Support Groups - A

Action Against Migraine
178a High Road
Byfleet
Surrey KT14 7ED
Tel: 01932 352 468
Fax: 01932 351 257
Email: info@migraine.org.uk
www.migraine.org.uk

The Migraine Action Association (formerly the British Migraine Association) is a registered charity with over 17,000 members. They bridge the gap between the migraine sufferer and the medical world by providing information on all aspects of the condition and its management. They are committed to raising general awareness of the condition and are a recognised source of information; their leaflets and newsletters are distributed to clinics, hospitals, libraries, doctors' surgeries and the media throughout the country.

Action for Sick Children
300 Kingston Road
London SW20 8LX
Tel: 020 8542 4848
Helpline: 08000 744 519
www.actionforsickchildren.org.uk

Working to raise health care standards for all children. Parents advice booklets and information centre.

Action on pre-eclampsia (APEC)
2nd Floor
31-33 College Road
Harrow
Middx HA1 1EJ
Tel: 020 8863 3271
Helpline: 020 8427 4217
www.aspects.net

Action on Pre-eclampsia (APEC) is a UK charity set up in 1991 to ease and prevent suffering from pre-eclampsia and improve care and understanding of the condition.

Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
102 Clifton Street
London EC2A 4HW
Tel: 020 77395 902
Fax: 020 7613 0531
Email: action.smoking.health@dial.pipex.com
www.ash.org.uk

ASH is working to secure public, media, parliamentary, local and national government support for a comprehensive programme to tackle the epidemic of tobacco-related disease.

Active Birth Centre
25 Bickerton Road
London N19 5JT
Tel: 020 7482 5554
Fax: 020 7267 9683
Shop tel: 020 7263 8098
Email: mail@activebirthcentre.com
www.activebirthcentre.com

Lots of invaluable information to inspire and empower you throughout pregnancy, birth and as new parents.

African-Caribbean Mental Health Association (ACMHA)
Suite 37
49 Effra Road
London  SW2 1BZ
Tel: 020 7737 3603 (Mon- Fri, 9.30 am - 5.30 pm)

Provides legal support, psychotherapy, advocacy, befriending and housing advice for suffers of mental health problems and illness from those of African-Caribbean origin within the London area.

Alcohol Concern
Waterbridge House
32-36 Loman Street
London SE1 0EE
Drinkline: 0800 917 8282
Tel: 020 7928 7377
www.alcoholconcern.org.uk

Information on alcohol, alcohol policy and the work of Alcohol Concern. Alcohol Concern is the UK national body on alcohol misuse.

Alcoholics Anonymous
General Service Office
PO Box 1
Stonebow House
Stonebow
York YO1 7NJ
Tel: 01904 644026
Helpline:0845 7697 555
www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk

Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other to solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.

Anaphylaxis Campaign
PO Box 149
Fleet
Hampshire GU13 9XU 
Tel: 01443 492994 
www.anaphylaxis.org.uk

Thousands of people in the UK have potentially fatal food allergies. The condition is known as anaphylaxis. The Anaphylaxis Campaign was set up to help them.

Antenatal Results and Choices (ARC) (formerly SATFA)
73-75 Charlotte Street
London W1P 4PN
Helpline: 020 7631 0285
Tel/Fax: 020 7631 0280
www.cafamily.org.uk/Direct/f26.html

For those faced with difficult pre-natal test results, support and counselling can be vital. Whatever choices need to be made, contact with other parents can be useful. ARC is the specialist organisation providing this support and information.

Assisted Reproduction and Gynaecology Centre
13 Upper Wimpole Street
London W1M 7TD
Tel: 020 7486 1230
Fax: 020 7486 1232
www.argc.co.uk  

For reproduction and gynaecological information.

Association for All Speech Impaired Children
69-85 Old Street
London EC1V 9HX
Tel: 020 7841 8900
Helpline: 0845 355 5577
www.AFASIC.org.uk

Afasic is the UK charity representing children and young adults with communication impairments, working for their inclusion in society and supporting their parents and carers.

Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services (AIMS)
Beverley Lawrence Beech
21 Iver Lane
Iver
Bucks SL0 9LH
Tel: 01753 652 781
Email: beverley.bech@aims.org.uk  
www.aims.org.uk

Supporting parents and professionals in the UK and Ireland.

Association for Infant Mental Health
Tavistock Centre
120 Belsize Lane
London NW3 5BA

Promotes education, research and study of the effects of mental, emotional and social development during infancy on later normal and psychopathological development.

Association for Postnatal Illness (APNI)
25 Jerdan Place
Fulham
London SW6 1BE
Tel: 020 7386 0868
Fax: 020 7386 8885
Email: info@apni.org
www.apni.org

The association provides support to mothers suffering from post-natal illness, increases public awareness of the illness, and encourages research into its cause and nature.

Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus
42 Park Road
Peterborough PE1 2UQ
England
Tel: 01733 555 988
Fax: 01733 555 985
Email: postmaster@ASBAH.org.uk

Association of Breastfeeding Mothers (ABM)
PO Box 207
Bridgwater
Somerset
TA6 7YT
Tel: 020 7813 1481
Email: abm@clara.net
www.home.clara.net/abm/

The Association of Breastfeeding Mothers was founded in 1980 by a group of mothers who felt that there was a need for another breastfeeding organisation.