Find Sandwell health & wellbeing services near you

Advice and guidance

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service
Ethnicity focus: Polish, Eastern European

Advice, information, guidance, befriending and accompaniment to refugees and asylum seekers from French Speaking Countries

This service offers impartial advice and information on a wide range of disability related issues.

Quality: Matrix

Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training
(ASIST) is a two-day, interactive workshop that
prepares caregivers to provide suicide first aid
interventions.

Quality: Investors in People, Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service

Impact is for young people between the age of 16 to 29.
Impact helps individuals to develop self confidence and skills. It also improves young people's Participation in the labour market and improves quality and innovation in vocational education and training.
Impact only happens every Tuesday from 9:00am to 3:00pm.
If you are interested please call us on 0121 520 0234.

(Wednesday 9:00am-3pm) Free employment, traineeship, apprenticeship advice and support to 16+ years living in the Black Country.

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service
Ethnicity focus: Bangladeshi

Brushstrokes mission statement, Welcome the Stranger, guides our work to help the most vulnerable members of our community as well as newly arrived families and individuals in Sandwell, West Birmingham and Dudley.
#SHIP

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service

Starting a new business?
Don’t know where to begin?

We’ll provide you with the tools and resources to help you get started and move forward.

With thanks to funding from the National Lottery Community Fund our Wrap Around Health & Wellbeing – Caring Lifestyle Balance service aims to help improve the overall health and wellbeing of carers living in Sandwell and surrounding areas.

Quality: CQC Registered

The cost of living team are here to provide you with a wide range of information, advise and guidance.

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service
Ethnicity focus: Bangladeshi

#COLT

We are offering a free and confidential service:

Benefits and debt advice
Energy advice
Help with budgeting
Employment support
Help to get online

All in a single service, provided by trained and experienced advice workers from Sandwell Consortium and Citizens Advice Sandwell & Walsall.

We want to help you to have a real change in your financial circumstances through an increase in your household income and a reduction in your household expenditure.

This is a drop-in service, so no appointment is necessary.

#COLT

We are offering a free and confidential service:

Benefits and debt advice
Energy advice
Help with budgeting
Employment support
Help to get online

All in a single service, provided by trained and experienced advice workers from Sandwell Consortium and Citizens Advice Sandwell & Walsall.

We want to help you to have a real change in your financial circumstances through an increase in your household income and a reduction in your household expenditure.

This is a drop-in service, so no appointment is necessary.

#COLT

We are offering a free and confidential service:

Benefits and debt advice
Energy advice
Help with budgeting
Employment support
Help to get online

#COLT

We are offering a free and confidential service:

Benefits and debt advice
Energy advice
Help with budgeting
Employment support
Help to get online

#COLT

We are offering a free and confidential service:

Benefits and debt advice
Energy advice
Help with budgeting
Employment support
Help to get online

#COLT

We are offering a free and confidential service:

Benefits and debt advice
Energy advice
Help with budgeting
Employment support
Help to get online

Good quality second hand donated furniture, and new goods, both domestic and commercial for sale. Avoiding landfill, reusing and recycling goods, helping the environment

Provision of driver Training in the form of MiDAS. Available to schools, community groups and other organisations wishing to train staff/members to enable them to competently drive a minibus

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service

This service offers support to people to produce a Curriculum Vitae to improve chances of employment.

We offer ESOL courses for adults catered to your individual needs and levels that work for you. We offer part-time and full-time courses in the day. Functional skills: literacy, numeracy and basic computer skills, employment and personal development, vocational qualification, health and well being awareness activities.

Ethnicity focus: Bangladeshi

If you’re currently employed and looking to find a job, change job or to update your CV. We can help you with advice, mentoring, support and training.

Contact SWEDA to book your appointment and discuss your options.

We provide support and advice for employment.

Quality: Matrix

Support for all ages to find employment, apprenticeships or training. Based at Sandwell Council House, Oldbury and locations throughout Sandwell (look for Think Sandwell job clubs). Virtual service available via email, telephone, Skype, WhatsApp, Teams during COVID-19 lockdown - email enquiries_recruitment@sandwell.gov.uk to make an appointment

A support service for disabled people and disadvantaged groups in Sandwell. Assisting them to become economically active in terms of work, further education and training

Support and employability training and qualifications.

An employment service providing support in helping deaf people find sustainable employment.

Qualified advisors offering a free service to help you find a job.

Providing a flexible and personalised training package that will be tailored towards individuals needs, signposting to training & employment, helping with job search, CV preparation, completing job application forms, and preparing for interviews.

Ethnicity focus: Pakistani, Bangladeshi

Informal English Classes held at BIC for Women
Pre entry Level

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service

Delivered by out Friendly Tutors Valentina, with support from Justyna our ESOL (English) classes are designed to help develop speaking, listening, reading and writing skills that are needed to progress into education or employment opportunities. #SLN January 2024 until March 2024

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service

One-to-one support with Employment, Education and Training. Support provided on appointment basis

Adult and Paediatric First aid training course.

Basic Computing Skills.

