ADHD & Autism
Asperger East Anglia
Asperger East Anglia offers personal, friendly assistance for everyone with Asperger syndrome and their carers by providing a comprehensive and integrated service.
Telephone: 01603 620 500
Website: www.asperger.org.uk
Email: [email protected]
Autism Anglia
Autism Anglia is an independent charity which provides care and support to autistic children, adults and their families in East Anglia.
Telephone: 01206 577 678
Website: www.autism-anglia.org.uk
Email: [email protected]
Child Autism UK
Child Autism UK provide services to enable children to overcome difficulties with communication, learning and life skills and give families the techniques and strategies to cope with autism through the use of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA).
Telephone: 01344 882 248
Website: www.childautism.org.uk
Email: [email protected]
National Autistic Society (NAS)
Founded in 1962, they are the UK’s leading charity for autistic people and their families. Their goal is to help transform lives, change attitudes and create a society that works for autistic people.
Telephone: 08088 004 104
Website: www.autism.org.uk
ASD Friendly
ASD Friendly is a close-knit community of parents and carers of people with Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome.
Website: www.asdfriendly.org
Autism Independent UK (SFTAH)
Autism Independent UK helps to increase awareness of autism to the notice of all, together with well established and newly developed approaches in the diagnosis, assessment, education and treatment.
Telephone: 01536 523 274
Website: www.autismuk.com
Email: [email protected]
Dimensions
They support people with learning disabilities and autism to have a louder voice, choice and control in their lives.
Telephone: 03003 039 001
Website: www.dimensions-uk.org
Bereavement
Brake
Brake’s helpline is a quality accredited, Freephone, confidential support service, providing information and advocacy, emotional support and a listening ear for survivors of road crashes.
Telephone: 08088 000 401
Website: www.brake.org.uk
Email: [email protected]
The Compassionate Friends
TCF offers many different kinds of support for bereaved families. Whatever the cause of your loss, wherever you are in the UK, and whatever your circumstances – they are here to help.
Telephone: 03451 232 304
Website: www.tcf.org.uk
Email: [email protected]
Roadpeace in East Anglia
The aftermath of a road crash is devastating. They help bereaved families cope and build resilience through peer support, their local group network, befriending service and trauma support programmes.
Telephone: 08454 500 355
Website: www.roadpeace.org
Email: [email protected]
Child Death Helpline
The Child Death Helpline aims to provide a quality freephone service to anyone affected by the death of a child of any age. Callers to the helpline might be parents, grandparents, siblings, other family members, friends or involved professionals.
Telephone: 0800 282 986
Website: www.childdeathhelpline.org.uk
Email: [email protected]
Scotty’s Little Soldiers
Scotty’s Little Soldiers is a charity dedicated to supporting children & young people who have lost a parent whilst serving in the British Armed Forces.
Telephone: 08000 928 571
Website: www.scottyslittlesoldiers.co.uk
Email: [email protected]
Cancer Support
Norfolk & Waveney Integrated Care System – Cancer Support and Information
Please visit our cancer website which has a range of services designed to support people affected by cancer.
Website: Cancer – Norfolk & Waveney Integrated Care System (ICS)
Psychological and Wellbeing Support
There are a number of organisations in Norfolk and Waveney offering psychological and wellbeing support to people affected by cancer. You are not alone.
This poster will direct you to the services available.
Depression, Anxiety & Stress
Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM)
The Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) is leading a movement against male suicide, the single biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK.
Telephone: 0800 585 858
Website: www.thecalmzone.net
The NHS Wellbeing Service (IAPT – Improving Access to Psychological Therapies)
The Wellbeing Service offer free help and support to improve wellbeing and manage stress, low mood and anxiety. Their aim is to reduce the onset of mental ill health, prevent deterioration and promote recovery by offering a range of online workshops, talking therapies, employment support, peer support and social activities.
Telephone: 0300 123 1503
Website: www.wellbeingnands.co.uk
Norfolk LGBT+ Project
To relieve the mental and emotional suffering of people in Norfolk and Waveney who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT+) or in doubt of their sexuality or gender identity by the provision of advice, peer-support and information.
Telephone: 01603 219 299
Website: www.norfolklgbtproject.co.uk
Email: [email protected]
Kooth
Free anonymous online chat for young people to discuss your mental health issues.
Website: kooth.com
Rethink
Rethink provide expert, accredited advice and information to everyone affected by mental health problems.
