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Information for all Staff, Service Users and Volunteers.

Newsletter July 2019

Welcome Welcome to our summer edition of our newsletter, once again we have been very busy since our last newsletter and we hope you enjoy this edition.

Please remember it is important that everyone gets to see and read the Newsletter . If you would like to be added to the mailing list for future editions, please let your service manager know.

If you would like to make a contribution to our Newsletter, please let a staff member know, remember this newsletter belongs to us all and we value your input.

We welcome any comments or suggestions for improvement.

Regards

Rev Canon Frank Longbottom,

Chair

Vision and Values Roll Out We have just finished our second Value or Partnership .Due to operational issues we have slipped a bit and many services have only just started on the Recovery Value.

Despite the delays there continues to be great passion and creativity in this piece of work. Here

are some photos linked to the Partnership value

Birmingham Time to Change Hub is now open!!!

This is a call to arms for Challenging Stigma and Discrimination around mental health and is bigger than just Birmingham

Mind. So we are looking for passionate

people to sign up to become Champions within the Hub.

Time commitments are variable and there is some funding available for individuals to do one off events and we will also

be organising three large events over the next 15 months.

So whether you are a staff member, service user or volunteer and you want to be part of the largest social movement in the county please email

andrewnicholls@birminghammind.org for when the next information sessions are.

Executive Update We have just recently held our Executive Committee Away Day. Some of the day was given over to Safeguarding Training to ensure all Trustees and Service User Representatives are all up to date on Safeguarding and know what our responsibilities are. We were also joined by our new Deputy Director of

Operations—Ruth Coates and our new Operations Manager for Support Service—Alice Godridge.

We have also held an Executive Committee, Clinical Governance Committee and Finance Committee since the last Newsletter. Some of the issues/reports these committees have considered include

Trustees signed off the budget for this coming year which included inflationary pay increases and increases to mileage rates.

Considered a new mobile phone contract which gives us much better value for money.

Update on Birmingham Mind’s Business Plan

Debated about whether we should do PURE employment support service. Managed to negotiate with BCC a slight revise to the Support Services and there fore we agreed to do PURE and sign the two year extension for Support Services.

Considered the future of Sycamore Lodge due to financial shortfall (since then we have been able to secure additional funding and therefore Sycamore has a longer term future)

Usual reports on Accidents and Incidents/Health and Safety/Complaints and compliments/Trend analysis on Grievances and disciplinary actions/Summary of Self assessments .

Crisis Cafe In partnership with Birmingham and Solihull

Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust we have secured further funding to keep open Birmingham’s first Mental Health Crisis Café.

Located at our Beechcroft site, in Erdington,

the café is open to anyone in crisis between

5:30pm-10pm every, Thursday, Friday and

Saturday.

The service is managed by Donna

Henderson, for Birmingham Mind and

provides support from staff members from

both the Trust and ourselves.

We are keen to let as many know about it

this as possible, so please do share this

with others and make sure that we put the

crisis café in peoples support plans/crisis

plans as an alternative to turning up to A&E

for a mental health crisis.

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Pilots Birmingham Mind has always led the way in innovation and testing out new

ideas.

Recently we have been involved in a number of Pilots and we thought we

would share the learning from them

Liaison Psychiatry.

A six month pilot involving two Birmingham Mind recovery support staff

working as part of the Crisis Intervention team at the Queen Elizabeth hospital.

Working alongside clinicians our staff have been involved in supporting

individuals who are turning up to the Accident and Emergency department

distressed as a result of social and environmental issues that are impacting on

their mental health. Birmingham Mind recovery staff offer support in relation

to issues concerned with homelessness, threat of eviction, tenancy and relationship breakdown, as well

as issues to do with lack of money and poverty.

During the period of the pilot, January to July 2019, clinicians have referred approximately 150 individuals

to this service.

Primary Care Liaison

A twelve month pilot that involves Birmingham Mind working closely with BSMHT and Forward Thinking

Birmingham (FTB) clinical staff across a number of federated GP services to support primary care

patients who are experiencing a range of mental health needs. Based in two GP practices, one in the

South and one in the North of the city, our recovery staff have assisted our clinical partners in the triage

of patients, signposting, and supporting individuals who are presenting with a range of social issues such

as poor housing, threat of eviction, benefits advice, homelessness, lack of money, relationship

breakdowns.

