Erdington Methodist Church
Station Road
Erdington
B23 6TX

Telephone: 0300 330 0640 
Mobile: 07821 436 759

Pain Fatigue Support offers support with migraines, chronic fatigue, cognitive disturbances, stress, anxiety, depresion, sleeless nights, musculoskeletal pain, neurological pain.

The group meets on the first Thursday every month 12.00 - 2.00pm.

email: painfatiguesupport@hotmail.co.uk
Website:www.painfatiguesupport.giving.officelive.com

Neptune Health Park
Sedgley Road West
Tipton

The group is open to anyone living with a cancer illness, both patients and carers. This group meets on the first Monday of every month (except bank holidays when it will be the second Monday of the month) from 11am to 1pm.

For more information contact the Bridges Project Manager on 0121 612 2939.

S.I.M.T.R.
Parkway Hospital
Damson Parkway
Solihull B91 2PP

Contact: Patricia Hill on 0121 711 1966 or
              Shirley Peck on 0121 705 1818

The group meet at 7:30pm on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month at S.I.M.T.R.

For more information visit their website at: www.scsg.btik.com

Lindridge Road
Sutton Coldfield
B75 6JB

Opening hours 9.30am - 4.30pm
Tel: 0300 012 0245
Open Monday to Friday

This groups provides support and information by individual appointments and small group activities for people affected by cancer.  This includes art group, meditation, walking group, yoga, support group with guest speaker and hypnotherapy.

Courses are offered which can be followed over a few months.  Free complementary therapy is offered to members and include reiki, natural healing, massage, acupuncture, aromatherapy, reflexology and more.

The Oncology Unit
Birmingham Children’s Hospital
Steelhouse lane
Birmingham B4 6NH

Contact: Pauline Cowley
Telephone: 0121 241 5330

Offers support for families with children with cancer through medical talks, support meetings, newsletters, trips, holidays and parent contact. The West Midlands area extends up as far as Stafford and over into parts of Wales. 

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Bristol Road South
Northfield
Birmingham B31 2AP

Contact: Jenny Richardson
Tel: 01584 875891

ROHBTS was set up in 1989 as a self-help group for parents of children with bone cancer and now supports all patients with sarcoma treated at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital.

The group operates a telephone tree, produces a newsletter and raises funds to provide patients with little extras to make their hospital stay more comfortable.

For more information contact Jenny Richardson

Holly Cottage
Swansbrook Lane
Feckenham
Redditch B96 6QB

Tel:0780 4820351
Email: info@wbtsg.org
Website: www.wbtsg.org

The Worcestershire Brain Tumour Support Group (WBTSG) aims to offer information and support to anyone affected in any way by a brain tumour.  This will be achieved via regular meetings, telephone/email support and information accessible via their website.

 

The Crossing at St Paul’s
Darwall Street
Walsall WS11DA

Email: elaine.swan@walsallhospitals.nhs.uk

For further information please contact colorectal nursing service on 01922 656300 (answer machine service) or bleep the colorectal nurse specialists via the switchboard on 01922 721172 (ext: 8051/5018).

Sandwell Hospital
Post graduate centre
Lyndon
West Bromwich B71 4HJ

Contact: Janet Stone
Telephone: 0121 557 2561

This support group is a well established breast group at Sandwell Hospital which was set up over 10 years ago.  The group meets on the first Tuesday of every month from 2.15 until 3.15 in the post graduate centre and is chaired by a former breast cancer patient. This group organises social outings and provide support to each other. For more information please contact Janet Stone.

 

 

 

Partnership Learning Centre
Good Hope Hospital
Rectory Road
Sutton Coldfield B75 7RR

Contact: Joanne Gazey, secretary to the Breast Team at Good Hope Hospital

Tel: 0121 424 9647
Email: Joanne.Gazey@heartofengland.nhs.uk
Website: www.breastfriends.org.uk

Meetings are on the last Monday of each month at 7.30pm at Good Hope hospital.  Breast friends is a self-help group run by unpaid volunteers who have all been diagnosed with breast cancer and have undergone surgery. All further information can be found on the Breast Friends’ website.

 

 

SIMTR Centre
Spire Parkway Hospital
Damson Parkway
Solihull B91 2PP

Free Helpline: 0800 1313 500
website www.breastfriends-solihull.org.uk

Our meetings are held at 7.15pm on the second Wednesday of every month in the SIMTR Centre.
The group is run by volunteers, all ladies who have suffered with breast cancer with support from healthcare professionals. The group offers practical, financial support. education and fun to their members. It is funded through fund raising and donations. There is a free help line manned by our committee members. 

Priory Lounge
Bescot Football Stadium
Bescot Crescent
Walsall WS1

Contact: Sally Cooper 01922 415238
              Pat  Viggers 01922 649561
              Pat Rayner 01902 606066
             Jo Stackhouse 01922 412731
             Jennifer Batemann 01922 634293

Website: www.wbcshg.com
Email: info@wbcshg.com

This groups was established in 1983 and has helped over 5 000 women since then. There are two meetings each month, held on the first and third Wednesday of the month in the Priory Lounge.  We offer friendship, emotional and practical support together with ongoing confidential help by our trained volunteers for as long as it is needed. Facilities are also available for all husband and partners to discuss their worries and concerns in the comfortable surroundings of the adjacent Saddlers Club.

