Help
If you need help and support, Community CVS can connect you to volunteers and groups in your community that can help with various life issues. Please contact steve.foden@communitycvs.org.uk , call in to the Boulevard Centre or ring us on 01254 583957 if you would like help in finding some community support.
Below there are a few useful phone numbers and website links relating to different life issues as a starting point….
In this section:
- Your Support Your Choice – information and advice
- Drug and Alcohol Support
- Housing and homelessness
- Welfare Support
- Children, Families and Adult Social care
- Mental Health and well-being
- Crime and Victim Support
- Mutual Aid and Community Support
- Education and Skills
Your Support Your Choice
We recommend the Your Support Your Choice Service (run by Care Network on behalf of the borough council) for information on any issue. ‘Your Support, Your Choice’ have a centre on 9a Town Hall St, ( opposite the central library)which provides free information about what support is available to you. You can call in and see them (no appointment necessary), email at: info@ysyc.co.uk or call (01254) 292620. The service puts people in touch with organisations, projects, activities and initiatives available in the community and offers free information and guidance on:
- Staying independent
- Home safety and maintenance
- Self-directed support and peer support
- Positive mental health and stress management
- What’s on in your community
- Health and social care guidance
- Volunteering opportunities
- Support for people with a disability
- Support for people with long term health conditions
- Employment support and job clubs
Read more about Your Support Your Choice
Drug and Alcohol support
- Inspire: Adult: 01254 495014
- Inspire: Young Person: 01254 495052
Hospital Alcohol Liaison Service (HALs)
This service is for patients being treated at hospital for any reason who have problems with alcohol, Tel: 01254 263555 (Please note this is not a drop in service)
Recovery Access Points (RAP)
Fast 4wd: Community CVS Boulevard Centre, Railway Road, Blackburn, BB1 1EZ
(Mon – Fri 9.30am – 5pm) – Tel: 01254 583957
Under 25’s Recovery Access Point
Everybody Centre
Tel: 01254 617300, Barbara Castle Way, Health Centre, Simmons Street, Blackburn, BB2 1AX -Mon & Fri 1pm – 5pm
Breakfast Club
Platform 5, Nightsafe Sat 10.15am – 11.45am, Rear of Boulevard Centre,
45 Railway Road, Blackburn, BB1 1EZ
THOMAS drop in
Tel 01254 660861 St Anne House, France Street, Blackburn, BB2 1LX –
Fri 11am – 2pm
Housing/ Homeless Support
Emergency Homeless
out of hours and weekends Tel: 07739 454978
Housing Needs
8am – 5pm Mon to Fri Tel: 01254 585444
The Foyer
for young homeless people aged 16 – 24 Tel: 01254 222030, 1a Princes Street, Blackburn
Nightsafe
for young homeless people aged 16 -24 Tel: 01254 503067, Rear of Boulevard Centre,
45 Railway Road, Blackburn, BB1 1EZ
Shelter
0808 800 4444-Shelter’s helpline is open 8am–8pm on weekdays and 8am–5pm on weekends, 365 days a year.
Breakfast Club
Platform 5, Nightsafe Sat 10.15am – 11.45am, Rear of Boulevard Centre,
45 Railway Road, Blackburn, BB1 1EZ
THOMAS drop in
Tel 01254 660861 St Anne House, France Street, Blackburn, BB2 1LX – Fri 11am – 2pm
Asylum & Refugee information
Tel: 01254 585730
Asylum and Refugee Project
ARC – Tel; 01254 690282
Welfare Support
Job Centre Plus
- Blackburn with Darwen Tel: 0345 604 3719
- Benefits Advice/ Claims, Tel: 01254 585585
Debtline
Tel: 0808 808 4000
Asylum & Refugee information:
Tel: 01254 585730
Asylum and Refugee Project
ARC – Tel; 01254 690282
Advice for All:
(citizens advice services), Tel: 01254 587979/ 0344 488 9622
Blackburn with Darwen Citizens Advice Bureau:
03444 889 622 Blackburn with Darwen CAB offers a phone first services Monday to Friday 10:00 to 16:00
Children, Families and Adult Social Care
Your Support, Your Choice:
Independent living help/ advice,
Tel: 01254 292620
Adults & Children’s Social Care:
Tel: 01254 587547
ChildLine:
Tel: 0800 1111
Wish Centre:
women’s self-help centre Tel: 01254 260465/ 55111
Age UK Blackburn:
services/ help/ advice for over 50s, Tel: 01254 266620 or the Darwen service, Tel: 01254 773440
Carers Service:
Tel: 01254 688440
Blackburn Central Library
Tel: 01254 661221
Asylum & Refugee information:
Tel: 01254 585730
Asylum seekers and Refugee support
ARC – Tel; 01254 690282
Lancashire Women’s Centre
Tel: 01254 583032
VOICE Family Breakfast Club
Every Sunday 10 am, Platform 5, Nightsafe (to the rear of the Boulevard Centre), 45 Railway Rd, Blackburn BB1 1EZ.
