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Richmond Fellowship teams up with leading learning disabilities charity to promote inclusivity

July 6, 2017/in Campaigns /by RF admin

Richmond Fellowship has teamed up with CHANGE, a leading learning disabilities charity, to take part in Don’t Shut Me Out! a three-year Comic Relief funded project which aims to improve inclusivity and accessibility to mental health services for people with learning disabilities.

Today, Thursday 6^th July 2017, as part of its ongoing partnership work with CHANGE, Richmond Fellowship is pleased to publish a series of new easy read literature that is available to all members of the public and the individuals it currently supports across the country. Read more →

Our commitment to your information

February 29, 2016/in Appeals, Campaigns /by RF admin

Information is something we handle a lot as a national mental health charity, a lot of this being personal and sensitive in relation to the people we support, our staff and the organisations we work with.

We know it’s really important that this is handled carefully and held securely in our systems, which is why each year we run an awareness week for our staff.

The awareness week will involve posters in our services and offices across the country, giving our staff and volunteers a handy booklet with guidance about information governance, and talking about our shared duties throughout the week to make sure everyone’s up to speed.

Information Governance is a framework which brings together legal rules, guidance and good practice to ensure that we can be trusted to handle information in a confidential and secure way. It’s something all our staff and volunteers are responsible for so we make sure they’re all informed, trained and prepared so that we can avoid any information breaches.

Blue Monday trivialises depression

January 18, 2016/in Campaigns, Mental health, Recovery /by RF admin

National mental health charity Richmond Fellowship has hit out against ‘Blue Monday’ for trivialising depression and other mental health problems.

Blue Monday – the third Monday in January – has become known as the most depressing day of the year in mainstream media with the day being attributed to returning to work after the Christmas break and the cold weather.

But with one in ten people living with a clinical diagnosis of depression, Richmond Fellowship, which is part of new national group Recovery Focus, is taking steps to remind people about the reality of living with a mental health problem every day of the year not just ‘Blue Monday’. Read more →

Public campaign to tackle mental health stigma reaches Huddersfield

October 8, 2015/in World Mental Health Day /by RF admin

People accessing mental health services in Huddersfield are taking part in a campaign to tackle mental health stigma as part of world mental health day.

Richmond Fellowship, the national charity making mental health recovery reality, will be taking to the streets of Huddersfield and Dewsbury to raise awareness for people living with mental health problems.

Clothes bank appeal for employment service

July 14, 2015/in Appeals, employment, Mental health, Recovery, Services, Volunteering /by RF admin

A national mental health charity is appealing for donations of smart clothing to help support people who don’t own suitable clothing going for job interviews in Yorkshire.

Richmond Fellowship, the national charity making mental health recovery reality, provides employment support to people living with mental health problems with the aim of finding full time – work, helping them secure volunteering opportunities or full time training.

The charity’s employment service in Kirklees and Dewsbury is now appealing for people to donate their unwanted business outfits to help clients at the service who don’t own smart clothing for a job interview.

Challenging stigma during Men’s Health Week

June 16, 2015/in Campaigns, Mental health, Substance use, Wellbeing /by RF admin

Men’s mental health is a key area of campaigning for organisations like Richmond Fellowship.

Research * shows a great disparity in the ways men and women approach mental ill health or dealing with a mental health crisis with women more likely to turn to others for help or access services from their GP.

For Men’s Health Week we’re drawing attention to men who live with mental health problems.

Charity staff sleep rough for homelessness

May 20, 2015/in Campaigns, community based, Events, Fundraising, Mental health, Uncategorized, Volunteering, Wellbeing /by RF admin

Grazina, Angela and Beth sleeping rough to raise awareness for homelessness

Richmond Fellowship staff braved the cold to sleep rough at an event in Birmingham to raise awareness of homelessness.

Recovery worker Beth Mason from Richmond Fellowship’s Brendan House supported intervention service in Cannock was joined by Grazina Berry, Director of Performance, Quality and Innovation and Angela Williams, Director of People and Organisation Development at the CEO Sleepout held at Villa Park in Birmingham, the home of Aston Villa Football club.

Mental health charities launch Big Conversation to discuss working with people as equal partners

April 27, 2015/in Campaigns, Co-production, Corporate, Mental health, Partnerships, Recovery /by RF admin

Richmond Fellowship is having a ‘Big Conversation’ with the people who use its services as part of plans to give individuals greater opportunity to get more actively involved in the organisation.

The newly formed group of Richmond Fellowship, 2Care, CAN, Croftlands Trust and My Time, is currently working together on a joint strategy to truly put the people supported by these organisations at the heart of what they do.

One of the group’s key commitments is to build relationships with the people who use their services where staff and people who use services work together as equal partners to design, plan and provide support together. This is called co-production.

Charity marks year of conversations tackling mental health stigma

March 11, 2015/in community based, Events, Mental health, Time to Change, Volunteering, Wellbeing /by RF admin

Richmond Fellowship is marking over 1,000 conversations tackling mental health stigma in a year with an afternoon of music and entertainment in Dorset.

Richmond Fellowship, the national charity making mental health recovery a reality, teamed up with Time to Change to launch the ‘Face 2 Face’ project in Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole last year.

Since then the mental health charity has smashed its target of having 1,000 conversations about mental health and is holding ‘Face 2 Face Fest’, an afternoon of music, culture and arts in Poole to celebrate.

Richmond Fellowship signs up to National Suicide Prevention Alliance

February 4, 2015/in Mental health, Partnerships, Suicide prevention /by RF admin

As one of the leading voluntary sector providers of mental

health support in England, Richmond

Fellowship has become a member of the National Suicide Prevention Alliance (NSPA).