Disclaimer
Below is a list of organisations and services that we hope will be helpful to you in finding the support you need. Kingston LGBT Forum is not affiliated with any of these organisations, services or resources. We are therefore not able to recommend any of these services or organisations, rather, we hope they will serve as ideas for where you might like to seek support. Please make your own judgement about what might be useful to you before contacting any organisation or using any service or resource.
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Forum Wellbeing Activities
- 50+ LGBT+ Peer Support Group
- Fitness sessions
- Mindfulness
- Yoga
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Switchboard LGBT+ Helpline
- Tel 0300 330 0630: Open 10:00-22:00 every day
- Email chris@switchboard.lgbt
- Website https://switchboard.lgbt/
- Chat (online) via website: Open 10:00-22:00 every day
LGBTQ Sexual health
- The Wolverton Centre at Kingston Hospital has LGBTQ walk-in clinics on Wednesdays from 5 – 7 pm. The Wolverton Centre, Kingston Hospital, Galsworthy Road, Kingston KT2 7QB, tel 020 8974 9331. Link: sexualhealthkingston.co.uk.
HIV/AIDS
- Information: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/hiv-and-aids/
- HIV and sexual health – information and support – Terrence Higgins Trust. For website click here
Domestic abuse
- GALOP http://www.galop.org.uk/domesticabuse/
- National LGBT+ Domestic Abuse Helpline
- London LGBT Domestic Abuse Partnership
Children and families
- Achieving for Children Kingston and Richmond (Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and London Borough of Richmond upon Thames) – click here
Wellbeing, Community, Family Learning and Carers courses
- Kingston Adult Education – click here
Older People
- Opening Doors London
- Befriending service – email befriending@openingdoorslondon.org.uk or telephone 020 7239 0400. (ODL is running telephone befriending during lockdown.)
Alzheimer’s disease and dementia
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The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and Public Health Kingston.
You can download this information here.
- Alcohol support
- Bone health
- Diabetes support
- Drug and alcohol misuse
- Emotional wellbeing
- Falls prevention
- Cook & Eat
- Breastfeeding drop-in clinics
- Healthy Start
- Heart health
- Fuel Poverty Prevention Service
- Expert Patients Programme
- Mental distress
- NHS health checks
- Physical activity
- Screening
- Sexual health
- Stop smoking support
- Weight management support
The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and the National Health Service.
You can download information here.
- Services for children and young people
- Services for older people
- Costs
- Languages
- Serious mental illnesses
- Crisis
- Self help
- Other support available
- Tips on looking after your mental health
- Addiction Support and Care Agency
- EACH Counselling (for women)
- Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Centre
- Emotional Health Services
- Hillcroft College (for women)
- Homeless Health Link Service
- iCope – Kingston Psychological Therapies Service
- Islamic Resource Centre Kingston
- Kingston Bereavement Service
- Kingston Carers’ Network
- Kingston College
- Kingston Samaritans
- Kingston University
- Kingston Women’s Centre
- Mind in Kingston
- New Malden Counselling Associates
- Refugee Action Kingston
- Relate
- Staywell
- Release YMCA Counselling Service