We’re to take part in a Home Office scheme to trial alternative ‘places of safety’ to police custody for individuals in mental distress. Home secretary Theresa May announced the pilot during her speech at the Police and Mental Health Summit today. She told delegates of the plans to provide a number of alternative places of safety over the course […]
London Metropolitan University is running a ‘Connect Week’ in order to engage with local organisations and communities and, as Richmond Fellowship’s head office is just down the road from its campus, we’ve been invited to take part. As part of the week, Thursday’s theme (23 October) is ‘Thinking about mental health?’ and representatives from Richmond Fellowship […]
The running of a new community café based at The Harbour, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust’s new state of the art mental health inpatient development located in Blackpool has been awarded to the Richmond Fellowship. The Richmond Fellowship, a charity that provides advice and support for people with mental health issues, will be managing and […]
We’ve been keen to strengthen our clinical representation at Board level so we’re delighted to announce the appointment of Michael Holland as a non executive director. Michael is currently associate medical director, chief clinical information officer and consultant psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. He has lead responsibility for quality improvement across […]
We’re joining forces with the Water Lily Project to give the popular Bailey’s café a new lease of life and save it from closure. The Water Lily Project (WLP) is a Christchurch based charity which offers outreach support to local and vulnerable women to help them cope with and overcome whatever difficult situations they find themselves […]
Richmond Fellowship’s Blackpool Employment Service is marking World Mental Health Day with an evening at Sandcastle Waterpark. This innovative event aims to raise awareness of mental health issues and the stigma around them, support employers in understanding mental health in the workplace, and offer anyone with any questions about their own mental health to come […]
Richmond Fellowship has been awarded the contract by Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) to provide mental health crisis services to support people in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. The service will provide short-term intensive support for individuals who need additional help during times of mental health crisis. Service user and members of the public were consulted […]
Today we launch two new services which means we’re able to help make recovery a reality for even more individuals. Our new Leicestershire Life Links community based service will provide drop-in, inreach and peer support services across the county. And our new Bristol Mental Health Employment Service has also gone live as part of an […]
Today Richmond Fellowship signed up as a supporter of the Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat and pledged to play our part in improving care for people. The Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat is a national agreement between services and agencies involved in the care and support of people in crisis. It sets out how organisations will work […]
More than 90% of people using our services said they would recommend Richmond Fellowship to others – that’s the findings of our latest service user satisfaction survey. This is the third time we’ve organised the survey and the feedback we’re getting is helping us to continually improve our services. A summary of the results called Listening and Learning has now […]
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