Service Area: Local Support

Do you have a child aged 8 to 16 years? Are they struggling to cope with todays issues? Do you want help to support them? We are running 4 parenting information sessions to help parents and carers support their children with relevant difficult issues. School related stress, including transition from years 6 to 7 - 1st September 2020  Online and Cyber Safety – 6th October 2020 Children’s Mental health concerns (coping strategies and resilience) - 3rd November 2020 Support your child’s friendship issues (primary & secondary school) – 1st December 2020 Cost: £10 per person, per session. Delivery: via Zoom, once paid, you will be emailed a link. Time: 7pm to 8:30 pm...

Translators without Borders has produced a very useful table which translates 186 words and/or phrases associated with COVID-19 into 35 different languages. It also provides you with a definition of each term and it is searchable by term and languages, making it easy to navigate.   For example 'alcohol-based hand rub' is '물없이 문질러 사요하는 알코올 제제' in Korean and 'sabuni ya kunawa mikono iliyotengenezwa kwa pombe' in Swahili (KE).   Click here to see the table in full.

Want to connect with other people and get connected online? Want to  video call with friends or family, join facebook, go along to an online art exhibition, or craft and chatter group, or join a peer support zoom call or an online chat, but not sure how to? It's a great way to feel connected when you can't get along to groups or get out and about. Give us a call and one of our Southampton volunteers will be happy to help. Know someone else who could use this help? Give them our number or with their permission send us their...

Many cancer patients have had treatments cancelled, delayed, reduced and altered because of the potential threat of catching coronavirus but also because they did actually contract the virus. The psychological impact of shielding will be significant. People have had to receive bad news and had protracted stays in hospital acutely unwell without loved ones. At home many people are developing significant anxiety and depression as result of shielding and are already very frightened of adjusting to life after lockdown. Many people have felt very vulnerable about the reminder of cancer even though their cancer was treated years ago. As a...

Family Support in Southampton Families and Professionals can contact Solent NHS Trust Health Visiting, Family Nurse Partnership and School Nursing via the Duty Line: Monday – Fridays 9 – 4pm. Direct line: 0300 123 6661 Health Visiting – Solent Pulse Text Messaging Service: 07491 163 277 School Nursing – Solent Pulse Text Messaging Service: 07491 163 278 Additional  information: Families can access local information via Sure Start: Click Here   Sure Start can also be found on Facebook where they are sharing lots of information via Zoom (downloadable) Other national support: National Childbirth Trust (NCT): Click Here Can also be...

Connect 4 Summer- We are providing 10 free childcare sessions to families in receipt of Free School Meals (FSM) with working parents. Please contact the providers directly. Children must be aged 5 and older. You will be required to provide proof of FSM.

Christians Against Poverty, CAP, is still working through the pandemic. CAP offers free debt counselling to anyone in the community regardless of race or religion. Our usual service is face to face with clients in their homes. At this time, to comply with the current guidelines, we are offering a telephone based service so people are still able to receive help and support. The predictions are that many people will struggle financially during and after this time.   CAP is still available and will be delighted to work with any clients who need our help. Clients can refer themselves very...

City Catering Southampton are an independent charitable company that operate Southampton City Councils Meals on Wheels service. We support our customer’s independence by ensuring they receive a nutritious hot meal straight to their door, complete with welfare checks. We can also deliver a afternoon tea, consisting of a sandwich, cake and a yogurt, delivered with your hot meal. On Fridays, we deliver additional frozen meals for the weekend if needed. We will also provide additional meals over the Bank Holiday weekends. Tailored menus We serve a wide variety of meals, tailored to the individual needs of our customers. All meals...

A message from Jo Ash, SVS CEO We hope you all unfurled your flags and billowed your bunting, enjoyed the VE Day bank holiday and sang ‘We’ll Meet Again’ with vim and vigour last weekend.   I wish it could have been joined by ‘Pack up your Troubles’  but fear we may though be feeling slightly more confused about when and how either might happen following the PM’s announcements on Sunday.  This has shifted the message slightly, relaxed the rules a bit about what we can all do and when things will be opening up, so we will all need to...