Sabbir + Iryna + Maela + Dalia + Monika + Tatjana + Helen + Samer + Tal + Stop ECT + friendship group + Peter + Julia + Joanna + Sean + Imran +



Sabbir

Iryna

Monika

Maela

Dalia

Tatjana

Helen

Samer + Tal

Peter

Julia

Joanna

Sean

Imran



Friendship group affiliated to Hearing voices network

FREE – CONFIDENTIAL – ALL WELCOME

25 July 2024

11 am to 1pm

Richmond library annex

quadrant road

Richmond

TW9 1DH



World health organisation + UN commit to zero psychiatric coercion

High risk medicines: clozapine

Deaths unexplained, lives devastated: here’s another national tragedy hidden in plain sight

🇮🇪How Ireland transformed democracy



In diversity there is beauty and strength

Maya Angelou


poverty + health

The scale of the problem – Yarmouth

Medical gaslighting: when conditions turn out not to be ‘all in the mind'

Social Movements and NGOs: Can They Get Along?

The garden as refuge: The restorative power of green spaces and nature


There’s this misconception that anarchism means chaos - but the term means ‘without rulers’

We don’t expect people to organize for us - we organize for ourselves

Jen Angel


Lake Alice Psychiatric hospital

Can anyone defend this ?

Yet Electro Convulsive Treatment is still done worldwide + in the UK

Why do people turn a “blind” eye + say they can do nothing ?

For example health and well being boards + Integrated Care Boards

Does that makes them complicit in the crime?

Nazir thinks otherwise ?

Wendy



Lucy Letby: Police urged to investigate hospital bosses for corporate manslaughter



STOP ELECTRO CONVULSIVE TREATMENT



Electro convulsive treatment appears to be banned in some parts of Australia

https://www.madinamerica.com/2014/10/electro-convulsive-therapy-australian-children-banned/



There is an international petition which has got over 135000 signatures

https://www.change.org/p/ban-electroshock-ect-device-being-used-on-children-the-elderly-and-vulnerable-patients



There is a UK petition

https://www.change.org/p/hm-government-abolish-psychiatric-electroconvulsive-therapy-ect-electroshock-to-the-brain



There is a survey regarding ECT

https://uelpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_57KmQWiynXIhMNw

If you have any questions you can contact john@uel.ac.uk


Electro convulsive treatment is a human rights abuse + must stop now



Campaign Against ECT Gains Traction in UK

MPs call for ban on electric shocks as mental health treatment

In the Courts, a Partial Win for Informed Consent and ECT Justice

Sue Cunliffe

Erika Civils

Am I invisible ?

Why are we stuck in hospital ?

Nobody listened to me

Number of autistic people in mental health hospitals: latest data

'Barbaric': Hundreds with learning disabilities kept locked up for years

https://www.itv.com/news/2022-11-02/barbaric-hundreds-with-learning-disabilities-kept-locked-up-for-years

Problem linked to local councils + housing? - Wendy


Dispatches : hospital undercover Are they safe?

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/hospital-undercover-are-they-safe-dispatches


NO THEY ARE NOT

We have published the latest data set showing human rights abuse within the Mental Health system – please see below + the website for further details



Revealed: Housing associations urged ministers to let them increase rents

community land trust – housing affordable

Healthy foundations: integrating housing as part of the mental health pathway

community powered NHS – animation

Insane trade



The real Tragedy of the Commons

We can reset the paradigm

We can move away from hyper-individualised accounts of people 'out for themselves' and work on creating the societal conditions for a community led approach including Tolworth



The story of broke

First they came for…

Thank you EHRC

A community-powered NHS: making prevention a reality



time for Community power act

LBRUT should follow Hartlepool’s lead?



Camden Health + care citizen’s assembly

LBRUT should follow Camden’s lead?



Achieving food security through land reform

A future for all of us …

People power – love not hate

Human rights

Learning from other countries – energy



NHS paying £2bn a year to private hospitals for mental health patients

We could do so much with that money – Wendy



open dialogue

Inquiry investigates deaths of 1,500 NHS mental health patients in Essex

Not just Essex? - Wendy



Israel



Where we are born into privilege, we are charged with dismantling any myth of supremacy

Where we are born into struggle, we are charged with reclaiming our dignity, joy and liberation

Adrienne Maree Brown


Why solidarity matters

Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles, or that our pain is the same pain, or that our hope is for the same future

Solidarity requires commitment, and work, as well as the recognition that even if we do not have the same feelings, or the same lives, or the same bodies, we do live on common ground

Sara Ahmed



5 steps to a Green New Deal

Can randomly selected citizens govern better than elected officials

The law in 60 seconds – legal aid for inquests video

Hillsborough law – duty of candour - would this help with our Freedom of information requests ?

Cannabis, ketamine and speed to be decriminalised in London by Sadiq Khan

Sadiq Khan’s call to introduce rent freezes in London is growing after the mayor called for the bold policy proposal once more to help Londoners

Biden Proposed a Rent Cap for Corporate Landlords. What’s Next?

Sadiq Khan: leaseholders in England should have the right to withhold service charges

A shorter working week for Europe

Children imprisoned on remand – the stark reality of racial bias

Combatting Structural Racism and Classism in Psychiatry: An Interview with Helena Hansen

Suman Fernando’s book Institutional racism in psychiatry + clinical psychology

Mental Health Act reform: race and ethnic inequalities

How Western Psychology Can Rip Indigenous Families Apart: An Interview with Elisa Lacerda-Vandenborn

People deprived of liberty due to misapplication of Mental Health + Capacity Acts



As a result of the Bournewood case the Mental capacity act came into being

The mental capacity act

Assume capacity

Best interest

Least restrictive

People can make what others would consider unwise decisions

Supported decision making

Capacity can easily be assessed

Can someone make a decision

Can they communicate the decision (not necessarily verbally)

Can they remember the decision

-Wendy-



Restraint, segregation and seclusion review: progress report

Out of sight- who cares

Half of people with a learning disability and autistic people reluctant to provide feedback on care

The authority gap: why women still aren’t taken seriously

Women disproportionately affected by soaring Mental Health Act detentions

Pathologized Since Eve: Jessica Taylor on Women, Trauma, and “Sexy but Psycho”

Report Finds Monitoring of Electroshock Treatment Unsafe

New Study Finds ECT Ineffective for Reducing Suicide Risk

We can STOP ECT with lasting power of attorney

A straight-talking introduction to Psychiatric drugs – the truth about how they work + how to come off them – Joanna Moncrieff

Provide Tapering Strips for People Who Want to Withdraw Safely from Psychotropic Drugs

Tapering strips

NICE Guideline Update Acknowledges Severe Antidepressant Withdrawal

Withdraw antidepressants gradually, says NICE draft guidance

NHS statistics show continuing rise in antidepressant prescribing

Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions

How universal basic income can tackle anxiety + depression

Long-term antipsychotic use linked to breast cancer

Government review finds 10% of drugs dispensed in England are pointless

Sedated, How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis - James Davies +

CRACKED – why psychiatry is doing more harm than good



Coronavirus and depression in adults, Great Britain: January to March 2021

Office of National Statistics

Almost 4 in 10 adults earning less than £10,000 a year experienced depressive symptom compared with around 1 in 10 earning £50,000 or more”

The data shows what we know to be true: struggling with your mental health doesn’t happen in a vacuum



Why not Diagnose Social Conditions Instead of Individual Symptoms

Council of Europe Releases Report to Promote Voluntary Mental Health Treatment

The WHO Calls for Radical Change in Global Mental Health

the new WHO + UN guidance – psychiatry must entirely change

Strength based approach

Emotional CPR: Heart-Centered Peer Support

Website – Emotional CPR

How do we pay for a basic income



Welsh basic income pilot has been published

In a statement from Jane Hutt, Minister for Social Justice

The pilot will be targeted at care leavers

All young people leaving care that turn 18 over a 12-month period starting this summer will be invited to participate

That is expected to be about 500 people

Participants will receive the payments for 24 months starting from the month after their 18th birthday

A £1,600 a month basic income will be paid each month



Extending Welsh Universal basic income pilot to heavy industrial workers

Evaluation of welsh basic income pilot

The UK Four-Day Week Pilot One Year On



A friend – walking for health

Thrive gardening charity

Castelnau Community Centre

Oliver Sacks

Twickenham repair cafe – 3rd Saturday of each month 10:30 to 13:30

Together as one

Battersea Befriending Network

Ways to save money on bills

A life more wild

Ricky Reel

Disability student allowance

Pat Deegan

BBC radio 4 Is psychiatry working?

well-being courses at Kingston Adult Education

Lost souls poetry

A disorder 4 everyone

bipolar UK – Twickenham group

The power of now

Art + soul



£1 Concession Tickets for Kew Gardens

As part of their new 10-year strategy, Kew Gardens is committed to ensuring that cost is not a barrier to accessing their gardens in both Kew and Wakehurst

They have introduced a new admission price of £1 for anyone on Universal Credit, Pension Credit or Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)

Visitors just need to present proof of their benefit on arrival to be eligible for the new concessionary ticket

Marble Hill House – FREE


All-in-one-hub

SPEAR –RWCDARS – MIND – CAB - DWP

every Friday 11am -1pm

Twickenham United reformed church

First Cross Road

TW2 5QA



Ian

Wild Mind Project

Good Climate News from Good Energy

How you can help birds and other wildlife now

Latest news from CAT 🍂

THE MISSING THREAD

Transforming ordinary objects into gardening magic

Go behind the scenes at Conwy Suspension Bridge

How to attract more birds to your garden

Introducing our next major exhibition

Waxwings, waders and woodland wonders

Take a peek inside Frans Hals

Where to see a Starling murmuration

Try something new in 2024

Your gardening update from the RHS

Growing projects to get involved with this spring

Lifelong friendships through community gardening

Keep your eyes to the skies for spring arrivals!

Your gardening update from the RHS

Slugs, seeds & stations…

Rare bird breeds in Yorkshire reeds!

Making gardening accessible for all

Watch live! Inside the Swift nest box

The Totally Thames Festival 2024

Celebrate the Swifts’ summer tour

Great Things to Forage in July

What's on in July

What’s on this summer in our new gardens

Your Grow Your Own news for July



Community based organisations + community recommended organisations

 

Listen to act


Recovery in the bin

 

The Well


Heeley trust


Platfform: for mental health and social change


Mindfreedom

 

Notwestminster


FEEL - Friends of East End Loonies


Speak out against psychiatry


Mad Pride campaign for psychiatric abolition


Antidepaware

 

Surviving Antidepressants


A Caring Mind | A blog for carers of mental health

 

ADOODLE- community mapping



A disorder for everyone



Liberation

Please contact the email below for more information

liberationrights@gmail.com



Poverty eradication organisations + self-expression


The long time project

 

Juno

 

Project 16:15



Right here

Annoushka

Barnes hospital – community land trust ? - Wendy



Frame works UK



Joseph Rowntree foundation (JRF)

23 July

UK Poverty 2023: The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK

UK Poverty 2024: The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK

Impact of hardship on primary schools and health care

what's causing structural racism in housing

Elections Bill could disenfranchise millions of voters

Anxiety nation Economic insecurity and mental distress in 2020s Britain

Join JRF to support and grow economic and social futures that work for everyone

A framing toolkit: How to talk about homes

Framing in action!

