The table below provides information and contact details for support provided across Pennines.
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, 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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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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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 |
| Skylight Circus Arts | Side by side sessions for young people to improve their wellbeing. Youth Circus, midi classes and teen classes. |
Martine Bradford |
| 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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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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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 |
Wellbeing
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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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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 |
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Is a growing network of local community groups providing their neighbourhoods with places where all people feel safe to connect, belong and contribute-a place where everyone can go for a friendly face, a cup of tea and a conversation if and when they need it. |
Gill Tel: 07767 150 929 Email: gill@cleansheey.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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A new support group for men struggling with their mental health, offering a safe, confidential, non-judgemental space for men aged 16 - 100 to open up as much, or as little as they want to. Wednesday 7-8pm at the new Star Tree Studio in Hare Hill Park. |
Wesley Claridge Tel: 07894 971434 |
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| Support for asylum seekers / refugees coming into Rochdale - Help them get to know how to live and what services are available to them in Rochdale. | Reza Email: gncc.rochdale@gmail.com |
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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 |
| Posting on Tue and Wed for info, chat, quiz. We want to provide continuing contact, support and signposting to a community that is vulnerable and approximately half of whom do not use the internet or social media. |
Nick Andrews |
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Family Central (linked to New life church) |
Support deliveries and remote admin support. Practical, emotional and spiritual support to families and older people. |
Nicola Hurst |
| FOR SMITHY BRIDGE RESIDENTS: phone calls, chats, posting letters, jigsaws, games, dropped leaflets to smithy bridge residents. |
Janet Bower |
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| Providing wellbeing support through their helpline to vulnerable people. |
Moyra Purves |
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| Tackling Minds - Free fishing for people with mental health, disability, long term illnesses, the old and the young. |
Dave |
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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 6543 | |
| 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. |
Tel: 0161 660 3347 |
Medication Delivery
| Organisation | Description of Support | Contact Details |
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| Prescription pick up - volunteer drivers. |
Mark Wynn |
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| Street Watch - Milnrow and Newhey Resident Watch | All round support - will collect and deliver essential items, Prescription pick up. |
Dave Kendall |
Welfare Assistance
| Organisation | Description of Support | Contact Details |
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| Rochdale Ancient Parish Educational Trust |
You must live in the Ancient Parish of Rochdale. This area includes Rochdale, Wardle, Littleborough, Milnrow, Whitworth, Todmorden, Saddleworth, Newhey and Bacup; You attend a school in the area of the Ancient Parish of Rochdale; or You've attended a school in the area of the Ancient Parish of Rochdale. The Trust may award a grant for any purpose that promotes your education, including social and physical training. |
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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. Money is transferred to the partner organisations to get where it is needed as quickly as possible, but is never given out as cash. |
Tel: 0330 303 8870 |
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Fund can be accessed by verifying partners for those in financial need. Supermarket vouchers, fuel vouchers, and white goods (gas and electric cookers, fridge and washing machine) |
Paul Whitehead |
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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 (of up to £350) or access accommodation (of up to £500). |
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Our welfare grants programme primarily provides grants for essential personal and household needs to assist families and individuals with low incomes, particularly those living on benefits. In addition, funding is available for disability aids that will benefit the applicant in the home. |
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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 |
The trust can help you with the following: 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. |
Tel: 0300 790 6172 Email: contact@uutf.org.uk |
Practical Support
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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@northwestnumberltd.co.uk |
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Sanitary products pack available for women and girls on their period - struggling to buy or access products. |
Samantha Whitton |
Digital Support
| Organisation | Description of Support | Contact Details |
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| One Stop Shop | Digital support 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 |
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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 Wynn |
| 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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Financial wellbeing online and telephone help sessions for people affected by cancer and other illnesses. Every 2nd Tuesday of each month 10am - 9pm. |
Tel: 0800 772 0723 Email: help@s-b-s.org.uk |
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 |
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| Electricity North West |
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 8.30 to 5.00 Mon-Fri. | Tel: 0808 278 7803 | |
| Debt Buffer |
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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The new work and skills drop-in, located in the Strand Community Hub, will be open twice a week, offering a mix of drop-in sessions, tailored advice and one to one appointments to help people get the jobs, skills and volunteering opportunities they need. |
Tel: 01706 273 977 Email: community.partnership@rbh.org.uk |
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 |
People will receive careers advice be supported to access relevant training courses and will be supported to apply for job vacancies. |
Steph Rush Email: steph.rush@rochdale.gov.uk |
| Red Cross |
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 |
| 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 |