Hello... I have been so busy. Ok, firstly, I now have all the signatories to create the CIC Business. I will be doing this over the weekend. Secondly, and this one I am more excited about than creating the business... Take P'HeArt, Take PArt in Art from the HeArt, get it, a play on words, and letters... Tracy came up with this, which is the new arts and crafts group sessions we are starting, the first is being held on the 27th Dec, the aim is to provide a safe space for people to meet, talk and take part in arts and crafts to help with both combating Mental Health and loneliness.

All supplies are provided free of charge, all we ask, if its affordable, is an optional one pound donation towards costs and venue rent.

The art sessions are listed under the support group in Sutton, and the first starting at 11am, 27th Dec 2024 at: Throwley Yard Cinema 2 Throwley Rd Sutton SM1 4GJ

im so excited!

Hello and welcome to Saturday.

Location Services

Thanks to Gemini, Googles AI service, I have been able to create a new method to locate the area you are in. This means its more accurate and does not depend on how you connect to the internet. Again, I only extract the district / area you are located, I dont record any other information about your location but more to the point, I dont know who uses the website. I know how many times the page is accessed but by whom, i have no idea.

So. location. When you visit the website, it uses the inbult function of your device browser to provide your rough location, if you dont want to use that, then you have the option to give your post code. Again, the only information I get from that is the area you are in. If you dont want to use your post code, then just press the submit button and pick an area where you are located from the list.

Carers resources

Im still adding further resources for carers. it takes around 5 minutes to verify each as I check different information and ensure its all current. Its happening, just slowly.

Support Groups

Last week we attended chatterbox, a support group held every thursday between 1 and 3pm in Tooting. This week it was suggested that we look in to an arts and crafts project as part of the business, so if you are locall, this may be comming your way soon. We will be looking at funding for this venture to try and keep it a free event for you to attend. I have also been asked if I would like to co-host a carers recognition group I attend every wednesday, so thats exciting. well, thats it for this week so far.

Have a great rest of the week, but if you find you are suffering, please make use of the website and see if there is a service resource or venue you can use to help you through the day.

Hey, how are you? I have just been asked to be a Community Health Ambassador.. role sounded interesting.

So, whats happing with the website? I have been chasing becoming a CIC - Community Interest Company. This means the insurance will have to change and as part of that, I need to be more compliant with the data I hold. So, if you are a service provider, listed on this website, prepair for an automated, yes, I dont do anything, the website does it all its self, it sends an email to the service provider with a unique coded link. They click on the link and if you can get through the security on the website, you are invited to validate the information. This can be just the title of the service and facebook group, but it looks at website addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers etc.

So, yeah, look out for emails :)

Its been something i have wanted to do for a while, create a calendar to list free local events such as fetes, festivals, webinars, courses, conferences, anything which is free and either hosted by or is attended by a Mental Health or Wellbeing service. And now its here. You have the facility to add services based on area, and, if the event is being hosted by a known service, which covers several areas, then you have the option to include all or some of those areas.

Because of how it works, anybody can add an event, for any service provider, but I will have to verify and publish the event before its seen publicly. In the future, i plan to change that so the host of the event, or the service provider attending the event will have to confirm the contact details are correct by validating their contact details. this will also give the option to remove or edit the event details, but the fact its there, ready to run, im so excited about it.

The potential is huge... so, if you are aware of any free events being held locally or even nationally, feel free to add it. If there are important details you need to add but there is nowhere to add those details, let me know and ill see if i can add that in to the add and edit page.

another busy night, its now 1.30am, this is why i need coffee lol

So, this nights update is to add walk and talk groups to the Support Group catagory. Welcome The Proper Blokes club, The Walk and Talk Movement, and Andys Man Club. These all run walk and talk groups, which are open to anybody free of charge. usually end up somewhere for a cuppa at the end. although one which is reasonabally local is going to a market. may go and vist that one myself

So, keep an eye out on the website as more and more services are being added almost daily, certinally weekly. Something may be added which is of interest to you. If i dont talk to you before hand,

Have a great weekend, but if you find you are struggling, please, check out the website and I trust you will find the support you need.

Blimy, a second update in a week.. Ok, so the website has been updated again, if you select the area you are wanting to look at, you have the option to add a new service. This can be any of the catagories, and can be for any area you want.

Busy times ahead....

Hello and welcome to the next post on this blog. This month I tried a WhatsApp Community group. This consisted of 15 individual groups with different Mental Health Conditions. They were a great success, each group was being used, with conversations being very positive. But we had a person join with more extensive Mental Health issues, which caused safeguarding triggers, but who ever I called, it was as if they didnt want to know. "we only deal with"... I eventually called the mental Health Crisis line at my local NHS Trust, who give some fantastic advice, most of which I had already carried out. But this highlighted pertential Whatsapp Security issues which we were unable to address, and felt there was no option but to close the groups.

The next big event was the relaunch of the website. The interface has changed completely, making it clear and easier to find services you require. There is still a lot of work to perform on the website, but its in a useable state for people to use, which i think is easier to use than the previous version. Now its live, I have already seen and fixed a number of formatting bugs, but if you see more, please use the contact me menu and let me know Thats all for now, have a great day, but if your struggleing, please check out the website for services which may help you.

Listening to people, I have added a new listing to the website, there is now carer.mymentalwellness.uk where I have started to list services aimed at carers. Too often, carers are overlooked, having to ensure the wellbeing of the person they are caring for, in its self can be stressful.

There are many services which are available, but its another, if you dont know the right person, then you dont know what is available. This is getting better with the Mental Health Champion scheme in county councils, and social perscribers, but again, if you dont know about them, you dont know.

I'm tring to decide, should I make these just more offical updates, or should I still waffle on and tell you about them, I'm leaning towards the waffle version.

So, on the website, your notice a + symbol next to the section title, this allows you to add Help, Crisis Cafe and Drop in services yourself.

The Recovery Colleges are all in the system, and just need allocating to the correct area.

This is where I need your help. To be able to add all the services I have listed, to the correct areas, I need someone from that area to visit the site, to add the area. I could add an area manually, as I have acess to over 4 million area names. The issue here is, I depend on the area returned by your IP address when you connect to the internet. If the area listed manually is different to what is provided automatically, then it wont match up and display the local services.

Please share this website to everybody you know, and lets get the word out there that there are free services available.

Thank you for all the feedback I have received. The best feedback was confirmation on the format and layout. especially the search engine for the recovery colleges, where its not cluttered with images or adverts etc. The person indicated they were dyslexic (dyslexia) so this format was easy for them to read. Any further feedback like this, or any feedback would be welcome.

I have no intention to put adverts on this site, as that will hide the reason for this site. I may put a link back to the hosting service but that will be it for the foreseeable future.