The primary care liaison service has now been externally evaluated and the evaluation report highlights

a number of significant benefits to patients and support of GP practices in using this particular approach.

This is definitely seen as the future model of community support and we need to think about how we

position ourselves to be part of the future.

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB)

We continue to have a strong and effective relationship with Forward Thinking

Birmingham. The hospital discharge and connections coordinator service that works

closely with young people who are inpatients has been funded again by FTB this year.

The role is primarily to support a positive discharge process from inpatient care for young people,

working closely with a range of accommodation and care providers ensuring they have access to good

accommodation as well as follow up and ongoing support to prevent re-admission.

More recently FTB have approached Birmingham Mind to develop a further role to work across and

between the four recovery hubs managed by FTB Birmingham. We have now successfully recruited to

this role, Morgan Beck one of our Recovery Navigators at Rookery Gardens has appointed to take up

this one year secondment from July. The role will involve supporting community based recovery support

d intervention for young people who are experiencing crisis as an alternative to hospital admission

Have you thought about volunteering? Last year corporate volunteers donated 1890 hours of volunteering and we had over 300 people support the various projects.

Projects coming up are gardening and garden furniture assembly at rookery gardens, car park and garden tidy up at Beechcroft and a greenhouse floor made for support services east. All materials used are to be donated. Interested? Please contact Eamon Reynolds on 0121 608 8001

Welcome Abdi... We are pleased to have recently recruited a Service User

Volunteer at Flint Green House. Abdi has now started

volunteering in our service for 3 hours each week. Since

completing his induction, he has spent time getting to know our

residents, helped out with a resident survey, and attended some

of our sessions on Visions and Values. Those attending the

Service User conference will also see Abdi here as he will be

helping to sign people in.

So here’s an official “Welcome” to you Abdi. A big Thank

You for donating your precious time to Flint Green House and

we look forward to all the great work you will be doing with us.

Thank You RBS... Rookery Gardens would like to say a very

special Thank You to the volunteers of

Royal Bank of Scotland for constructing our

new greenhouse and new tree bench in the wellbeing orchard.

Volunteers painting fences at

Webbcroft Road in Stechford.

We Love Volunteers Corporate and Individual volunteers are invaluable

in supporting the work we do, so in honour of volunteers

week, we have showcased some of their amazing stories.

We extend our continued thanks to everyone who has

volunteered for Birmingham Mind.

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PURE Employment Support This is an exciting and unique opportunity for Birmingham Mind and

we are please to announce our formal involvement as one of the providers of the Pure Project.

The Pure Project brings together a range of co-ordinated interventions all tailored to meet service users aspirations and goals.

We have a staff team of Employment Intervention Workers embedded within Support Services ready to provide both one to one support and access to a range of services / interventions all aimed at supporting people in their journey into training, education, apprenticeships and or employment opportunities.

The support includes:

- Building your confidence and resilience

-Set and achieve employment, training and educational goals

-Support you to develop skills such as assertiveness, motivational, stress management and effective communications

-Support you to develop your career planning including: CV preparation, job and educational application processes

-Practical support such as travel training, time management,

interview practice

Provide better off in work calculations to enable you to make informed judgements in relation to their financial circumstances

Access to work support

Provide access to business support and tools to set up own business or a service user led social enterprise.

If you are interested in participating in the Pure Project all you need to do is contact

Birmingham Mind Pure Project on0121 359 1151 or via pure@birminghammind.org to request an initial appointment.

The Linked Up (pilot) aims to change the way older people’s hobbies, interests and

aspirations are heard, understood and used to reduce loneliness and increase community and

neighbourhood connectivity within retirement housing and extra care services.

Each element of the project design and delivery will be created in co-

production with the residents and supported by a staff team led by

Birmingham Mind in partnership with Housing 21.

This idea for the project is in direct response to the many older people in

existing accommodation services expressing a sense of loneliness who do

not want to burden family and friends or to access services as they feel it

would label them as failing but have a desire to connect to others through

shared interests as well as explore new challenges and opportunities.

The partnership has recognised that older people living in retirement or extra care housing where

there is no longer any onsite provision or support focussed on their holistic needs is contributing to an

increased numbers of people with moderate mental health issues with main causes being isolation,

loneliness and lack of stimulation.

We have appointed Rebecca McGrory To the role and we will update people with how we get on.

