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There are many great organisations and resources out there to support you through nearly everything, including cancer, addiction, caring, loss, grief and mental health.
We have pulled together some of our favourites!
Young Lives vs Cancer, formally known as CLIC Sargent, is a fantastic charity that helps children and young people (0-25yr) and their families face whatever cancer throws at them.
The New Normal is an amazing charity that connects adults through their experience of grief and mental health by facilitating peer-to-peer support meetings.
SAMARITANS (UK)
FREE PHONE 116 123
'Whatever you're going through, a Samaritan will face it with you.' Samaritans are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
PAPYRUS (UK)
FREE PHONE 0800 068 4141
Confidential support and advice for young people struggling with thoughts of suicide, & anyone worried about a young person.
SHOUT (UK)
FREE TEXT 85258
A free, confidential and anonymous mental health text service for anyone in the UK. All volunteers are appropriately trained.
MHF work with people to help them understand, protect and sustain their mental health, to reduce and prevent suicide.
OLLIE is a charity dedicated to delivering suicide awareness, intervention & prevention training to support professionals and young adults to lead suicide prevention in their own communities.
Providing free suicide prevention training that teaches people how to identify, understand and help someone who may be experiencing suicidal thoughts.
A fellowship of men & women for whom drugs had become a major problem, helping each other to stay clean through abstinence-based programme. All that is required is the desire to stop using.
A bridge to normal living for persons seeking a way out of addiction. Peer-led programme by people with lived experience, with detox, recovery housing, counselling, training and ongoing support.
The only UK addictions charity that works across all the areas of treatment, research, family support and professional education. Providing treatment for individuals & families affected by all kinds of addiction including alcohol, drugs, gambling, gaming, sex & love.
A pocket suicide prevention resource full of info and support to help keep you safe in a crisis. Totally free, confidential & approved by the NHS. You can use for yourself, or if you're concerned about someone else.
A range of free self-help guides on various mental health and wellbeing topics, such as abuse, alcohol, anger, bereavement, depression, eating disorders, self-harm, stress etc.
All-around wellbeing app with guided meditations, workouts, mindfulness, sleep guidance and information.
The leading stillbirth & neonatal death charity in the UK: mission to reduce the number of babies dying and to ensure that anyone affected by the death of a baby receives the best possible care and support.
Petals provides and promotes specialist counselling for parents across the UK following baby loss, miscarriage, still birth, poor pregnancy diagnosis, infant death and proceeding pregnancy anxiety.
CBUK support children and young people (up to 25) who are facing bereavement, & anyone affected by the death of a child of any age.Free & confidential support across the UK.
The New Normal connects adults through their experience of grief and mental health by facilitating peer-to-peer support meetings. There are in-person and online meetings and a range of types.
The UK's biggest bereavement charity, Cruse support people through bereavement, with a confidential helpline, resources, counselling, information and campaigning.
They run meet ups across the UK for young people aged 18-35, projects and campaigns encouraging everyone to talk about grief, and a blog which talks through the taboos.
They aim to help those bereaved from day one, acknowledge their grief and provide reassurance, a virtual hand of friendship and ongoing support.
WAY is a national charity supporting people aged 50 or under when their partner died. It’s a peer-to-peer support group operating with a network of volunteers who have been bereaved at a young age themselves.
Provides support helpline, counselling referral & befriending service for all those suffering from anxiety, grief or mental health issues as a direct or indirect result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Support and therapy for persons who have experienced traumatic death, traumatic incidents and life-long trauma.
Website providing information and support for grief based on the 'grief recovery method' which as been utilised for 30yrs+.
At a Loss is an online signposting resource to ensure that every bereaved person in the UK can find appropriate bereavement support when they need it, and provides a free 'Grief Chat' live chat.
The youth branch of Cruse, Hope Again is a safe place for young people to learn from others in their situation about how to cope with grief.
Service created by grieving siblings to support other young people who have lost their siblings.
The charity work closely with individuals, families, schools and professionals to offer support to bereaved children through counselling, workshops, art therapy, activities and residentials.
Macmillan help people with cancer live life as fully as they can, providing help paying bills, advice on benefits or treatment, and someone to talk to.
Sarcoma UK are working to improve support, care, diagnosis and outcomes for sarcoma cancers. They provide a sarcoma helpline, support groups, patient guides, carer support, clinical guidance and clinical trial information.
CRUK provide practical cancer advice on everything from symptoms and screening, to coping after treatment, as well as providing a live cancer chat service.
Supporting young people and their families deal with everything that cancer throws at them, through clinical care, home from home, financial grants, residentials and social workers.
The charity create world-class cancer services and units for young people in the UK so young people don’t have to face cancer alone.
The charity's mission is to improve survival rates across all types of childhood cancer and support children and their families to live better with and after treatment.
The disability equality charity in England and Wales. They provide practical information & emotional support when it's most needed and campaign relentlessly to create a fairer society.
The UK’s leading organisation led by, run by, and working for disabled people. Working with organisations and government agencies across the UK to influence change for better rights, benefits, quality of life & economic opportunities for disabled people.
A unique charity that assists amputees with support needs, information and guidance, as well as medical professionals in their work to give amputees the best start following amputation.
Mind provide advice and support to empower anyone with a mental health problem, as well as campaigning for services and promoting understanding.
The UK’s leading charity fighting for children and young people's mental health. They provide support and information with the aim of preventing the young person reaching crisis point.
Their mission is to connect Black individuals and families with free mental health services provided by professional Black therapists to support their mental health.
Great podcast normalising grief hosted by the fantastic Amber Jeffrey.
IG @thegriefgangpodcast
Alice Williams and Lucy Jane Dennis invite guests to take a seat on the Grief Sofa and share about their journey through loss.
IG @thegriefsofa
Griefcast is an award-winning podcast that examines the human experience of death and grief with humour. Hosted by Cariad Lloyd.
IG @thegriefcast
Hosted by Magic Radio DJ Emma B, the podcast covers topics from diagnosis and treatment to end of life and living with cancer.
Weekly podcasts to support young adults grieving their parent(s), hosted by Kathryn Hooker and El Jones.
IG @deadparentclubpodcast
Spoken Grief is here to unapologetically talk about grief, hosted by Shuma Rouf.
IG @spokengrief