Support Directory
Support Hub
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This Support Hub brings together organisations we believe may be useful. If you need to search for something specific or know of a charity we should include, please use the tools at the bottom of this page.
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🌳 No Me No Tree / 💚 Mental Health Support
Support for mental health, emotional wellbeing, crisis support and trauma across the UK.
A SupportUKtoday movement promoting resilience, grounding and emotional wellbeing through community support and lived experience.
- Mental Health
- Legacy & Remembrance
☏️ Samaritans
Confidential emotional support for anyone in distress or struggling to cope, available 24 hours a day.
Useful for:
• Mental Health
🧠 Mind
Mental health charity providing advice, support and signposting to local services across England and Wales.
Useful for:
• Mental Health
🌿 PTSD Resolution
Free therapy for veterans, reservists and families affected by trauma, grief or post‑traumatic stress.
Useful for:
• Mental Health
🌈 NHS 111
Urgent health and mental health advice when it’s not a 999 emergency.
Useful for:
• Mental Health
📞 111
🌐 111.nhs.uk
🏥 HPFT – Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust
Local NHS mental health services for Hertfordshire, including crisis support, community teams, wellbeing services and specialist care.
Useful for:
• Mental Health
• Local Support (Watford & Hertfordshire)
🐾 Just For Me & My Dog / 🦎 Homelessness & Pets Support
Support for housing, homelessness, rough sleeping, and addiction, including help for people with pets.
Supports people experiencing homelessness by ensuring they can stay with their pets and access essentials.
- Homelessness & Pets / Addiction
🏠 Shelter
Housing and homelessness charity providing urgent advice, legal support and guidance.
Useful for:
• Homelessness & Pets / Addiction
🌙 Crisis
National charity helping people leave homelessness for good through support, training and housing.
Useful for:
• Homelessness & Pets / Addiction
🌳 St Mungo’s
Charity working with people sleeping rough, in hostels or at risk of homelessness.
Useful for:
• Homelessness & Pets / Addiction
🐾 Dogs on the Streets (DOTS)
Provides vet care, food, and support for people experiencing homelessness who have dogs.
Useful for:
• Homelessness & Pets / Addiction
🐕 Streetpaws
Offers free veterinary care and support for pets belonging to people who are homeless or vulnerably housed.
Useful for:
• Homelessness & Pets / Addiction
🟡 Addiction & Recovery Support
Support for alcohol, drug and gambling addiction, including peer groups and helplines.
Useful for:
• Homelessness & Pets / Addiction
• Mental Health
📞 AA: 0800 9177 650
📞 NA: 0300 999 1212
📞 GamCare: 0808 8020 133
🌐 GA: gamblersanonymous.org.uk
🌐 Al‑Anon: al-anonuk.org.uk
🖤 Legacy & Remembrance Support
Support for grief, loss, stillbirth, child loss, trauma and bereavement of any kind.
A SupportUKtoday strand honouring lives lost and supporting those left behind through remembrance, community and compassion.
- Legacy & Remembrance
🌐 supportuktoday.co.uk/pages/legacy-remembrance-support-resources
💜 Cruse Bereavement Care
National bereavement charity offering emotional support, guidance and coping tools.
Useful for:
• Legacy & Remembrance
👶 Child Bereavement UK
Supports families and professionals when a baby or child dies, or when a child is facing bereavement.
Useful for:
• Legacy & Remembrance
☘️ The Compassionate Friends
Peer support from bereaved parents, siblings and grandparents after the death of a child of any age.
Useful for:
• Legacy & Remembrance
🌼 Petals
Specialist counselling for parents affected by baby loss, including miscarriage, stillbirth and neonatal loss.
Useful for:
• Legacy & Remembrance
🧸 Aching Arms
Provides comfort bears and peer support to families after the loss of a baby during pregnancy, birth or infancy.
Useful for:
• Legacy & Remembrance
🕊️ SANDS
Supports anyone affected by the death of a baby, offering local groups, helplines and bereavement resources.
Useful for:
• Legacy & Remembrance
🧴 Hygiene & Practical Support
Neutral, unisex support for hygiene essentials, dignity items, period products, incontinence support and daily living basics.
Nobody should feel ashamed for needing essentials. SupportUKtoday stands for dignity and practical help.
🧴 The Hygiene Bank
Nationwide grassroots network providing hygiene essentials to people in crisis.
Useful for:
• Hygiene Poverty
• Daily Essentials
🌐 thehygienebank.com
🧴 Beauty Banks
Provides hygiene and personal care items to people living in hygiene poverty.
Useful for:
• Hygiene Poverty
• Toiletries
🌐 beautybanks.org.uk
🩸 Bloody Good Period
Provides menstrual products to refugees, asylum seekers and people in poverty.
Useful for:
• Period Poverty
• Refugee Support
🌐 bloodygoodperiod.com
🩸 Hey Girls UK
Social enterprise tackling period poverty across the UK.
Useful for:
• Period Poverty
• Community Distribution
🌐 heygirls.co.uk
📦 Inkind Direct
Supplies essential goods — including hygiene items — to small community organisations.
Useful for:
• Community Groups
• Daily Essentials
🌐 inkinddirect.org
🧴 The Pad Project UK
Provides practical support for individuals living with incontinence.
Useful for:
• Incontinence Support
• Older Adults
🌐 thepadprojectuk.org
📧 info@thepadprojectuk.org
🧴 Independent Local Hygiene Banks
Many towns and cities have independent hygiene banks run by volunteers.
Useful for:
• Local Support
• Hygiene Poverty
🌐 Search “Hygiene Bank + Your Town” to find local groups.
🚨 In an emergency, always call 999.
You are not alone. Support is here whenever you need it.
🍃 Essential Living Support
Food support, hygiene essentials and trusted UK-wide directories — all in one place. Practical help for daily living pressures.
🥫 Food Support & Essential Help
🥫 Community Fridges
Free food for anyone — no referral required. Often run by local volunteers and community groups.
Find your nearest community fridge by entering your postcode:
🌐 Community Fridge MapSupportUKtoday includes this as a helpful public resource. Community fridges are independent local initiatives supported by Hubbub Charity UK.
🔍 Support Organisations
Hygiene Directory
A UK-wide directory helping people find hygiene support organisations, dignity projects, period poverty initiatives, incontinence support and grassroots hygiene banks.
- Hygiene poverty support
- Period poverty organisations
- Incontinence support
- Local hygiene banks
SupportUKtoday includes this as a helpful public resource. SupportUKtoday is not affiliated with or endorsed by Hygiene Choice.
🔍 Support Organisations
Charity Choice
A UK charity directory service that helps people explore charities, understand their work, and discover organisations supporting a wide range of causes.
Useful for:
- Mental health charities
- Homelessness and community support organisations
- Bereavement and grief support charities
- Finding charities by cause
SupportUKtoday includes Charity Choice as a helpful public resource to help people discover organisations that may match the causes they care about. SupportUKtoday is not affiliated with or endorsed by Charity Choice. If a supporter chooses to donate, donations are made directly to the chosen charity through the charity’s own official channels.
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