Mainliners

2nd Floor
Downstream Building
1 London Bridge
London
SE1 9BG

Tel: 020 7022 1890
Web: www.mainliners.org.uk

Mainliners works across blood borne viruses, drugs and sexual health to help those most vulnerable. Their objectives are to improve accessibility, raise standards, increase coherence and to maximise responsiveness, diversity and operational competence in the provision of such services across the country.

A registered charity, Mainliners delivers services in the areas of:

• Substance use
• Blood borne viruses
• Harm minimisation
• Sexual health

Mainliners does this through a variety of flexible methods and interventions. A key remit of their work is information and education delivered through training, conferences, events, outreach and via the website. Their front line activities encompass street outreach and fixed site service delivery.

Mainliners will celebrate its twentieth anniversary in 2009. Historically, Mainliners service delivery was primarily London based, largely due to the demographics of drug use in the capital and particularly in relation to the problems faced by inner-London boroughs. Their south London focus began to shift in 1997 with the establishment of the UK Hepatitis C Resource Centre. As the name implies, this 'virtual centre' has a nationwide remit and utilises Information Technology to provide a full range of information and services via the Internet, email and telephone in addition to working directly with professionals and members of the public.