Myrder Mystery Success!

Our first foray into fundraising events was a great success!

We had hired the Brentwood Community Theatre and a group of actors to perform on Thursday 13 October.

Advance ticket sales went very well and we had over 60 people - at £20 per seat! 

Raffle tickets sold well - thanks to everyone who donated prizes and everyone who bought tickets

The performance was very interactive - fortunately we had two budding thespians in our audience who were only too willing to upstage the professional actors! There was a lot of noise and much laughter as we cheered and booed in equal measure.

The really good news is that we raised £908.





 

Murder Mystery Night

To mark 

World Mental Health Day

HUBB Mental Health User Group

Presents a

 

At the

Brentwood Theatre

15 Shenfield Road, Brentwood CM15 8AG

01277 200 305

http://www.brentwood-theatre.org/ 

Thursday 13 October at 8pm

£20 ticket includes supper, during which a terrible deed takes place. 

Were you watching your fellow theatre goers – did you spot the clues? 

Can you solve the mystery?

Tickets from HUBB 0208 590 2666 or the box office

HUBB Annual General Meeting

Our AGM will be held at the Baptist Church in Romford on Thursday 1st September 5pm to 7pm.
Our guest speaker will be Bernie Graham who has written a book about his own personal experiences, 'Creature Comforts Animal That Heal' http://www.amazon.co.uk/Creature-Comfort-Animals-That-Heal/dp/0684851636

20th Anniversary - book launch

On 4 August we filled the hall at the Baptist Church to celebrate 20 years since our very first meeting. It was a fitting occassion to launch our book 'Recovery is......'

Dinah was able to remind us of our early days of advocacy, when we were seen on the wards at Warley Hospital as 'the complaints ladies'. This is how the consultants used to greet us!

It was wonderful to welocme so many of the contributors of the book, which is availble from the HUBB office for £15 (plus £2 p&p).

Goodbye to Rob

Well readers, your previous blogger has left us and we are (just about) managing to sustain the website and blog which he created. Rob was delighted with his farewell gift, which was a lightweight shiny thing which (apparently) enhances the flash on his camera. Here he shows how NOT to use it....

HUBB & Right Here Newham - YMHFA

HUBB is working with  'Right Here - Newham' to deliver a series of Youth Mental Health First Aid programmes before March 2012. Coordinating this project for Right Here - Newham is Karen Douglas, Young People's Community Development Officer, Newham Right Here Project

'Right Here is a £6m programme to radically change how we look after the mental health and wellbeing of young people aged 16 to 25 across the UK. By intervening early before mental health problems become entrenched we want to reduce the risk of young people's lives being damaged in the long term.

We are working with young people, frontline youth charities and mental health services in four local areas to develop new ways of providing support to those aged 16 to 25.We will find what works and seek to replicate this nationally to bring about change on a huge scale.' (From the Right Here website)

Rob Thomas, Training Coordinator for HUBB and National Training Team Member for MHFA England's YMHFA Programme, met Susan Blishen, Right Here Project Manager, at the Comunity Care Live 2011 Exhibition on 18th May.

It was particulalrly gratifying to understand more about Right Here and recognise they put young people at the heart of their decision making process - much like HUBB's ethos with mental health Service Users. HUBB is really excited to be involved with Right Here in Newham.

HUBB will be delivering 2 YMHFA programmes to an open selection of young people between the ages of 16 and 25 and 1 YMHFA programme as part of working with a school or college in Newham to attain MHFA England's 'YMHFA Quality Mark of Excellence'. HUBB will also be sponsoring one person to complete the 7 day YMHFA Instructor Training Programme with MHFA England.

In total this will provide Newham with 36 Youth Mental Health First Aiders and one YMHFA Instuctor. This will give a superb foundation for mental health provision at grass roots in the borough. Not only will it enable young people to gain awareness of mental health issues and help reduce stigma and discrimination, it will provide pragmatic applications for early intervention thus reducing a long term impact of mental ill health. The training of a YMHFA Instructor will mean they have a local person able to deliver the programme even more people making the programme deliverable and sustainable in the long term.

A further benefit will be that these young people will influence their peers and, of course, will become adults taking this awareness into their work and social lives in years to come.

Recovery Star Training for Staffordshire Mind

A very succseful Recovery Star training programme was delivered to the staff and volunteers of Mid Staffordshire Mind on the 12th May 2011.

The group were really engaging and apprecited the style and content oif the course. The key learning appeared to be developing their confidence in working with clients and their Star, whilst understanding the pressures on themselves and their organisation to collect data required by theiur commissioners and funding agencies. Keeping the Star with the client is vital and this was a key point to the group undertadning and working with the Star.

As with all organisations working with and promoting the Recovery Star they are caught in the middle. How do we keep the Star client centred but also enable the date created to help us and our funders?
The key is education and confidence. If a client moves back down their 'Ladder of Change' this could appear a negative to the organisation or their funders. It could be the opposite! The client has recognised the reality of their situation and is now able to make strong proactive changes to move forwards effectively and generate long term changes.

Many thanks to Staffordshire Mind for making me so welcome, and being so appreciative of the training.