Directory Topics

• Abuse

  • Childwatch
  • Supportline

  Also refer to Bullying, Domestic Violence, Harassment, Rape/Sexual Violence.
• Academic Advice

  • Undergraduate Issues AU
  • Postgraduate Admissions AU
  • Student Welcome Centre AU
• Accommodation

  • Accommodation Office AU
  • Ceredigion Care Society
  • Community Housing Cymru
  • Powys County Council
  • Shelter Cymru
  • Student Guild Accommodation Advice AU
  • Student Support - Residential Support
• Banks

  
  

  • Barclays
  • Credit Unions in Wales
  • Halifax
  • HSBC
  • Lloyds TSB
  • NatWest
  • The Co-operative
  • Santander
• Bereavement

  • Cruse Bereavement Care
  • G.R.O.W.W.
  • RD4U
  • Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide (SOBS)
  • Winston's Wish

  Also refer to Counselling
• Bullying

  • Anti-bullying Alliance
  • Bully Online
  • Kidscape
  • National Bullying Helpline
  • Student Guild AU (Bullying Support)
• Buses

  • Arriva
  • Lloyds Coaches
  • National Express
  • Traveline Cymru
• Careers

  • Careers Advisory Service AU
  • Careers Wales West
  • Commercialisation & Consultancy Services AU
  • Hyfforddiant Ceredigion Training Programme Centre
  • Job Centre

  Also refer to Skills
• Carers

  • Benefits Enquiry Line
  • CALL Includes a range of fact sheets aimed at carers
  • Carers Direct
  • Support for Care Leavers at AU Includes a link the AU Student Mentoring Scheme
  • Ceredigion Crossroads
  • Ceredigion County Council - Carers
  • Contact a Family Offering parents with disabled children help and support
• Community Support

  • Ceredigion Information Service
  • Ceredigion Care Society
  • Citizen's Advice Bureau
  • Centre for Widening Participation & Social Inclusion AU
  • National Union of Students (with Welsh Branch)
  • Nightline AU
  • Student Guild AU
  • Student Support Services - Residential Support
• Computers

  • Information Services AU
• Counselling

  • BBC The Surgery Offers a range of advice lines including sex and relationships and study issues
  • Student Counselling in UK Universities Includes FAQs
  • Staff Counselling AU Human Resources
  • The Aberystwyth University Counselling Service
  • Supportline - Confidential emotional support

  • Also refer to Mental Health
• Crime

  • Aberystwyth Police
  • Victim Support
• Debt

  • Consumer Credit Counselling Service
  • National Debt-Line
  • National Insolvency Helpline

  Also refer to Finance
• Dentists

  • NHS Direct
  • Local Dentists
• Depression

  • Depression Alliance

  Also refer to Mental Health
• Disabilities

  • Accommodation Office AU
  • Benefits Enquiry Line
  • Cartrefi Cymru Support for people with learning disabilities
  • Contact a Family Help for parents
  • Cymryd Rhan
  • Disability Powys Includes representation and advocacy
  • Disability Wales
  • Eich Dewis Chi / Your Choice
  • Information Services AU
  • Learning Support AU / Learning & Language Centre AU
  • Parentline
  • Student Support Services AU
• Doctors

  Refer to Health & Hospitals

• Domestic Violence/Abuse

  • Broken Rainbow
  • Jewish Women's Aid
  • Montgomeryshire Family Crisis Centre
  • Wales Domestic Abuse Helpline
  • Women's Aid

  Also refer to Abuse & Rape/Sexual Violence

• Eating Disorders

  • BEAT (Eating Disorders Association)
• Emergency

  • Bronglais Hospital
  • Emergency Services (phone 999/112)
    
  • Police Dyfed Powys
• Farmers

  • Farm Crisis Network
  • Farming Help
  • Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution
  • Rural Stress Helpline
  • Rural Support Wales
  • Young Farmers
• Finance

  • Benefits Enquiry Line
  • Citizen's Advice Bureau
  • Credit Unions in Wales
  • DirectGov (including Job Centre Plus)
  • Individual Learning Accounts
  • Student Finance Office AU
  • Student Finance Wales
  • The Money Doctor AU
• Funding

  Refer to Finance

• Gambling

  • Gamcare
• Gas

  • The National Grid
• Graduate Schools

  • Education & Lifelong Learning
  • Postgraduate Information
• Harassment

  • Student Guild Harassment/Bullying AU

  Also refer to Bullying

   

• Health

  • Chinese Medicine Centre
  • Church Surgery
  • Lupus UK
  • Machynlleth Health Centre
  • NHS Direct
  • North Road Clinic
  • Padarn Surgery
  • Patient.co.uk
  • Sports Centre AU
  • Student Guild Health Services AU
  • Student Health Centre
  • The Cambria
  • THT Direct
  • Ystwyth Surgery

  Also refer to Mental Health, Hospitals & Sexuality/Sexual Health

• Hospitals

  • Bronglais Hospital
  • Gorwelion Psychiatric Unit
• International Advice

  • International English Centre AU
  • Student Guild International Advice
  • Student Support Services - International Support & Advice
• Library Services

