Support groups, voluntary organisations, and charities
- Brighton & Hove Community and Voluntary Sector Forum
Provides a strong voice to ensure the community and voluntary perspective is included in decisions which affect the people who live, work and play in Brighton and Hove. - Community Base
A charity providing a home for community and voluntary groups in Brighton and Hove. - Virtual Brighton local community search engine
A one-stop access point for information & resources for and about voluntary and community groups in Brighton and Hove. - do-it.org.uk
National on-line database of volunteering opportunities in the UK.
Asylum seekers
- Community Safe Team
Team provides free information & support by telephone or drop-in if you are a victim of hate crime, violence, or anti-social behaviour.
Contact details
Address: Brighton and Hove City Council
162 North Street
Brighton
BN1 1EA
Telephone: 01273 291099 - Migrant Helpline
This website is dedicated to explaining how Migrant Helpline assists asylum seekers and refugees; vulnerable people who come to this country with a strong determination to rebuild their lives. - Refugee Council
- Services for Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Migrants (PDF 137kb)
A source of information about public services in Brighton and Hove for those who are new to the area. - Sussex Interpreting Service
Independent charitable company working to relieve the poverty of individuals from black and minority ethnic communities by providing community interpreting, communications services, confidential advice, assistance and information.
Contact details
Address: Community Base
113 Queens Road
Brighton
Telephone: 01273 702005
Email: info@sussexinterpreting.org.uk - Threshold women’s counselling & crèche service
The Threshold service offers counselling for female refugees and asylum seekers using interpreters.
Contact details
Address: 14 St Georges Place
Brighton
BN1 4GB
Telephone: 01273 622886
- Threshold women's counselling services (PDF 442kb)
An information leaflet explaining the different types of counselling the service has available to women.
Befriending
- Age Concern Brighton and Hove
- Contact the Elderly
Help people aged 75 or older who are lonely, live at home on their own and are unable to easily get out of the house unaided. - Deafblind UK
Deafblind UK is a national charity offering specialist services and human support to Deafblind people and those who have progressive sight and hearing loss acquired throughout their lives. - Helping Hands
A support network for the Brighton & Hove Jewish community . - Impetus - Neighbourhood Care Scheme
Provides support to the local voluntary sector through running the City Volunteer Centre and the Performance Development Service. They manage a number of projects that improve the quality of life of disadvantaged people in Brighton and Hove. - Multikulti - Rethink
Befriending service for Asian people aged 16+ with mental health problems or who are experiencing emotional distress. - Neighbourhood Care Scheme (239kb PDF file) Support for older people from those living in their community.
- B&H and Sussex Friends of the Earth
Voluntary local group is part of the national Friends of the Earth network. Campaigns to improve the environment in our own backyard, as well as joining in with national and international campaigns.
Contact details
Contact:Suzanna Collis
Telephone: 07703 173795
Email: scollis@hotmail.co.uk
Black, minority and ethnic groups
- Black and Minority Ethnic Community Partnership
Champion the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Community in Brighton & Hove. - Brighton and Hove Black History
Black History focuses on the history of Asian, African and African Caribbean peoples. - Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue
This is a thriving congregation of over 300 Jewish people living in Sussex and interested in pursuing their Judaism in a modern and thoughtful way. - Brighton & Hove Women's Centre
Resource centre with a black women's group providing help, support and information, counselling, complementary therapies and pre-school education for 2-4 year olds. - Brighton and Hove Chinese Society
A non-profit organisation aiming to serve local citizens of Chinese origins. Provides different educational and cultural events aiming to highlight Chinese culture.
Contact details
Address: Room 100
Mitre House
149 Western Road
Brighton
BN1 2DD - Brighton Voices in Exile
A faith based group that respond to the situations that arise from having restricted rights within the United Kingdom. - Careers Europe's Migrant Communities Information Resource
Website that contains information for refugees, asylum seekers, EU migrants and for those working with these groups in an advisory capacity. - Chinese Educational Development Project
Project addresses the disadvantages faced by individuals of Chinese origin in accessing existing educational, training and employment opportunities or participating in community activities, due to barriers posed by cultural differences and/or active discrimination. - Ethnic Minorities Representatives Council EMRC
Helps people who are unable to express themselves in English or understand the English language and represents minorities.
