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A culturally diverse food bank and weekly community hot meals for Black Hackney residents with mental ill-health.

The funding will be used to provide a culturally specific mental health support services to people of African and Caribbean heritage across City Hackney and Waltham Forest in London. The project aims ....more

The funding will be used to provide a culturally specific mental health support services to people of African and Caribbean heritage across City Hackney and Waltham Forest in London. The project aims to improve mental wellbeing.ORGANISATION MCHWF began life in 1981 and first registered as a charity in 1982. It now operates as a charitable company.MCHWF currently deliver a diverse mix of services:• Services for those in immediate need: the Wellbeing Network; Crisis Intervention at the Recovery Hub; Single Point of Entry referral and assessment service; Welfare Rights Case-working. • Services for those needing help to sustain their wellbeing: Counselling & Psychotherapy; Mindfulness courses; Welfare Rights Advice; the Recovery Hub day service; Peer Support Services across the area. • They run education and employment services for those wishing to develop themselves further as well as engaging with clients through their service user consultation forum hosted at the Recovery Hub on Homerton Row. • They also run services specifically developed and delivered by and for LGBT+ people (Rainbow Mind) and people from African Caribbean communities (IRIE Mind). The IRIE Mind project launched in 2019 to facilitate culturally specific services to people of African and Caribbean heritage. Current activities include 121 and group therapies cooking classes pampering/self-care sessions and exercise groups. PROPOSAL Currently IRIE runs on 3 days a week and this proposal is to increase the offer to 4 days pay a proportion of core staffing costs and add a new Clinical Lead Referral Coordinator sessional therapists and peer facilitators to the staff team.In addition to their current offer IRIE will use this funding to run new services:• Workshops to reduce chronic illnesses within the Black African and Caribbean communities• Culturally specific counselling and psychotherapy• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy• Black History Month c

Providing social welfare advice to residents with disabilities or experiencing mental ill health and their families and friends.

"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more

"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."

£9,040 for the proposal to support and develop the resilience of frontline staff to deliver the following outcomes and outputs: one-to-one supervision sessions for 15 frontline participants, at ....more

£9,040 for the proposal to support and develop the resilience of frontline staff to deliver the following outcomes and outputs: one-to-one supervision sessions for 15 frontline participants, at which wellbeing needs assessment will be carried out. Two group workshops will prepare participants for the intervention, which comprises 6X two-hour sessions, every two weeks + homework. One-to-one supervision sessions and two workshops will follow the main intervention, which aim to embed the skills developed during the course.

The project will organise sport intervention activities, through football courses for BME men with mental health and learning disabilities. The aim is to improve mental and physical wellbeing as well ....more

The project will organise sport intervention activities, through football courses for BME men with mental health and learning disabilities. The aim is to improve mental and physical wellbeing as well as promoting social interaction.

Mind CHWF Core Costs

towards two years' running costs of the 'Peer Leadership Programme', providing people with mental health problems educational, practical and therapeutic group courses in the London Borough of Hackney

purchase of IT equipment for a charity which works with disabled people in London

This is a new project that will offer vital support and training to socially isolated adults with mental health problems. They will work with these adults, who have low educational attainment and for ....more

This is a new project that will offer vital support and training to socially isolated adults with mental health problems. They will work with these adults, who have low educational attainment and for those who have been unemployment for most of their adult lives. The programme will improve their educational ability, employability, confidence and mental wellbeing, enabling them to overcome fundamental barriers to further training or employment.

Based in Hackney this existing project will use the grant to support people with mental health needs, to improve their well-being and become more socially included. It aims to get those who are ....more

Based in Hackney this existing project will use the grant to support people with mental health needs, to improve their well-being and become more socially included. It aims to get those who are unemployed into work, while also supporting those currently in jobs. _x000B_