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The Samaritans - Support to people who are suicidal or despairing. An English Language Email service is available to anyone needing emotional support, throughout the world.
Refugees Online - An online course in web production set up by the UNHCR. Its aim is to help refugee individuals and organisations communicate.
National Missing Persons Helpline - Help for the relatives of the missing, and information on people we're looking for.
TALK Adoption - Free phone helpline for young people with a connection to adoption.
Telephone Helplines Association - Works with helplines to achieve the highest quality response to all those using telephone helplines. Includes an online version of the Telephone Helplines Directory.
Apex Charitable Trust - Support, information and advice for ex-offenders seeking work and employers wishing to recruit and retain ex-offenders. Includes guides to the laws on disclosure and details of their nationwide advice service.
UK Divorce Recovery Workshop - National charity which runs self-help groups for the separated or divorced throughout the UK. The site has details of local groups plus information on how to start a new group.
SHARP - (Shropshire Help and Advice for Relatives and friends of Prisoners) Free and confidential helpline for the families and friends of those in prison, awaiting trial or facing legal action.
GamCare - Helpline, Counselling and information for anyone affected by gambling.
Self Help UK - Free searchable database of self help organisations and support groups.
Advent group in the UK - Support group for priests and religious people who have left the official ministry of the Catholic Church or religious life. Members meet to share experiences and to offer mutual support.
Gamblers Anonymous UK - Fellowship of men and women who have joined together to do something about their own gambling problem and to help others do the same. Includes details of regional helpline numbers.
Self Help Nottingham - Resource for self help groups, their support agencies and health and social care professionals. Based in Nottingham but with a wide range of information and resources relevant to all self help groups.
Problem Pages.co.uk - Online problem pages magazine.
Consumer Credit Counselling Service - Free debt advice for families and individuals. Information about the organisation, and how they work. Includes news, useful links, and contact details (phone, mail, and e-mail).
Life Outlined - Designed to guide through life's many changes, from childhood to maturity with helpful tips and straightforward information.
Ashiana - Asian Womens Refuge - Sheffield based Organisation offering support and safe accommodation to Asian women and children fleeing violence and abuse in the home. Also provides help and support for those experiencing domestic violence outside the refuge. The service is run by Asian women.
ChildLine - Free national helpline for children and young people in trouble or danger.
FindSupport National Directory - A directory of self-help and support groups. Browse by categories or search for the group nearest you. Also hosts discussion forums on a variety of topics.
False Allegations Support Organisation - Support for those who feel falsely accused of child sexual abuse, especially relating to police inquiries into the history of children's homes. Contact details and information about the service, a "refuge for the innocent, not a safe house for abusers in denial".
Sick Doctors Trust - Identifies and treats doctors who are addicted to alcohol and other drugs, protects their patients and supports their families.
UK Radical Mums - Online discussion group providing support and information for mums (of children of any age) who practice some or all of: breastfeeding, washable nappies, attachment parenting, babywear, co-sleep, don't vaccinate, babywear, use alternative/complementary medicine.
National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns - Bringing together families and individuals fighting deportation in the UK.
Relate Northumberland and Tyneside - Aims to provide relationship counseling to couples of all sorts. Information on services, locations and costs.
Affect - An organization for families and friends facing possible long prison sentences of a close relative or friend sent to prison. Information about support services in the West Sussex and Hampshire area.
FAS-UK - A group of parents and professionals devoted to raising awareness about Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and to help reduce the incidence of birth defects so caused. Information, and details of support network for affected families and carers.
Short Club UK - Online community site dedicated to providing information for and promoting the interests of short people.
Doctors' Support Line - Doctors' Support Line is staffed by volunteer doctors to provide peer support for doctors in the UK. It is an independent, confidential and anonymous service.
AdviceHQ - Provides information for help on topics including human rights, abuse, adoption, mental health, sexual health, divorce and teenage life. Sign up for email newsletter.
Luton Mediation - Offers a free, independent service to help resolve neighbour disputes. Describes its services and includes a location map.
Empowering The Phoenix for Domestic Abuse Survivors - Providing online self help tools, practical information and support to empower domestic abuse survivors to start living their lives their way.
Socialservicesabuse.com - Support and advices for those families who believe they are victimised by social services.
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Mencken It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi Support Groups The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too. -- Anonymous We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow Support Groups Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. -- Rodney Dangerfield The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Support Groups "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Support Groups Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Gail Godwin There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Support Groups Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. -- Niels Bohr Support Groups Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Support Groups "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention. -- Anonymous The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world. -- Antonio Machado If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be. -- Richard Mitchell, from Support Groups "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. -- Groucho Marx Support Groups Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. -- W. C. Fields I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. -- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -- Dr. Karl Menninger You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton Support Groups Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. -- Henry Ford One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell [text_end] [text_start] A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Support Groups "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- Buddha "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr Support Groups "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. -- Anne S Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings Support Groups The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. -- Wayne Gretzky I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal Support Groups Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes. -- Elbert Hubbard They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. -- Billie Holliday Support Groups "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Support Groups "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Ideas are like rabbits. 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(Bert Leston Taylor) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time. -- inside of a Pepsi cap We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt Support Groups Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Support Groups It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. -- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde Support Groups By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. 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