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  • Guest Blog:Community Resources: Building Belonging During Lockdown

    Posted by HWBDAdmin on 20/07/2020 in Blogs

    Authored by Sally Dixon, Open Doors Project Co-ordinator If you’d asked me for a list of phrases associated with ‘Lockdown’, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have included, ‘The best birthday I can remember’! (I did actually celebrate my birthday during lockdown and it was nice, but maybe not the best...

  • Guest Blog:Downshall Intergenerational Group (DIG) Open Day

    Posted by HWBDAdmin on 16/03/2020 in Blogs

    A uthored by Alexa Kerr-Dineen, Skills for Care Graduate at Care City In 2018, Channel 4 aired Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds , a social experiment turned documentary investigating the impact of intergenerational contact between residents of an old people’s home and a group of preschool aged children...

  • Blog: National Eating Disorder Awareness Week

    Posted by HWBDAdmin on 27/02/2020 in Blogs

    National eating disorder week is a movement, which lasts from 25th of February to 3rd March. The week aims to combat society’s beauty standards and promote self -acceptance. According PRIORY, eating disorders are responsible for more loss of life than any other mental health condition, and unfortunately, are becoming increasingly...

  • Peaced Together Guest blog

    Posted by HWBDAdmin on 19/12/2019 in Blogs

    Peaced Together is a 10-week creative arts course for women with a difference. Using five themed craft projects, the course encourages women to reflect on their lives and set out on a personal journey from brokenness to hope. Since 2012, Peaced Together has helped over 1150 women and there are...

  • Blog: What’s Movember about? Not just about growing a moustache!

    Posted by HWBDAdmin on 25/11/2019 in Blogs

    If you see men with long moustaches this mouth, it may not necessarily mean that they can’t be bothered to shave! Its most likely that some of them are taking part in Movember! A campaign that takes place every November to raise awareness about prostate cancer, testicular cancer and suicide...

  • Blog: Did you know three out of five of us will become a carer at some point in our lives?

    Posted by HWBDAdmin on 11/06/2019 in Blogs

    Carers week happens once a year, and this year it is happening from the 10 th – 16 th June. The theme this year is getting carers connected, whether to their communities, to services, to advice and information, to friends and families, or to other carers. Did you know three...

  • Blog:Volunteering at Healthwatch

    Posted by HWBDAdmin on 06/06/2019 in Blogs

    Healthwatch is an organisation that champions people using health and social care services and takes up what they are saying and share that with people with the power to bring about change. Healthwatch allows for volunteers from all walks of life as long as they are willing. As a volunteer...

  • Blog:Volunteering: is it worth it? A volunteers perspective!

    Posted by HWBDAdmin on 30/05/2019 in Blogs

    A blog written by one of our volunteers about the benefits of volunteering! If volunteering is payment free, why take part? Is reward the only reason for engagement? And if so, must it be defined by monetary value? Volunteers week takes place next week between 1-7 June 2019, I thought...

  • Blog:What mattered to ME!

    Posted by HWBDAdmin on 16/05/2019 in Blogs

    I magine being rushed to hospital, unconscious and on the brink of death. That’s what happened to Philippa* last year: “When I eventually came back to life, I had no idea what had happened, but I was welcomed by friendly nurses!” Philippa was admitted to a local hospital under the...

  • BLOG:Will young men talk about their mental health?

    Posted by HWBDAdmin on 21/12/2018 in Blogs

    F or Healthwatch Barking and Dagenham, World Mental Health Day back in October was a good one. Working together with LifeLine Projects, Faith Action, Barking and Dagenham College, the Community Recovery Team from NELFT and the Local Authority – we were able to reach out and engage with young people...

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