Quality: Matrix

Football and coach development - We have the current offers:

1st Touch football for 4 – 7 year old
Youth Football 8 – 12 year old
Girl only sessions
Half term camps
Team football in local and regional leagues
Sports coaching and mentoring services

Come and join the fun and develop your skills

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service

Free arts and crafts sessions every Saturday morning, use our craft equipment or bring your own project along, we welcome all crafts, such as latch hook, knitting, cross stitch, scrap book making etc. Free drinks and snacks available starting 10am - 12pm

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service
Ethnicity focus: English, Indian, Afro Caribbean

Our Functional Skills qualifications are available for registration and include an assessment at all 5 levels from Entry Level 1 to Level 2.
We offer face to face and online lessons.

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service

free internet free mobile sim cards. support to get online.

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service

Sandwell's leading social and therapeutic horticultural project supporting people's health and wellbeing for over 20 years (an Ideal for All project - registered charity for disabled people)

Quality: Matrix

Sandwell's leading social and therapeutic horticultural project supporting peoples health and wellbeing for over 20 years (an Ideal for All project - registered charity for disabled people)

Quality: Matrix

Sandwell's leading social and therapeutic horticultural project supporting peoples health and wellbeing for over 20 years (an Ideal for All project - registered charity for disabled people)

Quality: Matrix

Training and support covering basic IT and internet skills with an introduction to online health services and websites such as NHS Online.

Quality: PQASSO Level 1
Ethnicity focus: English, Indian, Polish, Pakistani, Afghan, Bangladeshi, Afro Caribbean

The YMCA provides a range of supported accommodation for young people across Sandwell.

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service

Help with computer skills

IT Training on offer includes:

Basic IT skills including mouse and keyboard skills
Introduction to IT and the internet
Job searching online
Emailing and Social Media
Microsoft Office training
How to use your Universal Credit journal
How to use job searching sites

We are a Learn My Way provider

Job Club service provides internet access for the purpose of finding employment.

Job Club every Thursday from 1pm till 3pm.

Book your 1 hour slot with us today!

supported Job club - help with applications and accessing the internet

Employment Support and Advice

Mental Health First Aid is a two day training
course and explores the help given to
someone experiencing a mental health
problem before professional help is
obtained.

Quality: Investors in People, Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service

A bespoke training package service covering issues such as respect and dignity, the Equality Act, the Equality Duty…

Pre-Employment Support sessions

The course teaches you I.T. Basics: Learn to use a PC, navigate the internet and stay safe online. FOR LADIES ONLY.

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service

We provide rehabilitation and mobility training and work with people utilising their residual vision effectively and safely in order to ensure individuals can live independent lives.

Full and part time daycare 5 days a week from 7.30am to 6.00pm for children aged 0-5yrs, to enable parents to return to work, training or higher education.

Quality: OFSTED inspected, Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service
Ethnicity focus: Afro Caribbean

Football coaching - Oldbury United FC is a football club that delivers team sport for experiences footballers. Through positive activities that include football coaching, football competition, coach development and volunteer development we use sport to engage and transform lives.

We work with all sections of the community and provide:

Player development programmes ( 1-2-1 and team coaching)
Coach development programmes (Mentoring and coaching qualification)

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service

English classes for non-English speakers.

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service

Volunteer service

Support, information, advice and guidance on all aspects of searching for a job. Takes place on Monday 9am - 4.30pm, Tuesday 10.00am - 2.00pm, Thursday 1pm - 3pm

Relieving stress and anxiety
Improving relationships
Creating life balances
Gentle exercise
Yoga
Pilates
Parenting
Mindfulness
Self-improvement workshops
Career Support
Trips out
Emotional boundaries
and lots more

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service
Ethnicity focus: English, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi

The Crossroads Carers Assistance Line is a free service which offers support and practical assistance to help unpaid carers in Sandwell.

Quality: CQC Registered

Free service providing support with job search; CV writing; interview skills; access to computers ; careers advice; apprenticeships; training courses. Open to all ages, employed or unemployed. Drop in no appointment necessary

Free service providing support with job search; CV writing; interview skills; access to computers ; careers advice; apprenticeships; training courses. Open to all ages, employed or unemployed. Drop in no appointment necessary.

Training to raise awareness of Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia

The intention of this program is to provide participants with the opportunity to:

a. achieve recognized qualifications
b. raise aspirations
c. develop future urban leaders
d. professional training and mentoring
e. coached to a professional format

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service

Training volunteers to develop skills and gain experience in the work place.

Volunteering opportunities.

We welcome volunteers from all backgrounds, a chance to gain new skills and enhance their CV, to kick start a route in to employment.

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service
Ethnicity focus: Pakistani, Bangladeshi

volunteering opportunities

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service

A Welcoming Space is a free, safe and supportive spaces you can visit during the colder months, grab a hot drink or soup and take part in any of the activities on offer*

Subject to availability
Terms and Conditions may apply.

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service

Free lean new skills - CV writing, activity, and lots more

Every Monday, our women's group meets at Brushstrokes to provide friendship and activities to improve wellbeing and health knowledge. Themes include arts and crafts, physical activities such as walking and yoga, information services delivered by a range of health professional and well-being.

Quality: Staff subject to Disclosure & Barring Service