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Crime Prevention and Support Panel -
SouthTyneside Tel: 0191 4547555 ext.65023
Drugs Crime Hotline - Tel : 0191 5635017
REACH (Rape, Examination, Advice, Counseling, Help) - Tel : 0191 2260825
South Shields Police - Tel: 0191 4547555
Support for Women (16+) and Men - who
have been raped or recently sexually assaulted.
Tyneside Incest Crisis Line - Tel: 0191 2615317
Tyneside Rape Crisis Centre - Tel:
0191 2329858
Rape Help Line - Tel: 0191 5653735
Victim Support (South Tyneside) - 1 Cookson House, River Drive, South Shields, NE33 1TL Tel: 0191 4546198 (National Tel: 0845 3030900)
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Addictions
- Suite 19 Cookson House, River Drive, South Shields, NE33 1TL
Tel: 0191 4569999 also at Civic Centre, Ellison Street, Jarrow Tel: 0191
4839999
Alcohol (link
here)
Alcoholics Anonymous - Tel:
0191-5214400
CADD - (Campaign Against Drinking &
Driving) Tel: 0191 2811581
Community Drug and Alcohol Nursing Service
- South Tyneside District Hospital Tel: 0191 4548888
DrinkLine - Tel: 0345 320202
Northern Regional Alcohol & Drug Service
- Tel: 0191 2195600
SouthTyne NECA - Counseling
and advice for drug user's and their families. Cookson House,
River Drive, South Shields Tel: 0191 4569999 also at Civic Hall, Ellison
Street, Jarrow Tel: 0191 4839999
Street Level Support for drug user's, therapy, advice and information. Stanhope Parade, South Shields. Tel: 0191 4553027
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Compassionate
Friends - support for bereaved parents. Tel: 0117 9539639
Cot Death Help line - 24 hr Tel: 0171
2351721
South Tyneside Miscarriage (Association)
Support Group - Tel: 0191 4276158
Miscarriage Association (link
here)
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Gateshead
Crossroads - Information for carers Tel: 0191 4783502 Mon-Fri
9am-12 noon
North Tyneside Carers Centre - Tel: 0191 2954321
Carers - Help for (link here)
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ChildLine - 24
hr Tel: 0800 1111
NSPCC - Child protection 24 hr Tel: 0800 800500
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Neighbourhood
Advice Centre - (Boldon Lane) 89/91 Boldon Lane, South Shields
Tel: 0191 4543924
Neighbourhood Advice Centre - (Hebburn) 10 Victoria Road West,
Hebburn, NE31 1LD Tel: 0191 4839806
South Tyneside Association of Neighborhood Watches - 34 Lincoln
Way, Fellgate Estate, Jarrow, NE32 4UU Tel: 0191 4224258
South Tyneside Police and Community Forum - Civic Centre, Regent
Street, Gateshead, NE8 1HH Tel: 0191 4771011 Ext.2145
Welfare Rights Service (South Tyneside) - 1 Ferry Street, South
Shields NE33 1JP Tel: 0191 4566296
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Consumer
Advice centre - Central Library, Prince Georg Square, South
Shields Tel: 0191 4271717 ext. 2550 also at Jarrow Town Hall, Wylam
Street Entrance Tel: 0191 4891141
Nuisance Phone
Calls advice line - Tel: 0800 666700
Office of Fair Trading - info line Tel: 0345 224499 (link
here)
Ombudsman (link here)
Press Complaints Commission - self-regulating commission, read the
Code of Practice or consult past adjudications. (link
here)
Trading Standards Net - what they can do for you, and to you.
Plus a
"chamber of horrors" with funny and not so funny case
stories. (link here)
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Debtline
(National) - Tel: 0645 500511
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Deaf &
Blind Empowerment Project - Tel: 0191 2005467 or 0191 2005468
Deaf Directory UK (link here)
Disability Net - disability information and news services (link
here)
Disability North - Tel: 0191 2840480 Mon-Fri 10am-4pm
Disability resources (link here)
Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities - Tel: 0191
2321994
Mentally Handicapped Adult Training Centers
- West Walpole Street, South Shields Tel: 0191 4556213 also at Campbell
Park, Hebburn Tel: 0191 4832004
SHADES - Self Help Association for Disabled Employment Seekers. 4
Calf Close Lane, Primrose, Jarrow Tel: 0191 4211615
South Shields and District Hard of Hearing Fellowship - 82
Birchington Avenue, South Shields Tel: 0191 4545234
South Tyneside Council on Disabilities - c/o Welfare Rights Service,
South Tyneside House, Westoe Road, South Shields Tel: 0191
4549707
South Tyneside Deaf Club - 98 Hawthorne Avenue, South
Shields Tel: 0191 4563448
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Newcastle
Friend - Befriending, information and listening on relationships,
coming out, HIV, loneliness, venues etc. Mon-Fri 7pm-10pm, Sat
1pm-4pm Tel: 0191 2618555
Newcastle Lesbian Line - Tel: 0191 2612277. Open every Tue 7pm-10pm.
