Welcome to the Off Centre website

Off Centre is a counselling, advice and information service for young people.

Anybody aged between 13 and 25 who lives, works or studies in Hackney can use our free and confidential services.
They may…

• Have been hurt or abused by someone
• Have been affected by a loss or trauma
• Feel angry, afraid or out of control
• Want someone outside family and friends to talk to
• Feel like harming themselves
• Feel stuck in their life and unable to move on

We provide a range of different types of support to help young people have greater control over their lives.

"Being part of a network of services that can offer support to young people is a crucial part of Off Centre's work and helps to ensure that young people do not fall through the net. Off Centre start from the experiences of their users, and tackle their combinations of problems together.

"At Off Centre, they are on your level. They are not there to judge, they are there to help."

said one user. "Off Centre have certainly found their approach successful in combating the multiple exclusion of many young people." LASA publication article: Advice Responses to Social Exclusion in London, 2000

• Adapted from the Off Centre annual review 1999