A great mention of Oli Wood - DPULOs Ambassador in the North East - in the summer edition of Mind NE's e-zine.

1. Issue 9 Summer 2012
Local Mind Service
Development
In this issue: What’s going on in your area
• Collaboration
in Cumbria Collaboration in Cumbria Summer Grants
• Summer Without a doubt the those sharing the same
grants round challenges of recent values and keep
for local Minds
DPULO times have placed marching together. One
•
substantial pressure on CEO reminded me Carers and
• New faces at already stretched “anything that doesn’t
Mind resources in local Mind break us makes us
Young People
• Prevention groups. strong” . ‘The Young
success Beginnings Fund’ will
With a backdrop of The five Cumbrian local provide grants of up
• GSK Impact contracts Mind groups have to £5,000 to support
Awards being been meeting new initiatives to
“Anything that
cut, cost doesn’t break us regularly with a meet the needs of
savings young people
Dates for your makes us strong” renewed vigour to
to be find meaningful
made ways to harness Grants for Carers
diary and a their strengths and Up to £5,000 for
Date TBC lack of ensure a projects providing
clarity about how issues sustainable Mind support for the
Cumbria Minds such as Personalisation presence in Cumbria. mental health and
meeting at Kendal and Clinical Recent projects have emotional needs of
Friday 14th Commissioning will included a Mind In carers
affect the longer term Cumbria web portal and
September 12—4pm
12— Or why not work
there would be every there’s more activity
NE Regional Meeting reason to suspect that with another local
we may be seeing some Mind and double your
at Sunderland Mind money!
casualties.
November 20th and Check out the
However it would Funding section of
21st appear that in times of Local Minds Online
CEO conference adversity there is a for more details
greater tendency to
Birmingham come together with Don’t miss the
deadline: August 14th
Wood—DPULO
Meet Oliver Wood DPULO Ambassador
Have you heard of DPULOs? There are 12 regional DPULO Ambassador.
No it’s not a misspelling for the ambassadors available for
advice, to link groups up or to Contact Oliver to discuss the help
children’s building bricks – it is he can give your group to get
an acronym for Disabled provide some expert help for
your group. started, promote and sustain
User-
people’s User-led Organisations your activities.
This four-year, government There is also a pot of money for
backed programme supports you to apply to
organisations run by and for Oliver Wood is a trustee for Email:oliverwoodnkau@gmail.com
disabled people. Tyneside Mind. He is also a Tel: 0779 3370740

2. Welcome to….
Helene Turner, Business Development Man-
ager at Tyneside Mind. Congratulations to Helene and Tyneside
This new post has been created by Tyne- Mind!
side Mind to look for opportunities to secure Other local Minds have expressed interest in
resources to extend services into their developing a similar role in their area.
extended areas of benefit. Helene has been For a copy of the job description or to find
in post for only 6 months and is already out more about this role contact
making a difference. She has helped to se-
cure £35,000 from the PCT to extend the e: helene.turner@tynesidemind.org.uk
counselling service into South Tyneside.
Welcome also to Gavin Atkins, the new
Community Portfolio Unit Manager within Mind’s Gavin joins Mind from a local pro-
Networks and Communities Unit vider background, having worked for
a mental health charity in London,
Gavin heads up our new Community Portfolio dealing with Issues arising from
Unit, which includes Ecominds as well as the
NRF Service Development Project. personalisation and a reduction in
‘I am very excited about supporting Cath and Pam’s funding. Prior to that he worked for a
work across the North. I hope that over the coming national charity involved in sport for
months we can leverage the benefits of a national development, linking with five
network of Minds at a local level in Cumbria and Northern Universities, so he is no
the North East, sharing best practice, learning stranger to these parts.
from each other and building better services for
people experiencing mental health problems” To contact Gavin e: g.atkins@mind.org.uk
Gavin Atkins, a new face at Mind
GSK Impact Awards Prevention Fund Success
Although not eligible to apply for GSK Impact The local Mind groups are a social
awards because they are a pharmaceutical in Cumbria were prescribing model
delighted to secure ‘Connect’ which is
company (thanks to Stuart for reminding me of this!)
some significant currently running as a
there is interesting information about this year’s funding through the pilot in one GP
winners, including a Scottish organisation, Healthy £1m Prevention Fund surgery and will
Valleys being administered by extend to a further
Adult Social Care to one.
undertake various
Healthy Valleys is a charity in Lanarkshire delivering A countywide Suicide
Mental Health projects
a range of community led health interventions to across the County. Prevention Training
programme is a further
improve the health and well-being of the people of
All groups had some project and also
rural South Lanarkshire
success and there is included is much
Check out their website and annual report for excitement that this needed funding to
information about their current services, including will act as an offer the Coping With
the development of a new catering social enterprise. opportunity to Life Courses which
showcase some of the were brought from
creative and Bromley Mind via this
Maybe worth a visit? responsive ways that project last year. We
are the trademark of look forward to
the Community following how the
http://www.healthyvalleys.org.uk Sector. projects are evaluated,
and create evidence of
Amongst the success for those who
successful projects use them.
Ideas and articles for Autumn ezine - please e mail p.mahoney@mind.org.uk or
c.halse@mind.org.uk for inclusion in the next edition