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Homestart Leicester

Many parents need help, friendship, advice or support during those early years when children are young. Homestart offers support to families who have at least one child under the age of 5. Homestart volunteers, who have parenting experience, provide both emotional and practical help for a couple of hours a week. The main referrers to Home-Start are health visitors and professionals in the social care and early years sectors. Others include GP

Homestart Daventry & South Northants

Many parents need help, friendship, advice or support during those early years when children are young. Homestart offers support to families who have at least one child under the age of 5. Homestart volunteers, who have parenting experience, provide both emotional and practical help for a couple of hours a week. The main referrers to Home-Start are health visitors and professionals in the social care and early years sectors. Others include GP

FAME (Nottinghamshire Children and Families Mediation Service)

FAME helps parents or relatives make decisions and settle disputes arising from the breakdown of their relationship which affects children. With mediation parents can work with the help of mediators to reach agreement on how to divide their assets and liabilities whilst concentrating on the future of their children. The first meeting with a mediator is free, Services are then offered on a sliding scale according to income.

Indian community Centre - Derby

Provides facilities and support for the Indian (Asian) community . To provide good relations between different communities in Derby. Services include: Welfare rights advice, luncheon club for men and women, hall hire for parties, wedding parties, dance, keep fit classes, karate classes, religious and cultural celebrations. IT classes Mon-Fri.

Asian Advisory Service - Derby

Provides services for minority ethnic communities in the inner city of Derby. Services include: general help with welfare rights, immigration, health, debt, housing and education. Has a drop in centre, arranges cultural events and social trips. Also has a volunteering project and after school project which provides support to parents and children in homework.

Bristol Mind

Bristol Mind works raise awareness about emotional and mental health issues, and helps to reduce the stigma faced by individuals who have experienced mental health problems, and their family and friends. They provide or support a range of services that give people a voice and that promote emotional well being. Also provided is information about emotional and mental health issues.

Berkshire Women's Aid - Reading

Provides information and support services for women experienceing domestic violence throughout Reading, Bracknell, Wokingham and West Berkshire. Provides a telephone helpline (0118 950 4003) which operates between 10am-5pm weekdays - a worker can be contacted on this number out of these hours in cases of emergency and has seven refuges across the Reading, Wokingham, Bracknell and Newbury.

Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project

Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project is run by the unemployed for the unemployed. The project provides practical support, education and recreation for people in poor housing, claimants, unwaged people and those on low incomes.

Club 4 Kids - Hastings

Club 4 kids provides 'Out of School' hours play and childcare which runs during term time and all school holidays, all year round, five days a week, (excluding bank holidays & Christmas). Provides services in Hastings & St. Leonards (East Sussex).

Forget-me-not families - West Sussex

Forget-me-not families is a support group for parents and families that have lost a baby in pregnancy birth or early life in Worthing and the surrounding areas. Provides coffee & chat evenings and other supportive services.

Choices Advocacy - Southhampton

An Advocacy project for people with learning difficulties in Southampton and South West Hampshire, to help change things at home, school, college, work or at the daycentre and help understanding with things such as human rights and complaints procedures.

Cerebral Palsy Plus - Bristol

Cerebral Palsy Plus listens to and supports people with cerebral palsy and their families in the greater Bristol area. It listens to their needs and then develops new or existing services, or by providing financial assistance. It has an information service and can act as an advocate.

Childminding Matters - Norwich

Provides advice and support services for childminders and parents across Norfolk. Provides information on choosing a registered childminder for parents and training for childminders.

A. B. Mediation - Notts

A. B. Mediation offer mediation services for family, divorce, residence, co-habitation, child contact and financial. Offices in Nottingham, Mansfield, Worksop, Newark, Retford, Chesterfield, Ilkeston, Derby, Lincoln and Leicester.

Clifton Advice Centre - Nottingham

For people in Clifton, Silverdale or Wilford, the advice centre offers help and information on welfare benefits, debt, employment and more.

Keyworth Advice Centre

Keyworth Advice Centre provides information and advice on a wide range of matters, such as welfare benefits, housing and homelessness, redundancy and other work-related problems, consumer protection, and family issues.

Young People Taking Action - Leiston

The project is a young persons' open access drop in centre for 13 to 29 year olds, providing a vital free resource for young people within the rurally isolated Suffolk Coastal area.The service offers information, advice and guidance to deal effectively with the transition into adulthood.

African Women's Welfare Association (AWWA) - London

The aim of the organisation is to work with African families, especially women and children in order to give advice, information and support on a range of issues including education, health, domestic violence, immigration, housing, employment etc.

North Kent Women's Aid

National domestic violence charity that works to end violence against women and children. Offers support and advice.

Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre Credit Union

Credit Unions are financial co-operatives owned and controlled by their members. They offer savings and loans plus they are local and ethical.Each Credit Union has a "common bond" which determines who can join it. The common bond for Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre Credit Union is "Live or work in Blackpool, Fylde or Wyre".

Christian Concern Furniture - Crewe

Christian Concern collect, restore and redistribute items of donated furniture. This is then passed on to needy people in the community, referred by professionals from other services. At the same time, they offer training opportunities and supported employment to young people and adults who would otherwise be difficult to place, including some with special needs.

Community Assisted Project - Cornwall

Community Assisted Project is a not-for-profit organisation staffed entirely by volunteers. They operate a furniture recycling scheme. Refurbishing and selling on donated items of furniture.

Sandwell Adventure Play Association - West Midlands

Sandwell Adventure Play Association provides out of school care and neighbourhood play centres on housing estates in the most needy areas of Warley and Sandwell in the West Midlands, for children from 2 to 14 years. Also offered is childcare and play schemes in an effort to support lone parents and families on a low income by providing affordable childcare so that they can access training, further education or employment.

Ipswich Furniture Project

Ipswich Furniture Project collects furniture items (that adhere to fire regulations) which they refurbish if necessary and sell on to people on low-incomes. Volunteering opportunities are sometimes available. The New Furniture Initiative is available to social landlords and other agencies providing housing support. We supply new furniture, cookers etc., so the landlord can provide furnished accommodation to those in need in East Anglia.

Thorpe Edge Furniture Project - Bradford

A not-for-profit furniture project, ensuring that unwanted furniture is given a new lease of life. This service ensures that people on low incomes can purchase high quality furniture at affordable prices. This has the added benefit of reducing the amount of waste going to landfill.