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UKATA raise awareness
Statistics from the Health and Safety Executive released in October 2019, reveal that in the UK more than 2,500 people die from mesothelioma each year, with a similar number of lung cancer related deaths, linked to past exposures of asbestos. With the UK having the
highest mortality rate from lung disease in Europe, a decision was made for the Chesterfield-based UK Asbestos Training Association (UKATA) to become corporate partners with Mesothelioma UK, a national specialist resource centre specifically for the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma. UKATA’s Chief Operating
Officer Craig Evans said: “Our members train in excess of 200,000 delegates each year on the dangers of asbestos and how to work safely. “The corporate partnership
with Mesothelioma UK allowed us to further raise awareness of the risks associated to working with asbestos, at the same time, raising much needed funds to help support patients and families. “The money raised by the
UKATA team and members is a great achievement and I am very proud of everyone’s efforts to support this great charity.”
New Doncaster mental health service ‘Safe Space’ launches
A mental health ‘Safe Space’ has been officially launched in Doncaster. Located in Intake, the innovative
service ran by NHS Doncaster CCG, Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH), People Focused Group (PFG), Mind and Open Minds, has been given the green light for two years funding following a successful pilot last year. Health and care organisations
across Doncaster developed the idea to create a new service which could provide out of hours support for people experiencing mental health crisis and avoid them having to attend the local emergency department. Accessed via the single point of
access phone line, the service uses peer and voluntary support empathise with people experiencing a mental health crisis building wrap around support and a living well plan for each individual which links with local neighbourhood assets and services which can help further. Glynn Butcher, from PFG, said:
“For me, it all boils down to one thing – being able to have a conversation and being listened to. Nurses and doctors aren’t always able to do this at the emergency department. Being supported at the right place and right time in local communities can quite often stop problems from getting worse.”
Bluetree Group go the distance for hospice
An award-winning Rotherham business that brought in £11,500 for Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice found that fundraising united its team. Bluetree Group, one of the UK’s largest online printing
businesses, employs over 400 staff at its factory at Manvers near Wath. The company, a UK winner at the European
Business Awards for two years running, decided to focus its charity work by appointing Bluebell Wood as its ever first Charity of the Year last January. “Fundraising has always been a key part of
our culture, bringing our team together and having fun in the process. Our team always enjoyed it and we decided to
‘Fundraising
has always been a key part of our culture’
take things further and dedicate our efforts to a worthy local cause,” said Emily Gray, a Content Marketing Executive for the group and head of their fundraising efforts. “At the beginning of 2019 we pledged to raise £5,000, but we more than doubled that and raised around £11,500. The fun and the opportunities it gave us to bring different team members together has only been good for our business.” In June, 16 of its team became intrepid explorers and set forth at
24 CHAMBERconnect Winter 2020 The team at Bluetree Group on the Sunrise on Snowdon hike midnight to climb Mount Snowdon on the hospice’s Sunrise on
Snowdon fundraiser. A month later, two teams rowed in the hospice’s annual Manvers Lake Dragon Boat Race. They also held a week of internal fundraisers and gave the hospice £3,500 of free
printing, £2,000 of envelopes and filled 50 hospice collection bags destined for its charity shops. Bluebell Wood’s Corporate Fundraiser Julie Hampson said: “We were
proud to be the first charity Bluetree’s staff have given an entire year of fundraising support to and delighted to hear that they have raised £11,500 for us. This is what happens when employees are given the chance to work together for a good cause.”
The new service is just one part
of a significant investment into local mental health services from NHS England aligned to the Long Term Plan. Through multi-agency working,
three areas of opportunity have been identified to use peer and voluntary support which aim to reduce inappropriate attendances at emergency departments, reduce high intensity use of clinical services for non-clinical issues and increase support for people after attempted suicide.
Helen Mason, Managing Director
of Open Minds, said: “We’re really excited to be part of the evolving mental health services for the people of Doncaster. This work has been entirely co-produced with people at the very heart of what we have designed. It’s our hope that everyone experiencing mental health problems will get the support they need at the right time in the right way.”
For assistance call the team on 01302 566999.
Access to ‘Safe Space’ is through the single point of contact line only
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