Our community is dedicated to providing the support and understanding needed to navigate through difficult emotions. You are not alone.
At Ask for Jake, we are more than just a service; we are a community, a family, and a circle of friends who understand and empathise with your journey.
We create an environment where everyone feels valued and heard. We know that the path to healing can be challenging, and we are here to walk that path with you. Whether you are seeking help for yourself or supporting a loved one, Ask for Jake offers a sanctuary where you can find solace and strength. Join us in our commitment to fostering a world where mental health is prioritised, and no one feels alone in their struggles.
Our Mission
We provide a space where you can feel secure, supported, and understood. Our goal is to ensure your immediate safety and help you grow beyond your current challenges. We are committed to making a positive impact on the lives of those we serve, helping them find hope and resilience amid difficult emotions.
Our mission extends beyond short-term support; we strive to empower individuals with the tools and confidence to manage their mental health for the long term. Through our various programmes and initiatives, we aim to cultivate a culture of empathy, understanding, and proactive care. By working together, we can build a community where everyone feels valued and empowered to seek help when needed. At Ask for Jake, your safety and well-being are always our top priorities.
Upcoming Talk shops, Men’s Hubs and Coffee mornings
Below, you’ll find a list of relevant support numbers, videos, app suggestions and websites. We encourage you to explore these resources to learn more about what they do and how they can help you. Each organisation is committed to offering comfort, understanding, and assistance tailored to your needs.
If you know of a group, charity, or organisation that we haven’t listed, please let us know! Your input helps us ensure that our community has access to the best possible support network.
Mobile apps and sites to help you manage, learn, and cope with mental health challenges
Hub of Hope
National mental health database which brings together organisations and charities, large and small, from across the country who offer mental health advice and support
#Stay Safe
A suicide prevention resource for the UK, full information and tools to help you stay safe in crisis. You can use it if you are having thoughts of suicide or if you are concerned to someone who may be considering suicide.
Bright Sky
Launched in partnership with the Vodafone Foundation, providing support and information to anyone who may be in an abusive relationship or those concerned about someone they know.
BlueIce
Help young people manage their emotions and reduce urges to self-harm. It includes a mood diary, a toolbox of evidence-based techniques to reduce distress and automatic routing to emergency numbers if urges to harm continue.
BlueIce is a prescribed app, visit here for more info
Catch It
Learn how to manage feelings like anxiety and depression. The app will teach you how to look at problems in a different way, turn negative thoughts into positive ones and improve your mental wellbeing.
distrACT
Gives you easy, quick and discreet access to information and advice about self-harm and suicidal thoughts. The content has been created by doctors and experts in self-harming and suicide prevention.
IESO
Online course using instant messaging for people with mental health problems. The confidential service puts you in touch with a therapist trained in cognitive behavioural therapy. The therapy is by text so you can review your sessions at any time.
MeeTwo
Provides a safe and secure forum for teenagers wanting to discuss any issue affecting their lives.You can anonymously get advice from experts or other teenagers going through similar experiences in areas such as mental health, self-harming, relationships and friendships.
Quick Links
Suicide Help & Prevention
Papyrus
PAPYRUS is the national charity dedicated to the prevention of young suicide. 08000684141
Samaritans
Contact a Samaritan. If you need someone to talk to, we listen. We won’t judge or tell you what to do. Call 116123
Calm
We’re the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM), a suicide prevention charity on a mission to help people end their misery, not their lives.
National Suicide Prevention Alliance
The National Suicide Prevention Alliance (NSPA) is an alliance of public, private and voluntary organisations in England who care about suicide prevention and are willing to take individual and collective action to reduce suicide and self-harm, and support those bereaved or affected by suicide.
Pete’s Dragon’s Suicide Bereavement Service
Pete’s Dragons was founded in 2010 by CEO Alison Jordan, following the suicide of her younger brother Pete. Starting as a small fundraising group, the Dragons have since developed into experts in the field. With over a decade of experience, we are commissioned to run support services in Devon and North Somerset.
Grassroots
We have lived experience of suicide. We know what it is like to be in crisis. We understand the pressure of trying to keep someone safe and the complex emotions including guilt, shock, and intense grief after a suicide.
