Self Help Groups in North West England
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Chester Rape Crisis offer a free, confidential support service with access to trained counsellors on an appointment only basis. For all women and girls over the age of 11 who have suffered any form of sexual abuse or violence at any time of their lives.

Chester Rape Crisis
PO Box 280
Chester
CH1 1FB

Telephone: 01244 317922

Opening hours: Mondays: 7pm - 10pm. Fridays: 3pm - 6pm. All other times: closed.

Chester Therapy Centre provides counselling and psychotherapy for individuals and families. Psychological assessment, training and consultancy. Specialising in issues of abuse.

Chester Therapy Centre
20 Walpole Street,
Chester,
Cheshire,
CH1 4HG.

Telephone 01244-390121

Opening hours: Monday 9am- 5pm. All other times: closed.

Cleveland Rape and Sexual Abuse Counselling Service provide a Helpline and face to face counselling for women and girls over 12 who have experienced sexual violence. Information for staff from other agencies, friends and relatives. Can refer men to relevant services. Also provides support on eating disorders and self-harm.

Cleveland Rape and Sexual Abuse Counselling Service
PO Box 31,
Middlesbrough
TS4 2JJ

Telephone 01642 225787

Opening hours: Monday: 9am - 7.30pm Tuesday: 9am - 4.30pm Wednesday: 9am - 4.30pm Thursday: 9am - 7.30pm Friday: 9am - 4pm Weekend: closed.

CRASH - Chorley Rape and Sexual Abuse Helpline provide telephone support service and face to face counselling for people who have been raped or sexually abused or assaulted and for their partners, families and friends. Male and female counsellors are available for face to face counselling.

CRASH
c/o CVS,
Astley Hall Farmhouse,
Hall Gate,
Astley Village,
Chorley,
Lancs
PR7 1XA

Telephone 01257 267776

Monday: Closed Tuesday: 7pm - 9.30pm Wednesday: Closed Thursday: Closed Friday: Closed Weekend: closed.

Family Contact Line is a telephone helpline and offers free counselling on all issues of an emotional nature, such as marital and relationship difficulties, bereavement, stress, illness, work, redundancy and abuse. FCL also offers a free listening service and telephone helpline for anyone. Free face to face counselling is also available, by appointment.

Telephone: 0845 120 3788

Opening hours: Mon – Fri 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Fire in Ice is a Merseyside based self-help project run by and for men who have experienced child abuse especially those who were abused in childcare institutions.

Manchester Rape Crisis provide a telephone and face to face counselling, support, advice and information for women and girls who have experienced sexual violence.

Manchester Rape Crisis
PO Box 336,
Manchester
M60 2BS

Telephone 0161 273 4500

Opening hours: Monday: Closed Tuesday: 2pm - 5pm Wednesday: 6pm - 9pm Thursday: 6pm - 9pm Friday: 2pm - 5pm Weekend: Sunday 6pm - 9pm.

Mothers of Abused Children offers a telephone helpline and befriending service to the mothers of children who have been sexually abused. Support is offered to both families, and victims, male and female. The line also supports those who are concerned about the disclosure of organised child sexual abuse and multiple sexual abuse of children.

MOAC
25 Wampool Street
Silloth
Cumbria
CA7 4AA

Telephone: 01697 331432

Opening hours: Calls are taken after 6pm. Answerphone operates during the day.

Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Centre The Rape And Sexual Abuse Support Centre Warrington offers specialist support services to women, men, young people and their families who have experienced any form of sexual violence.

RASASC
P.O Box 35
Warrington
WA1 1DW

Telephone:01925 221546

Opening hours: Monday and Thursday 6.30-8.30pm. Wed 1-3pm.

Rape Crisis North Staffs and South Cheshire provides telephone and face to face counselling for any woman or girl who has been subject to any degree of sexual abuse, recently or in the past. Also offer information and support and accompany women to relevant agencies. Provide training for other organisations.

Rape Crisis
PO Box 254,
Hanley,
Stoke on Trent
ST1 4RE


Telephone 01782 221000

Monday: 10am - 4pm Tuesday: 10am - 4pm Wednesday: 10am - 4pm Thursday: 10am - 4pm Friday: 10am - 4pm Weekend:closed.

RASA Centre Rape and Sexual Abuse offer counselling, information and support for women and girls who are survivors of rape, sexual assault, child sexual abuse or any other form of sexual violence. Service for women from black and ethnic communities on Fridays 7pm-9pm. They offer face to face counselling, groupwork, advocacy and support for dealing with courts, police stations, hospitals.

RASA Centre
PO Box 35,
Birkenhead,
Wirral,
Merseyside
CH42 4RX

Telephone 0151 666 1392

Monday: 7pm - 9pm Tuesday: Closed Wednesday: 2pm - 5pm Thursday: 7pm - 9pm Friday: 7pm-9pm black/ethnic women Weekend: Sunday 3pm - 5pm.

SAIVE Sexual Abuse and Incest Victims Emerge provide Information, advice and support for people who have experienced sexual abuse or incest during childhood. They also provide information to survivors' families and friends.

SAIVE
The Dudson Centre,
Hope Street,
Hanley,
Staffordshire
ST1 5DD

Telephone 01782 683133

Opening hours: Monday: 9.30am - 4pm Tuesday: 9.30am - 4pm Wednesday: 9.30am - 4pm Thursday: 9.30am - 4pm Friday: 9.30am - 4pm . Weekend: closed.

SIS Self Injury Support is a local voluntary organisation based in North Cumbria that aims to support people who self-harm, and offer information and support to their families, friends and colleagues.

SIS
Riverside House
Warwick Road
Carlisle
Cumbria.
CA1 2BS

Telephone: 01228 515500

Opening hours: Mon- Fri 9am- 5pm. All other times: closed.

South Cumbria Rape and Abuse Service run a telephone service for anyone who has been, or is being, sexually abused or who has been raped. Line staffed by women on Monday 7pm-9pm, staffed by men 1st Wednesday of the month 7pm-8.30pm. Also offers individual and group counselling.

South Cumbria Rape and Abuse Service
Stricklandgate House,
92 Stricklandgate,
Kendal,
Cumbria
LA9 4PU

Telephone 01539 734743

Opening hours: Monday: 7pm - 9pm Tuesday: closed. Wednesday: 1st Weds of month - male counsellor Thursday:closed. Friday: closed . Weekend: closed.

Survive give telephone support and individual counselling for adult survivors (over 14) of childhood sexual abuse, incest and rape. Provide information and resource material about sexual abuse to anyone concerned with the issue.

Survive
156 Nantwich Road,
Crewe
CW2 6BG

Telephone 01270 253179

Opening hours:Monday: 1pm - 4pm Tuesday: 1pm - 4pm Wednesday: 1pm - 4pm Thursday: closed. Friday: 1pm - 4pm. Weekend: closed.

West Cumbria Rape Crisis run a helpline and face to face support for adults in West Cumbria who have experienced rape or sexual abuse at any time in their lives. Also offer support to partners and family members, friends and professionals supporting someone who has experienced abuse.

West Cumbria Rape Crisis
Strawberry How Business Centre,
Lorton Road,
Cockermouth,
Cumbria
CA13 9XQ

Telephone 01900 829729

Opening hours: Monday: 1pm - 3pm Tuesday: 10am - 12 noon Wednesday: closed. Thursday: 7pm - 9pm Friday: closed. Weekend: closed.

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