Shed INC
Funded by The Community Chest for Social Prescribing Grants, Barking and Dagenham
Shed INC.
Next Workshops will be announced in January2026
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.
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.
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!
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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