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Citizens Advice Bureau [CAB]
www.citizensadvice.org.uk
Citizens Advice Bureaux provide free, confidential and independent advice from locations across Wales including in bureaux, GP surgeries, hospitals, colleges, prisons and courts. Advice is available face-to-face and by telephone. Most bureaux offer home visits and some also provide email advice. The advice helps people resolve their debt, benefits, housing, legal, discrimination, employment, immigration, consumer and other problems and is available to everyone regardless of race, gender, sexuality, age, nationality, disability or religion.

Online CAB advice www.adviceguide.org.uk
for practical, reliable, up-to-date information in English, Welsh, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu and Chinese on a wide range of topics. Information is continuously reviewed by their team of advisers and covers England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Cynnwys
www.cynnwys.com
Cynnwys supports lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people, black and minority ethnic and disabled people in Gwynedd and Anglesey.  Cynnwys aims to help these individuals gain better access to advice and information in the two counties.

Cynnwys Project launched its Final Report in Caernarfon on Friday 23 March 2007. The Cynnwys Project is a Social Inclusion project which was set up in 2004 to support communities and individuals from black and minority ethnic groups, disability groups and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people  from Gwynedd and Anglesey to gain better access to advice and information services in the area.
 
This document is the outcome of three years of research carried out by the Cynnwys Team. We hope that the findings and recommendations of the report will be a useful resource for organisation who provide advice and information in Gwynedd and Anglesey, and that it can also influence local policies and strategies.  

Click here for access to Cynnwys website and Cynnwys Final Report 07
www.cynnwys.com

Phone: 0845 6019686
Email : cynnwys@cynnwys.com
Post : Ty Silyn, Penygroes, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, LL54 6LY

Community Legal Advice
www.communitylegaladvice.org.uk
Community Legal Advice helps people who are eligible for legal aid to protect their rights and help people who need advice about relationship breakdown or problems with debt, housing, domestic violence and benefits. Help is also available about asylum and immigration, education, employment, mental health and community care issues.
Helpline: 0845 345 4 345

Triangle Wales
www.trianglewales.co.uk
Triangle Wales provides Housing advice and support for LGBT people across Wales. Contact by Helpline: 0808 801 0306, email: triangle@gwalia.com, post: Triangle Wales, 4 Dock Chambers, Bute St, Cardiff CF10  6AG

Health

HIV AIDS

Powys Aids Line
www.powysaidsline.org.uk
PALS is s a charity based in Llandrindod Wells, Powys. It is a user-led and volunteer-based befriending and support service to people living with HIV in Powys offering pre- and post-HIV test counselling.
Email: info@powysaidsline.org.uk
Phone: 01597 82911 in afternoon
Post to: pals PO Box 24 Llandrindod Wells Powys

Terence Higgins Trust
www.tht.org.uk
The Terence Higgins Trust [THT] is the leading HIV & AIDS charity in the UK and the largest in Europe. They offer a range of services for people living with HIV/AIDS, and campaign for greater public understanding of sexual health issues. They also offer education and information resources.

THT Cymru Cardiff is open 9.30am-5.30pm Mon - Fri at Canton House 435-451 Cowbridge Road East Canton Cardiff CF5 1WE,  phone: 029 2066 6465
Email: info.cymru@tht.org.uk

THT Cymru Swansea is open 10am-5pm Mon - Fri.
YMCA, 1 The Kingsway, Swansea, West Glamorgan, SA1 5JQ.
Telephone: 01792 477540
Fax: 01792 477540
Email: info.cymru@tht.org.uk

MindOut Cymru
Website
The all Wales lesbian, gay and bisexual mental health network for lesbians, gay men and bisexuals who either have or have had contact with mental health services through being service users or workers, paid or unpaid.  This group supports the development of Mind's commitment to lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) mental health rights awareness programme.
The group:

• Raises the profile of lesbians, gay men and bisexuals within mental health services; and of mental health issues within the LGB community
• Holds regular meetings in Wales
• Is working towards development of a training package aimed at other groups and organisations

Contacts:
Tel: 02920 - 39 51 23
email: mindoutcymru@mind.org.uk
Post: Mind Cymru
3rd Floor
Quebec House
Castlebridge
Cowbridge Road East
Cardiff
CF11 9AB



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