Baking for Wellbeing

Staff and Residents at Flint

Green House recently

participated in Cupcake day and

raised some money for

Alzheimer’s Society by baking

and then selling cupcakes. We

also utilised our Resident

Meeting to raise awareness of

Alzheimer’s. Our bakers said “I

really enjoyed making and decorating the cakes - it was therapeutic” and “it

was really worth doing and makes you happy that you are helping others”.

On Your Bike Well done to the Rookery Gardens bikers on passing their Bike ability Level 1

(Jonathan, Rafiq, Altaz, Gail, Tina, Suriya, Melissa, Shariffa and Morgan )

Take a look at what we’ve been up to...

Men's Health Week: 10th—

15th June In celebration of Men's Health Week,

our Community Development Team,

took on the sporting challenge of

hosting a smoothie bike at the Custard

Factory Digbeth. This free, fun event

was an ideal way to talk not only

about men's physical health but metal

health too. To find out more about

our Men's Health Strand—Please

contact Owen Harris

07801 130 656 or Julie

Carnell 07801 130 599

EFL Trophy

On the 13th May , the English Football League (EFL) Trophy toured

Birmingham, as part of the 2018/2019 partnership between Mind and the EFL. John Lewis in Grand Central hosted the tour for us, giving Birmingham shoppers the chance to have their picture taken with the trophy. Lots of visitors donned their self sticks

and smart phones to take a snap! Many thanks John Lewis and EFL !!

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Birmingham Mind at Birmingham Pride

For our fifth year

running, Birmingham

Mind was extremely

proud to take part in the

annual Birmingham Pride

parade. We had a

wonderful day and so

many people shared

their support and told us

that it was great to see

Birmingham Mind in the

Parade.

Catch Us If You Can... Summer offers us lots of opportunities to join lots of com-

munity events. Our Community Development Worker

Team will be at a number of events throughout the sum-

mer, promoting our work, so please do pop along and say

hi if you see them—we will be at

1. Moseley Street Festival on 6th July

2. Balsall Heath Carnival on the 6th July (PM only)

3. Handsworth Park on the 7th July — see flyer.

Football In Mind

Richard Waite, Damien Perry and Damien Triplett decided to host a charity football in aid or Birmingham Mind. Football In Mind was created because these young men all felt passionately about mental health after having experiences in their lives. They managed to organise a fun packed day at the Trico stadium in Redditch. They had ex-footballers from Birmingham City, Aston Villa and the Baggies to take part - who drew in a crowd of hundreds even though the heavens opened for the best part of the day. The CDW team were there to promote Birmingham Mind and support the event.

They managed to raise approximately £2,700 which will be matched by Taylor Wimpey, a fantastic amount. Well done and massive thanks Richard Waite, Damien Perry and Damien Triplett for all

their hard work and effort.

Julie Carnell

speaking on the

pitch

Julie W with the

cup

Roots & Shoots Roots and Shoots vegetable growing group first met on 05/02/19. It was formed to compliment Meet and Eat healthy eating drop in. It provides healthy home grown veglables that can be cooked at Meet and Eat. Service users are also able to benefit by being able to take produce home.

For service users past and present experiencing isolation , this project provides an opportunity to come together in a relaxed friendly environment to prepare

raised beds, plant and gain learning in growing vegetables.

Having gained funding from Quakers for Meet and Eat, we were given the opportunity to use an unused raised bed. We have also had support from Elaine Kite who is a volunteer for Tower Hamlets Parks and Open Spaces running the growing zone at Mile End Play Park. Elaine has donated onion bulbs and vegetable seeds that we have planted. This creating more opportunities for partnership working and adding social value to what we do.

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Spotlight of Success

Name of your team: Support Service—North Team

Numbers of people in your team 20

What does your team do? The North team provides Supported Housing and Floating Support to the citizens of North Birmingham. Our aims are to meet Birmingham City Councils supporting Peoples contractual requirements within our service model.

Our aims and objectives are to build and develop resilience within communities in the North. Most of the work is carried out on a one to one basis with people in their own homes an in the community but due to the levels of need we have started to develop more groups. So where there is an identified need for a service we aim to support our service users and ex-service users to set up and establish their own support / activity group which they will run independently. The North Team works in a person centred approach to support service users “to do for themselves” ensuring that we don’t fall into the practice of “doing for” which whilst can be quicker and achieve good outcomes it can encourage dependency on the service/worker.

