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Latest - Together on TV

Anne Beales and Paul O'Grady One in four people will experience a mental health problem at some point, yet stigma and misunderstanding of mental health issues is widespread. That’s why the Paul O’Grady Show is tackling this problem with a number of features about mental health throughout the series and has chosen Together as one just three charities to help get positive messages out about mental health to its 3.4 million viewers.

On Tuesday 21 October’s show, Paul was joined by Anne Beales who works for Together: Working for Wellbeing. Anne has personal experience of what it’s like to live through, and recover from, mental illness. She has been very unwell at times in her life, and so it might have surprised some of Paul’s viewers to learn that’s Anne’s recently received an MBE for services to healthcare, for supporting other people with experience of mental ill-health.

Anne is currently Director of a department at Together - the Service User Involvement Directorate (SUID) - that makes sure other people who become mentally unwell can also achieve their personal ambitions. Anne explained how when individuals get involved in the work that the SUID does and take an active role in supporting other people, their mental health improves during the process. All part of our Wellbeing Approach to Involvement.

The response has been entirely positive with an increase in calls and emails from the public wanting to know more about the service user involvement work Together does, and other television shows and journalists who saw Anne’s appearance wanting to know more. And the Producers of the show were so impressed they are keen to work with Together in future.

Well done Anne for being such an effective spokesperson for people with experience of mental ill-health. And a big thank you to the service users and staff who came to cheer Anne on, as well as the volunteers who manned the phones following the show to deal with enquiries from the public.

Text and Picture by Claire Monger - © Together: Working for Wellbeing, 2008

Sunday October 12th, 2008 - The Royal Parks Run


This 13.1 mile run on Sunday 12th October saw our brave supporters slogging through the autumn sunshine to raise money for Together – a huge thank you for all of your hard work and training! It was really inspiring to stand near the finish line and see all the runners coming in, having worked so hard. Funds are still coming in too, so watch this space for news…

Email Fundraising if you’re interested in taking part in sponsored runs in the future.

Text and Pictures by Claire Haslam - © Together: Working for Wellbeing, 2008

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