Our Newsletters from 2015
Please find below our newsletters. We hope you find them informative and enjoyable to read. If anyone has any articles, dates of events or any other relevant information that they would like to be published in future newsletters (due quarterly), please can you e-mail the information to: essex.mindandspirit@yahoo.com Thank you kindly for your support…
January 2015
EMS ground breaking Essex-wide audit of faith/belief led mental health provision. Essex
Mind & Spirit (EMS) are nearing the completion of the first phase of their project to audit the faith/belief lead/run initiatives/projects across the county. Since the early autumn we have been engaging with residents in the four EMS cluster areas and distributing our questionnaire for completion and return. This has resulted in successful and very well attended, cluster engagement meetings being held in Chelmsford, Basildon, Colchester and Epping over Nov and Dec 2014. EMS has been overwhelmed by the positive response that the project has received from people of faith/belief and spirituality across Essex; as well as the keen interest shown by statutory and voluntary organisations serving the County. This has been reflected in the very good response rate to date. However, we would like to issue a final reminder to those that have not as yet responded. Completed questionnaires must be submitted by 5pm on 31 January 2015…
April 2015
The West cluster Mind and Spirit event on the 3rd of March went well and was well attended. Hospital Chaplain Reverend Paul Walker gave an illustrated introduction to the importance of Hospital visitation in meeting a persons spiritual /holistic needs. The importance of providing for staff holistic needs and support, particularly in the current challenging climate ,was also made clear. Following this three current chaplaincy volunteers spoke about their journey in to and current work at the hospital.
A Question & Answer time was also well utilised and following the event several other people offered their services and have asked to be included in future training events . The new venue - the SEPT lecture theatre at St.Margaret's Hospital proved a good venue and will hopefully become the new regular location for West M&S presentations."
July 2015
“Mini-Conference event” 60+ people representing different faith communities and voluntary and statutory organisations came to the St. Cedds Hall of Chelmsford Cathedral on Tuesday 19th May 2015 to hear of progress made by Essex Mind and Spirit (EMS) since their County Conference in April 2013 held in Chelmsford Cathedral called “Tackling Mental Health Issues in a Multi Faith Context”.
Presentations were made by Raza Ahmed and Saira Ejaz who both reported that the conference in 2013 had helped and encouraged them to develop work to bring mental health issues and awareness more into the public sphere.
Raza, who works for the North Essex Partnership Foundation Trust (NEPFT) reported on the development to work with Trust partners and employees to raise the profile of mental health issues and to promote compassion and understanding in the workplace…
October 2015
More than 100 people took part in North Essex Partnership’s (NEP) celebration of World Mental Health Day in Central park, Chelmsford on Friday 9 October 2015. David Bamber and Cathy Trevaldwyn service users and public Governors spoke about their experience of mental illness and the help they received from NEP. David Bamber got the crowd to sing-a-long to “Simply the best”.
The walk got underway after a warm up to music session which was led by Fitness Instructors from Unique Results.
The Extra Mile walk was led by Chris Paveley (far left), Trust Chairman and Clive White (far right), Lead Governor alongside Mark Thompson and Nisha Zala.
