Sunday 20th December 2020 - All our news prior to Christmas

Posted 1:00pm

Plenty going on, and we have been busy.  Especially with London going from Tier 2 to 4 very quickly.

We release number 36 of our weekly health packs tonight.  Our Christmas issue, and it is needed at these times of uncertainty and lockdown.  Lazza will be working very hard in the next couple of days to get issue 37 ready, as I am sure nobody would want to be sitting at the laptop on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.

We are delighted to say we have been granted funding from Haringey Giving to do a 12 week course with Haringey Well-Being Network, and we will be discussing with Pritty and her Team re start dates and venues (we have to be Covid ready too).  This is a massive boost for HMHB, and we are so happy to get their trust.

We were walking every morning, but with the new lockdown rules about meeting outdoors we have had to put that on a back burner.  This was a picture during the week, and Lazza was able to and out presents too.

Lazza, Luke and Dean are meeting up on Tuesday to discuss 2021.

We all wish you the best of Christmas (whatever that is for you this year).  Stay positive. :-)

Monday 7th December 2020 - Kentish Town: Funding LIF: Funding Haringey.

Posted 1:45pm

Delighted to ay we have now spoken with both Pancras Gym and with Kentish Town Job Centre.  KTJC are really happy we achieved funding to work with their group, and it is something we are really looking forward to doing.  Just need to iron out the nitty gritty details, but that is now going to happen.

We are so thankful to our terrific local councillors, Osh Gantly, Sue Lukes, and Caroline Russell, who have agreed to fund us some money from their Local Initiatives Fund.  This project is our local walks, and it will enable us to pay a walk leader for three walks a week for every week in 2021. Absolutely fabulous.  It means that I do not have to attend every time, and can find someone to ensure it continues to help people.

Finally, we have completed and submitted an application to Haringey Giving to do a 12 week course with Haringey Well Being Network clients.  I am quietly confident we will get that as I name dropped several people, and we have actually been asked by HWN to do the work.  It enables me to pay Luke and Dean properly too.  It's all very exciting at the moment. :-)

Friday 4th December 2020 - Haringey News and Lazza's cooking

Posted 4:00pm

Once again, HMHB can provide proof that being proactive can bring results.

We were invited to attend a zoom event in November, managed by North London CCG (Care Commissioning Group) in Haringey.  However, it was the day of Lawrence's knee surgery.  He wanted to ask a question around the commissioning of new projects.  How does it happen?  How could we find funding?  Are there processes for new projects.

We did get back an answer, but it did not actually cover our question, so Lawrence re contacted, stressing that we had already done some fine work in the borough, and that we had been asked to do more, but without funding this was not possible.

We then got a great reply back saying they were putting us in contact with the main Mental Health Commissioner in Haringey.  I had a terrific chat online with Pritty Rana, service manager at Haringey WellBeing Network yesterday, and she expressed an interest in us coming in and doing a 12 week course with their users (either one morning or one afternoon every week).  So today I completed a three page document - with the fantastic assistance of my wonderful mentor - detailing who we are, what we do, how much a course would cost, and the outcomes we would be looking to achieve.  I also added in some previous quotes from other courses.  I have sent that off, and hopefully we can get a positive result.

Lazza created a delicious homemade Tiramisu last night for this week's health pack.  This was the first one he has ever made.  I don't think we will be wanting to look at the calories!!!!!!  Absolutely scrummy!!!!!