The table below provides information and contact details for support provided across Heywood.
We list the organisations below for your information only. Action Together do not endorse their services. Should you require further information about a specific service provider, please contact them directly.
Please see the links below for support that is specific to other townships:
To help you find the support you need, the information below is broken down into the following categories; Children and Young People, Green (Environmental), Wellbeing, LGBT+, Medication Delivery, Welfare Assistance, Practical Support, Digital Support, Advice, Education, and Translation.
Should you need any further information and support around food, please contact: development@actiontogether.org.uk
Children and Young People
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As the independent local champion for people who use health and social care services in the Rochdale borough we have developed Youthwatch to make sure that young people get the opportunity to have their say. Youthwatch members are voluntary and will help us engage with young people, gather their experiences of services and promote the work of Healthwatch Rochdale. |
Tel: 01706 249575 Email: info@healthwatchrochdale.org.uk |
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The Young People’s Mental Health Support Team - Thrive in Education |
Delivered by Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with local charities Early Break, Your Trust, Place2Be and Youth in Mind, this provision helps young people, aged 4 until their 18th birthday, experiencing low level emotional and behavioural difficulties, such as worry and low mood. Their goal is to help you thrive in education and beyond, so you can reach your full potential. |
Tel: 0161 716 2908 |
| Kooth |
Online mental healthcare service which aims to provide mental health service to individuals under the age of 21. Access online mental health services that work alongside you to provide compassionate and effective support. |
Tom Boroughs |
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BOTM offer a younger Youth Club on Wednesday nights 6pm-8:30pm (Years 4, 5 and 6) and an older Youth Club Thursdays 6pm-8:30pm (Years 7, 8+) |
Jane Catz |
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A drug and alcohol service for young people aged under 21 years and their families offering one-to-one support for children and young people who are using drugs and/or alcohol. |
Tel: 0161 723 3880 |
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Offers a skilled children’s emotional health assessment and intervention service to children and young people with more moderate to severe mental health needs up to the age of 19 years, including those with severe learning disabilities and complex neurodevelopmental disorders (ASD and ADHD). |
Tel: 01706 676000 |
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Provide information, advice and a wide range of specialist support services designed to help Young and Adult Carers continue in their caring role for as long as they choose and reduce the impact the caring role can have on their own health and wellbeing. |
Tel: 0345 013 8208 Email: enquiries@rochdalecarers.co.uk |
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Supports young people from 8 to 18 years. The service offers drop in, group assessments and treatments and provides both routine and specialist support, including family based approaches. The hub provides somewhere that young people can come to for the day. |
Tel: 0161 716 1560 |
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Through three bold, new strategic programmes, Young Minds are focusing their work to have as great an impact as they possibly can for the young people who need them. They have loads of practical tips and advice for young people, as well as information on getting the support they need. |
Tel: 020 7089 5050 |
Green (Environmental)
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Currently run a walking group and growing project. |
Mark Wynn |
Wellbeing
| Organisation | Description of Support | Contact Details |
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| Carers Hub Rochdale |
Provide information, advice and a wide range of specialist support services designed to help young and adult Carers continue in their caring role for as long as they choose and reduce the impact the caring role can have on their own health and wellbeing. |
Tel: 0345 013 8208 Email: enquiries@rochdalecarers.co.uk |
| Qwell |
Qwell.io is a mental health and wellbeing platform that offers online and anonymous counselling support, commissioned by the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership. The counselling service is purely text based and is available 365 days a year, with a chat queue open from 12pm until 10pm on Weekdays and 6pm until 10pm on Weekends. |
Ophelia Murphy Email: omurphy@kooth.com |
| Cartwheel Arts |
Art and Soul - A group that supports adults in the community. Art & Soul are a long standing group of people who love visual arts, create their own artwork and present it in local exhibitions when we can. Runs in Wednesdays. |
Becky Email: becky@cartwheelarts.org.uk |
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The Harmful Sexual Behaviour Support Service is for education and safeguarding professionals and will provide: |
Tel: 0344 255 0623 Email: hsbs@swgfl.org.uk |
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| Free, confidential support to people affected by crime and traumatic incidents. |
Jennie Sayle |
