Ecominds – Mental Health and the Environment

The Ecominds funding scheme

Ecominds is an open grant programme run by Mind as an award partner of the Big Lottery Fund. The programme has £7.5 million to distribute to around 125 new and existing projects focusing on mental health and the environment around England over the next five years. Grants can range in value up to £250,000.

See Mind for details.

Fylde Coast Mental Health Hub – Service Users Awareness Day

Join us at our Service Users’ Awareness Day on Wednesday 16 July 2008 between

10am – 3.30pm at the Solaris, South Promenade, Blackpool.

Our speakers are Kate Crawford,  a member of the Hearing Voices Network and

Jackie Hill, Making Space’s Involvement and inclusion officer.

There will be opportunities for you to talk about matters that interest you. TEA,

COFFEE AND LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED FREE

BOOKING IS REQUIRED

For more  information please contact Helena Savage

helena.savage@makingspace.co.uk

In the Red: Debt and Mental Health

“In the Red: Debt and mental health” is a publication that highlights that debt is not just a financial problem, but can have a serious impact on a person’s mental health. It can be the catalyst for relationships to break up, people to lose their homes and for families to break down. No matter who you are, it can send you to the pits of despair.

One in four people can expect to have mental health problems during the course of their life.  A quarter of those can expect to have debt problems as well. One can feed the other.  And of course, debt problems, particularly those caused by the current “credit crunch”, are set to get worse.

The publication highlights the situation in some detail and can be viewed on the National MIND website http://www.mind.org.uk.