01792 655025
01639 642333
Our cancer support centres and outreach service are run by a team of dedicated staff and volunteers, all of whom have backgrounds in counselling and/or health care.
We offer a free, confidential listening and counselling service to anyone whose life has been affected by cancer, whether patient, relative, carer or friend.
Appointments can be made to see a qualified counsellor at any time suitable for the client.
People in crises or new situations often feel the need to meet with others in a similar situation. CISS will organise group meetings as required, and have self-help groups meeting both at our centres and at other locations. The groups currently being arranged are as follows:-
Carers Group
Carers group is being held at our Neath Centre on the first Wednesday of every month between 10am-12 noon.
Patients Support Group
Our new Patient Support Group started on Monday 7th November between 2pm and 4pm at Llewellyn Hall Swansea Rd Penllergaer. We will now run it on the first Monday of every month at the same time, with December's date being December 5th.
Factual, up-to-date information can make an enormous difference to anyone affected by cancer, including family and friends.
Such valuable advice can help to dispel some of the fears and myths about the disease, and is freely available from CISS.
Our centres offer a vast range of up-to-date printed information on all types of cancer and treatments. This includes work published by Cancerbacup, Macmillan, Cancer Research UK and Tenovus, to name but a few. Internet access to world-wide information is also freely available.
For additional information please contact us or view our weblinks
CISS can provide advice and information on local and national cancer support groups.
The CISS telephone helplines at Swansea, Neath & Carmarthenshire are available to anyone whose life has been affected by cancer.
They are 01792 655025,01639 642333 and 01267 679149 respectively.
On occasions when the lines are not manned an answerphone service is available - please be assured that your call will be returned as soon as possible, including weekends & Bank holidays
Room hire |
We have conference room facilities for up to fifteen delegates and meeting room facilities for hire at our Swansea & Neath centres, to local organisations and businesses.
These are available at favourable rates (From £7.50)and offer flexibility and convenience, together with easy parking. Please contact our Manager, Ian Addison for further details.
CISS offers bereavement counselling and support/self help groups at both Swansea and Neath centres.
Please call us on either of the above helplines.
CISS operates from two information/drop-in centres: a central office near to Swansea city centre and another in the Neath town centre. Both centres have access to a vast selection of printed information and offer counselling and therapy facilities. The Swansea centre is manned between the hours of 2:00pm and 4:00pm on Mondays Wednesdays & Fridays, whilst our centre in Neath is open on Mondays Tuesdays & Thursdays at the same times. Appointments may also be made outside these hours.
Free client parking is available at the Swansea centre and a bus service from the Swansea Quadrant Centre stops at Uplands Square directly opposite. Hourly street parking is available at Neath, with a long term parking facility at the nearby railway station. Bus and train services are within a 5 minute walk.
CISS will carry out home visits at any time suitable to the client.
CISS visit patients in hospitals at the request of health professionals and/or family/carers. See our timetable below for further details.
Outreach Development Officers visit areas of socal deprivation and ethnic minority groups, taking the CISS services into the local communities. Industry and businesses also benefit from the service in their workplaces, by regular visits from CISS staff offering help and support to people who may be unaware of the service or who may have difficulty in accessing the drop-in centres.
Our Outreach Officers are available in the following locations to answer your enquiries and provide information:-
Local Libraries
Llandeilo Library last Tuesday of every month 10am-12.30pm
Workplaces
Hospitals & Hospices
Singleton Hospital Radiotherapy Department Information Room every Tuesday morning.
Singleton Hospital ward visits every Wednesday morning
Others
The Tenovus Bus
We are delighted to be working with Tenovus on their mobile chemotherapy unit.We will be offering counselling in Carmarthen on alternate Tuesdays.
Dates & times are subject to change
All discussions are held in private and strict confidence.
CISS strictly adheres to the rules and regulations of 'The Code of Ethics and Practice of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy'.
Please note:we do not give medical advice.
2-2a Gwydr Crescent
Uplands
Swansea
West Glamorgan
SA2 0AA
T: 01792 655025
Admin: 01792 464625
6 Alfred Street
Neath
West Glamorgan
SA11 1EF
UK
T: 01639 642333
Company Limited by Guarantee No. 7080573 Registered in England and Wales. Registered Charity No. 1142883