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People who are more than 10 weeks pregnant or have a child under 4 may be entitled to get help to buy healthy food and milk. If eligible, they will be sent a Healthy Start card with money on it that can be used in some UK shops. NHS will add this benefit onto their card every 4 weeks.

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What is Healthy Start?

If you're more than 10 weeks pregnant or have a child under 4, you may be entitled to get help to buy healthy food and milk.

If you're eligible, you'll be sent a Healthy Start card with money on it that you can use in some UK shops. We'll add your benefit onto this card every 4 weeks.

You can use your card to buy:

plain liquid cow's milk

fresh, frozen, and tinned fruit and vegetables

fresh, dried, and tinned pulses

infant formula milk based on cow's milk

You can also use your card to collect:

Healthy Start vitamins - these support you during pregnancy and breastfeeding

vitamin drops for babies and young children - these are suitable from birth to 4 years old

If you live in Scotland

You can get help from Best Start Foods (opens in a new tab) instead.

Advice on healthy eating

For more advice on healthy eating, visit:

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Helpful for participants with financial concerns, you can click on your area (covers England and Scotland!) and then if it's debt, or if they've been sanctioned, suddenly have no money (due to job loss etc), waiting on a benefits decision or if money just isn't going far enough they'll suggest organisations who can support

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"This is a great piece of joint work and supplements all the other work that has been going on to make sure people are aware of all the support that is available to them and who to contact to get it...the guide is concise and clearly laid out with all the details and information on support available across the Highlands in the one place."

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Virtual mentoring platform. Free advice and support with getting into work or changing
career from experienced and knowledgeable professionals.

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Support line for individuals who are experiencing financial abuse and/or domestic abuse.

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The Financial Support Line for Victims of Domestic Abuse is run by Money Advice Plus in partnership with Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA). It offers specialist advice to anyone experiencing domestic abuse who is in financial difficulty.

To contact the Financial Support Line, call 0808 1968845 (Mon-Fri, 9am-1pm and 2pm-5pm). Calls are free of charge. For callers whose first language is not English, an interpretation service is available on request.

The aim of the Financial Support Line is to empower people who have experienced or are experiencing abuse to regain control of their finances. Advisers on the Line will always take your safety and well-being into account when giving advice.

While advisers on the Line cannot help with everything, they can:

give you strategies for dealing with debt, including coerced debt

discuss welfare benefit issues

support you in developing a budget

look at problems you may be experiencing with utility companies and other bills

talk you through how to safely open a new bank account or work through problems you're experiencing with banking

in some cases, signpost or refer you to apply for small grants if you are experiencing severe financial hardship

Please note that volume on the Line is very high, so it may take a while to get through. We have had to take the difficult decision to remove the ability to leave a message. This was to keep everyone safe. Please do keep trying during our working hours (see above).

In the meantime, please do consult our information and resources .

Are you dealing with coerced debt?

We are piloting a new Financial Support Line Casework Service. You (or your client) may be eligible for the service if you:

have debts and have experienced economic abuse and

have experienced or are experiencing domestic or economic abuse

If you meet these criteria, there are two ways you can reach the service.

1. Professional referral

If you are already being supported by a domestic abuse or advice service, you can ask them to do a professional referral on your behalf.

A staff member should email [email protected] using the referral form

2. Self-referral

You can also refer yourself by calling the Financial Support Line on the phone number above and telling them you are eligible for referral to the casework service. An adviser will talk through how they think we can best support you.

Volume on the Line is very high, so it may take a while to get through. Please do keep trying.

If we cannot support you through the casework service, we can also refer you on to a partner organisation.

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Financial Support Line - Surviving Economic Abuse

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POhWER - help people who, because of disability, illness, social exclusion and other challenges, find it difficult to express their views or get the support they need. They are a charity and the advocacy, information and advice services we provide are free, independent and confidential. Referrals can be made on the website.

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Offers free 1-1 support using computers at different locations within Oxfordshire and can also donate laptops, tablets and phones to people. Their hubs are in Bicester, Oxford and Didcot.

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Charity that provides employability support for women with convictons. They offer support with CV's, interview practice, disclosing a conviction to an employer and boosting confidence.

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Working Chance helps women with criminal convictions - most of whom have been in prison - to develop their employability and self-belief and find a job they can thrive in.

We work with employers of all sizes across all sectors, finding jobs with real career prospects for thousands of women who would otherwise struggle in life and have a high chance of reoffending.

For the women we work with, a job is more than an income - it means a future where she can flourish and contribute to society.

At its heart, our mission is to give women who've had very few breaks in life purpose, independence and hope.

