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LOCAL SUPPORT
mental health
There are two mental health organisations
in Oxford that offer an advice and information service - if they can't
answer your questions themselves they will probably be able to point you
towards someone who can:
Oxfordshire Mind
2
Kings Meadow, Osney Mead, Oxford OX2 0DP 01865-263730
Monday-Friday 10.0 - 4.0
Mental Health
Matters
PO Box 1476, Oxford OX4
9DG
01865-228981
omhm@oxford-mentalhealth.org
Some other local mental health
organisations:
Samaritans
01865 722122
or,
if engaged, 08457 909090
Phoneline open
24 hours a day, and the centre at 60 Magdalen Road, off Iffley Road,
Oxford (opposite the Pegasus Theatre) is open to personal callers from 8.0
a.m. to 10.0 p.m.
Mind in Kidlington
Phone:
07983 245485 / 01865 373165
Email:
mindinkidlington@oxfordshire-mind.org.uk
Opening times:
Weds 11.00am - 12.15pm at
Flavour Café, 13-14 The Kidlington Centre
Weds 12.30 - 3.30 at
Kaleidoscope Centre (behind Exeter Hall)
Oxford Road
Kidlington
OX5 1AB
Mind in Banbury
St Paul's Church Hall
Warwick Road
Banbury
OX16 2AN
Telephone: 01295
271064 or 07508 428161
Email:
mindinbanbury@oxfordshire-mind.org.uk
Opening hours:
Monday & Wednesday 10.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m.
Tuesday 10.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. for women only at the Mill Arts Centre
Thursday 10.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. at the Mill Arts Centre, Spiceball Park
PALS (Patient Advice and Liaison Service)
The Warneford Hospital, Warneford
Lane, Headington, Oxford OX3 7JX
0800-3287971 or 01865-223752
PALS@oxmhc-tr.nhs.uk
A confidential NHS service to answer questions
on mental healthcare, help resolve problems, listen to suggestions about
improving the service.
counselling
Relate
33 Iffley Road, Oxford OX4 1EA
01865-242960
relate_oxon@hotmail.com
Relationship counselling for individuals and couples.
Cruse
Wesley Memorial Hall, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford OX1 2DH
01865-245398
oxfordcruse@waitrose.com
Bereavement counselling for adults and children.
The Listening Centre
Cuddesdon Corner Family Centre, 61-63 Cuddesdon Way,
Blackbird Leys, Oxford, OX4 6SB 01865-419025
www.thelisteningcentre.org.uk
OCIC (Oxford Christian Institute for
Counselling)
First floor, 119-121 London Road, Headngton, Oxford OX3 9HZ
01865-308889
counselling@ocic.org.uk
Counselling for people of all faiths or none.
The ISIS Centre
Dartington House, Little Clarendon Street, Oxford OX1 2HS
01865-556648
NHS professional counselling and psychotherapy service,
one-to-one and group.
carers' support
Causeway Carers, Bicester
7.0 p.m. first Monday of every month.
Contact Mike Wyatt 01865-374147
Banbury Carers
7.0 second Monday of every month.
Contact Jan Kidd 01865-455607
or Rachel Bradley 01295-819017
children
and families
Home Start
108 Churchill Road, Bicester OX26 4XD
01869-320099 homestartbic@btconnect.com
Support for families of pre-school children.
Bicester
Childrens Centre
Queens
Avenue,
Bicester OX26 2NR
01869-249604
Courtyard Centre
Launton Road, Bicester,OX26 6DJ
01869-602555
bicester.youth@oxfordshire.gov.uk
A youth centre with a wide variety of activities and groups
drug and alcohol support
Alcoholics Anonymous
meet weekly at the Bicester Day Centre (Social Services building),
Launton Road (enter by the back door in the garden)
on Saturdays at 7.30 p.m.
Narcotics Anonymous
meet every Monday from 8.0 - 9.0 p.m.
at St Edburg's Church Hall (upstairs room)
Cranstoun Libra
01295-273511
Free and confidential information and advice and on-going support, and
one-to-one support and also advice for carers available in Bicester.
Drop-in or make appointment for Tuesday evenings between 6.0 - 8.0 at
the Causeway Centre.
DISH
01865-711267
For people with substance misuse and housing problems, primarily aged
16-25 years old.
housing
Cherwell District Council
Bromford Housing
Oxfordshire Supported Housing Team, 3 Palm Court, Goldfinch Close,
Bicester OX26 6TZ
01869-247073 Palm.Court@bromford.co.uk
Stonham Housing
Banbury Young Homelessness Project (BYHP)
49a Castle Street, Banbury
Mind at BYHP
A weekly drop-in for young adults, 6.0 - 8.0 p.m. on Tuesdays
01295-271064
benefits and advice
Citizen's Advice Bureau
The Garth, Launton Road, Bicester OX26 6PS
0870-220608
Open for advice without an appointment: Mondays and Fridays from
10.0 - 1.0 at the Garth, and Tuesdays and Thursday from 10.0 - 1.0 at
Exeter Hall, Kidlington.
The Citizen's Advice Bureau
also run a monthly advice session at
the Causeway Centre, 25 The Causeway, Bicester on the second Wednesday between 10.30 - 12.30.
employment
New Start
Minton Place, Victoria Road, Bicester OX6 7QB
01869-243886
mpedley@cfbt-hq.org.uk
Offers adults educational and vocational information, and advice and
guidance on training and work opportunities.
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The
Causeway Centre