Find a Helpline
Our Find a Helpline directory lists approved members of Helplines Partnership providing support via various channels. If you cannot find the topic you are looking for, use the search bar.
Find a Helpline
Glasgow & Clyde Rape Crisis
Helpline provides support, information and advocacy services to women and girls from aged 13 years who are survivors of rape, sexual assault or sexual abuse at any time in their lives. This service is free and confidential. The Rape Crisis Centre also provides support to non-abusing partners and family members.
Glasgow Council on Alcohol (GCA)
Free, confidential helpline offering advice, information, listening support and signposting for people living and/or working in Glasgow affected by their own or someone else's alcohol misuse.
Glaucoma UK Helpline
Our helpline can provide advice and support at every stage of your journey with glaucoma.
Glaucoma UK is the charity for people with glaucoma. We campaign to raise awareness so that glaucoma is detected early and can be treated, we support people to live well with the disease and we fund sight-saving research.
We produce a range of information resources covering all aspects of living with glaucoma. All our publications are free to order or download through our website, thanks to the generosity of Glaucoma UK supporters.
GlobalARRK (Global Action on Relocation & Return with Kids
Charity supporting “Stuck Parents” who have moved abroad and cannot return to their home country with their children. This includes parents who have ‘abducted’ their children to their home country. The Parent Support service can be contacted via email, Facebook message or online website form. The Team call parents back and offer a 30-minute call to help identify needs. The service offers emotional support, information and signposting to other helpful resources, professionals and organisations. Further support includes signposting parents with emotional issues to a Wellbeing Co-ordinator.
Grief Encounter
Confidential helpline, staffed by trained professionals, offering support and advice to bereaved children, young people and adults. Support also available via email or 1-2-1 live chat session with a Grieftalk counsellor. Further support includes one to one counselling, group activities, family fun days, residential camps and interactive online services. Calls to 0808 80 numbers are free from all mobiles and landlines in the UK and do not appear on itemised bills.
GroceryAid
GroceryAid is the charity for people who have worked, or are working, in the UK grocery industry and who now find that they need some extra support. GroceryAid supports people both financially and through the Helpline. The Helpline is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, all year around. It offers support and guidance in the following areas: financial guidance, including benefits information, personal issues, including family, children and relationships, career support, people skills, health and mental health, legal issues, counselling for people who have experienced incidents which are harmful or threatening, help with depression and anxiety through a supported and approved programme.
Group B Strep Support - National Helpline
Confidential support helpline providing information and a listening ear to families and professionals wanting to know more about group B Strep when a baby close to them falls ill. The Helpline is staffed by a small Team who can provide general information for guidance on group B Strep along with the latest national guidelines. They will do everything to make callers feel comfortable, to listen and understand and answer any questions. Calls, emails and messages are completely confidential. Please note the Helpline cannot provide diagnoses or give medical advice – if you need medical advice, please contact your health care providers. Further support includes Facebook group for families of children who developed group B Strep infection. This group offers a safe online space where families can connect and share their experiences.
Headway - The Brain Injury Association
UK wide charity that works to improve life after brain injury. Provides support, services and information to brain injury survivors, their families and carers, as well as to professionals in the health and legal fields. Support includes a freephone nurse-led helpline, emergency fund to assist with the financial implications following a brain injury and Headway Acute Trauma Support nurses (HATS) providing support to families. Website also contains information, booklets and factsheets. Can send out printed copies of factsheets. Network of 120 groups and branches providing physical, cognitive and social rehabilitation and support. Headway can help to find a local Headway group or branch. Accreditation scheme for approved residential homes, rehabilitation units and respite facilities specialising in ABI. Run training courses for professionals working in the field of brain injury. Calls to 0808 80 numbers are free from landlines and mobiles in the UK and do not appear on itemised billing.
Health In Mind
Trauma Counselling Line Scotland (TCLS) offers confidential telephone counselling to any adult who experienced abuse as a child. This can include sexual, emotional, physical, psychological, spiritual abuse or neglect. The counselling team are fully trained in this area and both male and female counsellors are available from a range of ethnic backgrounds. Calls to 0808 80 numbers are free from landlines and mobile phones within the UK and do not appear on itemised bills. TCLS is funded by SurvivorScotland and managed by Health in Mind.
Help Musicians UK
24/7 support line for those working in the music industry providing a listening ear, emotional support, information, signposting, counselling and specialist advice on benefits, debt and legal matters. Calls to 0808 80 are free from all mobiles and landlines in the UK and do not appear on itemised bills. Website https://www.musicmindsmatter.org.uk/