LATEST NEWS:
 Dave
Unwin: interviewed!
Our PR & Fundraising Co-Ordinator Dave Urwin was recently interviewed by
the Positive News website about his involvement with our ecotherapy
projects, the Walk on the Wild Side challenge and his own experiences of
managing his mental distress through running and walking.
You can read the interview here.
Drop-in cafes
There are a couple of support groups that meet in public cafés
on various days in Taunton. Find out more here.
Somerset Community Care Matters!
Somerset Community Care Matters is a new project providing specialist
advice, help and casework in the field of Community Care law the name
which applies to all advice about healthcare from the NHS, social care
from social services and disability rights and entitlements to care and
support. Read more here.
 Download
our latest newsletter!
Find out all about our latest projects and catch up with our news!
Click
here to view our
Spring 2011 newsletter (or click on the
newsletter on the left).
 Walk
on the Wild Side!
2 July 2011
Like a challenge?
Want to raise funds for an inspirational project?
Why not combine the two!
Join us and walk 30 miles (or 15 miles) in a day on the stunning Quantock
greenway to raise funds for 'Go Wild, Stay Well', an inspirational project
by Mind in Taunton & West Somerset that enables people who experience mental
distress to feel the therapeutic benefits of nature.
>> Click here for more info
 Go
Wild, Stay Well in The Ecologist
Our Go Wild, Stay Well ecotherapy project was featured in
September 2010's The Ecologist Magazine.
Read all about it here >>
 Mind
TWS volunteer Chris Rugg wins 'Outstanding Volunteer' award
Chris Rugg, a volunteer with the Advocacy in Mind Project, has won a
prestigious award at the Care Focus Awards.
Chris was presented with his award for 'Oustanding Volunteer 2010' at a gala
dinner on 15 October 2010 hosted by Care Focus. Chris is shown
pictured with Suzie Grogan (left) and Bethan Fisher (right), manager of the
Advocacy in Mind project.
 New
Team at Mind TWS!
Mind have appointed a new Director and elected a new Chairman.
Chairman Alan Cottrell was born in Devon and has had a career in
education, and new Director Allan Petchey joins Mind from RSM Tenon, one of
the UK's leading accountancy firms.
To find out more, visit the Press Releases
page.
 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.
Self-management course
 Self
Management 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 2011)
This month changes and additions have been made to the following pages:
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