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| We help families who have sick children and are on a low income take their children to and from hospital. |
Beverley |
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Your Trust is a charity working in the heart of Rochdale Borough to support each and every member of our diverse community to live happier, healthier and more creative lives. The Your Trust Specialist Health & Wellbeing Team want to support people living with long term conditions. If you or someone you know, a family member, friend, work colleague or client is living with a long term condition, our team of fully qualified instructors can help with a wide range of programmes, classes and courses. |
Paul Gardner |
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Barnardo's BOLOH - The Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic family Covid-19 Helpline |
If you have been affected by the pandemic and you need advice or someone to talk to, you can call us confidentially on 0800 1512605 or, if you prefer to have an online chat with the specialist support advisor, you can do this via the live webchat by clicking on the chat icon on the bottom right of our website. |
Tel: 0800 151 2605 |
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Ukrainian Support Helpline to provide a holistic support service. The Helpline is available to anyone fleeing the war in Ukraine. Open Monday - Friday 10.00am-8.00pm, Saturday 10.00am-3.00pm. |
Tel: 0800 148 8586 Email: ukrainiansupport@barnardos.org.uk |
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| Supported self help and emotional wellbeing development and support to people in Heywood and beyond. |
Michael Taylor |
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We have a great calendar of free activities and events that will bring older people together across our communities. Activities include online gentle exercise singing and quizzes, Involving people over 50 years old and aimed at older age groups, in interactive sessions, helping combat loneliness and isolation at this time. |
Tel: 0808 196 6831 Email: gtm@volunteeringmatters.org.uk |
LGBT+
| Organisation | Description of Support | Contact Details |
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| Social connections for over 75’s LGBT+ community. | Tel: 0800 716 543 | |
| Proud Trust |
Youth Group, Mondays 5 - 6.30pm at Rochdale Connections Trust and the fusion group (for young people of colour) runs in Manchester on alternate Tuesdays 5pm-6.30pm. |
Tel: 0161 660 3347 |
| Proud Trust Helpline |
For both parents and young people to chat to a youth worker for advice including on coming out. It is open Tuesday-Thursday 12-6pm. |
Medication Delivery
| Organisation | Description of Support | Contact Details |
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| HMR Circle and Volunteer Driver Service | Prescription pick up - volunteer drivers |
Mark Wynn |
| Brass Knuckle Riders | Paul runs a Facebook group of motorcycle riders / car drivers that are willing to do deliveries /collections of food / prescriptions or help in general - he has around 25-30 people to help. |
Paul |
Welfare Assistance
| Organisation | Description of Support | Contact Details |
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| Heywood Relief in Need Trust Fund |
Help if you are facing financial hardship or distress. Fund can also provide either the funds for a specific purpose, or supply goods or services, either directly or via a local supplier. |
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Fund can be accessed by verifying partners for those in financial need. |
Paul Whitehead Email: paul.whitehead@rochdale.gov.uk |
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| Real Change |
One central pot for everyone in Rochdale Borough. Local charities and organisations then work directly with individuals who are homeless, and apply for funds to pay for items they need. |
Tel: 020 7828 7311 |
| The Vicars Relief Fund |
The VRF helps those who are homeless or vulnerably housed through small-sum, rapid response grants to prevent eviction or access accommodation. Frontline workers can apply on behalf of their clients for grants to help prevent eviction. |
Email: vrf@stmartinscharity.org.uk |
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Our small grants programmes focuses on the two areas of Welfare and Education. primarily provides grants for essential personal and household needs to assist families and individuals with low incomes, particularly those living on benefits. |
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Both British Gas customers and non-customers can apply for grants to clear domestic gas and electricity debts owed to British Gas or suppliers other than British Gas. |
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For those struggling / vulnerable, support available through customer funds, sign up required to access. |
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United Utilities Trust Fund can consider making a grant to meet water and/or sewerage charges due to United Utilities Water if you are in hardship and unable to pay. |
Practical Support
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We take used furniture / white goods and make them good again for people in need. The aim being to provide low-cost furniture to people in need, giving people a charitable outlet to donate their quality second-hand furniture. |
David Tel: 07976 120234 |
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Wednesdays 1.30 – 2.30 there's boxing/fitness training for adults with Additional needs £3.50 |
Jane Catz Tel: 01706 623229 Email: jane.catz@backofthemoss.co.uk |
