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LGBT+ History Month 2023: Behind the Lens
Posted on 02, February, 2023
February is LGBT+ History Month and we will be celebrating that at Together with guidance from our LGBTQ+ Inclusion Group and asking staff, volunteers and people who use our services about stories they’d like to share. The theme set by the organisers is #BehindTheLens and celebrates LGBT+ peoples’ contribution to cinema and film from behind […]
Blog from Community Link Worker Paul Richardson on contributing to a Member Advisory Group on supporting women in criminal justice settings
Posted on 13, December, 2022
As well as doing their day to day jobs working alongside people who use our services to provide support to those experiencing mental distress, our staff at Together also at times share their knowledge and experience with others in the mental health sector. One of those situations came about when Community Link Worker, Paul Richardson […]
Service Manager Melanie Murphy on ways the service supports people with the cost of living crisis
Posted on 08, December, 2022
As the cost of living crisis continues across the country our staff in Together services work in different ways to support the people who use our services. That can be in terms of the mental health impact of worries around finance or in more practical ways such as linking to services that can advise on […]
Advocacy Awareness Week 2022: Interview with Senior Statutory Advocate at Rochdale Advocacy Together Hub, Alex Clarke
Posted on 11, November, 2022
Advocacy Awareness Week runs from 7 to 11 November and the theme for this year is how advocates support people in relation to their human rights. Together has a range of advocacy services working with people in the community or in secure settings and on a variety of forms of advocacy. Alex Clarke is Senior […]
Advocacy Awareness Week 2022: Interview with Michele Reynolds who uses Rochdale Advocacy Together Hub
Posted on 09, November, 2022
Advocacy Awareness Week runs from 7 to 11 November and the theme for this year is how advocates support people in relation to their human rights. Together has a range of advocacy services working with people in the community or in secure settings and on a variety of forms of advocacy. For the week we […]
Lawn Court Accommodation Service take camping trip with poem written on the experience
Posted on 31, October, 2022
Together’s Lawn Court Accommodation Service is based Bexhill-on-Sea and provides 24 hour residential support to the people that live at the property. The residents at Lawn Court have their own Sports Club and another activity they undertake is camping trips in the summer. Service Manager Tony Lee-Peters describes their latest camping trip in the summer […]
A poem for Black History Month by Together Ravenhill Way Accommodation Service user Llatoya Jackson
Posted on 19, October, 2022
Black History Month runs through October and the theme for 2022 is Time for Change: Action Not Words. Full details can be found at https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/black-history-month-2022/. Llatoya Jackson is a resident at our Ravenhill Way Accommodation Service in Luton and wrote this poem, which we thought would be fitting to put out during the month, celebrating her […]
World Menopause Day 2022: Mandy Chainey and Julie Marks from Together in conversation
Posted on 18, October, 2022
World Menopause Day takes place on 18 October each year to raise awareness, break the stigma and highlight the support options available for improving health and wellbeing. For the day this year two of our members of staff who are part of our Peri Menopause and Menopause Inclusion Group shared a conversation on their lived […]
World Menopause Day 2022: A blog by Together Chief Executive, Linda Bryant
Posted on 18, October, 2022
World Menopause Day takes place on 18 October each year to raise awareness, break the stigma and highlight the support options available for improving health and wellbeing. Here our Chief Executive Linda Bryant has written a blog on the topic that was originally prepared for the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations. In the […]
WMHD 2022 – Mental Wellbeing Tips from Across Together
Posted on 10, October, 2022
World Mental Health Day takes place on 10 October and the theme for 2022, as set by the World Health Organisation, is ‘Make mental health & well-being for all a global priority’. We see this theme as focussing on increasing access to knowledge and support relating to mental health wherever possible globally and thought about how […]