News Archive September 2018
Never Mind the Catwalk Fashion Show – World Mental Health Day – 10th October 2018
Mind in Croydon in Partnership with The Pension Protection Fund are holding a free to attend community event showcasing an array of low cost and high-end fashion available to purchase on the day, followed by a live music event.
There will be a wide selection of quality items available for all sizes, including kids’ fashion.
Join us for this special event and help us raise vital funds for Mind in Croydon.
The event will be held at:
Boxpark Croydon
99 George Street
Croydon
CR0 1LD
Wednesday 10th October 2018
This will run from 5pm to 7pm with a pop-up shop and from 7.30pm until 11pm there will be live bands.
Further information can be found at: www.boxpark.co.uk/events
Email: lauren@boxpark.co.uk
Author: Cat Ayres
Posted on: 24th September 2018
Minding Money Project Update
The Minding Money Project held its final Financial Literacy workshop on budgeting and learning how to manage finances.
Staff attended the last session adopting a wealth of knowledge to continue providing support and information.
The Minding Money Project will be shortly publishing an anthology of debt poems by service users and we hope to launch this in October.
With regret, our funding with Comic Relief for this project has come to an end. We have had fantastic three years delivering this to our service users in a fun and interactive way!
We would like to thank all participants for attending and our stakeholders for the ongoing support throughout the lifetime of the project.
Author: Cat Ayres
Posted on: 20th September 2018
Mind Attends Self-Care Event
Michael Edwards from our Advocacy Service attended a GP Hub Open Day on Saturday 15th September in Central Shopping Centre.
The event aimed to raise awareness about and allow patients to experience a number of local health and social care service providers accessible through the Croydon GP Hubs and directly by residents of Croydon.
Visitors were treated to FREE refreshments and had the opportunity to meet the Mayor of Croydon, Councillor Bernadette Khan, the Shadow Deputy for Families Heath & Social Care, Margaret Bird, and members of the team across all the Croydon GP Hubs.
Visitors got to meet with Mencap, Croydon Talking Therapies (IAPT), Mind in Croydon, The London Ambulance Service, Croydon Vision, Amber Crisis Pregnancy Centre, Just Be Croydon and other services.
Author: Cat Ayres
Posted on: 18th September 2018
Praise for our Employment Support Service
Here’s some feedback from someone who has benefitted for our Employment Support Service over the last two years. “To everyone at the Mind in Croydon Employment Support Service (ESS), I just wanted to say a massive thank you for everything! I will post back the feedback questionnaire that I’ve completed but there just wasn’t enough room to praise you guys highly enough!
From my initial assessment with you back in 2016 to being discharged this month the support I received was just brilliant. I was very suspicious of anything to do with mental health support after a really negative experience in 2015 but you helped restore my faith in mental health support services. You are very down to earth and approachable and I was quickly put at ease. Sue Coleman is just amazing and we worked very well together. Not too much pressure but really encouraging and motivating without being patronising or condescending. I also got really useful CV feedback from one of your digital champions which was about a million times better than the feedback I got from an actual Recruitment Consultant.
As a result of the superb support from Sue I discovered the SLaM Recovery College and the Involvement Register and subsequently Hear-Us – who I am now a link-worker with. And countless other opportunities that I took part in (minding money, training courses, work trial day – the list goes on). In 2016 at the beginning of my support with ESS I was just about able to leave the house, but not much more than that. I wasn’t really sure if I’d ever be able to work or volunteer again. Now, as well as link-working, I am presenting training for SLaM staff (100+ people) and doing talks to the police with Hear-Us to challenge stigma and countless other things to help improve the quality of mental health services in Croydon and beyond. I have re-discovered old skills and developed new ones, growing in confidence and now feel that I am making a positive contribution to society once again.
I could go on but I’m sure you are a busy man! Mind in Croydon ESS is a brilliant service and I would recommend to anyone. My life has improved about a million times since that initial assessment in 2016. Keep up the good work! THANK YOU for all the opportunities and brilliant support!!!”
Claire Hawkes
If you would like to find out more about the Mind in Croydon Employment Support Service, you can telephone us on 020 8253 8203 / 4 / 7 or email ess@mindincroydon.org.uk
Author: Cat Ayres
Posted on: 14th September 2018
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Click Clock Art Gallery Art Exhibition – Theme: ‘My Experience of the Lock-down’
Our Hub Art group’s new exhibition at the Croydon Clocktower Click Clock Gallery (located in the Croydon Clocktower Café) will be unveiled at 11am on Monday 4th October 2021.
The exhibition is entitled; ‘My Experience of the Lock-down’ and will feature a variety of art work pieces by the Hub Members to express their observations during and after the lock-downs.
