Stockport & District Mind

Young people use drama to warn against loan sharks

Stockport Mind — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:40:58 +0000

The following Youtube links are examples of drama projects supported by the Illegal Money Lending Team. If your organisation has people who would be interested in doing something similar, the Illegal Money Lending Team can help out with training and venue costs. … Continue reading →

Start The Week members celebrate Christmas

Stockport Mind — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:31:50 +0000

To celebrate Christmas 2011, our “Start The Week” drop-in centre held a special party for all their members. The party included a festive meal, Christmas crackers with party hats and prizes, karaoke and a raffle. We had some great help … Continue reading →

Petition Against Benefit Cuts

Stockport Mind — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:37:48 +0000

An E-Petition is available to urge the goverment to debate and review the cuts to benefits and services which are falling disproportionately on disabled people, their carers and families. The petition needs 100,000 signatures to be debated in parliament. If you … Continue reading →

Round the World for Mind

Stockport Mind — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:36:30 +0000

Jim Clarke from Bramhall, Stockport, England is 57 and retired from Barclays Bank. Jim enjoys a challenge. Last year he took part in the Coast to Coast Walk and decided that he needed a bigger challenge in 2011 so this … Continue reading →

Stockport Wellbeing Week

Stockport Mind — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 17:36:20 +0000

5 WAYS TO WELLBEING Connect… with the people around you. With family, friends, colleagues and neighbours. At home, work, school or in your local community. Think of these as the cornerstones of your life and invest time in developing them. … Continue reading →

TEXT Donations now available

Stockport Mind — Sat, 14 May 2011 21:08:55 +0000

Stockport & District Mind will be amongst the first charities in the country to use its own, unique personalised text code, MIND40, to raise funds using JustTextGiving by Vodafone. This is a brand new, free service, for charities that has … Continue reading →

Psychiatry over 6 decades – From a personal perspective

Stockport Mind — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:12:03 +0000

Part 3 – the Eighties The eighties provided the fuel for my major explosion in the nineties, I had little or no contact with services but it was the decade which, with hindsight, could have alerted everyone, including me, of what … Continue reading →

Psychiatry over 6 decades – From a personal perspective

Stockport Mind — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:34:45 +0000

Part 2 – The Seventies I had been at boarding school since I was eleven and had hated every minute of it until I reached seventeen in 1970, with hindsight I realised that I had been experiencing depression at various levels … Continue reading →

Psychiatry over 6 decades – From a personal perspective

Stockport Mind — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 20:17:33 +0000

Part 1 – The Sixties I didn’t even know that I had visited a psychiatric ward at the age of eight (1961) until around thirty five years later, when my sister asked if I remembered visiting her at Friern Barnet … Continue reading →

It’s time to talk, it’s Time to Change

Stockport Mind — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 16:17:20 +0000

Stockport Mind is associated with the national organisation “Mind” and together our goals are to tackle the fear and awkwardness that people feel around talking about mental health. We are trying to remove the sigma around mental health and raise awareness. During April, … Continue reading →