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Chapter 1.

On this page are a list of contacts and resources that exist to help. The truth is; they often can’t stop, fix, or undo what has happened or is happening, but here’s another three bonus truths of equal truthfulness:

  1. You won’t know till you try.
  2. They might know someone else who can. 
  3. Even if they can’t, don’t underestimate the power of kindness.

Action for Children

  • Link: actionforchildren.org.uk
  • Description: Provides practical emotional and physical support for vulnerable children, young people, and struggling families across the UK

The Children’s Society

  • Link: childrenssociety.org.uk
  • Description: Fights child poverty and neglect by supporting vulnerable young people facing exploitation, abuse, or severe social hardships

NSPCC

  • Link: nspcc.org.uk
  • Description: The UK’s leading children’s charity, dedicated to preventing child abuse, protecting young lives, and providing therapeutic support

YoungMinds

  • Link: youngminds.org.uk
  • Description: Dedicated to youth mental health, providing young people with tools to cope and reassuring advice for worried parents

Beyond

  • Link: wearebeyond.org.uk
  • Description: A youth mental health charity that funds tailored mental well-being support and resources within schools and colleges

Family Lives

  • Link: familylives.org.uk
  • Description: Offers non-judgmental advice and a confidential helpline covering all aspects of parenting, family disagreements, and behavioral challenges

Childline

  • Link: childline.org.uk
  • Description: A free, entirely confidential 24/7 helpline and chat service for children and young people under 19 to talk about any problem

Barnardo’s

  • Link: barnardos.org.uk
  • Description: Protects and supports vulnerable children through foster care services, counselling, training programs, and community support centres

Parents And Children Together (PACT)

  • Link: pactcharity.org
  • Description: A voluntary adoption agency and charity offering lifelong adoption support, domestic abuse recovery programs for children, and community projects for vulnerable women

Gingerbread

  • Link: gingerbread.org.uk
  • Description: Provides expert advice, legal guidance, and local peer support groups specifically for single-parent families

Centre for Separated Families

  • Link: separatedfamilies.org.uk
  • Description: Offers practical resources and therapeutic advice to help parents work together constructively after a relationship breakdown

Families Need Fathers

  • Link: fnf.org.uk
  • Description: Provides support, legal information, and local meetings for parents fighting to maintain a meaningful relationship with their children after separation

Dads House

  • Link: dadshouse.org.uk
  • Description: Offers practical support, legal clinics, food banks, and breakfast clubs specifically for single fathers and their children

Bookmark Reading Charity

  • Link: bookmarkreading.org
  • Description: Matches primary school children struggling with their reading with dedicated, vetted reading mentors to build skills and confidence

Coram Beanstalk

  • Link: beanstalkcharity.org.uk
  • Description: Recruits and trains volunteers to provide one-to-one reading support and mentorship to children who need extra encouragement

The Literacy Trust

  • Link: literacytrust.org.uk
  • Description: Empowers disadvantaged children by improving vital reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills across local UK communities

Anxiety UK

  • Link: anxietyuk.org.uk
  • Description: A user-led charity offering support, therapy discounts, and resources for anyone managing anxiety, stress, or phobias

Mental Health Foundation

  • Link: mentalhealth.org.uk
  • Description: Focuses on research, prevention, and public awareness to help people understand, protect, and sustain their mental health

Mind

  • Link: mind.org.uk
  • Description: Provides reliable advice, local support services, and legal information to ensure no one has to face a mental health problem alone

Mental Health Mates

  • Link: mentalhealthmates.co.uk
  • Description: A national network of regular, informal walking groups where people can meet and talk about mental health without judgment

MHM (Mental Health Matters)

  • Link: mhm.org.uk
  • Description: Provides practical support services, including housing assistance, employment advice, and community crisis cafes across the UK

BACP

  • Link: bacp.co.uk
  • Description: The professional register for counsellors, providing a trusted directory to help individuals find registered local or online therapists

National Autistic Society

  • Link: autism.org.uk
  • Description: The leading UK charity for autistic people and their families, providing diagnosis guidance, advice, and specialist schools

ADHD UK

  • Link: adhduk.co.uk
  • Description: A charity created by people with ADHD to provide information, peer support groups, advocacy, and funding for academic research

The ADHD Foundation

  • Link: adhdfoundation.org.uk
  • Description: A neurodiversity charity providing training and resources for managing ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and Tourette’s

Bipolar UK

  • Link: bipolaruk.org
  • Description: Offers a supportive national community, peer mentoring, and vital resources for individuals and families affected by bipolar disorder.

