Sandwell Community Groups & Services
Sandwell Areas
Click the links below for more information about the organisations working across Sandwell.
Bearwood
Mutual Aid
Covid19 Mutual Aid Bearwood, Sandwell
- Website: Visit the Covid19 Mutual Aid Bearwood, Sandwell Website
- Information: A Facebook group for mutual aid in the Bearwood area.
Cradley Heath
Mutual Aid
Colley Gate Viral Kindness
- Website: Visit the Colley Gate Viral Kindness Website
- Information: A Facebook group for mutual aid in the Colley Gate area.
Food Bank
Community Link Food Bank
- Website: Visit the Community Link Food Bank Website
- Address: 72 High Street, Cradley Heath, Sandwell B64 5HA
Great Barr
Food Bank
Great Barr Food Bank
- Website: Visit the Great Barr Food Bank Website
- Address: St Bernard's Church, Broome Avenue B43 5AL
- Phone: 0121 357 5399
- Email: info@greatbarr.foodbank.org.uk
Mutual Aid
Great Barr Neighbourhood Forum
- Website: Visit the Great Barr Neighbourhood Forum Website
- Information: A Facebook group for mutual aid around Great Barr.
Mutual Aid
Great Barr Volunteers
- Website: Visit the Great Barr Volunteers Website
- Information: A Facebook group for mutual aid in Great Barr.
Oldbury
Elderly Care
Agewell CIC
- Website: Visit the Agewell CIC Website
- Address: Rounds Green Library, Martley Road, Oldbury B69 1DZ
- Phone: 0121 796 9333
- Information: Agewell offer a range of services supporting people to enjoy a better older age.
Mental Health
Birmingham Counselling and Psychotherapy Centre
- Website: Visit the Birmingham Counselling and Psychotherapy Centre Website
- Phone: 0121 429 1758
- Email: bcpc@counselling-direct.co.uk
- Information: Birmingham Counselling and Psychotherapy centre are offering online counselling using Skype.
Mutual Aid
Covid-19 Online Community Support
- Website: Visit the Covid-19 Online Community Support Website
- Information: A Facebook group for mutual aid in the Oldbury area.
Elderly Care
Crossroads: Caring for Carers
- Website: Visit the Crossroads: Caring for Carers Website
- Address: 494 Wolverhampton Road, Oldbury B68 8DG
- Phone: 0121 553 6483
- Information: Crossroads operates across the West Midlands, offering services that support carers of all ages.
Fitness & Health
Healthy Sandwell
- Website: Visit the Healthy Sandwell Website
- Address: Public Health, Jack Judge House, 10 Halesowen Street, Oldbury B69 3EN
- Phone: 0121 569 5100
- Email: LS@nhs.net
- Information: Healthy Sandwell provide health advice and information to help you improve your health and well-being.
Mutual Aid
Oldbury - Covid-19 Mutual Aid Group
- Website: Visit the Oldbury - Covid-19 Mutual Aid Group Website
- Information: A Facebook group for mutual aid in the Oldbury area.
Advice & Advocacy
Options For Life
- Website: Visit the Options For Life Website
- Phone: 0121 544 6611
- Email: hr@optionsforlife.info
- Information: Options for Life works with people and organisations that share the objective of empowering and enabling people with a learning disability to lead a full life within the community.
Food Bank
Quinton & Oldbury Food Bank
- Website: Visit the Quinton & Oldbury Food Bank Website
- Phone: 07732157619
- Email: info@quintonoldbury.foodbank.org.uk
Befriending
Sikh Helpline
- Website: Visit the Sikh Helpline Website
- Phone: 08456440704
- Email: info@sikhhelpline.com
- Information: The Sikh Helpline runs a 24/7 confidential telephone counselling and email advice service.
