46 Green Street
Gillingham
Kent ME7 5TJ

No appointment necessary, just call at reception.

5A New Road Avenue
Chatham
Kent ME4 6BG

No appointment necessary, just call at reception.

• Adaptations and Occupational Therapy Service

• AddAction provides information, advice and support for those affected by substance misuse.
  55 Green Street
  Gillingham
  Kent ME7 1AE
  Phone: 01634 326881

• Medway Adult Learning Service

• Age Concern
  The Mackenney Centre
  Woodlands Road
  Gillingham
  Kent ME7 2BX
  Phone: 01634 572616

• Balfour Centre
  A day centre for physically disabled people.

• Caring Hands is a Christian charity, working with homeless and disadvantaged people in Medway.
  New Road Avenue
  Chatham
  Kent ME4 6BA
  Phone: 01634 409768

• Chatham and North Kent Victim Support helps people cope with the effects of crime.
  The Old Pay Office
  The Historic Dockyard
  Chatham
  Kent ME4 4TE
  Phone: 01634 401733

• Connexions offers information and advice for 13 to 19 year-olds.
  205–217 New Road
  Chatham
  Kent ME4 4QA
  Phone: 01634 845936

• Disabled Persons’ Accommodation Agency helps to match disabled people with suitably adapted properties.
  312 High Street
  Rochester
  Kent ME1 1BT
  Phone: 01634 819922
  Email: info@dpaa.co.uk

• Equinox has specialist alcohol services.

• Family and Adolescent Centre

• Home Improvement Agency

• Homebuy is a charitable housing association assisting people towards home ownership.

• Medway Mediation provides free, impartial and confidential services to help people involved in disputes.
  77A High Street
  Chatham
  Kent ME4 4EE
  Phone: 01634 832285

• Moving Forward provides support, opportunities and choices to vulnerable young people aged 16 to 25 years.
  31 Cross Street
  Chatham
  Kent ME4 4LT
  Phone: 01634 827772

• Relate provides counselling, sex therapy and relationship education; supporting couples and family relationships throughout life.
  The White House
  Riverside
  Chatham
  Kent ME4 4SL
  Phone: 01634 846914

• Substance Misuse Medway provides information, advice and support for those affected by substance misuse.
  4 Manor Road
  Chatham
  Kent ME4 6AG
  Phone: 01634 830114

• Sure Start is a government programme to deliver the best start in life for every child.

• The Kent Energy Centre
  (Open Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm)
  Phone: 0800 358 6669
  Email: enquiries@kentenergycentre.org.uk

• The Samaritans provide confidential non-judgemental emotional support for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those that could lead to suicide.

• West Kent Substance Misuse provides information, advice and support for those affected by substance misuse.
  Throwley House
  49 Maidstone Road
  Chatham
  Kent ME4 6DP
  Phone: 01634 845678

• Apna Ghar Centre
  1 Kingswood Road
  Gillingham
  Kent ME7 1EA
  Phone: 01634 850445

• Kent Muslim Welfare Association

• Medway Afro Caribbean Association
  PO Box 225
  Gillingham
  Kent ME7 1NN
  Phone: 01634 234152
  Email: m_a_c_a1992@hotmail.com

• Rainbow Arts
  4 Lancaster Court
  Wigmore
  Gillingham
  Kent ME8 0JP
  Phone: 01634 364669
  Email: anwar_iqbal@hotmail.com

• Welcome Day Centre

• The Child Support Agency ensures parents who live apart from their children contribute financially to their upkeep by paying child maintenance.
  National Helpline
  PO Box 55
  Brierley Hill
  Dudley
  DY5 1EL
  Phone: 08457 133133

• Medway Fire Safety Office
  25 Watling Street
  Gillingham
  Kent ME5 7HQ
  Phone: 01634 283550

• Medway Maritime Hospital

• Medway Police Station

• Chatham Jobcentre Plus

• AMAT (Ashdown Medway Accommodation Trust)
  10 Chelmar Road
  Chatham
  Kent ME4 4PB
  Phone: 0800 6981000 or 01634 404225

• Lifeline Support is a housing project set up to provide advice, support and training for vulnerable adults aged between 18 and 65 years.
  2A Batchelor Street
  Chatham
  Kent ME4 4BJ
  Phone: 01634 818116

• Medway Cyrenians is a hostel service providing housing-related support to single homeless people aged over 16 years.
  16–20 Pier Road
  Gillingham
  Kent ME7 1RJ
  Phone: 01634 573480

• Nightstop is emergency overnight accommodation for people under 25 years old.
  URC
  High Street
  Sittingbourne
  Kent ME10 4AJ
  Phone: 01795 470781, 471339 or 429716

• Quays (hostel service)
  Crown Key Lane
  Sittingbourne
  Kent ME10 3JN
  Phone: 01795 471376

• Asylum Aid (advice helpline open Monday 2-4.30pm and Thursday 10am-12.30pm)
  Phone: 0207 354 9264
  www.asylumaid.org.uk

• Benefit Enquiry Line (advice on social security benefits)
  Phone: 0800 882200
  Textphone: 0800 243355

• Carers UK (carers’ helpline)
  Phone: 0808 808 7777

• Childline (free 24-hour helpline)
  Phone: 0800 1111

• Drinkline (individual help and advice)
  Phone: 0800 917 8282

• Help the Aged SeniorLine (advice and information service)
  Phone: 0808 800 6565

• National Missing Persons’ Helpine (open 24 hours)
  Phone: 0500 700 700

• NHS Direct (online health information and self-help guide, as well as a phone number which is open 24 hours)
  Phone: 0845 4647
  www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk

• NSPCC Child Protection helpline (free 24-hour)
  Phone: 0808 800 5000

• Release (information about drugs, the law and human rights)
  Phone: 0845 4500 215
  www.release.org.uk

• Runaway Helpline (free 24-hour help for people aged 17 years and under)
  Phone: 0808 800 7070

• Samaritans (free 24-hour support-line)
  Phone: 08457 909090

• Shelter (free housing advice helpline, open 8am to midnight)
  Phone: 0808 800 4444

• Talk, Don’t Walk (provides support, advice and guidance to young people who have run away, or are thinking of running away)
  Phone: 0800 085 2136

• Talk to Frank (help and advice, A-Z of drugs)

• Veterans’ Agency (a Ministry of Defence agency that offers help to those who have left the armed services)
  Open Monday-Thursday, 8.15am-5.15pm and Friday 8.15am-4.30pm.
  Phone: 0800 169 2277
  Textphone: 0800 169 3458
  www.veterans-uk.info/index.html

• 24-hour Domestic Abuse Helpine
  Phone: 0808 2000 247

• Child Protection Unit Kent police (Medway)
  Phone: 01634 792320

• Domestic Abuse Office Kent police (Medway)
  Phone: 01634 792306

• Dove Project 24-hour Helpline
  Phone: 0170 230 0006

• Mankind
  Phone: 0127 351 0447

• Victim Support
  Phone: 01634 401733

• Women’s Support Service
  Phone: 01622 761146