Health and beauty

We provide direct help to older people, offering advice, practical services and home visits. Age Concern has developed travel insurance with no upper age limit.
Volunteers are always welcome - call Sue Rider on 01454 857754. For more information, please call in at the Age Concern Office, 34 St Mary Street, Thornbury, email us using the link below or phone 01454 858750.

We are a local charity working in South Gloucestershire and Bristol with people with learning disabilities, their families and carers. We run a volunteer programme where volunteers are matched one-to-one with adults with learning disabilities. We are currently looking for volunteers (who are given training and their expenses are paid) and for people who would benefit from the service.

Tel: 01454 411915 or 07793 373355

The group aims to provide support for patients with pituitary disorders, their families and carers. We include South Gloucestershire, and meet on the third Wednesday of every month, except July and August at The Academic Centre, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, at 7.30pm.
We are a friendly open group who have all had experience of these problems and will make new members feel very welcome.
For more information please contact our Chairman Jenny West, 3 Chipping Close, Symn Lane, Wotton-Under-Edge, Glos. GL12 7BB, 01454 843497 (home) or 07919 620498.
For publicity, please contact Jenny Fumpson, Tanglewood, 4B Highfield Drive, Redcliffe Bay, Portishead, N. Somerset, BS20 8JG, 01275 847286.

We are an independent charity that raises funds to support the work of the Breast Care Centre at Frenchay Hospital. We are also representing the interests of South Gloucestershire people in a review of Breast Care Services for Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset. For more information, please contact Secretary and Trustee Daphne Havercroft using the links below.

Based in Chipping Sodbury
Tel: 01454 854748

Symn Lane, Wotton-Under-Edge
01453 842214

01454 299715

Kennedy Way, Yate
01454 313874

Wotton-Under-Edge
01453 843252

A practice of eight doctors with a team of nurses and administrative staff, providing medical services and care facilities for the people of Severnvale.
Mon-Fri 8am-6.30pm. Extended hours: (by appointment only) Saturday 8.30am - Midday, Tuesday and Thursday until 8pm. Check availability with reception.

Thornbury Health Centre, Eastland Road, Thornbury BS35 1DP

Tel: 01454 412599
Fax: 01454 416090

We are a traditional family practice of three Doctors and a team of Nurses and Administrative Staff. We are committed to providing the highest quality of care.

Opening Times:
Monday – Friday 8am–6.30pm
Monday Extended Hours 6.30pm–8.45pm (by appointment)

Thornbury Health Centre, Eastland Road, Thornbury, BS35 1DP
Tel: 01454 412167
Fax: 01454 419522

The group provides help and support to sufferers of Fibromyalgia and their families, and promotes awareness in the local community. Members receive a regular newsletter about activities. We have a comprehensive lending library of books, journals and videos relating to Fibromyalgia. Group meetings are at Alveston Methodist Church, Greenhill, Alveston, 7-9pm, on the 4th Tuesday of every month. For more details, contact Elaine on 01454 415374.

Are you looking for funding for your organisation?
GRANTnet is a service which can help to identify suitable funding and grants for activities or projects. It allows community and voluntary groups, social enterprises and small businesses to search across a huge range of funding sources.

The Cotswold South branch of the NCT is run by local parents to offer support, information and friendship to expectant parents and those with babies and young children. We run antenatal courses, regular Bumps n Babies groups, Nearly New sales and various events, and provide breastfeeding support.
To book an antenatal course, please call 0844 243 7000. For more information about our branch, please click below.

Quality waxing, massage, eye beauty, hand and feet treatments, facials and make-up in a relaxing and friendly atmosphere. Also Peter Thomas Roth clinical skincare products. Special treatments and tailor-made packages may be arranged to suit you - just ask. Appointments available Tuesday to Saturday.
Rachel's World is now located in 3 Mitre Mews, High street, Chipping Sodbury. Bigger and better! With lots of new treatments and products coming.
Salon: 01454 322991
Mobile: 07786 095308

Have a say in local health and social care.
The LINk will be a network of local people, organisations and groups that want to make health and social care services better.
The LINk’s membership is small at the moment and urgently needs people from the local community who feel strongly about local health and social care services.
For more information, please click below.

This three partner GP training practice delivers friendly family medicine at its purpose-built surgery.

St Mary Street Surgery, 24 St Mary Street, Thornbury, BS35 2AT

Tel: 01454 413691
24 Hour Emergency Line: 01454 281312
Alternative Out of Hours Number (Frendoc): 0845 1210504

01454 412636

Our volunteers are well known for the hours they spend ensuring public events are safe. We're also the leading first aid training provider in the UK and the third largest youth organisation.
The groups meet every Tuesday of the South Glos school terms in The Buckingham Room at The Chantry, and new members are always very welcome.
Badgers (5-10 years) meet 6-7pm
Cadets (10-18 years) meet 7-8.30pm
Adults (18+) meet 8.30-9.30pm
For more information, click below to email Sarah Bryant, Divisional Superintendent and Badger Sett Leader, write to Thornbury Quadrilateral Division/Thornbury Badger Sett, c/o The Chantry, 52 Castle Street, Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, BS35 1HB or call 07717 289858.

21 West Walk, Yate
01454 272200

We offer free, unbiased support to anyone facing an unplanned pregnancy or needing help after a miscarriage, still birth or abortion. We support women and their partners as well as other family members.
We are based in Yate, but arrange appointments for people in different locations, including Thornbury. Please call our 7 day a week helpline for confidential support: 01454 324080, or click below to visit our website.

Tel: 01454 294258 or 07870 696774

NHS information, advice and a guide to services.

24-hour health advice.
Phone: 08 45 46 47
The website has a health encyclopedia and a self-help guide.

South Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust
1 Monarch Court, Emerald Park, Emersons Green BS16 6FH
0117 330 2400