Welcome to our regular round-up, collected by our Community Development Team from their work around Devon. Here you’ll find items that support your personal recovery, volunteering, jobs, training courses, and research requests.
Have something you’d like us to add next time? Get in touch!
Annual Celebration Day – click below for your free ticket!
Right, let’s get straight to the brass tacks. Our Celebration Day is incoming – quickly!!!
Friday 11th October, Exeter Library Rougemont Room
𝗬𝗼𝘂’𝗿𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 – link here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/…/recovery-day-tickets…
These days are always held in high value by everyone who attends and we always receive great feedback afterwards.
Whether you work in mental health recovery, are personally living through it, or are simply curious to learn more, we warmly welcome you to join us for our annual Celebration Day.
This special event celebrates recovery in Devon, and we’re thrilled to offer a range of activities, including inspiring Recovery Talks from individuals with lived experience, leaders of recovery projects sharing their journeys, hands-on crafting activities, creative writing sessions, and, of course, free refreshments!
Everyone is welcome, book your free ticket now on the link below, or contact sami@recoverydevon.co.uk
We’d all love to see you there!.
Footnote: Always thought this was Brass Tax for some reason. Lucky I looked it up!
Community Development Worker For West Devon
We are pleased to announce that we have a new Community Development Worker for West Devon who will be starting very shortly on 7th October.
There will be an official announcement soon about the role so holding station just for now!
However this is brilliant news and this means that now we can reach out and connect with a more wide ranging audience in West Devon than before and are able to further promote our key message of creating hope, choice and opportunity for Mental Health Recovery in Devon and beyond.
There were so many strong applicants for this role and was very hard for us to make a choice but we’d like to say thank you so much to everyone who took the time and effort to apply.
We wish the new CDW all the best and are very pleased to have you on board.
To Sami (our MD)
Sami you are continuing to do such a great job with Recovery Devon. Your hard work is appreciated by everyone on the team and in the wider community. It’s a pleasure to have you as our MD and let’s have a great Recovery Day!
Culture of Care Project
The vital Culture of Care Project is continuing. Keep up the brilliant work Marie
With the culture of care, both Recovery Devon and Together from Devon partnership trust are asking for those with lived and living experience of inpatient stays in the wards to take part to help support with co-producing the program. This is happening over 4 wards: Coombehaven, Salus, Ocean and Meadow View.
Please contact with Sami: Sami@recoverydevon.co.uk or Marie: marie.ash@nhs.net
If you are interested in finding out more, there is payment for involvement.
The voice of lived and living experience is vital to this work.
Below are pictures giving a background to this exciting project
What’s happening in the community in September
Mid Devon & East Devon
The next section is for Together / EDP, Mid Devon.
Together offer vital services to assist people in recovering from alcohol and drug addiction. All activities listed here are open to the general public.
For more information and points of contact, please go to their website here https://www.edp.org.uk/together/
Further activities listed here:
Andy’s Man Club
At ANDYSMANCLUB, we want to eliminate the stigma surrounding mental health and create a judgment-free, confidential space where men can be open about the storms in their lives. We aim to achieve this through weekly, free-to-attend peer-to-peer support groups for men aged over 18.
Several locations across Mid Devon, East Devon and South Devon.
Search here for your nearest group and for more information.
https://andysmanclub.co.uk/find-your-nearest-group
North Devon – What’s happening in the community
Together team:
Flourish in Nature
Our Flourish in Nature project has partnered with South Molton Town Council, and Vicky @ Wild things Forest School to provide woodland wellbeing mindfulness sessions in South Moltons beautiful community woodland. These are 3 x pilot sessions, that anyone in South Molton can access free of charge and experience the healing power of nature in a safe and supportive group setting. Pictures attached.
Anyone interested in finding out more, or partnering to put on activities with Flourish in Nature can email flourishinnature@together-devon.org.uk
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Please download the below document to get an overview of all the additional events and activities we regularly put on in the North Devon area.
Please visit our flourish drop in which is led by 2 of our volunteers with lived experience. Every week has something different going on, and this week( (first week of October) we have a visit from Petroc college to share about what courses they offer and how adult education can be funded.
Flourish in nature:
South Devon – What’s happening in the community
Any questions please E-mail karateinthecommunity@gmail.com
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Andy’s Man’s Club locations in South Devon
https://andysmanclub.co.uk/find-your-nearest-group
Plymouth Mental Health Reg
Plymouth Mental Health Recovery and Empowerment Group (Plymouth REG) is on a mission to inspire, empower and educate anyone in Plymouth who wants to improve their wellbeing and also anyone who has an interest in learning about mental health.
For more details and to book a place please visit their website:
Letter of Hope
We are delighted to share the relaunch of the Letter of Hope, a resource we have created in partnership with Devon Partnership Trust and by people in Devon with personal experience of suicide.
We have launched two new versions of the letter; Letter for Tomorrow for young people written by young people, and Hope Letter, an Easy Read version for people with learning disabilities. To find out more please click here. Or get in touch with us if you would like to order physical copies.
Join our aDoddle Community Map!
We are partners with the wonderful folk at aDoddle. They are working with you and your community to make it as easy for everyone to find help and support locally as it is to find a hotel or restaurant on Google Maps.
By Mapping UK Charities, Community Projects, Groups & Organisations together we are creating a national resource for use at a local level. It’s free to create a profile on aDoddle, and this can hold all sorts of information, making it great for small groups who can’t afford a website.
Do you have a not-for-profit community mental health offer you’d like us to share?
With thousands of social media followers and newsletter subscribers across Devon, we’d love to help you find your community. Send an email (hello@recoverydevon.co.uk) with “Roundu