Covid-19 support services

Please see our Covid-19 page for information about our telephone crisis support service

Hospice UK advice for those caring for a dying relative with coronavirus at home.

National Bereavement Alliance - useful resources for people worried about a loved one who may die before they're able to visit them.

Marie Curie UK  - advice for people with a terminal diagnosis during the coronavirus outbreak.

Child Bereavement UK - advice and support for parents or carers to discuss the possibility of a loved one dying with children and manage their own feelings.

Somerset Phoenix Project - Creative ideas and resources for children and young people and their families affected by Covid-19.

Counselling services

The Counselling Directory

If you've found our website but don't live in an area where we operate, The Counselling Directory aims to connect you with professional support, listing professional counsellors and psychotherapists that you can find in your local area.

Focus Counselling offer low-cost counselling person-centred counselling in Frome and Bath

Support for carers

The following organisations offer support and advice to carers.

https://www.banescarerscentre.org.uk/ - Bath and North East Somerset

https://carersupportwiltshire.co.uk/ - Wiltshire

https://somersetcarers.org/ - Somerset

After Umbrage - free short breaks for carers of people with terminal or life-limiting conditions

Creative activities

Fresh Arts are running an 'Arts on Referral: Writing for Wellbeing' course online from 8th June 2020 at Southmead Hospital, Bristol, led by poet Claire Williamson. Two further courses are planned for November 2020 and February 2021, which will be face-to-face unless restrictions remain in place.

The Arts on Referral: Writing for Wellbeing programme offers you a safe, creative and enjoyable space in which to:
• Take some time to support your own wellbeing
• Find out how being creative can lead to relaxation and enjoyment
• Meet and share with others in a similar situation to your own

This group will meet weekly between 10am – 12noon during the six week programme. No previous writing experience is required.

Exercise and fitness

Health Connections Mendip
The team at Health Connections Mendip can offer one-to-one appointments for anyone needing guidance about health and exercise. They also hold a comprehensive database of local exercise activities and support groups, including support for people coping with the impact of a stroke, dementia, COPD or bereavement.

Mojo Moves - Rare Species
Mojo Moves online fitness, providing welcome relief from boredom, anxiety, inactivity, social isolation and negativity. Suitable for all ages and abilities, Mojo Moves is a social fitness phenomenon & immersive aerobics dance class brought to you by Rare Species Theatre Company. It combines comedy with a proper workout to great music and theme tunes from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s.

Move Dance Feel - online dance sessions 

Move Dance Feel offer dance workshops for women affected by cancer. As well as supporting general health through the physicality of dance; this experience is all about evoking curiosity, and offering the tools you need to reconnect and reinvent. The project uses the power of dance and movement to build a real sense of community, whilst offering a creative outlay that helps us ladies to reconnect with our bodies – whether just been diagnosed, undergoing treatment or post-treatment. Community, artistry and physicality are core components of Move Dance Feel…offering an effective means of improving, and maintaining, our individual and collective wellbeing. Our mission? To help you re-connect with yourself and a sense of identity; through a shared joyful experience with others.

Book a place on a Move Dance Feel workshop