Contact details
Address: 8 Caburn Road
Brighton
BN3 6FF - Interfaith Contact Group
The IFCG was set up as a resource for contact and dialogue between the many faith communities in Brighton & Hove. - MOSAIC Black And Mixed Parentage Family Group
Community support group for black and mixed parentage families and individuals
Contact details
Telephone: 01273 234017
Email: info@mosaicbrighton.org.uk
- Multikulti - Rethink
Befriending service for Asian people aged 16+ with mental health problems or who are experiencing emotional distress. - Racial Harrassment Forum
Signposting to local black & minority groups, offering advice, support and information on what to do if you have experinced racial harrassment.
Contact details
Address: 62 North Street
Brighton
BN1 1EA
Telephone: 01273 293597
Email: lucy.yallop@brighton-hove.gov.uk - Sudanese Coptic Association
An accredited site to to act on behalf, represent and help the community - Sussex Interpreting Service
Independent charitable company working to relieve the poverty of individuals from black and minority ethnic communities by providing community interpreting, communications services, confidential advice, assistance and information.
Contact details
Address: Community Base
113 Queens Road
Brighton
Telephone: 01273 702005
Email: info@sussexinterpreting.org.uk - The Bodhi Garden
The Bodhi Garden is a non-denominational Buddhist meditation centre in Brighton.
Community groups
- Brighton Lions Club
A group who are dedicated to improving the quality of life for people less fortunate than themselves through a wide range of activities.
Contact details
Address: Brighton Lions Club
Lions Dene
The Deneway
Brighton
BN1 5AZ - Brunswicknet
A community website for residents of and visitors to the Brunswick area of Brighton and Hove.
Contact details:
Email: info@brunswickproject.plus.com - Cornerstone Community Centre
A lively community centre located in central Hove at the corner of First Avenue and Church Road.
Contact details
Telephone: 01273 327757
Email: cornerstonecommunitycentre@hotmail.com
- The Hangleton & Knoll Project
A community development , youth work and IT training charity that works with the communities of Hangleton & Knoll.
Contact details
Address: St.Helens Parish Offices
Hangleton Way
Hove
BN3 8ER
Telephone: 01273 881446 - Hanover Community Centre
The centre provides community activities and aims to improve the quality of life for the residents of the Hanover area of Brighton.
Contact details
Address: 33 Southover Street
Brighton
BN2 9UD
Telephone: 01273 694 873 - St John's Centre & Café
Provides social & educational activities. Also café with homemade lunches & snacks. Activities include art, exercise, discussion, quizzes, computer & photography groups.
Contact details
Address: Palmeira Square, Hove
Telephone: 01273 729603 - The Stroke Association
Support groups for younger people with stroke. - The Trust for Developing Communities (TDC)
The TDC was set up in recognition that Brighton's deprived neighbourhoods needed support to improve their communities.
Contact details
Address: Wavertree House
Somerhill Road
Hove
BN3 1RN - Vallance Community Centre
Community centre providing services for the local community, especially the elderly. Computer classes, craft afternoons, coffee mornings, memories group. Run by committee of local people.
Contact details
Address: Conway Court,
Sackville Road
Hove
BN3 3WR
Counselling and bereavement
Counselling
- Brighteye Counselling
Online alcohol treatment and counselling - Brighton Women's Centre
A specialist women's counselling service, offering women a safe, confidential and supportive environment to explore all kinds of thoughts, feelings and experiences.
Contact details:
Address: Brighton Women’s Centre
72 High Street
Kemp Town
BN2 1RP
Telephone: 07804 295 671 - Brighton and Hove Federation of Disabled People
Seek to enhance peoples lives within the community by providing a range of services to tackle some of the daily issues that disabled people, their carers, and families experience.
