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 Achillies Heel Magazine (see publications page) Advisory Service for Squatters (ASS) is an unpaid collective of workers who have been running a daily advice service for squatters and homeless people since 1975.Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street, Whitechapel, London, England, E1 7QX. Email: advice@squatter.org.uk Tel: 020-32160099 Fax: 020-3216-0098 Age Concern England is a national charity which aims to promote the well-being of all older people, and involve them in all aspects of society.A network of Age Concern groups, supported by volunteers in towns all round the country, provides practical help and services to the older people in their local community. The national office provides a comprehensive information service, produces an extensive list of publications, and runs a wide range of training courses. Age Concern England, Astral House, 1268 London Road, London SW16 4ER. Tel: 0800 00 99 66. Age Concern Northern Ireland, 3 Lower Crescent, Belfast BT7 1NR. Tel: (01232) 245729 Age Concern Cymru, 4th Floor, 1 Cathedral Road, Cardiff CF1 9SD, Tel: (01222) 371566 Age Concern Scotland, 113 Rose Street, Edinburgh EH2 3DT. Tel: (0131) 220 3345 At Ease. If you know anyone in the Armed Forces who's struggling with their conscience, there's an organisation called At Ease who will provide free, totally confidential advice.AT EASE, c/o 28 Commercial Street LONDON E1 6LS Tel: Sundays only 5pm-7pm 0207 247 5164 Email: atease@advisory.freeserve.co.uk British Toilet Association. Campaigning for better public toilets for all.
* Britain's public toilets were once the envy of the world. * In recent years, significant numbers of public toilets have been closed down. * We need more and better toilets. * Let's stop the rot. British Toilet Association, PO Box 17, Winchester SO23 9WL. Tel: +44 (0) 1962 850277 Fax: +44 (0) 1962 870220 Email: enquiries@britloos.co.uk The Big Issue On-line (see publications page). ChildLine is the free national helpline for children and young people in trouble or danger. It is open 24 hours a day, every day of the year.Children and young people phone and write to ChildLine about many different things - no problem is too big or too small. Some of the things children phone about are feeling lonely or unloved, worries about their future, school problems, bullying, drugs, pregnancy, HIV and AIDS, physical and sexual abuse, running away and concerns about parents, brothers, sisters and friends. ChildLine, Royal Mail Building, Studd Street, London Nl OQW Tel: 0171-239-1000 Fax: 0171-239-1001. Call FREE- 0800 1111. Child Poverty Action Group. CPAG promotes action for the relief, directly or indirectly, of poverty among children and families with children.Child Poverty Action Group, 94 White Lion Street, London N1 9PF. Tel: 020 7837 7979. Fax: 020 7837 6414. Email: staff@cpag.demon.co.uk Children's Play Council and Home Zones. CPC aims to raise awareness of the importance of play in children's lives and the need for all children to have access to better play opportunities and play services.Home zones: reclaiming residential streets. It is easy to think that busy, dangerous, car-filled streets are an inevitable side-effect of modern life. But it need not be this way. National Children's Bureau, 8 Wakley Street, London EC1V 7QE. Tel: +44(0)171 843 6016 or 6094. Fax: +44(0)171 278 9512, Email: cpc@ncb.org.uk. The Children's Society is one of the largest and most innovative children's charities in Britain. Founded in 1881 and working through over 90 projects throughout England and Wales, we reach out to nearly 40,000 children and young people every year helping to find solutions to the very serious problems they face.Edward Rudolf House, Margery Street, London WC1X 0JL. Tel: 0171 841 4436. Email: information@childsoc.org.uk. The Class War Federation is an organisation of groups and individuals who have come together to change the society we live in, to improve the lot of working class people.London CW, PO Box 467, London E8 3QX. Defend Council Housing. DCH was formally launched at a conference in Tower Hamlets in 1998 to fight council housing privatisation. It now has the support of a large number of tenants, council trade union and community organisations and campaign groups around the country including TAROE (Tenants & Residents Organisation of England) and UCATT.c/o Haggerston Community Centre, 179 Haggerston Road, London E8 4JA. Tel/Fax: 020 7254 2312 or 020 7538 2113, Email: info@defendcouncilhousing.org.uk Families Need Fathers is a voluntary self-help society and a registered British charity. We have been providing advice and support on children's issues for over twenty years. We believe that children have a right to a loving relationship with both their parents. To achieve this we believe it is very important to obtain practical and realistic advice at the earliest stage. We work with men and women; divorced, separated and unmarried.134 Curtain Road, London EC2A 3AR. Tel: 0171 613 5060. Information: 0181 886 0970. Helplines: 0891 448690 (unmarried). 0891 448696 (married). 