Useful Links
Helpline and sources of advice
Advice and booklets for healthy eating and physical activity.
For most adults, it's fine to enjoy a drink. At the same time, we all need to look after our health and wellbeing. This is where you can find out more about how to do both.
You'll find all kinds of useful information about alcohol and drinking, from fascinating facts to practical tips, to suit all kinds of people and occasions. Drinkaware is supporting the government’s new Know Your Limits awareness campaign.
Drinkline
Helpline: 0800 917 8282
Best time to telephone: 9am - 11pm, Monday to Friday
Drinkline offers the following services:
• Information and self-help materials
• Help to callers worried about their own drinking
• Support to the family and friends of people who are drinking
• Advice to callers on where to go for help
Drinkline is confidential and no names need be given. Callers to the above number have the option of listening to recorded information about alcohol or talking to an adviser.
Your One Stop Shop for Smoke Free Solutions - All products now available to buy online!
GASP provides a one-stop-shop for smoking education and tobacco control projects, helping smokers to stop smoking and campaigning for smokefree homes and enclosed places. All GASP products are available to buy online!
Multikulti provides accessible, accurately translated advice and information in community languages in the following areas: debt, employment, health, education, immigration and racism & discrimination.
NHS Direct is here to make a difference to the lives of people in England, 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year. We're here for you whenever you have health worries and we have the knowledge and experience to give you real help and reassurance.
We are the UK’s leading charity offering information, support and advice to over two million people with sight loss.
Our pioneering work helps anyone with a sight problem – not just with braille and Talking Books, but with imaginative and practical solutions to everyday challenges.
RNID is the largest charity working to change the world for the UK’s 9 million deaf and hard of hearing people.
Samaritans provides confidential non-judgmental emotional support, 24 hours a day for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide.
Whatever you're going through, whether it's big or small, don't bottle it up. We are here for you if you're worried about something, feel upset or confused, or just want to talk to someone.
The Citizens Advice service helps people resolve their legal, money and other problems by providing free information and advice from 3,300 locations, and by influencing policymakers.
Information, news, products and services for disabled people.
The helpline is for any young person under the age of 19 years who feel they need emotional support. Young people who are worried, confused or just need to talk can contact our trained volunteers by telephone, email or on-line chat. Whichever way they choose to contact Y2Y they can be assured that their call will be treated confidentially and a young person will be there to give them the support and help they need.
Sources of information about Well-Being
NHS 5 a day web page, top tips for Eating more fruit and vegetables.
Leisure and Sport - Bedfordshire
CSIP Eastern is part of the Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP). We deliver CSIP’s four national work programmes in the Eastern region:
• Mental Health (National Institute for Mental Health in England, NIMHE)
• Social Care
• Children and Young People
• Health and Social Care in the Criminal Justice System
CSIP/NIMHE aims to put the experience of people who use services and their carers at the centre of everything that it does. Working with people with personal experience of health or social care issues, and their carers, through the Experts by Experience (EbE) programme is a priority area for action.
Sport – Cambridgeshire
Health education and promotion
Leaflets and other resources on Keep Warm, Keep Well, 5 A Day and the Department’s other well-being campaigns.
Leisure and Sport – Essex
Food Standards Agency website, containing useful information around healthy eating and health issues, includes interactive games and quizzes.
The Food and Mood Community Interest Company (formerly the Food and Mood Project) is a web-based, user-led company that provides dietary self-help resources for improving mental and emotional health.
What is Healthy Start?
With Healthy Start, you can get free vouchers every week which you swap for milk, fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and infant formula milk. You can also get free vitamins. Healthy Start replaces the Welfare Food Scheme.
A very warm welcome to healthypages, the UKs busiest and most popular complementary health and holistic website.
Leisure and Sport - Hertfordshire
If you are a person who has experience of mental health illness, a carer, someone who currently uses services or anyone who has an interest in mental health then why not join INVOLVING ESSEX and be part of the network?
NHS Choices website “Live Well”, videos, stories, advice and sources of support for mental health and well-being.
Living life to the full On-line is a powerful new life skills resource.
The course has been written by a Psychiatrist who has many years of experience using a Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) approach and also in helping people use these skills in everyday life.
The MEND Programme is a fun, free after-school course which helps families learn how to be fitter, healthier and happier. It was developed by experts in child health and our research shows it really works!
MHFA does not teach people to be therapists. However, it does teach people how to recognise the symptoms of mental health problems, how to provide initial help and how to guide a person towards appropriate professional help.
The website of the Mental Health Foundation outlines the charity’s work in research, policy, service development and service user involvement. The site offers information and publications to download on research, good practice in services and on mental health problems and key issues.
