Summer Response 2018

Appeal update
Since the last issue of Response, two exciting appeals landed with you,
and we wanted to say a special thanks to everyone who responded.
In February, the topic was ‘innovation’.
• We told you about the project you funded in the previous year:
a trial period with a mental health navigator within one of our
crisis houses. Paula, who is in the navigator post, is someone
who will look at the whole journey for those people trying to
move between secure services, crisis care and community care.
She will liaise with the different organisations on behalf of that
person where challenging situations can impact their recovery.
You made this happen.
• And then we told you about this year’s project, on physical health.
Thanks to you – we raised £13,000 towards the start of a two-year
project to help ensure people get the right health checks at the right
time. Design our physical health toolkit, and push for better health
monitoring and to reduce the shocking gap in life expectancy for
those affected by mental illness.
And just a few weeks ago at the
end of May, we wrote to you about
our national advice and information
service. Money is still coming in
for this one – at the time of going
to press we had reached £5,000
which is amazing.
Thank you so much to
everyone who donated or
shared it – it means a lot!
All the money donated goes
towards our advice service to help
them answer more calls, from
people like Susan – whose story
you read about in that letter…
6 Some photo and names have been changed to protect anonymity.
Summer 2018