX – renew169 Wellbeing Café | Towcester, England)

As a victim of crime or someone who has witnessed a crime, there are things you can expect from the police and criminal justice system.

Information and advice can be found on the website Support for victims and witnesses of crime | Northamptonshire Police (northants.police.uk)

PTSD Resolution is a charity providing mental health help and support for UK armed forces veterans, reservists, families.

Call 0300 302 0551

PTSD Resolution Charity for UK Forces Veterans Mental Health

PTSD UK is the only charity in the UK dedicated to raising awareness post-traumatic stress disorder – no matter the trauma that caused it.

The PTSD UK website has information, advice and support for those affected by PTSD and their families.

PTSD UK

Sane Textcare is designed to provide emotional support and connection at the times you need it most. This is a confidential service for those aged 16 and over, and each message sent will be individually written for you based on the information you give. For this reason, you need to submit your request a minimum of 72 hours before the time you would like to receive a message. Only one message can be sent in a seven day period.

Textcare – SANE

SANE is a leading UK mental health charity improving the life of anyone affected by mental illness.

SANEline remains the only out of hours national specialist mental health helpline, available 365 days a year to people in crisis.

Helpline 0300 304 7000 4pm – 10pm

Home – SANE

St Andrew’s Healthcare is a charity providing specialist mental healthcare for patients with some of the most complex, challenging mental health needs.

They provide a range of specialist services for men, women and young people covering trauma, personality disorder, psychosis, autism, learning disability, brain injury, complex dementia and Huntington’s disease.

Referrals can be made by anyone, including the person.

Tel: 01604 616552

Home » St Andrew’s Healthcare (stah.org)

Tackling Trauma is a website to support children and young people who have experienced trauma which will promote recovery.

Included is support for the families who are supporting those people.

Welcome To Tackling Trauma Website (tackling-trauma.com)

Victim Support is an independent charity dedicated to supporting victims of crime and traumatic incidents in England and Wales

They provide specialist help to support people to cope and move on to a point where they feel they are back on track with their lives.

Independent, free and confidential service. Support Line 0808 16 89 111

Text Relay: use the Relay App or contact us in BSL

Live Chat via their website

Home – Victim Support

Voice helps you to cope, recover and thrive after a crime.

Under the Victims Code of Practice, victims and witnesses of crime are entitled to access support. For anyone living in Northamptonshire Voice provide free support that is tailored to your needs.

Voice also offer specialist domestic abuse, children and young people, trauma on the roads and restorative justice services.

Tel: 0300 303 1965

info@voicenorthants.org

Voice Northants | Voice for Victims & Witnesses

We have nearly 40 years of experience in supporting women affected by domestic abuse. Whatever your background, language or cultural experience we understand the impact it has on people, whether it is emotional, physical, situational, financial.

Our helpline staff is able to help you in a number of languages, including English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Gujarati, Tamil, Bengali.

We provide advice and information to women affected by domestic abuse on benefits and welfare rights, immigration issues (including no recourse to legal funds and the rights of non-British citizens), children’s and young people’s issues, legal support, housing and financial support.

Support Line 0800 0124 924 open Monday – Friday 9am to 10pm. Email info@aanchal.org.uk

Home – Aanchal

Northampton based Dostiyo is an Asian Women and Girls Organisation, a charity serving the Asian community. They offer support to women who are going through issues suce as domestic abuse, loneliness, psychological issues or even employment-related problems.

Website: https://www.dostiyo.co.uk/

Tel: 01604 816080 or 07572 896361

Email: info@dostiyo.org.uk

EVE is a family refuge based in Northamptonshire. They provide a safe place in their refuge for women and their children who have escpaed from domestic abuse.

Website: https://eveda.org.uk/

Tel: 01604 230311

Email: eve2eve@eve.org.uk

A free fast emergency injunction service to survivors of domestic abuse and violence, regardless of their financial circumstances, race, gender or sexual orientation.

Website: https://www.ncdv.org.uk/

Tel: 0800 970 2070

Email: office@ncdv.org

Text: NCDV to 60777

The Freephone 24 Hour National Domestic Violence Helpline, run in partnership between Women’s Aid and Refuge, is a national service for women experiencing domestic violence, their family, friends, colleagues and others calling on their behalf.

Tel: 0808 2000 247

Operated by the Suzy Lamplugh Trust The National Stalking Helpline gives practical information, support, and advice on risk, safety planning and legislation to victims of stalking, their friends, families and professionals working with victims.

