Shed INC
Funded by The Community Chest for Social Prescribing Grants, Barking and Dagenham
Shed INC.
Thursdays 12.30pm-3pm
The Thames Community Hub, Barking
Shed INC provides a safe, creative, peer support space/ network, for residents living with mental health conditions and experiencing complex health treatments, waiting for treatment or managing a life changing diagnosis.
We are pleased to have have received funding for Shed INC, a creative, peer support workshop for residents who are experiencing a life changing diagnosis.
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Funded by The Community Chest Fund, Social Prescribing Grants. To delivering projects addressing health inequalities, enabling capacity building and supporting social prescribing activities for the residents across Barking and Dagenham.
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Shed INC will be a chance to talk, a creative outlet to share challenges and what helps; a small, safe group that is intuitive, nourishing and creative, challenging feelings of isolation and helping to improve recovery.
Art & Advocacy
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A chance to talk, empowering self-expression and awareness
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New avenues of communication and local practical and emotional support. Helping each other, exchanging, sharing, mutual benefit
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Creative outlet to address risk factors/ behaviour/ signs, e.g. smoking, diet, self-care and visualise positive action
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Befriending and creative social sessions aimed at reducing loneliness and ruminating
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Lowering risk of depression and rates of recurrence of certain health conditions
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Sharing challenges helps to contextualise, focus on what participants can control.
For more information please complete the contact form.
Shed INC
Thursday workshop
Help to create a comic book for local children to encourage them to enjoy books and keep-up with their reading!
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RОСКУ lives on Thames View Estate, he has been ill a lot, so he has to stay at home; how does he use his superpowers to help him get back out into his community.
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