Drop-In Centres in Gloucestershire There are six Drop-In Centres in Gloucestershire situated in Cheltenham, Tewksbury, Gloucester, Forest of Dean, Cirencester and Stroud. The Drop-In Centre provides support to vulnerable adults. There is no charge for this service and is available to all vulnerable adults who can access this service independently. We only provide a service for those people that do not pose a risk to other vulnerable adults. The Drop-In Centre supports adults in a variety of ways: advice and guidance around the support that is available in the local community it encourages people to take part in activities and will help them form friendship groups it signposts people to appropriate support agencies it can help people understand how to manage their finances, tenancies and correspondence more effectively it provides guidance around healthy living and eating, advice and support to menu plan and shop it provides support to understand how to be safer at home and in the community it helps you if you have housing problems or concerns it provides support around how you can increase your social network it provides a suggested weekly activity list where you can try new activities or information sharing groups it provides you with the opportunity to join a work scheme if you are looking for paid work. The Drop-In staff are able and willing to listen and problem solve with you around any issue that you may have. Sometimes the advice might be for you to discuss this with a more appropriate organisation as the staff have close links with others. It could be a counselling service, police community support officers, the Keep Safe scheme or an advocate service but staff will always try their best to listen to you and to work with you. Tewkesbury Drop In Tewkesbury Library Sun Street Tewkesbury GL20 5NX Gloucester Drop In 1st Floor Gloucester Library Brunswick Road Gloucester GL1 1HT Tel: 01452 529663 Forest Drop In The Main Place Old Station Way Coleford GL16 8RH Stroud Drop In Stroud Library Lansdown Stroud GL5 1BB Cheltenham Drop In 2nd Floor Children’s Library Chester Walk Cheltenham GL50 3JT Cirencester Drop-In Cirencester Library The Water Loo Cirencester GL7 2PZ Tel: 01453 757081 Tel: 01242 244950 Tel: 01453 757081 Tel: 01684 299315 Tel: 01594 834436 Opening Days and Times Tewkesbury Gloucester Forest of Dean Stroud Cirencester Cheltenham Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 09:30-17:00 Monday-Friday 09:30-17:00 Monday-Friday 09:30-17:00 Monday-Friday 09:30-17:00 Thursday 09:30-13:30 Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 09:30-17:00 Monday-Friday 09:30-17:00 To find out more about the Drop In Centres and the support that we can provide, please visit our websites. www.gloucesterdroppin.org www.cheltenhamdropin.org www.forestdropin.org www.strouddropin.org