Useful Contacts
We’ve put together a list of useful websites and charities to support you and your family.
SafeLives
A national charity dedicated to ending domestic abuse, for good. They combine insight from services, survivors and statistics to support people to become safe, well and rebuild their lives.
Safe In Sussex
Providing accommodation for up to 12 families, the refuges are a place where women and their children can feel safe and be given the vital support they need, both practical and emotional.
Victim Support
Victim Support’s purpose is to provide specialist help to support people to cope and recover after crime or violence to the point where they feel they are back on track with their lives.
Veritas
We aim to raise awareness, train, support and advocate for individuals affected by stalking we provide practical support, advocacy and advise to service-users and professionals.
Shelter
Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help.
Barnardo's
Barnardo’s is the UK’s largest children’s charity: they run more than 960 services in local communities. Their work includes reaching and helping children who have been sexually exploited, children with a parent in prison and families struggling to cope.
Counselling Plus
Counselling Plus is a charity which offers confidential counselling to people aged 16 years plus, in the local area, at such times of stress, change, pain or loss.
Rise
RISE is a Sussex-based charity that supports people affected by domestic abuse and violence. RISE stands for Refuge, Information, Support and Education. Their vision is freedom from abuse and violence.
Survivors Network
The Survivors Network aims to reduce sexual violence and its impact on survivors’ lives. We are a fully accredited member of Rape Crisis England and Wales and are the Rape Crisis Centre for Sussex.
Break
Brake is a road safety charity working with communities and organisations across the UK to stop the tragedy of road deaths and injuries, make streets and communities safer for everyone, and support people bereaved and seriously injured on roads.
Change Grow Live
CGL provide help and support to adults, children, young people and families. Their services cover a wide variety of areas including health and wellbeing, substance use, mental health, criminal justice, domestic abuse and homelessness.
Nearly Legal
Nearly Legal provides information, updates and discussion on housing, leasehold and landlord & tenant law. It is all free, but it is just their opinions, not legal advice (they can’t give legal advice online).
Friends Families and Travellers
FFT seek to end racism and discrimination against Gypsies, Travellers and Roma and to protect the right to pursue a nomadic way of life. They provide advice and consultancy, promote health and wellbeing, contribute to research and policy making, deliver training and much more.
ManKind
ManKind provide a confidential helpline is available for all men across the UK suffering from domestic violence or domestic abuse by their current or former wife or partner (including same-sex partner). This can range from actual violence or object throwing to mental abuse such as constant bullying or constant insults.
rehab4addiction
Rehab 4 Addiction works closely with rehabilitation centres and outpatient clinics throughout the United Kingdom and the admissions team match a patients’ addiction with an appropriately placed rehabilitation centre.
Relate
Non-judgmental support and counselling for everyone. Relate are the UK's largest provider of relationship support, and last year we helped over two million people of all ages, backgrounds, sexual orientations and gender identities to strengthen their relationships.
Safe Space Sussex
Safe Space Sussex, developed by the Police & Crime Commissioner for Sussex, provides an online directory of local victim and witness specialist support services as well as information about different types of crime and what happens at each stage of the criminal justice system, helping to 'demystify' the process for people when they may be at their most vulnerable.
The Sussex Mediation Alliance
The Sussex Mediation Alliance is the joint voice for community mediation across East and West Sussex. It is supported by the four independent charitable community mediation services that operate across both counties and is the cross-county portal for all the latest news, research and developments in the world of mediation.