Contents

Advice Centres
Furniture
Legal
Ways to manage your money
Useful Numbers
Self help groups
Drugs and Alcohol Contact Numbers
Health Centres
Getting back to work

Advice Centres

• Citizens Advice Bureau
  12 Broad St, Bristol.Tel 921 1664
  Offer advice on a very wide range of issues including benefits, housing and debts. Drop in to make an appointment.
• Hartcliffe & Withywood Advice Centre, Hartcliffe Library, Peterson Sq, Hartcliffe. Tel:985 1122
• Off The Record,
  2 Horfield Rd, Bristol. Tel:927 9120
  Advice and counselling for young people up to 25
• North Bristol Advice Centre,
  Romney Ave, Lockleaze, Bristol. Tel: 951 5751
• St Pauls Advice Centre,
  Albert Villa, 146 Grosvenor Rd, St Pauls. Tel: 955 2981

Furniture

• SOFA Project 48-52 West Street, Old Market, Bristol 941 3322
  2nd hand furniture at budget cost, free deliveries
• Hodgsons
  Stapleton Rd, Easton, Tel,9558576
• Odds and Ends, Whitehall Rd, 9521546
• Dave's Own, Royate Hill, 9518589. For cookers and fridges.
• Second Time Around, Wells Rd, 9772279
• Bristol Flooring, 144 North St, Bedminster, 9662506
• Eddy's Domestics, 31/33 Staple Hill, Fishponds. 9651666.
  279 North St, Bedminster. 9665609

Legal

• Avon and Bristol Law Centre 2, Moon Street, Stokes Croft, Bristol B52 80E. Tel 924 8661
  The Avon and Bristol Law Centre can give you advice on issues such as housing, benefits, debt. At times they may be able to represent you at social security tribunals. Telephone advice is between 10am and 1pm Monday to Friday.

Ways to manage your money

Getting grants

• Community Care Social Fund. The major criterion for a grant is that you are in receipt of income support, or applying for it.You need to be setting up home because (a) you are leaving an institution or similar (i.e. a hostel, hospital, prison) (b) at risk of returning to residential care or similar. Otherwise you may be eligible for a loan.
• Bristol Municipal Charities. Have to be a resident in Bristol for at least 5 years. Tel:929 0084
• Dolphin Society. Give money to have a phone installed. Ring for their criteria. Tel:01275 810365
  

Methods of paying bills
Weekly or Fortnightly. You can pay all your bills at a post office when you get your money. This is the simplest way of budgeting as you know exactly how much you have left to spend on food, clothing and other necessities.

• Gas: Bristish Gas offer a gas payment card.
• Electricity: You can have a payment book or a keymeter fitted.
• Telephone: You can buy phone stamps at a post office.
• TV Licence: You can buy TV stamps at a post office.
• Bristol Water and Wessex Water: Both water companies will give you payment books for use at a post office.
  

Monthly by Direct Debit: If you have a bank account you can set up your bills so they get paid monthly straight out of your account.

Quarterly when the bill comes in. This means that you need to have a bank or post office account and put money into it regularly.

Bristol Debt Advice Centre Tel 939 3333
If you do get into debt then this is a good place to go for help and advice.

Useful Numbers

Numbers to ring in a crisis

• Missing Link 925 1811
• Bristol Crisis Service for Women 925 1119
• The Crisis Centre 942 3088
• Bristol Mind Crisis Line 983 0330
• Samaritans 983 1000
• Rape Crisis Line 935 1707
• Ambulance/Police/Fire 999
• Police Stations 927 7777

Hospitals

• Barrow Hospital 01275 329811
• Blagdon 928 6565
  John Cary 928 6560
  Dundry 928 6569
• Blackberry Hill Hospital 965 6061
• Southmead Hospital 950 5050
• Mason Ward 9595878
  Weston Ward 9590535
• Susan Britton Wells Unit (SBW) 926 5001
• Grove Rd Day Hospital 973 0225
• Inner City Mental Health Team 955 6098

Departments of Social Security

• St Catherine's House 953 6000
• Horfield 979 4800
• Lodge House, Fishponds 958 9400
• Eagle House, 938 8100

Self help groups

• Aled Richards Trust 955 1000
• Avon Sexual Abuse Centre (ASAC) 935 1707
• Bristol Mind 929 2910
• Brook Clinic 9290090
• Brook Road Advice Centre 955 0392
• The Bungalow 938 2526
• Contraception helpline 970 2282
• Fairbridge West 942 5362
• Fishponds Drop in 958 3740
• HASH (Healthcare & Advice for Single Homeless) 9240060
• Kingswood Resource Centre 947 8278
• MIND South West 925 0961
• Off The Record 927 9120
• The Orchard 01275 546016
• Our Chance 903 1801
• Pregnancy Advisory Service 927 6362
• Project 1 in 8 924 6228
• Scout Enterprises 9232299
• Wellwomen 941 3311
• Womankind 925 2507
• YWCA 971 6770

Drug & Alcohol Contact Numbers

• ACAD (counselling for alchohol and drugs) 929 3028
• Alcoholics Anonymous 926 5520
• Bristol Drugs Project (BDP) 987 1500
• Narcotics Anonymous 924 0084
• Robert Smith Unit 973 5004

Health Centres etc

• Amelia Nutt, Withywood 946 5454
• Brooklea, Brislington 971 1211
• Charlotte Keele H C, Easton 951 2244
• Dean Lane Surgery, Bedminster 966 3149
• Eastville H C, 951 1261
• Hartcliffe H C, 964 1020
• Lawrence Hill H C, 955 5241
• Montpelier H C, 942 6811
• Southmead H C, 950 7000
• St Johns Lane, Bedminster 966 7681
• St George H C, 961 2161
• Sussex Place H C, 955 6275
• Whitchurch H C, 01275 839 421

Dentists, Pharmacies and Opticians

Your local library will stock a complete listings of doctors, dentists, pharmacists and opticians in your area. Ask to see the 'GP and Dentist, Opticians and Pharmacists Directory for Avon Health Authority'

Getting back to work

• Colston Fort 924 8824
• Community Service Volunteers 908 0070
• Careers South West 987 3700
• Disablement Advisory Service 929 3320
• Fast Track - grants for training 942 8211
• Bristol Workways Ltd 925 5933 0r 01275 394940

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