Services
📍 Bridgend Samaritans (Local Branch)
A local branch of Samaritans offering emotional support in Bridgend. Open by appointment for in-person visits. You can call the free national number any time.
📞 116 123
📍 2 Victoria Avenue, Bridgend CF31 3AB
🔗 www.samaritans.org
📍 Live Fear Free Helpline (Partner Service)
While this is a national service, Bridgend residents can access it 24/7 for support related to domestic abuse, sexual violence, and harassment.
📞 0808 80 10 800
📧 livefearfree@gov.wales
🔗 gov.wales/live-fear-free
📍 Platfform – Out-of-Hours Mental Health Support (Bridgend)
Evening and weekend telephone mental health support for people in Bridgend.
📞 01792 763350
📧 BOH@platfform.org
🔗 www.platfform.org
📍 Mind Infoline / Mind Cymru
Provides mental health information, support options, and signposting.
📞 0300 123 3393 (Mon–Fri, 9am–6pm)
📧 info@mind.org.uk
🔗 www.mind.org.uk
📞 NHS 111 Wales – Option 2 (Mental Health)
🕐 24/7 Freephone support
🔗 111.wales.nhs.uk
📍 NYAS Cymru
Advocacy service for care-experienced children and young people across Wales.
📞 0808 808 1001
📧 help@nyas.net
🔗 www.nyas.net
📍 Rethink Mental Illness Advice Line
Freephone support for individuals affected by serious mental illness.
📞 0808 801 0525
📧 info@rethink.org
🔗 www.rethink.org
📍 Galop – National LGBTQ+ Domestic Abuse Helpline
Specialist support for LGBTQ+ people facing domestic abuse, hate crime, or sexual violence.
📞 0800 999 5428
📧 help@galop.org.uk
🔗 www.galop.org.uk
📍 Jonathan’s House Ministries (UK)
Offers helpline support, awareness training, and partnerships with churches to create safe zones across the UK.
📞 0800 52 44 202
Both Parents Matter Cymru are a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting victims of Domestic abuse & sexual Abuse. Because of safe case working loads, we are NOT able to support cases based in England at this time. We are only able to deal with cases based in Wales.
📍 DAN 24/7 (Wales Drug & Alcohol Helpline)
Bilingual helpline offering support for anyone dealing with substance misuse.
📞 0808 808 2234
🔗 www.dan247.org.uk
📍 Family Lives
National helpline for parents and carers offering support with family stress, bullying, and behavioural concerns.
📞 0808 800 2222
🔗 www.familylives.org.uk
📍 Papyrus – HOPELINEUK
Suicide prevention for under-35s or those worried about a young person.
📞 0800 068 4141 (24/7)
📱 Text: 07860 039967
📧 pat@papyrus-uk.org
🔗 www.papyrus-uk.org
The Hub of Hope is the UK's largest and most comprehensive directory of community mental health services, so you can find help when you need it, wherever you are.
It is free to use and available on desktop and from the App Store and Play Store. It is also free for organisations to register their details.
Each year +300,000 people find help for themselves and others via the Hub of Hope - you can too.
Provided by national mental health charity,Chasing the Stigma, the Hub of Hope is the only directory of its kind in the UK that brings local, national, peer, community, charity, private and NHS mental health support services together in one place.
Tens of thousands of services are listed on the Hub of Hope, with numbers growing every day.
Compact Stress
Veterans with PTSD, Complex-PTSD, and moral injury may need a specialist team made up of different mental health professionals to help them and we provide this. Our own clinical staff work closely with each other and the veteran to develop a treatment plan that best suits their needs. We provide highly effective trauma care to veterans, focusing on those with PTSD, Complex-PTSD, and moral injury. Our clinical treatment is highly effective, demonstrating very strong outcomes and positive experiences.
Men's Sheds Cymru
Men’s Sheds Cymru introduced and now drives forward the Men’s Sheds movement in Wales. Men’s Sheds is an internationally recognised and successful concept for establishing community groups specifically around the needs of men.
The Mix
The Mix a UK based charity that provides free, confidential support for young people aged 13to25. They offer an arrange of services.
Mind Cymru
Mind Cymru is Mind in Wales. We make sure everyone in Wales has access to the mental health information, support and services they need. We are here to make sure no-one in Wales faces a mental health problem alone.
SOBS
We help individuals support each other, at the time of their loss and in the months and years that follow. We aim to provide safe, confidential environments where people can share their experiences and feelings, giving and gaining support from each other.
Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide - Overcoming the isolation of people bereaved by suicide
Mental Health Matters Wales
Our Personal Experience Network, OPEN, is a diverse online community of people who share their experience to inform what we do.
