Connect & Support UK

Free, private UK mental-health support. Crisis helplines, calming sounds, breathing, grounding, journaling and gentle guided programmes — all kept on your device.

Connect & Support UK is a UK-built mental health support app for the harder days and the quieter ones. Free, private, and made by people who've worked in mental-health services across the country.

Crisis helplines, breathing exercises, grounding techniques, the NHS-recognised Safety Plan, and the Wellbeing Passport are FREE FOREVER — no sign-in, no email, no ads, no trackers. Always have been, always will be.

WHAT'S INSIDE

For moments of crisis • One-tap calls to Samaritans (116 123), NHS 111 (press 2 for mental health), Shout (text 85258), Papyrus HOPELINE247, and 999 • An urgent-services map showing the nearest in-person crisis support — drop-ins, NHS trusts, charities, helplines • A clear, calming layout you can navigate when nothing else is working

For grounding and calming down • 5 breathing patterns — Physiological Sigh, 4-7-8, Box, Coherent, and Calm • 6 grounding techniques for anxiety, panic, dissociation, flashbacks, and feeling unreal • 20 long-form calming sounds — rain, ocean, fireplace, gong, Tibetan bowl, hand pan • 12 sound-healing journeys for sleep, mornings, grief, focus and difficult evenings (Premium) • A new Soundscape Mixer — layer up to 3 sounds and save your own named mixes (Premium) • Sleep timer with gentle fade-out (Premium)

For the longer road • The Stanley-Brown Safety Plan — used across the NHS • Wellbeing Passport — a "who I am, what helps me" document you can share with a clinician, carer, or anyone who needs to know how to support you • ACE + Resilience self-check — private, on-device, with UK referral routes • Over 50 evidence-based skills from CBT, DBT, ACT, MBSR and trauma-informed practice • A journal and mood check-ins that stay only on your device

YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE Anything you write — Safety Plan, journal, ACE answers, Wellbeing Passport, mood check-ins — stays on your phone. It never reaches our servers. No advertising trackers. No Google Analytics. No Meta Pixel. You can export everything as a file, or delete every byte we hold, in one tap.

PREMIUM A small Premium tier (£2.99/month with a 7-day free trial, or £25/year) funds the work — the long-form calming sounds, sound-healing journeys, Soundscape Mixer, sleep timer, the 4-week therapist-ready summary PDF, and around 30 deeper skills from CBT, DBT, ACT, MBSR and IPT.

Connect & Support UK is run by Play North West CIC, a Community Interest Company — not a tech startup. Your Premium pays for the version of this app that someone in crisis will open tonight. You're not unlocking yourself — you're paying it forward.

QUICK EXIT A button at the top of every screen closes the app to a neutral page and clears its history — for your safety, your privacy, or just because the moment passes.

ACCESSIBILITY Built to WCAG 2.2 AA. Screen reader support, keyboard navigation, reduced-motion respect, in-app text scaling, high-contrast mode, and a "Listen" button that reads long pages aloud in a calm UK voice.

If you're in crisis right now, please call Samaritans on 116 123 (free, 24/7) or 999.

Built by Play North West CIC.