Advice and Support

The Wyre Community Safety Partnership has brought together a list of useful local and national advice and support contacts. If there is anything missing or incorrect please let us know via e-mail.

Advice and Support - Local

• African and Caribbean Friends & Relatives Association AFRA - Web: http://www.blackpool4me.com/Blackpool4Me/Community/Organizations/AFRA/
• Age Concern - Web: www.ageconcern.org.uk Tel: 01253 622812
• Citizens Advice Bureau - Web: www.citizensadvice.org.uk Tel: 01253 867563
• Disability Information Service - Tel: 01253 625553 E-mail: blackpool@bigwig.net
• Fylde Coast Women's Aid - Tel: 01253 596699
• Fylde Coast Mens Support Association - E-mail: fcmsa@yahoo.co.uk Tel: 07932 898274
• MIND (Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre Mind) - Tel: 01253 626997 E-mail: blackpoolmind@btconnect.com
• Preston and Western Lancashire Race Equality Council - Web: www.prestonrec.org.uk Tel: 01772 885128
• Renaissance Blackpool (Trans Social Group) http://www.gynwayblackpool.com/renaissance_transgender_forum.htm
• Shiver (Sexual Health HIV Education and Responses Blackpool) - Web: Shiver
• Victim Support - Tel: 0845 373 2458 (Blackpool) 
• Wyre Housing - Web: http://www.regenda.org.uk/wyre.asp Tel: 01253 899777
• Young LGBT Volunteers Group - Web: www.mvfm.org Tel: 01253 476679

Advice and Support - National

• 24hr National Domestic Violence Helpline - Tel: 0808 2000 247
• Albert Kennedy Trust (Supporting LGBT homeless young people) - Web: www.akt.org.uk Tel: 0207 831 6562
• Commission for Racial Equality - Tel: 0161 835 5500
• Crimestoppers - Tel: 0800 555 111
• Disability Rights Commission - Web: www.drc.org.uk Tel: 08457 622 633 Textphone: 08457 622 644
• Female-to-Male Trans Men - Web: www.ftm.org.uk
• Lesbian and Gay Foundation Helpline - Tel: 0845 330 3030 (6pm - 10pm)
• National Lesbian & Gay Switchboard - Tel: 0207 837 7324
• Press for Change (Trans Equality) - Web: www.pfc.org.uk
• Samaritans - Tel: 08457 909090
• Stonewall (LGB Equality) - Web: www.stonewall.org.uk
• The Beaumont Society (Transgender) - Tel: (24 hour) 01582 412220 Web: www.beaumontsociety.org.uk/contact.html
• The Gender Trust - Web: www.gendertrust.org.uk
• Victim Support Helpline - Tel: 0845 3030 900