Sandwell
Elderly Care
Age UK Sandwell
- Website: Visit the Age UK Sandwell Website
- Phone: 0121 437 0033
- Email: info@ageuksandwell.org.uk
Advice & Advocacy
Citizens Advice Sandwell
- Website: Visit the Citizens Advice Sandwell Website
- Address: 22 Lombard Street, West Bromwich B70 8RT
- Phone: 0300 330 9017
- Email: westbromwich@citizensadvicesandwell.org.uk
Mental Health
Cruse Bereavement Care Sandwell & Walsall
- Website: Visit the Cruse Bereavement Care Sandwell & Walsall Website
- Address: Smethwick Council House, High Street, Smethwick B66 3NT
- Phone: 0121 558 1798
- Email: sandwell@cruse.org.uk
Advice & Advocacy
Jigsaw Events
- Website: Visit the Jigsaw Events Website
- Information: Jigsaw Events is the sister organisation to Building Bridges Training, which provides community based social opportunities for people with a learning disability living in Sandwell. During the current closedown Jigsaw have been keeping in touch with members via phone and WhatsApp groups and posting out weekly activity packs.
Homelessness
P3 Sandwell Supported Housing
- Website: Visit the P3 Sandwell Supported Housing Website
- Phone: 0121 522 4161
- Information: The P3 Sandwell Supported Housing service offers safe accommodation and 24/7 on-site staff support for adults who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
Mutual Aid
Sandwell - Helping Each Other During The Coronavirus
- Website: Visit the Sandwell - Helping Each Other During The Coronavirus Website
- Information: A Facebook group for mutual aid in Sandwell.
Other
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust
- Website: Visit the Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust Website
- Information: Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust are looking for 2020 Response volunteers to provide non-medical assistance around the hospital sites to support frontline staff.
Other
SCVO
- Website: Visit the SCVO Website
- Phone: 0121 525 1127
- Email: support@scvo.info
- Information: SCVO are working with the local authority to coordinate community action in Sandwell.
Youth & Education
The Breastfeeding Network - Sandwell
- Website: Visit the The Breastfeeding Network - Sandwell Website
- Phone: 07505 775357
- Email: Sandwell@breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk
- Information: The Breastfeeding Network are still offering peer support for families over the phone and through virtual Zoom sessions.
Smethwick
Faith
Abrahamic Foundation, Smethwick
- Website: Visit the Abrahamic Foundation, Smethwick Website
- Information: The Abrahamic Foundation are sharing daily prayers on their Facebook page.
Befriending
Brushstrokes
- Website: Visit the Brushstrokes Website
- Address: St Phillip's Parish Centre, Messenger Road, Smethwick B66 3DU
- Phone: 0121 565 2234
- Email: teresa_brushstrokes@hotmail.co.uk
- Information: Brushstrokes offers practical assistance to those in need through befriending, listening, helping, and teaching skills.
Elderly Care
CARES Sandwell
- Website: Visit the CARES Sandwell Website
- Address: The Carers’ Centre, Edward Cheshire House, 2 Bearwood Road, Smethwick B66 4HH
- Phone: 0121 558 7003
- Information: The Carers Advice and Resource Establishment offers information, advice and support to carers within Sandwell and the people they care for.
Faith
Guru Nanak Gurdwara, Smethwick
- Website: Visit the Guru Nanak Gurdwara, Smethwick Website
- Information: Guru Nanak Gurdwara are live streaming services and also providing mutual aid to vulnerable people in the community.
Advice & Advocacy
Ideal For All
- Website: Visit the Ideal For All Website
- Phone: 0121 558 5555
- Email: info@idealforall.co.uk
- Information: Ideal for All is a user-led charity and social enterprise working to make life better for disabled, elderly and vulnerable people and their carers.
Food Bank
Salma Food Bank
- Website: Visit the Salma Food Bank Website
- Address: Unit 8 Ash Court, Crystal Drive, Smethwick B66 1QG
- Phone: 07767 164 246
- Email: donations@salma-foodbank.org
Food Bank
Smethwick Food Bank
- Website: Visit the Smethwick Food Bank Website
- Phone: 0121 517 0141
- Email: info@smethwick.foodbank.org.uk
Tipton
Elderly Care
Alzheimer's Society Black Country
- Website: Visit the Alzheimer's Society Black Country Website
- Phone: 0121 521 3020
- Email: blackcountryoffice@alzheimers.org.uk
- Information: Alzheimer’s Society has launched an Emergency Appeal to help fund vital support for people affected by dementia in the UK, who may be isolated, alone and without basic support during the coronavirus crisis.
