Giving advice on teenage safety in chat rooms.

Consumer reviews and ratings of chat and forum sites.

UK chat rooms on a variety of themes.

Community including live chat, photographs uploads and messaging between members.

Graphic 3D chat with avatars where you can create your own chat world and find new buddies.

Provides general chat rooms, email pen pals, and text messaging with no pre-registration requirements.

Free chat site with moderated chatrooms and discussion forums, with user profiles and mailboxes.

Easy chatting for adults over the age of 18. Also offers email accounts and web space.

Provides assorted IRC chat rooms to any from the UK.

Offers chats for teens, singles, lesbians, and those interested in computing, sports, music, and science fiction.

Provides messageboards for users in similar postcodes, also links to local information, including maps and important numbers. [Registration required]

Chat rooms, contacts, and penpals.

A community of people from all over the world. Messages boards and chat forums, games, recipes, and links to websites of members.

Offers a general chat room and others for music and single parents. No sign-up is required.

Chat rooms and forums provided by the broadcaster on a broad range of TV programmes and related topics.

Moderated chatrooms and message boards, some centred around radio or TV programmes, others on a particular subject.