SUPPORT CENTRES, GROUPS
& DROP-IN SERVICES
Body and Soul
Provides services for women, children, teenagers and heterosexual
men living with HIV. Runs a youth group (Teen Spirit - Thursday,
6.00 - 9.00pm), a mixed group for heterosexuals, a well woman clinic,
yoga, information service, welfare benefits advice and legal advice.
Support group for women on Thursdays 6.00 - 9.00pm. Family day on
Saturday.
9 Tavistock Place
London WC1H 9SN
Tel: 020 7383 7678
Email: info@bodyandsoulcharity.co.uk
Website: www.bodyandsoul.demon.co.uk
CARA (Care & Resources For People
Affected By HIV/AIDS)
Provides pastoral care, complementary therapies, home and
hospital visits, support to carers, Sunday lunches, social gathering,
women’s drop-in and a gay men’s group.
95 Sidar Road
London W11 4EQ
Tel: 020 7792 8299
Email: info@caralife.com
Website: www.caralife.com
English Collective of Prostitutes
A network of women working in the sex industry who offer support
and information on sexual health, HIV/AIDS and prostitution laws.
Crossroads Women’s Centre
230a Kentish Town Road
London NW5 2AB (entrance in Caversham Road).
Tel: 020 7482 2496
Globe Centre
Is a resource centre for people living with HIV offering a wide
range of services. Full disabled access.
159 Mile End Road
London E1 4AQ
Tel: 020 7791 2855
Email: info@theglobecentre.co.uk
Website: www.theglobecentre.co.uk
Lighthouse West London (Terrence Higgins
Trust Lighthouse)
Is a support centre for people living with HIV. Has a drop-in centre
and café. Offers advice and advocacy, HIV nurse specialist,
nutrition advice, complementary therapies, podiatry and hairdressing.
Runs programmes in personal development, computer skills, returning
to work. Offers support and therapy groups.
Also specialist information, advice, advocacy and support service
for people from African communities. African Day on Saturday.
Children and families service includes crèche, holiday play
schemes and Saturday play schemes.
111 - 117 Lancaster Road
London W11 1QT
Tel: 020 7792 1200 (office); 0845 122 1200 (for service information)
Email: information@lighthouse-west.org.uk
National Long Term Survivors Group
Offers support to people who have been living with HIV for five
years or longer.
PO Box BM LTSG
London WC1X 3XX
Tel: 01449 780 211
Email: mail@nltsg.org
Website: www.nltsg.org
Network of Self Help HIV & AIDS Groups
A network of groups that support and empower people living with
HIV to identify and voice the concerns and needs of people living
with HIV across the UK.
49 Effra Road
London SW2 1BZ
Tel: 020 7274 0193
Web: www.hivselfhelp.org.uk
River House
Resource centre where people living with HIV can access welfare
benefits advice, social work services, housing advice, counselling,
advocacy and complementary therapies. Access to Living
Well programme. Drop-in service with lunch. Support for carers.
Children’s Link Club.
Monday - Women only
Thursday - AKAIRAH (Black and Asian people only)
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday - open to anyone living with HIV.
(River House can only offer a service to residents of Hammersmith
& Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster, Ealing, Hounslow
and NW London boroughs.)
Furnival Gardens (off Rutland Grove)
London W6 9DJ
Tel: 020 8753 5190
Email: info@riverhousetrust.org.uk
Wandsworth Oasis AIDS Support Centre
A drop-in centre for people who are living with HIV/AIDS. Also a
resource and training centre.
17 Ram Street
London SW18 1TL
Email: wandsworth.oasis@btinternet.com
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• Living Well
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