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Did you know that getting active is a great way to beat the blues and in Camden there are plenty of options that are free?

15 May 2018

How about ‘Healthy Minds’, from Mind in Camden? Do you want to start a new fitness routine or spend more time outdoors? We can help you reach your fitness goals. There are Fitness Groups led by volunteer Sports Buddies, where you'll get fit alongside a small group of your peers; free fitness-focused events like Mindful Yoga, Outdoor Gym Sessions and GoodGym Fitness Groups; or you might be interested in ‘one-on-one’ sessions with a volunteer Sports Buddy who can help you work toward your fitness goals?

Samaritans - Central London

Currently open
Currently closed. Next open:
Fri:
9:00-21:00

The Central London branch provides emotional support round the clock for anyone experiencing feelings of distress, despair or who is in crisis. Samaritans provides a safe space. As volunteers we’re ordinary people, and keep all our conversations private.

Visitors are welcome 365 days a year. You don't need an appointment and the service is completely free of charge. Our branch is wheel chair accessible.

Calthorpe Project - a green oasis in Kings's Cross

We provide a community centre and garden which enable local people to mix, socialise and improve their quality of life. The Centre has a thriving programme which includes: Community Gardening, where you can grow some veg to take home or share with other volunteers and friends; a ‘Living Lab’, with food grown on-site for the Centre’s café; Gardening for Older People, which takes place every Friday; and a Bangladeshi Women’s Garden

Santé Refugee Mental Health Access Project

Our vision is for refugees and asylum seekers to have the freedom and opportunity to lead independent lives in a community, and our mission is to support refugees and asylum seekers in the London region, particularly those with mental health issues, to gain equal access to health and other essential services. We offer one-to-one befriending and advocacy, helping service users access services, integrate into the community and seek asylum. Many service users become volunteers.

Voiceability - Camden mental health peer mentoring

Voiceability delivers the Camden Peer Mentoring Service. This is a volunteer led service, where Peer Mentors use their lived experience of mental health to support others in the community and hospitals who may be experiencing difficulties with their Mental Health. We offer 1-to-1 emotional, and practical support over 10 sessions for up to 5 months.

We are contactable on 0300 303 1660 or Camden.peermentoring@voiceability.org

London Nightline - 'students there for students'

We are a confidential listening, support and practical information service for students in London and Open University. You can talk to us about anything – big or small – in complete confidence. We won’t judge you or tell you how to run your life: we’ll simply listen to whatever is on your mind.

All our volunteers are students themselves, who have undergone extensive training and who understand that university life isn’t always plain sailing.

 

Home-Start Camden

Home-Start Camden (HSC) offers free, confidential support, friendship and practical help to parents of children under five in the London Borough of Camden who are going through a difficult time. Once a family has been referred to Home-Start Camden they will be visited by a Home-Start Camden coordinator who will assess the needs of the family.  The family will be carefully matched with a trained volunteer with parenting experience who can provide emotional and practical support to the family for 3-4 hours a week.

Mary Ward Legal Centre

Currently open
Currently closed. Next open:
Fri:
9:30-17:30
We provide specialist advice and casework in the areas of debt, housing and welfare benefits. We also run free advice clinics with the support of volunteer lawyers in the following areas of law: employment, housing, family, consumer, general civil litigation. The premises are accessible by wheelchair.
 
We can help with
  • Housing
  • Debt
  • Welfare benefits

 

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