Our new service model is more tailored to the demographics of Birmingham Communities, we live in a diverse and effervescent city and one type of support does not fit all. Support has to be needs led and person centred, teaching, coaching or enabling are the vehicles we now pride ourselves on using when delivering support for the ultimate goal of independence and recovery.

Please tell us about some positive achievements that have been made over the last 2 years that meet Birmingham Minds Aims and Objectives.

The North Team pride themselves on their ability to develop strong links and partnerships, over the past two years the North Team have established working relationships with Sutton and Erdington Jobcentres where clients have sought advice and guidance and have been sign posted or referred to Birmingham Mind for Floating Support. The Job centre advisors have really benefited from having Birmingham Mind staff being part of the drop in at their centres as they have gained knowledge, information and understanding on Mental Health issues and how they can impact on some ones lives.

The North have had their North Connect running for two years which is currently undergoing some reconstruction, we have also made links community hubs, libraries, churches, leisure centres, food banks, community cafes,

There are some exciting plans for the future in meeting the community’s needs and we are limited only by our imagination—and funding of course!! But it is great news that we have a further 2 years worth of funding as our contract has been extended.

Faye Wilson—Locality Lead

Following our Staff Conferences and consultation with the

Staff Forum it has been agreed that in each Newsletter

we will shine our Spotlight of Success, on different teams

in each Newsletter. In this edition we shine on the North

Support Services here is their story...

External Training Our external training department continues to thrive

and grown, we have received a large, number of

enquiries, to deliver Mental Health First Aid, to

organisations across the West Midlands, and as

such we have expanded our portfolio of freelance

trainers to meet the current need.

This increase is a great sign that external

organisations and professional bodies, are now

identifying the importance of training mental health

champions, within their organisations.

Coming up over the following weeks we will be

delivering training courses to;

St Modwen Homes

Network Rail

HSBC

Xoserve

WPR Agency

Limited

RBS

Health Trust Europe

We were also invited by our colleagues at

Cambridgeshire, Peterborough & South Lincolnshire

Mind ( CPSL Mind) to the Plantworx 2019 event in

June 2019—this was a great opportunity to work

with any local Mind offering Workplace Wellbeing

and Training outside of Birmingham.

Our 2019 open access, Mental Health First Aid

courses are as popular as ever. We are offering a

number of courses, that are open to anyone who

would like to receive Mental Health Training.

Throughout the year, we are offering the following

courses

MHFA (Half Day Courses) - £50 + fees

MHFA 1 Day ADULT course—£110 + fees

MHFA 2 Day ADULT course—£175 + fees

MHFA 2 Day YOUTH course—£175 + fees.

All of the courses are hosted are being hosted at our

Head Office, in the heart of the jewellery quarter,

which provides good access to local transport links.

The dates for all our forth coming courses places,

are listed online and detailed in the poster.

If you would like to know more about the courses on offer, please contact Training@birminghammind.org or call 0121 608 8001

Colleagues from CPSL

Mind

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Fundraising 2019

We have started 2019 with some wonderful fundraising events, with a number of people setting goals

and challenges to raise funds for Birmingham Mind. In no particular order, we thought we share some of

their stories.

Firstly thanks to Liz Adnitt (from our Handsworth Hub) who raised a

fantastic £115 and Lisa Wilson who raised an amazing £585.22 all for

Birmingham Mind by completing the Great Midlands Fun Run in June—

thank you both !!

Thank you to Parkfield Building Services Ltd for raising a fantastic £2043.

Thanks to University of Birmingham Yoga Society, for raising £170

Thanks the students of Amigo Event Management (from Access Creative

College, Digbeth) for raising £260.25. .

Thank you to Sutton Coldfield Tuneless Choir who continue to support us

throughout 2019 raising a further £1063.56.

Thanks to MSC Performance gym for raising approx. £1800 following their 24hr gym event

Finally, we would like thank the staff of Black Country Housing Group, who chose us to be their

charity of the year, and have raised a total of £8500 — we once again, thank everyone involved for

their continued support.

We would also like to wish the following people, all the best with their forth coming events

1. Flowers at Moor Street Station—Launch party on 11th July

2. Jaimal Mistry—Birmingham Fashion Extravangza

3. Finally Good Luck to Martin Staien—who is competing in 4 Wolf Runs for Birmingham Mind —2

down—2 to go. Keep going Martin !!!

