Contact Form for Women and Girls Services in Stockport

Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) offering social groups, workshops, advice, and signposting for families who have children with additional needs including autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, anxiety, and cerebral palsy. Provides sensory room access and family support.

A Disabled People's Organisation breaking down barriers, changing attitudes and creating an inclusive society through its work with employers and other organisations across Greater Manchester and nationwide.

Charity supporting disabled people in Stockport, with a focus on autism and mental health. Services include the Primus day centre, Connect social activities, Outreach, and SCIL independent-living support.

Volunteer-run community centre offering activities, groups and trips with and for all the communities in Heaton Norris. You can just call in.

Social enterprise that challenges outdated stereotypes and celebrates the diversity and contributions of women in Manchester and the North West. Runs courses, workshops and mentoring to help women build confidence, grow professionally and find their direction.

Registered charity (no. 1196746) giving one-to-one support to any adult or child living with a life-limiting, mental or chronic illness, including help with benefits, health and wellbeing, and advocacy.

Supports adults (18+) in Greater Manchester who are not in work or training and need help to get their lives back on track, whether with health, alcohol, drugs, domestic abuse, debt, homelessness or other challenges. Led by Jigsaw Homes and delivered in Stockport by SKylight (Stockport Homes Group). People can refer themselves, or be referred by a Work Coach or another agency.

Tackling systemic racism in education so that all UK children can thrive. Supports parents of children from ethnically diverse backgrounds, including help with raising complaints, and works with parents, teachers and schools.

Stockport charity (no. 1111252) providing education (Pure College and travel training), supported employment and internships, mental health and wellbeing services, and community cafés, mainly for people facing barriers to learning and work.

Charity providing support and refuge from domestic abuse to women from Black, Asian and minority communities and their children. Offers emergency refuge accommodation, specialist counseling, training, and empowerment services. Established in 1976.

Community Interest Company teaching self expression and resilience through creative outlets. Offers creative workshops including Thread Journal workshops and Self Care Journal Club focused on improving wellbeing through self-expression, art creation and journaling.

Independent local charity that has supported carers for more than 30 years. If you're a Stockport carer, or caring for someone who lives in Stockport, they're there for you. Phone lines can be busy, so emailing first is recommended.

Free English (ESOL) classes for adults aged 19+ whose first language isn't English, from Pre-entry to Level 2, run by Stockport Continuing Education Service. Learners start with an advice and assessment session. Enquiries go through the Greater Manchester ESOL Advice Service online form.

Relationships charity offering individual, couples, family and children's counselling, psychosexual therapy, and domestic violence prevention programmes. Recently merged with seven other charities to expand services across Greater Manchester.

Stockport primary-care organisation working with local GP practices. Services include practice nursing, the Stockport Integrated Pharmacy Service, a Wellbeing and Self-Care service, spirometry, First Contact Physiotherapy, and training for primary care teams. Patients access services through their GP practice.

Not-for-profit offering free counselling, advocacy and wellbeing support to refugees, asylum seekers and new migrants across Greater Manchester, in clients' own language (Farsi, Dari, Arabic, Turkish, Kurdish and Urdu). Also runs art, yoga, dance and movement groups.

Manchester health-equality charity founded in 1990. Free sexual health and HIV services (testing, PrEP/PEP access, condoms and advice) for Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities across Greater Manchester, plus work on mental health, cancer and TB.

Helps people and organisations deepen their impact through collaboration. Works to change the systems that stop socially minded organisations making the world fairer and more equal, by building relationships, asking big questions and supporting new ways of working.

Trauma-informed holistic women's hub in Stockport dedicated to helping women through pastoral and holistic support. Provides skills training, wellbeing and community support to women across Greater Manchester.

Supports people facing barriers in health and employment. In Stockport it delivers the Working Well programmes, including the Work and Health Programme and Individual Placement and Support in Primary Care.

National charity (no. 1089477) working to end honour-based abuse and forced marriage. Runs the free, confidential national Honour Based Abuse Helpline for victims, survivors, people worried about someone else, and professionals, with call handlers who speak English, Punjabi, Urdu and Hindi. Also offers free online counselling for survivors and training for safeguarding professionals. Helpline open Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. Online contact form: https://karmanirvana.org.uk/about/contact-us/. In an emergency, call 999.

Mindfulness-based stress management and resilience training (courses, workshops, one-to-one sessions and retreats) for individuals, community organisations and workplaces. Also runs specialist courses in trauma recovery.

Award-winning, volunteer-run peer support for women, and their children, who have experienced domestic abuse, run by women with lived experience. Offers one-to-one peer support, coffee mornings, a buddy system for appointments (doctors, court, solicitors), baby massage and courses. Running in Stockport since 2016.

Community-led local newspapers covering the North West region in print and online formats. Published by Drawing Board Productions CIC, a profit-for-purpose social enterprise reaching over 135,000 residents across Greater Manchester and Cheshire.

Helps people become future ready by offering experiences and tools to follow the future they want. Works with young people, families and communities to grow confidence, strengthen connection, create opportunities and build stronger communities. Provides activities and food for children during school holidays.

Stockport's support organisation for voluntary, community, faith and social-enterprise groups, offering funding advice, training, mentoring and governance support, networks, and the Stockport Volunteer Hub. Registered charity no. 1135557.

Community Interest Company offering free women's sharing circles focused on healing through honesty and spoken truth. Provides gentle and inclusive spaces for women to share experiences without judgement.

Supports unemployed women aged 16+ from all Greater Manchester boroughs and the wider North West, from a range of backgrounds and age groups, helping them feel more confident and believe in their ability to succeed in work.

Nurtures ethnically diverse communities and brings communities together, covering food poverty and health, advice, leadership, businesses led by people from ethnically diverse communities, and driving change in service delivery. Runs a drop-in advice hub (Mon–Fri, 10am–4pm), cultural events, consultancy and training.

Stockport community interest company that connects businesses with the local voluntary, community and social-enterprise sector. Runs Wave of Change, supporting women in Stockport who are out of work, and the Proper Good social-enterprise network.

Stockport social enterprise tackling digital exclusion and promoting diversity in tech. Builds websites, runs training courses and offers mentoring and work experience placements that develop digital skills and confidence.