0181 893 5563 (crisis). Press Enquiries: 0181 864 9539 and 0181 295 1956. Fathers 4 Justice (F4J) is a new civil rights movement campaigning for a child's right to see both parents and grandparents. The group comprises Fathers, Mothers, Grandparents, Teachers, Doctors, Company Directors, Policemen, Barristers and a complete cross section of society - all whom believe that Britain is needlessly creating a nation of children without parents and parents without children.Tel: 01787 281 922 or 07786 300 699 or 07761 447 207 Email: office@fathers-4-justice.org Gingerbread is the leading support organisation for lone parent families in England and Wales. It was started 30 years ago and is a registered charity maintained by lone parents.First Floor, 7 Sovereign Close, Sovereign Court, London E1W 3HW. Tel: 020 7488 9300. Fax: 020 7488 9333. Advice Line/Membership: Freephone 0800 018 4318. Email:office@gingerbread.org.uk Groundswell UK is a national charity that supports a network of people and projects who are committed to inclusive approaches to tackling homelessness, poverty and exclusion.Groundswell uk, Elmfield house, 5 Stockwell Mews, London, SW9 9GX Tel: 020 7737 5500 Fax: 020 7733 1305 Email: info@groundswell.org.uk Immigration Advisory Service is the largest, the most experienced charity giving free advice and representation in immigration and asylum matters. Regional offices are in Birmingham, Cardiff, Central London, Gatwick, Glasgow, Hounslow, Leeds and Manchester. IAS deals with over 7,500 appeals and 20,000 telephone enquiries every year.IAS, County House, Third Floor, 190 Great Dover Street, London SE1 4YB. Tel: 0171 357 7511. Fax: 0171 403 5875. Email: iasuk@gn.apc.org Intermix. To offer friendship, support, information and advice to mixed race people, their families, racially mixed couples and carers of mixed race children.Intermix, PO Box 29441, London NW1 8FZ. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is an independent, non-political body which supports programmes of research and innovative development in the fields of housing, social care and social policy.The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, The Homestead, 40 Water End, York YO3 6LP. Tel: +44 1904 629241 Fax: +44 1904 620072 London Empty Homes. In 1997, there were over 120,000 empty homes in the London area, a third of them had been empty for a year or more.At the same time, thousands of people are looking for somewhere to live. Some are homeless, and this costs councils - who provide them with temporary accommodation - millions each year in public money. Owners are also missing out. As there is a huge demand for housing, letting out a flat or house can provide a useful income. Also, recent changes in the law mean that owners are guaranteed vacant possession of their property. 195 - 197 Victoria Street, London SW1E 5NE. Hotline: 0870 901 6303. Email: hotline@eha.globalnet.co.uk. National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns. Bringing Together Families and Individuals Fighting Deportation. NCADC: sends out regular news bulletins on immigration issues.Co-ordinator John O, 101 Villa Road, Birmingham B19 1NH. Tel: 0121 554 6947. Fax: 0870-055-4570. Email: ncadc@ncadc.demon.co.uk London Co-ordinator, John Stewart, Tel: 0181 503 6628.Email: ncadc@globalnet.co.uk No sweat! was launched in November 2000 as a campaign against sweatshop labour, both overseas and in the UK. OXFAM UK poverty programme. Food poverty means having too little money, and other facilities, to be able to eat a healthy diet. Many people refuse to acknowledge that food poverty exists in this country.Even those that do sometimes have mistaken beliefs about what causes food poverty. What is the truth behind these myths about food poverty in the UK? Oxfam Supporters' Information Team, 274 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 7DZ. Tel: 01865 313600. Refugee Council. The population of refugees and homeless people in London is expanding.In 1988 there were 3998 refugee applications to the UK. By 1991 the numbers had increased markedly to 44,840, before falling back to approx, 22,000. In 1989 the London Strategic Policy Unit estimated that there were 127,930 refugees in London. These numbers have increased since then. Over 90% of refugees settle in London, and over half stay initially in the boroughs of either Ealing, Hammersmith or Hounslow. The Samaritans' vision is that fewer people will take their own lives because Samaritan befriending is always available at any hour of the day or night for everyone passing through personal crisis and at risk of dying by suicide. The Samaritans provide society with a better understanding of suicide, suicidal behaviour and the value of expressing feelings that may lead to suicide.The Samaritans, 10 The Grove, Slough, SL1 1QP. Tel: +44 (1753) 532713. Shared Parenting Information Group (SPIG) UK. To promote responsible shared parenting after separation and divorce. To make available information, research and resources to all concerned.Email: spig@clara.net Shelter, The National Campaign For Homeless People seeks to achieve its aims in three key ways.
Charity No.: 263710. Company No.: 1038133 . Simon Jones Memorial Campaign. People like Simon Jones get killed at work all the time and nothing gets done about it.Simon Jones Memorial Campaign, PO Box 2600, Brighton, E.Sussex, BN2 2DX. Tel/Fax: 01273 685913. Email: action@simonjones.org.uk Victim Support is...
Victim Support, National Office, Cranmer House, 39 Brixton Road, London SW9 6DZ. Tel: 0171 735 9166 Voluntary Euthanasia Society. The Voluntary Euthanasia Society (VES) was set up in 1935 by a group of doctors, lawyers and clergymen. VES campaigns to make it legal for a competent adult, who is suffering unbearably from a terminal illness, to be allowed to request medical help to die at their own informed and persistent request - If that's what they want.Voluntary Euthanasia Society, 13 Prince of Wales Terrace, London W8 5PG. Tel: 020 7937 7770 Fax: 020 7376 2648 Email: info@ves.org.uk |
