LATEST NEWS:
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 Project launched
 The
Advocacy Project was officially launched on March 27th at the Mind TWS AGM.
For more information on this exciting and much needed new project, see the
Advocacy page.
The photo shows Chief Exec Stuart Hooper with the manager of
the Advocacy in Mind Project, Bethan Fisher (Click on the photo for a larger image.)
New Year, New Project! Advocacy Service
 Mind in Taunton and West Somerset are celebrating a new large grant that
will enable them 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?
(February 2010)
This month changes and additions have been made to the following pages:
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