Archive for the “Leisure/recreation” category
Winter Leisure – S2R
What’s it about? Winter leisure time activities, decided by attendees, after an initial four week introduction of activities – including games, quizzes, crafts, conversation, music, singing with taster sessions e.g. aromatherapy. Refreshments will be provided and for the evening sessions, a dry bar will be open. …
Words in Mind—volunteering kirklees
What’s it about? This is a lottery funded project which aims to recruit, train and support volunteers to facilitate groups of people who want to enjoy literature and reading in all its forms. This is called bibliotherapy. It will offer a service to wards, care homes, …
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Creative pie with Hoot Creative Arts
What’s it about? Share your creative work in safe and supportive places, or come along just to watch. We encourage all kinds of creativity: performances and visual work. With performance skills workshops attached to help you be a more confident performer. Plus opportunities to be …
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Sahaara women’s wellbeing support group
What’s it about? The support group provides creative activities and approaches as a pathway for promoting and maintaining mental and emotional wellbeing; building self-confidence and an opportunity to engage with other people. We aim to help people lead on to further education, training courses, volunteering …
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Welcome to your theatre
What’s it about? Drama activity led by Theatre Royal Wakefield, including devising and improvisation skills workshops, a writing workshop, and rehearsals for a performed sharing (on stage or on camera). This will be followed by supported theatre visits, with opportunities to discuss the show with …
Re-Cycle
What’s it all about? Led by Spectrum People, a bike workshop opened June 2015, this is about providing a supportive activity for vulnerable adults. This has developed into a larger scheme – Re-Cycle – providing bike repairs on a commercial basis (in Castleford centre) to …
St Catherine’s Recovery café
What’s it about? The Recovery café is the perfect vehicle to help them get from where they are to where they want to be. The informal, non-stigmatising atmosphere of a café environment, the helpful drop-in sessions of local NHS and charity staff and the weekly …
WCCA – health and wellbeing project
Worsbrough Common Community Association (WCCA) delivers a range of community activities that address physical and mental health inequalities. In the last census 17.8% of residents living in our area described their health as ‘not good’ (national 9.2%). The activities we run aim to improve this, …
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Football trip to Prague
A service user football team from the Trust travelled to Prague to compete in the EASI Cup, Europe’s premier mental health football tournament. The European Association for Sport and Social Integration (EASI) Cup takes place each year and is a pan-European mental health specific football …
Stargazing group
The stargazing group is for inpatients of Fieldhead, enabling them to go into the hospital grounds in an evening and look in detail at the night sky. This acts as a change from the ward environment and an educational session, perhaps igniting a passion which …