The StartHere information service is a self-help facility that links you to a wide range of services that can help when you have a problem.

It covers a broad range of issues — including health, caring, families, education, employment, benefits, wellbeing and welfare rights — giving a brief summary of the topic and signposting you to hundreds of national organisations, mostly providing FREE services.

To point you in the right direction, we provide a map of the UK divided into its four parts, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. National organisations serving each part can be reached by clicking on the map.

For information about local organisations, contact appropriate national organisations and ask for details of help available in your area. Your local council may also have information about local organisations that can help.

To get started, just click on the button and go to the map.