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Community Health Action
103 Sedlescombe Road North, St Leonards-on-Sea, TN37
7EJ. For advice on health matters (01424) 433221 open Monday: 2pm-4pm;
Tuesday to Friday: 10am to 4pm. Answerphone service outside hours.
Shelter Housing Action for Hastings
(SHAH)
48 Cambridge Gardens, Hastings, TN34 1EN (01424)
438075.
Direct
Debt Line
for advice and information contact: 5b St Mary's
Walk, Hailsham, E. Sussex. Tel. 0345 626804.
Supportive
Learning - HCAT
6 St Saviour's Road, St Leonards, contact Judith
Guest (01424) 720978
Priory
Playlink Family Drop-In
St Clements Hall, Priory Road, Hastings, TN34 3JE,
(01424) 718511, contact Trish Drinkwater.
Home-Start
Hastings and Rother
66 London Road, St Leonards, TN37 6AF (01424) 443636. A home visiting
scheme offering support to those with children under five.
Parents
Helpline
Brighton (01273) 550600. 24-hr listening telephone line by parents for
parents under stress. Anything to do with children from babies to
teenagers. Confidential and anonymous.
Relate
More than Marriage Guidance, 5 Warrior Square, St Leonards, tel (01323)
410001 for appointment. Confidential counselling service for difficulties
in marriage or in other personal relationships.
Brighton
Rape Crisis
PO Box 323, Brighton BN2 2TY (01273) 203773 (24-hr Ansaphone). Open Mon
6-9pm and Fri 6-9pm. Or for immediate help ring London Rape Crisis on 020
7 837 1600. Confidential service, answered by women, telephone counselling
and advice service.
St
Jude's Women's Refuge
Belle Hill, Bexhill contact (01424) 732060.
Temporary refuge for women (Rother district and Hastings) who are afraid
or have suffered violence themselves or to their children. Also Outreach
service, support and advice manned 24 hr (01424) 732060.
Xpress
Advocacy Service
42 Robertson Street, Hastings, TN34 1HL, Tel (01424)
440118. Helpline 0800 454424. Contact Jill Miles. Hastings Befrienders P O
Box 6, St Leonards, (01424) 444777 Wednesday 7-9pm.
Al-Anon
for relatives and friends of alcoholics - 020 7 403
0888. Alcoholics Anonymous (01622) 751842.
Hastings
Drug Dependency Unit
9a Holmesdale Gardens, Hastings, TN34 1LY (01424)
720088. Advice for drug users, their families etc. Assessment - medicals;
counselling, prescribing where applicable. Community Detox; in-patient
Detox.
Drugs
and Alcohol Information Service - DAIS
Counselling and support for people with
drugs/alcohol problems and their parents and relatives. Dave or Juliet
(01424) 220788.
Xtrax
Young People's Centre
16/24 yrs, Provincial House, Provincial Yard,
Havelock Road, Hastings, TN34 1BP - Terry Drinkwater (Project Manager).
(01424) 722524.
Sussex
Alcohol Advice Service
(01323) 416305. Confidential one-to-one counselling
service for those concerned about their own drinking problem or that of
someone close to them.
Talking
Books
for information ring (01273) 481170 or apply at
public library.
Trading
Standards
East Sussex County Council Trading Standards,
Bohemia Road, Hastings, TN34 1EX. Problems
with goods or services? Our free Consumer Advice line is on 01323 418200.
For all other Trading Standards enquiries tel: 01424 434424.
Trinity
Project
6 Trinity Street, Hastings (01424) 426375. Trained
counsellors with advice on everything from alcohol to heroin. Home visits
to rural areas. Free condoms and syringes.
Gamblers
Anonymous HQ
Phone 0207 384 3040
Quitline
0800 00 2200 - For help to stop smoking.
Post
Office Counters Ltd
Helpline For all enquiries relating to Post Office
transactions 0345 223344.
Post
Codes
To obtain a post code call 0345 111 222. British
Telecom, Telephone House, Rheims Way, Canterbury, CT1 3BA. (01227) 474000
Mon to Fri 8.30am to 5pm..
