Come Together
Amount:
£4,000 About the idea:
UnderPressure is an organisation that wants social inclusion to be meaningful and real for mental health users and not just jargon. This pilot project based in Brent, will bring together mental health users in primary and secondary care giving them, an opportunity to have a real voice in the provision of social opportunities and stimulating and creative activities.
People in primary and secondary care can get support from meetng up with others with similar life experiences, however for social inclusion to have dignity and be meaningful it needs to involve a range of people, as well as mental health users.
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It would be great for a trainer to help with free customised sessions.
Free tickets for plays, musicals and event swould be excellent.
Crafts/artistic people with skills to offer free sessions to introduce new ideas.
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SILENCE IS GOLDEN
Amount:
£600 About the idea:
Our aim is to supply wireless headphones for all the patients at Mary Stevens Hospice in Stourbridge whilst watching the television. At the hospice we pride ourselves on the care we provide to our patients and encouraging choice with individual entertainment. We currently do not have the facility for patients to watch television at a volume which is satisfactory to them without disturbing other patients and visitors. We regularly have patients who are sharing a bay all watching differnt channels thus making relaxing somewhat difficult on occasion. myself and my colleagues have had numerous occasions where this has proven a difficult problem to overcome.
Do you need a helping hand?:
As a charity we require help financially to fund this important purchase to improve the care we give at the hospice. The financial help will subsequently improve our patients quality of life and help provide a quieter environment when a patient is very poorly or nearing the end of their life.
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Social Interaction
Amount:
£2,500 About the idea:
For mentally and physically disabled adults who belong to Gateway Clubs in very small towns, villages in rural areas to be able to interact more socially, with visits to bowling alleys, bars, musicals, bingo etc., with either a volunteer or carer.
Do you need a helping hand?:
We need funds for transport and entertainment costs, and on occasion funds for carers, as our club is ran by nearly all volunteers with the exception of one paid team leader.
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Keeping Mobile
Amount:
£500 About the idea:
My idea is to create an information resource bringing together information on all local services benefiting or providing for people's mobility needs, including existing statutory health and welfare services, voluntary organisations, private clinics, sports and exercise activities and commercial providers. I will also be looking for any gaps in service provision.The resource would be for those just starting to experience mobility problems up to those with more severe and restricting conditions. The service would not be age-specific , but 30.2% of the local population are over retirement age, ( source - Dorset Data Book 2008).
Do you need a helping hand?:
I have aready started exploring this idea with the help of Dorset Community Action and they have offered continuing suport. I need funding to cover stationery costs, mileage allowance of 40 pence per mile to attend meetings and telephone costs.
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The Hope Food Programme
Amount:
£7,073 About the idea:
To provide a food education programme plus cookery starter packs for disadvantaged families and vulnerable single parents. A voluntary workforce will be trained to work with parents to help them to have confidence to make informed nutritional decisions on behalf of their family. This team will respond to referrals from a range of organisations to support parents. Over a six week period, these parents will be guided through some basic principles of feeding a family. Sessions will be on a one to one basis and designed to boost the individual’s confidence, but can accommodate groups.
Do you need a helping hand?:
As an existing charity, we have a strong referral relationship with over 30 statutory and non statutory agencies in our area. At The Hope Foundation we help individuals through our furniture donation programme as well as emergency food & care packages designed to help those most in need. The agencies we work with include: Youth Offending Team, Children in Need, Citizens Advice Bureau, Affinity Sutton, Women’s refuges and Social Care teams.
It is anticipated that these agencies will assist by carrying out detailed screening of individuals for suitability for the programme, enabling The Hope Food team to dedicate themselves to the provision of the cookery starter packs and the education of the parents. Having built up good partnership working in other areas, it would be great to extend this to benefit a cookery and education programme.
There has been first hand experience of the lack of knowledge and confidence of many of these young families and women to provide a good nutritional basis for their families. It would be great to help build the confidence and give skills to those who just need a bit of support.
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Dignity Champions: Nothing about us, without us!
