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Social welfare organisations: Alcohol and drug dependency
Kicking a habit can be tough. But these people are there to help addicts who really can't cope on their own - providing vital support to help them break their habit, improve their quality of life and help them find jobs and security.

Registered charity
No. 1063589
A.D.A.S.

ADAS supports people to become and remain abstinent from drug/alcohol and to live a healthy and productive lifestyle. This is done by intensive group work and one to one counselling. ADAS was established to support this client group who are socially excluded due to their alcohol/drug dependency.


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Registered charity
No. 1117988
Action on Addiction

Addiction is the biggest preventable killer in the UK. We take action to disarm addiction. We do this through research, treatment, family support, education and training.


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Registered charity
No. 1001957
Addaction

Drug and alcohol misuse are ruining lives, families and communities all around us. Addaction, the UK's leading drug and alcohol treatment charity, provides free and effective services for communities, families and substance misusers.


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Registered charity
No. 1067428
Adfam National

Adfam is the national charity to focus on families affected by drugs and alcohol and the support they need - recognising that families often suffer the most from substance misuse.


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Registered charity
No. 1104811
alcohelp

Alcohelp seeks to educate children and adults on the dangers associated with alcohol abuse.


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Registered charity
No. 297932
The Alcohol And Drugs Advisory Service

To provide professional health and social care for family members affected by drug or alcohol misuse, including children affected by parental substance misuse.


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Registered charity
No. 291705
Alcohol Concern

Alcohol Concern is the national agency on alcohol misuse. We work to reduce the incidence and costs of alcohol-related harm and to increase the range and qualityof services available to people with alcohol-related problems and their families.


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Registered charity
No. 296375
ARP

ARP exists to reduce the harm caused by problem alcohol and drug use. We provide client-focussed community and accommodation-based services, supporting people to achieve positive change and freedom from the harmful effects of alcohol and other drugs.


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Registered charity
No. 1087606
Ben's Centre

'a place of stability for Sheffield Street drinkers' The charity provides a unique day centre for vulnerable and marginalised individuals with chronic alcohol dependency, struggling with life on the streets. Ben's provides services giving individuals the opportunities in the short-term to minimise the harm of street life and long-term to make changes in their lives.


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Registered charity
No. 1081903
Brent Adolescent Centre

The Brent Centre for Young People is committed to the well being of vulnerable young people aged 14 - 21. It provides a comprehensive serve offering Mental Health, Sexual Health and Drugs and Alcohol Service at the Centre - all under one roof. The Centre also provides a specialist Mental Health Service in local secondary schools and engages thousands of young people through outreach in the community offering satellite services, workshops and educational sessions.


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Registered charity
No. 291714
Bristol Drugs Project Limited

BDP is an idependent charity committed to reducing drug and alcohol related harm in Bristol. It has over 21 years experience of providing help to people with a drug problem. All the services are free and confidential.


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Registered charity
No. 293232
Christian Alliance Housing Association Limited

It provides hostel and other Housing Association accommodation together with any associated amenities for persons of necessitous circumstances upon the terms appropriate to their means, all such activities to be undertaken in strict compliance with and obedience to the Foundation, Aims and Doctrinal Basis of Christian Alliance.


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Registered charity
No. 1078201
Connection at St Martin's

The Connection at St Martin's works with vulnerable homeless people in central London. It sees about 7,000 people a year, and delivers services from two centres (one for 16 to 25 year olds, the other for older people, 26 and over). It also provides a night centre; outreach services; training and employment programmes; specialist alcohol, substance misuse and mental health support; practical and primary health facilities; community based resettlement teams.


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Registered charity
No. SC011353
CrossReach, Church of Scotland Social Care

CrossReach is one of the biggest care providers in Scotland. Each day we help support over 4000 of the most vulnerable people in Scotland. We have 80 different services providing care and support in these areas: Addictions, Children & Families, Counselling & Support, Criminal Justice, Homelessness, Learning Disabilities, Mental Health, Older People.


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Registered charity
No. 1097185
DENS - Action Against Homelessness

DENS is a Hemel Hempstead based Homelessness Charity that helps hundreds of people get their lives back on track each year. Accommodation is provided at the Night Shelter and Move-On whilst at the Day Centre clients can enjoy a hot meal and get life-changing advice on benefits, housing & employment.


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Registered charity
No. XR87991
Depaul Trust Ireland

“Having someone believe in me has stopped me thinking I can’t do things and started believing and seeing that I can” – Mary 21 Drive Ahead participant” Depaul Trust Ireland provides accommodation, outreach and training services to homeless and disadvantaged people, with 4 projects in Belfast and 8 in Dublin.


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Registered charity
No. 297370
Detox 4 Devon

EDP Drug & Alcohol Services and Addaction have joined forces to organise a campaign - 'Detox for Devon'. All funds received will be used to support our alcohol related services.


