Help Agencies
Age Related
Alzheimer’s Society
Provides information on dementia, including factsheets and helplines.
Telephone: 0300 222 1122 (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm and 10am to 4pm on weekends)
Website: www.alzheimers.org.uk
Cruse Bereavement Care
Telephone: 0808 808 1677 (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm)
Website: www.cruse.org.uk/home
Age UK
Providing a wealth of services to the elderly including advice, support and friendship services.
- National Adviceline:
Advice line: 0800 678 1602 (lines open 9am to 7pm 365 days a year)
Website:www.ageuk.org.uk
Age UK Friendship Services:
Offering home visits, telephone friendship social events for the older generation.
www.ageuk.org.uk/services/befriending-services/
Age UK Shropshire Branch:
Local services including help, advice, friendship and meetings.
Telephone: 01743 233 123
Email: enquiries@ageukstw.org.uk
Website: www.ageuk.org.uk/shropshireandtelford
Silverline
The Silver Line is a confidential, free 24 hour helpline offering friendship, advice and support for older people across the UK.
Helpline: 0800 470 8090
Website: www.thesilverline.org.uk
Stress and Anxiety
Anxiety UK
Charity providing support if you have been diagnosed with an anxiety condition.
Telephone: 03444 775 774 (Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 5.30pm)
Website: www.anxietyuk.org.uk
No Panic
Voluntary charity offering support for sufferers of panic attacks and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Offers a course to help overcome your phobia or OCD.
Telephone: 0844 967 4848 (daily, 10am to 10pm). Calls cost 5p per minute plus your phone provider’s Access Charge
Website: www.nopanic.org.uk
Rethink Mental Illness
Support and advice for people living with mental illness.
Telephone: 0300 5000 927 (Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 4pm)
Website: www.rethink.org
SANE
Emotional support, information and guidance for people affected by mental illness, their families and carers.
- Textcare
Comfort and care via text message, sent when the person needs it most
Website:www.sane.org.uk/textcare
Peer support forum
Website: www.sane.org.uk/supportforum
Website Support
Website:www.sane.org.uk/support
Distress and Despair
Samaritans
Confidential support for people experiencing feelings of distress or despair.
Telephone: 116 123 (free 24-hour helpline)
Website: www.samaritans.org/
PAPYRUS
Young suicide prevention society.
Telephone: HOPElineUK 0800 068 4141 (9am to midnight, every day of the year)
Website: www.papyrus-uk.org
Abuse
NSPCC
Children’s charity dedicated to ending child abuse and child cruelty.
Telephone: 0800 1111 for Childline for children (24-hour helpline) 0808 800 5000 for adults concerned about a child (24-hour helpline)
Website: www.nspcc.org.uk
Refuge
Advice on dealing with domestic violence.
Telephone: 0808 2000 247 (24-hour helpline)
Website: www.refuge.org.uk
Rape Crisis
To find your local services phone: 0808 802 9999 (daily, 12pm to 2.30pm and 7pm to 9.30pm)
Website: www.rapecrisis.org.uk
Addiction Related
Alcoholics Anonymous
A free self-help group. Its “12 step” programme involves getting sober with the help of regular face-to-face and online support groups.
Telephone: 0800 917 7650 (24-hour helpline)
Website: www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk
Drinkline
A free confidential helpline for people worried about their own or someone else’s drinking.
Telephone: 0300 123 1110 (weekdays 9am to 8pm, weekends 11am to 4pm)
SMART Recovery UK
SMART Recovery UK face-to-face and online groups help people decide whether they have a problem with alcohol and drugs, build up their motivation to change, and offer a set of proven tools and techniques to support recovery.
Telephone: 0330 053 6022 for general enquiries about SMART Recovery UK (9am to 5pm, Monday-Friday)
Website: smartrecovery.org.uk
The Mobile Library will stop in the cul-de-sac by the Three Trees/White Lion on alternate Tuesdays between 2:55pm – 3:55pm.