NEW Online Programme:Workshops & Activity for October & November In these odd and surreal times, it’s important to stay connected. We know the value of creativity to our mental health and we will endeavour to do our best to replicate something as creative, fun, engaging and community-driven as our usual programme. Although we have had to postpone the studios…
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10 September 2020 is World Suicide Prevention Day and 10 October 2020 is World Mental Health Day. #InspiringHope – CNTW Foundation Trust want to mark these two important days by having a month of inspiring messages in between. They would like to hear from service users about what helped them out of their dark place,…
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Test four of our five tests asks the UK Government to provide a financial safety net to protect people with mental health problems from falling into poverty. A crucial part of this is making benefits assessments more accessible. Assessments can be stressful for anyone, but for those of us with mental health problems, being forced…
Read More As with many services, organisations and businesses, due to COVID-19, ‘lockdown’ and the restrictions in place, the region’s Recovery Colleges have understandably yet sadly had to close their doors to students. In spite of this, all have managed to still provide a service to their students, have found creative ways of still being able to…
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Good afternoon Please find details of our free, online sessions that are running as part of Creativity and Wellbeing Week next week. I would be very grateful if you could share this with your networks, service users, or anyone else who you think might enjoy or benefit from a session that focuses on using art…
Read More With the temporary closure of our physical studio spaces, we have been looking at how we can best support people to use art and creativity to improve their mental health. As a result, we are now offering 3 creative classes per week as part of our open-access online creative programme. The sessions are available free of charge…
Read More Good afternoon everyone, As you will already know NTAS has had to close it’s studio doors, along with lots of other organisations, due to the current coronavirus measures. We are keeping a eye on guidance and will re-open as soon as we are able. In the meantime, we’ve been looking at what we can do…
Read More Dear All Due to the current outbreak of the coronavirus NTAS will be closed from Wednesday 18th March @ 4.30pm until further notice. This decision is to protect the health and wellbeing of members, staff and volunteers and is taken in accordance with the most recent guidance that advises all non-essential contact to stop. We’re…
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Info re NTAS II, in the Forum Shopping Centre, Wallsend – open Tuesdays and Thursdays – below. This project is funded and supported by NHS North Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group 😀 just a little announcement… We’ve officially launched! Last Saturday we cut the red ribbon on our satellite studio space in Wallsend’s Forum Shopping Centre. Thank you to everyone…
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We are launching a new peer support group for people with experience of self injury. Meetings will take place as follows: Newcastle group – Second Saturday of each month, Coffee Trader, Northumberland Street, NE1 7EL; North Tyneside group – Fourth Saturday of each month, starting on 27 July 2019, 10 am – 12 pm at…
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