Abbey Community Centre - CHAPS offers group fitness and sport activities for men over 50 including:

• cooking
• gardening
• photography
• time banking.

They also offer a Cocaine Anonymous support group. 

akt supports lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans homeless young people in crisis. Every day we deal with the effects homelessness can have on young people's lives.

We provide a range of services to young people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Our services include developing young people's skills and providing the resources they need to secure sustainable and safe housing.

Our work includes advice, family mediation, first contact and schools work - complementing the work of Depaul's Nightstop programme which provides a bed for a night for a young person in crisis.

The Bengali Workers Association is a community centre offering a range of individual and group activities as well as support for the Bengalese community. 

Drop in or book an activity using the contact details below. 

Black Women's Rape Action Project - or BWRAP - offer fortnightly self-help services for women and girls seeking asylum from rape and other abuse. In-depth support service is available by appointment only. 

We offer free and confidential help and advice for young people aged 12 to 24, and their parents and carers. Our work includes counselling and psychotherapy, multisystemic therapy and parenting programmes for parents and carers of 12 to 16-year-olds with difficult behaviour.

The Brandon Reach project service is for those who have lost their child through special guardianship or adoption and we offer individual therapy, group work, collective action, supportive counselling and signposting and linking to other services.

The British Red Cross Camden Reablement service provides short-term practical and emotional support to vulnerable and isolated people at home. Read about the Red Cross's work in London and its Support at Home service in Camden.

If you are a health and social care commissioner, please look at our information for commissioners.

The Friday Club (drop-in club) is a service run by C4WS Homeless Project and The Salvation Army, Chalk Farm.

We are a bereavement service that offers counselling for people living in Camden, the City, Islington and Westminster.

A community centre which has a variety of activities, social outings and an elderly adults club.

The centre also has a personalised home care service for elderly Chinese people in Camden.

As expected and regretfully, our normal Camden Green Gym volunteering opportunities for health, wellbeing and conservation have had to be suspended! To keep in mind for post corona virus times: New volunteer referrals will be welcome once the social isolation period ends!

We provide key work sessions, group work and complementary therapies. We can plan detoxification and funded treatments. We provide support and assistance in achieving your own personal goals. Individuals can self-refer. The service is confidential and operates an equal opportunities policy. 

Counselling offers you the chance to talk to a counsellor one-to-one, in confidence and in a safe environment.

They will listen in a non-judgemental way. They will not tell you what to do, but will help you to explore the options open to you.

Your sessions with a counsellor will be once a week for 50 minutes. Initially you will come in for a free assessment and then you will be offered between 12-24 sessions.

A service for men so that they can explore issues relevant to them, such as: relationships, loss, anger, work issues, fatherhood, stress, in a way which allows them to make progress with life's everyday challenges.

Due to government advice regarding Covid-19, we have made the tough decision to close the Community Centre and halt all our activities. Our staff and volunteers work face to face with hundreds of vulnerable people each year, to continue our reach we have moved our work to email or over the telephone, until it is safe to return to normal working practices. Please regularly check our website and social media for Castlehaven news. We are currently developing measures to help the community during this difficult time. Please stay safe and healthy.

Mental health problems affect about 1 in 10 children and young people. They include depression, anxiety and conduct disorder, and are often a direct response to what is happening in their lives.

The emotional wellbeing of children is just as important as their physical health. Good mental health allows children and young people to develop the resilience to cope with whatever life throws at them and grow into well-rounded, healthy adults.

Co-Dependents Anonymous (CoDA) is a set of informal self-help groups made up of men and women with a common interest in working through the problems that co-dependency has caused in their lives. CoDA is based on AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) and uses an adapted version of their 12 Steps and Traditions as a central part of its suggested programme of recovery. 

If you’re caring for someone with dementia or if you have any other concerns or questions, call or email our Admiral Nurses for specialist support and advice.

We provide homeless families, living in temporary accommodation in the London Borough of Camden, with access to services to secure the emotional and practical support they require to enjoy a good quality of life.

This involves creating opportunities as well as supporting families to make the best use of any opportunities that arise.

