Barnsley Futures Play All Out for Suicide Awareness
October 16, 2017
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Holden House customers and staff attended a six-a-side football tournament in aid of Suicide Awareness Week and a very generous local garage owner, Service Plus Auto Centre, agreed to sponsor the team and paid for team shirts for everyone. Support Worker, Yvonne reports: The event took place at Barnsley Football Ground in September but due to […]
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Durham Co-production and Inclusion For All
October 16, 2017
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Durham customers and staff have been having success with their group activities for some time now. Support Worker, Deb, who leads the groups, puts this down to the fact that the customers co-produce the activities program on a three monthly basis. She shares with us the range of activities that customers enjoy and how the […]
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Barnsley Futures Service – Looking Up.
October 09, 2017
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Barnsley Futures is a relatively new service to Foundation. Part of the service is Holden House, an adult hostel. The team and customers at Holden House have been benefitting from the commitment that Foundation has to focussing on people’s strengths and getting to know one another better. The Church Housing Trust have supported this work […]
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Social Inclusion – A Core Building Block For A Positive Future.
October 09, 2017
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At Foundation our core mission is to create ‘inclusive communities where everyone matters’. Through our work we seek to engage our customers in opportunities for building a sense of social inclusion. Often this work is around mental and physical health, changing behaviours, taking responsibility and learning practical skills for keeping home and employment. Yet for […]
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North Yorkshire Young People Go Ape!
October 02, 2017
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Customers from the across the NYYPP enjoyed days out at the Go APE activity centre in Northumberland. GO APE is a high ropes activity in the tree tops, it involves swinging from Tarzan swings, jumping into cargo nets and tackling high ropes obstacles. The purpose of the day was to give customers new experiences and […]
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Let’s Talk About Sex…
October 02, 2017
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Workers and customers in our young people’s project have been tackling conversations around sex – sexual health and consent. One of our Activity’s worker’s reports: At The YMCA and Derwent Lodge in Ryedale (Foundation’s partners) took part in the quarter yearly programme of sexual health information advice and screening session. Customers were surprised that people […]
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