It provides a daily mental health news service and directories of organisations, websites and events. Website visitors can use forums and bulletin boards, join a mailing list and find out how to support the organisation.
The Inquiry was set up in late 2003 by Age Concern and the Mental Health Foundation. It aims to:
- Raise awareness of mental health and well-being in later life
- Involve and empower older people
- Create better understanding and build an evidence base
- Influence policy and planning
- Improve services
- Stimulate ongoing work by others
Mind is the leading mental health charity in England and Wales. We work to create a better life for everyone with experience of mental distress.
We are about to move a large step closer to eliminating stigma and discrimination from mental health – Mental Health Media, Mind, Rethink and the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London have been awarded £18 million from the Big Lottery Fund and Comic Relief to run a programme to allow us to publicly challenge attitudes towards mental illness in England and counter discrimination against people who experience mental ill health.
NHS Choices – your health, your choices
Leisure and Sport – Norfolk
Leisure and Sport - Suffolk
Rural Stress Helpline A confidential, non judgemental listening service guaranteeing anonymity to anyone in a rural area feeling troubled, anxious, worried, stressed or needing information. 0845 0948286
Shift is an initiative to tackle stigma and discrimination surrounding mental health issues in England. Our aim is to create a society where people who experience mental health problems enjoy the same rights and opportunities as other people.
Sport England is the government agency responsible for developing a world-class community sport system. Find out more about our work, our targets and the outcomes we intend to achieve.
Walking the way to Health (WHI) is the largest national body promoting and setting the standards for led health walks. It is a joint initiative between Natural England and the British Heart Foundation.
WHI aims to encourage people, particularly those who take little exercise, to do regular short walks in their communities. We support over 525 local health walk schemes.
Maintaining a 'keep fit' lifestyle doesn't have to mean slogging it out in a sweaty gym. Just boosting your levels of general daily activity will reap big rewards in improved health and energy.
Walking the way to Health (WHI) is the largest national body promoting and setting the standards for led health walks. It is a joint initiative between Natural England and the British Heart Foundation.
WHI aims to encourage people, particularly those who take little exercise, to do regular short walks in their communities. We support over 525 local health walk schemes.
Helpline and sources of advice
Advice and booklets for healthy eating and physical activity. |
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For most adults, it's fine to enjoy a drink. At the same time, we all need to look after our health and wellbeing. This is where you can find out more about how to do both. You'll find all kinds of useful information about alcohol and drinking, from fascinating facts to practical tips, to suit all kinds of people and occasions. Drinkaware is supporting the government’s new Know Your Limits awareness campaign. |
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Drinkline |
Helpline: 0800 917 8282 Best time to telephone: 9am - 11pm, Monday to Friday Drinkline offers the following services: • Information and self-help materials • Help to callers worried about their own drinking • Support to the family and friends of people who are drinking • Advice to callers on where to go for help Drinkline is confidential and no names need be given. Callers to the above number have the option of listening to recorded information about alcohol or talking to an adviser. |
Your One Stop Shop for Smoke Free Solutions - All products now available to buy online! GASP provides a one-stop-shop for smoking education and tobacco control projects, helping smokers to stop smoking and campaigning for smokefree homes and enclosed places. All GASP products are available to buy online! |
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Multikulti provides accessible, accurately translated advice and information in community languages in the following areas: debt, employment, health, education, immigration and racism & discrimination. |
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NHS Direct is here to make a difference to the lives of people in England, 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year. We're here for you whenever you have health worries and we have the knowledge and experience to give you real help and reassurance. |
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We are the UK’s leading charity offering information, support and advice to over two million people with sight loss. Our pioneering work helps anyone with a sight problem – not just with braille and Talking Books, but with imaginative and practical solutions to everyday challenges. |
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RNID is the largest charity working to change the world for the UK’s 9 million deaf and hard of hearing people. |
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Samaritans provides confidential non-judgmental emotional support, 24 hours a day for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide. Whatever you're going through, whether it's big or small, don't bottle it up. We are here for you if you're worried about something, feel upset or confused, or just want to talk to someone. |
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The Citizens Advice service helps people resolve their legal, money and other problems by providing free information and advice from 3,300 locations, and by influencing policymakers. |
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Information, news, products and services for disabled people. |
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The helpline is for any young person under the age of 19 years who feel they need emotional support. Young people who are worried, confused or just need to talk can contact our trained volunteers by telephone, email or on-line chat. Whichever way they choose to contact Y2Y they can be assured that their call will be treated confidentially and a young person will be there to give them the support and help they need. |
Sources of information about Well-Being