Beat Eating Disorders

  • Link: beateatingdisorders.org.uk
  • Description: The UK’s eating disorder charity, providing helplines, online support groups, and peer support for sufferers and carers

Rethink Mental Illness

  • Link: rethink.org
  • Description: Supports individuals severely impacted by mental illness through local groups, legal advice, advocacy, and dedicated care services

The Kaleidoscope Plus Group

  • Link: kaleidoscopeplus.org.uk
  • Description: Delivers community-focused mental health support, counseling, crisis text lines, and well-being activities across the UK

PTSD UK

  • Link: ptsduk.org
  • Description: Dedicated to raising awareness of post-traumatic stress disorder, providing comprehensive tools, resources, and support for recovery regardless of the trauma’s cause

NAPAC (National Association for People Abused in Childhood)

  • Link: napac.org.uk
  • Description: The UK’s national support service for adult survivors of childhood abuse, offering confidential support lines, guides, and psycho-educational support groups

The Survivors Trust

  • Link: thesurvivorstrust.org
  • Description: A national umbrella organization providing specialized support, advice, and local counselling directories for survivors of sexual violence, abuse, and trauma

Victim Support

  • Link: victimsupport.org.uk
  • Description: An independent charity providing free, confidential support and practical help to anyone affected by crime, traumatic events, or anti-social behavior

Birth Trauma Association

  • Link: birthtraumaassociation.org.uk
  • Description: Specifically supports women and their partners who have experienced a traumatic birth, offering peer support and resources to aid recovery

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Combat Stress

  • Link: combatstress.org.uk
  • Description: The UK’s leading charity for veterans’ mental health, focusing extensively on specialized clinical treatment for complex trauma and service-related PTSD

One in Four

  • Link: oneinfour.org.uk
  • Description: Provides dedicated, professional counseling, support groups, and trauma-informed care for adults who have survived childhood sexual abuse or violence

Trauma Research UK

  • Link: traumaresearchuk.org
  • Description: Dedicated to helping individuals move beyond trauma and fear by providing research-backed recovery programmes for PTSD, anxiety, panic attacks, and related disorders

Day One Trauma Support

  • Link: dayonetrauma.org
  • Description: Rebuilds lives after catastrophic injury by providing major physical trauma survivors and their families with peer support, emergency funding, and legal advice

UK Trauma Council

  • Link: uktraumacouncil.org
  • Description: A group of leading experts producing specialized research, tools, and training resources to improve the help children and young people receive after traumatic events

NAPAC (National Association for People Abused in Childhood)

  • Link: napac.org.uk
  • Description: Supports adult survivors of physical, sexual, and emotional childhood abuse by offering a free, confidential support line, recovery guides, and expert training

Birth Trauma Association

  • Link: birthtraumaassociation.org
  • Description: Supports mothers and partners through peer support, resources, and advocacy if they have experienced PTSD or a traumatic journey during maternity and childbirth

Trauma Aid UK

  • Link: traumaaiduk.org
  • Description: Focused on advanced therapeutic skill-sharing by providing education, research, and EMDR therapy training to medical and mental health professionals in traumatized communities

Every Mind Matters

  • Link: www.nhs.uk
  • Description: An NHS-backed digital hub providing personalized action plans, expert tips, and mental well-being exercises

JAAQ

  • Link: jaaq.app
  • Description: An innovative interactive platform letting users ask leading doctors direct questions about various health conditions

Hub of Hope

  • Link: hubofhope.co.uk/services
  • Description: The UK’s most comprehensive directory tool, mapping out national, local, peer-led, and NHS mental health options in one place

