General information and advice

Advice for everyone [NHS]

Advice for the general public [British Dietetic Association]

Hampshire Coronavirus Support Helpline [Hampshire County Council]

Coronavirus resource page [GOV.UK]

Handwashing advice (poster) [GOV.UK]

Health at home: how to access NHS services [NHS]

Myth busters [World Health Organization]

Children and advice for parents

Coronavirus (information and advice for children) [Childline]

Coronavirus: a book for children 

Coronavirus: advice and support for parents and carers [NSPCC]

Coronavirus advice [Children With Cancer UK]

Coronavirus and caring for your baby [Lullaby Trust] 

Dave the dog is worried about coronavirus (story for children)

How teenagers can protect their mental health during coronavirus [UNICEF]

Meditation for kids [Headspace]

Pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding [World Health Organization]

Coronavirus and other health conditions

Cancer and coronavirus [Macmillan Cancer Support]

Coronavirus: information for families looking after someone with dementia [Dementia UK]

Coronavirus: information for people affected by dementia [Alzheimer's Society]

Coronavirus: what it means for you if you have heart or circulatory disease [British Heart Foundation]

Coronavirus and COVID-19 [Asthma + Lung UK]

Coronavirus and diabetes updates [Diabetes UK]

Information on coronavirus for stroke survivors [Stroke Association]

Mental health and wellbeing

Coronavirus: dealing with bereavement and grief [Cruse UK]

Coronavirus and mental wellbeing [Every Mind Matters]

Guide to living with worry and anxiety amidst global uncertainty [Psychology Tools Limited]

How teenagers can protect their mental health during coronavirus [UNICEF]

How to look after your mental health during the coronavirus outbreak [Mental Health Foundation]

How to use technology to reduce social isolation [Ability.Net]

Meditation for kids [Headspace]

Our Frontline [mental health resources for frontline health, care, emergency, education and key workers]

Silverline [telephone support for older people from Age UK]

Back Care

Limbcare (advice and support for amputee/limb-impaired individuals)

NRAS (National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society)

Royal Osteoporosis Society

Versus Arthritis (formerly Arthritis Research UK)

Alzheimer’s Society

Brain and Spine Foundation

Brain Tumour Charity

BRIAN (free app to help people cope with a brain tumour)

Carer support and dementia advice service for Hampshire

Dementia UK

Different Strokes (for younger stroke survivors)

Epilepsy Action

Headway (for people with a brain injury and their carers)

Meningitis Now

Motor Neurone Disease Association

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society

Parkinson’s UK

SameYou (recovery from brain injury and stroke for young people)

Shift MS (forum and social network for people with MS)

Stroke Association

Coronavirus

Information on coronavirus for stroke survivors [Stroke Association]

Children

Children With Cancer UK

Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group

Macmillan Cancer Support

Make A Wish Foundation

Teenage Cancer Trust

Young Lives vs Cancer (formerly CLIC Sargent)

Colorectal, stomach, bowel

Bowel Cancer UK

Colostomy UK (includes young colostomates)

Heartburn Cancer UK (oesophageal and gastric cancer, Barrett's oesophagus)

Pseudomyxoma Survivor

General

5k your way move against cancer 

Bucket List Wishes (Berkshire-based charity granting wishes for terminally ill adults)

Cancer information in your language (Macmillan Cancer Support)

Cancer Matters Wessex

Cancer Research UK

Hampshire Macmillan Citizens Advice Service (for financial advice)

I Can Therapy Centre (helping people with health conditions to move more and feel better)

Look good, feel better 

Macmillan Cancer Support

Macmillan Deaf Cancer Support

Marie Curie Cancer Care

NHS national screening programme (bowel, breast, cervical)

Odyssey (helps people with cancer regain confidence via a programme of outdoor activities)

Penny Brohn UK (complementary therapies, counselling and support for people with cancer and their supporters)

SafeFit (Macmillan Cancer Support's free online exercise service)

Untire (app to help reduce fatigue)

Wessex Cancer Trust

World Cancer Research Fund

Men

Orchid - fighting male cancer (testicular, prostate and penile cancer)

Prostate Cancer UK

Other cancers

Anthony Nolan Trust (info on bone marrow donation and transplantation for leukaemia)

Blood Cancer UK

Brain Tumour Charity

BRIAN (free app to help people cope with a brain tumour)

Kidney Cancer UK

Lymphoedema support network

Mesothelioma UK

Myeloma UK

NET Patient Foundation (neuroendocrine cancer)

Pancreatic Cancer UK

Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation

Sarcoma UK

Women

Breast Cancer Now

Daisy Network (premature menopause)

Eve Appeal 

Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust

NHS National Screening Programme (bowel, breast, cervical)

Ovacome (ovarian cancer)

