Find Help: Leicester

Victim First provides free, independent, and confidential support for people who have been a victim or witness of a crime, within Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

They provide emotional and practical support, information, and advice. Specialist support is available for children and young people.

My Self-Referral helps young people under the age of 18 with their mental health. On their website you can refer yourself for mental health support if you fall under certain criteria.

If you, or someone you care about, need urgent advice or support for your mental health, you can call the Mental Health Central Access Point on 0808 800 3302.

This service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week free of charge for people of all ages in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

If you are aged 11 – 18 years old and live in LE1 & LE2 and have overwhelming feelings of anxiety, low mood, suicidal thoughts or thoughts of self harm, you can contact the Community Chill Out Zone for support.

Harmless work with people who self-harm, or are at risk of self-harm, in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. They work with anyone, at any age.

The Centre for Fun and Families (CFF) helps young people and their parents/carers who are experiencing communication, relationship, behaviour and mental health difficulties.

Adhar Project is a Leicester based mental health charity providing a range of low-level, community based support opportunities for those in the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups with mental health needs, as well as supporting their families and carers.

Lamp offers free to access mental health advocacy in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. Their service is confidential and non-judgmental.

You may already have been diagnosed with a mental health condition or you might be experiencing early signs and symptoms and be unsure where to turn. They can help.

The talk²sort Mediation Service works with young people aged 11-19, and their families, who may be having problems at home or with their relationships. They support people to explore ways of resolving conflict.

Start a Conversation is a suicide prevention campaign that runs across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. The aim is to create a welcoming environment where care and support is available to all those who need it, those who have lost someone and those who have been affected by suicide in any way.

Tellmi is a digital mental health service for anyone over the age of 11 that is available free of charge across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

To report an incident or crime, dial 101 or 999. You can also visit their website.

The Laura Centre is a specialist bereavement counselling service who offer help and support to young people when they have lost someone special in their life.

If you’ve lost someone special in your life and feel you need support, contact the Laura Centre or look online at their website to find out more information.

If you decide to try counselling, this doesn’t have to just be talking; you can play games, draw, make stuff, use puppets or just be quiet, whatever makes you feel most comfortable.

Victim First provides free, independent, and confidential support for people who have been a victim or witness of a crime, within Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

They provide emotional and practical support, information, and advice. Specialist support is available for children and young people.

If you, or someone you care about, need urgent advice or support for your mental health, you can call the Mental Health Central Access Point on 0808 800 3302.

This service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week free of charge for people of all ages in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

After18 is a charity which specialises in supporting unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young refugees under 25 to adjust to living in the UK, consider their options and prepare for their future.

They provide a range of regular group activities in Leicester to enable young refugees to socialise, learn new skills and adjust to life in the UK.

Offering a range of vital services and wider enrichment opportunities to asylum seekers and refugees in and around Leicester.

If you are a refugee or asylum seeker, the British Red Cross may be able to help you.

The Centre for Fun and Families (CFF) helps young people and their parents/carers who are experiencing communication, relationship, behaviour and mental health difficulties.

To report an incident or crime, dial 101 or 999. You can also visit their website.

Start a Conversation is a suicide prevention campaign that runs across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. The aim is to create a welcoming environment where care and support is available to all those who need it, those who have lost someone and those who have been affected by suicide in any way.

The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) is for children and young people, and their families, who experience difficulties in the development of their gender identity. It’s a national specialised service, based in London and Leeds, and is the only one of its kind in Great Britain

If you, or someone you care about, need urgent advice or support for your mental health, you can call the Mental Health Central Access Point on 0808 800 3302.

This service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week free of charge for people of all ages in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

ChatAutism is a text messaging service that provides a safe and easy way for young people with an autism diagnosis to get confidential help and advice.

Through ChatAutism, autistic young people are able to access advice and support directly from the Specialist Autism Team.

Text: 07312 277097

The Leicestershire Autistic Society provides support, information and advice to families and professionals dealing with Autism in Leicestershire, Leicester City and Rutland.

ADHD Solutions provide information, help and support for children and young people with ADHD – Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder – as well as their families and anyone who supports them or works with them.

The Community Immunisation Service (CIS) supports and delivers immunisation programmes across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR). The service provides immunisations in schools for seasonal flu, HPV, teenage booster and the meningitis ACWY

Start a Conversation is a suicide prevention campaign that runs across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. The aim is to create a welcoming environment where care and support is available to all those who need it, those who have lost someone and those who have been affected by suicide in any way.

Victim First provides free, independent, and confidential support for people who have been a victim or witness of a crime, within Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

They provide emotional and practical support, information, and advice. Specialist support is available for children and young people.