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Working Chance helps women with criminal convictions - most of whom have been in prison - to develop their employability and self-belief and find a job they can thrive in. We work with employers of all sizes across all sectors, finding jobs with real career prospects for thousands of women who would otherwise struggle in life and have a high chance of reoffending.

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“Treatment has made a huge difference to me. It has helped me to transform from dealing with chronic pain, as I improve physically, to deal with the psychological symptoms. I felt like I really had support.”

“There was flexibility to have phone consultations. I feel confident in the info, websites and books I can use to self manage in the future.”

“The choice of the online programme fitted well with my circumstances and lifestyle, and my supporter was very good in explaining how my levels of low mood and anxiety had changed.”

“I really enjoyed this self-esteem course and felt really involved in the group. I've taken away some skills which I will definitely use in the future.”

“The experience was great, I really have a better understanding of my problems and I would recommend to a friend - the service was also flexible with my schedule.”

“Treatment has made a huge difference to me. It has helped me to transform from dealing with chronic pain, as I improve physically, to deal with the psychological symptoms. I felt like I really had support.”

“There was flexibility to have phone consultations. I feel confident in the info, websites and books I can use to self manage in the future.”

“The choice of the online programme fitted well with my circumstances and lifestyle, and my supporter was very good in explaining how my levels of low mood and anxiety had changed.”

“I really enjoyed this self-esteem course and felt really involved in the group. I've taken away some skills which I will definitely use in the future.”

“The experience was great, I really have a better understanding of my problems and I would recommend to a friend - the service was also flexible with my schedule.”

“Treatment has made a huge difference to me. It has helped me to transform from dealing with chronic pain, as I improve physically, to deal with the psychological symptoms. I felt like I really had support.”

“There was flexibility to have phone consultations. I feel confident in the info, websites and books I can use to self manage in the future.”

“The choice of the online programme fitted well with my circumstances and lifestyle, and my supporter was very good in explaining how my levels of low mood and anxiety had changed.”

“I really enjoyed this self-esteem course and felt really involved in the group. I've taken away some skills which I will definitely use in the future.”

“The experience was great, I really have a better understanding of my problems and I would recommend to a friend - the service was also flexible with my schedule.”

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If you feel you would benefit from support, please contact our service directly on 01865 901222 or fill in the online referral form.

Researchers at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and The University of Oxford are conducting a study to find out more about how the type and number of traumas someone experiences affects their perception of feeling defeated and the severity of their posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

We are interested in hearing from people who have experienced either interpersonal (caused by someone else) or non-interpersonal traumas (e.g. accidents, injuries) and have self identified symptoms of PTSD. If you would like to take part, please go to the following link for more information and to complete the questionnaires; click here

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Grief can be overwhelming - you don’t have to deal with it alone. Cruse Bereavement Support is here. Call our helpline or chat online.

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Supports ethnic minority families in Banbury who are mainly of Pakistani descent with the aim of increasing cultural awareness and integration within the community though workshops and projects, develop parents English language skills and as a result increase confidence in their parenting and social skills.

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Aims and Purposes

Sunrise Multicultural supports ethnic minority families in Banbury who are mainly of Pakistani descent. We serve single parent families, families on low income and from various wards in Banbury. Children from English families are part of the multi-cultural mix.

We aim to increase cultural awareness and integration within the community through our workshops and projects, develop parents' English language skills and as a result increase confidence in their parenting and social skills.

Sunrise Multicultural Project wants to address cultural issues affecting families' parenting abilities and their inclusion and integration into the wider community in Banbury, building links with schools in particular.

Click on the link below to hear what some of our young people have to say about the time they spend at Sunrise.

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We are an Independent charity that provides advice

benefits and general advice. We can help with filling in Benefit forms. We do not give debt advice but can issue Foodbank Vouchers to those in need. We also provide Career advice.

Older people can contact us for Tax Advice and we can refer you for free advice from a Tax charity. We help Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire residents. The majority of our clients live in Oxfordshire.

We are fortunate that we can refer clients for free initial advice on Wills and Power of Attorney.

or email helpdeskbancp@yahoo.com Please remember to bring the form and any medical letters.

You can also Book Benefit filling appointments online by going to our booking page

To get information and advice from our experienced advisers email helpdeskbancp@yahoo.com

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Cherwell Business Village, Southam Road, Banbury,

Longford Park Community Centre, Longford Park, Bodicote.

Phoenix Office, Borough House, Marlborough Road, Banbury,

Longford Park Community Centre, Longford Park, Bodicote.

Banburyshire Advice Centre is an Advice Centre based in Banbury, North Oxfordshire. We run a number of advice services serving the residents of Cherwell District, South Warwickshire, Buckinghamshire, West Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire and the city of Oxford.

We can help adults with our advice services.

