This service supports children and young people aged 17 or under with eating disorders or suspected eating disorders (if a young person or an adult in their life thinks they may have an eating disorder).

Young people can refer themselves to this service or their GP, school, or college can refer them.

You can find out more about CNWL Community Eating Disorder Service for Children and Young People on the CNWL website.

STRIDES offers mental health support to people struggling with their eating. At STRIDES, a team of trained clinicians help people to build the skills they need to regulate their eating, manage difficult emotions, and improve their body image in the long-term.

You need to speak to your GP and ask them to refer you to STRIDES. STRIDES encourages anyone who’s aged 18 to 25 and struggling with their eating to do this – you don’t need to be sure that you have an eating disorder, and if STRIDES isn’t the right service for you they can help signpost you to the right support.

STRIDES doesn’t work with people with high levels of medical risk relating to their eating disorder (for example, people who are severely underweight or who have abnormal blood test results because of their eating disorder). They work with Vincent Square Eating Disorder Service and GPs to make sure these people get the support that’s right for them.

Find out more about STRIDES on the CNWL website.

This service provides emotional and practical support to improve the mental health and wellbeing of young adults who live, work, attend school, or have a GP in Hillingdon. Community Navigators work with you to help you reach your goals – they can offer help with wellbeing, benefits, housing, employment, education, and access to local services.

Local voluntary, community, and social enterprise organisations work with CNWL NHS Trust to provide the service.

A professional needs to refer you by filling out a form.

There is more information about the Young Adult Community Navigator Service (including contact details) on the CNWL website.

This service provides a range of talking therapies to people who are registered with a GP in Hillingdon. You can get help in different ways, including: a self-help workbook with the support of a therapist; as an online course; through one-to-one appointments in person, over the phone, or through video; or as part of a group.

You can refer yourself to this service online. GPs and other professionals can also refer you.

There is more information on the CNWL Talking Therapies website.

This is a community drop-in service that offers friendly support to people who are experiencing crisis or mental health distress.

The Cove can support you to reduce your anxiety in the moment and make a plan to support your mental health (and reduce the likelihood of reaching crisis point again). They can offer advice and signposting, peer support, groups, and one-to-one support in a safe chill out space with a hot drink and snack.

You can drop in to the Cove when it’s open. You don’t need a referral or appointment, but other NHS professionals can refer you.

Find information on the Cove (including opening hours and location) on the CNWL website.

Most schools in Hillingdon have Children’s Wellbeing Practitioners who can support young people with their mental health. They work as part of the Mental Health Support Teams in schools.

The Julian Campbell Foundation offers a mentoring programme for young people aged between 11 and 25 who are struggling to manage their mood or need some extra support to deal with emotional or stressful situations. You don’t need a diagnosis to be part of the mentoring programme. You can get in touch yourself by emailing them.

Find out more about the Julian Campbell Foundation on their website.

Arts For Life Project is based on the Harrow and Hillingdon border, but accepts referrals from throughout London and surrounding areas.

Arts for Life Project offer one-to-one, person-centred therapeutic support for young people aged between 6 and 25. Anyone aged 16 and above can refer a young person through an online form.

Creative Crew is a weekly project for young people aged 6 and above who love the arts and are able to engage in a group setting. It allows young people to engage with the therapeutic power of the arts within a group. Through fun, relaxed activities, young people develop emotional intelligence and strengthen mental health. Anyone aged 16 and above can refer a young person through an online form.

Skills For Life is a course-based programme that helps young people aged 6 to 25 develop essential life skills, including technical, physical, wellbeing, and communication skills. Young people are put into suitable groups for the programme. Anyone aged 16 and above can refer a young person through an online form.

Together Thrive uses three different types of support to help young people aged 8 and above with complex challenges (including mental health concerns) progress back into society. It includes support at home, clinical therapeutic support, and mentor support. Young people aged 14 and above can refer themselves through the online form; parents and professionals can also refer through the same form.