Reboot: building a housing market that works for all

talking about homes:the foundation for a decent life

Rethinking hardship with community, power, and policy innovations

including bringing private homes into social ownership - Wendy

the relationship between poverty and NHS services

Including Mental Health information - Wendy


Journey to justice project



addressing poverty with lived experience (APLE)



Trussell trust

Manifesto

Gordon

Lowri + Siobhan + Steve



Voices that shake !



Disabled people against cuts – DPAC



Think local act personal



Act build change



Together-uk



WISH



National Survivors User Network (NSUN)



At NSUN, we believe a successful government would:



Recognise harms in current mental health systems

Challenge inequalities in mental health care

Tackle issues that cause and exacerbate mental ill-health, distress, and trauma

Prioritise lived experience in mental health reform



15 August

25 July



30 July - arrive from 6.30pm (7pm start)

The Harrison

28 Harrison Street

London

WC1H 8JF

Join Survivors' Poetry for their third in-person gig at The Harrison. £4 low income/concessions, £5 full price


art workshop each Wednesday



NSUN is a great organisation with a great newsletter …



You can sign up to it here



NSUN's strategic direction: redistributing power and resource in mental health



NSUN is now a Charitable Incorporated Organisation



peer support charter



Prevention Concordat for Better Mental Health



This week’s newsletter



NSUN also has a directory page here

What counts as mental health care ?

Funding grass-roots groups – welfare support + accessible transport

Exploring “community” and the mental health lived experience landscape

NSUN responds to the Cass Review

black mental Health manifesto

Survey: The Impact of Renting on Mental Health - JULY



BEDLAMB film



Funding mental health + migrant justice



Six days and 19,000 words into a new government, and just one mention of disability… then DWP claimant-blaming begins again

Article by John Pring via Disability News Service



Benefits claimants have been treated as a political punching bag this general election
Article by Mikey Erhardt via Big Issue



People detained under the Mental Health Act dying at three times the rate of those held in prisons

An article by Amy-Clare Martin via the Independent



i do not want a seat at your table – co-production in mental health services

A blog by Amy Wells via the NSUN blog



from subject to cause : can patients circumstances predict the use of coercion in psychiatric hospital admissions ?

A blog by Nima Hunt via The Mental Elf



Neoliberalism, Security and the Politics of Mental Health

An event recording by Medact via YouTube



DWP staff fail in two-fifths of cases to meet new standards aimed at stopping deaths
A blog by John Pring via Disability News Service



Secret DWP reports link more deaths with systemic flaws

An article by John Pring via the Disability News Service



police still being used in “punitive” NHS mental health schemes – says report

An article by John Pring via the Disability News Service



Whose camera is it anyway? The use of body-worn cameras in acute mental health wards

An article by Alison Faulkner via The Mental Elf



free our people now new campaign + network

Simone Aspis - Free Our People Now Project Manager on

simoneaspis@inclusionlondon.org.uk

or 07749 892 843



Whiteness as a chemical restraint in statutory guidance of the Mental Health units (Use of Force) Act 2018 – a tribute to Seni’s law + Aijibola Lewis

Blog by Colin King via NSUN



Work Under Capitalism is Making Us Mad

An interview with Micha Frazer-Carroll via Tribune



The festival building a future free from oppression

An article by Micha Frazer-Carroll via huck



mental health is not an individual problem

An interview by PE Moskowitz with Micha Frazer-Carroll and via Mental Health



Psychiatric patient made to pull down her pants to ‘prove’ she was on her period
An article by Katie Boyden via METRO



NICE Guideline Update Acknowledges Severe Antidepressant Withdrawal



Coronavirus and depression in adults, Great Britain: January to March 2021

ONS

Almost 4 in 10 adults earning less than £10,000 a year experienced depressive symptom compared with around 1 in 10 earning £50,000 or more”

The data shows what we know to be true: struggling with your mental health doesn’t happen in a vacuum



Antinormality club

 

Too Much

 

UKTC & Peer Power

 

Maslaha

 

Sounddelivery media

 

Incubate


London Friend


Reach out

 

hand in hand peer travel buddy – mind Islington

 

advocacy academy


Galop launches the UK’s first ever LGBT+ Rape and Sexual Abuse Helpline


Lothlorien Therapeutic Community

 

Canerows



Evolve



Hear us – Croydon



Battersea Befriending Network



Mosaic



Misery



higher effect



Inclusion north



Community accountability peer support hub (CASH)



New website – For Women


Benefits Calculator – Turn2us


entitled to


The Public Law Project


The Good Lobby



Social Change Initiative



Charity so white

I am not your critical friend


WillWeBeHeard


Build Back Fairer in Greater Manchester: Health Equity and Dignified Lives


Survivor Researcher Network (SRN)



Inclusion London


Shaping our lives



Violence abuse + Mental Health Network



National Voices



Elect her community



Black Thrive



Black minds



Z2K – fighting poverty



Homelessness + renter organisations



Awaab’s law - to prevent any more children dying from damp and mouldy social housing - PETITION



Action on empty homes



Housing first England

Housing First news: research strengthens case for national Housing First roll-out

Michelle – housing first

Update

including setting out core milestones along someone’s Housing First journey

Jade is a writer

Guidance on transferring Housing First providers

Housing First for Women: valuable lessons

Scotland's Housing First Pathfinder evaluation

Suicide Prevention and Postvention



HF4 Youth


Groundswell


Pavement magazine


Homeshare


Streetlink



Homeless link



Generation rent

Has renting affected your mental health? Take our survey today! - JULY


Shelter

1.3 million households on the waiting list for a social home – 18 June 2024

In England, 3,898 people sleep rough on a given night – 23 May 2024



This morning 145800 children in England woke up homeless – 10 May 2024



5351 long term empty homes in Liverpool – May 2024



The number of children living in temporary accommodation reached another record high this month: 142,490 children without a home. This is an increase of 3,560 children in just three months

March 2024



We published a report about the impact of homelessness on children's education

In this report, we found that half (49%) of teachers in England work with children who are homeless – February 2024



We could end this with people power – community land trusts – people assemblies – Wendy



Museum of homelessness



Project 17



Art + homelessness international



London Renters Union

EVENTS JULY - AUGUST

They get richer, we get sicker: report your disrepair!



Renters reform coalition


Single Homelessness Project

Women's homelessness 👩 Let's talk about it


StMungo’s



Cardboard citizen

May to July 2024

25 July

28 July

29 July – 6 August

Tuesday to 13 August

13 August

14 August

Creative jobs



more than one story



Spear

Latest reports show 4,389 people slept rough in London between October and December 2023

a shocking 23% year-on-year increase



Glassdoor

4 October



The passage



Renters reform coalition



Creative + nature + advocacy



The Poetry Society



Dragon Café

sometimes Dragon cafe runs laughing therapy sessions



Garden organic



Groundwork



Re: CREATE psychiatry



Living with Suicide



meet me where I am



Story Futures – update



Me and You and a Global Pandemic



Medicating Me: Personal Impressions of Psychiatric Medication



Speakeasy advocacy



Grace advocacy



Cambridge House



Advocacy focus



The Advocacy Project



National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTI)

Advocacy Charter

Advocacy review

A review of advocacy for people with a learning disability and autistic people who are inpatients in mental health, learning disability or autism specialist hospitals

Human rights in EASY READ

Valuing Community Led Support

strength based explained



Mental health - a growing public health priority and human rights imperative



Seni’s Law – Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act 2018



People organised + information



Connected Kingston

help with food

Summer 2024



Wildflower Alliance

Peer Respite Advocacy Week & Celebration!!

"How Big Pharma & Psychiatry Gaslight Us"

hearing voices family + friends group

The First LGBTQIA+ Peer Respite in the Country

The Hearing Voices Approach - Get Involved

A Statement on Israel and Palestine + Support Gatherings

Mental health, human rights and legislation: guidance and practice

WHO + UN report October 2023

Celebrating Black History Month with the Black Movement Leaders Project

let’s talk about force – TO JULY

Peer respite can break the cycle of hospitalisation +

Votes on IOC & Peer Respite are Coming Soon!!

UPDATE



Mad in the Family Monthly Newsletter

Concern as Proportion of Children in England on Antipsychotics Doubles

Seattle Schools Sue Tech Giants Over Social Media Harm



Critical psychiatry network



Council for evidence based psychiatry



Mad in America



Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Mad in America - the Biopsychosocial Model and Psychiatric History

Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

Johann Hari

Julia Hotz

Justin Garson

Swapnil Gupta

Jessica



Martin Harrow: The Galileo of Modern Psychiatry (1933 – 2023)



Martin Harrow

In addition, global outcome for the group of patients with schizophrenia who were on antipsychotics was compared with the off- medication schizophrenia patients with similar prognostic status

Starting with the 45-year follow-up and extending to the 15- year follow-up

the off-medication subgroup tended to show better global outcomes at each follow up

I conclude that patients with schizophrenia not on antipsychotic medication for a long
period of time have significantly better global functioning than those on antipsychotics



Suman Fernando’s book Institutional racism in psychiatry + clinical psychology

Responsibility Without Blame in Therapeutic Communities: Interview with Philosopher Hanna Pickard

Reason and Madness: How Psychiatry Marginalizes Those Who Contradict Western Norms

Art, Music, Exercise, and More: What Are the Recommended Doses for Improving Mental Health

How Western Psychology Can Rip Indigenous Families Apart: An Interview with Elisa Lacerda-Vandenborn

Research Reveals Mental Health Professionals’ Participation in Rape Culture

Why are policies which affect so many lives based on such bad research ?

Antidepressant Use Linked to Sexual Dysfunction, Why Aren’t Prescribers Discussing It?

Is Madness an Evolved Signal?

