Resource Centres

A wide variety of organisations are available to help you improve your work prospects and your quality of life.

Find more information about local support you can access here.

My Ageing Parent aims to help individuals to help their elder members of family through their website by providing articles regarding health issues such as bowel, diabetes, heart and many other. It also has an online shop to buy products designed to assist with elderly care and a forum to ask questions and get advice from others in a similar situation.

 

Find useful advice and information about Application forms, CV and writing your cover letter – all the information you need to make sure your job application gets you noticed.

Need help with your CV or filling an application form? The CV Centre is United Kingdom's most popular CV consultancy, specialising in professional CV and LinkedIn profile writing. Our CVs are carefully crafted to bring forth the best in your career skills and abilities and appeal to potential employers, rather than being just an uninspiring typed summary of an individual's basic information. While they charge for CV writing, they aim to provide as much free careers help and advice as possible.

Patient is the UK’s leading independent health site, established since 1997. We are a trusted source of information, and a first choice for consumers and health professionals nationwide. You can simply search the symptoms you have and it will instantly provide you with a number of remedies.

+44 (0) 114 282 3528

Age UK is the country's largest charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life. Ageing is not an illness, but it can be challenging. At Age UK we provide services and support at a national and local level to inspire, enable and support older people.

People First is provided in association with the Adult Social Care teams of the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and Westminster City Council.

The aim is to provide a wealth of information and resources covering the whole of the private, voluntary and public sector across the three boroughs. The site is aimed at the older adult population, people living with disabilities of whatever kind, and those who look after others.

One You is a ground-breaking campaign from Public Health England to help adults across Hounslow avoid future diseases caused by our lifestyles.

Behaviours such as eating too much unhealthy food, drinking more alcohol than is recommended, continuing to smoke and not being active enough are responsible for around 40% of all deaths in Hounslow, and cost the NHS more than £11 billion a year.  

London Health Trainers provide NHS trained free health service to residents living in Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Their aim is to help individuals identify who are in most need of help and guidance to achieve their health goals through the services and support they offer.

 Prospects is a registered charity with more than 40 years of service in the higher education providing expert advice in graduate careers. We help to guide students and graduates to a bright future with unrivalled information, advice and opportunities.

Cover letters are as important to your job application as your CV and yet they are often rushed out as an afterthought. This is your chance to show recruiters why you’d be good at the job and get them interested. Totaljobs.com is one of the UK's leading jobs boards, recruiters from multinationals to smaller regionally-based businesses, recruitment consultants and advertising agencies use totaljobs.com to recruit individuals across almost every sector in the UK.

If you want to increase your computer or internet skills, or maybe just access a computer then the IT Hub can help you. With the IT sessions you can get support to make the most of the internet, learn how to set up your own email account, apply for jobs, pay your bills and connect with friends and family around the world. Our IT Hub Support Worker Qalid is here during the drop in sessions is on hand to provide all the support you need.

We connect people affected by unemployment, ill health, social isolation or low incomes in central and west London with opportunities for positive personal change. Our vision is to build stronger, happier and healthier communities to help create an enriched life where we live.

 

Packed full of information, it is a proactive site, which helps you find the answers to all the questions you might have. Whether you need specific information on care options, funding, or how to keep your older relatives active, busy and healthy. And of course, there are many helpful articles for you as well on how to cope with the stress of looking after your parents as they age.

 

 

 

Colchester Baptist Church is a part of the Baptist Union of Great Britain. We seek to be a welcoming fellowship in all that we do so that people will find this a church in which to settle, integrate, grow and serve. We believe that everyone in life should be able to go somewhere to meet friends, make new ones, and receive support or advice if/when needed, regardless of their present or past circumstances. Our Drop-in centre is open to all people – of any faith or none.

 
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Learn My Way is a website of free online courses for beginners, helping you develop digital skills to make the most of the online world.

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