Finally, a huge thank you to follow organisations, who have chosen us as their Charities of the Year for

2019. Keep an eye of our social media sites for all their planned events over the coming months.

Thank you all for choosing Birmingham Mind.

Every penny raised by you, is always carefully applied to benefit those in our community who are

experiencing mental distress. Raising money for us couldn't be simpler, you can set up a fundraising site

with a click of a button with either Just Giving or Virgin Money.

Liz Adnitt with

her medal

British Dietetics Association

CrowdControlHQ

East End Foods Plc

Gately plc

Sutton Coldfield Tuneless Choir

Mitchel and Butlers

RBS — Debt Management

Xoserve

Jurys Inn Birmingham

Leavers

We say goodbye to…

Charlie Cameron - Support Services (South)

James Holdcroft – Primary Care Liaison

Janine Woods – Operations Manager – Support

Services

Karolina Dobrowolska – Recovery Navigator (Raid

Service) / Flint Green House

Latoya Donegal - Support Services (North)

Lindy Harrison – Recovery Navigator

Michelle Chan – CDW Service

Nancy Ellis-Day – Wellbeing Co-ordinator

Rehanah Bhikha - Support Services (West)

Sally-Anne Evans – Finance Officer - Head Office

New Starters

We welcome the following people…

Alice Godridge – Operations Manager – Support

Services

Claire Whillock – Finance Manager - Head Office

David Jarrett – Support Services (North)

Gary Bowman— Head Office

Nicola McLarney - Support Services (South)

Seme Simbeye – Performance, Monitoring &

Evaluation Manager

Reg Charity No: 1003906. Company Limited by Guarantee No. 2024372

Keep Up to Date...

Don’t forget you can now follow us on

Facebook, Instagram & Twitter for all the up to

date information and latest news

Please remember to share and like our page

with your friends, family and colleagues.

@Birminghammind

@trainbrummind

o on, give us

Movers We congratulate the following staff members who have secured new job roles at Birmingham Mind

Martin Robinson - new role Support Worker (North)

Donna Henderson - new role Primary Care Liaison

Justine Wightman—end of secondment— Support Worker

(North)

Gillian Page—role transfer to Pershore Road

Sidra Yasin—role transfer to Pershore Road

Mikhaile Hanley—move to Support Services (South)

Love to Shop?? We are set up with Easy

Fundraising and Amazon Smile. It

is just so simple, just one extra

mouse click and you too could be

raising funds for Birmingham Mind.

Please please please sign up to these giving sites and

don’t forget to ask your friends, family members and

work colleagues

too!!

Residential Bake Off…

We enjoyed a wonderful afternoon at the Sycamore

Lodge Bake Off—well done to Pershore Road who won the competition this time!! Lynn & Helen—the Judges!

Congratulations to Zahida Khan on

passing her NVQ Level 5 in Health &

Social Care

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Community Development

Worker Team

Studio 114 Green House

Custard Factory

Gibb Street

Digbeth

Birmingham

B9 4AA

Every Step of the Way

Suite 5 1st Floor, Alma House

Newtown Shopping Centre

Aston, Birmingham

B19 2SS

Tel: 0121 359 1151

Fax: 0121 333 5925

Head Office

17 Graham Street

Hockley

Birmingham

B1 3JR

Tel: 0121 608 8001

Fax: 0121 608 8006

Support Services

(North & West)

Suite 5 1st Floor, Alma House

Newtown Shopping Centre

Aston, Birmingham

B19 2SS

Tel: 0121 359 1151

Fax: 0121 333 5925

Support Services

(East & South)

Rowan Court

192, Herbert Road,

Small Heath,

Birmingham

B10 0PR

Recovery Hub - North

Beechcroft Centre

501 Slade Road

Erdington

Birmingham

B23 7JG

Tel: 0121 237 3761

Fax: 0121 608 8006

Recovery Hub - West

9 Park Avenue

Handsworth

Birmingham

B18 5ND

Residential Care

*Ludford Road

0121 683 885

*Flint Green House

0121 708 2131

*Sycamore Lodge

0121 337 6280

*Pershore Road

0121 415 5684

*Charles Davies House

0121 523 8880

Wellbeing Service

Beechcroft Centre

501 Slade Road

Erdington

Birmingham

B23 7JG

Tel: 0121 262 3555

Fax: 0121 382 7190