Telephone: 0300 5000 927
Website: www.rethink.org
Email: [email protected]
Combat Stress
Combat Stress is the UK’s leading charity for veterans’ mental health. For a century, they have helped former servicemen and women with mental health problems such as anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Telephone: 08001 381 619
Text: 07537 404 719
Website: www.combatstress.org.uk
Email: [email protected]
SANE
SANE is a leading UK mental health charity. They work to improve the quality of life for anyone affected by mental illness.
Telephone: 02038 051 790
Website: www.sane.org.uk
Email: [email protected]
Mental Wellbeing
Evidence suggests there are five steps we can all take to improve our mental wellbeing.
If you give them a try, you may feel happier, more positive and able to get the most from life.
Website: NHS: Improve Mental Wellbeing
Samaritans
Samaritans offer a safe place for you to talk any time you like, in your own way – about whatever’s getting to you. You don’t have to be suicidal. Call Samaritans free, 24 hours a day 365 days a year.
Telephone: 116 123
Website: www.samaritans.org
Email: [email protected]
Mind
Mind provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. They campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding.
Telephone: 0300 123 3393
Website: www.mind.org.uk
Drugs and Alcohol
Dear Albert
Dear Albert helps individuals to stop taking alcohol and drugs.
Telephone: 01162 917 298
Website: www.dearalbert.co.uk
Email: [email protected]
Matthew Project – Outside the Wire
A bespoke drug and alcohol service offering confidential advice and support to current and ex HM Forces personnel and their families, across Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex.
Telephone: 01603 626 123
Website: www.matthewproject.org
Email: [email protected]
Drinkaware Online Tools & Apps
Online trackers and apps from Drinkaware to help you avoid harm from alcohol.
Download from: www.drinkaware.co.uk
Drinkline
If you’re worried about your own or someone else’s drinking, you can call this free helpline, in complete confidence.
Telephone: 0300 123 1110
Talk to Frank
If you have a problem with drugs Talk to Frank for friendly, confidential drugs advice.
Telephone: 0300 123 6600
Text: 82111
Website: www.talktofrank.com
Email: [email protected]
Hebron Trust
Hebron House is a safe, nurturing and intensively supportive community environment in which to rehabilitate from drug and alcohol dependency and the life-dominating problems that serious substance misuse can cause.
Telephone: 01603 439 905
Website: www.hebrontrust.org.uk
Matthew Project, Youth Service – Youth and Family Team
Supports children, young people, adults and their families with drug, alcohol and other related issues across Norfolk.
Telephone: 08458 688 172
Website: www.matthewproject.org
Email: [email protected]
One You Days Off – Mobile App
The One You Days Off app is a simple and easy way to track the days you drink alcohol and the days you don’t.
Download from: Google Play: One You Days Off
Download from: iTunes: One You Days Off
Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking.
Telephone: 0800 9177 650
Website: www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk
Email: [email protected]
Elderly Care
Cinnamon Trust
Cinnamon Trust is the only specialist national charity which seeks to relieve the anxieties, problems, and sometimes injustices, faced by elderly and terminally ill people and their pets, thereby saving a great deal of human sadness and animal suffering.
Telephone: 01736 757 900
Website: www.cinnamon.org.uk
Silver Line
Free phone support for older people, 24 hours a day.
Telephone: 0800 4 70 80 90
Website: www.thesilverline.org.uk
Age UK
Age UK is the country’s largest charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life. We believe in a world where everyone can love later life and we work every day to achieve this.
Telephone: 0800 055 6112
Website: www.ageuk.org.uk
Contact Care, Saffron Housing Trust – Personal Alarms, Lifeline for the Elderly
Contact Care have been providing a reliable Lifeline Alarm Service since 1986. With your personal alarm button you can call for help day or night, from anywhere in your home or garden (within 50m of the lifeline unit), 365 days of the year.
Telephone: 08009 174 680
Website: www.contactcarelifeline.co.uk
Email: [email protected]
Dementia
Dementia UK offers specialist one-to-one support and expert advice for people living with dementia.
Telephone: 0800 888 6678
Website: www.dementiauk.org
Email: [email protected]
Maternity
TAMBA (Twins and Multiple Births Association)
Tamba is a UK based charity helping people around the world. It was set up by parents of multiples and interested professionals in 1978.