The Integration of Peer Support Principles in Community Mental Health Policy and Practice: Toward Epistemic Humility

How Psychiatrists Responded to the Launch of Our New ECT Survey

Exercise Leads to Best Outcomes for Depression

Mood Disorder Handbooks Perpetuate Psychiatric Myths, Present Barriers to Systemic Thinking

Undisclosed Financial Conflicts of Interest in the DSM-5: An Interview with Lisa Cosgrove and Brian Piper

Answers from Outside of Academia: Revealing Community-Based Rehabilitation in the Global South



From a Paranoid Schizophrenia Diagnosis to a Peer Researcher in Nigeria

Context and Care vs. Isolate and Control

Pharma Pushed “Parkinson’s Disease Psychosis” to Boost Drug Sales, Researchers Report



More Psychologists, More Problems? The Paradox of Mental Health Workforce Expansion

Demedicalizing Depression: An Interview with Milutin Kostić

Many Results in Psychology and Medicine Are False Positives

Decolonizing Psychology Requires a Critical Psychology of Caste



Youth Antipsychotic Use Linked to Increased Risk of Death within Five Years

Can Psychiatric Units Function Without Restraints? Italy Says Yes

Case Study Demonstrates How Racism Drives the Misdiagnosis of Schizophrenia



Doctors Are Not Trained to Think Critically

By a doctor

What It’s Really Like Inside a Psychiatric Ward

By a former police person



Madness, Utopia and Revolt: An Interview With Sasha Warren



Philosopher Links Depression to the Distortions of Global Capitalism

UN’s Mental Health Goals Off Track as Social Factors Remain Unaddressed, Study Shows

Hearing Voices Groups Provide Meaning Through Peer Support



The New WHO and UN Guidance: Psychiatry Must Entirely Change

The WHO Calls for Radical Change in Global Mental Health



newsletter here



Hearing voices network (HVN)



London hearing voices network – update



Voice collective - update



Lisa hears voices



Samaritans



CAPE



Spiritual crisis Network (SCN)



National SCN Community Forum



London SCN

contact

LondonSCN@gmx.co.uk



Social Prescribing Network

update

including beyond the pill



Newsletter



Self- development



Our perspective on just about everything comes from the psychological cage we’ve been conditioned to live in

A cage created by

A difficult or disappointing experience

A privileged or sheltered life

Social influence

Pop-culture and mass-media stereotyping

And the list goes on
Gradually, unbeknownst to us, our cage—our conditioning—drains our mental energy, leaving us vulnerable to bad decision making


When we were young, we saw the world through simple, hopeful eyes

We knew what we wanted and we had no biases or concealed agendas

We liked people who smiled

We avoided people who frowned

We ate when we were hungry, drank when we were thirsty, and slept when we were tired
As we grew older our minds became gradually disillusioned by negative external influences

At some point we began to hesitate and question our instincts



Healing in Your Relationships

If you don’t allow yourself to move past what happened, what was said, what was felt, you will look at your present and future through that same dirty lens, and nothing will be able to focus your foggy judgment

Always be kinder than necessary

Forgive yourself for the bad decisions you made, for the times you lacked clarity, for the choices that hurt others and yourself

Some chapters in our lives have to close without closure

Be careful not to dehumanize people you disagree with

Being kind to someone you dislike doesn’t mean you’re fake

People tend to be more thoughtful and kinder when they have found a little happiness and peace of mind



How can I respond from a place of clarity and strength,

rather than continuing to react in anger and frustration to the painful experiences I've been forced to live through

Think about that question for a moment

Read it again, and sit with it

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, pause for a few seconds, take a few deep breaths, and make space for a healthy change of state—for something new to enter

It's time to consciously redirect your focus by taking it away from something unchangeable that drags you down, and instead zero it in on something small and actionable that moves you forward in the present moment



4 Hard Choices that Make You Happier in the Long Run

You can choose to be present when it would be easier to pick up your phone

You can choose to do a workout when it would be more comfortable to sit around

You can choose to create something special when it would be quicker to consume something mediocre

You can choose to invest in yourself when it would take less effort to procrastinate



Let Your Inner Child Out
Sometimes the grown up in you needs a break

So, every now and then, release your inner child and enjoy some carefree fun
See the world with childlike wonder

Ask lots of questions

Revisit one of your favourite childhood books or movies

How will you let your inner child come out to play



All You Need Is Less
If you're wanting more love, more peace, more meaning, more focus, you'll probably find that all you need is, less

Less expectations, less talk, less buying, less thinking, less stuff, less stress…

Are you ready for less



Involving Others in Decisions
How often do you involve others in the decision-making process

It makes sense to include those who are impacted by the decisions,

or those who will implement those decision

It increases their engagement and responsibility,

and having various perspectives can only lead to better outcomes
But involving others in decision-making takes time and resources

How do you figure out when to Involve others in the decision making, and when not to



Nourish with Happiness
Apparently, there is no nourishment like happiness

So are you nourishing yourself with happiness
Here are 3 ways to nourish yourself with happiness, everyday:
1) Feed yourself a dose of laughter (a good joke or a funny video clip)
2) Engage in one activity that makes you happy (gardening or cooking)
3) Create space to feel happy (a dose of gratitude or meditation)



Be Present to Prevent Stress
Whenever you find yourself stressing about getting things done or what’s going to happen

try this: be present

Firstly, become present to your emotions

your stress

and then, become present to what you’re doing and where you are

Be present and you may find that it helps you to feel less stressed

more relaxed

and be more effective and productive

Be more present and in the long term, you'll increase your stress resilience, and may even prevent feeling stressed



Growing through Life
Are you just going through life or are you growing through life
If you feel like you’re just going through the routine of life, nothing probably seems excitin

Why not grow through what you go through

Grow through life, and you'll most likely find learning and excitement even in the routine



Dreams Need Courage
No matter how much you’ve achieved or accomplished,

there’s always much more to explore

So have the courage to dream

Have the courage to define your dream clearly,

to go beyond any obstacles and reach for your dream,

even when you can't see what lies ahead
Dream and have the courage to make life an adventure worth exploring



Walk in Someone's Shoes
You know the saying about walking a mile in someone else’s shoes before judging them

Next time someone's being difficult, leave your opinions, assumptions and emotions aside for just a couple of minutes

Then, figuratively walk in their shoes, that is, try to see things from their perspective to understand where they're coming from
Even if we walk a mile in someone’s shoes,

we still can't judge them because we can never really know the reasoning behind someone's actions or what it’s like to be that person

So, just try to understand others as much as you can



The Three Questions
When you're confused and unsure about a decision, ask yourself three questions:

Who am I?

What is important to me?

What is my purpose?
The answers that arise will most probably lead you to clarity


Point of Light

If you're feeling low in energy, low in mood, try this simple meditation:
Bring your attention up through your body to a point in the middle of the forehead,

just above and behind the eyes, behind the mind
Begin to experience yourself as a point of concentrated energy,

a spark of light, full of radiance and positive energy
Feeling good, feeling re-energised, you’re ready to move on to whatever's next



Peace of Mind

Peace of mind comes not from wanting to change others, but by simply accepting them as they are
For your peace of mind, can you let go of what you want others to do or how you want them to be?

Can you accept everyone as they are?



Peace Takeaway

Sometimes it seems as if someone or something can so easily take away our peace

But actually, no one and nothing can take away our peace because peace is our natural state of being
Next time it feels like someone or something has taken away your peace, understand that you just got pulled away from your peace

Then, pull your attention away from everything else and return back to your natural state of peace



The Seed of Life

We are like a tree

the seed is the essence of who we are

our life-force

and our branches represent work, family, friends, health, dreams, ambitions

When the seed is vibrant, our life-force pulses through each branch to every single leaf
So, extend your branches in a joyful gesture and celebrate life

And when you feel overwhelmed by it all, concentrate on the seed and you’ll revitalise everything



What Are You Focusing On?
If you’re feeling anxious, ask yourself how much you are focusing on things that are outside your control
Every time you start focusing on what’s outside your control

gently bring your focus back to what is within your control

Do this and you'll start to feel less anxiety and more peace, and increase your capacity to deal with things



A therapist’s guide to self-care

Self-care is the practice of taking action to improve your health

We can do this regularly or just from time to time, but it’s important to turn this abstract concept into a concrete goal

I've written a blog on the ‘6 domains of self-care’, including my top tips on how to give yourself a little love


Physical self-care

This is about taking care of our physical body and getting back to basics

Eat regularly and in a way that nourishes your body

Exercise regularly

Boost your sleep



Psychological self-care

We all know it is important to take care of our mind

This might include seeing mental health professionals or simply doing things to help us recharge

Turn off phone notifications

Keep scheduled therapy appointments

Take time for reflection



Emotional self-care

This involves your relationship with yourself

Check in with your feelings and see how you’re doing

Keep a journal

Vent your frustrations

Engage in opportunities to create happiness



Physiotherapist – Working from home: 4 health hacks

Plump it up

Make your chair more ergonomic

Add cushions and a foot rest to take care of your lower back



Go for a raise

Try shaking up your desk design

Raising your laptop will help to protect your posture


Break it down

Take micro-breaks

Regular movement helps prevent muscular pains


Stretch yourself

That's it

Stretch

Stretching at your desk will reduce the risk of muscle strain



3 simple techniques to help improve your breathing



Breathing control

This means just breathing easily, using the least effort

It helps you to relax

Place your hand on your tummy, below your ribs

Feel your tummy rise and fall as you breathe gently through your nose

Let go of any tension, just breathe as you need to


Deep breathing

This helps to fill the lower areas of your lungs

Take a long, slow deep breath in

At the end of the breath in, hold the air for 2 to 3 seconds before letting the air out gently

Try to keep your shoulders relaxed

Repeat for 3 or 4 deep breaths



Huffing

This is a way of clearing mucus from your lungs

Take a breath in and then breathe it out quickly through your mouth, as if trying to mist up a mirror

Once any mucus has moved upwards, you should find it easier to cough it out But there is no need to try and force up mucus

Always finish with more relaxed breathing control (exercise 1) after the huffing exercise



A to Zzz our top tips for a good night's sleep



Be consistent

Try to go to sleep and wake up at the same time every day – and avoid napping throughout the day, if possible

Create the right environment

When it is time for sleep, make sure your bedroom is quiet, dark and cool

(The NHS recommends 18-24C for adults and 16-20C for children)



Have a change of scene

If you find yourself unable to fall asleep, get out of bed and do something relaxing elsewhere
Try reading or drinking some non-caffeinated herbal tea, and stay off social media and news sites, which can often be



Action for Happiness

23 July

Jump back July



Happy Place



Self management UK



Oxford Mindfulness Centre



Coalition for Personalised Care

newsletter - including events



Angel + Marc


Self-Care Forum

update


Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance


Economics of happiness – local futures

Beyond Conspiracy: Framing Meaningful Activism



Gabor Maté supports the localization movement

Dr Gabor Maté on Mental Health and Localization

the corporation

the new corporation

Vandana – the power of people

Small, local and productive

Keibo Oiwa

Juan del Rio

Mental health crisis : blame the system, not the individual – Eva Henje



Intersectionality



Mencap

Commitment to modernise Mental Health Act in Kings Speech – JULY 2024

Mar

Maeve

Elliot + Beckii

Rose + Sarah

"I have three alarm clocks...!" ⏰

Costs NHS £534 million per year - £18 million per month !