If you, or someone you care about, need urgent advice or support for your mental health, you can call the Mental Health Central Access Point on 0808 800 3302.

This service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week free of charge for people of all ages in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Live Well Leicester are fully committed to supporting local communities in Leicester to become, happier, healthier and fitter by offering access to a wide range of support services including access to:

• Stop Smoking support
• Help to manage your alcohol intake
• Help with managing your weight and healthy eating
• Access and signposting into various programmes that can support you to increase your levels of physical activity including walking programmes across the City

New Dawn New Day has worked to support the wellbeing of women and girls in Leicester and Leicestershire for over 30 years. They started out as a community-based women’s centre in the 1980s, and now deliver a range of services to vulnerable and socially excluded women designed to meet their multiple and complex needs.

Barnado’s Carefree Young Carers Service offers a range of services for young carers under the age of 18 who provide regular and ongoing care and/or emotional support to a family member who is physically or mentally unwell, disabled and/or misuses substances.

To report an incident or crime, dial 101 or 999. You can also visit their website.

Start a Conversation is a suicide prevention campaign that runs across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. The aim is to create a welcoming environment where care and support is available to all those who need it, those who have lost someone and those who have been affected by suicide in any way.

The young person and young adult team service can offer support to individuals aged between 13 to 24 support and advice on substance misuse.

FLIC is an 8-week programme (meeting once each week) for children aged 8-13 years and their families, offering support and information about weight management.

Get free, friendly, non judgemental support and advice to help you stop smoking.

Leicester Sexual Health (NHS) offers a range of free sexual health services in Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland and are based at the Haymarket Health clinic.

They also offer clinics in various locations in the Leicestershire & Rutland. Times and locations for these clinics can be found on the Leicester Sexual Health website.

Victim First provides free, independent, and confidential support for people who have been a victim or witness of a crime, within Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

They provide emotional and practical support, information, and advice. Specialist support is available for children and young people.

If you, or someone you care about, need urgent advice or support for your mental health, you can call the Mental Health Central Access Point on 0808 800 3302.

This service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week free of charge for people of all ages in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

The Centre for Fun and Families (CFF) helps young people and their parents/carers who are experiencing communication, relationship, behaviour and mental health difficulties.

The talk²sort Mediation Service works with young people aged 11-19, and their families, who may be having problems at home or with their relationships. They support people to explore ways of resolving conflict.

To report an incident or crime, dial 101 or 999. You can also visit their website.

Start a Conversation is a suicide prevention campaign that runs across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. The aim is to create a welcoming environment where care and support is available to all those who need it, those who have lost someone and those who have been affected by suicide in any way.

First Out is the Leicester LGBT Centre’s social and support group for young people aged 13-15 who identify anywhere under the LGBT+ umbrella or are questioning their sexuality or gender identity. The group runs every Tuesday 4:30pm – 6:30pm.

Trade Sexual Health is a health and sexual health charity, providing free, confidential health advice, information, services and support for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans communities of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

UAVA are a consortium of three local specialist providers of domestic abuse and sexual violence services in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. These are:

1. Women’s Aid Leicestershire Ltd
2. FreeVA
3. Living Without Abuse for victims

Advice and support for women and children experiencing and fleeing from domestic abuse across Leicester and Leicestershire.

Leicester Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Centre is a voluntary organisation established to support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Leicester Sexual Health (NHS) offers a range of free sexual health services in Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland and are based at the Haymarket Health clinic.

They also offer clinics in various locations in the Leicestershire & Rutland. Times and locations for these clinics can be found on the Leicester Sexual Health website.

If you, or someone you care about, need urgent advice or support for your mental health, you can call the Mental Health Central Access Point on 0808 800 3302.

This service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week free of charge for people of all ages in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

To report an incident or crime, dial 101 or 999. You can also visit their website.

Start a Conversation is a suicide prevention campaign that runs across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. The aim is to create a welcoming environment where care and support is available to all those who need it, those who have lost someone and those who have been affected by suicide in any way.

The C-Card is a small card (roughly the size of debit card) which offers easy access to condoms and lube in a range of venues, including all Sexual Health Clinics and many schools, further education colleges and pharmacies in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Free confidential services including sexually transmitted infection (STI) screening and treatment, pregnancy testing, contraception and more.

Shacc is a group of primary care organisations in Leicester City. They have interests and skills in the area of sexual health and an aim to tackle some of the local issues in sexual health such as a high teenage pregancy rate, increasing demand for sexual health services and poor access to long acting reversible contraceptive methods.

Trade Sexual Health is a health and sexual health charity, providing free, confidential health advice, information, services and support for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans communities of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.