Peaches Womb Cancer Trust

Cancer

Children With Cancer UK

Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG)

Macmillan Cancer Support

Teenage Cancer Trust

Young Lives vs Cancer

Coronavirus

Coronavirus and caring for your baby [Lullaby Trust]

Information for families with disabled children [Contact]

General

Better Health, Healthier Families (activities, food facts and recipes)

Childline

Connect to Support Hampshire

Connect to Support Hampshire Care Guide

Contact (for families with disabled children)

Diabetes UK

Great Ormond Street Hospital

Haemophilia Society

Healthier together

Kidscape (help with bullying)

Make a Wish Foundation

Meningitis Now

Ronald Mcdonald House Charities (free accommodation for families with children in hospitals and hospices across the UK)

The Mix (support for the under 25s)

Well Child (national charity for sick children)

Winston’s wish (charity for bereaved children)

Mental health

Children & Young People's Mental Health Coalition

Combined Minds (free app to help adults support a young person's mental health)

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Crisis Line for Children and Young People

Mind (information for children and young people)

YPI (counselling for 11 to 25 year olds in Basingstoke and Deane area)

Parenting

Family lives

Healthier together

Young parent guide to loneliness [Mental Health Foundation]

Young adults

Sex and young people (information and advice about sex, contraception and relationships for teenagers)

Talk to Frank (honest information about drugs aimed at younger people)

The You Trust

Autism

Ambitious about Autism

Autism Hampshire

Child Autism UK

National Autistic Society

Talk about Autism (online community)

Cerebral palsy

SCOPE (cerebral palsy)

Coronavirus

Information for families of disabled children

Down's syndrome

Down's Syndrome Association

General

AccessAble (directory of accessible venues in the UK and Ireland) 

Access All (articles, videos and podcasts for disabled people from the BBC)

Apply for or renew a Blue Badge

British Red Cross (support at home)

Challengers (inclusive play and leisure for disabled children and young people)

Changing Places (details of accessible toilets with additional equipment)

Connect to Support Hampshire 

Connect to Support Hampshire Care Guide

Contact (for parents of disabled children)

Council for Disabled Children

Disability Rights UK (organisation led by, run by and working with disabled people)

Hampshire Parent Carer Network

Leonard Cheshire (charity providing support for people with disabilities)

Limbless Association (for UK amputees and limb-loss community)

Living Made Easy (signposting for independent living)

Macmillan Cancer Support (cancer-related information in Easy Read)

Marie Curie (information for anyone affected by terminal illness in Easy Read)

Personal Independence Payment (PIP)

Rose Road Association (services for young disabled people aged 0 - 25, their parents, families and carers)

SeeAbility (specialist support, accommodation and eye care help for people with learning disabilities, autism and sight loss)

Speakeasy Advocacy (independent advocacy service for vulnerable adults and children in north Hampshire)

The You Trust (chairty supporting vulnerable people)

Hearing loss

Please see 'Ear, nose, throat and mouth' section

Learning disabilities

Easy Health (health information for people with learning disabilities)

Learning Disability Matters

Mencap 

Sight loss

Please see 'Eyes' section

Prescribed medicines

Electronic Medicines Compendium (prescribed medicines info)

NHS medicines A-Z

Recreational and street drugs

Frank

Connect to Support Hampshire

Connect to Support Hampshire Guide 2021/22

Guide Dogs for the Blind Association

Helping Hands for the Blind

Living Paintings (tactile and audio books for blind children and adults)

Look (national federation of families with visually impaired children)

Moorfields Eye Hospital

Open Sight

Royal College of Ophthalmologists

Royal National Institute for the Blind

SeeAbility (specialist support, accommodation and eye care help for people with learning disabilities, autism and sight loss)

Talking Newspapers

NHS 111 online

NHS health conditions A-Z

NHS medicines A-Z

NHS services near you

Behind the headlines (NHS guide to the science that makes the news)

Connect to support Hampshire 

Connect to Support Hampshire Guide 2021/22

Contact (directory of medical conditions, diagnosis and genetics)

Health and wellbeing directory (Hampshire Hospitals)

Healthtalk (people's real life experiences living with health conditions)

Healthier together (NHS parenting site)

Patient (health information)

Infectious symptoms poster - English

Infectious symptoms poster - French

Infectious symptoms poster - Arabic

Allergies

Allergy UK

Action Against Allergy

Anaphylaxis Campaign

Benefits and community advice

Benefits

British Red Cross (support at home)

Citizens Advice

Driving with a disability or health condition

The You Trust

Blood, organ and bone marrow donation

Anthony Nolan Trust

NHS Blood and Transplant 

Organ Donor Register

Participation in clinical trials or research projects

National Institute for Health Research

Travel information and advice

Fit for Travel

MASTA (medical advisory service for travellers abroad)