Doorstep provides services to families who live in the two hostels above its premises and in other temporary accommodation in the area. Our range of services includes:

Due to the coronavirus outbreak our staff have switched to facilitating online group work with a number of cohorts to find out the best ways to stay connected, identify and give voice to their views and co-produce ways through which to engage in social action remotely.

Founded to take only asulum seekers, Freedom from Torture offers counselling, training, rehabilitation, welfare, medico-legal reports, interpreting and information about policy.

Help for Heroes supports those with injuries and illnesses sustained while serving in the British Armed Forces. No matter when someone served, we give them the support they need to lead active, independent and fulfilling lives. Our specialist team focuses on the five key areas of an individual’s life: medical, mind, body, spirit and family. We provide support to the whole family to help them all cope with the challenges they face. Long-term recovery is more than repairing damaged bodies and minds; it’s about rebuilding lives.

We are the largest provider of domestic abuse refuges in London and have the largest team of specialists working to combat human trafficking across the capital and the South East. We help people find a permanent home, manage their finances and take care of their health. We also help access to work, training or education, as well as providing emotional and practical support to help people succeed in their daily lives. Our free mobile app Bright Sky has been developed to support victims of domestic abuse and their families.

There are programmes for under 5s; young people and those over 55. Activities are focused around responding to local needs, and encouraging people from all walks of life to get involved in activities which will build social cohesion. The over 55s programme is run from the Millman Street Community Centre, which includes performance, arts and crafts, and excercise.

Ieso Digital Health delivers high quality cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) online for people experiencing common mental health issues like anxiety and depression.  Treatment is delivered directly to you by a fully qualified therapist through typed conversation.  You can schedule your appointments at times that best suit you, including evenings, weekends, and sessions can be attended securely with any device that has access to the internet.

Irish Women Survivors Support Network (IWSSN) supports, advises and campaigns for survivors of the Irish institutional care system who live across the UK. 

Bereavement counselling for Jewish people. There are also support groups including:

• Butterflies - for mothers or fathers who have lost a parent.
• Aftershock - for people aged 18-30 who have lost a parent,
• Stepping Stones - for those aged 40-60 who have lost a partner
• After Loss - for people aged 60+ who have lost a partner.

The service has experience in supporting people affected by loss, including suicide, disaster, holocaust issues, sudden infant death, miscarriages, still birth and abortion.

We provide music engagement and recovery services in hospitals and the community for young people and adults experiencing mental health problems. Activities including music production and sound recording, songwriting, composition, vocal technique and performance skills.

Offers advice and information, free clothing and some household goods. Drop-in with tea and coffee served each Monday, from 11.00am - 2.00pm; a meal on Thursday at 11.15am.

Kingsgate Community Centre offers low-cost activities to people who would not otherwise be able to access them. Our programme of more than 45 activities includes health and fitness, art and dance classes, and social events.

Drop-in advice and advocacy, legal advice, befriending, health and wellbeing.

Wellbeing Services (Day Centre). This runs three days a week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in the Kennedy Hall at the The London Irish Centre - address opposite. The service is for people over the age of 55 with low-medium support needs. We offer a warm Irish welcome and provide:

• Home cooked nutritious meals
• Classes
• Activities
• Workshops
• Healthy Living
• Day trips
• Holidays
• Tea dances

During the coronavirus outbreak affecting the UK, Maiden Lane Community Centre management has decided to close the Centre and suspend Centre-related activities until further notice. In response to the COVID- 19 outbreak Maiden Lane Community Centre is working with a range of partners to re-open our Food Bank.

Maytree is a registered charity supporting people in suicidal crisis in a non-medical setting. Our mission is to alleviate suffering and help people in suicidal crisis to re-engage with life and to restore hope.  The Maytree Suicide Respite Centre is the only place of its kind in the UK.  It fills a gap in services, between the medical support of the NHS and the helplines and drop-in centres of the voluntary sector.  We offer a free 4-night/5-day stay, and the opportunity to be befriended and heard in complete confidence, without judgement and with compassion and warmth.  

A forum where mental health services users, carers, individual advocates and advocacy organisations can meet Councillors, officers and other workers to see how services can be improved and developed. The topics are chosen by service users.