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Registered charity
No. 1078154
Drugs & Homeless Initiative

The Drugs and Homeless Initiative aims to help those in need out of the cycle of homelessness and drug/alcohol abuse by providing a range of practical and emotional support services with particular regard for those who are socially excluded as a result of poor housing, lack of employable skills or other means.


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Registered charity
No. 1111366
Eclipse Counselling Service

Eclipse is a registered charity that seeks to meet the needs of people within the Milton Keynes area. We provide a general counselling service but have particular expertise and experience in the area of addiction counselling. We provide a free counselling service to all those referred to us, particularly those involving addiction issues and drug and alcohol problems.


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Registered charity
No. 297370
EDP Drug and Alcohol Services

EDP's mission is to prevent, reduce and address the harm caused by substance misuse through work with individuals, families and their communities. We provide a range of services to young people and adults both in the community and in prisons in Devon and Dorset.


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Registered charity
No. 1094536
Fifteen Foundation

Fifteen Foundation exists to inspire disadvantaged young people - homeless, unemployed, overcoming drug or alcohol problems - to believe that they can create for themselves great careers in the restaurant industry. It provides unique opportunities for our young people to learn about the hospitality and catering industry through training and practical experience.


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Registered charity
No. 1108331
Focus Counselling (UK) Ltd.

Focus Counselling delivers a highly professional counselling service provided by qualified and skilled counsellors. It is able to offer support to people suffering from depression, eating disorders, abuse, relationship problems, bereavement and a wide range of life crises. It is our aim to alleviate despair and suffering without religious, sexual or racial prejudice.


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Registered charity
No. 1077906
Focus12

It provides structured day care, therapy and support to clients with drug and alcohol problems. It also provides Aftercare, Family Support and Parenting Groups. It is an abstinence based facility with 8 quasi-residential beds available.


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Registered charity
No. 1077897
Food For All

Food For All is the UK affiliate of Food For Life Global, a non-profit organization bringing food and life to severely disadvantaged people through the distribution of free meals and by coordinating various projects


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Registered charity
No. SC026824
Galgael Trust

We are a community based organisation helpiong marginalised people to reclaim their heritage and training them in the lost skill of traditional boatbuilding


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Registered charity
No. 1002741
The Gatehouse

A cafe for homeless and other vulnerable people in the centre of Oxford. Open six days a week in the early evening. Activities and clothes as well as simple, nutritious food. In other words, a community centre for those who have no community.


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Registered charity
No. 1002909
Gilead Foundations Charity

Gilead Foundations operates as a Therapeutic Community / Christian Life Training Centre, offering a range of support services for people with life-controlling addictions, relating mainly to drug and alcohol abuse as well as gambling and other addictive behaviours. The main work of Gilead Foundations is undertaken at its headquarters at Risdon Farm, near Jacobstowe, Okehampton.


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Registered charity
No. 1011337
Harrogate Homeless Project Ltd

The Harrogate Homeless Project is the only direct access hostel in Harrogate and the District, providing emergency accommodation and support for those who are homeless. Only 65% of our running costs are met through statutory funding and other grants, so we constantly need to raise money in order to continue.


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Registered charity
No. 1045930
HOPE worldwide

The aim of HOPE worldwide is a simple one - to bring hope to the world. The charity works in the UK, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal and focuses on the areas of health, orphans, HIV, education, homelessness, drug and alcohol addiction and education.


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Registered charity
No. 1081548
ISAAC

ISAAC is an international network of Christians responding to the escalating problem of substance misuse and addiction. Our members work in rehabilitation centres, street agencies, counselling services and prevention programmes in nearly 70 countries. ISAAC seeks to connect, encourage and equip its members by: Encouraging cooperation and sharing of resources, training and expertise. By organising International and regional conferences. By facilitating training in addiction-related issues.


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Registered charity
No. 1048769
Life Story Charitable Trust

Life Story Charitable Trust, established since 1994, operates on a non-profit making basis for the provision of low cost or free therapy for those in need in the community.


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Registered charity
No. 296276
Lifespring Trust - Door of Hope

Door of Hope provides supported accommodation in a family environment for men who have made the decision to turn their lives around, breaking addictive and life controlling habits. Hope House is a second stage after rehab and helps men make the step back into society.


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Registered charity
No. 1080634
The Living Room

The Living Room is an independent Christian charity that provides structured daycare for anyone affected by addiction of any kind. Services are provided free of charge. Daily group therapy forms the core of the programme, complimented by one-to-one counselling and other therapies. The project has a fully equipped creche and all staff working with clients are themselves recovered addicts and highly qualified.


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Registered charity
No. 255420
London Buddhist Centre

The London Buddhist Centre (LBC) teaches meditation and Buddhism in a way that is relevant to contemporary western life. The LBC's 'Breathing Space' project helps local carers, those who have suffered from depression or addiction and those coping with bereavement, chronic pain or stress.