Telephone: 01252 332 344
Website: www.tamba.org.uk
Email: [email protected]
The Lullaby Trust
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
Telephone: 08088 026 868
Website: www.lullabytrust.org.uk
Email: [email protected]
The National Childbirth Trust
Our mission is to support parents through the first 1,000 days, to have the best possible experience of pregnancy, birth and early parenthood.
Telephone: 03003 300 700
Website: www.nct.org.uk
Baby Buddy App
Baby Buddy is an award winning mobile phone app for new parents and parents-to-be, created by mums, doctors and midwives.
Download from: Google Play: Baby Buddy
Download from: iTunes: Baby Buddy
Sexual Health
C-Card Scheme
If you are aged 13 to 24 and living in Norfolk you are entitled to free condoms through the Your C-Card scheme.
Website: www.youngandfree.org.uk
THT Direct (Terrence Higgins Trust)
They offer a range of services available to anyone who lives in the Norfolk area. They provide outreach in the community for vulnerable young people and adults, and training for practitioners.
Telephone: 01603 226 666
Website: www.tht.org.uk
Email: [email protected]
Brook
Brook provides free and confidential sexual health and wellbeing services for nearly 250,000 young people UK-wide, each year.
Website: www.brook.org.uk
Sexual Health Helpline
The National Sexual Health Helpline provided by Public Health England is open Monday to Friday, 9am-8pm.
Telephone: 0300 123 7123
Norfolk LGBT+ Project
To relieve the mental and emotional suffering of people in Norfolk and Waveney who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT+) or in doubt of their sexuality or gender identity by the provision of advice, peer-support and information.
Telephone: 01603 219 299
Website: www.norfolklgbtproject.co.uk
Email: [email protected]
Your Contraception Guide
There are lots of methods to choose from, so don’t be put off if the first thing you use isn’t quite right for you; you can try another. You can read about each of the different methods of contraception.
Website: NHS: Your Contraception Guide
Family Planning Association
A sexual health charity, the Family Planning Association gives straightforward information and support on sexual health, sex and relationships to everyone in the UK.
Telephone: 020 7608 5240
Website: www.fpa.org.uk
Stop Smoking
Stop Smoking Service
You are four times more likely to quit than if you go it alone. Join thousands of successful quitters who have used their local NHS Stop Smoking Service.
Arrange a consultation: Get help for any health problem
Website: www.onelifesuffolk.co.uk/quit-smoking
Quit with help
Everyone has a different reason for quitting, get a personalised Quit Smoking Plan.
Website: www.quitwithhelp.co.uk
NHS Smoking Helpline – Go Smoke Free
Join the millions of people who have used Smokefree support to help them stop smoking. From email and text, to their free app and lots of other support, you can choose what’s right for you.
Website: www.nhs.uk/smokefree
Weight Management
Change4Life
Learn how to eat well, move more and live longer. You can have fun along the way at the same time! Find out how you can really start changing life around for you your family and your friends.
Website: www.nhs.uk/change4life
OneLife Suffolk
OneLife Suffolk provides up to 12 months of free adult weight management support, providing you with the tools, advice and guidance needed to improve your lifestyle, achieve your weight loss goals and more importantly sustain the changes made for good.
Telephone: 01473 718 193
Website: www.eatingmatters.org.uk
Email: [email protected]
Live Well
Physical activity guidelines for all ages:
- NHS: Adults aged 19-64 exercise
- NHS: Early childhood (under 5 years old)
- NHS: Young people (5 to 18 years old)
- NHS: Older adults (65 and over)
Weight Watchers
Meetings, Online or a little bit of both. We’ve got options and support, whatever your lifestyle.
Website: www.weightwatchers.com
Eating Matters – Eating Disorders Counselling Service
Eating Matters is a Norfolk charity offering counselling for people with mild to moderate eating disorders in the community.
Telephone: 01603 767 062
Website: www.eatingmatters.org.uk
Email: [email protected]
Great Yarmouth Green Gym
By taking part in outdoor practical nature conservation activities you can increase your fitness and energy levels and help improve your health and well-being. You can meet new people, learn new skills and help make a positive contribution to your local area.
Website: www.greatyarmouthgreengym.org.uk
Am I a Healthy Weight?
Calculate your BMI using this NHS Tool
Website: NHS: BMI Calculator
Slimming World
You’ll find delicious recipe and menu ideas at your local group, along with all the help you need to get started and reach your target weight.
Website: www.slimmingworld.co.uk