Seeboard
plc
Customer Service 0800 056 888, Power failure 0800
783 8866.
British
Gas Energy Centres Ltd
Billing: 0845 609 11 22. Gas Escapes - All areas
Bexhill, Hastings and St Leonards, Rye, Winchelsea Any local area 0800 111
999. Gas Accounts 0645 555800 Mon-Thurs 8.45am to 5pm. Friday to 4.45pm.
Childline,
0800 1111.
Help for children and young people suffering any
kind of abuse.
Progressive
Supranuclear Palsy Association
Offering advice on caring and research into this
illness. Contact Ian Munro (01424) 842527.
Hastings
and Rother Counselling Service
Contact Rose Wesbter (01424) 428300, self referral
adults, personal family relationship issues, Ground Floor Flat, 73 London
Road, St Leonards-on-Sea TN37 6AR.
Meningitis
24 Hour Helpline
01454 413344. Be Aware, Be Alert and Act - get
medical help.
Migraine
Support Group
Informal meetings are held on the first Wednesday of each month. Please
contact June Gavin on 01424 714285, or Lesley Drew on 01424 216991.
Hastings
and Rother Citizens' Advice Bureau
24 Cornwallis Terrace, Hastings, TN34 1EB (01424)
446808. Free confidential and impartial service. Help to resolve
neighbourhood disputes. Office staffed part-time, answerphone at other
times.
Family
Matters
128a Battle Road, St Leonards, TN37 7AN, contact
Rev'd K. Baird, (01424) 851500 or Peter Stevens (01424) 851502. A local
service supporting Parents and Families of Adolescent children in times of
difficulties.
Hastings
and St Leonards Credit Union Ltd
41e Earl Street, Hastings TN34 1SG, contact Sam Burt
(01424) 203651. A community mutual savings and loans organisation,
providing secure savings and low interest loans.
Employment
Services Direct
0845 60 60 234 To find a job, accessing huge
database.
Hastings
& Rother Counselling Service
Appointments Anne, clients seen in St Leonards, Rye
and Bexhill (01424) 428300 for personal family and relationship problems.
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Dental
Advice in Emergency
For those not registered with a Dentist - Out of
Hours cover weekdays 6.30 to 10.30pm and 9.30am to 1.30pm weekends and
Bank Holidays. Tel (01424) 850792.
Health
Information Service
Free and confidential health information, freephone
0800 66 55 44. Mon-Fri 9am to 7pm, Fri 9am to 5pm. Minicom service.
NSPCC
Child Protection Helpline, Free 24-hr helpline. If
you know or suspect that a child is being ill-treated or neglected
telephone 0800 800 500.
NSPCC
East Sussex
Provide counselling for abused children and their
parent/carers and families, and adults who were abused as children. Tel
(01424) 428833.
NSPCC
East Sussex
and NCH Action for Children
Provide a Brief Family Therapy service for families
experiencing a wide range of problems, Tel (01424) 728500.
NSPCC
Schools Counselling Service
Provides counselling for children at a small number
of schools in the Hastings and St Leonards area Tel (01424) 728520.
Oasis
Clare Croft, 42 Chiltern Drive, Hastings, TN34 3PZ.
(01424) 719080. Centre offering advice, support and educational courses.
Health and family support services also available.
Samaritans
26 St Andrew's Square, Hastings, TN34 1SR (01424)
436666. Emergency telephone staffed 24 hours. Centre open each day 9.30 am
to 9.30 pm. National number 0345 90 90 90.
Social
Services
Pine Hill Training Centre, 185 The Ridge, Hastings,
TN34 2AE . Social Services Information Line for queries on services and
social care issues call local rate number 0845 60 10 664 Fieldwork Teams
(Children and Families) St Leonards/Hastings Ocean House, St Leonards,
(01424) 723100.
Hastings
Furniture Service
(Registered charity No 1003257). Needs re-usable
clean household furniture and electrical items for people in need. Dorset
Place, Hastings. Tel (01424) 441112. Hastings and Rother district only.