A range of coproduced activities: peer support; goal setting; counselling; individual, practical, emotional and crisis support; mindfulness groups; access to information technology; subsidised meals; special events; trips. Also includes Hearing Voices Groups.  There is also a range of workshops and social spaces available. 

Services include: 

• a sexual violence prevention service in schools
• family support providing practical support and advocacy for mothers and their children
• counselling
• play therapy for young children.

• Advice on immigration, housing, benefits and employment
• Health and counselling services
• English classes and 1-2-1 tuition, IT support and creative workshops.

We offer a floating support service for people with mental health issues who live in the Borough of Camden. The service is flexible and works within the mental health recovery model, and offers:

Portugal Prints is an artist community within Mind in Brent, Wandsworth and Westminster. Together, we make art to build better lives.

We support artists living with mental health difficulties to construct a life beyond the services, a life of creativity and curiosity. We believe that art can empower people to express themselves, to learn, to build resilience and to nurture meaningful relationships.

We provide accommodation for seafarers - both active and retired - as well as ex-servicemen, and other adults in need of accommodation. Established as a Seamen’s Mission of the Methodist Church, Queen Victoria Seamen's Rest (QVSR) is now Britain’s largest provider of accommodation of its kind.

We co-produce recovery-focused educational courses, teaching self-management tools to support wellbeing and resilience.  Our courses fall into four broad topic areas: Recovery Journey, Mental Health Conditions, Wellbeing and Self-development.  Check out our webpage www.candi.nhs.uk/recoverycollege for more information, including videos, our course guide and current term calendar.

The Centre provides psychotherapy, counselling and associated treatments to refugees and asylum seekers in their own language. The Centre endeavours to help people to deal with and overcome psychological problems in a creative, supportive and caring environment in which they can better understand their feelings and experiences. Through this support they are able to feel more content about themselves. We offer individual, couple, family and group therapy, as well as child and adolescent psychotherapy, based on an assessment of need. 

Advocacy

Camden and Islington Integrated Advocacy service provide independent advocacy in partnership with people a wide range of disabilities in the London Boroughs of Camden and Islington. We provide:

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.

We enable young people and adults living on and around Alexandra and Ainsworth estates to discover their talents, passion, skills and confidence to overcome the barriers they face to social and economic inclusion.

We run two programmes:

Our organisation exists to help the survivors of a bereavement by suicide to support each other, at the time of their loss and in the months and years that follow. We are a self-help organisation providing a safe, confidential environment in which those bereaved by suicide, can share their experiences and feelings.

We offer peer led support groups, online virtual support groups, a national telephone helpline, online community forum and email support. We offer a unique and distinct service for bereaved adults across the UK, run by the bereaved for the bereaved.

Up to 15 sessions of one-to-one counselling as well as specialist support groups.

The Manna is the outreach ministry of St Stephen's, Canonbury. We offer a drop-in for homeless and marginalised people, offering friendship, advice and support. Evening meals are offered on a Tuesday and lunch on a Wednesday. We have an alcohol worker and connections to the Islington Outreach team. We have a clothes store, showers, a washing machine and tumble drier (£1 per wash). Activities include gardening, cooking classes, women's group, art, choir, table tennis, pool and poetry group.

We run London’s largest voluntary sector resource centre for homeless and vulnerable people. We welcome and treat clients with respect and dignity, and find out what they need and want.

We offer professional and appropriate advice and help according to the client’s needs and aspirations. We agree an action plan with clients which is time-limited with the aim of supporting clients out of homelessness.

Our mission is to provide resources which encourage, inspire and challenge homeless people to transform their lives. We do this by:

Thrive is a small national charity which uses gardening to improve physical health and emotional wellbeing. Watch this video to find out more about their work.

From Battersea Park, Thrive welcomes keen and budding gardeners of all abilities.  Read about Thrive's events programme at Battersea.

The benefits?

We provide advice, practical and emotional support to victims or witnesses of crime.

WAY offers a unique peer-to-peer support network to anyone whose partner died when they were young. We also have lively social groups that meet up throughout the year for drinks, meals out, walks and picnics. 

If you have a question or would like to find out more about WAY, please contact us.