Mental Health Innovations

  • Link: mentalhealthinnovations.org
  • Description: Uses digital technology, text support setups, and clinical data insights to scale up accessible mental health help across the country

Samaritans

  • Link: samaritans.org
  • Description: Offers a totally free, confidential, 24/7 phone and text lifeline for anyone struggling to cope or experiencing suicidal thoughts

PAPYRUS

  • Link: papyrus-uk.org
  • Description: Dedicated to preventing youth suicide by running HOPELINE247, a specialized crisis line for young people under 35

Shout

  • Link: giveusashout.org
  • Description: A free, confidential, 24/7 text support service for anyone in the UK experiencing an immediate mental health crisis

Andy’s Man Club

  • Link: andysmanclub.co.uk
  • Description: Runs nationwide, free-to-attend talking groups for men to talk through their struggles in a safe, non-judgmental environment

Breathing Space

  • Link: breathingspace.scot
  • Description: A free, confidential phone service for people in Scotland experiencing low mood, depression, anxiety, or emotional distress

Lifeline

  • Link: lifelinehelpline.info
  • Description: Northern Ireland’s 24/7 crisis response helpline for anyone experiencing severe distress, despair, or suicidal thoughts

C.A.L.L. Mental Health Helpline

  • Link: callhelpline.org.uk
  • Description: Provides a free, confidential 24/7 mental health helpline and text support service for residents living in Wales

SOS Silence of Suicide

  • Link: sossilenceofsuicide.org
  • Description: Provides an open, compassionate phone line for anyone dealing with suicidal ideation, as well as friends or family supporting them

CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably)

  • Link: thecalmzone.net
  • Description: Runs a daily helpline and webchat from 5pm to midnight to help anyone struggling with life, with a strong focus on male suicide prevention

Harmless

  • Link: harmless.org.uk
  • Description: A user-led specialist organisation providing counselling, support, and guidance to individuals who self-harm, alongside their families

LifeSIGNS

  • Link: lifesigns.org.uk
  • Description: A small, user-led charity focusing on awareness and providing non-judgmental strategies to help people move away from self-harm

Kaleidoscopic UK

  • Link: kaleidoscopic.uk
  • Description: A survivor-led charity offering unique support groups, freedom programs, and advocacy for adults and children experiencing domestic abuse

Women’s Aid

  • Link: womensaid.org.uk
  • Description: A national federation working to protect women and children through life-saving services, refuge coordination, and digital support

Refuge

  • Link: refuge.org.uk
  • Description: Operates the National Domestic Abuse Helpline and provides emergency accommodation and specialized advocacy for women and children

ManKind Initiative

  • Link: mankind.org.uk
  • Description: Provides a confidential helpline, practical advice, and support for male victims of domestic abuse and domestic violence

Movember

  • Link: movember.com
  • Description: Funds global mental health, suicide prevention, and physical health projects tailored specifically to support men and boys

AA (Alcoholics Anonymous)

  • Link: alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk
  • Description: A free, peer-led fellowship hosting regular local meetings to help individuals recover from alcoholism and maintain sobriety

Al-Anon Family Groups

  • Link: al-anonuk.org.uk
  • Description: Provides free support groups and shared understanding for the families and friends of alcoholics, regardless of whether the drinker seeks help

Narcotics Anonymous (NA)

  • Link: ukna.org
  • Description: A community of recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other stay clean from all types of drugs

With You

  • Link: wearewithyou.org.uk
  • Description: Offers free, confidential support for individuals struggling with drugs, alcohol, or mental health issues across the UK

The Brain Tumour Charity

  • Link: thebraintumourcharity.org
  • Description: A global funder of brain tumour research providing extensive support, counselling, and guidance to patients and families

Brain Tumour Research

  • Link: braintumourresearch.org
  • Description: Dedicated entirely to funding continuous scientific research into finding a cure for all types of brain tumours

MNDA (Motor Neurone Disease Association)

  • Link: mndassociation.org
  • Description: Coordinates care, provides equipment grants, and funds medical research to support individuals living with Motor Neurone Disease

Scope

  • Link: scope.org.uk
  • Description: A disability equality charity offering practical information, employment support, and a free helpline for disabled people

