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Creative Minds Art Group, Plymouth

Creative Minds Art Group, Plymouth

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 …

Choice and Empowerment in Mental Health

Choice and Empowerment in Mental Health

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

Thoughts On A Busy Life

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 …