Helpline 0808 802 0300

Suzy Lamplugh Trust

National Women’s Register is a social organisation and our style is informal and relaxed. Local group and online meetings offer conversation, friendship and fun.

NWR – National Women’s Register – social organisation for women

NDAS support women and men as well as children to help them recover from the trauma of domestic abuse.

Website: https://www.ndas.co/

Tel: 0300 0120 154

Email: advice@ndas-org.co.uk

A safe place where women engage a variety of activities, support groups and give access to professional support in one place.

Service users have the opportunity to learn and practice skills such as sewing and craft, gardening and healthy cooking. It also provides a place to find holistic one-to-one support for issues from debt and domestic violence to homelessness and mental health.

To access services telephone: 01604 824080 or Email: info@c2csocialaction.com

Northampton Women’s Centre | C2C Social Action

NADASA is made up of different services across the county working together to support adults and children who risk or have experienced domestic or sexual abuse.

Website: https://www.nadasa.co.uk/

Services that can help: https://www.nadasa.co.uk/domestic-violence/services-that-can-help/

Mind offer mental health services including crisis support, counselling, one to one support, group and peer support and wellbeing courses. More information can be found on the website.

Home | NorthamptonshireMind

Tel: 01604 634310, Email: enquires@northamptonshiremind.org.uk

Mind offer appointments at the Renew-169 Wellbeing Café every Thursday and Friday from 10am to 3pm – this is strictly by appointment. Renew is located at 169 Watling Street, Towcester NN12 6BX – renew169 Wellbeing Café | Towcester, England)

Support for anyone affected by sexual abuse, assault or rape

Website: https://www.northamptonshirerapecrisis.co.uk/

Tel: 01604 250721

Email: info@northamptonshirerapecrisis.co.uk

Voice is a free, confidential support service for anyone affected by crime in Northamptonshire. Support is available for anyone living in Northamptonshire, regardless of when, where or how crime happened to you. Services are free, confidential and you don’t have to have reported anything to the police.

Website: https://www.voicenorthants.org/

Tel: 0300 303 1965

Email: info@voicenorthants.org

A national organisation offering a range of services aimed at female victims of domestic abuse.

Website: https://refuge.org.uk/

Tel: 0808 2000 247

Renew 169 Wellbeing Café offers a quiet space where it is okay not to be okay. It is a safe space where people with emotional and mental health difficulties are welcomed, with an aim to reduce loneliness and isolation. Visitors can be assured of a warm welcome and someone to listen. Attendees have the opportunity to take part in activities, based on the ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’.

Open Monday to Wednesday 10am – 3pm, no appointment required. 169 Watling Street, Towcester NN12 6BX

Tuesday 12pm – 1pm Carers Supporting Carers

Email: manager@renew169.org.uk

We are a women’s charity working in a number of ways to help women through the law.

Services aim to provide women with the legal advice and information they need to understand and use the law and their legal rights. We also work to improve the law for women and increase women’s access to justice.

National Law Advice Lines and open hours can be found on website.

Rights of Women – Helping Women Through The LawRights of Women | helping women through the law

Northamptonshire Sunflower Centre provides free, confidential advice and support across: crisis intervention, risk assessment and individual safety planning to help keep you and your family safe; advice and support on civil and criminal court proceedings; signposting to other services such as crime prevention, immigration advice, legal adice, group work and counsellors.

Website: https://www.voicenorthants.org/about-voice-northants/sunflower-centre/

Tel: 01604 888211

Email: sunflowercentre@northants.pnn.police.uk

Wellbeing of Women is the only UK charity working across all of women’s gynaecological and reproductive health.

Their website includes information on research campaigns and health information (a-z of conditions).

Home – Wellbeing of Women

Women’s Aid is the national charity working to end domestic abuse against women and children.

Home – Women’s Aid (womensaid.org.uk)

Live chat service online

You My Sister support survivors of the sex trade.

You my sister operates online and can provide support anywhere in the world.

You my sister offer training programmes alongside self help and resources pages on their website.

You My Sister

Zimwomen Association is a voluntary organisation based in Northampton.

Zimwomen provide specialist support for women in the African community- family support, health and wellbeing, and life skills training.

Zimwomen’s Association – Home (zimwomenassociation.org)

Alumina is a free, online 7 week course for young people (11 – 19 years old) struggling with self-harm. Each course has up to 14 young people, all accessing the sessions from their own phones, tablets or laptops across the UK.

