Useful Links

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• Care Leavers
• Communication
• Deaf & Hearing Loss
• Disability
• Financial
• LGBTQ+
• Mental Health
• Neurodiversity / Neurodivergence
• Physical Health
• Visual Impairment
• Other Support Organisations

Care Leavers

• Belong - The charity for children in care and young care leavers
• Propel - Information for care leavers on the support available to them at colleges and universities  

Communication

• Stamma
• Stammering Law

Deaf & Hearing Loss

• Action on Hearing Loss
• British Deaf Association (BDA)
• British Tinnitus Association
• Deaf Plus
• Hearing Link
• RAD (Royal Association for Deaf People) 
• Sign Health 

Disability

• Disability Rights UK
• NADP (National Association of Disability Practitioners)

Financial Advice & Information

• Blackbullion - Financial advice for students partnered with many UK Universities
• Money Advice Service - Impartial financial advice
• Step Change - Debt Charity
• Turn2Us - Advice on Benefits, Grants or other Financial Support
• Debt Help Charity - support with managing debt
• National Debtline - online and telephone -based support
• UCAS - Managing money tips
• UCAS - General financial advice
• UCAS - Additional funding advice

LGBTQ+

• LGBT Foundation
• Student Minds - LGBTQ+

Mental Health

General Support

• Student Minds - Student Mental Health Charity
• Mind - Mental Health Charity
• The Samaritans
• Young Minds
• Anxiety UK
• Nightline - overnight (6pm-8am, term time). Support and advice "...run by students for students of the University of London and beyond." 

Bipolar

• Bipolar UK - Bipolar support and a great deal of general information

Eating Problems

• Young Minds - Eating Problems page
• Anorexia & Bulimia Care

Neurodiversity & Neurodivergent Conditions

Autism:

• National Autistic Society

ADHD:

• Totally ADD

Dyslexia:

• British Dyslexia Asssociation (BDA)

Tourettes:

• Tourettes Action

Physical Health

• Asthma UK
• Cancer (MacMillan)
• Diabetes UK
• Disfigurement (Changing Faces)
• Eczema (National Eczema Society)

Visual Impairment

• RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind people)

Other Support Organisations

• AbilityNet - Free technology advice and information
• The Office of the Independent Adjudicator (OIA) - an independent body set up to review student complaints and decide the outcome. They have a lot of useful good practice advice that you can access to address issues and reduce the likelihood of complaints arising in the first place