Co-creating strategies to address child poverty Working with Barnardo's, a Children's Centre and parents from low-income backgrounds, this work provided a forum for parents to voice their experiences, needs and priorities relating to child poverty. This work fed into the Plymouth Child Poverty Action Plan and has played an influential role in the development of ...
The Pow Wow café is a community café in the heart of Kingsway, West Teignmouth it was opened by Mars Hill church in response to the community wanting a local shop and hub. The cafe is community focused and local people are encouraged to bring their activities and groups to use the space. One group …
I recall sitting in the conservatory of the Pembroke Estate Management office where Lorraine and Felicity spoke avidly of the DeSTRESS study. Their passion struck a mighty chord. Just how pertinent was it that two academics from Exeter were talking to staff of a tenant-managed housing estate in a city nearly 50 miles away from …
By Martin White It always feels like some kind of Progress, and it makes me feel excited about future possibilities. Especially the possibility of Change. I’m talking of course about when you walk into a room in which professionals and lay people are busy working together, discussing ideas, swapping views, exchanging information about both general …
By Felicity Thomas Nationwide, prescriptions for antidepressants are at an all time high – up by 100% since 2015, and 500% since 1992. It is estimated that half of all people on antidepressants in the UK have been taking them for two years or more (Kendrick et al. 2015), and that nationwide, a third of …
So what’s special about Tuesday’s at Mount Wise Neighbourhood Centre ? its home to the Creative Minds Art Group, a peer support group run by local people providing a friendly, informal space for anyone in the Plymouth area to come along to, especially those who may have mental health conditions Started a few years ago …
By Olivia Craig People ask me regularly what it is like to be the CEO of a mental health charity. Most people are perplexed when I tell them that, in 2014, I left a permanent job to work in a sector where funding is precarious and the future uncertain. For me it was a transformational …
Thoughts on a busy life – getting in touch with the simple things by Chris Dowrick I have a busy life, and generally it’s a great life – but I often find myself getting frazzled by having to much to do and too little time to do it. Particularly since my head injury from a cycling accident, which means I get …