Contact details:
Telephone: 01273 20 89 34 - Everyman Project
The counselling programme is a seven month therapeutic programme designed to support and challenge men ceasing their violent and/or abusive behaviours.
Contact details:
Telephone:0207 263 8884 - Mankind
Support for men who have been sexually abused.
Contact details:
Address: Mankind
PO Box 124
Newhaven
BN9 9TQ
Telephone: 01273 510 447 - Samaritans
Provides confidential non-judgemental emotional support, 24 hours a day for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide.
Contact details:
Telephone: 08457 90 90 90 - Sussex Counselling
A professional group of independent counsellors offering their services to the public.
Contact details:
Address: Sussex Counselling
PO Box 308, Brighton
BN2 0WA
Telephone: 01273 732900
Email:info@sussex-counselling.co.uk - The Rock Clinic
Professional psychological and complementary therapy.
Contact details:
Address: The Rock Clinic Association
270 Eastern Road
Brighton
BN2 5TA
Telephone: 01273 621 841 between 10.00am - 1.00pm, weekday mornings
Email: office@rockclinic.ndo.co.uk - University of Brighton Counselling
Situated within Student Services and provides a safe, confidential environment to discuss worries with a qualified and experienced counsellor.
Contact details
Address:Room 153 First floor (Student Services)
Main building
Grand Parade
Telephone: 01273 643187
Email: counsellinggrandparade@brighton.ac.uk
Bereavement
- Armchair Advice
Armchair Advice is a place you can turn to if you are experiencing terminal illness or bereavement. - Bereavement Advice Centre
- Cruse Bereavement Care
- Cruse Bereavement Services (330kb PDF file)
This leaflet offers support and advice when someone has been affected by a death. - National Association of Funeral Directors
- The Compassionate Friends
Supporting bereaved parents and their families. - The National Association of Widows
- Woodvale Crematorium
Lesbian Gay Bi-sexual and Transgender
- Allsorts
Downloadable resources for the LGBT community. - BLAGSS Brighton Lesbian & Gay Sports Society
Members are provided opportunities to participate in a number of organised sporting activities, from badminton and swimming to walking and windsurfing as well as regular social events.
Contact details
Address: PO Box 5183
Brighton
BN50 9WD
Telephone: 0845 652 5247 - Brighton & Hove Black Women's Group
Resource centre providing help, support and information for black women, counselling, complementary therapies, pre-school education for 2-4 year olds.
Contact details
Address: c/o Brighton Women's Centre
72 High Street
Brighton
BN2 1PR
Telephone: 01273 698036
Email: info@womenscentre.org.uk - Brighton Lesbian & Gay Switchboard
Free confidential service offers help with coming to terms with sexuality or HIV status, or general information on gay hotels and events & face to face counselling service with professional counsellors.
Contact details
Address: PO Box 3476
Brighton
BN1 1GN
Telephone: 01273 204050 - Everyday 5 - 11 pm - Brighton: Our Story
Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual history groups. Invited you to join walks, tours and discussions about Brighton's fruitful roots. - Brighton Pride
Information, pictures and listings for both summer and winter Pride festivals. - Broken Rainbow LGBT Domestic Violence
Offering advice, support and referral services to LGBT people experiencing homophobic, transphobic and same sex domestic violence.
Contact details:
National LGBT helpline
Monday: 2 - 8pm
Wednesday: 10 - 1pm
Thursday: 2 - 8pm
Telephone:0300 999 LGBT (5428)
- Gayswag
Gay Sussex walking group, information and pictures from previous walks.
Contact details:
Telephone: 0870 7605476 - Gay Elderly Men's Society (Gems)
To reduce isolation and raise awareness of the needs of older gay men, also promotes a befriending scheme.