The exhibition will run for 4 weeks until Friday 29th October so if you don’t get the chance to see it that day, there is no rush!
Thank you to all the hard working Art Group members for their commitment to this event. Their enthusiasm and dedication has been incredible.
Celebrating Business Resilience in Croydon
The Virtual Awards Ceremony is the finale of the Croydon Business Resilience Awares 2021 and Mind in Croydon have been nominated in two categories. Our Social Networking Service (The Hub) has been nominated for “Community Collaboration in Response to Covid-19” and “Outstanding Team Award”.
The celebration takes place on Thursday 23 September between 6pm – 7.30pm. All tickets are free and anyone can join for a great evening.
If you would like to join in grab a ticket at eu.eventscloud.com/ereg/newreg.php?eventid=200227185&
Croydon Business Resilience Awards Virtual Ceremony 2021
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The Croydon Business Resilience Awards 2021 will recognise and celebrate the resilience of businesses in Croydon over the last 12 months. We would love for you to join us at the virtual celebrations.Mind in Croydon and the Croydon BME Forum have formed an exciting new partnership, the PIC Partnership to deliver this innovative, explorative project.
We are looking for 1 x Mental Health Personal Independence Co-ordinator (MHPIC) to join the team of 5 MHPICs. The role involves working directly within the new Integrated Care Network Plus areas right across the Borough of Croydon and with clinical partners, including local GPs, in multi-disciplinary teams. As one of our enthusiastic MHPICs you will be the direct named key worker for a set number of people within the newly formed Croydon Health & Well Being Space. You will enable people to develop their own Personal Recovery Plans and support them directly to find and access the support and services available to them in their local community. You will ensure that people are enabled to identify their own goals, needs and wishes and are empowered to achieve them.
For more information and application forms visit: www.mindincroydon.org.uk/about-us/work-for-us/
www.mindincroydon.org.uk
We are very aware at Mind in Croydon that people really are our main asset. Attracting the right recruits and retaining them is of paramount importance and ensures that our clients get the best possible service. The benefits we can offer are a flexible and genuinely family-friendly environment – m...JOB - Croydon Health and Wellbeing Space Senior Administrator and Volunteer Coordinator – (Ref-MMSAC.2021.M)
Mind in Croydon is a highly regarded registered charity operating in the Borough for over 50 years. Mind in Croydon and Croydon BME Forum have formed an exciting new partnership to deliver on an innovative new project, the Croydon Health & WellBeing Space (CHWS), based in the Whitgift Centre, Central Croydon .
The CHWS Senior Administrator and Volunteer Co-ordinator will support the CHWS Team Manager in the operational administration of the non-clinical, client-facing aspects of the service provided by the Mind in Croydon/Croydon BME Forum Partnership. This includes the recruitment and day to day management of a team of 10 volunteers who will provide welcome and initial triage support to service users at Hub locations; the management of volunteer rotas to enable 7 day a week service provision; the management of data gathering, reporting and onward referral to co-located clinical and non-clinical support through bespoke IT systems; and the day-to-day management and utilisation of CHWS buildings.
For more information and application forms visit: www.mindincroydon.org.uk/about-us/work-for-us/
www.mindincroydon.org.uk
We are very aware at Mind in Croydon that people really are our main asset. Attracting the right recruits and retaining them is of paramount importance and ensures that our clients get the best possible service. The benefits we can offer are a flexible and genuinely family-friendly environment – m...JOBS - Croydon Health and Wellbeing Space Support Worker & Carers Support Worker
Mind in Croydon is a highly regarded registered charity operating in the Borough for over 50 years. Mind in Croydon and Croydon BME Forum have formed an exciting new partnership to deliver on an innovative new project, the Croydon Health & WellBeing Space (CHWS), based in the Whitgift Centre, Central Croydon .
We are looking for 2 x Mental Health Support Workers for these interesting and varied roles. One will work directly with Croydon residents referred with mental health issues and the other role will focus on the carers of residents with mental health issues.
CHWS Support Workers will provide advice, information, mental health support and representation to Croydon residents who are referred to the Health and Wellbeing Space through the local Integrated Care Network Plus (ICN+) multi-disciplinary clinical and community mental health support teams (MDTs). Over the next two years, we will be launching other Health and Wellbeing Spaces based in North and/or South Croydon.
For more information and the application forms visit: www.mindincroydon.org.uk/about-us/work-for-us/
www.mindincroydon.org.uk
We are very aware at Mind in Croydon that people really are our main asset. Attracting the right recruits and retaining them is of paramount importance and ensures that our clients get the best possible service. The benefits we can offer are a flexible and genuinely family-friendly environment – m...
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