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Beacon Counselling Trust is a registered mental health charity that started operating in 2009. Over time, BCT has grown incrementally and we now work on a number of community-based support, treatment, and education programmes, supporting those with a variety of mild to moderate mental health issues.

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SAFE

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Caring

Responsive to people’s needs

Well-led

Our Services

Gambling-Related Harm Programme

BCT provides a free and confidential treatment and support service for anyone experiencing gambling-related harms, commissioned by GambleAware. Support is offered to those at-risk of, or struggling with gambling-related harms, including anyone affected by someone else’s gambling, as part of the National Gambling Support Network.

Bet You Can Help Programme

Our ‘Bet You Can Help’ Programme uses a first aid approach to tackling gambling-related harms, providing training for those working in helping roles and includes a certified level 2 qualification accredited by the Royal Society of Public Health.

Young People’s Education Programme

Beacon Counselling Trust provides ‘Sometimes It’s More Than a Game’, an educational programme aiming to prevent young people from experiencing gambling-related harms.

BCT deliver free workshops for anyone aged 10 to 21, alongside sessions for parents and carers and any professionals working with young people.

Armed Forces Community Programme

BCT’s ‘Battling the Odds’ programme engages with the armed forces community and its leadership, to aid understanding of gambling-related harms and to promote access to specialist treatment and support.

Workplace Charter

The Workplace Charter to Reduce Gambling Harms offers practical, evidence-based ways in which employers and staff can commit to promoting the health and wellbeing of their workers experiencing gambling-related harms.

Diverse Communities Programme

Our Diverse Communities Programme is our work within culturally and linguistically diverse communities. Our ‘Breaking the Sharam’ project aims to address the stigma associated with gambling within the South Asian community.

Paul’s Place Suicide Bereavement Support Programme

Paul’s Place is a free specialist postvention bereavement counselling service, for those aged 16 and over, that have been bereaved by suicide in the Merseyside area.