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Registered charity
No. 285256
The Matthew Project

The Matthew Project - a Norfolk charity. Supporting people with drug and alcohol related issues. Providing innovative education about the risks of drugs and alcohol. Empowering people to make more informed choices. Assisting ALL members of the community with drug and alcohol problems including the user and worried relatives and friends. The Youth Team educate young people about the risks of substances, helping them to make more informed and safer life choices, ideally before any dependencies develop.


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Registered charity
No. 1058536
The Nehemiah Project

The Nehemiah Project is a London based Christian charity that helps rehabilitate those with addictions, especially from the streets or prison. An amazing 75 per cent of graduates remain drug and alcohol free.


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Registered charity
No. 1056672
The Nelson Trust

The Nelson Trust was established in 1985 in Gloucestershire, to provide treatment and aftercare for people with addictions and eating disorders, for over 300 people each year from around the UK. The approach is abstinence-based, supporting people to full recovery and independent living through therapeutic and educational programmes.


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Registered charity
No. 1062391
One25

One25 is run by women for women who are street-based sexworkers, those who are in the process of exiting such work, and those who have now exited. Based in Bristol, we enable women to consider change, and help them access the services they need.


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Registered charity
No. 1079506
Open Door Youth Counselling Service - Sutton

Open Door has provided free and low cost confidential counselling services to young people between the ages of 11 and 25 for the last 40 years. Open Door continues to assist many young people with issues and problems in their lives encompassing low self esteem, bullying, sexual worries and self harm.


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Registered charity
No. 284880
Phoenix Futures

Phoenix Futures is the leading UK drug and alcohol treatment network. The charity provides a highly effective range of services in communities, prisons and residential rehabs that each year help thousands of people transform their lives. We support people through our adult and family residential rehabs, structured day services, prison services, women only services, community services, harm reduction programmes, alcohol only services, conservation therapy programmes and skills and education programmes. Visit: www.phoenix-futures.org.uk for more information.


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Registered charity
No. 207454
Providence Row

Providence Row caters for the needs of the most vulnerable at its day centre in the east end of London. Most of the people who turn to Providence Row for help live on the streets. Every day last year the charity helped someone get off the street.


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Registered charity
No. XN45626
Quaker Service

Quaker Service is a cross community family welfare charity which contributes in a practical way to the understanding and reduction of the causes and effects of violence, suffering and social deprivation on communities in Northern Ireland. QS provides services to support vulnerable and undervalued individuals, families and children.


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Registered charity
No. 1001701
RAPT

The Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust provides abstinence based treatment and rehabilitation for men and women with chemical dependencies. It aims to reduce crime by providing specialist services in prisons and in the community that help offenders to turn their lives around.


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Registered charity
No. 279859
Reading Single Homeless Project

Reading Single Homeless Project (RSHP) provides affordable accommodation and support for people who, having experienced homelessness, are vulnerable and socially excluded. Many of the people helped by RSHP have mental health problems, drug and alcohol dependency issues and need help to re-build their confidence and self-esteem.


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Registered charity
No. 232822
Royal National Mission To Deep Sea Fishermen

The Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen provides care, compassion and support to working, retired and disabled fishermen and their families. Deep-sea fishing is dangerous and unpredictable. Hardship and tragedy are facts of everyday life in the UK’s fishing


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Registered charity
No. 1100143
The Rugby Portobello Trust

The Rugby Portobello Trust works with young people under the age of 25 in North Kensington in London. Our aim is to help these young people, through a wide range of activities and learning programmes, to achieve their personal best and to grow up to become independent adults who can play a full part in their local community.


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Registered charity
No. 1075947
Spitalfields Crypt Trust

The Spitalfields Crypt Trust a charity offering a range of high-quality support, rehabilitation and training services, to people facing problems of homelessness, alcohol, drugs, poverty or social isolation. We run a daily drop-in centre, a rehabilitation hostel, two second-stage move-on homes, a life skills training centre, and five charity shops.


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Registered charity
No. 802013
St Martins Housing Trust

St Martins Housing Trust has a 30 year history of striving to address the needs of single homeless people in Norwich & Norfolk. We offer emergency direct access accommodation, residential care, support and personal development to enable everyone to achieve their full potential and a greater level of independence.


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Registered charity
No. 1043921
St Pauls Hostel

St Paul’s Hostel charity operates three projects within Worcester aimed at targeting homelessness and its causes. The mission is not to intervene in individuals’ private lives, but to provide the support and care necessary for clients to gain the level of independence for which they can take responsibility.


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Registered charity
No. SCO14253
The Stauros Foundation

The Stauros Foundation seeks to minister to people who are addicted to alcohol and other drugs and to offer support to their families. Working alongside the local church, Stauros reaches out to those in the community who are affected by addiction.


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