Health and care video library (NHS funded)

Health and wellbeing directory (Hampshire Hospitals)

Alcohol

Al-Anon (for families and friends of alcoholics)

Alcoholics Anonymous

Drink aware (alcohol awareness)

Inclusion (drug and alcohol services)

Diet

Change4Life (food facts)

Change4Life (healthy recipes)

NHS

Nutritionist Resource

Drugs

Inclusion (drug and alcohol services)

Exercise

Andover Leisure Centre

Basingstoke Sports Centre

Change4Life (activities)

Green Gym (gardening for health and wellbeing)

I Can Therapy Centre (helping people with health conditions to move more and feel better)

Park Run (free, weekly community events)

River Park Leisure Centre (Winchester)

This Girl Can (exercise ideas for women)

Walking for Health

We Are Undefeatable (activities for people with long term health conditions) [NHS]

Smoking

Smokefree Hampshire

Smokefree (NHS)

 

Aspergilliosis Trust

Asthma + Lung UK (merger of Asthma UK and the British Lung Foundation)

HASAG (asbestos disease support)

Mesothelioma UK

Coronavirus

Asthma + Lung UK (merger of Asthma UK and the British Lung Foundation)

 

MenSpeak (men's mental health groups)

MenWalkTalk (men's mental health groups)

Men's Activity Network

Men's Minds Matter

Men's Sheds Association

Orchid Cancer Appeal (testicular, prostate and penile cancer)

Prostate Cancer UK

Tough Enough to Care (men's mental health)

Urology Foundation

Bereavement and counselling

Bereavement Advice Centre

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Butterflies Bereavement Support Hampshire

Child Death Helpline

Child Bereavement UK

Compassionate Friends

Counselling Directory

Cruse Bereavement Care

Ectopic Pregnancy Trust

Good Grief Trust (online bereavement support website)

Hampshire Registration Service (how to register a death)

iTalk

Loss Foundation (free bereavement support for loss to cancer or COVID-19)

Mariposa Trust (support for bereaved parents)

Miscarriage Association

NHS (to find local psychological support)

Relate (relationship/ marriage counselling)

Rosie Crane Trust (support for bereaved parents)

Samaritans

SANDS (Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society) 

Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide

Winston's Wish  (charity for bereaved children)

General

Age UK (mental wellbeing for older people)

Anxiety UK

BAATN (Black African and Asian Therapy Network)

BBC Headroom (mental health toolkit)

BEAT (eating disorders)

CALM 

Children & Young People's Mental Health Coalition

Connect to Support Hampshire

Connect to Support Hampshire Guide 2021/22

Every Mind Matters including Your Mind Plan

Frazzled Cafe (peer support via online and face to face meetings)

Gamblers’ Anonymous

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Crisis Line for Children and Young People

Heads Together 

Hub of Hope (mental health support network)

Marmalade Trust (support for loneliness)

MenSpeak (men's mental health groups)

MenWalkTalk (men's mental health groups)

Men's Minds Matter

Men's Sheds Association

Mental Health Foundation

Mind (information for adults)

Mind (information for children and young people)

MindOut (mental health charity for LGBTQ people)

National Self Harm Network

NHS mental health and wellbeing

No Panic (for sufferers of panic and anxiety disorders, phobias, OCD, and withdrawal from tranquilisers)

OCD UK

Rethink Mental Illness

Royal College of Psychiatrists

SANE

Shout - for support in a crisis

Silver Line (free 24-hour helpline for older people)

Sleep Council 

Sport in Mind (physical activities to help with mental health and wellbeing)

SupportLine (confidential emotional support for children, young adults, and adults)

The You Trust

Tough Enough to Care (men's mental health)

YoungMinds

YPI (counselling to 11 to 25 year olds in Basingstoke and Deane)

Zero Suicide Alliance (free suicide prevention training)

Burning Nights (CRPS - complex regional pain syndrome)

Escape Pain (for people with chronic pain of the knee and/or hip joint) 

Flippin' Pain (for people with persistent pain)

My Live Well With Pain

Pain Concern

Pain Toolkit (pain self management)

Princess in the Tower

Avert (HIV and AIDS information)

Family Planning Association

Let's Talk About It (NHS Hampshire sexual health services)

Relate (relationship and marriage counselling)

Sexual Advice Association (male and female sexual problems)

Terrence Higgins Trust (HIV and sexual health information and services)

Bladder and Bowel Foundation (incontinence)

Coeliac UK  

Colostomy Association

Crohn’s and Colitis UK  

Guts UK  

IA (ileostomy and internal pouch support group)

IBS Network

PBC Foundation (primary biliary cirrhosis)