Welcome To Mainliners Website           

Mainliners works across blood borne viruses, drugs and sexual health to help those most vulnerable. Our 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 our work is information and education delivered through training, conferences, events, outreach and via the website. Our front line activities encompass street outreach and fixed site service delivery.

Mainliners will celebrate its sixteenth anniversary in 2006. The organisation is bigger today than at any time in our history, both in staff complement and premises for service delivery. The staff team numbers currently circa 30 with an additional compliment of 10-15 volunteers at any given time. We have permanent bases in New Kent Road (London), Streatham (London), Croydon (London), Bath Street in Glasgow and Academy Street in Edinburgh. In addition, services are delivered at a number of satellite bases in the boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark in south London.  

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.  Our 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.