Life in a mental health unit when you shouldn't be there – 2:42 minutes

How to protect yourself from scams - EASY READ



SCOPE

Right to Ride: new travel guide 🚄



We'll be campaigning for Keir Starmer's new Government to:

  • tackle the extra costs of disability

  • transform attitudes to disability

  • make sure that those of us who want to work get the right support to do so

  • fix our failing benefits system



Brainkind


RNIB



Alzeimer's society

I want to go home’ - What to say to someone with dementia in care

Ken’s tips



dementia UK



Macmillian



Dramatize



Share community



VITAL projects



Changing our lives



Challenging behaviour foundation



Disability Rights UK

PM Must Stop Scapegoating Disabled People For Government Policy Failures

Is James Davies book – SEDATED relevant here ? Universal basic income now ! - Wendy

Social Security System "sanctions and demonises Disabled People" - DR UK responds to Employment Inquiry

Oppose The Shocking Government Bill Violating Privacy By Monitoring Benefits Claimant's Bank Accounts

UK government faces UN for violation of disability rights

New Report Finds People Struggle To Share Experiences of Health and Social Care


Disability News Service


Equality Network

22 July


MND Association

We want :

1. Accessible homes

2. Access to treatments

3. Improving cost of living support

4. Sustainable social care

5. Support MND Carers


Neurological alliance



Dyslexia Foundation



National autistic society

The Mental Health system is broken

reforms to the Mental Health Act



action-attainment – beyond autism



Land + other views


Humanists UK

Dying for dignity - Three key updates on assisted dying

Five ways religion intrudes on politics

Sacred or secular: rethinking public investment in church preservation

Education Policy Institute: disadvantaged pupils ‘less likely to be admitted’ to faith schools

The first UK-based dedicated helpline for people leaving high-control religions 📞

From pulpit to parliament: religious threats to legal abortion

Extremism

American evangelist ‘dark money’ infiltrating UK politics

MILLIONS OF POUNDS SPENT BY CHURCH OF ENGLAND TO EVANGELISE SCHOOLCHILDREN

CONCERN FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS AS FIRST SIKH ‘COURT’ ESTABLISHED


Land justice UK – Land and Food


Homes for us



Global feedback



A win in the fight for land rights – PETITION



Land worker’s alliance



Human rights



Fawcett Society

14 August


Fabian Society



The British Institute of Human Rights

human rights – EASY READ

Kirsten



Just Fair

17 September

Human rights videos

Standing up for our everyday rights ⭐


Equality + human rights commission



Fly the flag for human rights



Refugee action

the role of the past in today’s racism against refugees

Companies including Serco make millions from refugees’ misery in the UK’s for-profit asylum system

We need to talk about racism within the asylum system

video - history



The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants

Our manifesto calls for 5 key things:



1. Rights – Everyone should be able to thrive, no matter where we’re from

2. Safety – We must welcome people who seek sanctuary on our shores

3. Dignity – We all deserve to live with dignity and feel safe in our homes and workplaces

4. Justice – We should all be able to defend our rights and hold the government accountable

5. Community – We all deserve to find care and belonging in our communities



Migrants organised



Medact



Patients not passports – A toddler charged £70k for life saving NHS care – ACTION


Freedom from torture

Horticultural therapy

Bread group


Safe passage


Detention Action



WHICH - Food prices increasing



Third sector + campaigning



Third Sector – Governance bulletin

Latest accounts for the London Clinic show that the highest earner, who is not identified, received a salary package of between £510,000 and £520,000 in 2020

This is a charity – Wendy


Fifth former Oxfam GB staffer sanctioned after DRC sexual misconduct investigation

King Charles's charity warned over working in Bahrain

Church of England announces £100m fund after slavery links

Charity 'won't be silenced' by Israel blacklisting

Average CEO pay at large charities rises to £175,000, survey shows

Christian charity pledges £7m in reparation payments over its past links to slavery

Charity for single parents adopts four-day week

Paul Streets: Hope and optimism in Great Yarmouth


IPPR

Healthy places, prosperous lives

✉️ The Progressive Insider


Carnegie Trust

including kindness in public services



NAVCA


Fast minds – Kingston


Staywell - Kingston



kick it – stop smoking – kingston



Man + boy


well-being courses at Kingston Adult Education



Silverfit Kingston - over 45’s Fitness Sessions

contact jennifer@silverfit.org.uk



Kingston Voluntary Action (KVA)

23 July + 20 October + 27 January 2025



4 in 10 children in London live in poverty


1 in 4 are living in poverty after housing costs

Source: London’s poverty profile 2021



Update


Sheila McKechnie Foundation

Problem Tree planning tool

100 Campaigns that Changed the World podcast

Social change grid tool

Free campaign toolkit

The Scottish government ‘s consultation well-being + sustainable development bill

Change unfolding


LawWorks



Law for change



Green + Black cross



Support + more ideas



Amnesty International

Israel Repeatedly Committed War Crimes With US Weapons

Belarus



Patient safety learning

Mental illness is a lie which causes untold damage

hospital safety for diabetes patients, institutional misogyny, climate change, and more…

Whistleblowing, patient feedback, visiting restrictions + events…

Latest hub highlights: Misogyny, crosswords, Ockenden…

Mind the implementation gap, vaccination programmes, mesh removal

Patients died after catalogue of errors by Priory mental health chain

Hundreds of thousands more women than men prescribed powerful anti-anxiety drugs ‘harder to come off than heroin’

Listening to families, safety management systems

including more events for example

Pinned down, force-fed and drugged into ‘zombie-like’ state: ‘Systemic abuse’ at children’s hospitals revealed

Huntercombe group : a mental health scandal



Systemic failures, PSIRF, surviving scrubs, and more…

including ombudsman raising concerns about human rights in Mental Health

https://www.pslhub.org/blogs/entry/4739-human-rights-of-mental-health-patients-violated-amid-crisis-in-care-regulator-warns/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/human-rights-mental-health-care-crisis-b2234510.html



Bed shortages, painful hysteroscopy, revised NatSSIPs, and more…

Prescribing antidepressants for chronic pain lacks evidence, experts say

Trust must pay £200k to whistleblower it subjected to ‘campaign of harassment’

Women’s healthcare in Britain ‘worse than in China and Saudi Arabia’

Three-quarters of children detained under mental health act are girls, new report warns

Trust spent £680k in failed attempt to fight whistleblower

The sinister side of medicine

Eight resources on eating disorders

Mothers and babies being put at risk due to unsafe NHS maternity services

Forgotten heroes, whistleblowing, thrombosis misdiagnosis

Leading for patient safety, ADHD diagnosis, private surgery

'Misogyny’ and ‘medical patriarchy’ widespread at major trust, reports find

The elephant in the room: Patient Safety and Integrated Care Systems

NHS trust to review all suicides since 2017

Drug firms funding UK patient groups that lobby for NHS approval of medicines

Trust given warning notice over rapid tranquillisation

World Patient Safety Day, Lucy Letby verdict, Patient Safety Partners

Co-production with communities as a solution to health inequalities

Long-lasting sexual dysfunction after taking antidepressants: Lack of recognition harmful to patients

Warning to millions who have been prescribed popular antidepressants with potential side-effect that sparks long-term sexual dysfunction

duty of candour + PSIRF

NHS computer issues linked to patient harm

CQC admits it is failing to keep patients safe



Inpatient mental health – a digital desert

getting people to accept restraints – seclusion – electro convulsive treatment – forced imprisonment – forced medication as human rights abuse is an uphill struggle – Wendy



Patient Safety Commisioner

The Hughes report: options for redress for those harmed by valproate and pelvic mesh



Patient association

6 August

13 August

Manifesto 2024

Take patient partnership from theory to practice

Make increasing the availability of quality care a national priority

Place health at the heart of government

Deliver genuine two-way communication between patients and the NHS

Provide the workforce that patients need



Published guidance for Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) teams

the plan for health + care services to work with people + communities


https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Easy-read-Working-with-People-and-Communities.pdf


Start engagement early

Provide clear and accessible public information

Build relationships with excluded groups

Co-produce and redesign services and tackle system priorities in partnership with people and communities



Nutrition Checklist

The NHS Constitution for England

Public Health Scotland CEO: Poverty costing NHS £2.3 billon

Government writes off £1.4bn of PPE from Covid deal



Just Treatment

As laid out in this important article by clinical psychologist Sanah Ahsan

our current approach to mental health care is centred on purely medical responses to "individual" conditions

But we know that issues such as poverty, debt and housing play a huge role – in fact, 73% of Just Treatment supporters who filled out our recent survey on mental health cited material conditions as a key cause of poor mental health



A landmark legal case against big pharma greed

Fighting for our children’s lives


Engage Britain



Maytree



ZERO SUICIDE ALLIANCE – FREE TRAINING

Autism training



Suicide + co



Suicide Crisis



Citizen UK

Make every contact count – RESOURCES



Kings Fund



Kings Fund do provide FREE spaces – just ask for one - our voices are important



23 July

11- 12 September

26 September

16 October – supporting healthier lives – the shift towards prevention

5 – 6 November

19 November



FREE ONLINE COURSE - Play full: getting creative with design thinking in health and care



you called we came”

open wounds - online

Transforming power relationships in partnership working

Power over

Power with

Power to

Power is seen as finite and zero-sum – you either have it or you don’t

Use of authority to coerce, control and repress others seeking to claim power

Power is negative and repressive and perpetuates inequity

Power with others through collective action and coalition

Mutual support, solidarity and collaboration

The power of humans to be agents of change and to exercise their agency



Strong foundations: why everyone needs good emotional health – and how to achieve it

Public harms: racism and misogyny in policing, education, and mental health services



Health and Wellbeing Bulletin

Including poor health + housing + obesity + bad roads

Health Management and Policy Alert: 10 September 2021

Including Home for all


What is needed to reduce ethnic minority health inequalities

How much longer and further are health inequalities set to rise

Poverty and ill health: what's the connection?


