Working for the West End
Growing Well, are an established, independent, organic farm-based, registered mental health charity, located on the
outskirts of Kendal and at Tebay services on the M6. Growing Well provide a safe, supportive, working environment to
their volunteer participants to nurture long term mental health recovery through meaningful physical activity and personal development opportunities.
Roughly one in four people may experience some kind of mental health problem in their lifetime, but within that there is a vast range of difference. The general idea now is that mental health is a spectrum, on which we range from daily healthy norms through to diagnosable conditions, makes a lot of sense in general conversation.
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Janette Edwards is a trained health and wellbeing coach who works to support and help people. WEM has funded her to deliver support work in the West End community. She will be offering Mental Health Support Services in the form of stress management / resilience workshops. These are aimed at helping with proactive approaches to people managing their own mental health needs.
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Enable is a supportive community group for people living with long term health conditions in the West End, and throughout Morecambe, Lancaster and surrounding areas. They offer support to people struggling with their mental health, physical health or both and have a wide variety of members. Their general activities include regular support group meetings, weekly coffee catch ups, craft sessions, monthly meals out, day trips and much more to help combat isolation, and increase the wellbeing of their community, which their members find invaluable.
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Back in March 2023 we launched a mental health project commission, looking for some activity that would support mental health in the West End. The mental health commission was advertised for over five weeks and generated a good deal of interest, with over 170 downloads of the main commission and small ideas form.
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WEM is currently seeking to appoint a young person’s mental health support worker for the West End.
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