Local and national services

Alcoholics Anonymous & other support services

Community Fridges

Community fridges brings people together to share food, connect with others, learn new skills and prevent fresh food from going to waste. 

Community Growing Projects

Many community farms, gardens and nature-based organisations offer structured support such as: Education programmes, work and skills training, social enterprises, volunteer opportunities, health and social care, environmental initiatives. 

Computer Access

Learn digital skills for free - Learn My Way | Develop Your Digital Skills

Find local digital support - Find Local Digital Inclusion Support | Good Things Foundation

Dentists

Doctors and GPs

Food Banks

Food waste projects

Libraries

Mental Health Services

  • Alzheimer's Society - Provides information on dementia, including factsheets and helplines - www.alzheimers.org.uk

  • Anxiety UK - Charity providing support for people affected by anxiety disorders - www.anxietyuk.org.uk

  • Anxiety Care UK - Helps people to recover from anxiety disorders - anxietycare.org.uk

  • ASSIST trauma care - Information and specialist help for people with PTSD and anyone supporting them - assisttraumacare.org.uk

  • Beat - Eating disorder help - www.b-eat.co.uk

  • Bipolar UK - A charity helping people living with manic depression or bipolar disorder - www.bipolaruk.org.uk

  • CALM - CALM is the Campaign Against Living Miserably, for men aged 15 to 35 - www.thecalmzone.net

  • Combat Stress - Treatment and support for British Armed Forces Veterans who have mental health problems - combatstress.org.uk

  • Cruse Bereavement Care - www.cruse.org

  • Depression UK - A self-help organisation made up of individuals and local groups - depressionuk.org

  • Harmless - Provides a range of services for people who self-harm and their friends and families - harmless.org.uk

  • Hearing Voices network - Information and support for people who hear voices and local support groups - hearing-voices.org

  • Lifesigns - User-led self-harm guidance and support network - lifesigns.org.uk

  • Maytree Suicide Respite Centre - Offers free respite stays for people in suicidal crisis - maytree.org.uk

  • Mencap - Charity working with people with a learning disability, their families and carers - www.mencap.org.uk

  • Men's Health Forum - 24/7 stress support for men by text, chat and email -www.menshealthforum.org.uk

  • Mental Health Foundation - Provides information and support for anyone with mental health problems or learning disabilities -www.mentalhealth.org.uk

  • Mind - Promotes the views and needs of people with mental health problems - www.mind.org.uk

  • National Association for People Abused in Childhood (NAPAC) - A charity supporting adult survivors of any form of childhood abuse. Provides a support line and local support services - napac.org.uk

  • National Centre for Eating Disorders - Everything you need to know about eating disorder treatments, information and professional training - eating-disorders.org.uk

  • National Paranoia Network - Information and support for people who experience paranoid thoughts - nationalparanoianetwork.org

  • National Self Harm Network - Survivor-led, closely monitored forum for people who self-harm and their friends and families - nshn.co.uk

  • NHS Choices - Comprehensive information and guidance relating to eating disorders - nhs.uk/eatingdisorders

  • No Panic - Voluntary charity offering support for sufferers of panic attacks and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Offers a course to help overcome phobias and OCD - www.nopanic.org.uk

  • OCD Action - Support for people with OCD. Includes information on treatment and online resources - www.ocdaction.org.uk

  • OCD UK - A charity run by people with OCD, for people with OCD. Includes facts, news and treatments - www.ocduk.org

  • PAPYRUS - Young suicide prevention society - www.papyrus-uk.org

  • Rape Crisis - Victim Support - www.victimsupport.org.uk

  • Relate - The UK's largest provider of relationship support - www.relate.org.uk

  • Rethink Mental Illness - Support and advice for people living with mental illness - www.rethink.org

  • Samaritans - Confidential support for people experiencing feelings of distress or despair - www.samaritans.org

  • SANE - Emotional support, information and guidance for people affected by mental illness, their families and carers - www.sane.org.uk/support

  • SEED - A group of ordinary people with firsthand experience of eating disorders, who make a difference to those people whose lives are blighted by this devastating illness - seed.charity

  • Side by Side - Mind's supportive online community providing confidential help on mental health problems, including suicide - sidebyside.mind.org.uk

  • Voice collective - Supports children and young people who experience psychotic symptoms and offer support for their families - voicecollective.co.uk

  • Young Minds - Support for young people affected by mental health, including psychosis - youngminds.org.uk

Narcotics Anonymous & other services

Parkrun and other activities

Social Prescribing

  • Social prescribing connects people to activities, groups and support that improve health and wellbeing. Services are often run through your GP and so they will need to refer you.

    Individual providers of Social Prescribing Services:

  • Imago - Covering Dartford/Gravesham/Swale

  • Social Enterprise Kent - Covering Ashford / Dover / Folkestone & Hythe / Thanet

  • Red Zebra - Covering Canterbury

  • Medway Council - Covering Medway

  • Involve. - Covering Maidstone/Sevenoaks/Tunbridge Wells/Tonbridge & Malling

Warm Spaces