Support Hub
Support Hub
SupportUKtoday is a UK community support movement, not a professional service, therapy provider or emergency response service.
Our Support Hub helps people find charities, community organisations, helplines and professional services that may be able to offer support.
We bring different causes together in one place, helping people find information and take the next step when they need it. The external organisations listed are independent of SupportUKtoday unless we explicitly state a partnership. Being listed does not mean we endorse an organisation. Services, availability and eligibility may vary.
Please check each organisation’s official website for current contact details, opening hours, services and any eligibility or referral requirements.
If you cannot find what you need, or know of an organisation that could help others, please use the feedback form at the bottom of this page. The feedback form is not an urgent support service.
Need urgent help? If someone is in immediate danger or needs emergency assistance, call 999. In England, call NHS 111 for urgent health advice, including mental health support.
You are not alone. SupportUKtoday helps connect people with existing support, one small act at a time.
🌳 No Me No Tree / 💚 Mental Health Support
Find organisations offering mental health, emotional wellbeing, crisis and trauma support. Coverage and access vary by service.
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
📞 0300 123 3393 — Monday to Friday, 9am–6pm, excluding bank holidays.
🌐 mind.org.uk
🌿 PTSD Resolution
Therapy support for veterans, reservists and families affected by trauma. Check the organisation’s website for current services and eligibility.
Useful for:
• Mental Health
🌈 NHS 111
In England, call 111 for urgent health advice, including mental health support, 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
Find organisations offering housing, homelessness, rough sleeping and addiction support, including help for people with pets.
A SupportUKtoday strand raising awareness and helping people experiencing homelessness find support for themselves and their pets.
- Homelessness & Pets / Addiction
🏠 Shelter England
Housing and homelessness charity providing advice, legal support and guidance. The helpline below advises on housing law in England and does not provide accommodation.
Useful for:
• Housing and homelessness in England
📞 0808 800 4444 — Shelter England’s housing advice helpline. Monday to Friday, 8am–5pm, excluding bank holidays.
🌐 Shelter England helpline information
🌙 Crisis
National charity helping people leave homelessness through support, training and housing-related services. Check its website for local services and access information.
Useful for:
• Homelessness
🌳 St Mungo’s
Charity working with people sleeping rough, in hostels or at risk of homelessness.
Useful for:
• Homelessness and rough sleeping
🆘 SOS
Visit the SOS Facebook page to learn more, ask questions, or send a private message to reach out.
🐾 Dogs on the Streets (DOTS)
Provides vet care, food, and support for people experiencing homelessness who have dogs. Check its website for locations and current availability.
Useful for:
• Homelessness and support for dogs
🐕 Streetpaws
Pet-related support for people experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity. Check its website for current services, locations and access requirements.
Useful for:
• Homelessness and pets
🟡 Addiction & Recovery Support
Support for alcohol, drug and gambling addiction, including peer groups and helplines.
Useful for:
• Addiction and recovery
• Support for families affected by addiction
📞 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
Find organisations offering support with grief, loss, stillbirth, child loss, trauma and bereavement.
A SupportUKtoday strand honouring lives lost and bringing people together through remembrance, community and compassion.
- Legacy & Remembrance
🌐 supportuktoday.co.uk/pages/legacy-remembrance-support-resources
💜 Cruse Bereavement Support
National bereavement charity offering emotional support, guidance and coping tools.
Useful for:
• Legacy & Remembrance
📞 0808 808 1677
🌐 Cruse helpline information and opening hours
👶 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
Find information about hygiene essentials, dignity items, period products, incontinence support and daily living basics. Availability and access vary by organisation and location.
Nobody should feel ashamed for needing essentials. SupportUKtoday stands for dignity and practical help.
🧴 The Hygiene Bank
The Hygiene Bank works to tackle hygiene poverty by helping make essential hygiene and personal care products available to people experiencing hardship.
Visit its website to learn about its work, local projects and ways to get involved.
Useful for:
• Hygiene poverty awareness
• Local hygiene projects
• Information about community initiatives
• Ways to support its work
The Hygiene Bank is listed as an external resource, not as a stated SupportUKtoday partner. Please check its official website for current projects, local arrangements and available support.
🧴 Beauty Banks
Provides hygiene and personal care items to people living in hygiene poverty.
Useful for:
• Hygiene Poverty
• Toiletries
🩸 Bloody Good Period
Provides menstrual products to refugees, asylum seekers and people in poverty.
Useful for:
• Period Poverty
• Refugee Support
🩸 Hey Girls UK
Social enterprise tackling period poverty across the UK.
Useful for:
• Period Poverty
• Community Distribution
📦 Inkind Direct
Supplies essential goods, including hygiene items, to community organisations. This listing is for organisations rather than a direct personal support service.
Useful for:
• Community Groups
• Daily Essentials
🧴 The Pad Project UK
The Pad Project UK collects and recycles unwanted hygiene medical care supplies and supports people living with incontinence. Visit its website for current services, donation arrangements and available support.
Useful for:
• Incontinence Support
• Donating unused hygiene medical care supplies
🧴 Independent Local Hygiene Banks
Local hygiene banks and community projects may offer practical support. Check local availability and any referral requirements.
Useful for:
• Local Support
• Hygiene Poverty
🌐 Search “Hygiene Bank + Your Town” to find local groups.
🚨 In an emergency, call 999.
SupportUKtoday is not an emergency response service. Please contact emergency services directly if someone is in immediate danger.
🍃 Essential Living Support
Explore food support and charity directories that may help with everyday living pressures. Hygiene resources are listed in the Hygiene & Practical Support section above.
🥫 Food Support & Essential Help
🥫 Community Fridges
Community fridges help share surplus food locally and reduce food waste. Opening times, food availability and access arrangements vary, so check the details before visiting.
🌐 Explore the Community Fridge Network and MapSupportUKtoday shares this as a public resource to help people discover local food initiatives. Community fridges are independently operated, and SupportUKtoday does not run or manage them.
🔍 Charity Directories
Charity Choice
Charity Choice is a charity directory that can help people explore organisations working across a wide range of causes.
Useful for:
- Mental health charities
- Homelessness and community support
- Bereavement and grief support
- Discovering charities by cause
SupportUKtoday includes Charity Choice as a 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 you choose to donate, please use the chosen charity’s official donation channels. Donations are not collected or processed through the SupportUKtoday Support Hub.
📝 Share Your Feedback
Have you found this Support Hub helpful, or do you know of an organisation or resource we should add or update?
Your feedback helps SupportUKtoday improve the Hub and connect more people with useful information and existing support.
This form is for feedback and suggestions, not urgent support. Please avoid including sensitive personal or medical information. If someone is in immediate danger, call 999.