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Links to other organisations that can help

Advice and helplines for young people

  • Connect Blackpool. Free confidential advice for under 25's. 01253 751047 or 01253 655855.
  • Blackpool Advocacy. Tel. 01253 405959. Email admin@blackpooladvocacy.co.uk
  • Blackpool Young Carers Free advice and support. Tel 01253 393748 eMail nigel@blackpoolcarers.org
  • Talk Adoption. Free national helpline for young people who want to talk about adoption. Contact Sandra Berlyne on 01618 192345 or 0808 8081234, or email helpline@talkadoption.org.uk. Visit the Talk adoption website.

Drugs and alcohol

  • Drugline Lancashire 01253 311431, or email blackpool@druglinelancs.com.
  • Addaction Intensive Community Structured Day Programme, emotional and physical recovery, Family Work, Alcohol group, criminal justice services   Tel 01253 752100
  • Blackpool Young Peoples Service and The Hub. If you are a young person – aged 18 or under – or a parent, carer, friend or professional you can contact The Hub - Blackpool’s Young People’s Drug & Alcohol Project for help and advice. They can give advice over the phone, or arrange to see people for one-to-one work. Tel: 01253 476010 Text: 07920 807021 Email: thehub@blackpool.gov.uk

Housing

  • Shelter Lancashire. National campaign for homeless people. Aims to provide housing info, advice and advocacy. Seeks new solutions to housing problems through innovative schemes and campaigns for lasting changes to housing policy practice. Contact: info@shelter.org.uk, or 01253 874324. See also: www.shelter.org.uk
  • Streetlife Trust. Offering Assistance to young people in crisis and providing shelter and support for young homeless people. Contact Ms Jane Hugo on 01253 294477.
  • Blackpool Homelessness Youth Mediation - PO Box 2007, South Shore, FY4 4GE. Tel. 01253 477270

Counselling

  • Counselling-directory website. The purpose of the site is ultimately to provide the UK with a huge counselling support network, enabling those in distress to find a counsellor close to them and appropriate for their needs. This is a free, confidential service that will hopefully encourage those in distress to seek help. The website also contains a number of sections on emotional disorders (types of distress section) and provides some useful statistics. Every counsellor on the site who has submitted their profile has either sent a copy of their qualifications and insurance cover to us, or is registered with a professional body online with recognised codes of ethics and practice, this way we can be assured of their professionalism.

Mental health, disability and special needs

  • Blackpool Mental Health Support Services Directory www.blackpool.nhs.uk/images/uploads/spa-directory.pdf
  • Scope face-to-face befrienders. Providing emotional support to parents of children with disabilities and special needs through structured contact with another parent who has been trained to provide that support. Contact Yvonne Bennet on 01253 392188.
  • Whizz-Kidz. Offers financial help with mobility aids. Contact Kate Worden on 02072 336600, or email info@whizz-kidz.org.uk. See also the Whizz-Kidz website.
  • PIP (Promoting Inclusive Pantnerships) Supporting children and young adults with 'special needs', promoting social inclusion in community activities Contact 01253 899883 or email piP.bfw@ic24.net

Parenting support

  • Parentline Plus. A UK registered charity which offers support to anyone parenting a child – the child's parents, step-parents, grand parents and foster parents. Parentline Plus runs a freephone helpline, courses for parents, develops innovative projects and provides a range of information. Though general telephone contact details appear to be missing the web site does contain a wealth of very practical and helpful information on the management of family chabnge and conflict, parenting teenagers, and what do do in a number of different situations that you might encounter with your child. Visit Parentlineplus website to find out more - and remember the internet is now accessible in all Blackpool libraries
  • Blackpool Parenting Team - offer advice and support to parents of children aged 5 - 13 years contact 01253 501631.

Young mothers, mothers and female carers

  • Blackpool Life Group. Provides help with baby equipment. Their premises are at the Royal Bank of Scotland Chambers, Talbot Square. Contact Miss Bosworth on 01253 344008, or email bosworthz@acomPuserve.com.
  • Home Start. Chepstow Court, Grange Park, Blackpool, FY3 7PQ. Tel. 01253 477380
  • MOSAC Blackpool and Fylde. A support group for mothers and safe carers of sexually abused children. Contact Mrs Sue McGurty on 01253 763180 or 767095.

Youth development and leisure

  • Young Lancashire   provides a wide range of support services to a network of registered voluntary youth organisations across Lancashire (there is no charge to register with the network):01772556127
  • Princes Trust Business Programme. Gives youths and young adults (aged 14-30) the opportunity to develop new skills, to confidence build and to enter Business start-up programmes. Contact Phil Williams on 01772 848258.
  • Windmill Group. Duke of Edinburgh award scheme available for youths aged 13+. Meets at Stanley Park Arena (winter quarters) from 6-7:30pm. Contact Stuart Sykes on 01253 761598, or email stuart@windmillgroup.co.uk. For further details see Windmill Youth group
  • Blackpool Council for Voluntary Youth Services - support, advise, advocate and represent voluntary youth organisations in Blackpool Tel: 07989746673 Email: info@bcvys.co.uk
  • Blackpool Voluntary Youth Forum (BVYF) –  a group of young people representing voluntary sector youth organisations. Visit the BVYF website.

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