TOTUM

TOTUM is a UK-based student discount card and app. TOTUM membership opens up a world of brilliant student discounts, offers and vouchers on your everyday essentials, must-have gear and luxury items.

Edinburgh & Lothians Regional Equality Council

Edinburgh & Lothians Regional Equality Council or ELREC works towards creating a prejudice free society where everyone is treated with equality and justice.

Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre

Students across the Edinburgh College Community who have experienced sexual violence at any time of their life will be offered long-term, trauma-informed, one-to-one support. This support will be offered in blocks of six sessions, with students having access to up to 18 individual sessions if needed.

Any students on the College support waiting list will be given the opportunity to access the normal Rape Crisis services for short-term support while they wait. This is in the form of the Here and Now service for over 18s or the STAR Project for under 18s.

If you would like to refer yourself to this service, please email studentsurvivors@ercc.scot or call 0131 556 9437, call/text 07966 067 301 and state you are an Edinburgh College student. Please note staff cannot refer students.

Penumbra

Penumbra Mental Health, provides dedicated services for people with mild to serious and enduring mental ill health.

They support people on their journey to better mental health, by working with each person to find their own way forward. 

Contact them here: https://penumbra.org.uk/contact-us/

Cruse Bereavement Support Scotland

Cruse Bereavement Care Scotland (CBCS) exists to promote the well-being of bereaved people in Scotland. They seek to help anyone experiencing bereavement to understand their grief and cope with their loss. They work primarily through volunteers, providing free care to bereaved people. 

Health in Mind

Health in Mind promote positive mental health and wellbeing, and provide a wide range of services and courses to support people and enable them to make a positive difference in their lives.  

Support enquiry form here. 

Zero Waste Scotland

Zero Waste Scotland supports businesses, communities, and the government to manage Scotland's resources responsibly. They have lots of advice on their website that will help you reduce your waste and save money.

Edinburgh Crisis Centre

The Crisis Centre is open 24 hours a day 365 days of the year and provides community based, emotional and practical support at times of crisis. It is a service for people who are aged 16 and over who are using or have used mental health services and are resident in the City of Edinburgh when they are facing a crisis.

Andy's Man Club

Andy's Man Club are real, non judgmental, talking groups for men. Their aim is to halve the number of suicides in men under 45.

Crew

Crew exists to reduce harm, challenge perceptions and help people make positive choices about their use of cannabis, stimulant and other drugs and sexual health by providing non-judgmental, credible and up to date information and support.

C-Card

C:card is a free condom service in Edinburgh & the Lothians. It's quick and easy to get free condoms through the c:card Network.

Who Cares? Scotland

Who Cares? Scotland, is a national voluntary organisation, working with care experienced young people and care leavers across Scotland.

Love Food Hate Waste

Love Food Hate Waste aims to raise awareness of the need to reduce food waste and help you take action. It shows that by doing some easy practical everyday things in the home we can all waste less food, which will ultimately benefit our purses and the environment too.

Edinburgh Council Bins & Recycling

Home Energy Scotland is a network of local advice centres covering all of Scotland. Their expert advisors offer free, impartial advice on energy saving, keeping warm at home, renewable energy, greener travel, cutting water waste and more. Their mission is to help people in Scotland create warmer homes, reduce their bills and help tackle climate change.

The Junction

The Junction is a safe, friendly, confidential centre which offers lots of health-related services, education and support for young people in Leith and North East Edinburgh aged 12-21.

The Junction is a safe, friendly, confidential centre which offers lots of health-related services, education and support for young people in Leith and North East Edinburgh aged 12-21.

Samaritans

Samaritans is the charity that prevents suicide through the power of human connection. Connecting people in crisis with trained volunteers who will always listen. People calling for change with those who need to listen. People who've been there before with those struggling now.

SAMH (Scotland's Action for Mental Health)

SAMH has been here for Scotland’s mental health for a century. They operate over 70 services in communities across Scotland, providing mental health social care support, addictions and employment services, among others. 

NHS Inform

NHS Inform is Scotland's national health information service. They aim to provide people in Scotland with accurate and relevant information to help them make informed decisions about their own health and the health of the people they care for

NHS Inform is Scotland's national health information service. They aim to provide people in Scotland with accurate and relevant information to help them make informed decisions about their own health and the health of the people they care for.

Edinburgh Council Bins & Recycling

Information from City of Edinburgh Council on local recycling and waste services.

NHS 24

NHS 24 is a free phone service to provide urgent health advice out of hours, when your GP Practice or Dentist is closed.