Macmillan Cancer Support

  • Link: macmillan.org.uk
  • Description: Provides practical, medical, financial, and emotional support for people living with cancer and their loved ones

Teenage Cancer Trust

  • Link: teenagecancertrust.org
  • Description: Creates world-class, specialized cancer care units and support networks tailored specifically for young people aged 13-24

Prostate Cancer UK

  • Link: prostatecanceruk.org
  • Description: Invests heavily in research, awareness, and direct specialist nurse helplines to support men fighting prostate cancer

Diabetes UK

  • Link: diabetes.org.uk
  • Description: Provides support, medical updates, and dietary guidance for individuals managing Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes

Cystic Fibrosis Trust

  • Link: cysticfibrosis.org.uk
  • Description: Funds research and fights for access to life-saving medicines for individuals living with cystic fibrosis

British Heart Foundation

  • Link: bhf.org.uk
  • Description: Funds life-saving cardiovascular research while providing excellent guidance on heart conditions, treatments, and recovery

Cancer Research UK

  • Link: cancerresearchuk.org
  • Description: The world’s leading independent cancer charity, dedicated to saving lives through extensive scientific research and public awareness

The Good Grief Trust

  • Link: thegoodgrieftrust.org
  • Description: Run by the bereaved for the bereaved, helping individuals find local support services, advice, and hope after losing a loved one

Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide (SoBS)

  • Link: uksobs.org
  • Description: Provides safe, confidential peer-led support groups for adults who have been left behind following the loss of someone to suicide

Cruse Bereavement Support

  • Link: cruse.org.uk
  • Description: Offers free, professional bereavement support, counseling, and local support groups to help individuals navigate intense grief

Winston’s Wish

  • Link: winstonswish.org
  • Description: Provides emotional support, crisis text lines, and counseling tools specifically for children and young people grieving a death

Shelter

  • Link: shelter.org.uk
  • Description: Defends the right to a safe home by providing emergency housing advice, legal support, and aid to those facing eviction

Crisis

  • Link: crisis.org.uk
  • Description: Provides direct education, housing support, employment training, and health services to help people leave homelessness behind

Centrepoint

  • Link: centrepoint.org.uk
  • Description: Provides safe housing, mental health support, and essential life-skills training for homeless young people aged 16-25

Reengage

  • Link: reengage.org.uk
  • Description: Fights social isolation in older generations by organizing free monthly social tea parties and telephone befriending networks

The Campaign to End Loneliness

  • Link: campaigntoendloneliness.org
  • Description: A research-led resource hub sharing tools and connecting local projects designed to tackle chronic community loneliness

The Wave Project

  • Link: waveproject.co.uk
  • Description: Delivers award-winning “surf therapy” and beach projects to combat anxiety and isolation in young people across the UK

Citizens Advice

  • Link: citizensadvice.org.uk
  • Description: Gives free, confidential, and independent advice on consumer rights, legal matters, housing issues, and employment disputes

CAP Debt Help

  • Link: capuk.org
  • Description: Offers entirely free debt counseling, home visits, and financial management tools to help individuals break free from poverty

StepChange

  • Link: stepchange.org
  • Description: The UK’s leading debt charity, providing free, structured debt advice, budgeting support, and formal debt management solutions

Age UK

  • Link: ageuk.org.uk
  • Description: Provides advice, companionship, helplines, and local community health services specifically to support older people

Help for Heroes

  • Link: helpforheroes.org.uk
  • Description: Helps British military veterans and their families recover from physical or psychological wounds sustained during service

The Royal British Legion

  • Link: britishlegion.org.uk
  • Description: Provides continuous financial support, rehabilitation assistance, and housing advice to members and veterans of the British Armed Forces
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If a charity is missing from this directly its omission is not intentional. Please get in touch with any suggestions and these will be considered for inclusion. At this time the links on these lists are for nationally accessible support in the UK,  if your suggested charity falls outside of this current criteria and is not included this is in no way a reflection of the work they do or how much they mean to you and the people they support. We are a work in progress. One step at a time.Â