East
Sussex County Council
County Hall, St Annes Crescent, Lewes, BN7 1SW (01273) 481000
Local
Government Ombudsman
Commission for Local Administration, Local Government Ombudsman, 10th
Floor, Millbank Tower, Millbank, London SW1P 4QP. Tel: 020 7217 4620 Fax:
020 7217 4621. You can complain to the Local Government Ombudsman if you
think you have suffered injustice arising from maladministration by your
local council or certain other bodies.
Hastings
and Rother Magistrates Court
Law Courts, Bohemia Road, Hastings
TN34 1ND, (01424) 437644. Clerks office open Mon-Fri 9.15am to 4.30pm.
Hastings
County Court
Law Courts, Bohemia Road, Hastings, TN34 1QX,
(01424) 710280, Mon-Fri 10am to 4pm. Payments 9am to 4pm.
Hastings
Rainbow Network
Support and Social Network for
the Gay, Lesbian, Bi-Sexual and Transgender/Sexual Community in Hastings
and beyond
- PO Box 221, Hastings, East Sussex TN34 2YB
Tel: 0790 4534099
East
Sussex Probation Service
Brighton office: 6 Pavilion Parade, Brighton BN2 1RA
(01273) 669966; Hastings office, Law Courts, Bohemia Road, Hastings TN34
1EX, (01424) 458000/32; Wellington Square, Hastings (01424) 448600.
Victim
Support
Hastings, Bexhill & Rye for victims of crime
(01424) 424393. Fax 721100.
Registration
of Births, Deaths and Marriages (including
Bexhill) Summerfields, Bohemia Road, Hastings. (01424) 721722/Marriage
enquiries:721212.
Citizens'
Advice Bureau
24 Cornwallis Terrace, Hastings, TN34 1EB (01424)
430400. Mon-Fri 10 am to 1 pm; Open door 2-4pm by appointment; Bureau open
5-7pm Wednesdays, by appointment. Money advice service by appointment,
(01424) 721386. Legal sessions by appointment, Wednesdays 5-7 pm.
Mediation service Mon-Fri 10am - 4pm (01424) 446808
Alzheimer's
Society Information Centre
22 Claremont, and shop 20 Claremont, Hastings
(01424) 720640. Also contact Rosemary Iddenden (01424) 720516.
Carea
Recruitment and Training
1 Nelson Road, Hastings, TN34 3RX,
contact Linda Sutton (01424) 461490
Age
Concern East Sussex
The Almonry, High Street, Battle, TN33 0EA, Dorothy
Smith: information and advice worker; Jackie Dennis Day Care Organiser -
(01424) 775721.
The
Bohemia Trust
123 Bohemia Road, St Leonards, (01424) 722923;
Charity No. 1057723. Helps with any debt or related problems. A free
confidential service.
ADHD
- Adults Support Group
Judith Guest, c/o 75A Middle Road, Hastings. (01424)
420767.
Disability
Information Line
Children's
Services: Ann Ling, 37 Fellows Road, Hastings, TN34 3TY, (01424) 422617
weekday mornings 9am to noon. Courses for Adults with Learning
Difficulties: Supportive Education at Hastings College: 80 St Saviours
Road, St Leonards, TN38 0AR (01424) 720978, contact Judith Guest.
Employment
Service Direct
Job seekers hotline, data base of 300,000 vacancies
for the price of a local call 0845 6060 234.
Face
to Face
Free confidential counselling service
for 16-25 year olds, 5 Queen's Road, Hastings, TN34
1QP. Self referral by phone or letter, ring (01424) 466366.
HARES
Hastings and Rother Epilepsy Support
Contact Dee Heyfron (01424) 715763.
Hastings
Voluntary Action
31a Priory Street, Hastings,TN34 1EA, (01424)
444010. Development and support agency for voluntary sector.
Association
of Carers
Theaklen Drive, off Ponswood Industrial Estate, St
Leonards-on-Sea TN38 9AZ, (01424) 722309. Voluntary relief sitting service
for carers in their own home.
NCH
Action for Children
211 Elphinstone Road, Hastings TN34 2AX, (01424)
440840. Nursery unit and support for under-fives and their families.
Referrals through social services and health visitors.
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