Leicestershire Support & Self-Help Groups

• Akwaaba Ayeh for African, African-Caribbean and Asian people with mental ill-health, and their carers.
• Alzheimer's Society - Leicestershire & Rutland Branch
• Citizens' Advice Bureau 
• CLASP - The Carers Centre provides support services for carers living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
• Crossroads - Services are provided through a network of local providers across England and Wales, each offering our core service where a trained carer support worker comes into the home to take over the caring responsibilities. Each local provider is an independent charity, which has its own funding streams and is therefore able to provide additional services according to funding and demand at a local level.
• Coping with Cancer in Leicestershire and Rutland provides practical and emotional support to anyone affected by cancer.
• Depression Alliance
• Focusline Leicestershire - Lines open every day from 5pm to 1am.  For people experiencing mental distress, and their carers.
• Leicester YMCA - providing supported housing for young people and homeless services in the city.
• Leicestershire AIDS Support Services - Leicester.
• LLGBC - Supporting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
• Melton Breast Cancer Support Group
• Melton Mowbray Royal British Legion - The Royal British Legion is the UK's leading charity providing financial, social, and emotional support to millions who have served and are currently serving in the Armed Forces, and their dependants.
• Melton Mencap and Gateway - Aims to provide a range of activities to support children, young people and adults with a learning disability and their carers.
• Shuttlewood Clarke Foundation - The main focus of the Foundation’s work is to ease loneliness and suffering and to offer comfort and support to the elderly and adults of all ages with disabilities throughout the Leicestershire area.
• Vista - Charity providing services for blind and partially sighted people of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
• Coping with Cancer in Leicestershire and Rutland
• Mental Health Foundation
• The Leicester and District Branch of the Multiple Sclerosis Society was founded in 1959 and over the years has gone from strength to strength. We exist to provide support and friendship to any person
  with MS in the Leicester area. The branch holds weekly drop-ins plus various events and day trips in our coach, quiz evenings and fund raising activities.
• Samaritans - Confidential non-judgemental emotional support, 24 hours a day for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those that could lead to suicide.
• Sane - Focuses on assisting with mental health issues.
• Savera for Asian people with mental ill-health, and their carers.
• West Leicestershire MIND - Providing mental health assistance.
• Women's Aid is the key national charity working to end domestic violence against women and children, with a network of over 500 domestic and sexual violence services across the UK. You'll find local services on the website.
   
• see also UK National Support and Self-Help Groups
   

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