We provide information and advice on a whole range of subjects. We give Welfare benefit advice, Housing advice, care home advice, education and leisure advice, how to find a tradesman, transport, bereavement, utilities, non residential care. This is only a small range of information we can cover, it is quite vast.

Below is a broad range of topics we have information on.

- Money matters, Benefits and income, pensions and legal issues.

- Health & well being, Health conditions and maintaining well being.

- Home & care Housing choices, care at home and information for carers.

- Work & learning, Advice on work, further and Higher education, leisure courses.

- Travel and lifestyle, hobbies and transport.

We do not cover Legal advice, debt advice or Tax advice but would forward clients on to experts in the field. We may have information on these areas but we are unable to give to advice on these subjects.

We're a registered charity in England (no. 1170519)

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Shelter offer advice to people on their housing rights and offer emergency support for people who are homeless, have nowhere to stay or experiencing abuse at home.

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Shelter believes everyone should have a home. More than one million people a year come to us for advice and support via our website, helplines and national network of services. We also tackle the root causes of bad housing by campaigning for new laws, policies, and solutions.

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We help people with a learning disability find the right home for them. Read more and learn about housing and all the other services that we offer and promote.

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How to get the support you need

Phone or email the Learning Disability Helpline, which is our advice and support service, for guidance and information about what support we can offer you.

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Helpline for male victims of domestic abuse

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This factsheet explains what a non-molestation order is, how it can protect victims of domestic abuse, and how to apply for one.

Men's Advice Line evaluation survey

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Provdes support to men, boys and non-binary people who have been impacted by sexual violence.

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SurvivorsUK | We challenge the silence to support sexually abused men

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SurvivorsUK. Men Overcoming Sexual Violence Together. We're here for you.

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24/7 support line to support women and children going through domestic abuse

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Refuge - For women and children. Against domestic abuse.

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Refuge is the largest domestic abuse organisation in the UK. On any given day our services support thousands of women and their children, helping them to overcome the physical, emotional, financial and logistical impacts of abuse and rebuild their lives - free from fear.

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Victims First – supporting victims across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire

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Need help after crime?

Get in touch anytime for independent, free, and confidential advice:

In an emergency you should always call 999.

Our services are confidential. We will only share information about you without your consent if we're concerned about your, or someone else's safety, or if we're required to by law. Read our privacy policy.

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Helpline, email support and befriending for people who are LGBTQIA+

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LGBT Foundation – A national charity with LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing at the heart of everything we do.

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Women's Aid support survivors of domestic abuse

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Specialist charity that works to prevent sexual violence and abuse and support those affected to cope and recove

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Safeline - Believe in you - Surviving sexual abuse & rape

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We help prevent sexual violence and support anyone who has been affected. Established in 1994, we have supported over 100,000 people and they help us shape the services and support we provide. Working with clients, we want to support more people who have been abused or are at risk of abuse, removing the barriers that prevent people from accessing specialist support.

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Home - Safeline - Believe in you - Surviving sexual abuse & rape

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Rape Crisis England & Wales is the feminist charity working to end sexual violence and abuse.

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Talk to us, find a Rape Crisis centre, or get self-help tools and resources.

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The Home Office has now responded to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse's final report - and made many important commitments.

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Our member Rape Crisis centres provide free support and services for victims and survivors of rape, sexual assault, sexual abuse and all forms of sexual violence

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Find out everything you need to know about drugs, their effects and the law. Talk to Frank for facts, support and advice on drugs and alcohol today. | FRANK

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Struggling with an eating disorder? Caring for someone who is? Beat is here to support you.

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Free, confidential 24/7 text messaging support service for anyone who is struggling to cope

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Take a look at our resources, information and support, find further help or reach out to one of our volunteers.

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Shout - UK's 24/7 Crisis Text Service for Mental Health Support

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Shout 85258 is the UK's first 24/7 text service for anyone in crisis. Get free, confidential mental health support anytime, anywhere. Text 'SHOUT' to 85258.

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We offer a wide range of interventions to get people in Oxfordshire back into employment, education, stable accommodation, and support them to build relationships. We focus on improving access and...

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Aspire Oxfordshire Community Enterprise Ltd

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Housing Projects

In Oxfordshire, there is a critical lack of suitable move-on housing for people affected by homelessness and rough sleeping. Aspire are working with housing associations and other partners to provide innovative responses to Oxfordshire's housing and homelessness crisis:
Supported housing for ex-offenders NRPF supported housing Supported housing for people facing homelessness
Aspire are rapidly expanding our homeless relief initiatives, working with others to use bold and innovative approaches to achieve lasting change. If you would like to speak to us about any of our housing and homelessness projects, or discuss how we could work with your organisation to expand our impact tackling the homeless crisis in Oxfordshire, please contact Paul Reid, Head of Homelessness Programmes.

