LATEST NEWS:
 Launch
of the Go Wild, Stay Well project
The 'Go Wild, Stay Well' project has been set up to enable people who
experience mental distress to undertake physical activity against an
inspiring backdrop to improve overall mental health and offer the
opportunity to make a positive impact to the environment. To find out more,
visit the Go Wild, Stay Well page.
Kick! Free football workshops
Wednesday morning between 10:45am and 11:45am
Do you suffer from mental health problems? Would you like to have fun
and learn some footballing skills?
 The
Taunton workshops are currently being run each Wednesday between 10:45am
and11:45am from Taunton Vale sports centre ( on the artificial grass pitch,
behind the tennis courts).
Mind in Taunton and West Somerset in conjunction with Turning Point are
supporting a series of football workshops for anyone experiencing mental
ill-health. The workshops are open to all, with coaching provided by
Somerset Activity and Sports Partnership. All ages and abilities are
welcome, so why not come along and have some fun? For more information,
contact us.
Self-management course
 Self Management is part of Peace of Mind
and is a course for people who are recovering from mental ill-health. It
explores ways in which people can manage their own lives. The course will be
held on
Thursday afternoons from 1pm—3.30pm and will last for 9
sessions. More info here.
Advocacy Service
 The
Advocacy in Mind Project is fully funded by a Comic Relief grant and was
officially launched on 27 March 2009 at the Mind in Taunton and West
Somerset AGM. Comic Relief's very generous grant has enabled us to set up
and run a brand new, much needed advocacy service across Taunton Deane and
West Somerset.
For more information, see the Advocacy in Mind Project
page.
Thank you to all our supporters...
- Thank you to Comic Relief for a grant of £106,311 to set up a new
advocacy service
- Thank you to Sarah, our new volunteer Events Fundraiser, for
volunteering her time and expertise to organise a car boot sale for us
- Thank you to Money Saving Expert Charity for agreeing a grant of
£4,036 to provide a money and debt information service
- Thank you to National Mind for a grant of £14,000 to allow us to
employ a Somerset Mind Development Worker.
- Thank you to the Europa café in Wellington who kept a collection tin
for us and raised over £30.
- Thank you to Wessex Water for a donation of £1,000 towards our core
running costs.
- Thank you to Richard Lowe for involving us in his ‘Music for the
Mind’ event and for a donation of £1,755 to Somerset Mind.
- Thank you to Somerset Community Foundation for a grant of £1,000 to
support the Watchet drop-in service.
- .. and finally, huge thank yous to our volunteers Robert Riley and
John and Lorraine Charnley for all their hard work collecting - we
couldn’t have done it without them!
What else is new this month?
(July 2010)
This month changes and additions have been made to the following pages:
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