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Mental health charities’ Big Conversation with the people we support ends

June 8, 2015/in Co-production, Corporate, Mental health, Partnerships, Recovery /by RF admin

Richmond Fellowship has finished its ‘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 national mental health charity and its partners wanted to find out from people what they think about creating opportunities for them to get more actively involved at all levels of the organisations, including:

Their own support plan
How services are run
How the organisations are run
Championing mental health issues and challenging stigma in society.

So it staged a six week ‘Big Conversation’ offering a range of ways for people give their views from taking part in a local focus group to filling in our online questionnaire. Read more →

Tree-planting ceremony to celebrate new Leicestershire crisis house

June 4, 2015/in Crisis, Events, Mental health, Partnerships, Recovery /by RF admin

National mental health charity Richmond Fellowship and Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust have celebrated the first three months of Box Tree Farm, a six-bedded house for local people who are experiencing distress in their mental health.

Box Tree Farm opened in Ratby in March following an investment by Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust of £600,000. Since opening, the house has seen 49 people through its doors. On average people stay less than five days.

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.

Dolls’ House exhibition supports mental health charity

May 14, 2015/in Corporate, Fundraising, Mental health /by RF admin

John Stevens experienced mental health problems throughout his life

Richmond Fellowship has been named the charity partner of an internationally respected dolls’ house exhibition in London to raise money and awareness for mental health support.

The Kensington Dolls’ House Exhibition, which is attended by collectors from around the world, is supporting Richmond Fellowship, the national mental health charity making recovery reality, with a charity auction and information stand.

Darlene Stevens, an organiser for the exhibition, was inspired to support Richmond Fellowship after her experience of mental health problems with her brother.

Cambridge woman runs marathon for mental health

May 13, 2015/in Fundraising, Mental health, Volunteering /by RF admin

Julia prepares for the London Marathon

A Cambridge woman completed her first ever London marathon to raise money and awareness for Richmond Fellowship after the charity helped her husband get back on his feet after a vicious mugging left him with severe anxiety.

Julia DeCesare ran the London Marathon to raise money and awareness for mental health charity Richmond Fellowship who helped provide practical and emotional support to her husband Andrew in a time of crisis.

Richmond Fellowship work to make mental health recovery reality for people with mental health problems and operate over 120 services throughout the country.

Wakefield mental health service marks 10 years of success

May 5, 2015/in 24hr supported housing, Corporate, Events, Mental health, Services /by RF admin

Staff and service users past and present celebrate a decade of making recovery reality

A charity mental health support service in Wakefield is celebrating ten years of making recovery reality and reducing mental health stigma with an event on Tuesday, 5 May.

Woodside supported housing, a scheme run by Richmond Fellowship, the national mental charity, has been helping people on their recovery journey for ten years.

95% of people using our services would recommend Richmond Fellowship to others

April 29, 2015/in Co-production, Corporate, Mental health, Publications, Recovery, Services /by RF admin

95% of people using our services would recommend Richmond Fellowship to friends and family, according to our latest satisfaction survey.

Regular feedback from the people we support helps us to continually improve our services – this is the fourth time we’ve organised the survey.

A summary of the results called Listening and Learning has been produced and highlights where we’ve done well and where we need to improve. Read more →

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.

Richmond Fellowship and NHS team up to run recovery college

April 24, 2015/in community based, Mental health, Partnerships, peer support, Services /by RF admin

Richmond Fellowship has teamed up with the local NHS Trust in Durham to expand the range of courses on offer at the recovery college to educate people in Durham about mental health and reduce the stigma surrounding it.

The two organisations are expanding the range of courses on offer at the highly successful Arch Recovery College as well as increasing the number of programmes being delivered at other sites to support people in the rural community.

Richmond Fellowship narrowly misses out on crisis award

April 22, 2015/in Awards, Corporate, Crisis, Events, Mental health, Services /by RF admin

National Alliance of Voluntary Sector Mental Health Providers

Richmond Fellowship’s crisis care services narrowly missed out on a national award following the launch of services in Leicestershire and West Sussex.

The Mental Health Provider’s Forum (MHPF) voluntary sector awards recognise achievement across the mental health sector and Richmond Fellowship’s Crisis services were shortlisted in the crisis care category.

Christine Lawrence, locality manager for Richmond Fellowship in Leicestershire attended the awards lunch today to represent us.

She said: “We’re obviously disappointed to miss out on the award. To even be nominated for such a prestigious award shows how well our crisis services have been doing and the importance of this support.”