Help us reach local people affected by homelessness and donate today.

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Oxfordshire Recovery College provides free courses (online and on site) on topics such as recovery, anxiety, depression and other mental health conditions, wellbeing and much more. Free for adults to enrol

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If you experience mental health crisis at the weekend, you can get support with Banbury Safe Haven. Call:

What we do

Banbury Safe Haven is an out-of-hours, non-clinical space offering crisis support, signposting, safety planning and listening support over the weekend.

Opening hours

Banbury Safe Haven is open on Friday, Saturday, Sunday & Monday from 6.00pm until 10.00pm.

The referral line is open from 5.00pm on the day of the service and the last entry is at 9.00pm.
You must call first. We may not have a space if people arrive at the venue without calling ahead.
View the Banbury Safe Haven poster here.

We offer:

A safe place to be during the crisis.

Someone to talk to face to face - if you want.

Telephone and online support.

An opportunity to work on safety planning, coping skills, and relaxation techniques.

An opportunity to use the space to relax, listen to the music, or use art materials.

Refreshments.

Staff who come from a range of backgrounds and offer person-centred support.

We are unable to offer:

A Section 136 Place of Safety.

Regular ongoing support.

Formal clinical psychiatric assessment.

Medical care.

All-night support: we close at 10pm.

Transport to or from the venue.

Who the service is for

Oxfordshire residents over 18 who are experiencing a mental health crisis who wish to access support, and could benefit from a supportive, non-clinical environment out of hours

People who historically may have attended the emergency department, in the absence of other options for accessing assessment, support and safety

People who may be at risk of self-harm or suicide, but no immediate risk to themselves or others.

Who this service is unsuitable for

People younger than 18 years, or those living outside of Oxfordshire

People presenting an immediate risk to themselves or others

Anyone likely to be disruptive or aggressive in an informal social environment

Anyone who needs immediate medical treatment

People who are significantly intoxicated with alcohol or drugs on arrival will not be admitted

You can self-refer yourself, or a friend, family member or health care professional can refer you.

Anyone making a referral needs to call us in advance: we may not have a space if people arrive at the venue without calling ahead.

Location

We are located at Banbury Wellbeing hub, Britannia Road, Banbury, OX16 5DN. Click here for directions

Opening hours

Banbury Safe Haven is open on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday from 6.00pm until 10.00pm.

Please see above for operating times.

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StepChange Debt Charity. Free Expert Debt Help & Advice

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ACAS are specialists in employment law and offer free information, help and advice to employees and employers with any issues they may be experiencing at work.

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Acas | Making working life better for everyone in Britain

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Acas is the workplace expert for England, Wales and Scotland. We provide free and impartial advice for employers and employees, training and help resolve disputes.

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Citizens Advice can help people fill out forms, get advice with benefits, employment issues and more.

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Banbury & Brackley (Citizens Advice North Oxon & South Northants)

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Includes information, worksheets and information on short wellbeing courses Mind deliver

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Oxfordshire Mind | Your Local Mental Health Charity

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Connections can support people who are homeless, rough sleeping and also have a mental health support service.

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Our Oxfordshire team is based in Cowley, Banbury and Witney providing services across the whole county.

Our team can support you through life's challenges from the complex to the every-day situations you find yourself in. You may be facing homelessness, unable to keep up with rent payments, need someone to accompany you to an important meeting that could affect your future or need advice to complete a form for benefits.

Our Homeless Support Service could provide you with short term housing with support to increase your skills and confidence, and help you to move on to more appropriate longer-term housing.

We safeguard and promote the welfare of children and adults and tools are available here:
Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children Board
Oxfordshire Safeguarding Adults Board

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Connection Support in Oxfordshire Our Oxfordshire team is based in Cowley, Banbury and Witney providing services across the whole county. Our team can support you through life's challenges from the complex to the every-day situations you find yourself in.

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A charitable organisation based in Oxford to help people who are at risk of homelessness

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Crisis Skylight Oxford is working hard to provide support to our members.

We are providing most support remotely through phones or on-line where possible. Because of the risks to people who may have underlying health needs our buildings are closed or have very restricted access.

Please do not come to Crisis Skylight Oxford.

Please call us on 01865 263900 or email us at reception.oxford@crisis.org.uk and we will get back to you as soon as possible, so we can arrange the support you need in the way that will keep you safe.

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Crisis Skylight Oxford is working hard to provide support to our members. We are providing most support remotely through phones or on-line where possible. Because of the risks to people who may have underlying health needs our buildings are closed or have very restricted access. Please do not come to Crisis Skylight Oxford.