High Life Highland develops and promotes opportunities in culture, learning, sport, leisure, health and wellbeing across nine services throughout the whole of the Highlands, for both residents and visitors.
On their website you’ll find everything from the hugely popular High Life leisure card (which offers affordable access to dozens of leisure facilities), to how to get the best out of our Highland Libraries, what happens at the Highland Archive & Registration Centre or a host of other aspects of cultural, sporting, leisure and learning life in Highland.
Whether you’re living with a mental health problem or supporting someone who is, accessing information about a condition is vital. SAMH has developed a series of information resources for you.
We all have mental health. This site is a wealth of information and resources to help us understand it better and look after it.
Information and resources for survivors of sexual violence.
Get in touch any day between 5pm – midnight:
Our helpline offers confidential short-term, crisis and initial support by phone, email and text. Our phone and email support is free and texts will be charged at your normal network rate.
We support people of all genders living in Scotland aged 13+ who have been affected by sexual violence. It doesn’t matter what happened or how long ago, and you don’t have to talk about anything you don’t want to. We support survivors, as well as family, friends and supporters.
We can also put you in touch with local Rape Crisis centres or other services if you need longer-term support.
We can arrange for free language interpreters, including British Sign Language, to access support if your first language is not English. More information on Deaf access to support.
Text support Texts are charged at your normal network rate and your number is not visible to us when you text. For more information about confidentiality including our text support Find out more about confidentiality, including our text support, here.
Email support Email support is free and your email address will be visible to us when you email. We aim to reply to all emails as soon as possible, and no later than 4 days. Find out more about confidentiality, including email support, here.
Ross-shire Women’s Aid provides information, support and temporary accommodation to women, children and young people with experience of domestic abuse.
You can contact us by phone or arrange to meet a worker at a time and place which is safe for you. We will support you whether you are still with your partner or if you are ready to leave. We can help with whatever kind of abuse you are experiencing from your partner. We will support any women whose partner or ex-partner abuses them regardless of whether their partner is male or female.
We will not judge you and we will not tell you what to do, we will help you explore the options available to you and support you to make your choices happen.
We will not tell anyone you have contacted us or what you have said.
We can provide a range of support from a one-off phone call to long-term support. We will listen to you and give you the information you need to make decisions to help make sure you and your children are safe now and in the future. For those who want to leave we can help find somewhere safe to stay. This can be with us in our ‘refuge’, through other local providers or if you need to get out of the area, we can help find you a safe place to stay in the UK.
Our refuge provides a place to stay for either a couple of days if all you need is time out or for as long as it takes for you to get re-housed. We have five flats for women with families and two bedsits.
One of our flats is designed to be accessible to women with disabilities.
In difficult times when life is demanding and stressful, it is easy to become overwhelmed, and it’s so important to take care of yourself by supporting your own physical and emotional health – including nourishment.
Click on this link to read about how what and when you eat can help your all round physical and mental health
“We want a society in which single parent families are treated equally and fairly. To get there, we provide information to help single parents support themselves and their family. And we campaign and influence policy to reduce stigma against single parents, and make services more accessible to all families – whatever their shape or size.”
