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Camberley & District Family Contact Centre
The Family Contact Centre offers a neutral venue, where children in a difficult domestic situation - e.g. Divorce, Separation, can come to have family contact with an otherwise absent parent or other family relation. The Centre aims principally to help children whose parents have separated. Where there is no reasonable alternative, we offer a safe, warm contact venue where children can enjoy contact with the parent they do not live with.
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Catholic Disability Fellowship (Portsmouth Diocese)
Raises funds to provide holidays for disabled children, and respite for the parents.
Provides moral and financial support for families with disabled members. Provide support for parents of disabled children in seeking appropriate education. Organise mutual support groups for families of disabled. Raise awareness
in the church about disability issues.
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Cove Child Contact Centre
We are a Child Contact Centre - Please contact us for details of our activities.
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Divorce Recovery Workshop - Basingstoke
Registered charity number 1041178
The workshop is six, two hour sessions run at various locations in the UK.
It is usually run over six evenings at weekly intervals.
Weekend residential workshops are available.
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Gosport Children's Contact Centre
We provide a safe and secure environment for contact between divorced and separated parents and their children referred by local solicitors and Portsmouth Family Courts. This is a free service and during the last 13 years we have assisted over 300 local families. Counselling.
Mediation/Alternative dispute resolution.
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Havant + Waterlooville Child Contact Centres
Meeting space, games and activities & light refreshments. Hand-over facilities.
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Headway (Portsmouth & South-East Hampshire)
We provide support to people with acquired brain injury, their family and carers as well as interested professionals. Telephone helplines, quarterly newsletter. Information, support, advice, advocacy, social events, lobbying for improved services. Weekly 'drop in' services in Portsmouth, Petersfield, Gosport and Bedhampton. Activities Programme.
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Home-Start Butser
Voluntary organisation offering support to local families with at least one child under the age of 5 years through a time of difficulty and stress.
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Home-Start Eastleigh
Home-Start offers a unique service, recruiting and training volunteers - who are usually parents themselves - to visit families at home who have at least one child under 5 to offer informal, friendly and confidential support.
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Home-Start Gosport & Fareham
A voluntary organisation in which volunteers offer regular support, friendship and practical help for families with at least one child under 5 years of age. Through regular weekly visits to the family's own home volunteers give their time, to listen, offer encouragement and a breathing space to support families in a time of need.
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Home-Start Havant
Support, friendship, listening ear through trained volunteers visiting once a week in families own home.
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Home-Start Isle of Wight
Home-Start offers a unique service, recruiting and training volunteers - who are usually parents themselves - to visit families at home who have at least one child under 5 to offer informal, friendly and confidential support.
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Home-Start Meon Valley
We offer trained volunteers to visit a family once a week for 2 to 3 hours to offer friendship and support.
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Home-Start North-West Hampshire
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Home-Start Portsmouth
Home-Start offers a unique service, recruiting and training volunteers - who are usually parents themselves - to visit families at home who have at least one child under 5 to offer informal, friendly and confidential support.
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Home-Start Weywater
Home-Start aims to offer support to families with a child under 5, who are experiencing stress and difficulties, by the provision of trained volunteers to visit them regularly in their own homes.
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Lymington United Reformed Church & Open Door
Lymington has a significant elderly population so we intend to ofer facilities/groups for older people in the town. Lymington is beginning to address the needs of young people. The aim is to liaise with partners and offer a safe and welcoming environment where young people can meet with friends. Lymington has not escaped the complexity of family life and we aim to support and encourage families. The Lymington URC and Open Door wants to offer all a sense of belonging open to all.
Carers Cafe on 3rd Tuesday each month.
Open Door Cafe is currently open Mon-Fri 10am to 12 noon and our popular Saturday coffee mornings from 9.30 to 11.30am.
New Forest Basics Bank - Emergency food service on site - www.basicbank.org.uk
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NPFS & Royal Marine Welfare
NPFS/Royal Marine Welfare offers RN & RM personnel & their families information on a wide range of subjects, including housing, education, travel and allowances. They can be contacted personally by letter or telephone. Additionally NPFS/Royal Marine Welfare can assist with queries regarding ships whether deployed or in the UK, telephone numbers when alongside, programme, mail, holidays, homecoming etc.
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Parent Support Link (Drugs)
24 hr telephone contact line. Local support groups. Training and awareness events, in issues surrounding drug use, particularly areas that affect the family.
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Relate (Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch)
Counselling agency specialising in relationship counselling and counselling for sexual problems. Training courses available. Full equality of access. Counselling for young people (12years onwards) affected by their parents relationship/ breakdown. Relate for parents - sessions on telling the children about divorce and separation. Family counselling.
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Relate (Portsmouth and District)
* Individual counselling
* Sexual therapy
* Counselling for divorced, separated and bereaved people.
* Counselling for people living with family abuse.
* Relationship and Divorce counselling.
* Training in counselling, parenting and relationship issues.
* Training for professionals and public.
* Family Counselling
* Young person Counselling
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Staunton Park Genealogy Centre
The Record Office is equipped with on-line computers, microfiche readers and printed documents. There is also a library with a wide range of information and search material.
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Surrey Family Mediation Service
The primary aim is to help couples involved in separation and divorce to reach agreements and to resolve disputes between them, especially in disputes concerning children and finances. Mediators help parents to plan for the future, while considering what is best for their children and practical and fair for themselves. Normally both parents are encouraged to maintain their relationship with their children and continue their parenting role. Couples without children are also welcome, as are other family members - i.e. grandparents.
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The Hampton Trust
Mentoring Projects: SE Hants & IOW, Turnaround, Basingstoke. DV Perpetrators Programme: Basingstoke, Havant, Portsmouth, Southampton + IOW and LINX Programme Hampshire, Devon, IOW & Gloucestershire. ECO mentoring - IOW. Adapt Guernsey.
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The Royal Medical Foundation
Grants to members of the medical profession, their widows/widowers and their children. Ask for application form.
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Wessex Cancer Trust
Our services include: cfree counselling, complementary therapy and befriending, holiday homes, transport for patients coming for treatment from the IOW and CI, research grants, patient facilities and equipment, and financial help for patients and their families. We currently operate four local cancer support centres in Romsey, Hythe, Winchester and Southampton.
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Winchester & District Young Carers
Group activities, befriending scheme, support inside schools, training in life skills, one-to-one support, advice and information for young carers and their families. Raising awareness of the existence of young carers and their role.
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Working Families
Helpline for low income families - 0300 012 0312. Helpline for parents of disabled children who work or wish to work (020 7017 0072). Information about parents rights in the workplace on website www.workingfamilies.org.uk. Free newsletter for parents of disabled children who work or wish to work.
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YoungMinds Trust
YoungMinds provides support to parents who may have concerns about their child’s mental health or emotional wellbeing.
Telephone support 0808 802 5544 or via website
www.youngminds.org.uk
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