  • Ceredigion Public Library Aberystwyth
  • Information Services
  • Research Support
  • The National Library of Wales
• Listening Services

  • Nightline
  • Samaritans
• Marriage Problems

  • Relate Helpline
• Mental Health

  • Autism Cymru
  • Awetu
  • Basement Project
  • BBC Mental Health
  • CALL
  • CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably)
  • Ceredigion Care Society
  • Choose Life
  • Hafal
  • Healthy Friendships
  • Hearing Voices Network Cymru
  • Llys Steffan Mental Health Resource Centre
  • MDF The BiPolar Organisation
  • Mind
  • Mental Health Foundation
  • Parentline
  • Powys Mental Health
  • Rethink
  • Royal College of Psychiatrists
  • Saneline
  • Walkers in Darkness
  • West Wales Action for Mental Health
  • WHO Guide to Mental and Neurological health in Primary Care
  • Young Minds 0-18s

  Also refer to Bereavement, Depression, Eating Disorders, Self Harm, Suicide
• Missing Persons

  • National Missing Persons Helpline
• Occupational Health & Safety

  • AU Health, Safety & Environment
• Parents

  • Accommodation Office AU
  • Contact a Family
  • Ceredigion Childcare Information Service
  • Ceredigion Crossroads
  • Childcare AU
  • Genesis Ceredigion
  • Home Start
  • Montgomeryshire Family Crisis Centre
  • Parentline
  • Parent Plus Helpline
  • Young Mnds 0-18s
• Peer Support

  Refer to Community Support

• Personal Development Planning

  
  

  • Information for Personal Tutors about PDP
• Police

  • Aberystwyth Police
• Psychotherapy

  • Gorwelion Psychiatric Unit
  • UKCP

  Also refer to Mental Health
• Public Transport

  • Traveline Cymru

  Also refer to Buses and Trains
• Rape/Sexual Violence

  • Rape Crisis England & Wales
  • Rights of Women Sexual Violence Legal Advice Line
  • Seren
  • Women's Aid
• Religious Groups

  • Buddhism
  • Greek Orthodox
  • Islam
  • Jewish Women's Aid
  • United Reformed

  Also refer to Spiritual
• Safety

  • Aberystwyth Police
  • Emergency Services (Phone 999/112)
  • Samaritans
  • University Security Office
• Self Harm

  • Basement Project
  • Bristol Crisis Service for Women
  • National Self Harm Network
  • The Site - Self Harm
• Sexuality/Sexual Health

  • Brook
  • Mermaids
  • Sexaholics Anonymous (SA)
  • Sexual Health Clinic (Builth Wells Cottage Hospital)
  • Sexual Health Clinic (Student Health Centre)
  • Terence Higgins Trust
• Skills

  • Skills via the Careers Advisory Service AU
  • Information Skills via Library Services AU
  • Study Skills via Student Support Services AU
  • Postgraduate Skills via the Office of Postgraduate Studies

  Also refer to Personal Development Planning
• Smoking

  • ASH: Action on Smoking & Health
  • Smokers Helpline Wales
  • Quitline
• Social Services

  • Contact Centre Social Services Ceredigion County Council
• Spiritual

  • Aberystywth Mosque
  • CathSoc
  • MethSoc
  • Places of Worship
  • St Michael's Church

  Also refer to Religious Groups
• Sports

  • Plascrug Leisure Centre
  • Sports Centre AU
  • Student's Union
• Substance Misuse

  • Ad Fam
  • Alcoholics Anonymous
  • Cyswllt Ceredigion Contact
  • DAN 24/7 All Wales Drugs and Alcohol Helpline
  • Drug Aid Drugs Scope
  • Pathways to Recovery
  • Prism
  • Student Guild Drugs and Alcohol Management
• Suicide

  • Befrienders
  • CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably)
  • Choose Life
  • Maytree
  • Mind
  • PAPYRUS

  Also refer to Bereavement
  Also refer to Mental Health
• Training

  • CDSAP, AU
  • Genesis Ceredigion

  Also refer to Skills

• Trains

  • Arriva Trains Wales
  • National Rail Enquiries
  • Traveline Cymru
• Volunteering

  • Guild of Students AU
  • Careers Advisory Service
• Welfare

  • Student Support Services AU

  Also refer to Finance, Community Support, Counselling, Mental Health

• Welsh Language

  • Centre for Welsh Language Services AU
  • Mid-Wales Welsh for Adults Centre
• Withdrawals

  • Student Support Services AU
• Youth

  • BBC The Surgery
  • Bullying UK
  • CAMHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
  • Childline
  • Children and Young People’s Information Service, Ceredigion County Council
  • Childrens Commissioner for Wales 
  • Childwatch
  • Contact a family
  • Get Connected
  • Kidscape
  • National Bullying Helpline
  • Newtown Youth & Family Service
  • Nightline AU
  • PAPYRUS For practical advice on suicide prevention
  • Powys Advocacy Service for Children and Young People
  • RD4U
    
  • Student Advice and Counselling Centre, AU
  • The Site
  • Winston’s Wish
  • Young Farmers
  • Young Minds
  • Youth Information