How will integrated care systems work under the Health and Care Bill

Including details of a free course “an introduction to leading with kindness and compassion in health + social care



The power of those small acts of kindness

Six ways to create a culture for integration 

 

Experiment + learn together

 

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Have a clear shared vision

-------------------

 

Set the tone

I

 

I

 

I

 

Understand each others worlds

 

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Use data to prompt discussion

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Share challenges + strengths

 



Restraint, segregation and seclusion review: progress report

Discharge from mental health inpatient settings

Devolution in Manchester has improved health system, study finds

From refugee to NHS doctor, Dr Waheed Arian tells his story on our podcast

Listen to mums: ending the postcode lottery on perinatal care

General election briefing: health is our greatest asset



What could provider collaboratives look like

Not really outcome-based commissioning? Certainly not people commissioning? – Wendy



UCL Institute of Health Equity

Health inequalities: Improving accountability in the NHS, August 2023

update



Natasha Devon



Brooke Siem


Westminster Health Forum - WHF - policy conference – PROVIDE FREE SPACES – JUST APPLY

18 September



Who cares 4 the carers

A relaxation technique to help you


Carers rights UK


Carers UK



Carers Trust

triangle of care



People’s theatre



Camden people’s theatre



Degenerate Fox Theatre



Underground lights



Brixton House


Autograph

Call for Writing: Photography, Colonialism and Climate Justice



Somerset House



Somerset House Studios



Watermans – events


Exchange – Twickenham


MAIA



Justice



Haldane society of socialist lawyers



Barefoot Lawyer


London legal support trust



Law centre Network

South West London Law centre



Leigh Day


Appeal



Law for life


High pay centre



4 day working week



Platform London

25 July – when will this system stop treating humans as a number ? No – not even a number – because even a number has a place

12 September

What’s the truth about mental health and unemployment?

strength based learning


Basic Income UK

Treating causes not symptoms

Video of launch for treating causes not symptoms: basic income as a public health measure



UBI gives people the chance to make their own choices, to make decisions for themselves, their communities, their households, their lives and their futures

UBI does everything from sharing out problems, to delivering a feminist vision to tackling the climate emergency, to stopping benefit traps

It does all those things, but ultimately UBI is democracy

Baroness Natalie Bennett



Every step we take towards a Basic Income will liberate power in the hands of the citizen

Paddy Ashdown



Andy Burnham joins call for basic income trial

Report from Manchester University

How universal basic income can tackle anxiety + depression

Stockton, California who released incredible results from the experiment there

Our proposal for a community led basic income pilot in Jarrow and Grange, East Finchley

A beginner’s guide to basic income costings

Universal basic income motion passed by Richmond Council

Large Basic Income for Artists pilot launched in Ireland



Evaluation of welsh basic income pilot

The UK Four-Day Week Pilot One Year On



Autonomy


The world transformed

universal basic income discussion

community land trusts

Basic income + our mental health



Newsletter of the European Network for the Fair Sharing of Working Time



Invite your MP to the #FlexforAll briefing



The peace + justice project



Transform Justice

Prosecuting mental health – accountability or criminalisation

A different understanding How the CJS discriminates against those with autism

When should a family dispute end up in court

Barely legal - The experience of remote tribunal hearings

The forgotten people - Prisoners on remand in the pandemic

Does L&D stop the revolving door of police custody

Does diversion from court have an image problem

Computer says yes – you will pay a fine and get a criminal record

Swipe right to plead guilty

Children imprisoned on remand – the stark reality of racial bias

From cells to streets - the revolving door of crime and homelessness

Many on Mental Health wards are also homeless – from Manchester data – do we need to think about this differently ? - Wendy



Court Watch



Equal Justice USA

the system does not make us safer

✍️The Harm of Misinformation

Lauren



INQUEST

22 July

Truth, justice + accountability

no more deaths campaign

Charlie + Jason + Hennie

Progress on the legal aid for inquests campaign

Deaths of racialised people in prison 2015 – 2022: Challenging racism and discrimination

Black men seven times more likely to die following police restraint but racism not being addressed

Family Consultation Day report on deaths of people with mental ill health, a learning disability or autism

👐New INQUEST podcast shines a light on powerful resistance by bereaved families

🔉LISTEN NOW: Podcast exploring policing's fatal consequences through the decades

🔉LISTEN NOW: New episode asking, from Cherry Groce to Chris Kaba, what happens when the police kill?

40 Years of INQUEST: Unlocking the truth



Newsletter including events

NO more deaths



Justice – EVENTS



Restorative justice 4 all



The Howard League

International Women’s Day

A day in the community where we celebrate and empower women

Unfortunately, for women in prison, today won’t be a day for celebrations

There were almost 5,000 receptions of women into prison last year, and more than half of them were for women on remand

Too many women are being swept up into the justice system when it is not necessary or appropriate

Most women in prison have a history of childhood abuse or trauma, they need a safe space and support



Prison life during the pandemic

International Women's Day and other news

Commission on Crime and Gambling Related Harms

Criminal justice lessons from across the globe

The decades-long injustice of the IPP sentence must end

PAVA spray – NO



In the last year, prisoners self-harmed at a rate of once every 10 minutes

17 August 2022



Spark Inside

A future that excites us!



User Voice



Koestler Arts



Faircheck


Reprieve

American Mercinaries: Killing in Yemen on BBC Iplayer

capital punishment is racist - PETITION



Fairsquare



Rainbow Migration

Happy LGBT+ History Month!🌈



Stonewall

Happy LGBT+ History Month!🌈



Decolonising futures



Allout



Equality act Japan



Liberty – know your rights

Who profits from our broken asylum system?

new official definition of ‘extremism’

5 WAYS THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS MAKES THE UK A BETTER PLACE



The next government - 4 July

Protect everyone's human rights

Treat everyone with dignity and respect

Defend everyone's ability to challenge those in power



UNJUST UK


Black lives matter



Fighting NHS Charging – What can you do now



Big brother watch

👁️ Orwell's predictions are coming true

Baroness Kidron



political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable

and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind

George Orwell



Why is PayPal trying to silence activists

Secret units SPYING on your speech

🎥Whistleblower: 'army spied on UK citizens'

Edward +Annie + David + Jeffrey + Thomas

🎥Inside the post-Snowden legal challenges

Stop the Met Police using facial recognition surveillance - PETITION

Minister meddled in facial recognition probe

Free e-book

🚨Stop Govt spying on all of our bank accounts

Harry

🕵️‍♂️ 5 things to know about the new Snooper’s Charter

🎥 Ex-undercover cop reveals surveillance tactics

👀 New censorship tactics revealed

five threats to your privacy in this election

£230 million of taxpayers money on facial recognition software

We know this software is faulty - Wendy


NETPOL – the network for police monitoring



Copwatch



Bhatt Murphy Solicitors



Public interest law centre

Spycops in CND: Request for information



Good Law project

The fixers who made £98m from the Tories’ VIP lane



Fair square



Other information sources



the voice

We need urgent action on Black mental health’



People’s Voice media



Full Fact

Checking manifesto – JULY 2024

Knife crime in England and Wales is rising, even if you exclude London

What size are the UK’s armed forces?

Political parties misleading leaflets

Work and pensions secretary incorrectly claims PIP is worth ‘thousands of pounds a month’

Liz


Toxic Bonds



Declassified UK


The Democracy Collaborative

think – do - change

Sanders and McDonnell on community wealth

The “Preston model”

Land banks and community land trusts

Community wealth building as health building

Scotland’s guide to community wealth building

wealth supremacy – how extractive economy + the biased rules of capitalism drive today’s crises


Democracy next



🇬🇧 The UK election has resulted in a landslide majority for the Labour party

However, the incoming government should not forget that just a few weeks ago, a YouGov poll showed “a lack of trust in British politicians is the biggest reason non-voters are choosing not to vote,” and that among reform possibilities for the House of Lords chamber, a “rolling citizens’ assembly” was most favourable



How to assemble a Citizens' Assembly: a guide!



A Blueprint for the EU Citizens' Assembly 🇪🇺



🪜Big questions, detailed answers: Our definitive How-To Guide to Citizens' Assemblies is here



🇮🇪How Ireland transformed democracy

people assemblies in USA🇺🇸

people assemblies in German museums! 🇩🇪

Parkdale People’s Economy

🗽 participatory budgeting process



Community wealth building comes to Scotland

How to Make a Democracy Economy

South Korea explores community wealth building

How NY can enter ‘a new era of public power’

A global beacon’ for community wealth

North Ayrshire Council in Scotland

a hunger for a new approach



Decolonising wealth project



D@W

Technology

Innovation is not designed to create happiness

It's designed a lot of the time to facilitate one's needs and desires, to stimulate desire and all of those kinds of things

It's certainly about doing all of that, but it's not about making the world better for people

And it's not about improving their lives in any way

It's about trying to actually create a world in which more profit is to be had



Military

The one sector of government that doesn’t experience austerity is the military budget

To what degree is competition between states somehow rather related, tightly related, to the competition between capitalists



Cooperatives and socialism

cities after…

Office spaces as homes

Ask Prof Wolff: Is Nordic Socialism a Progressive Step

Swedish socialism undone

How Capitalism Shapes our Food

Coping with (and Resisting) Capitalism



Corporate watch

Who arms Israel ?

The national wealth service



Tax Justice Network

You need to be very strong

To do the job that she did you really have to be your own person

You couldn’t be the kind of person who worries what people might think of you, and you really have to say, no, I’m not going to adapt, I’m not going to fall into that mould

I’m going to break it and keep breaking

Paul Caruana Galizia



Podcast: Tax Haven Ireland

Jersey’s Pandora’s Boxes: The Tax Justice Network podcast

The Swiss banking clean-up is a mirage

Butler Britain: PODCAST

10 measures to expose sanctioned Russian oligarchs’ hidden assets

'Non Doms' unmasked: PODCAST

📡Drug War Myths📡

How City of London finance is making us poorer – infographic

people power



Tax Justice UK

Pandora Papers shows transparency failure is an accountability failure

The Prime Minister pays the same rate of tax as a teacher but earns £2.2 million

right time for taxes on wealth

How the super rich avoid inheritance tax

International pressure to tax billionaires is growing

Six wealth tax policies that could raise £50 billion



In a world struggling with a cost of living crisis recent research by Oxfam and ActionAid has shed light on a shocking reality

In 2021 and 2022 the world's 722 largest companies reaped windfall profits totalling a staggering $1 trillion annually

It couldn't be clearer that tackling the cost of living crisis requires a bold approach

This has to include higher taxes on both companies and the wealthy

The cost of living crisis affects ordinary individuals and families who struggle to make ends meet as prices soar for essential goods and services while wages struggle to keep pace

Meanwhile, wealthy corporations have seen their profits skyrocket during these challenging times



This discrepancy highlights the urgent need for systemic change

12 July 2023



Tax Watch UK

£2 billion in lost tech tax?



Democracy for sale

Starmer's NHS 'fixer' has made £8m+ from private health consultancy



Open Democracy

Gaia

Linda

Kenyan women are denouncing femicide. Will anyone listen?

Conspiracies and US cash: The fight to centre abortion in UK’s culture wars

Are we not human?’ Uganda’s LGBTIQ community reels as anti-gay law upheld

Uganda’s U-turn on refugee policy leaves Sudanese asylum seekers stranded

Racism in UK maternal care: ‘Why aren’t we being listened to?’

Do we really need a Global Commission on Modern Slavery?

Is Shell’s exit from Nigeria a front to dodge legal responsibilities?