Amount:
£2,750 About the idea:
'Dignity Champions' are people who are ‘committed to taking action..to create a care system that has compassion and respect for those using its services.’ (DH) Who best to fulfill this role than service users themselves? Local people have identified 'dignity' as a priority area for improving health and social care services. As a user-led organisation, we will train local people - older, younger, mental health, disability, cancer & 'easy to ignore' service users as champions to ensure dignity underpins the services they receive. The role involves raising awareness and conducting research on the implementation of dignity in care.
Do you need a helping hand?:
We already have over twenty local people, including older people, people with experience of mental health difficulties, disabled people and cancer survivors signed up to become 'dignity champions.' We will work with the community, local services and local voluntary and representative organisations to identify further interested individuals. We have availed of documentary support from the very valuable DH 'dignity champions' campaign. Our Council, in recognising the merits of this project have agreed to help us with training local people in the specialised areas so local people are completely comfortable with their role e.g. 'safeguarding' (protection from all forms of abuse) of adults.
We will be basing our assessments on Care Quality Commission guidance, we would however benefit from further help in the design of the assessment tool to be used by the local 'dignity champions.'
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3percentplus- Ability with a difference
Amount:
£10,000 About the idea:
A recruitment agency to enable disabled people and ex-carers return to the work-place either in employed or self-employed status. The idea was formed whilst retraining following disability at Queen Elizabeth Training College. The disabled students could get work-placements but nothing permanent. They needed marketing in a different way.
There were a variety of courses on offer including Painting & Decorating and Building Maintenance if those students could work for other disabled people they would have an empathy with them and act as an inspiration. We have the knowledge but need the finance.
Do you need a helping hand?:
We need help from everyone! We have a director with a recruitment background but training is needed to hone skills. We have already sold the idea in principal to some employers but now need to get up and running. We need premises which have disabled access and which are in the local town as we need them to be accessible. We need office equipment as well as training equipment. We also need clients both those seeking work and those seeking workers. We need to promote and market our idea and most important we need to obtain funding for 2-3 years.We have the passion and we have the commitment but we do not know how to write successful funding applications and any help with this would be appreciated by all concerned. We need help in giving our client group back their dignity and self-respect as well as their financial independence. We also need assistance in getting these individuals work at a rate commensurate with their skills and abilities and not just minimum wage positions.
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Residents of a Care Home's Shop, Coffee Shop and a lovely place to meet people and to discuss and make memories, in County Durham
Amount:
£1,250 About the idea:
The Residents of this lovely care home will really benefit from the transformation of a room which will be used as a shop, coffee shop and tea room and a meeting place. This will benefit Residents, Carers and families and friends. Residents will be encouraged and enabled to maximise independence, make choices and spend time in interesting and varied activities. Residents, families and friends will be encouraged to contribute ideas and Residents will be encouraged and enabled to take ownership of all aspects and be involved and make the most of all opportunities to re-experience life skills and learn forgotten or new skills. This idea has been inspired by discussion between the Manager and Residents and further discussion with families. Some planning has already begun but it is limited by funding and our fundraising would be really boosted by gaining a grant. This idea aims to improve quality of life, maintaining skills, and increase self-esteem and people's mental wellbeing.
Recording the experience of care
Amount:
£2,400 About the idea:
In my experience healthcare professionals are committed to providing the highest standards of personal care to meet patient's needs. However, patients sometimes lack a way to express how they want to be treated.
I would like to record how the introduction of tele-health care (electronic monitoring) has changed the lives of people living with long term conditions, for the better or worse - do they feel more isolated or better cared for?
This will be captured in sound and still images and made accessible on a website to inform patients what to expect and healthcare professionals what patient’s want.
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POMP
Amount:
£10,000 About the idea:
What happens when I am gone? A major worry for relatives/close frieds involved in caring long term for someone who will always need help and support - especially if that person they love and care for cannot speak up for themselves.
Peace-of-Mind-Planning (POMP)is about bringing small groups of like-minded families, working to build a mutual trust, each family making a plan and the group commmitting to be there for each other if/when that plan is needed. Peace of mind
Do you need a helping hand?:
We would really value some help with publishing the tools we are developing, to create a great quality POMP pack. Especially around getting the layout and appearance right.
We need help with good quality translation so we can provide our toolkit in a range of languages.
We would value some interest from a couple of local authorities, particularly those that are in London and have a diverse populatin, so have older informal carers from a range of ethnic groups who would value this way of supporting those carers