The courses take place on different evenings of the week and are run by friendly, trained counsellors and volunteer youth workers. You don’t need an adult to refer you or sign you up, and no-one will see or hear you during the sessions – you’ll just join in via the chatbox.

https://www.selfharm.co.uk

LGBTQ support services for children and young adults in Northamptonshire

Confidential Helpline Service for 12-25 year olds: 01604 622223

LGBTQ Support (asknormen.co.uk)

Calm Harm is a free app that helps you manage or resist the urge to self-harm.

Calm Harm is an award winning app developed for teenage mental health charity Stem4 using principles from evidence-based dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT).

The app is private, anonymous and safe.

Home – Calm Harm App

If you’re under 19 you can confidentially call, chat online or email about any problem big or small.

Sign up for a free Childline locker (real name or email address not needed) to use their free 1-2-1 counsellor chat and email support service.

Can provide BSL interpreter if you are deaf or hearing impaired.

Telephone Helpline 0800 11 11 open 24/7

Childline 

CYPMHS is here to support children and young people up to the age of 18 in Northamptonshire, experiencing difficulties with their emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties.

The team offers a range of interventions and therapies delivered individually or in groups, in partnership with families in a number of locations.

Website NHFT

Live Chat is available 9am – 7pm Monday to Friday.

Consultation line 0800 170 7055 or Text SHOUT to 85258 anytime.

KidsAid is a Northampton Charity providing therapeutic support for children and young people who have suffered any form of trauma.

KidsAid works with children and young people aged 3 – 18 who have experience trauma ranging from anxiety, illness, peer pressure and bullying through to family breakdown, attachment issues, bereavement, behavioural difficulties, domestic violence, neglect, physical and sexual abuse.

KidsAid offer a range of 1:1 therapies and therapies to parents, carers and siblings.

Anyone can refer via the referral form on their website of calling 07471 762737

KidsAid | Childrens Charity Northampton

Kooth is an online mental wellbeing community providing free, safe and anonymous support.

Home – Kooth

Information and advice for anyone dealing with bullying

Helpline 0300 323 0169 open Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm

Information and advice about all forms of bullying (nationalbullyinghelpline.co.uk)

NGAGE with Aquarius is an early intervention drug and alcohol service for young people aged 10 -18 in Northamptonshire.

NGAGE is a free and confidential service which provides information, education, advice and support to young people in relation to drug and alcohol use. Self-referrals accepted.

Tel: 01604 633 848

Northamptonshires Young People’s Service | Supporting Young People (aquarius.org.uk)

Mind offer mental health services including crisis support, counselling, one to one support, group and peer support and wellbeing courses. More information can be found on the website.

Home | NorthamptonshireMind

Tel: 01604 634310, Email: enquires@northamptonshiremind.org.uk

Mind offer appointments at the Renew-169 Wellbeing Café every Thursday and Friday from 10am to 3pm – this is strictly by appointment. Renew is located at 169 Watling Street, Towcester NN12 6BX – renew169 Wellbeing Café | Towcester, England)

Northamptonshire Children’s Trust ​is an independent, not-for-profit organisation established in November 2020. Our responsibility is to deliver children’s social care and targeted early help services on behalf of North Northamptonshire Council and West Northamptonshire Council.

Our teams across all of our front-line children and families support services will listen to your concerns and offer information, advice, and signposting to services that may be able to help.

If you are worried or concerned about something that has happened to you, a friend or someone you know, please call us on 0300 126 7000.

Welcome to Northamptonshire Children’s Trust (nctrust.co.uk)

Northamptonshire Young Carers Service provides assessment and support for Young Carers and Young Adult Carers aged 5 to 25 who help care for someone who has a long term illness or disability.

Needs assessment, support planning, 1:1 support, targeted groups, social activities and awareness training.

Tel: 01933 677907, Option 3 or Email: YoungCarersTeam@northamptonshire-carers.org.

Young Carers | Home | Northamptonshire Carers Association (northamptonshire-carers.org)

OCD Youth aims to increase awareness and access support for anyone under 25 affected by OCD.

OCD Youth is run by young people for young people with OCD.

Helpline No: 0300 636 5478

OCD Youth – OCD Action

Thinking of suicide? For confidential suicide prevention advice contact HOPELINE UK, open 9am to midnight every day – 0800 068 4141. Email: pat@papyrus-uk.org, Text 07860 039967

Papyrus Prevention of young suicide is the UK charity dedicated to the prevention of suicide and the promotion of positive health and emotional wellbeing in young people.

