For information on a range of local and national resources that can support your wellbeing, please click on the dropdown menus below. If you have been offered treatment with us and are waiting to start, you can find further information about support available to you.
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Rehab 4 Addiction |
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Rehab 4 Addiction is a free and impartial helpline for people seeking drug or alcohol addiction treatment in Wandsworth, London. If you are sick and tired of your addiction, if you want to enter recovery and if you are willing to undue the damaged inflicted by your addiction, then get in touch with Rehab 4 Addiction today. Provide support for families/carers of individuals with drug and alcohol misuse |
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WCDAS |
Website: www.wcdas.com |
WCDAS provides free, recovery focused, evidence-based, treatment for residents of Wandsworth who are living with drug and alcohol problems. |
| Wandsworth Carers Centre |
Website: https://www.carerswandsworth.org.uk 020 8877 12 |
Wandsworth Carers’ Centre is a registered charity that has been providing support to unpaid Carers in Wandsworth. A Carer is someone, who without payment, provides help and support to a partner, child, relative, friend or neighbour, who could not manage without their help. This could be due to age, physical or mental illness, addiction or disability. Their vision is a society where Carers are recognised and valued for their contribution and have choice and control that enables them to care, to stay healthy and to lead fulfilled lives. |
| Carers UK | Website: https://www.carersuk.org/home Contact: advice@carersuk.org / 020 7378 4999 |
Carers UK - As the UK's only national membership charity for carers, Carers UK is both a support network and a movement for change. We're here to make life better for carers. Help us be there for the 6,000 people who start looking after someone each day. |
| Contact |
Website: https://contact.org.uk/ Contact: 020 8947 5260 Email: wandsworth.office@contact.org.uk Facebook: facebook.com/contactinwandsworth |
Contact is a charity that offers general SEND support and advice for children and families. We exist to help families feel valued supported, confident and informed. |
| HomeStart Wandsworth |
2nd Floor, 20-22 York Road, Battersea, London SW11 3QA |
Home-Start Merton is a local community network of trained volunteers and expert support, helping families during pregnancy and with children up to 5 years old. They offer regular support, friendship and practical help to families. They accept self referrals but referrals can also be made by GPs, health visitors, social prescribers and schools. |
| Wandsworth Family Information Service | Directory of services for families and young people which provides free information and advice, including activities for children and young people aged 0 - 19 years (or 25, if the child or young person has a special need or disability). |
| Christians Against Poverty (CAP) |  https://capuk.org/i-want-help Contact: info@capuk.org Roger Dawes 020 7223 6188 / 0800 328 0006 |
CAP provide free debit counselling and a listening ear to help provide a real solution to debt problems Location: Wandsworth debt advice branch is located at St Marks Church, Battersea Rise, London SW11 1EJ |
| CAB Wandsworth (Battersea Library & Roehampton) | Website: https://www.wandsworthcabx.org.uk/ Contact: 020 7042 0333 |
Provide free, impartial advice on issues including benefits, debt, housing, employment as well as help victims of hate crimes |
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Advice Now |
Website: www.advicenow.org.uk Contact: via website |
Advice Now is an independent, not-for-profit website, run by the charity Law for Life: the Foundation for Public Legal Education. It provides accurate information on rights and the law. |
| Age Well Outreach KLS |
Website: Contact: kerry@klsettlement.org.uk Kerry Hagger 07960 108103 |
Are you interested in developing digital skills that you can use in your daily life?hen these courses might be for you. These courses will cover the basics of using Excel, Word, and the internet which will help to build confidence and IT skills. |
| Age UK Wandsworth |
Website: https://www.ageuk.org.uk/wandsworth/ & |
Age UK Wandsworth is a local, independent charity working in the community to support older people and their carers. |
| Hestia | Website: Transform, Sutton - Cranstoun Contact: 020 7378 3100 / info@hestia.org |
Hestia Wandsworth Support with refuge accommodation, family/children support, modern day slavery, mental health support. |
| Kingston Women's Centre | Website: Kingston Women's Centre (kingstonwomenscentre.org.uk) Contact: 020 8541 1941 / kwcenquiries@kingstonwomenscentre.org.uk |
