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Volunteers Week 2021: Practical Support Volunteers Amanda Fagg and Cameron Price
Posted on 03, June, 2021
Continuing our coverage for Volunteers Week 2021 we spoke to Amanda Fagg and Cameron Price. They are both Practical Support Volunteers in Together’s services that work to support people who’ve experienced mental distress and come into contact with the criminal justice system and specifically work as part of the Together Wellbeing Pathway. The Together Wellbeing […]
Volunteers Week 2021: Experience of volunteering at Together with Matthew Bell
Posted on 02, June, 2021
For Volunteers Week 2021 at Together we asked some of our volunteers from across our services to share some of their experiences around how they’ve found the process and what they’d say to others considering it. Volunteers carry out vital work across our services at Together using lived experience and expertise to support people who’ve […]
Mental Health Awareness week at King’s House in Bournemouth
Posted on 27, May, 2021
Mental Health Awareness Week 2021 ran from the 10th to the 16th of May 2021 and while Together overall had our theme of peer support the services we have around the country made their own plans individually together with service users. One of the services to do that was King’s House Accommodation Service in Bournemouth […]
Our Annual Review 2020
Posted on 24, May, 2021
It was a challenging and unprecedented year but we’re pleased to release Together’s Annual Review 2020. In the review you’ll find details of the services Together provides and stories from around those as well as lived experience from service users and staff. Obviously the content in the review is effected by the pandemic but we’d […]
Peer Support Coordinator Christine Pearson on benefits of Peer Support
Posted on 13, May, 2021
As a final part of our campaign for Mental Health Awareness Week 2021 celebrating our theme of Peer Support we wanted to revisit a previous film featuring Peer Support Coordinator Christine Pearson. Christine works in Together’s Liaison and Diversion team supporting people who’ve experienced mental distress and come into contact with the criminal justice system. […]
Interview with Peer Supporter Anna Hand
Posted on 13, May, 2021
Anna Hand is a peer supporter Berkshire West Your Way and in this interview shares her lived experience and how she is using that to support others. A big thank you to Anna for taking part in the interview and for speaking in such an open and insightful way as part of our campaign for […]
Sam White from Southwark Wellbeing Hub on peer support
Posted on 10, May, 2021
Sam White is a peer supporter at Together’s Southwark Wellbeing Hub and was kind enough to record an interview with us to provide insight into his own experience of peer support. Sam began the interview by describing his own previous experience of mental distress that makes up the lived experience that he uses to support […]
Mental Health Awareness Week 2021 – Our theme: Peer Support
Posted on 07, May, 2021
For MentalHealthAwarenessWeek2021 our theme at Together is peer support. The past year has been a difficult and challenging one for all of us dealing with the pandemic and restrictions that came. As a result we want to focus on the inspiring impact we see peer support have across our services. We want to celebrate the […]
Talent shows, bake offs and more: Activities at King’s House in Bournemouth
Posted on 27, April, 2021
The past year has been a really difficult one for everyone as we’ve tried to deal with the pandemic and adjusted to living with restrictions and lockdowns. During all of that Together services have continued to work alongside the people that use our services and were proud to share some the creative and enthusiastic ways […]
Together Hampshire West and North services switch to different provider
Posted on 01, April, 2021
Hampshire County Council recently undertook a new tender process for the Hampshire West and North accommodation services Together have been running since April 2016. In December 2020 the process concluded and the council opted to return to the provider that managed the projects previously, Home Group, who will be taking over management of them from […]