The project also has programmes for parents and carers.

Find out more about Arts For Life Project on their website.

Link counselling is a free service for young people aged 13 to 24 who live, work, or study in Hillingdon. Young people can refer themselves – they do not need to be receiving support from the council already.

Find out more or self-refer to Link counselling through a form on the Hillingdon borough website.

Mind in Hillingdon is starting a new service for young people ages 16 to 25 living in the borough of Hillingdon who are experiencing mental health issues. They will provide a range of one-to-one and group support to help young people manage their wellbeing and access community services and social activities.

The Mind in Hillingdon website is currently under construction. For more information, email Mind@HillingdonMind.org.uk

Winston’s Wish offer one-off or ongoing advice, guidance, and bereavement support for young people up to the age of 25 (and their families). They have a helpline, which is open between 9am and 5pm on weekdays.

They also have online peer support groups (for young people aged between 7 and 12, for young people aged between 13 and 17, and for young people aged between 18 and 25, as well as for parents and carers), which are overseen by Bereavement Support Practitioners. They’re informal; young people can just go to one or keep going every month. You can get in touch and book a space on these yourself through the Winston’s Wish website.

Winston’s Wish also run drop-in sessions that give families and professionals the chance to to find out more about their services. These were suspended due to COVID but are beginning to restart. You can find details on the Winston’s Wish website.

Bereavement care offer a range of serviced for children, young people, and adults. They have a free visiting scheme where people can talk in confidence with a trained volunteer, support programme for children and young people, and friendly support groups.

Find out more about Bereavement Care on their website.

Rescue and Response is delivered in partnership between four organisations and is funded across London by the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime.

It involves one to one support, specialist support for young women, and family and housing support. The service includes a structured programme around topics like healthy relationships, violence against women and girls, identity and equality, trama, and safety planning. Professionals can refer through an online form.

Find out more about Rescue and Response on the Abianda website.

This service is for young women aged between 11 and 18 (up to 21 for care leavers) who have experienced (or are at risk of) any form of gendered violence, including domestic violence, sexual violence, child sexual exploitation, gang associated violence, forced marriage, and so on.

The service welcomes trans and intersex young women. It also welcomes non-binary young people who feel the service would best meet their needs and experiences.

They offer advocacy, group work, and counselling.

Find out more about Women and Girls Network.

Only Connect offer keyword support to people who are released from prison to help make the transition of leaving prison as smooth as possible. They support people with things like employment, housing, and opportunities to help them remain crime-free.

Find out more about Only Connect.

This service is designed to complement existing local services and fill gaps in provision. It provides traditional one-to-one, confidential support to young people aged between 16 and 24 who are associated with or involved in gangs and are at significant risk of harm from gang activity, or pose risk to themselves or others. They consider referrals outside the age range on a case-by-case basis. 

Find out more about London Gang Exit.

The Proud Trust is based in Manchester but has an online web chat. You can also use their website to find your nearest LGBT+ Youth Group.

Find out more on the Proud Trust website.

Hillingdon offers monthly drop ins for 11 to 13 year olds and 14 to 17 year olds who are LGBTQIA+ or are questioning their identity. 

Professionals can refer young people who live, work, or study in Hillingdon and already receive targeted support from the council (through social care, youth justice, or other interventions).

Find out more and refer young people on the Hillingdon website.

HSRG work with unaccompanied asylum seekers and refugees aged between 16 and 21. They work with unaccompanied young people up to the age of 25 if they continue to be supported by social services as care leavers.

HSRG offers a range of services and structured workshops including English and maths lessons, life skill and befriending, one-to-one drop ins for practical and emotional support, and group activities with local non-refugee young people.

Find out more on the Hillingdon Refugee Support Group website.

KISS is a safe setting for 13 to 19 year olds to talk about relationships, peer pressure, safe sex, and STIs. They offer free condoms, c-cards (cards that give you access to free safe sex supplies), and pregnancy tasting.

