SPONSORED ABSEIL

WE’RE LOOKING FOR 20 FANTASTIC FUNDRAISING THRILL SEEKERS

Or 20 people who want to build their confidence and raise funds for their local mental health charity!

Join us on Saturday 21st September 2019 for our TOG Mind Sponsored Abseil Event in partnership with Adventure Based Learning. There's a £10.00 early bird special discount on your booking until the end of July.

After this it will be £20.00 until the booking window closes on Friday 16th August 2019.

Raise funds through JustGiving linked to our page or the traditional way (sponsorship forms). https://www.justgiving.com/togm

What you get on the day:

• Full safety chat and demonstration from qualified professionals.

• All safety equipment provided including harness and helmet.

• Help, support and encouragement throughout.

• A 70 foot abseil off the top of a local quarry and a huge sense of achievement!

As an extra special thank you to everyone who takes part - you will also receive an official certificate with your AMAZING Abseil photo included.

Venue:

• Hobson Moor Quarry

• Hobson Moor Rd

• Mottram in Longdendale

• Hyde

• SK14 6SH

(A 15 min drive from Ashton Town Centre, easy parking and access)

What to do next:

Pop into our Ashton Office – Book your place – Meet our Fundraising Manager - Start fundraising.

You can also register your interest by getting in touch with us at fundraising [at] togmind.org (subject: Sponsored%20Abseil) !

When IKEA picked us as their charity of the year we had no idea staff would help raise £500 for us within the first few weeks!

We’ve been even more surprised recently with their generosity in volunteering time to help paint our counselling rooms and provide a range of stock to make these spaces feel much more comfortable. Our counselling rooms and waiting area feel so fresh and welcoming and the addition of new furniture, lamps, pictures, cushions and throws has created a relaxed vibe everyone appreciates.

The pictures below clearly show all the hard work put in by everyone! Huge thanks to all the IKEA volunteers involved – it’s really made a big difference.

Recently we held a Mental Health Awareness Week Event located at Jigsaw Homes Group.

This year the theme of mental health awareness week was body image – how we think and feel about ourselves. Our Buddy Project Manager Kelly, joined forces with Anne, a volunteer at Tameside Women and their Families Centre to coordinate and deliver an event. Jigsaw Homes Group kindly facilitated this event in their head offices in Ashton under Lyne and offered free refreshments. 

In total, 15 organisations attended. These were;

• Tameside, Oldham & Glossop Mind

• Tameside Women and their Families Centre

• Cloverleaf

• Motiv8

• Diversity Matters North West

• Be Well Tameside

• Action Together

• TMBC Neighbourhood Services

• New Life Church

• Infinity Initiatives

• Tameside Foodbank East

• Holy Trinity Church Stalybridge

• Oasis/Making a Difference

• CGL (Change, Grow, Live)

• The Health & Wellbeing College

All organisations ran stalls showcasing what they do and their offer to the local community. There were also lots of activities on offer for the event attendees including free little bags of happiness and a wheel of fortune with TOG Mind, craft cloverleaves with inspirational personal quotes with Cloverleaf, free NHS health checks with Be Tameside, a how are you feeling activity with Active Tameside, free home security resources from TMBC Neighbourhood Services and a beer goggles activity with CGL.

Outcomes of the event were several referrals into services for people to obtain support, professionals invited into other organisation team meetings to promote their service, volunteers recruited for projects, lots of awareness around the theme of mental health and wellbeing in general and awareness around the theme for mental health awareness week 2019 as well as lots of networking between professionals.

We would like to give a big thank you to everyone that took part in the event.

If you would like to get involved in any future events, please contact Kelly Smith at office [at] togmind.org for further information.

TOG Mind’s children and young people Hive service also took part in mental health awareness week 2019 by running self-esteem workshops for 8 - 13 year olds, and with their Bee Creative art session they created a collage around positive body image. 

Some of the fantastic images from the event below:

Our Community Development Officer Gary has had the pleasure of visiting several of the Housing 21 establishments, after contacting Tejinder Birk, Partnerships Manager.

It was agreed to go along and speak to some of the tenants, initially to see if there would be any interest and value in TOG Mind talking to residents about Mental Health and Wellbeing.

After talking to tenants at School House Flats it was felt that there would definitely be a demand for some TOG Mind interventions, we talked at length about what kind of activity may be a good starting point, and collectively settled on a Mindfulness Taster, mainly because it involved chocolate!

Feedback from all the Courts has been very positive, people found the techniques really useful and felt they would continue to use them to help with their overall wellbeing.