Mental Health Foundation | Everyone deserves good mental health
Living with schizophrenia
Living with schizophrenia was launched in 2013 in the UK to provide a platform for those living with schizophrenia in the wider sense: sufferers, carers and relatives, to try to bring a fresh insight to the subjects of schizophrenia and schizo-affective disorder and to provide information about the condition to all those living with it. We hope also that the information in these pages will be of use to those working in the field of mental health and will help to improve awareness of the condition in wider society.
Turn2us
Turn2us is a national charity providing practical help to people who are struggling financially.
Find out what support you can get if you're finding it hard to make ends meet.
Use our tools to build financial security for your users.
Student Minds
Student Minds empower students to build their own mental health toolkit to support themselves and their peers through university life and beyond. We challenge the higher education sector, health sector and government to make student mental health a priority.
https://www.studentminds.org.uk
Bipolar UK
As the UK’s only charity dedicated to bipolar disorder, Bipolar UK empowers individuals through peer support, including online communities, support groups, and telephone services. While this charity does not provide crisis support, it offers valuable ongoing assistance
UK-wide treatment agency, helping individuals, families and communities to manage the effects of drug and alcohol misuse.
NAS
Explore 60 years of the National Autistic Society through our archive — and discover the people and stories that shaped autism understanding in the UK. Offering sup[port to people UK-Wide
The Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA)is a UK charity and network of 130 organisations, dedicated to ensuring women and families affected by perinatal mental health problems have access to high-quality, compassionate care
Macmillan has spent more than 100 years helping people living with cancer. From the moment someone is diagnosed with cancer, we're there with all the information, support and guidance they need, to help everyone with cancer live life as fully as they can.
What does Macmillan Cancer Support do? | Macmillan Cancer Support
The Brain Charity
We help people with all forms of neurological condition to lead longer, healthier, happier lives.
Home - Support for neurological conditions | The Brain Charity
Sliver Cloud
We offer friendship, conversation, and support to older people aged 55 and over. Whatever the day or time, you can pick up the phone and speak to one of our friendly Silver Line team members.
Whether you’d like to exchange a quick “good morning” with someone, fancy a chat about how your day has gone, or need a trusted listening ear to share your thoughts and feelings with, we’re here to talk.
Action for Children
Action for Children give vulnerable children and young people the protection and practical help they urgently need, and tirelessly campaigning for lasting change.
Who we are | Our vision, mission and values | Action For Children
NSPCC
We're the UK's leading children’s charity. We’ve been working to stop child abuse and neglect for over 140 years. We’re the only UK children’s charity with statutory powers, which means we can take action to safeguard children at risk of abuse.
BEAT UK
Beat is the UK’s eating disorder charity. They started in 1989 as the first national charity for people with eating disorders following a merger of two local charities. Initially called the Eating Disorders Association, they have grown and developed over time to become Beat.
Dementia UK
We are the specialist dementia nursing charity that is here for the whole family. Our nurses, known as Admiral Nurses, provide free, life-changing support and advice to anyone affected by dementia.
Anxiety UK
At Anxiety UK, we’re not just a charity – we’re a small team driven by our own lived experience of anxiety to help others.
Our aim is: to make the despair caused by anxiety, a thing of the past.
PTSD UK
PTSD UK is the only charity in the UK dedicated to raising awareness of post-traumatic stress disorder – no matter the trauma that caused it
Samaritans
Whatever you're going through, a Samaritan will face it with you. We're here 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Samaritans | Every life lost to suicide is a tragedy | Here to listen
Crisis
Crisis was formed in 1967, as an urgent response to the growing homelessness crisis. Since then we have helped tens of thousands of people out of homelessness, and campaigned for change.
Crisis homelessness charity - Together we will end homelessness
Parkinsons UK
If you have Parkinson’s, or support someone who does, we’re here for you in Wales.
Find out how you can get information and support, what we’re doing near you, and how you can join in.
The Best Beginnings Baby Buddy app is a free ,multi-award-winning parenting and pregnancy app designedtosupportparents,co-parents,andcaregiversthroughouttheirjourney.
Young Minds
We provide young people with the tools to look after their mental health. We empower adults to be the best support they can be to the young people in their lives. And we give young people the space and confidence to get their voices heard and change the world we live in.
Together, we can create a world where no young person feels alone with their mental health.
The Sleep Charity
The Sleep Charity, incorporating The Sleep Council, provide advice and support to empower the nation to sleep better. We campaign to improve sleep support and access to high quality information, raise awareness of the value of a good night’s sleep and promote understanding around the complexities of sleep.