Contact details
Address: c/o Age Concern
29-31 Prestonville Road
Brighton
BN1 3TJ
Email: peterwotto@onetel.com - LGBT University of Sussex Student's Union
- MindOut - Lesbian & Gay Advocacy Project
Support group for lesbian & gay men with mental health problems.
Contact details
Address: MindOut
Allen Centre
60 Sackville Gardens
Hove
Telephone: 01273 739847
Email: info@lgbtmind.com - Rainbow Chorus
Brighton and Hove's only LGBT choir. - Spectrum
LGBT community forum. - Stonewall
The lesbian, gay and bisexual charity. - University of Brighton LGBT Students Society
- Were here, we're queer, but we're not always happy (PDF 429)
LGBT mental health project. Support advice groups, advocacy, information and training.
Religious and faith groups
- Brighthelm Church and Community Centre
Contact details
Address:North Road,
Brighton,
East Sussex
BN1 1YD
Telephone: 01273 821512 - Brighton and Hove City Mission
Contact details
Address: Brighton and Hove City Mission
88 London Road
Brighton
BN1 4JF
Telephone: 01273 609484 - Brighton & Hove Muslim Forum
A non-profit organisation hoping to serve the religious, social & cultural needs of the local Muslim Community. Provide support and weekend activities for Muslim children & assist with projects for Muslim women.
Contact details
Address: PO Box 432
Brighton
BN1 6NU
Telephone: 08713 109986
Email: info@bhmf.org.uk - CityCoast Church
CityCoast Church is a vibrant church in Portslade, Brighton & Hove.
Contact details
Address: North Street
Portslade
BN41 1DG
Telephone: 01273 433433 - Community Safe Team
Team provides free information & support by telephone or drop-in if you are a victim of hate crime, violence, or anti-social behaviour.
Contact details
Address: Brighton and Hove City Council
162 North Street
Brighton
BN1 1EA
Telephone: 01273 291099 - Holland Road Baptist Church
A church in the community for the community. Friday Lunch Club, Ladies Keep Fit and much more.
Contact details
Address: 71 Holland Road
Hove
BN3 1JN
Telephone: 01273 732111 - Interfaith Contact Group (IFCG)
Set up as a resource for contact and dialogue between the many faith communities in Brighton & Hove. - Modern Jesus Army
The Jesus Army (also known as the Jesus Fellowship Church) aims to be a contemporary expression of the historic Christian faith.
Contact details
Address: Abundant Grace
Firle Road
Seaford
BN25 2JE
Telephone: 0845 166 8151
Women's groups
- Brighton Women's Centre
Lists all services, including counselling, therapies and drop in sessions.
Contact details
Address: 72, High Street
Brighton
BN2 1RP
Telephone: 01273 698036 - East Sussex Federation of Women's Institutes
Lists all Women's Institutes in East Sussex - National Women's Register
An international organisation of women's discussion groups. Each group aims to provide its members with the opportunity to take part in stimulating discussions on a wide range of topics. - Rise
Freedom form domestic violence, formerly the Women’s Refuge Project.
Contact details
Telephone:01273 622 822 - Survivors' Network
A charity set up by female survivors for female survivors of sexual abuse in childhood. Services provide support, listening, information, connections and space for women to use. - Threshold Women
Mental and general health services. - Women's Aid
Women's Aid is the key national charity working to end domestic violence against women and children. They support a network of over 500 domestic and sexual violence services across the UK. - Women's Health in Brighton and Sussex
The central ethos is to provide the right care for the right woman in the right place. - Victim Support Brighton and Hove
Provides information, practical help & emotional support for those affected by a crime. Information on police & court procedures, compensation & insurance matters. Area covered Brighton, Hove & Portslade
Contact details
Address: Unit 11
Riverside Business Centre
Brighton Road
Shoreham By Sea
BN43 6RE
Telephone: 0845 3899528
Email: asif.mohammed@victimsupport.org.uk
Providing you with information to help you and your family live longer, healthier, more comfortable lives