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Self-Help Guides

To understand more about some of the conditions and difficulties you may have Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust have a helpful leaflet library that you can view online or download from:

• Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust - Self Help Guides (ntw.nhs.uk)

The Great Outdoors

If you are interested in volunteering to work in Bristol parks, you can find out more information here:

• Get involved in your local park or green space (bristol.gov.uk)

If you’d like to foster a deeper relationship with nature to support your wellbeing you may find the below helpful: 

• Roots to Wellbeing - free weekly health and wellbeing activities in Bristol and Bath parks (yourpark.org.uk)
• Your Park Bristol and Bath
• Avon Wildlife Trust
• Volunteer — Westbury Wildlife Park Foundation (wwpf.uk)

If you’d like to join a walking group: 

• Greenway Strollers - Southmead Development Trust
• Ramblers
• Bristol Walk Fest | Bristol's hugely popular, annual walking festival
• Open Minds Active

If you’d like to support a community farm:

• The Community Farm
• The Human Nature Project — LIGHT BOX (wearelightbox.co.uk)
• Birch Collective | Bristol based social enterprise connecting young people to the natural world (for 16 – 25 year olds)

 

In need of a friend/companionship & at home support services

• Marmalade Trust | Loneliness Charity | Based in Bristol, England
• Re-engage: the charity reducing loneliness in later life
• Befriending services | Combating loneliness | Age UK
• Friends with pens: 55+ and students | Carers Support Centre
• onHand | Dashboard (beonhand.co.uk)
• Link Age (for people aged 55 and over)
• Silverline: free and confidential helpline providing information, friendship and advice to older people, open 24 hours a day
• Greenway Community Centre

Bereavement

• STAR Groups | STARs Connecting - Peer support groups. One in Shirehampton
• Grief and anxiety | Cruse Bereavement Support
• Effects of grief - Cruse Bereavement Support
• Good Grief Festival
• Coping with losing a parent – The Good Grief Trust
• AtaLoss.org is the UK's signposting and information website for bereaved people
• Willow Tree Centre | Bristol

Dementia

• How we can support you - Dementia UK - general support. Free 45 minute appointments with dementia nurse
• Community Allotment Session – North Bristol – Alive Activities
• Time for you | Brunelcare  - respite for dementia carers

Employment Support

• About us – One Front Door   -  Careers coaching etc. 

Learning Disabilities

• Horizon Disability Friendship Group - Southmead Development Trust

Mental Health Support

• Bristol Community Support Services
• ACE Bristol | St Mungo's  -   for people who fall through the gaps with services
• Home - Changes Bristol
• Walk & Talk - Changes Bristol

Young People – 11 to 25 Years old

• The King's Trust | Confidence, courses, careers
• Home - SEND and You - support for families and young people with special educational needs or a disability, 0 to 25 years old
• The Mix - Essential support for under 25s
• The Mix Free Counselling Service For Under 25s | The Mix

Worrying about Money/housing/energy

• Citizens Advice drop in at Greenway Centre - every Thursday 12:30pm until 2pm. support and information about benefits, money, debt and energy  
• North Bristol Advice Centre - Benefits and Debt Advice. Covering  BS7, BS8, BS9, BS10, BS11 & BS16
• St Pauls Advice Centre - Benefits and Debt Advice. Also Immigration support.
• Talking Money
• Citizens Advice Bristol
• Age UK Bristol 
• The Centre for Sustainable Energy

Carers

• Carers Support Centre
• Carers UK
• Bristol City Council
• Help When You Need It – Community | Brunelcare

If you don’t see it on this webpage?

If you don’t see it on this webpage, we may be able to signpost you to other services specific to your social needs. If you’d like us to help, please complete the form below and give us as much information as you can, we will then signpost where possible.