Yes, slavery and empire did make Britain rich

Labour Lovebombed by lobbyists ❤️



Benefit crackdown will worsen an already terrible system

Universal basic income – 3 day week – well being / doughnut economy – we are not cogs in the capitalist system ? We are people End Wealth supremacy now ! - Wendy



Government secrecy still rife as departments consistently breach FOI deadlines



How the DWP fought to withhold evidence its policies kill disabled people

information obtained using Freedom of Information act – Wendy



Exclusive: Cops share dozens of photos of dead bodies and crime scenes

information obtained using Freedom of Information act – Wendy



Holding COP28 in Dubai is a joke - Letting Charles open it is a bigger one

King Charles is a big landowner – Land justice now ! - end to wealth supremacy now ! - Wendy



David

information obtained using Freedom of Information act – Wendy



Government extensively profiled NHS doctor

information obtained using Freedom of Information act – Wendy



90% of Met officers disciplined for racism still work for force

Met Police officers kept jobs after sending racist and sexist messages

Met firearms officers: 2,000 complaints, 5 dismissals

Revealed: Police began monitoring ‘social justice’ activity after BLM protests

Racism in UK maternal care: ‘Why aren’t we being listened to’

Women disproportionately affected by soaring Mental Health Act detentions

Synagogue church of all nations scandal

Men’s Catholic order gave secret millions to ‘deceptive’ anti-abortion centres



Forget GDP growth, it’s sustainable wellbeing we need to aim for

Finance firms gave Labour £2m in two years before banker bonuses U-turn

UK accused of being ‘complicit’ in Gaza deaths after giving Elbit new contract

How the UK government rebranded protest as extremism

Conservative Party took £1.3m from donor group linked to Israeli settlements

A dying baby, a Trump tweet: Inside network setting global right-wing agenda

Republicans’ anti-LGBTQ vitriol is working – don’t take our rights for granted



The next prime minister could fix the housing crisis. Here’s how

Revealed: UK private tenants hit by record annual rent hikes



Landlords urged to ‘take advantage’ of soaring rents in ‘grotesque’ email

Private renters will face ‘winter of hardship’ after autumn statement

Eight landlord MPs spoke during debate on renters’ rights

Revealed: Housing associations urged ministers to let them increase rents

Landlords of hundreds of thousands of vulnerable tenants secretly lobbied the government to let them charge more rentwhile paying their executives nearly £300,000 a year each

I am facing my second no-fault eviction in two years. Renting is broken

The Budget is great for landlords but a disaster for renters

I’m an NHS children’s doctor. Our housing system is driving a national health emergency



Local councils call bailiffs over debts of just £3

Shocking decline” of HMP Wandsworth isn't an outlier



Labour accused of ‘racism’ after ‘disgusting’ treatment of Palestinian man

Labour and Tories fail to commit to exposing universities’ secret donors



How Big Pharma preys on poor countries – and patients pay the price

People + countries with less wealth always pay more for everything ? - Wendy



The UK doesn’t work for Disabled people

There are 16 million of us – Wendy



A new and silent land grab is underway – we must stop it

Is Shell’s exit from Nigeria a front to dodge legal responsibilities?

Business as usual for EU and Azerbaijan amid Nagorno-Karabakh ‘ethnic cleansing’

The silent serial killer: 391 deaths in 25 years at the UK border

Omid + Saratch + Abd + Houmed + Husham +

Tomatoes + greed



Minister who owns beef farm approved £5m ad campaign promoting red meat

information obtained using Freedom Of information (FOI) requests - Wendy



Foxglove

Facebook whistleblowers in the UK

Why Facebook can’t fix itself

Hey, YouTube – leave our kids alone

What you need to know about Palantir, the US firm in line for a £480m NHS deal

Breaking Big Tech’s chokehold in Brussels



Article 11 trust

Freedom of assembly



Campaign for freedom of information

ICO should end its near invisibility on FOI

Call for tougher FOI enforcement and other news

Encouraging FOI news

ICO action against government departments for FOI delays

Social housing and Freedom of Information

FOI challenges on national security, social housing and the environment



Heather Brooke



Index on censorship

5 August

24 October



SLAPPS

Music and protest - Iranian rap to Fairytale of New York - Censoring pro-Palestinian art - Goodbye to Kissinge

Hacking is far more than a security issue. It chills free speech

We must not stay silent on Iran’s use of the death penalty

Remembering the women who pay the ultimate price for freedom

Ukraine – why we can not afford to look away

Iran passes death sentence on rapper Toomaj Sale



Project Censored



Freedom film network



Article 19 – defending freedom of expression + information

What we want for the internet cannot be accomplished with the state of concentration we currently have…

Because concentration creates bottlenecks of power

Agustina Del Campo, free speech expert



Anger is not sufficient to maintain motivation over time;

you also need to have hope,

and to believe that you can make a difference

Kathryn Sikkink, author and human rights academic



It is beyond outrageous that the authorities plan to deprive millions of girls and women of access to schools and universities and the right to education in a bid to subdue their spirit of resistance and freedom-seeking

Saloua Ghazouani, ARTICLE 19’s Director for Middle East and North Africa



I chose journalism to be close to people

It might not be easy to change the reality, but at least I could bring their voice to the world

Shireen Abu Akleh - Palestinian–American journalist



Protecting the Right to Protest

How can we end violence against women journalists?

75 years on: How human rights heroes create change

social media4peace +

Belarus: Time to make some noise

tackling hate speech online

celebrating women free expression heroes

Speaking up for digital freedoms worldwide

Maria Baronova

anti – SLAPPS conference

ending SLAPPS in Poland

UK and USA: Traditionally ‘Open’ societies have begun closing

Quiz

silenced podcasts



Younger people



NSPCC

Nobody is normal



Become

Manifesto for new parliament – VIDEO



Kinship



Causeway



Place2Be



Home start



Plan International UK



Charlie Waller



we are the agenda



Young Minds

Society needs to change Have your say on how

Supporting your child with anxiety

Anxiety

depression

Tips for coping with peer pressure

Toxic masculinity and mental health

self care

tips on the start of your eating disorder recovery journey

Rediscovering your identity in eating disorder recovery

Tips for coping in these anxious times

Worksheet

Read our tips and advice for supporting a friend

new resource on panic attacks

Free online training

building positive mental health – including worksheets

culturally-informed guides with young people

support if you are experiencing Islamophobia

What to do if you’re experiencing eating problem

A guide to eating problems for parents/carers

How to support a friend with an eating disorder

How to have a conversation with young people about mental health

Stress bucket – video

Five tips for looking after yourself during family arguments

How I'm learning to cope with travel anxiety

Aaron

Jayda



Assembly - Malala

Fighting for the right to learn 🎓

From Afghan girls, to you: “our story is full of hope”

Hearing from Afghan girls on Malala Day

My body - my sanctuary - how body shaming affects girls beyond self-esteem

From Guyana to Indonesia, Assembly is the place for girls' voices 📢

When the world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful 🌟

"Stay true to what you believe in and let your art reflect it" 🎨

"We are here to get our futures back" 🌟✊🌎

My unforgettable chat with Malala in Brazil 🌟

Brazilian girls are deciding their future 🇧🇷

Using your voice for policy change

Using comedy as a vehicle for activism in Nigeria 🇳🇬

Manizha + Zahra +Nila

Nelson + Malala

Saundarya



Girls Are Taking Over 🙌



Coram’s Young Citizens



End violence against women + girls



Young Women's Trust

Flexible working …



Women’s Aid



Refuge


Maternal Mental Health Alliance

Maela

10 November 2022 – Report - Key perinatal mental health findings

40%of deaths within the year after pregnancy were from mental health-related causes

Suicide remains the leading cause of direct maternal death in the first postnatal year

Suicide during pregnancy or up to six weeks after is increasing:
In 2020, women were three times more likely to die by suicide during this period compared to 2017-19

Very few women who died by suicide in 2020 had formal mental health diagnoses, but significant numbers had a history of trauma

Maternal mental health briefing for integrated care systems

We want all integrated care boards and partnerships to work collectively across the NHS, local government, other public services, and voluntary sector organisations to provide services that support maternal mental health, reduce health inequalities and use public money wisely so that all women and their families can access the care they need

 

Maternity Action

 

The Loss Collective



The Miscarriage Association



The Ectopic Pregnancy Trust



Tommy’s



Sands



The Birth Trauma Association



Antenatal Results and Choices



British Pregnancy Advisory Service



Twins Trust Bereavement Service



The Lullaby Trust



Off the record – BRISTOL

July 🌞



The Purple Elephant Project



Arts Emergency



Child poverty action group



Fantastic for families



Family lives – update

preparing your teenager for adulthood



Barnardo’s

Ask pornography sites and the government to protect children more



IVISON



Government bodies

mental health act statistics – annual figures 2021 - 22

EASY READ

Still, we suffer – Wendy



Draft mental health bill 2022

draft mental health bill – EASY READ



Mental Health Strategy Delivery Plan for 2022/23

Rapid review into data on mental health inpatient settings: final report and recommendations

Proposed NHS mental health access standards for patients

Energy Bills Support Scheme explainer

Decision aid to guide healthcare professional-patient discussions on sleeping pill prescriptions published

Government must act now to protect tenants from ‘catastrophic’ impact of poor housing on health, warn MPs



Health research authority (HRA)



Health quality improvement partnership (HQIP)



Care quality commission - CQC

From Paternalism to human rights

Joanna Moncrieff

Restraint, segregation and seclusion review: progress report

Out of sight- who cares

Who I am Matters – A report into the experiences of being in hospital for people with a learning disability and autistic people

Our revised plan and approach for transformation

Restrictive practice — a failure of person-centred care planning?

Our approach to assessing local authorities


Pop up care homes



National Audit office

Organised crime may be profiting from student loan fraud worth £60m – report

Improving productivity could release tens of billions for government priorities



Office for National Statistics

A report from the Office of National Statistics revealed an estimated 778 people died in England and Wales while homeless in 2019 – an annual increase of 7%

This is the fifth year in a row that the number of people who have died has increased

It is the highest number since records began

The lasting impact of violence against women and girls

Beneath our feet: improving estimates of UK land value

ONS blog - Inclusive measures of growth – How ONS is moving Beyond GDP

Imprisonment of young adults

Boosting the UK’s research capabilities to help solve the challenges of the day

Geographic divide in health, disability and unpaid care

ONS - Disability: When the numbers alone are simply not enough

Measuring well-being

Census 2021 – Shining a light on the population

Measuring wellbeing and going ‘Beyond GDP’



DHSC Voluntary Sector Newsletter – INCLUDING HELPLINE FOR SUPPORTING + BEHAVIOUR



Ombudsman news special – annual review launched

local government + social care ombudsman – update

Ombudsman considers everyday human rights in new report

Broken trust: making patient safety more than just a promise



local government association (LGA)

Inclusive economies and healthy futures: Supporting place-based action to reduce health inequalities

Debate Not Hate: the impact of abuse on local democracy

improvement + innovation

Get in on the Act: Mental Health Act 2022

Top tips and key actions for successful collaborative partnership working across mental health services

update

events



London Assembly

Help with cost of living hub

Energy advice london

older londoners

Public meetings

Including monthly Mayor’s Question time

free school meals in London to 2025



My society – including support with FOI requests



PETITION – Vital information hidden



NIHR

Events



Stop talking and take action: working together to tackle health inequalities

Housing support services in hospitals may speed up discharge

Antipsychotics pose previously unknown risks to dementia patients, NIHR study finds



together in research – spring 2024



Health and Social Care Committee



Health + Safety Executive (HSE)



Adult social care update



Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)

New end of life and palliative care report

SCIELine: New strengths-based approaches resources and learning

free mental capacity act e-learning +

My day my way

Strengths-based practice for council services and more

Strengths-based leadership / safeguarding / workforce

what is strong rather than what is wrong

Strengths – based approaches

Covid-19, learning disabilities and autism

Why are we stuck in hospital ?

