Cumbria Mental Health Group AGM

Posted by on Jan 12th, 2012 in Cumbria, Mental Health, Uncategorized | 0 comments
Members are reminded that our AGM is planned to take place on: Friday 20th January 2012 2 – 4 pm at Penrith Rugby Club, Winters Park, Penrith, CA11 8RG The day will commence at 12 noon with the speaker, Mike Taylor, Chairman of the Cumbria Partnership Foundation Trust, who will speak on: “The role of the Cumbria Partnership Foundation Trust in Community Services” This will be followed by lunch at 1pm. The formal AGM will start at 2pm and will finish by 4pm.

‘Mental Health and Wellbeing for Cumbrian businesses’ – for employers

Posted by on Jun 29th, 2011 in Cumbria, Mental Health | 0 comments
The Employers Bridge Conference 2011 21st July, 2011, Best Western Castle Green Hotel, Kendal Registration 8.30am, start 9.00am. Mental Health and Wellbeing has an important part to play for both employers and employees in any successful business reducing days lost to sickness and workplace absence. There are also legal implications if workplace issues are not handled appropriately, and this can be a major concern for employers. This is the 2nd conference following on from the successful event of 2009 providing information for Cumbria’s businesses on workplace mental health and wellbeing. The event...

Debbie Mayes Work at the Brewery Arts Centre

Posted by on May 26th, 2011 in South Lakes Locality, Uncategorized | 0 comments
Debbie Mayes has work displayed in an exhibition at the Brewery Arts Centre in Kendal.  This is a joint exhibition of prints – Debbie has six pieces on display.  Debbie has bipolar and has been attending a printmaking adult education class at the Brewery. The exhibition closes on the 3rd of...

Grant Aspinall Exhibition

Posted by on May 26th, 2011 in South Lakes Locality, Uncategorized | 0 comments
An exhibition of portraits of jazz musicians by Grant Leonard Aspinall is open to the public at the ‘Gatefoot Gallery’ in Staveley on the Windermere road near Kendal, Cumbria. It will be previewed between 5pm and 7pm on the 24th of June and will run until 24th of July 2011.  All are welcome. Grant is a member of CMHG and a sufferer of Bi Polar for the last 30 years. He has painted portraits mainly of musicians from Rock; Folk and jazz genres since the 80′s exhibiting in Monaco and in the U.K..  The painting style is Expressionistic/Impressionistic, he is self taught and has made a...

Access to Social Care

Posted by on Jan 27th, 2011 in Uncategorized | 0 comments
CMHG has just finished 6 meetings around the county, where Adult Social Care staff have set out how a new system for accessing social care services will work. Service Users were pleased to be able to express their views. They want to know a lot more about how the system will work. CMHG is bringing together notes from all the meetings. We will give these to Adult Social Care to get answers and we will share that information with the mental health community in March. The system is intended to give service users and carers more choice in how the services are actually delivered and not change the...