Papyrus UK Suicide Prevention | Prevention of Young Suicide (papyrus-uk.org)

Service Six is an award-winning Northampton based charity, committed to changing lives and creating futures for disadvantages children, young people and their families.

Service Six offer wellbeing services, counselling, online and phone services, positive activity and vocational services.

To find out more about their services call 01933 277520 or email referrals@servicesix.co.uk

Service Six- Service Six supports children and young people to live healthier & happier lives!

Shout is a free and confidential, 24/7 text messaging support service for anyone who is struggling to cope.

Free, 24/7 mental health text support in the UK

Website: Shout 85258

Text `Shout’ to 85258 anytime, day or night

stem4 is a charity that promotes positive mental health in teenagers and those supporting them, including families and carers and education professionals through the provision of mental health education.

This is primarily provided digitally through education programmes and pioneering mental health apps. Links for these apps can be found on their website.

stem4 – supporting teenage mental health

Hub for all young LGBTQ+ people thinking about their next steps.

Stonewall Young Futures | Stonewall

Tackling Trauma is a website to support children and young people who have experienced trauma which will promote recovery.

Included is support for the families who are supporting those people.

Welcome To Tackling Trauma Website (tackling-trauma.com)

Honest information about drugs.

Honest information about drugs | FRANK (talktofrank.com)

Call Frank 0300 123 6600 24 hours/day, 7 days/week

Text a question to Frank 82111 and Frank will text you back

Live chat services 2pm – 6pm, 7 days/week

Tellmi is a safe, anonymous app where you can talk about absolutely anything. From anxiety to autism, dating to depression, or self-harm to self-esteem, sharing your experiences with the community helps you to feel better.

Moderators check everything to keep you safe and in-house counsellors are always on hand if you need extra support.

Tellmi

The Frank Bruno Foundation offer wellbeing programmes and structured non-contact boxing sessions for anyone over the age of 10 years who are experiencing problems with ill mental health.

To discuss referrals email info@thefrankbrunofoundation.co.uk

Home – The Frank Bruno Foundation

The lowdown is Mental Health charity, providing free and confidential support services for 11- 25 year olds in Northamptonshire.

Services include counselling, wellbeing drop-ins, LGBTQ+ support, practical support and sexual health.

Tel: 01604 634385+

07585 737482 LGBTQ Group

The Lowdown | Free and confidential support for 11-25 year olds

Email: info@thelowdownnorthampton.co.uk

Offers online information as well as helpline support to under-25s about anything that’s troubling them. Email support is available via their online contact form.

Free 1-2-1 webchat service and telephone helpline available. 4pm – 11pm seven days a week 0808 808 4994

The Mix – Essential support for under 25s

Time2Talk is a mental health charity that offer a range of free services for young people in the Daventry District and Northamptonshire areas.

This includes counselling (in Towcester) for young people aged 11 – 18, which can be accessed by calling 01327 706706 (by appointment only).

Time2Talk drop in times Monday – Friday 10am – 5:30pm and Saturday 10am – 4pm.

Time2Talk, The Abbey, Market Square, Daventry NN11 4XG.

Crisis Café for young people aged 12-18. Monday 4pm – 8pm. Café Track 18 Market Square, Northampton NN1 2DL and Thursday 4pm – 8pm YouthWorks, Keystone, 97 Rockingham Road, Kettering NN16 9HX.

Time2Talk – Your Time to Talk, Our Time to Listen. | time2talk

Voice Collective is a UK–wide project that supports young people up to 25 who hear voices, see visions, or have other sensory experiences or beliefs.

Voice Collective also offer support to parents/families.

Voice Collective

Young Minds are the leading UK charity fighting for children and young people’s mental health.

Young Minds provide young people with the tools to look after their mental health. Their website is full of advice and information on what to do if you are struggling. They also help parents/carers who are worried about their child’s mental health with tips, information and advice through their Parents Helpline service.

YoungMinds | Mental Health Charity For Children And Young People | YoungMinds

Youth Mental Health Foundation offer a free online course for parents of a self -harming child : Learn how you can support your self-harming child’s healing.

Youth Mental Health Foundation

Youth Works offers mental health support to 11-18 year olds in Northamptonshire.

Support for young people including counselling, drop-in support, sexual health advice and youth activities

Tel: 01536 518339

Youth Works Northamptonshire