Select your region for a list of services that you can contact.
Services updated December 2016
Macmillan Cancer Support local area search
Description: Macmillan´s local area search helps you to find cancer information and support centres near where you live
Tel: 0808 808 0000
Web: http://www.macmillan.org.uk/in-your-area/choose-location.html
Support Type: Cancer and/or Palliative Care Service
Cruse Bereavement Care
Description: Many of our Cruse services across England, Wales and Northern Ireland offer support to children and young people. Find your local branch and contact them to see what is offered in your area.
Tel: 0808 808 1677
Web: http://www.cruse.org.uk/cruse-areas-and-branches
Support Type: Bereavement Service
Samaritans
Description: Samaritans provides confidential support, 24 hours a day for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair. It may be easiest to get in touch via their website but Samaritans also have local branches throughout the UK, some of which offer facilities for you to come into the branch and talk to a volunteer face to face. Check out your local branch on the website.
Tel: 116 123
Web: http://www.samaritans.org/branches
Support Type: Counselling Service
Maggie's West London
Description: Maggie´s West London provides free practical, emotional and social support for people with cancer and their family and friends in West London. Built in the grounds of Charing Cross Hospital, the Centre is a warm and welcoming place with professional staff on hand to offer the support people need to find their way through cancer.
Tel: 020 7386 1750
Web: https://www.maggiescentres.org/our-centres/maggies-west-london/
Support Type: Cancer and/or Palliative Care Service
Youth Access
Description: Youth Access is a national organisation for young people's information, advice, counselling and support services (YIACS). Check out their website to find details of free and confidential counselling, advice or information services locally near you.
Tel: 020 8772 9900
Web: http://www.youthaccess.org.uk/find-your-local-service/
Support Type: Counselling Service
Relate - Counselling, support and information for all relationships
Description: Children and Young People's Counselling is for any young person who's having problems. Find counselling at a local Relate Centre near you.
Tel: 0300 100 1234
Web: http://www.relate.org.uk/find-my-nearest-relate
Support Type: Counselling Service
Community Cancer Centre (CCC)
Middlesex, Greater London,
Description: Community Cancer Centre offers drop in for information and support as well as other services for patients, carers, their families and anyone who is affected by cancer.
Tel: 01895 461 016
Web: http://communitycancercentre.ning.com/
Support Type: Cancer and/or Palliative Care Service
Include Programme - Young carers services
Description: The Children's Society supports young carers projects all over the UK through the Include Programme. Follow this link to check out on the map if there is a young carers project near you.
Tel: 01962 711511
Web: http://www.youngcarer.com/young-carers-services
Support Type: Young Carers
Candle Project - St Christopher's
Croydon, Greater London,
Description: Though the Candle Project, St Christopher's offers bereavement counselling to all children, young people and their families in the south east London area.
Tel: 020 8768 4533
Web: http://www.stchristophers.org.uk/candle
Support Type: Bereavement Service
West London Action for Children
London, Greater London,
Description: West London Action for Children offers a range of counselling and therapy services for children in need, and their families, in the London boroughs of Hammersmith & Fulham and Kensington & Chelsea.
Tel: 020 7352 1155
Web: http://www.wlac.org.uk/
Support Type: Counselling Service
DAZU Young Carers Project
Greater London,
Description: DAZU runs the Young Carers Project for Enfield, offering a wide range of support to young people under the age of 18, including a free counselling service.
Tel: 020 8373 2720
Web: http://www.dazu.co.uk/dazu.htm
Support Type: Young Carers
Harrow Bereavement Care
Harrow, Middlesex,
Description: Support adults and children in the London Boroughs of Harrow & Hillingdon and surrounding areas who would like some help in coping with their bereavement. The service is entirely free and confidential.
Tel: 020 8427 5720
Web: http://www.harrowbereavementcare.co.uk
Support Type: Bereavement Service
Off The Record
Croydon, Greater London,
Description: Offering a range of services, including a free, confidential counselling service for young people aged 14-25 living, working or studying in Croydon. They also run a Young Carers Project for young people aged 7-25.
Tel: 020 8251 0251
Web: http://www.offtherecordcroydon.org/
Support Type: Counselling Service
Wandsworth Bereavement Service
Wandsworth, Greater London,
Description: Children and young people between the ages of 2 to18 years of age can be seen for one-to-one counselling if they have lost a parent, sibling, close relation or significant person in their lives. The service provides between 6 and 12 sessions on a regular weekly basis.
Tel: 020 7223 3178
Web: http://www.wandsworthbereavement.org.uk/
Support Type: Bereavement Service
Caris Islington
Islington, Greater London,
Description: Caris Islington is a registered charity offering a bereavement counselling service for young people aged 12 to 20 called The Basement. The CARIS Bereavement Service also runs a specialist service for bereaved children which is called rucksack, to any bereaved child between 3 - 11 in Islington.
Tel: 020 7281 5200
Web: http://www.carisislington.org/
Support Type: Bereavement Service
Faces in Focus
Southwark, Greater London,
Description: Faces in Focus is a young people´s Counselling Service for 11 — 25 year olds who mainly live, study or work in Southwark and Lambeth.
Tel: 020 7403 2444
Web: http://facesinfocus.org.uk/
Support Type: Counselling Service
Brandon Centre
Southwark, Greater London,
Description: The Brandon Centre offers free advice and counselling for young people aged 16 to 21 who live in Islington.
Tel: 020 7267 4792
Web: http://www.brandon-centre.org.uk/
Support Type: Counselling Service
Patient and Family Counselling Service
Hackney, Greater London,
Description: St Joseph's Patient and Family Counselling Service offers counselling and support to bereaved children and their families who live in the boroughs of City and Hackney, Newham or Tower Hamlets. Children can be seen individually or with their families.
Tel: 0300 30 30 400
Web: http://www.stjh.org.uk
Support Type: Bereavement Service
Off Centre
Hackney, Greater London,
Description: Off Centre is a counselling, therapy, advocacy, advice and psychosocial service for young people aged between 11 and 25 who live, work or study in Hackney. Services are free and confidential.
Tel: 020 8986 4016
Web: http://www.offcentre.org.uk/
Support Type: Counselling Service