How soon can you get help
At SAY Women, we aim to offer support as quickly as possible and do our best to operate without a waiting list. Once you get in touch, we’ll usually contact you within a few days to arrange a visit to our office, so we can talk together about what’s going on and how we might be able to help.
SAY Women is not a crisis service. If you need urgent or immediate support, please see the links below for organisations that can help you right now:
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Emergency NHS support for Rape and Sexual Assault within the past 7 days across Scotland
Scotland-wide helpline: 0800 148 88 88
Archway - Support in Glasgow: 0141 211 8175
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Call 24/7: 08088 00 00 14
Website
Specialist support:
Ruby Project: Support for minority groups
Rosey Project: Support for 13 to 18 year olds
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The Connect Hub is a community support space for women, providing pathways away from and out of homelessness through support, connection and community.
Glasgow Helpline:
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Support and refuge for BME women experiencing domestic abuse, honour based abuse or forced marriage
Call: 0141 353 0859
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A Glasgow - based charity that provides unconditional practical support for destitute women and people of other marginalised genders who have no recourse to public funds and insecure immigration status in Scotland.
For emergencies, any time
please call +44 7570 877817
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Supports Muslim and Minority Ethnic women with a free & confidential culturally sensitive support service. Areas of support including domestic abuse, mental health information, employability support and visa issues.
Helpline 0808 801 0301
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Whatever you’re going through, a Samaritan will face it with you. They are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Call 24/7: 116 123
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Breathing Space is a psychological counselling service in Scotland for people feeling depressed, or with other urgent psychological problems.The Breathing Space phoneline is available:
24 hours at weekends (6pm Friday – 6am Monday)
6pm to 2am on weekdays (Monday – Thursday)0800 83 85 87
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Childline is charity which supports anyone under 19 in the UK with any issues they are going through.
Call 24/7: 0800 1111
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SAY is currently a women’s only space but we are undergoing training and development to expand our services in the future while keeping women only spaces for those who wish them. Inclusion is important to us.
In the meantime the resources below may help.
LGBT Youth Scotland is the national charity for LGBTI young people, working with 13–25 year olds across the country.
LGBT Health & Wellbeing works to improve the health, wellbeing and equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) people in Scotland.
The Equality Network is a leading national charity working for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) equality and human rights in Scotland
Scottish Trans Alliance is the Equality Network project to improve gender identity and gender reassignment equality, rights and inclusion in Scotland