Look Good Feel Better for Teens provides helpful information on how to deal with lots of issues, including skin changes, hair loss, nutrition, fitness, and how to keep your social life on track while you are going through cancer treatment.

Marie Curie Hospice in Edinburgh provides support for people with a life-limiting illness and their families. Support available includes inpatient stays, emotional support, carers clinics and home visits.

Hartlepool Carers offers advice, support and information for young carers aged 5 to 18. They also deliver activities and events that connect young carers in Hartlepool together.

South Bucks Hospice provide support for patients with life-limiting illnesses. Services include specialist palliative and end of life care, practical support for patients and families for caring at home, counselling and support groups.

Newbury Cancer Care support people who have been diagnosed with cancer or other-life threatening illnesses who live in West Berkshire. They offer practical help and information to patients and their families in the local area. They work closely with Clinical Nurse Specialists, medical professionals and the Day Hospice to help improve the support offered from the point of diagnosis.

Westerhaven offers a wide range of specialist support services to those affected by cancer and long-term conditions such as COPD and long COVID. They also provide a service to relatives, carers, and friends of anyone who has received a diagnosis and who may need some support as well as anyone bereaved due to cancer.

All their services are free and are available to anyone in South West Edinburgh aged 16 and over and can take place face-to-face, online, or by phone.

This innovative therapy allows any child to engage with an art therapist by participating in painting, drawing, collages, and clay modelling. The therapy helps to reduce anxiety before medical procedures as well as providing a safe space for children to show difficult to express feelings about their illness.

When you are living with a brain tumour, or are caring for someone living with a brain tumour, you may find hypnotherapy useful in improving wellbeing in the following areas:

1. Anxiety and stress
2. Diet and lifestyle
3. Resilience, self esteem and confidence
4. Pre and post-operative care
5. Pain management
6. Reduction of side effects from treatment such as nausea, fatigue

brainstrust run regular online hypnotherapy sessions, led by Louise Baker (MSc Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health) .

Based in Bath, this local charity supports people who care for family and friends who need extra support day-to-day. They can offer expert advice, breaks from caring, emotional support and understanding. They also run support and wellbeing groups such as their book club and craft groups, and can support you with grant applications and financial guidance.

This charity offer free, confidential and independent advice on a wide range of issues including employment, benefits, housing, debt, consumer rights, discrimination and relationship breakdowns to everyone regardless of age, income, ethnicity, gender or religion.

The Helpline is staffed by specialist Nurses and Doctors, based at the Hospice, who are ready to offer support and advice to individuals and their families, at any time during the day or night. This service is also available for Healthcare Professionals who can access this service during a 24hour period where they will receive specialist support and advice in the management of a patient’s ongoing specialist palliative care needs. The patient can be at home, in hospital or another Hospice.

Maggie's centre in Edinburgh offers a space for those living with a brain tumour and their loved ones to speak to others going through a similar experience and find advice, support and strategies for coping. It covers both emotional and practical concerns, from the day-to-day impact of diagnosis to help with money worries.

Children's Hospice South West provide hospice care and professional family support services for babies, children and young people with life-threatening and life-limiting conditions. The care is offered at each of their 3 hospices based in the South West of England and includes: short breaks, sibling support, emergency care, end-of-life care, bereavement support, care therapies and support for teenagers.

This service is for anyone living in West Lothian, and for patients attending the Western General Hospital who are affected by cancer, including family and caregivers. They provide a holistic approach to advice through available benefits and refer to other services available in West Lothian, including; Occupational Therapy, Home Safety Service, travel concessions, money, energy and housing advice. They offer weekly drop in sessions in Bathgate Partnership Centre every Wednesday 10am-12pm. They also have a drop in session at Western General Hospital, South Corridor every Tuesday and Thursday 10am-1pm.

Marie Curie Hospice, Edinburgh provide specialist care and support to people living with a terminal illness, and their loved ones. The support available includes in-patient stays, outpatient care, wellbeing support and home visits.

This independent charity provides free, impartial advice and information on a range of issues and everyday problems from employment to housing and debt.

Teeside Hospice support people and their families living with a terminal illness in Tees Valley. They provide physical, mental and emotional support at their centre in Middlesborough.

Headway Wirral provide regular drop in sessions at various locations across Wirral and a weekly social group.

They can also provide support and advice relating to welfare and benefits, legal advice and practical advice around living with a brain injury.

St Teresa's Hospice provides palliative and end-of-life care and support in South Durham and North Yorkshire for people with life-limiting illnesses. Their services include: hospice at home, an inpatient unit, family support, bereavement care and complementary therapies.

St Peter's Hospice is a local charity that provides care and support to adults who are living with a progressive life-limiting illness in the Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset area. The hospice provides care for people in their own home and at their hospice- where they also provide day services, a living well programme and complementary therapies. They also provide a range of support for caregivers, including a support line and emotional and psychological support.

This charity delivers high quality, responsive and compassionate care to patients and their families facing a life-limiting illness. They have two hospice sites; one in Yeovil and one in Taunton, each with an inpatient unit, day hospice service and a therapies service. They also provide a range of community based services and a 24-hour adviceline. They have a Family Support Service that provides support for families with young children and teenagers during the patient's illness and after bereavement.

Rowcroft Hospice supports adults living with life-limiting illnesses in South Devon. They support people with symptom management, palliative care nursing as well as providing emotional and practical advice and support.

Maggie's Wirral offers a range of services at their centre at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre in the Wirral for people living with cancer. This includes one-to-one support with a cancer support specialist, psychologist support and welfare and benefits support. They also run regular support groups and events.

There are a number of peer support and friendship groups run at this centre for people affected by a cancer diagnosis. The centre hopes to create a supportive, informal environment filled with warmth and laughter. Support groups include Happy Mondays, Hugs Club and Runcorn Open Arms Club. For further information about the dates and times of each group please get in contact or visit the website.

The Wirral Carers Health and Wellbeing Service provides free support to adult Carers (including Parent Carers and Young Adult Carers in transition), the service focuses on identifying Carers and supporting them to access services to assist them in their caring role and to help them to maintain and improve their health and wellbeing.

Helping children with life-shortening illnesses, React works to give children comfort, dignity and where possible, greater independence. They supply a wide range of equipment from specialist wheelchairs, beds, baths and mobility aids, to essential everyday homecare items like pushchairs and domestic appliances. This may include educational equipment to ensure a child’s developmental needs are met; React Holidays at one of React’s mobile holiday homes; and, funeral expenses and memorial headstones.

Claire House Children's Hospice helps seriously and terminally ill children make the most of the time they have, however long or short that may be. By providing specialist nursing and end of life care, as well as emotional support, Claire House helps families through some of the toughest times of their lives.

The family support team at Claire House Hospice provide 1:1 counselling, group counselling, music therapy sessions, social events for families and support activities to promote positive psycho-social wellbeing. These services are available for families of seriously and terminally ill children.

Shine Cancer Support provides support for younger adults in their 20s, 30s and 40s living with and beyond cancer. They offer support in the form of peer support, events and networks.