HIVE Directory: Hate Crime Reporting

Advice Portsmouth provides free, independent, impartial and confidential advice to people living in Portsmouth. Our Purpose is to give the right advice and appropriate support to help clients solve their problems

Our team of qualified professionals, support staff and dedicated volunteers provide general and specialist advice in social welfare advice in the fields of debt, welfare benefits, employment, housing, family and consumer law.

Citizens advice Portsmouth are a part of Citizens Advice Solent East. We provide free, impartial and confidential advice for all.

We offer a range of specialist advice and support services, and general advice via our website, on the phone or by getting in touch using the details above.

EAL Portsmouth (the home of Portsmouth's Ethnic Minority Achievement Service) are a team of highly experienced and well-respected Advisers and Bilingual Learning Assistants. We work with schools in Portsmouth and beyond, across all Key Stages (Nursery - KS5), to support pupils who have English as an Additional Language to make outstanding progress.

Our courses and consultancy are constantly reshaped to meet the particular needs of a school, group of schools or local authority. We also provide a range of pupil-support services, including diagnostic and holistic assessments.

The HIVE Portsmouth works with local people, groups and organisations in a way that recognises and nurtures the strengths of individuals, families and communities and helps to build independence and self-reliance.

Venue: MAKE is a community hub in Cornwall Road. Everyone is welcome. It's one of the Aldingbourne Trust’s innovative projects supporting adults with learning disabilities and / or autism to develop skills within a variety of areas to enable people to lead independent lives and gain employment within the community. We love working with other organisations in the neighbourhood.

Opening Hours: Opening hours: Monday - Saturday, 9.30am - 4.30pm

A great space welcoming everyone. We run Events throughout the year. Please check our Facebook page for more information.

Café
Our friendly team welcome you and invite you to pop in for a cuppa and slice of our delicious cake or stay a little longer and enjoy a home cooked lunch or our famous pies! We do have a small children’s area for your little ones to play in whilst you relax with your friends. For special occasions, please get in touch with us as we can help with Afternoon Tea for a large group of friends and we can host Children's Parties.

Large Charity Shop: We sell a range of great second hand items at really good prices. Children's and Adult clothing, homeware, books, toys and loads more.

Workshops: If you are looking for a location to hire out to run your own workshop, please get in touch. Check out our events on our Facebook page.

Third Party Reporting Centre

The Portsmouth Mediation Service provides mediation and restorative meetings for people caught up in conflict.

PositiveMinds is a new style of service offering informal support for anyone who feels low, worried or hopeless in Portsmouth.

We're here to help you, if you are in despair about anything – such as housing, money, relationships, work, bereavement, or living away from home at university.

Help after crime
The Victim Care Service delivered by Victim Support provides free, confidential support for anyone affected by crime who are residents of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight aged 4 upwards. Our aim is to help you cope and recover from the effects of crime, in a way that suits you. We know that crime can impact people in many different ways, that's why we provide tailored support based on an individual's needs.