Self Help Groups

Action on Elder AbuseAims to prevent abuse in old age by promoting changes in policy and practice, through raising awareness, education, promoting research and the provision of infomation. Offers a national infomation service for all enquirers, a membership service, and a confidential helpline for anyone concerned abut...
Andrea Adams TrustThe Andrea Adams Trust is a non-political, not-for-profit charity offering information and support to individuals and employers affected by workplace bullying. Activities include the following: Information and support services. Raising public and professional awareness of bullying. Collating...
Anger Support ProgrammeComprehensive programme addressing the needs of those that find it difficult to express anger in a positive way. Support groups. Anger management courses. Intensive activity programme.
Ann Craft TrustThe Ann Craft Trust is a national association dedicated to the protection from abuse of adults and children with learning disabilities. ACT is a national association working with staff in the statutory, independent and voluntary sectors in the interests of people with learning disabilities who...
Anti-Bullying NetworkThe Anti-Bullying Network was established at the University of Edinburgh in 1999. The Network relaunched in October 2007 as a not-for-profit company and is now a registered Scottish charity. The Network has the following objectives: To support anti-bullying work in schools To operate a...
Barnardo'sBarnardo's is the UK's biggest and best known children's charity. There are some 394 services working with more than 115,000 children, young people and families a year. The charity continues to fight the old problems of poverty, homelessness, and child prostitution, and new issues of children...
BAWSO - Black Association of Women Step OutEstablished in 1995 BAWSO is an all Wales, voluntary organisation, providing specialist holistic services to black and minority ethnic women and children, who are, or are about to be made homeless through a threat of domestic abuse, suffering or fleeing domestic abuse in Wales. It is affiliated to...
Black Women's Rape Action ProjectBlack Women's Rape Action Project (BWRAP) provides practical self-help support services and counselling to Black women, and other women of colour including immigrant and refugee women and girls who: have been raped or sexually assaulted in their country of origin; face sexual harassment at work or...
Bristol Crisis Service for WomenThe Bristol Crisis Service for Women is a national charity that offers support to women, with a particular focus on self-injury, (often called self-harm). They provide support through their helpline, information service and training. The helpline is for women in emotional distress, but the focus...
British False Memory SocietyFormed in 1993 to raise awareness of dangers of 'recovered memory therapy' which was giving rise to an epidemic of decades-delayed, uncorroborated allegations of childhood sexual abuse by adults against parents. Comprehensive archive on damage to patients and families as a result of false...