We empower people to help save lives from suicide through educating, connecting and campaigning nationally.
Mental Health & Wellbeing
Young Minds
The UK’s leading charity fighting for a world where no young person feels alone with their mental health.
Mind Depression Alliance
Depression Alliance merged with Mind on Monday 1 August 2016.
For almost 40 years, Depression Alliance has been bringing people together to end the loneliness and isolation that can come with depression.
Raising awareness and campaigning to improve attitudes towards depression has been central to Depression Alliance’s work.
We are continuing to support the delivery of the 60 Depression Alliance self-help groups.
Together, we won’t give up until everyone with depression gets the support they need and the respect they deserve.
Men’s Health Forum
Our Mission is to improve the health of men and boys. Call 02079227908
Bipolar UK
We provide peer support services to empower people affected by bipolar to live well
Mental Health Foundation
Since 1949, the Mental Health Foundation has been leading the UK in building good mental health. Together, we can help everyone have better mental health.
We know poor mental health is not inevitable and we believe that everyone deserves good mental health. We want to build a society where everybody can thrive.
We’re challenging the way things are done so that no-one living in the UK is deprived of the opportunity for good mental health because of who they are, the community they come from or where they live.
Rethink Mental Illness
As experts in mental illness, we know that with the right support and information people severely affected by mental illness can have a good quality of life. That’s why our aim is to meet each person’s individual needs and make sure everyone living with a mental illness is treated with dignity and respect.
Sane
We are an independent mental health charity aiming to raise awareness, improve services, provide emotional support and host research.
Cruse Bereavement Care
We help people through one of the most painful times in life – with bereavement support, information and campaigning.
Family Lives
We’re here to listen. Call us free on 0808 800 2222. Family life can be tough, use our live chat online service for support.
RELATE (relationship support)
We’re here to help you make the most of your relationships; past, present or future.
Panic Attacks / Phobias / Obsessive Compulsive Disorders
No Panic
No Panic specialises in self-help recovery and our services include providing people with the skills they need to manage their condition and work towards recovery, enabling them to lead more fulfilled lives.
OCD Action
For over 25 years OCD Action has been delivering frontline services which make a tangible and long-term difference to the lives of people with OCD, their families, carers and friends. OCD Action has a vision of a time when OCD is well understood and everyone gets the treatment and the support they need, when they need it.
With the OCD community, we are fighting for this.
OCD UK
OCD-UK has been working for children and adults affected by Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder since 2004.
We provide advice, information, and support services for those affected by OCD, and campaign to end the trivialisation and stigma of OCD.
Uniquely, the charity is completely service-user led, everyone involved in the organisation have personal experience of OCD, either directly or through a loved one.
BEAT (eating disorders)
We are the UK’s eating disorder charity. Founded in 1989 as the Eating Disorders Association, our mission is to end the pain and suffering caused by eating disorders.
Domestic Abuse / Violence
NSPCC
We’re the UK’s leading children’s charity. We’ve been looking out for children for over 140 years – and we couldn’t do it without you.
Find out more about our structure, the way we operate and how we fight for every childhood. Call 08088005000
Victim Support
Victim Support is an independent charity. We are dedicated to supporting people affected by crime and traumatic incidents in England and Wales, and we put them at the heart of our organisation. Call 08 08 16 89 111
NAPAC National Association for People Abused in Childhood
Call 0808 801 0331
Refuge
Refuge is the largest domestic abuse organisation in the UK. On any given day our services support thousands of women and their children, helping them to overcome the physical, emotional, financial and logistical impacts of abuse and rebuild their lives — free from fear. Call 0808 2000 247
Substance Abuse / Gambling
Alcoholics Anonymous
At AA, alcoholics help each other. We will support you. You are not alone. Together, we find strength and hope. You are one step away.
Call free 0800 917 7650, email [email protected] or ask any questions in the live chat box.
Narcotics Anonymous
We are Narcotics Anonymous in the United Kingdom & Channel Islands. If you have a problem with drugs, we are recovering drug addicts who can help you get and stay clean.
Gamblers Anonymous
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