To find all the help and support available to Manchester residents, please visit the councils helping hands website here

Another site where you can find local services to help you get what you need. From a supportive chat and a warm meal, to legal advice and medical help, find help near you Find Help – Street Support

Support for Mental Health services in Manchester can be found on the below websites:

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust: Offers a range of mental health services, including community support and recovery programs. 

Manchester Mind: An independent local mental health charity providing support and services for nearly 35 years. 

Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs): Provide multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment for individuals with severe mental health problems. 

Mental Health Liaison Services: Available for those needing help, advice, and support. 

Further advice can also be found on the below websites:

Citizens Advice Drop-in Sessions – Longsight Digital Hub | Help & Support Manchester

www.manchestermind.org/benefits-debt-housing/

Money Advice: How To Maximise Your Income. StepChange

Cheetham Hill Advice Centre – Services (cheethamadvice.org.uk)

Fighting UK Poverty – Turn2us

If you are in need of new furniture or white goods the below are some good sites where you can get discounted or pre-loved items.

Ardwick furniture shop – St Ann’s Hospice (sah.org.uk) – Offering a vast range of pre-loved furniture, electricals and homeware.  

Gumtree 

Freecycle 

Renewal NW – Stockport: An independent Christian charity, working with the long-term unemployed to break down barriers to employment.  

British Heart Foundation – Offering a vast range of pre-loved furniture, electricals and homeware.  

Clean Start – Trafford: Addresses wider social and economic issues, re-investing profits back into the community.  

Tree of Life – Wythenshawe: Providing valuable services to the community, from a furniture re-use shop to health and wellbeing sessions.  

The Mustard Tree – Manchester: A low-cost furniture distribution service, with vintage furniture, clothing, and white goods on sale too.  

Buttle Trust: Providing items for young people that their parents cannot necessarily afford.