Connect & Support UK

Play North West CIC

About this app

One tap to Samaritans, NHS 111, or Shout. Twenty calming sounds. A Safety Plan you can actually print. Over 50 evidence-based skills. Free forever.

Connect & Support UK is built by Play North West CIC, a UK Community Interest Company. Made with mental-health professionals — not Big Tech — to be there in the hardest moments and the quiet ones.UK.CRISIS, FAST
- One tap to Samaritans (116 123), Shout (text 85258), Papyrus HOPELINE247 (0800 068 4141), NHS 111 mental-health line (option 2), and 999 emergency services.
- Works offline once installed. No login required for crisis support.

CALM YOUR BODY
- Five breathing patterns: Physiological Sigh, 4-7-8, Box, Coherent, and Calm.
- Six grounding techniques for anxiety, panic, dissociation, flashbacks, and feeling unreal.
- Twenty long-form calming sounds (heartbeat, thunderstorm, river, forest, fireplace, gong, tibetan bowl, hand pan, and more) — all seamlessly looped, brought to you by Nada Kari Sound Bowls.

SKILLS THAT WORK
Over 50 evidence-based interventions, each cited to its source:
- DBT (Linehan): TIPP, STOP, Urge Surf, Opposite Action
- ACT (Hayes): Leaves on a Stream, Values Compass, Defusion
- CBT (Beck): Behavioural Experiment, Comparison Reframe
- MBSR (Kabat-Zinn): The Candle, Body Scan
- Self-Compassion (Neff): Self-Compassion Break, Compassion Letter
- Stanley-Brown Safety Planning Intervention
- Polyvagal (Porges): The Hum, Two-Person Tide
- And many more.

PERSONAL TOOLS
- Wellbeing Passport: a "who I am, what helps me" document for carers, clinicians, and trusted people.
- Safety Plan: the NHS-recommended Stanley-Brown plan

What’s new

Initial release of Connect & Support UK.

A free, calming app to instantly connect anyone in the UK to mental health crisis support — Samaritans, Shout, NHS 111, plus calming exercises, a safety plan, and local services search.

Operated by Play North West CIC, a not-for-profit Community Interest Company.