Hello and welcome to another weekly, although a bit longer than weekly roundup. Yesterday I attended the SouthWest London and St Georges Mental health Trust AGM. Although I didnt attend it, I am now a co-host for the Peer Recognition support group, so I attended the coffee and chat part of the AGM and just after the meeting started, I had to leave. But..... me being me, i went around, handing out my flyer to anybody who would take it. I met a couple of the directors and, overheard a couple of ladies talking about their experiances, so, again I gave them my leaflets. And that turned in to a long conversation about "We were only talking about the lack of information sharing". It transpires they are councillors and their task is to try and get the communities involved and aware. They were so excited to hear about the website, it again reminded my why i do this, what its all for. This lead on to a couple of name dropping and further LinkedIn contacts. It was the ecitement they displayed when they checked out their area to find I had local services defined for that area which in turn really got me excited all over again.

I also met the guys who run the volunteer center, and have already had a few emails with details of pilot schemes and names of people to contact...

And.... I met someone who is trying to create a connection for a community within sutton. By this I mean, he is meeting people, and discussin what they want, what they would like to get involved in, within a community in Sutton. He has produced a really good calendar booklet, which describes each day, what is available, where its located with a brief summary. he also use to run a website simular to what im doing but just focusing on Sutton, so we are going to see if there is any cross over and build on that.

I intend to reproduce anything which is working in this area to other areas around the UK, so if anybody is interested to help, then let me know and we can have a chat, see what you can do to help me, and ill see what I can do to help you and your community.

I need a team of people !! help ! :)