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  • Black Isle Cares

    About

    Black Isle Cares offers a befriending service. The befriending service offers support to individuals in the community who feel lonely or isolated. Under this service, individuals will be matched with a volunteer befriender who will visit regularly to offer practical and social support. The service is free of charge and runs with the help of volunteer befrienders. All volunteer befrienders are trained through the Highland Hospice Helping Hands program and will need to successfully pass full PVG checks.

    Contact

    Website: Befriending | Black Isle Cares

    Email: befriending@blackislecares.com 

    Phone: 07720 168266

  • Bipolar Scotland

    About

    “We are Scotland’s charity for people living with bipolar. Our vision is for a good life for everyone in Scotland who lives with bipolar. We are member-led, collaborative, advocates of peer support, rights-based and focused on equality, and lived experience is at the heart of everything we do. “

    Support is offered through:

    • Support groups
    • Peer Support
    • Self Management Training
    • Beyond Diagnosis

    In person support groups run in Inverness and support groups for across Highland available online. Find upcoming dates at: Support Groups – Bipolar Scotland

    Contact:

    Website: Bipolar Scotland – Scotland’s charity for people living with bipolar

  • Highland Mindfulness

    About

    The Highland Mindfulness Group was initially an informal group set up by former Drumnadrochit GP Dr Peter Wilkes well over 15 years ago. The Group has since evolved and became a registered charity in 2020. It now draws on the skills of a team of 11 trained mindfulness facilitators.

    This is a secular group unattached to any religious movement or lineage. Whilst it does not affiliate to any religion, it does of course welcome those with religious beliefs.

    Free drop-in sessions on Zoom 6 days a week with guided meditation practices (beginners welcome). The group also offers:

    • Free drop-in session face to face every fortnight in Inverness to support people’s ongoing mindfulness practice (beginners welcome)
    • Range of courses – including beginner’s mindfulness courses (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Course and the Mindfulness Based Living Course), Kindfulness self-care course, and Insight meditation courses.
    • Regular meditation days in Inverness 
    • ‘Slow down Saturdays’ in Golspie (resuming September 2025)
    • Mindfulness in Nature sessions
    • Residential weekend mindfulness retreats in the Highlands
    • Taster sessions for groups and organisations can be arranged, as well as day workshops.
    • Free meditation recordings – please explore their website where you can listen to many guided practices.

    Events and services are for people aged over 18.

    Contact

    Email: highlandmindfulness@gmail.com

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  • Parent Club

    About

    “Being a parent is the best job in the world. Just not all the time. It can also be the hardest. A continual learning curve with new challenges at every turn. 

    Sometimes it can feel tough. And in those moments, when parents and carers need somewhere to turn, we want to be there for you, with information you can trust, all in one place.

    Through pregnancy and toddler tantrums, to starting school and all the way up to those tricky teenage years, we’re here to help. Offering tips and advice for all the challenges that family life throws up, from experts and parents and carers who’ve been there before.

    After all, we’re all in the same club.”

    Contact

    Website: Parent Club – For Baby Box And All Your Parenting Needs

  • Highland Peep

    About

    The Programme supports parents perinatally (i.e. before and after the birth) to reflect on their developing baby, tune in to their baby’s feelings and behaviour and respond sensitively (known as reflective functioning). This helps parent-baby bonding and attachment, and reduces the risk to the early parent–baby relationship, helping to prevent isolation, anxiety and low-level depression.

    All sessions are a mix of discussion, video clips, sharing of relevant research and advice, songs/rhymes and story sharing, all underpinned by the focus on reflective functioning.  After the initial phone conversation with the parent/s, we offer five group sessions of about an hour each, focusing on:

    1. Getting to know each other
    2. Supportive networks
    3. Transition to parenthood
    4. The developing brain, and emotional support
    5. Baby states

    Following these five sessions, we offer a reunion session once the babies are born.  Throughout the course we also signpost parents to other groups or provision within their local community.

    Contact

    Highland Peep Facebook page: Highland Peep | Inverness | Facebook

    Email: gillian.forbes@highland.gov.uk

  • LGBT Health and Wellbeing

    About

    “LGBT Health and Wellbeing is Scotland’s health and wellbeing charity for LGBTQ+ adults.

    Our vision is of a Scotland where LGBTQ+ people thrive; an equal Scotland where who we are does not negatively impact on our health and wellbeing.

    We provide emotional support and information to the entire diversity of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community across Scotland. This includes queer, intersex, asexual people and all identities under the LGBTQIA+ umbrella.

    You do not need a label to use our helpline. We will support you if you are questioning or exploring your sexuality and/or gender identity.

    We are also here for the families, partners, friends and supporters of LGBTQ+ people, as well as health and social care professionals who want to be more inclusive.

    We can support you with all kinds of issues as often and as regularly as you need it.”

    Contact

    Website: LGBT Health and Wellbeing

    Helpline: 0800 464 7000

  • Children 1st – Parentline

    About

    “As a charity we offer emotional, practical, and financial support to help families to put children first and campaign to uphold the rights of every child. 

    We support the whole family when they need it, for as long as they need it. We offer help to prevent families reaching crisis point, to keep children safe and to support children and families to recover from trauma and harm.

    Our work is founded on the understanding that children do well when families do well. The practical, emotional and financial support we offer is more than a lifeline, it is the support that children and families need to overcome the challenges they face today to enjoy a happier, more secure tomorrow.”

    Contact

    If you are concerned about a child or would like advice and support about parenting, contact Children 1st Parentline on 08000 28 22 33 or at: parentlinescotland@children1st.org.uk

    Website: Scotland’s National Children’s Charity | Children 1st

  • Self-Harm Network Penumbra

    About

    Self-Harm Network Scotland provides compassionate support, resources, and information to people who self-harm. We also provide support and information to friends, families and professionals. 

    We know that with good, compassionate support, there is real hope for people who self-harm. Accessing the right support at the right time is critical.

    Contact

    Website: Home – Self-Harm Network Scotland Penumbra (selfharmnetworkscotland.org.uk)

    Contact form: Contact Us – Self-Harm Network Scotland Penumbra (selfharmnetworkscotland.org.uk)

    Interactive online self help tool available at: I need support – Self-Harm Network Scotland Penumbra (selfharmnetworkscotland.org.uk)

  • Triage

    About

    Triage delivers employment and skills support services in person and remotely across the Highlands & Islands.

    Triage recognise that every person’s journey towards work can be different. Triage has access to many different routes that can help individuals find the right path for them offering a variety of services.

    Their vision is all about helping people succeed in life. This extends to the people on their programmes as well as the teams that help to deliver them. Triage want to make people the best they can be.

    Triage deliver high-quality, person-centred employability and education programmes that help their participants and learners improve their skills and move into sustained employment.

    Contact

    Email: highlands@triage.net

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    Phone: 01463 382 851

  • Sleepio

    About

    Sleepio is a NICE-recommended digital treatment for insomnia.

    Lasting recovery from insomnia that’s available anytime, anywhere.

    Sleepio uses evidence-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) techniques to address unique needs with a programme tailored to the individual, featuring sessions with step-by-step guidance. In about 20 minutes per week, individuals can quiet their racing minds, reshape behaviours, and get better sleep.

    Free for anyone living in Scotland.

    Contact

    Website: Sleepio | Can’t sleep? Get to sleep and stay asleep without pills or potions

    Additional Resources:

    The NHS Inform Mental Health Toolkit

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