Use this directory below to contact external organisations and support groups which could help you. Please remember to tell us of any others to add to this list.
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ACAS
Web: acas.org.uk
Promotes employment relations
Be Mindful
Web bemindful.co.uk
Information about mindfulness and mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR). Guidance on how to learn mindfulness, including course listings.
Big White Wall
Web: bigwhitewall.com
An online community of people who are finding it hard to cope. It’s completely anonymous so you can express yourself openly
Bristol MIND
Tel. 0117 980 0370
Email: admin@bristolmind.org.uk
Web: bristolmind.org.uk
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
Tel. 01455 883 300
Web: itsgoodtotalk.org.uk
Details of local practitioners
Citizens Advice
Web: citizensadvice.org.uk
Confidential advice on a range of issues, including employment
Do Lectures
Web: thedolectures.com/about/
Clare and David Hieatt set out to bring the DO-ers of the world together – the movers and shakers, the disrupters and the change-makers – and ask them to tell their stories. Ideas and ways to do things your way or differently.
Elefriends
Web: elefriends.org.uk
A friendly, supportive, online community where you can talk openly about how you’re feeling.
Employee Assistance Programme
Web: https://myemployeecare.lifeworks.com/feed
Username: check with People Directorate
Password: check with People Directorate
To access the articles, podcasts and toolkits then visit Employee Assistance under the ‘life’ menu. Download the mobile app (search ‘LifeWorks’ and log in using the information above). A range of articles, podcasts, infographics and booklets including family, health, life, money and work matters.
Employment Tribunal Guidance
Tel: 0845 795 9775
Web: justice.gov.uk
Guidance on the tribunal system
Equality and Human Rights Commission
Advisory service: 0800 444 205
Web: equalityhumanrights.com
Health and Safety Executive
Web: hse.gov.uk/stress
Information about health and safety law in the workplace. Specialist information on stress for employers and employees
International Stress Management Association
Web: isma.org.uk
Lists stress practitioners by specialist area.
Jobcentre Plus
Web: https://www.gov.uk/contact-jobcentre-plus
For help finding a job
Macmillan Cancer Support
Useful advice and support for colleagues living and working with cancer.
Mind Infoline
Tel: 03001233393
Open from 9am-6pm,
Monday to Friday.
Text: 86463
Email: info@mind.org.uk
Web: mind.org.uk
Details of local minds and other local services, and Mind’s Legal Line. Language Line is available for talking in a language other than English.
Mind Tools
Web: mindtools.com
Provides information on topics including stress management and assertiveness.
School of Life
Web: theschooloflife.com/
The School of Life is devoted to developing emotional intelligence. They offer a variety of programmes and services concerned with how to live wisely and well.
Stressbusting
Web: stressbusting.co.uk
Information about stress and techniques for coping. Lists several talking treatments and alternative therapies that can be used to treat stress.
The How to Academy
Web: howtoacademy.com/
Conversation and courses about lifestyle, skills and thought.
Time to Change
Web: time-to-change.org.uk (England)
Web: timetochangewales.org.uk (Wales)
An organisation which challenges mental health stigma and discrimination. Provides information on stress and workplace wellbeing for employers and employees.
The Stress Management Society
Tel: 0203 142 8650
Web: stress.org.uk
Helps people tackle stress
The Work Foundation
Web: theworkfoundation.com
Independent foundation looking at work issues.
Working families
Tel: 0300 012 0312
Web: workingfamilies.org.uk
Information on achieving work-life balance.
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