Tividale
Mutual Aid
Tividale/Oakham Covid-19 Community Supoort
- Website: Visit the Tividale/Oakham Covid-19 Community Supoort Website
- Information: A Facebook group for mutual aid in the Tividale and Oakham areas.
Wednesbury
Mutual Aid
Wednesbury Coronavirus Support Group
- Website: Visit the Wednesbury Coronavirus Support Group Website
- Information: A Facebook group for mutual aid in the Wednesbury area.
West Bromwich
Homelessness
Adullam Homes
- Website: Visit the Adullam Homes Website
- Address: Adullam Homes Housing Association Limited, Walter Moore House, 34 Dudley Street, West Bromwich B70 9LS
- Phone: 0121 500 2828
- Email: info@adullam.org.uk
- Information: Adullam Homes is a specialist provider of quality housing and support services.
Advice & Advocacy
Black Country Women's Aid
- Website: Visit the Black Country Women's Aid Website
- Address: 1st Floor Landchard House, Victoria Street, West Bromwich B70 8HY
- Phone: 0121 553 0090
- Email: info@blackcountrywomensaid.co.uk
- Information: Black Country Women's Aid is supporting survivors of domestic abuse and sexual violence in the West Midlands at a time when many are particularly vulnerable.
Mental Health
Kaleidoscope Plus Group
- Website: Visit the Kaleidoscope Plus Group Website
- Address: 321 High Street, West Bromwich B70 8LU
- Phone: 0121 565 5605
- Email: info@kaleidoscopeplus.org.uk
- Information: Kaleidoscope are offering mental health advice and guidance online and over the phone through their ongoing counselling service.
Advice & Advocacy
OSCAR Sandwell
- Website: Visit the OSCAR Sandwell Website
- Phone: 0121 525 0556
- Email: oscar-sandwell@hotmail.co.uk
- Information: OSCAR Sandwell provides support and guidance to those with Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia.
Mental Health
Sandwell African Caribbean Mental Health Foundation
- Website: Visit the Sandwell African Caribbean Mental Health Foundation Website
- Address: Kuumba Centre, Boulton Road, West Bromwich B70 6NW
- Phone: 0121 525 1629
- Email: Info@sacmhf.co.uk
- Information: SACMHF are offering information, advice and signposting to those concerned during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Mutual Aid
Sandwell Deaf Community Assocation
- Website: Visit the Sandwell Deaf Community Assocation Website
- Phone: 0121 553 0201
- Email: info@sdca.co.uk
- Information: As well as online advice and guidance, SDCA are continuing to offer their services remotely including advocacy, interpreting and BSL training.
Advice & Advocacy
Sandwell Visually Impaired
- Website: Visit the Sandwell Visually Impaired Website
- Phone: 0121 525 4810
- Email: info@sandwellvisuallyimpaired.org.uk
- Information: Sandwell Visually Impaired are ensuring vulnerable visually impaired people have advice, guidance and friendly support.
Mutual Aid
WBE CLP COVID-19 Community Action
- Website: Visit the WBE CLP COVID-19 Community Action Website
- Information: A Facebook group for mutual aid in the West Bromwich East area.
Food Bank
West Bromwich Food Bank
- Website: Visit the West Bromwich Food Bank Website
- Address: 23 Victoria St, West Bromwich B70 8EX
- Phone: 0121 580 0068
Other
YMCA Black Country Group
- Website: Visit the YMCA Black Country Group Website
- Address: 38 Carters Green, West Bromwich B70 9LG
- Phone: 0121 524 1950
- Email: info@ymcabc.org.uk
- Information: The YMCA Black Country group offers a range of services to support young people, the homeless and people self-isolating.