NHS 5 a day web page, top tips for Eating more fruit and vegetables. |
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Leisure and Sport - Bedfordshire |
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CSIP Eastern is part of the Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP). We deliver CSIP’s four national work programmes in the Eastern region: • Mental Health (National Institute for Mental Health in England, NIMHE) • Social Care • Children and Young People • Health and Social Care in the Criminal Justice System CSIP/NIMHE aims to put the experience of people who use services and their carers at the centre of everything that it does. Working with people with personal experience of health or social care issues, and their carers, through the Experts by Experience (EbE) programme is a priority area for action. |
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Sport – Cambridgeshire |
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Health education and promotion Leaflets and other resources on Keep Warm, Keep Well, 5 A Day and the Department’s other well-being campaigns. |
|
Leisure and Sport – Essex |
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Food Standards Agency website, containing useful information around healthy eating and health issues, includes interactive games and quizzes. |
|
The Food and Mood Community Interest Company (formerly the Food and Mood Project) is a web-based, user-led company that provides dietary self-help resources for improving mental and emotional health. |
|
What is Healthy Start? With Healthy Start, you can get free vouchers every week which you swap for milk, fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and infant formula milk. You can also get free vitamins. Healthy Start replaces the Welfare Food Scheme. |
|
A very warm welcome to healthypages, the UKs busiest and most popular complementary health and holistic website. |
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Leisure and Sport - Hertfordshire |
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If you are a person who has experience of mental health illness, a carer, someone who currently uses services or anyone who has an interest in mental health then why not join INVOLVING ESSEX and be part of the network? |
|
NHS Choices website “Live Well”, videos, stories, advice and sources of support for mental health and well-being. |
|
Living life to the full On-line is a powerful new life skills resource. The course has been written by a Psychiatrist who has many years of experience using a Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) approach and also in helping people use these skills in everyday life. |
|
The MEND Programme is a fun, free after-school course which helps families learn how to be fitter, healthier and happier. It was developed by experts in child health and our research shows it really works! |
|
MHFA does not teach people to be therapists. However, it does teach people how to recognise the symptoms of mental health problems, how to provide initial help and how to guide a person towards appropriate professional help. |
|
The website of the Mental Health Foundation outlines the charity’s work in research, policy, service development and service user involvement. The site offers information and publications to download on research, good practice in services and on mental health problems and key issues. It provides a daily mental health news service and directories of organisations, websites and events. Website visitors can use forums and bulletin boards, join a mailing list and find out how to support the organisation. |
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The Inquiry was set up in late 2003 by Age Concern and the Mental Health Foundation. It aims to: - Raise awareness of mental health and well-being in later life - Involve and empower older people - Create better understanding and build an evidence base - Influence policy and planning - Improve services - Stimulate ongoing work by others |
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Mind is the leading mental health charity in England and Wales. We work to create a better life for everyone with experience of mental distress. |
|
We are about to move a large step closer to eliminating stigma and discrimination from mental health – Mental Health Media, Mind, Rethink and the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London have been awarded £18 million from the Big Lottery Fund and Comic Relief to run a programme to allow us to publicly challenge attitudes towards mental illness in England and counter discrimination against people who experience mental ill health. |
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NHS Choices – your health, your choices |
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Leisure and Sport – Norfolk |
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Leisure and Sport - Suffolk |
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Rural Stress Helpline A confidential, non judgemental listening service guaranteeing anonymity to anyone in a rural area feeling troubled, anxious, worried, stressed or needing information. 0845 0948286 |
|
Shift is an initiative to tackle stigma and discrimination surrounding mental health issues in England. Our aim is to create a society where people who experience mental health problems enjoy the same rights and opportunities as other people. |
|
Sport England is the government agency responsible for developing a world-class community sport system. Find out more about our work, our targets and the outcomes we intend to achieve. |
|
Walking the way to Health (WHI) is the largest national body promoting and setting the standards for led health walks. It is a joint initiative between Natural England and the British Heart Foundation. WHI aims to encourage people, particularly those who take little exercise, to do regular short walks in their communities. We support over 525 local health walk schemes. |
|
Maintaining a 'keep fit' lifestyle doesn't have to mean slogging it out in a sweaty gym. Just boosting your levels of general daily activity will reap big rewards in improved health and energy. |
|
Walking the way to Health (WHI) is the largest national body promoting and setting the standards for led health walks. It is a joint initiative between Natural England and the British Heart Foundation. WHI aims to encourage people, particularly those who take little exercise, to do regular short walks in their communities. We support over 525 local health walk schemes. |