Nobody listened to me

John Evans

Accelerating reform



Wandsworth



Healthwatch Wandsworth



Enough is enough - Hard-hitting report tackles ongoing health inequalities in mental health services



Community Empowerment Network (CEN)



In the UK, people with brown skin are being denied equal and compassionate mental health care

They are more likely to be brought to and kept in hospital without their consent

They are more likely to access mental health services through the police and criminal justice systems, and to find themselves unwell and back again once released

People with brown skin, particularly men, are more likely to be forcibly restrained and given more than the recommended amount of medication

WCEN 2021



SoundMinds



Canerows



Share



Shared lives plus



PohWER



VoiceAbility



Rethink Advocacy



Wandsworth Adult social care



Richmond



Richmond community drug + alcohol service (RCDAS)

Mon – Weds – Thursday – Friday – 9am to 430pm

Tuesday 9am to 1pm women only

Tuesday 1pm to 430pm

Ilex House

Unit 2

94 Holly Road

TW14HF

0203 228 3020



Mortlake community association



ETNA



Cooking up


Whitton Network

part of Neighbourhood care group



SW LONDON ICS – update



Richmond town centre has a new ‘Safe Space’ on Friday and Saturday nights



Arts Richmond



Richmond MIND

Hearing Voices Group +

sometimes we do not realise we are lonely

We’re expanding our Psychotherapy and Counselling service and looking for new members of the team

mindfulness – weekly from October 2022 to July 2024

Mental Health Act stats demonstrate increasing racial injustice

well-being walks

well being centre



Art Group

Basic art materials are provided

The group takes place every Wednesday – 1-2.30pm at the Vineyard Café in Richmond

contact

peernetwork@rbmind.org



Art group Turner House

contact

ewa.rudz@rbmind.org


Compared to other London boroughs Richmond has

The highest rate of hospital admission for mental health

The second highest rate of admission for self-harm

The 4th worst youth wellbeing score

A third of those aged 16-19 already have a mental health diagnosis

Statistics from the Richmond Borough Health and Care Plan 2019-2021 and the Mental Health Needs Assessment 2022


Your ideas wanted

contact engagement@rbmind.org



Join carers community

contact carers@rbmind.org



Mind responds to announcement of Work Capability Assessment reforms



free mindfulness workshop every Monday



Ruils

Bridge the gap – support booklet

housing repair survey

update



Together as one



Still building bridges



Richmond Aid



Dose of Nature


Rape crisis



Everyone’s invited



Polyester



Aurora New Dawn



Off the record – Twickenham



Look ahead



Richmond and Hillcroft Adult Community College



United response

Ruben

Easy News: Personal Independence Payments - what might change and how you can have your say



Choice support

July – summer update



Richmond film society



Healthwatch Richmond

Guide to Richmond’s NHS, Care & Support

Help with the cost of living - information event; and Support with accessing food and other needs All useful info for you

Money worries?

Lots of info and assistance available

Learn the signs of sepsis

resources to help if your child seems unwell

Persistent cough? get it checked by your GP

Lung Cancer

Connect to Tech

Anti-Bullying week - Make a noise! Plus help with cyber-bullying

Screening children for Type 1 diabetes risk; Proposals for children's cancer services location

Bowel cancer

end-of-life compassionate support

Support with domestic abuse

Information about blood pressure

Bowel cancer information

Hospital discharge - Stalking - awareness - Richmond Park accessible minibus returns!

Support to stop smoking

YOUTH COUNCIL PODCAST: CHALLENGING 'TOXIC MASCULINITY'

INTEGRATED CARE BOARD - AGM - 30 September



Richmond CVS

25 September

Including Directory of services

free 1-2-1 digital support

Talking Bubble – Telephone Befriending with Language Options

Free home sensors for unpaid carers in Richmond

Richmond CVS Children and Young Peoples Digest July 24

Health + well-being update - JULY

update



One Richmond



The sleep charity



Richmond council – LBRUT – events + news

July with Richmond Libraries

Weekly information

Careplace – Richmond

Struggling to pay your fuel bills The Council can help

Richmond Furniture Scheme

Fuel Grant Scheme

Additional grants are also available from the Household Support Fund for food, bills and other essential items, via Citizens Advice Richmond and Richmond AID

Free home sensors for unpaid carers in Richmond

cost of living hub

cost of living directory

Mental Health Awareness Week: Coping with feelings of anxiety

Free minibus service to Richmond Park

Move more at home

recycle your small electricals

Eight ways to help reduce your risk of dementia



Centre for Governance + Scrutiny (CfGS)

25 July

council constitutions owned + understood by all

Including Anticipating, managing + adapting framework

governance & scrutiny newsletter

including the review of council constitutions + the operation of schemes of delegation for decision making



The listening circle


My life films charity



Inspired Hub



Hounslow



Alliance Art



West London Queer project



Hounslow Healthwatch

You can find details of health services in your area from NHS Choices

Call 999 for emergency services

Emergency and urgent care health services – 111

Hounslow Council: Out of hours social care support – 020 8583 2222 For more information please click here

Hounslow Council: For more information on Adult social care, please click here

Hounslow Council: For more information on Children and families, please click here

CarePlace: Provides a Directory of Services, Information and Guidance enabling direct access to local care and community services For more information, please clickh ere

West London NHS Trust – Mental health crisis: 24-hour helpline 0800 328 4444 For more information, please click here

safe space Hounslow crisis helpline – 0203 475 5185 – 11am to 11pm – 365 days per year



Hounslow Council

INFORMATION FOR CARERS

Hounslow matters weekly newsletter

Free green job training – why not in all of the UK ? - Wendy

Thrive weekly newsletter - including events

carers support update



Heston Repair Café

contact

hestonrepaircafe@gmail.com


Food for thought

Downton Abbey actor Jim Carter OBE has today offered support for Hounslow Council’s trailblazing new programme

Grow for the Future

a first-of-its-kind policy in the UK to turn wasteland across the London borough into new allotments - community gardens and orchards to grow food and pair them with local schools to teach children about healthy living - sustainability and biodiversity

Heston farm community space to grow fruit + vegetables – get involved



Free trees



English lessons for asylum seekers

contact

maryam@hthounslow.org.uk



Cost of living + general support

Hounslow House

Fridays – 10 -1pm



gambling support

baby cafe



Diabetes REWIND programme



Bell Square – what’s on



The coproduction academy



Hounslow Wellbeing network



Sutton +



Sutton Healthwatch – Mental Well Being



Mental Health Foundation

The economic case for investing in the prevention of mental health conditions in the UK

what drives health inequalities



Mental health tips

Mental health and the cost-of-living crisis report: another pandemic in the making?

Check out our ways to cope with anxiety

Working at system level to eradicate health inequalities for the UK’s black community

A pebble in a still pond: the impact of community-led work on health inequalities



Sutton Mental Health Foundation

Sutton Wellbeing Line

We all get more forgetful as we get older, but there are things you can do about it

The way you live your life, and in particular the way in which you eat,

can make a huge difference to your memory, slowing down cognitive decline or even reversing it



Westminster Drug project (WDP)


Mental Health Mates



The Health Foundation

22 July

How less pay has affected people's mental health and wellbeing

Action as an antidote to despair

Putting people at the heart of data-driven health systems to address inequalities

Taking action to build good health

including importance of social determinants

Let’s talk differently about health: why framing matters

A framework for NHS action on social determinants of health

A time for radical innovation and improvement

What’s important when building a strong learning community to drive improvement?

Can automation help with growing dissatisfaction among GPs?

Why housing matters for health

Moving to healthy homes

Wall-to-wall support: joining up public services and housing for vulnerable children, young people and families

This report argues that public services need to be more effectively joined up

It finds that a lack of joined-up public services is costing government up to £4.3 billion every year

These costs are a direct result of additional use of government services, such as housing or health, by young people and families who did not access adequate support or early help when they needed it



The NHS was never meant to go it alone



Doing more for less? A mixed-methods analysis of the experience of primary care networks in socioeconomically deprived areas



How can the next government take prevention from rhetoric to reality?



ROTA

5 September



Runnymede Trust



Good things Foundation

Minaj



Think Ahead



PCCS Books – Including Joanna Moncrieff’s book A straight talking introduction to psychiatric drugs – the truth about how they work + how to come off them

Black Identities – Student Discount – Hearing Voices – Wild Therapy

Therapists Challenging Racism and Oppression: The unheard voices



Likewise



Camden +



Side by side



Let’s talk Islington

StopSIM Coalition Petition

oxevision

Oxevision cameras and the Trust now in the Independent

Conversations Around Loneliness & Mental Health booklet



Body worn cameras

Any thoughts please contact

TheSidebySideNetwork@gmail.com


DIALOG+ and the Recovery Star



Dear Friends,

I was wondering if you have experience of either DIALOG+ or the Recovery Star

(or other stars – more about those here:History of the star+Recovery star 4)

There was an element of co-production in the Recovery Star for Mental Health, and there has since been an Un-Recovery Star, also from the user-survivor movement which outlines the things that work against our recovery

These are the questions that the DIALOG

tool asks

and these are the areas of the 4th Edition Recovery star

Note that it used to contain “work” but this has been dropped now



The Recovery Star covers ten outcome areas:

Managing mental health

Physical health

Living skills

Friends and community

Use of time

Relationships

Addictive behaviour

Home

Identity and self-esteem

Trust and hope



The Recovery Star (4th Edition) is underpinned by a five-stage, ten step Journey of Change model:



Stuck (1-2)

Accepting help (3-4)

Believing and trying (5-6)

Learning (7-8)

Self-reliance (9-10)



I would be interested to hear your opinions and in particular how you think they compare

Thanks

Bev

TheSidebySideNetwork@gmail.com



Stuart Low Trust



Find a balance



Stress Project



Mental Health collective



Support After Suicide


No Panic



McPin Foundation

Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry which uses the format of three lines

Here are our haikus

We hope you enjoy reading them

The Benefits System:
I have no money
Brown envelope arrives, phew
Do I deserve it?

