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FRIDAY FRIENDS
Our Vision: Freedom from Stigmatization.
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Our Mission: Through friendship, to promote individual focus and purpose, social inclusion and community integration.
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We are, as our name suggests, a friendship group, meeting on a Friday. We are a small charity based in Emmanuel Church Hall, Saltburn, and serve, mostly, the East Cleveland area.
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Anyone can have a mental health problem at any time in their lives, it simply takes the “right” set of circumstances. About 25% of the population will have a mental health issue in any one year.
We believe that there is no therapy more powerful than friendship in the maintenance of mental health.
Our programme is structured, aiming to interactively include all members and integrate the group into the community as much as possible. We do not believe mental health patients should be segregated and welcome all over 18 into our group. The activities are interesting and you can volunteer.
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Our programme is extremely varied and there will be something for all.
We are unfortunately not completely self-funding and all support is gratefully received. There is a small charge.
We operate a system where volunteers and members alike pay, aiming for all to have a “job” within the group.
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We aim to foster friendship, personal and social growth by providing mutual support and a creative environment and welcome all over the age of 18. We particularly aim to involve other community groups/businesses(such as dance classes) for hopefully mutual benefit.
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Objectives:-To foster friendship-To provide mutual support
within the group and community-To provide a creative
environment
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-To ensure inclusion within the group -To develop members’ skills, working
within the group, where possible. -To work with community- based skilled
teaching courses with integration in mind
-To facilitate group participation in educational and social community events
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What we do is follow a structured activity programme.
In the morning this is a talk, a presentation from a group member or an outside contact or an interactive activity.
Followed by music , exercise or dance. The afternoon is a craft session.
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Individual written feedback is collated and analysed.
Reflective methods using John’sScale of success of activity is identifiedAmendments and/or improvements
made to programme if necessary
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We have group outings.The café is visited on a
Friday after the group.There have been
friendships formed outside the groups
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What I Get Out Of The Group
Making Things
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What I Get Out Of The Group
Learning to Drum
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What I Get Out Of The Group
Learning to Dance
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What I Get Out Of The Group
Friends!
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Our Plans For The FutureOutreachAdditional Parallel ActivitiesPossible Friday Friends on X day Possible Geographical ExpansionDISCUSSION POINTS
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WE NEED YOUR VOTES FOR A GRANT PROPOSAL FROM FRIDAY 1ST MAY.
INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO VOTE WILL BE GIVEN TO US ON THAT DAY.
PLEASE LEAVE CONTACT DETAILS WITH US TODAY. WE NEED LOTS AND LOTS OF VOTES. THANK YOU.
FRIDAY FRIENDS
Our photographs on google+ These albums have been e-mailed to many of you, highlighting our [email protected] fridayfriends.orgLocalgiving/fridayfriends