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We are part of a network who save hundreds of thousands of litres of paint from landfill and re-sale it to our local communities at discounted prices. Prices start at £1.50. The paint in stock is much cheaper than what is available at DIY stores and is great quality, such as Dulux Trade. |
Mohammed Tel: 07816 078357 |
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Northwest Numbers CIC |
Helping you feel more in control of your bookkeeping & accountancy requirements. Whether this is through providing the service for or, training you to do it yourselves, understand the jargon surrounding the sector, understand some of the processes. |
Moragh Hunt Email: accounts@northwestnumbersltd.co.uk |
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We provide clothing, toiletries, housing starter packs for people moving into their own accommodation from either a hostel or homelessness. |
Angie |
Digital Support
| Organisation | Description of Support | Contact Details |
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| One Stop Shop | Digital support will be provided to unemployed adults. |
Steph Rush |
| Business in the Community | Mentored support to increase confidence and digital skills - this project takes an individual and matches them a trained volunteer to help them gain more digital skills. |
Lucy Smith |
| Digital Tech Library | Working with partners, HMR Circle has created the Digital Tech Library, where we can loan people tablet computers to help them get started on their internet journey. |
Mark |
| One to one support for older people to get online including people in Independent Living Schemes. |
Cristina |
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| IT / technology support older and disabled people of any age to get online |
Tel: 0800 048 7642 |
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| Support to get online, 1-2-1. |
Living Well |
Advice
| Organisation | Description of Support | Contact Details |
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| Gathering feedback, sharing information and signposting around Local maternity care and services in Rochdale and Oldham. | Leanne Barlow Tel: 01706 249575 Email: info@romvp.org.uk |
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| Recovery Republic | Money management, housing, employment, lifestyle behaviour change, quitting smoking and work related health advice and support. | Michael Taylor Tel: 01706 622722 Email: info@recoveryrepublic.co.uk |
| St Bernard's Support |
Financial wellbeing online and telephone help sessions for people affected by cancer and other illnesses. Every 2nd Tuesday of each month 10am - 9pm. Individual one-to-one Sessions are available online or by telephone. |
Tel: 0800 772 0723 Email: help@s-b-s.org.uk |
| Debt Buffer |
We help individuals and families near Rochdale with free debt advice and debt counselling. We provide fast, easy and free confidential advice and support by quickly establishing what form of debt solution might be right for your needs and level of income. |
Tel: 0800 488 0247 |
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Priority Service register - Customer support guide. The booklet includes important information for customers how to prepare for and what to do in a power cut as well as some simple energy saving tips, there are changes to the form regarding data sharing and opt in/out night updates. |
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| The citizens advice line is open. Available 8.30am to 5pm, Mon-Fri. | Tel: 0808 278 7803 |
Education
| Organisation | Description of Support | Contact Details |
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| Youth Hub |
To work with people who are aged 18-24 that are NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) and carry out full holistic assessments and coaching to help them into employment or training. |
Steph Rush |
| One Stop Shop | Careers advice and supported to access relevant training courses, support in applying for jobs. |
Steph Rush |
| 'Flourishing' - co-produced development programme we offer through our associated Education at Recovery Republic partner. Flourishing follows investment from the Workers' Educational Association. It builds on people's strengths and assets and their life goals to be achieved at their own pace. |
Michael Taylor |
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Our free, easy-to-use teaching resources help children aged 5 to 11 to look at the world from a humanitarian point of view. These curriculum-linked activities, sessions and teaching packages are ideal for PSHE, Citizenship, English, Art, Geography and informal learning time. |
Translation
| Organisation | Description of Support | Contact Details |
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| Europia |
Translation service for Portuguese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Romanian, Romanes, Russian, Slovak, Czech, Bulgarian, Spanish, Polish, Hungarian - small budget available for translations, however financial contributions are welcome. |
Cristina Leonte-Racu Tel: 07762 807487 Email: cristina.l@europia.org.uk |
| NESTAC |
NESTAC provides a high quality, prompt and affordable translation and interpreting service in Greater Manchester. Languages covered are Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Armenian, French, Lingala, Kurdish, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili, Urdu, Punjabi, Wolof, Yuruba. |
Tel: 01706 868993 Email: info@nestac.org.uk |
| Translation Linx | Provides Arabic Interpreters in Rochdale, at a cost. |
Tel: 0800 368 8681 |