First Asian Support Trust (FAST)

Everybody is welcome to ask for our help.

Our IAG Workers are trained to understand a wide range of community difficulties and are skilled at referring to specialist support agencies. The Service is supported by the Cheetham Advice Centre. 

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CoGS provides one-to-one confidential information, advice and guidance. Bi-lingual Support Workers are available to address language and cultural barriers.  

Practical help people typically ask us for includes:

• Housing
• Benefits
• Contracts of work
• Debt
• Asylum
• Abuse
• Lack of skills and qualifications
• Letters

​The kinds of referrals we make include helping people with:

• Self-harm and suicide
• Family conflict
• Domestic abuse
• Homelessness
• Modern day slavery
• Hate crime
• Alcohol and drug abuse

How to access:

Drop into our centre or call us

We offer English groups in recognition that without language a person cannot be equal in our community.

Our ESOL provision ensures that those with poor or no language gain the skills they need to communicate on a basic level and become more independent in their daily lives.

Services include:

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• English My Way - Pre-entry level for those with little or no English

• ESOL - Entry 1 Level l Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing for those with some very basic English

• ESOL - Entry 2 Level 2 Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing for those progressing from Entry 2 and for progression into Further Education ESOL

How to access:

To refer somebody you know or to make contact yourself: Drop-in at Community Point Resource Centre and ask for Linda or Tina (or) Call or email us

Minding Futures responds to the disproportionate disadvantage that affects the Cheetham Hill community.

This is a peer-support project run by Peer Welfare Ambassadors (PWAs).

PWAs are volunteer community outreach workers who are trained and qualified to work safely with those who are not accessing the help they need.

It offers friendly, multi-lingual and multi-cultural support to people in our neighbourhoods who are affected by stress, anxiety and depression as a result of isolation, hardship and inequality.

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Services include:

• One-to-one individual, confidential support, advocacy and referral

• Support Groups

• Feel Good Activities, including Arts and Crafts, Make Do and Mend, Mens Sheds and Reboot UK

How to access:

To refer somebody you know or to make contact yourself: Drop-in at Community Point Resource Centre and ask for Linda or Tina (or) Call or email us