Newcastle upon Tyne Friend/Gay Switchboard. Tel: 0191 2618555
Sunderland Gay Men's Health Project. Tel: 0191 5492228 / 5483144 Mon-Fri 9am-5pm
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Citizen Advice
Bureau (link here)
Samaritans - 13 Grange Cres, Sunderland Tel: 0191 5677177 or 24 hr Tel: 0345
909090 (link here)
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Shelter -
housing and homeless problems Tel: 0808 8004444
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Legal Aid -
for help with legal costs, as long as you're not too well
off. Check here to see if you qualify. (link
here)
Newcastle Law Centre - Tel: 0191 2304777
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Alzheimer's
Disease Society - South Tyneside Branch, Stanhope Parade Health
Centre, Gordon Street, South Shields Tel: 0191 4275443 /
2571245
Arthritis Care - 6 Edhill Gardens, South Shields Tel:
0191 4566281 / 2735999
Body Positive (North East) - Tel: 0191 2322855
Coping with Cancer (North East) - Tel : 0191 2304424 Mon-Fri
10am-2pm, 7pm-10pm
Diabetic Association (South Tyneside Branch) 221 Temple Park Road,
South Shields Tel: 0191 4561104
Epilepsy Advisory Service - Tel: 0191
5294871
Health Council South Tyneside - 3rd Floor Edinburgh Buildings, 2
Station Approach, South Shields Tel: 0191 4568219
HIV/AIDS and sexual health - Tel: 0191 2322855 Mon-Fri 10am-5pm
ME Association (NE Region) - Tel: 0191 3892222
National Back Pain Association - South
Shields Tel: 0191 4562884
National Blood transfusion Service -
for donor sessions Tel: 0191 2194400
Newcastle Stroke Association Information Centre - Tel: 0191 2301999
South Tyneside Stroke Club - 19 Field Terrace, Jarrow, NE32 5PH
St. John Ambulance Brigade - 50 Pollard Street, South Shields
Tel: 0191 4550178
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Depression
Anxiety Tension and Agoraphobia - 26 Ribble Walk, Calfclose Estate,
Jarrow, Tel: 0191 4232518
MENCAP - Tel: 0191 4870444
Mental Health - Trinity House Social Centre, Laygate Lane, South
Shields Tel: 0191 4564239
Northern MIND - (National Association for Mental Health) Tel: 0191
4900109
Sunderland Mental Illness Help line - Listening support and
information for people under stress, suicidal or with mental ill
health. Mon-Fri 5pm-12 midnight, Sat/Sun/bank hols 9am- 12 midnight
Tel: 0191 5670279
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Stepping
Stones - Tel: 0191 2843201
Streetwise - Tel: 0191 2305400
Self Help & Support groups (link
here)
BT Free CallsTo avoid receiving annoying phone calls (with advertisements) from callers using "free time", call 0800 0283613 to have the service prohibited.
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Family
Planning - info line Tel: 0191 4516180
Fertile
Thoughts (link here)
Gingerbread - for single parents, information on local groups and
support networks. (link here)
Impotence World Association (link
here)
LIFE Pregnancy Care Service - Tel: 0191 2618634
Miscarriage Association (link here)
National Childbirth Trust - Tel: 0191 2324322
Parents Enquiry North East - Help and
support group for parents of gay and bi-sexual offspring Tel: 0191
4552868
Parentline - Listening service for parents under stress.
Mon/Wed/Thu/Fri 6-9pm, Tue/Wed/Thu10am-1pm Tel : 0191 2814881
Pregnancy Advisory Service (link
here)
South Tyneside Miscarriage (Association) Support Group - Tel: 0191
4276158
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Online
Counseling
- Marriage Guidance (link here)
Relate - Tel: 0191 2329109
(link here)
SouthTyneside Domestic Violence Project
- Tel: 0191 4567577
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Gingerbread -
for single parents, information on local groups and support
networks. (link here)
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North Tyneside
Women's Aid - Tel: 0191 2513305
Women's Health - 25 Beach Road, South Shields, NE33 2QA
South Tyneside Women's Aid - c/o PO Box 29, South Shields
Tel: 0191 4548257
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