 

St. Andrews Methodist Church
Pump Street
Worcester WR1 2QT

Website: www.wbcsg.org.uk

Support group for women who have had surgery or other treatments arising from breast cancer. Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of every month at St. Andrews Methodist Church from 2-4pm.

Old Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Medical Centre
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TH

A haematology local support is taking place at the University Hospital Birmingham  and provides information, supports and social events for patients with haematological conditions and their families. The group meets monthly.

For more information about this group, speak to your key worker/clinical nurse specialist or ring 07766 875111.

ENT Outpatient Clinic
Queen Elizabeth Medical Centre
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TH

Contact: Jenna Nicholas, Charity Manager
Tel: 0121 697 8371

The Get A-Head Patients' Support Group was formed in 1993 by Mr John Watkinson, Stella Tura and a handful of patients. Its aim at that time was to provide a support service to patients and their carers but quickly developed into more of a social group. However, it does still provide a link for patients and their carers to meet up, discuss achievements and problems and generally have a bit of fun!

The support group meets around twice a year at 5pm at the ENT Outpatient Clinic. Dates of the meetings will be advertise on the website www.getahead.org.uk/

Walsall Manor Hospital
Learning Centre
Moat Road
Walsall WS2 9PS

Contact: clinical nurse specialist Margaret Merrick
Tel: 01922 721172 (ext:6564).

The group meets every other month on Tuesday at 7:30 pm and gives advice and support for patients, relatives and carers affected by endometrial, vulval, ovarian or cervical cancer. For more information contact Margaret Merrick

Education centre
Heartlands Hospital
Bordesley Green East
Birmingham B9 5SS

The group meets at Heartlands Hospital in the Education Centre on the 1st Tuesday of each month between 2 and 4 pm.

Details of the support group are available via the Roy Castle Foundation or patients can contact the lung clinical nurse specialist directly on 0121 424 1433.

Walsall Manor Hospital
Learning Centre
Moat Road
Walsall WS2 9PS

Contact: Clinical Nurse Specialists Nicky Adams
and Jayne Powell on 01922 721172 (ext: 7677)

This is offered to all new lung patients. the group meets on Tuesdays or Thursdays once a fortnight of each month at 2.30pm - 4.00pm.

Good Hope Hospital
Partnership Learning Centre
Rectory Road
Sutton Coldfield B75 7RR

This is a self-help group for people who have had a diagnosis of any type of lung or respiratory disease, not just cancer. The group offers information and support from those in a similar position.

Group meets on the last Thursday of every month (except in December) at the Partnership Learning centre. For more information contact Catherine Fairey, Secretary, on 01922 452777.

 

Blakenall Village Centre
Thames Road
Walsall WS3 1LZ

Tel 0192 285 8679
Contact: nurse Louise Rooney

The groups meets twice a year.

Good Hope Hospital
Education Centre
Rectory Road
Sutton Coldfield B75 7RR

Telephone: 0121 686 6491
Contact: Mr. Jo Dyke

This support group meets on the last Wednesday of every month at 2:30pm.

SIMTR Conference Centre
Damson Parkway,
Solihull B91 2PP
Telephone: 0121 744 7557

Contact: Mike Ince

This support group meets on the last Tuesday of every month at 6.30pm.

Wood Lane Community Centre,
West Bromwich B70 9PT

Contact: clinical nurse specialists

Sharon Leahy on 0121 507 5969
Denise Allmark on 0121 507 3381

This group meets quarterly between 1 and 3 pm.

Greenland social club
105 longbridge lane
Birmingham B31 4LF

Tel: 0121 475 2553‎

Meetings are held on the first Wednesday of the month from 2-4pm.

22 Vulcan House
Vulcan Road
Solihull B91 2JY

E-mail: enquiries@opa.org.uk
Website: www.opa.org.uk

Tel: 0121 704 9860, 9.00am - 3.00pm Monday-Friday
There is an answerphone for out of hours callers

The Oesophageal Patients Association is a national registered charity and was formed in 1985 when a few former oesophageal cancer patients met and found tremendous reassurance in sharing experiences. The members of the Association are all patients who have experienced oesophageal or gastric difficulties. Informal meetings for patients and carers (family or friends) are regularly held in regional centres around the UK. Problems are aired and suggestions for overcoming them are exchanged.  Meetings for oesophageal cancer patients and carers are held in Birmingham twice a year. Contacting us is easy: feel free to phone, e-mail or write to us.

 

Beating Bowel cancer provide medical advice to patients through a specialist nurse advisor line on 08450 719301 or email nurse@beatingbowelcancer.org

Tel: 08450 719301
Website: www.beatingbowelcancer.org

The Patient Voices Group is part of Beating Bowel Cancer and is the only UK national patient-to-patient network for people with bowel cancer.  The group has also expanded to include close relatives of bowel cancer patients.  Members of the group are willing to help in a number of ways including patient to patient support, raising awareness, and fundraising.

c/o The Sarcoma Trust
49-51 East Road
London N1 6AH

There are a growing number of sarcoma support groups run in association with local hospitals and cancer networks with specialist sarcoma treatment centres.  Although these focus on their own patients they welcome sarcoma patients who may live locally and have been treated elsewhere.  Please visit the link below for details of support groups.

Website: www.sarcomauk.org

Objectives of Sarcoma UK

• Provide support and information to sarcoma patients, their carers and families
  
• Reduce the feeling of isolation felt by patients with a rare cancer
  
• Support research leading to better treatment and better outcomes for sarcoma patients