Wellbeing

Local and national help and advice for you to get the support you need for your wellbeing.

Carers

Carers UK

They’re here to make sure that no matter how complicated your query or your experience, you don’t have to care alone.

Birmingham Carers Hub

Forward Carers is an award winning social enterprise that prides itself on making a real difference to the lives of carers through working in partnership.

Spurgeons Young Carers

They support children and young people who care for a family member with an illness or disability.

Contact

Information and advice for families who care for children with a disability or special need.

Child health

Rashes in babies and children

Many things can cause a rash in babies and children, and they’re often nothing to worry about.

The NHS provide support for identifying some of the common rashes in babies and children.

NHS vaccinations and when to have them

It’s important that vaccines are given on time for the best protection. Check the dates your child needs to have their vaccinations by and contact your GP.

Start for Life

Trusted NHS help and advice during pregnancy, birth and parenthood.

Birmingham Community Paediatrics/Medicine

Community Paediatricians are doctors experienced in child health who offer high quality services centred on the child and family, city wide for Birmingham. These medical services are provided for both pre-school and school age children and their families and carers.

Drugs and alcohol

Drinkaware

Digital tools to help you assess, track and set goals to reduce your drinking.

Drinkline

If you’re worried about your own or someone else’s drinking, you can call this free helpline, in complete confidence.

Talk to Frank

If you have a problem with drugs, you can Talk to Frank for friendly, confidential drugs advice.

NHS Drink Free Days

Drink Free Days is for people who like a drink but want some support in tracking and cutting down on the booze as well as better understanding the risks.

Alcoholics Anonymous

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking.

Change Grow Live Birmingham

Reach Out Recovery is a free and confidential drug and alcohol service for adults and affected others in Birmingham.

Elderly care

Age UK

Age UK is the country’s largest charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life. They believe in a world where everyone can love later life and we work every day to achieve this.

Dementia UK

Dementia UK offers specialist one to one support and expert advice for people living with dementia.

The Silver Line

Free phone support for older people, 24 hours a day.

Age Concern Birmingham

Age Concern Birmingham is committed to tackling the challenges faced by an ageing society. Our vision is to excel in all our endeavours to meet the needs of older people and others in need.

LGBT community

Birmingham LGBT

The Birmingham LGBT Centre hosts a wide range of independent social groups organised by LGBT people for LGBT people. So whether you’re interested in making new friends, pursuing a hobby or interest, or making your voice heard on issues that affect LGBT people, there’s a group for you.

Acting Out

A gay, lesbian and straight theatre group for both men and women. If you would like to act, help out back stage or just find out more, it’s great fun and you will be made very welcome.

Birmingham LGBT Meetup

The group was founded in early 2015 to bring together LGBT people who wanted to make new friends – and it has done just that!
We hold a monthly coffee afternoon in central Birmingham, regular nights out in the gay village, and a variety of other smaller scale meetups hosted by group members. If you want to organise an event yourself, they would love to hear from you.

Birmingham Swifts – LGBT Running Group

The Birmingham Swifts are a free, LGBT running group open to everyone no matter what your ability, age, sexuality or gender.

Birmingham LGBT Centre

Support Groups, Sexual Health Testing, Cafe, Community Groups, Events and more.

Maternity

Tommy’s

Tommy’s provides information and support to empower parents during pregnancy.

Start for Life

Trusted NHS help and advice during pregnancy, birth and parenthood.

Baby Buddy: Pregnancy & Parent

Baby Buddy is an award winning mobile phone app for new parents and parents-to-be, created by mums, doctors and midwives.

MAMA Academy

MAMA Academy’s mission is to empower all maternity professionals and expectant parents on stillbirth prevention methods to help more babies arrive safely.

NHS Pregnancy

This guide includes all you need to know about trying for a baby, pregnancy, labour and birth.

Bump

Bump is a new partnership bringing together Birmingham and Solihull maternity services caring for women throughout their pregnancy journey.

Acacia Family Support

Acacia offers pre and postnatal depression support services to women and their families across Birmingham.

Mental health

NHS Mental health

Find information and support for your mental health.

Kooth

Free anonymous online chat for young people to discuss their mental health issues.

Samaritans

Samaritans offer a safe place for you to talk any time you like, in your own way – about whatever’s getting to you. You don’t have to be suicidal. Call Samaritans free, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Rethink Mental Illness

Rethink Mental Illness provide expert, accredited advice and information to everyone affected by mental health problems.

Mind

Mind provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. They campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding.

Birmingham Healthy Minds

Birmingham Healthy Minds is an NHS primary care psychological therapies service that works closely with Birmingham GP’s. BHM offers advice, information and brief psychological talking therapies for people aged 16 and over, who are often feeling anxious, low in mood or depressed.

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust – Caring Minds

Caring Minds are dedicated to raising awareness of mental health and removing the stigma that’s associated with it.

Sexual health

Brook

Brook provides free and confidential sexual health and wellbeing services for nearly 250,000 young people UK-wide, each year.

Sexual Health Helpline

The National Sexual Health Helpline provided by Public Health England is open Monday to Friday, 9am to 8pm.

Family Planning Association

A sexual health charity, the Family Planning Association gives straightforward information and support on sexual health, sex and relationships to everyone in the UK.

Birmingham LGBT Centre

Support Groups, Sexual Health Testing, Cafe, Community Groups, Events and more.

Umbrella Health

Providing free and confidential sexual health services in Birmingham and Solihull, including all types of contraception and STI testing and treatment. This service is confidential, non-judgemental and for people of all ages, genders and orientations.

Stop smoking

Quit with help

Everyone has a different reason for quitting, get a personalised Quit Smoking Plan.

NHS Quit smoking

Quitting is much easier when you get the right support and there are lots of options to choose from. Check out their advice, tools and tips.

Birmingham City Council

You are four times more likely to quit smoking with a combination of stop smoking medication and behavioural support. You can get free advice, one to one support and access to a range of nicotine replacement therapies (for just the cost of a prescription).

Website
www.birmingham.gov.uk/info

Walsall Specialist Stop Smoking Service

Weight management

Slimming World

You’ll find delicious recipe and menu ideas at your local group, along with all the help you need to get started and reach your target weight.

Weight Watchers

Meetings, online or a little bit of both. They’ve got options and support, whatever your lifestyle.

Specialist Weight Management Service

This specialist service is for people who have struggled with their weight for a long period of time. We offer a more intensive approach to weight management, when other interventions have not worked.

Am I a Healthy Weight?

Calculate your BMI using this NHS Tool