If you need help with your mental health and wellbeing, use Angus’s:
Enhanced Community Support (ECS) Mental Health and Wellbeing Hubs
These hubs manage referrals for adult patients who need additional support or specialist care and treatment for:
mental health and wellbeing
self-harm
substance use
The Hub also accept referrals for 11 to 16 year olds for the Young People’s Peer Support Worker. This service is for young people with less complex mental health and well-being challenges.
How to access the hubs
Call your GP surgery and ask to be referred into the ECS Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub for support. GP surgery staff can complete the self-referral form on your behalf or you can complete it yourself.
Or download the self-referral form and patient information leaflet from your GP’s website.
About the hubs
There are four hubs, one in each Angus locality. They are made up of staff from the following teams. They meet daily to review all mental health and wellbeing referrals.
Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs)
Angus Integrated Drug and Alcohol Recovery Service (AIDARS)
Angus Psychological Therapy Service
Mental Health and Wellbeing Peer Support
Community Link Workers
If you’d like to find more sources of support to get you back on track, and feeling OK, here are some more links.
NHS Inform: Mental Health
Identifying, treating and managing mental health problems and disorders
The Beacon
The Beacon is a new Community Wellbeing Centre opening in Arbroath in Summer 2025. From 1 April 2025, you can get support over the phone, email and social media.
We offer kind and caring support to people experiencing emotional distress, their carers, families and friends. Anyone living in Angus aged 16 and over can contact us for help. We provide support from 12 noon to 12 midnight, 7 days a week, every day of the year.
Email: TheBeacon@hillcrestfutures.org.uk or phone 0800 135 7899
Angus Independent Advocacy
Free independent advocacy for people with no one else to help them. Independent advocacy can help people understand their rights and options, access services and have a say in their care and support.
Community Sport Hubs, ANGUSalive
There is a clear link between our mental and physical health, and the benefits that being physically active can have on general health and wellbeing. Through the community sport hub network in Angus, sports clubs, physical activity providers, community organisations and partners are working hard to become as welcoming, accessible and inclusive as possible for the people in their communities. Examples of this include walking sports and sporting memories.
Insight Counselling
A safe, confidential space to talk about yourself and your life. Available to residents of, and people registered with GPs, in Dundee and Angus.
Insight also offers counselling to children and young people from age 12.
Qwell
Online emotional wellbeing and mental health support.
SAMH information Service
SAMH is the Scottish Association for Mental Health.
Voluntary Action Angus
Supports the growth of volunteering, social enterprise and local third sector development. Provides a Third Sector interface role (TSI), a community development function and is a key organisation in empowering communities and combatting poverty.
Mental health and wellbeing support available in GP practices
The Community Listening Service
50-minute confidential appointments to talk through any life situation such as bereavement, loss, work, family, caring responsibilities, or chronic conditions. People can discover strength and find hope when they are able to share what's on their mind.
To self-refer or find out more information:
Email tay.listening@nhs.scot
Call 01382 423 116
Text 0796 777 1941
Community Link Worker
Non-clinical advice and support to improve health and wellbeing for people affected by social or environmental issues such as feeling alone, a lack of support, poor housing, or debt. Help to access local activities.
Self-refer: Ask at your GP Reception to make an appointment
Call Voluntary Action Angus (VAA) 01307 466113
Mental Health and Wellbeing Peer Worker
Mental health support and/or advice from a worker who has their own lived experience of mental health challenges. Can help with low mood, anxiety, sleeping problems, stress, coping strategies and connect people with self-help/community resources or organisations.
Adult Service (age 16 and over): Ask at your GP Reception to be referred to Peer Support or use the contact information above to make a referral via the ECS Hub.
Young People’s Service (11 to 15 years, in secondary education): Talk to the young person’s school, GP receptionist or contact Penumbra or Hillcrest directly:
- South Angus (Arbroath, Friockheim, Carnoustie & Monifieth): Call Penumbra on 01241 873900 or email: angusyoungpersons@penumbra.org.uk
- North Angus (Brechin, Montrose, Forfar, Letham and Kirriemuir): Call Hillcrest Futures on 01307 460101
Tayside Adult Autism Consultancy Team (TAACT)
Consultancy Team is a Tayside-wide NHS service providing consultancy to services working with adults without an Intellectual Disability who have confirmed or suspected Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC), specialist diagnostic assessment and specialist interventions.
Referrals can be made by your GP or other Health and Social Care professionals you may be working with.
Call 01382 443158.