Crime, Victim Support
Police
Tel: 01254 51212
Victim Support
free helpline; 08 08 16 89 111.
Probation Service
Tel: 01254 265221
National DV Helpline
0808 2000 247 free phone 24 hr National Domestic Violence Helpline
Well-being & Mental Health
Darwen Resource Centre: (mental health)
Tel: 01254 226360
Mind Care:
Tel: 01254 226037
Women’s Centre: (mental health support)
Tel: 01254 583032
Mental Health: crisis team
Tel: 01254 226074
Meam: – Making every adult matter
Tel: 01254 244716
Mental Health Helpline
0300 222 5931 – Free from mobiles and landlines we are open Monday to Friday 7pm – 11pm Saturday & Sunday 12 midday to 12 midnight
MIND National Helpline
0300 123 3393-Our lines are open 9am to 6pm, Monday to Friday-except for bank holidays
National DV Helpline
0808 2000 247 free phone 24 hr National Domestic Violence Helpline
Healthy Living
Tel: 01254 708080
The Well-being Service
Tel; 682037
The Samaritans
Tel: 01254 116123
PAPYRUS
is a voluntary organisation supporting teenagers and young adults who are feeling suicidal. Suicide awareness
Tel: 0800 068 41 41
Suicide Safer Blackburn volunteer
Tel: 0800 978 8178
HOPELineUK
Tel 0800 068 4141, a confidential helpline, staffed by trained professionals who give non-judgmental support, practical advice and information to Young people under the age of 35 feeling suicidal Anyone concerned that a young person they know may be at risk of suicide
Weekdays: 10am -10pm Weekends & Bank Holidays: 2pm- 5pm
Mutual Aid and Community Support
Alcoholics Anonymous
Tel: 0845 769 7555 or 01254 583957
Al-Anon Anonymous
(support and understanding to the families and (friends of problem drinkers) Tel: 0207 4030 888
Narcotics Anonymous
Tel: 0300 999 1212 or 01254 583957
Cocaine Anonymous
Tel: 0300 111 2285 or 0800 612 0225(free from UK landlines)
Gamblers Anonymous
Blackburn area meetings Tel: 07974668999
VOICE(substance misuse service users group)
Tel: 01254 583957
CASH: (carer support for families and friends affected by someone else’s drug or alcohol problem)
Tel: 01254 688440
Carers Service
Tel: 01254 688440
Families Anonymous
Tel: 0845 1200660
Education, Skills
Community Learning Programme
Tel; 01254 507720
Careers Service ( advice on training, and employment support)
Tel; 01254 588891
Blackburn College: (course information/ advice)
Tel: 01254 292929
Training 2000
Tel: 01254 54659
Bootstrap: supported employment service
Tel: 01254 680367
St Mary’s College: course information/ advice
Tel: 01254 580464
Accrington and Rossendale College
Tel: 01254 389933
Useful links
Your Support Your Choice website for adult social care
Mental health
Safer suicide
Drug and Alcohol
- http://www.smartrecovery.org.uk/
- http://www.cri.org.uk/content/blackburn-darwen-integrated-drug-and-alcohol-treatment-services
- https://www.breakingfreeonline.com/
A confidential online treatment and recovery programme for problem alcohol and drug use.
Carers support
Women
Big White Wall
A safe online community of people who are anxious, down or not coping who support and help each other by sharing what’s troubling them, guided by trained professionals. Available 24/7, Big White Wall is completely anonymous so you can express yourself freely and openly. Professionally trained Wall Guides ensure the safety and anonymity of all members.