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Rethink Companions Carer service

Services and Groups |Last updated: 06/11/2025

Companions Carers support offers one to one advice and signposting on all carers issues and the opportunity to attend the “Caring and coping” course that covers the following areas; • Wellbeing for carers • Carers rights • Carers assessment/benefits • Carers breaks.

Carer support

Services and Groups |Last updated: 07/01/2025

Bristol Carer Service

Services and Groups |Last updated: 19/01/2026

We help family members, partners and friends of Bristol adults with mental health needs. Whether or not you think you are a ‘carer’, advice and support is available. When someone close to you is unwell or in crisis, it can feel overwhelming and lonely. We arrange a phonecall with a member of staff specialised in understanding the complexities of caring for someone with a mental illness, we offer a listening ear and help you access support, information and groups. Everyone is different, we offer a personalized service to people from all backgrounds. You need to be over 16 and the person you support should be over 16 and living in Bristol.

The truth of being a young carer

Last updated: 18/10/2024

“The isolation of being a carer is the scariest thing” – Steve’s story

Last updated: 09/10/2023

Oxford Carers Support Service

Services and Groups |Last updated: 31/10/2025

Oxford Carers Support believes that carers have an invaluable role in helping people recover from mental illness and that they should be acknowledged, valued and supported. We place people who use our services at the centre of everything we do. We provide high quality services and welcome feedback from service users to constantly develop and improve them. We are a highly experienced team of senior mental health recovery workers, working across Oxfordshire, specialising in supporting carers of people living with a mental illness. We work closely with Oxfordshire Mental Health Partnership, signposting and referring to services and providing a carers course within the Oxfordshire Recovery College. The service provides specialist training sessions to unpaid carers throughout the year including: - Caring and coping

Using the NHS app: A guide for you as a carer

Advice and information |Last updated: 03/11/2025

This page explains what the NHS app is and how it can help you if you care for someone, it tells you how to link their account to yours. That way, you can help manage their care easily.

Using the NHS app: A guide for you and your carer

Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 12/01/2026

This page explains what the NHS app is and how it can help you. It also shows you how to download and use it. If you care for someone, it tells you how to link their account to yours. That way, you can help manage their care easily.

“No one knows what life’s like as a carer” – Sharon’s story

Last updated: 09/10/2023

“I didn’t realise for a very long time that I’d been a carer” – Jonathan’s story

Last updated: 03/06/2025

Respite care - Breaks for carers

Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 17/02/2026

Respite means that you have a break from caring. This section explains what respite options may be available to you as a carer.

Rethink Carer Support: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

Services and Groups |Last updated: 13/11/2025

We are run by carers, with carers, for carers of adults with mental health problems. Our aims are to: • Support and inform each other – through monthly groups, a phone line, informal advocacy and financial help – so that we know we are not alone • Help each other develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to do the best we can for our loved one with mental health problems • Provide information about training, helpful local agencies and rights • Work with carers to strengthen their voices as experts by experience so that the limited resources available to mental health and social care are put to the best possible use • Engage constructively with the NHS, the NHS Provider Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) and local authority commissioners to improve services – where necessary injecting a sense of urgency and an element of challenge