Calling all carers
If you are a carer, 18 and over and live, work or are educated in the borough of Croydon, or if the person you care for is 18 or over, lives, works, or is educated in the borough of Croydon then you welcome to come to the FREE groups below.
Topics, dates and time
Tips on Surviving as a Carer
Monday 3 Feb 2020 10.30am – 11.45am
Depression
Monday 2 Mar 2020 10.30am – 11.45am
Raising Self-Esteem
Monday 6 Apr 2020 10.30am – 11.45am – Postponed due to COVID-19
Strategies to Deal with Ongoing Stress and Improving Wellbeing for Carers
Monday 4 May 2020 10.30am – 11.45am – Postponed due to COVID-19
Keeping Calm
Monday 8 Jun 2020 10.30am – 11.45am – Postponed due to COVID-19
Health and Wellbeing
Monday 6 Jul 2020 10.30am – 11.45am – Postponed due to COVID-19
Taking a Break and Managing Respite Care
Monday 7 Sep 2020 10.30am – 11.45am
Grief and Loss
Monday 5 Oct 2020 10.30am – 11.45am
Managing and Working with Worry
Monday 2 Nov 2020 10.30am – 11.45am
Assertiveness in Caring
Monday 7 Dec 2020 10.30am – 11.45am
No pre-booking necessary, just turn up on the day.
A downloadable version of the leaflet can be found here.
Address for the groups:
Orchard House, 15a Purley Road, South Croydon, CR2 6EZ
T: 020 8763 2064 E: counselling@mindincroydon.org.uk
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31 Day Art Challenge raises over £1000 for local mental health charity
Ellis Jurado, 12, lives in Redhill and supports Mind in Croydon each year with fundraising events. This year he set himself an Art Challenge to produce 31 drawings in 31 days in October and raised a whopping £1,250 online – 125% of his original target.
Ellis’ Mum, Lucie, said “We knew that World Mental Health Awareness Day was 10th October, so decided it was the perfect month for him to complete his “Inktober” challenge. We set up an online fundraising page and hoped to raise £500 for Mind. Within the first 8 days Ellis had already hit £500. So we increased the target to £1,000 and by 31st October and 31 fabulous drawings later he managed to raise a whopping £1,250!”
This fantastic fundraising effort will go towards supporting the services that Mind in Croydon currently provides to people and families in Croydon, including social groups and activities, many of which have moved online during the Covid-19 crisis.
Philippa Thompson, Chief Executive at Mind in Croydon, said “We are all so impressed and delighted with what Ellis has done to raise money to support people with mental health issues in Croydon; good mental health often starts with kindness and hope, and that’s what Ellis has given to all of us."
2019-2020: A Year in Numbers
Mind in Croydon is proud to support people in Croydon with their mental health – have a look at our latest Annual Report found at
www.mindincroydon.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Annual-Report-2019-20-WEB.pdf for more information.
During the 2019-2020 financial year we supported many clients with their varying needs including:
* 5,563 people with their mental health
* 110 carers
* 1,089 people had contact with a professional independent advocate
* raising £1.1 million in previously unclaimed benefits for Croydon residents
* providing 492 people with counselling sessions
* 1,685 calls received on the infoline
We also had 103 people volunteer for us and they provided 12,000 hours of their time and raised over £55,000 through individual giving, thank you to all of those who supported us.
Mind Policy and campaigns – Zoom meeting with Justin Tomlinson (the Minister for Disabled People)
“Ahead of the anticipated Government Green Paper & National Strategy for Disabled People we had the opportunity to meet virtually in an event hosted by National Mind with the Minister for Disabled People Justin Tomlinson.
We outlined the challenges that Mind in Croydon’s clients experience with the benefits system and how Covid-19 has made navigating the system even harder for many people with mental health issues. People with lived experience of mental health also took part and gave real life examples of how the benefits system creates sometimes insurmountable barriers for them.
Our work is influencing the development of what we hope will be a better benefits system that works for and with people experiencing mental ill health.”
Tom Goddard, Welfare Benefits Advice Service Manager
World Mental Health Day – Mental Health For All
The World Health Organisation recognises World Mental Health Day on 10 October every year. This year’s theme set by the World Federation for Mental Health is ‘mental health for all’.
One of our carers sent in a poem which we would like to share with you.
The poem can be read on our news page at www.mindincroydon.org.uk/news/
Creating conversations in Croydon – The untold stories of loss
Mind in Croydon are pleased to be taking part in ‘Creating conversations in Croydon – The untold stories of loss’ event on World Mental Health Day 10.10.20 @ 2pm. Emma Turner, our Head of Service Delivery will be contributing to these important discussions.
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