You can find out about KISS (and other services that offer things like contraception, cervical screening, and STI testing and treatment) on the Hillingdon borough website.

Arch offers a range of treatments for young people and adults who live in (or are registered with a GP in) Hillingdon. They work with people at any stage of their problem with drugs or alcohol.

Their service includes personal recovery plans, needle exchange, psychosocial interventions, medicine to manage withdrawal, one-to-one and group therapies, peer support, group activities, social networks, and joint working with employment and housing oranisations.

They also support family members, friends, and carers of people who use alcohol or drugs – even if the person using alcohol or drugs is not willing to engage with services.

Find out more about Arch on their website.

This project offers specialist advocacy support and counselling for Black and Minoritised young women* who have experienced (or are at risk of) any form of gendered violence, including domestic violence, sexual violence, child sexual exploitation, gang associated violence, forced marriage, and so on.

* This is defined as including BME, LGBT+ and Disabled young women. They welcome trans and intersex young women. They also welcome non-binary young people who feel the service would best meet their needs and experiences.

Find out more about CouRAGEus.

This service offers therapy for young people aged 4 and above. Therapists work with young people with art making, play, drama, and talking as appropriate to help the young person better understand their feelings and improve their self-esteem.

Young people must be living in a safe and stable enough environment – the perpetrator can no longer be living with the family (or in a relationship with the mother or carer) and any contact must be deemed to be safe.

There is a waiting list for referrals.

Find out more about Solace Children’s Creative Therapies

This service offers confidential, one-to-one support for young people aged between 11 and 18 (up to 25 years old for people with additional needs) who use violence or abuse and want to change their behaviour and improve their awareness of healthy communication and relationships.

Parents, carers, and professionals can refer a young person. The organisation prefers referrals from professionals if possible.

Find out more about DVIP YUVA.

Being Me is a programme that supports children aged between 8 and 17 who have witnessed domestic abuse to explore self-esteem, healthy relationships, and personal safety.

Professionals can refer young people who live, work, or study in Hillingdon and already receive targeted support from the council (through social care, youth justice, or other interventions).

Find out more and refer young people on the Hillingdon website.

This service offers therapy to lessen the effect of domestic violence on young people aged between 3 and 17. The therapists are child psychotherapists or play and creative arts therapists with specific training in domestic abuse issues in clinical practice. Therapy is tailored depending on the young person’s age.

The young person must currently be living in a safe and stable environment, and the perpetrator of abuse must not be residing with them.

Young people can refer themselves, or a parent or carer or professional can refer them.

Find out more about DVIP Child Therapy Service on their website.

Honeypot offer a range of services to support young carers aged between 5 and 12, including respite breaks for children, social and emotional active learning breaks, online workshops, face-to-face workshops, and financial support through a wellbeing fund. 

Find out more on the Honeypot website.

Freedom From Torture offers trauma-focused therapy to help with the effects of trauma, including complex trauma, depression, and other mental health needs. They also offer further services, including creative group activities, social groups, and physical therapy to help survivors rebuild their lives. They offer practical advice for survivors who are seeking asylum.

You can get in touch yourself by filling out a form on the Freedom from Torture website.

You don’t need to wait until a problem is getting on top of you before talking to Hillingdon Navigator Plus. You can make an appointment by phone or email to access a range of help and support at their wellbeing hub. They can help you find the support that’s right for you.

They also run a range of activities and peer support groups.

Find out more about Hillingdon Navigator Plus or make an appointment on their website.

Hillingdon offers group programmes for children and young people aged between 8 and 24 who live, work, or study in Hillingdon.

There are different groups for young people of different ages and genders. Programmes include those focusing on resilience-building, life skills, wellbeing, one-to-one mentoring, LGBTQIA+ young people, domestic abuse, and more.

Young people and families can refer themselves. Professionals can also refer young people who already receive targeted support from the council (through social care, youth justice, or other interventions).

Find out more and refer young people on the Hillingdon website.