Kingston Women’s Centre is a long standing charity run by women for women. Their aim is to provide counselling for women of all backgrounds within the local community within a safe, non-judgemental and caring environment. |
| Choice Support Richmond and Wandsworth | Website: Choice Support Contact: 020 3435 5816 randwemployment@choicesupport.org.uk |
Supports residents 18+ with disabilities to find work, including people with learning difficulties, those affected by mental ill health, sensory impairment, physical disability and autism. They provide pre-employment support and support when you get a job. |
| Work Match |
Website: Wandsworth Work Match Telephone: 020 8871 5191 |
Our Work Match employment service offers support, advice, guidance and training to help residents access new and existing jobs in Wandsworth. We can match you with local employers who value local people and can offer a wide range of jobs in different sectors |
| Earlsfield Foodbank |
Website: Earlsfield Foodbank email: earlsfieldfoodbank@gmail.com |
Earlsfield Foodbank is an independent foodbank and is part of the Independent Food Aid Network (IFAN). We are based in St Andrew’s Church, Earlsfield, providing support to people experiencing crisis through poverty in our local community. |
| Wandsworth Foodbank |
Website: www.foodbank.org.uk/wandsworth |
Wandsworth Foodbank provides emergency food and support to local people in crisis across the Wandsworth Borough. |
| Glass Door | Website: About Us (glassdoor.org.uk) Contact: 020 7351 4948 |
Based in London, Glass Door coordinates The UK's largest network of open-access services for people affected by homelessness. Year-round, people find advice and support to end their homelessness through trained caseworkers based at partnering drop-in centres. |
| SPEAR | Website: https://www.spearlondon.org/ Contact: admin@spearlondon.org / 020 8288 6506 |
Provide support for individuals experiencing homelessness in SW London. Support includes outreach, resettlement and tenancy support, accommodation options and a health link service |
| CARAS |
Website: https://caras.org.uk Emai: info@caras.org.uk |
CARAS is a community outreach charity based in Tooting. We support people of refugee and asylum-seeking background who live in South-West London. |
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South London |
www.slr-a.org.uk |
South London Refugee Association (previously known as Merton and Wandsworth Asylum Welcome). This service is for refugees, asylum seekers and newly arrived migrants. Services include: |
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Balham & Tooting Sports & Social Club Ltd |
Contact: Olga Carnegie - 02086735968 |
Social and practical activities for older adults (semi-retired / retired) with a focus on black African community |
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ELAYS |
Website: http://www.facebook.com/ Elaysnetwork; https://twitter.com/ ElaysNetwork; https://www.instagram.com/elaysnetwork Contact: 020 7720 6864 68 St Rule Street, Battersea, London SW8 3ED
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The organisation Elays (beacon of light) Network, was founded in 2003 to provide a community support structure for young people and students at risk of school exclusion, not in employment, education or training. Elays Network today works with a variety of ages and backgrounds within the community providing a network of support to the Wandsworth community and surrounding areas. |
| EMCA |
Website: https://emca.org.uk/about-us/ Contact: 0207 7202508 |
EMCA is a charity, which was founded in 1989 to meet the social, welfare and cultural/religious needs of the growing number of Eritrean immigrants to the United Kingdom |
| EMHIP | Website: Home - EMHIP Contact: Darren Blades E: Darren. Blades@swlstg.nhs.uk |
EMHIP has been designed to be a practical, locality-based service improvement programme to bring about change for Black Minority Ethnic (BME) communities in mental health care. The aim of the programme is to reduce inequalities in three specific areas where BME communities fare worse: in access, experience and outcomes of mental health care. |
| Muskil Asaan |
Website: Mushkil Aasaan – Care for the Community by the Community Contact: 020 8672 6581 220-222 UPPER TOOTING RD 1ST Floor (Side Entrance) London SW17 7EW |
The Charity evolved as a front-room grassroots organisation in the early nineties when a group of Muslim women shared concerns about the plight of women, children and the elderly experiencing social exclusion, isolation and a range of unmet needs. Some had lost the traditional supportive influences of the extended family as a result of family breakdown, patterns of migration and urban city life. Languages other than English spoken by Staff or Volunteers include Urdu, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Arabic, Somali, Kutchi, Portuguese, Italian & Tamil |