Community Services
Community Nursing
District Nurses & Community Matron
If you are unable to attend the surgery for nursing care, the doctor may request the District Nurse or Community Matron to visit you at home.
Health Visitors
The Health Visitors run a baby and child health clinic at Knowle Clinic. To make an appointment telephone 0117 9190200. They advise on all aspects of child development and health issues up to the age of 5. You can contact them directly by telephone on the above telephone number.
Pregnancy Care
When you are pregnant you will receive regular care from your usual doctor and midwife before and after your baby is born.
Financial Advice
Talking Money
We provide free, independent, specialist money advice to individuals and their families. This includes debt, energy debt, benefits and income maximisation advice.
To make an appointment, please:
- Call 0117 954 3990 or 0800 121 4511
- Or email mail@talkingmoney.org.uk
WHAM – Warmer Homes, Advice & Money
The WHAM project is an innovative model for supporting Bristol and North Somerset’s most vulnerable residents – giving advice on energy, money, benefits and carrying out home repairs.
Benefits
Filwood Hope Centre
At Filwood Hope, our advisors are able to:
- help you fill in forms relating to benefits
- help you appeal if your application for benefit has been turned down
- Phone: 07712661241
Email: advice@filwoodhope.org
Welfare Rights and Money Advice Service
- We can offer some casework help. This is for vulnerable people on low incomes, who need help with claims or appeals if they’re missing out or at risk of losing a big part of their weekly income. We particularly aim to help disabled people and full-time carers.
- https://www.bristol.gov.uk/benefits-financial-help/welfare-rights-and-money-advice-service
- Helpline 0117 35 21888. Open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday mornings, 9am to 1pm.
welfarerights@bristol.gov.uk
Green Spaces
Wellbeing walks – BS4
- Wellbeing Walks | Facebook
- Join our series of social walking groups in Brislington and Knowle. Run by volunteers our aim is to encourage local people to get active, socialise, share local walking routes and encourage others to do the same.
Wild Walks for Wellbeing Group
Walk and Talk?
- Walk and Talk is a weekly service set up around Bristol. This offers an opportunity for people to meet in a group, take a leisurely stroll around a local park and connect with others.
- We hold two 1 hour circular walks every Wednesday from 10am – 11am and 11.30am – 12.30pm around Bristol with the exception of the Christmas Holidays. Walks are accessible to all mobility levels and there are staff and volunteers available to walk at different paces.
- https://changesbristol.org.uk/support/befriending/walkandtalk/
Low Cost Exercise
Currently the Park Centre on Daventry Road is the best option for joining a gym, its £15 a monthly or £3.50 a session.
They are restarting staying steady classes at the Park from January which cost £3.50.
Jubilee swimming pool, £19.99 monthly
- Pay as you go Gym £ 5.80
- Gym and Swim £ 7.20
- AquaFit £ 5.05
The Gym Group – Avonmeads
- £15.99 for basic, £20.99 for extras such as bringing a friend along.
Mental Health
Changes: Peer Support for Mental Health
- Wednesdays 1.30pm – 3.30pm: Redcatch Community Centre, Redcatch Road, Knowle, BS4 2EP– near Broadwalk Centre
- Thursdays 11.00am – 1.00pm: Online00pm – 3.00pm: St Cuthbert’s Church, Brislington, BS4 3PG
- Telephone Befriending – One-to-one support where a volunteer will be matched with you for a weekly phone call. Sign up here.
NHS Talking Therapies
If you are suffering from depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, excessive worry or low mood, then NHS Talking Therapies can help.
NHS Talking Therapies Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire works in partnership with the NHS to offer a range of short-term Talking Therapies known as IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) to adults 16-years and over, who live and are registered with a GP in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
This is a FREE service and you don’t need to visit a GP to get help. For further information please click on the following link:
Website: NHS Talking Therapies – North Somerset & South Gloucestershire (vitahealthgroup.co.uk)
