The directory

Everywhere we know about.

1,090 places, listed by postcode area. This is everything we hold — no postcode needed, nothing hidden behind a form.

If you are looking for help right now, you do not want this page. Tell us where you are and we will give you the phone number for somewhere near you, and tell you whether anyone will answer it.

By what you need

FoodIf you have no food today, these are the people to ring.1,025 places listed
Clothes and warm placesFree clothing, baby supplies, and somewhere warm to sit.44 places listed
Work, training and benefitsFree help with finding work, retraining, and the money you're owed.11 places listed
Housing and homelessnessIf you have nowhere to sleep tonight, start here.10 places listed

The counts are of places, not of help. Food is large because almost every food bank in the UK is published as open data and the other three are not — it is not that there is less clothing or housing support out there, it is that nobody publishes a register of it. And whatever we hold locally, every one of these pages also carries the national helplines for your nation — the freephone numbers, the council's legal duty to house you, the hardship funds. They are staffed today. So a small number here does not mean a thin page; it means we are still gathering the local ones. Know somewhere we have missed?

By where you are

Postcode areas — the letters at the front of a postcode. It is the only geography every listing actually carries, so it is the one we use rather than guessing at counties.

31 places are not listed by area, because they have no public address — a referral-only service, or one that runs online. They are still in the categories above, and still reachable from the four cards on the home page.