Supporting Voluntary and Community Action
We help people who are involuntarily addicted to prescribed psychotropic medication, mainly tranquillisers, sleeping pills and anti-depressants. We were set up in 1985 and become a registered charity in 1996. We run withdrawal groups and provide individual counselling . We run a helpline 4 days a week. We also run an outreach group on Tuesday afternoons at the NHS Walk-in Centre in Knowle, and on Thursday mornings at Southmead Health Centre. We are funded by the Bristol Primary Care... More
BASF supports people affected by a stroke, including their carer or family members. We do this by visiting individuals at home, assessing their needs, providing information, signposting where necessary and providing support ourselves through home visits, counselling, weekly groups and short-term groups with specific aims such as Conversation or therapy groups.