Project Talking Football

• CT2 7BN, 10 miles from this group
• Tag: Carers

Our group aims to help carers and their partners, relatives and friends with a wide range of mental health problems, including accessing the information they need. We offer a safe environment where people feel at ease. We hold monthly meetings that give carers the opportunity to talk about the issues that are affecting them. At alternate meetings, we invite speakers to share their expertise to a wider audience. We also produce a monthly newsletter and offer telephone support. Our group members raise awareness of the support of Rethink Mental Illness in the community by attending at Southeastern train stations health events, we also stage an annual sponsored fundraising bike ride event, the next being on Sunday 15th May 2022. Our group has a physical activity initiative too, called the ‘Bike Ride, Walk and Talk’, further details can be obtained by contacting CCGroup@rethink.org. We embrace opportunities to extend our provision of activities that bring families of Carers and their loved ones who are service users.

• CT19 6AE, 18 miles from this group
• Tag: Carers

We aim to offer a supportive environment to carers as well as some people living with mental illness. We offer a relaxed and friendly space where people can share their problems and learn about organisations and support services that may be able to help them

• ME7 4PN, 33 miles from this group
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Our group offers people living with mental illness, alongside carers and community members supporting someone with mental illness, the chance to come together in a safe, supportive, and welcoming space. We hold regular meetings to provide a consistent support system and non – judgmental space, so members can openly share their experiences. We want to empower our members to actively participate in their mental health journeys and reduce the stigma around mental illness.

• DA11 0BQ, 41 miles from this group
• Tag: People with Mental Illness

Our group offers a unique opportunity for people with lived experience to gain confidence, build self esteem and combat social isolation. We are a peer led support group and we aim to aid recovery and social well being by offering a safe and welcoming environment

• TN13 3UP, 48 miles from this group
• Tag: Carers and People with Mental Illness

The group aims to support carers and their partners, relatives and friends with a wide range of mental health problems, including accessing the information they need. We offer a safe environment where people feel at ease. The group meetings give carers the opportunity to talk about the issues that are affecting them. We also hold periodic social get togethers for our members. Please contact our group email for more information.

• CM7 3YG, 49 miles from this group
• Tag: Carers

The aims of this friendly group are to offer support to each other and help increase the awareness of mental illness and the effect it can have on carers, and those experiencing mental illness. We also try to stop the stigma associated with mental illness with community events and fundraise to help those that need in most in the local community.

• CM7 9AH, 50 miles from this group
• Tag: People with Mental Illness

Our Braintree art group has been running since 2008 and offers people with lived experience of mental illness the chance to come together in Braintree to write, paint and draw. Our friendly group offers a safe space for people to share their experiences, tips and knowledge, as well as work together to fundraise and campaign together in their local community. New members are warmly welcomed.

• IP1 1SL, 50 miles from this group
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Our group provides an opportunity for men with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) also known as Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD) to come together in a safe, supportive and welcoming space. Our group meets weekly over zoom to socialise, share experiences and offer support and encouragement to one another in a non-judgmental space. We also offer one to one support to our members outside of our regular meeting via zoom or face to face at pre-agreed safe spaces, again to offer support through shared experience, encouragement and sign posting.

• IP1 1SL, 50 miles from this group
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We are a new and developing group for men with borderline personality disorder (BPD) or emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD). We meet weekly on zoom and aim to provide a safe space for our members to come together and support one another as well as exploring some of the traits of our diagnosis, work out some coping strategies for ourselves and increase our knowledge about what we are experiencing, which in turn will help us to live our lives in a better way. For more information please email btbgroup@rethink.org or call/message 07576 366657