Directory of West Midlands
Women’s Resources
Produced by Rebecca Phillips,HORU
and Viv Talbot,Crowley House
October 2009
Accommodation:
AdullamHomes – 0121 551 5030
Provides accommodation, support and floating support
Mixed accommodation for ex-offenders and people with HIV
BirminghamCityMission – PamelaHouse – 0121 706 5567
Provides accommodation and support
Mixed accommodation for single, homeless women
BirminghamSolihullWomen’sAid – 0121 685 8505 / 0800 0732 606
Provides accommodation and support including emergency refuge accommodation
Accommodation for women escaping from domestic abuse
EnglishChurches Housing Group – TownsendGardens – 0121 471 1462
Provides accommodation and support
Single women only aged 16 - 65
Fry Housing – Stephen Springer House – 0121 356 4476
Provides accommodation and support
Mixed accommodation for ex offenders, some beds available for females
Midland Heart – Focus Foyer – 0121 236 6298
Provides accommodation and support
Mixed accommodation for single homeless people
Midland Heart Homeless Services Centre – 0121 233 6370
Assists in finding accommodation, floating support, drug tenancy support, and rough sleepers outreach team
Mixed accommodation for single homeless people aged 16- 65
Midland Heart – Helen Dixon House – 0121 449 3748
Provides accommodation and support
Single homeless women aged 16 – 45
Midland Heart – Long Street – 0121 772 7104
Provides accommodation and support
Single homeless women aged 25 – 49
MIND in Birmingham – 0121 608 8001
Provides accommodation, support and floating support
Mixed accommodation for people with mental health issues
NACRO Housing – 0121 333 6795
Provides accommodation and support
Mixed accommodation for ex offenders
St Basils – 0121 233 1508
Provides accommodation, support and floating support
Mixed accommodation for single homeless people aged 16 - 25
Stonham – 0121 380 4926
Provides accommodation and support
Mixed accommodation for ex offenders
YMCA – Aston / Northfield / Erdington – 0121 477 4644
Provides accommodation and support
Mixed accommodation for single homeless people aged 16 - 65
Furniture:
BirminghamCityMission Resource Centre – 0121 643 4324
Ladywood Furniture Project – 0121 455 7133
Benefits:
Antonina Robinson – 07769672182
Provides advice and assistance with benefit claims / problems
Job Centre Plus
New claims – 08000 556 688
Social fund – 0845 608 8649
Job Seekers Direct – 0845 606 0234
Enquiries – 0845 608 8648
Processing – 0845 608 8657
Crisis Loans – 0800 169 9891
Courts / probation:
CAFCASS –
BirminghamMagistrates Court – 0121 248 6080
Birmingham Crown Court – 0121 248 0099
DudleyMagistrates Court – 01384 862 424
Halesowen Magistrates Court – 0121 550 1496
SolihullMagistrates Court – 0121 711 7331
Sutton Coldfield Magistrates Court – 0121 354 3715
WalsallMagistrates Court – 01922 721 341
Warley Magistrates Court–0121 533 3427
West BromwichMagistrates Court – 0121 525 5381
WolverhamptonMagistrates Court – 01902 711 449
Wolverhampton Crown Court – 01902 481 108/9
Counselling and support:
Transition to Adulthood (T2A) – 0121 248 6564
Birmingham Women’s Advice and Information Centre – 0121 212 1881
SAFE (for women working as sex workers) – 0121 440 6655
Samaritans – Birmingham – 0121 666 6464
Women’s Counselling and Psychotherapy Centre – 0121 678 2471
Asian Resource Centre – 0121 523 0580
UK Asian Women’s Centre – 0121 523 4910
CAB – BirminghamCity Centre – 0121 248 4950
Home Start – 0800 068 6368
Sure Start – 0870 000 2288
Disability Resource Centre – 0121 789 7365
National Debtline – 0808 808 4000
BirminghamCity Council Debt Advice Team – 0121 303 2087
Gingerbread – 0800 018 5026
Domestic Violence support:
Emergency Refuge Accommodation – 0800 0732 606
Counselling and Family Support – 0121 685 8551
(site for children, young people, professionals and parents)
National Domestic Violence Freephone Helpline – 0808 2000 247
Joyti Ashram Reducing Domestic Violence Project – 0121 764 3817
Midland Heart Domestic Violence Support Team – 0121 212 1611
City Council Emergency Housing – 0121 303 2296 (out of hours)
-0121 303 7410 (office hours)
Breathe (information and support for Afro-Caribbean women) – 0121 248 1068
Broken Rainbow (support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people) – 08452 60 44 60
Birmingham Domestic Violence Forum (directory services in Birmingham) –
Rape and Sexual Violence Project – 0121 233 3818
Employment / training:
ANAWIM – 0121 440 5296
BirminghamIndustrial Therapy Association (BITA Pathways) – 0121 773 1455
Warwick Training Centre (BITA Pathways) – 0121 753 0113
Saltley Training Centre (BITA Pathways) – 0121 327 5088
Textiles by St Anne’s (BITA Pathways) – 0121 328 2837
Birmingham Settlement – 0121 250 3000
Cultivations (Making Tracks – Ragley Hall Project) – Neil Marsh - 07720683127
Foreign Nationals:
Asylum Support and Immigration Support Team (ASIRT) – 0121 772 6700
ASIRT Women’s Group –
Community Integration Partnership (CIP) – 0121 454 3519
Provides courses such as ESOL and NVQ’s in computing, admin and childcare
Home Office Immigration Department – 0121 713 3229
Health:
Health Exchange – 0121 465 3965
HeartlandsHospital Midwifes (Safeguarding) – 0121 424 2117
Trudy Fenner and CarmelNewton
QueenElizabethHospital –
Selly OakHospital –
Legal advice:
Community Legal Service – 0845 608 1122
The Law Society – 0870 606 6575
Rights of Women Legal Advice Line – 020 7251 6577 / 020 7490 2562 (textphone)
Rights of Women Sexual Violence Legal Advice Line – 020 7251 8887 / 020 7490 2562 (textphone)
Prisons:
HMP Drake Hall – 01785 774100
HMPEastwoodPark – 01454 382 100
HMP Foston Hall–01283 584 300
HMP New Hall – 01924 803 000
HMP Peterborough – 01733 217 500
Substance misuse:
DRR – 0121 301 1710
SIFA – 0121 666 7023
Turningpoint Drugline –
DSB –01212 233 7400