Community support and useful resources
There is a wealth of resources to help you but we know at times, it can be overwhelming knowing where to turn.
So we have found useful agencies who can support you in your time of need.
Council support services
Support services vary between area and can regularly change. However many local councils host a directory of helpful, local services on their websites which may be useful for tenants who would benefit from additional, impartial help, for example, debt counselling.
If you need additional information from trusted local services about a wide range of local health and community services, click on the relevant link below to visit your local council website:
- Blackpool Council (opens in new window)
- Chorley Borough Council (opens in new window)
- Craven District Council (opens in new window)
- Fylde Borough Council (opens in new window)
- FYi website (Fylde area) (opens in new window)
- Harrogate Borough Council (opens in new window)
- Hyndburn Borough Council (opens in new window)
- Lancaster City Council (opens in new window)
- Preston City Council (opens in new window)
- Ribble Valley Borough Council (opens in new window)
- South Lakeland Council (opens in new window)
- South Ribble Borough Council (opens in new window)
- West Lancashire Council (opens in new window)
- Wyre Borough Council (opens in new window)
Cost of living support hubs
- South Ribble Together Community Hub
- Lancashire County Council Cost of Living Suport
- Wyre Cost of Living Support
- Blackburn with Darwen Cost of Living Support
- Blackpool Cost of Living Support
- Help in Preston
- Warm spaces in Lancashire
Money and benefits
Citizens Advice - debt and money
Voucher scheme for those receiving school dinners
Lancashire and Cumbria Health and Care Partnership (wellbeing and financial support)
Lancashire Women (wellbeing and financial support)
Grants and financial support
Housing
Homeless and family support - Key Unlocking Futures (keycharity.org.uk)
Safenet (for people fleeing domestic abuse in Lancashire)
Family matters/childcare
DWP childcare (Universal credit)
Holiday activities and Food Programme (HAF) (Lancashire County Council)
Employment
Food banks and community shops
Foodbanks - Chorley, South Ribble, West Lancashire, Wyre & Blackburn with Darwen
Shopping - The Base One Stop (Leyland)
Health and wellbeing
South Ribble Together (social prescribing)
South Ribble Together (website)
Telephone befriending service for the elderly
Online cognitive behavioural therapy site
Children and adolescent mental health support resource
Meditation/ relaxation and sleep resources
Self help resources for mental health issues
Easyread guide to mental and physical health
Community
Lancashire telephone befriending service (nationwide coverage)
Age UK telephone befriending service
The Silver Line befriending service
Advice / other
Lancashire Domestic Abuse Victim Services (LVS)
Free support group for parents and carers of autistic young people in Leyland.
Coronavirus
Your local authorities
For more information on support from your local council, visit Support from external services | Progress Housing Group (progressgroup.org.uk)
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