Racism:
You pray to their gods
Then, under your burning cross,
You murdered them all

Propaganda:
Feeding me with lies
Why not report some good news?
Keeping me in fear



Benefits + Work



Pay PIP Now


It’s OK to not feel OK during challenging times



Codependency- The Unexpected Addicts


Inner Space



Free space Project


Talk4health



Kingston Hospital’s Health Talks podcast


South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLSTG)

Recovery college



New Hearing Voices Group in Teddington every 2nd Thursday of each month 5:30 -7pm - Starting 9 November

contact

involvement@swlstg.nhs.uk



SWLSTG STRATEGY MEETING -22 July

contact

involvement@swlstg.nhs.uk



Black thoughts 1st + 3rd Thursday of month 6.30 – 8pm

contact

involvement@swlstg.nhs.uk



Hope in depression


South London listens


Looseheadz


We add Heart


ELFT Trustalk Magazine



Every mind matter – NHS



Education



Sir Ken Robinson

education

A future for all of us …


Level 2 Qualifications – Without paying a penny


Covid-19: how tech could transform education


we find any learner – free training


London school of Economics – EVENTS


NEON



Power to people



Samaritans



LGBT Foundation



Galop



London Friend



Papyrus



SHOUT



Switchboard


SOS (Silence Of Suicide)


PSSD UK



Reclaim



Citizens commission on human rights international – the MH industry watchdog

Ban Electro convulsive treatment – PETITION

New black box warning ⬛💊

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Let's get the FDA to do its job

🔎💊Drugging Foster Care Children



World health organisation + UN commit to zero psychiatric coercion



UN Human Rights Council Condemns Forced Psychiatric Practices

Including Electro convulsive treatment - this report is many years old (2018) so why no action locally from Health + well-being board + Integrated Care Board ? - despite knowing about the issue ? - are these boards failing us ? - Wendy



Time magazine wrote :-

America has reached peak therapy why is our Mental Health getting worse ?

which states research suggests both misdiagnosis and overdiagnosis are common in psychiatry

One 2019 study even concluded that the criteria underlying psychiatric diagnoses are 'scientifically meaningless' due to their inconsistent metrics, overlapping symptoms, and limited scope

That's a sobering conclusion because diagnosis largely determines treatment

We need to look at “social determinates”of well being ?

Power to people ?

Housing + income ?

Well being / doughnut economies ? - Wendy



Study Exposing Financial Ties Between DSM Contributors And Pharma

CCHR Advocates For Ban On Electroshock Amid Concerns Raised By International Survey

💊STUDY QUESTIONS SERIOUS FLAWS IN $35 MILLION ANTIDEPRESSANT RESEARCH

📈EXPOSING SEXUAL ASSAULT IN PSYCHIATRIC CARE FACILITIES

🚫FDA PROPOSES NEW BAN ON ELECTRIC SHOCK THERAPY AT JUDGE ROTTENBERG CENTER

TWO-THIRDS OF ELECTROSHOCK VICTIMS ARE WOMEN



Synergi

9 July - MONTHLY

20 July – 18 August

19 – 21 July

22 - 25 July

20 -27 July

TheWindrush Caribbean Film Festival( in person and online)

Children of the Windrush Documentary by Fresh Arts
Queenie on Channel 4

update



BRAP



Involve



participatory budgeting



Common Wealth


Anti – slavery


Human dignity trust


Transform trade

Adidas

Not to spoil the mood this Valentine's Day... ❤️



Citizen Network

31 August



 

Inclusion – we welcome everyone

 

 

 

Community – we take care of each other

 

 

Democracy – we decide things together

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Everyone is a citizen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nature – we look after our world

 

 

 

 

Justice – we share what we have

 



New Economics Foundation

 

NEF’s founders wanted to:

  • Regenerate local economies and enrich poorer countries through self-reliant development

  • Work within ecological constraints, human needs for survival, social justice and self-fulfilment

  • Grow the green and renewable industries of the future and care for and maintain the built and natural environment

  • And reorganise work so it can meet human needs



Why antiracism means anticapitalism

People on the lowest incomes are paying even more of their salaries in tax under this government

Why the climate crisis means higher prices



well being economy – Wakefield

building a well being economy
do not believe the hype

Well being economy now ? - Wendy



We need universal basic services to tackle the climate crisis

Why carbon taxes should be spent on insulating the UK’s draughty homes

Government will pay landlords 5 times more than it will spend on affordable housing in next 4 years

The £58bn housing benefit bill dwarfs the £115bn Affordable Homes Programme

Government subsidising private landlords £70bn over next five years

building a well being economy

From compliance to engagement

The best things do come through big, bold change

The community right to buy

Trapped in poverty by our social security system

There are other ways to tackle the cost of living crisis — just ask France and Spain

Child poverty rises six times faster in most deprived areas compared to the richest

Denise + Frank + Mickey + Arran

Buying back better

COST OF HOUSING HOMELESS PEOPLE SKYROCKETING FOR COUNCILS

How our extractive land and development models work against public good



Edge Fund



The social Guarantee



Locality – the power of community

community power revolution –manifesto



Introduce a Community Power Act

Create a National Community Ownership Strategy

Put communities in charge of local economic development

Make collaboration – not competition - the guiding principle of public services

Champion community-led housing and neighbourhood planning



Keep it local for better health



Nesta

use collective intelligence to solve public problems

23 July

24 - 29 August



Five stories of change for a sustainable future

Including South Korea’s Green new Deal

wealth + income inequality

Directory of Social Change people to work a four-day week

How Mombasa is fighting to protect its blue economy



Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES)

 

CLES is calling for political parties to rediscover the power of place and take six bold actions to harness the power of local to deliver change:

 

  1. Reverse austerity, power local economies

  2. Reframe devolution

  3. Make wealth building everyone’s business

  4. Empower places to lead climate action

  5. Power up local employment pathways

  6. Reignite local planning



Re-thinking power

Delivering the doughnut…

community wealth building: a history

A roadmap for asset ownership

Raising council tax won’t fix local government

Levelling up paper falls way short of what is needed

growth for growth sake

Building community wealth in Lewes

community right to buy

Community-led development: a roadmap for asset ownership

Building Community Wealth in Scotland

a new vision for community wealth and power

Can freeports be fair?

Community wealth building 2024



Social value

including making the best use of land + assets - Wendy



4 day week



NEW LOCAL

It’s not about us asking for trust, it’s about us radically trusting citizens

Audrey Tang



We're witnessing a fundamental shift in public participation patterns

Community members want to participate on their terms and on their preferred platforms



A community-powered NHS: making prevention a reality

How community power can save money and reduce demand on public services

It's time for a Community Power Act

Community engagement and the power of ‘what if?’

Place-Based Public Service Budgets: Making Public Money Work Better for Communities

Power to the people? The route to English devolution

Three elements will be important for mission-driven government

Angela

Andy

Michael

Nazir



New Citizenship project



DemocracyNext

Tech-Enhanced Citizens’ Assemblies: Toward a more healthy and constructive democracy

🏡 New paper: Six ways to democratise city planning

Ireland lead the way with citizen assemblies

What happened in Ireland ?

🇫🇷 Macron praises French Assembly on end-of-life

🇦🇹 How to supercharge democracy in Austria

Truth + love in politics



Apolitical



Resolution Foundation

22 July


Power to change

 

devolving power beyond town hall 🗳️

🏦 Locally rooted community businesses
💪 A Community Power Act
🏡 A community right to buy



buying 11 coastal houses from the council for £1 – community land trust

Unlocking the potential of community energy

community ownership

The public want council assets sold to the community 🏙️


Onion Collective


Plunkett Foundation – events +



social enterprise UK



Deveron Projects



Equally ours

the impact of the Equality Act 2010, gender equality in local councils, and why voter ID is a disproportionate solution



THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION REMOVED HOMOSEXUALITY FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES IN 1990

32 YEARS LATER, ATTEMPTS TO ‘CURE’ US ARE STILL HAPPENING (and LEGAL)

Conversion therapy includes medical, psychiatric, psychological, religious, cultural or any other interventions that seek to change, “cure”, or suppress the sexual orientation and/or gender identity of a person

Figures from the UK Government’s National LGBT Survey found that:

7% of LGBT people have been offered or undergone conversion therapy

10 % of asexual people have been offered or undergone conversion therapy

13% of trans people have been offered or undergone conversion therapy



At home early medical abortions, ethnicity and heightened risk poverty, racism and the environmental emergency, and more

Youth-led change making and activism, age dispute process puts refugee children, reporting on child sexual abuse

Equality Trust blog: Why do we need to talk about mental illness, shame, stigma and inequality

Inquiry on Human Rights of asylum seekers, gendered impact of the cost-of-living crisis, and the state of homelessness

civil society to address human rights and climate change, fairness in enterprise, equal pay advice service, and more

Destitution is Designed into the UK's Migration System



Keep the UK signed into the European Convention on Human Rights

  • Repeal the cruel Rwanda Act, Illegal Migration Act & Nationality & Borders Act

  • Enshrine the Right to Food in UK law

  • Recognise China’s genocide against the Uyghurs

  • Strengthen the Modern Slavery Act to sanction businesses which profit from modern slavery.



Defending our human rights



Decolonising economics



Out + about + Nature


Baker Street Irregular Astronomers



Centre for ecotherapy



Green Gyms



Real junk food project – twickenham


Capital Growth – Training + events

Can urban food growing tackle the climate and nature emergency

including community assets – Wendy


Sustainable Food Trust

Oases in the desert: The farmers regenerating the landscape in southern Spain

The economy of love

The Story of Umgibe: A farm in a plastic bag

🥗🥬🥕🍉🥑🍅🍇🥝🥔🍍🍊🍌🍈🥭🍎🍒🍠🍓🥜🍑🥒🍋🍆🧀🌽🫑🍏🍐🥦🌶


Food cycle



Biteback

We want the next Government to:

  1. Hold big food companies to higher healthier standards, protecting children.

  2. Ensure all children have access to healthy, nutritious food throughout their school day.

  3. Rebalance the wider food system through new commercial incentives.

  4. Create the right conditions to make high streets healthy.

  5. Explore a ‘net zero’ equivalent target for health and build on successful climate policies.



No child left behind

23 July

23 July

video

sign open letter


Food foundation

food the future🍜



National Trust



Soil association

Beneath the Surface 🎄

Sprouting success 🌱

Worm hunt + 🪱

stop pollution killing our rivers



John Muir Trust



Black dog outdoors


National Park City Foundation

From 1 February visit at 109 Fleet Street in the afternoon for exciting stuff


Heritage Open Days


Habitats & Heritage

Events - July☀️


Wildfowl + Wetlands Trust



National archives

Celebrate LGBT+ History Month with us!

Events – TO MID AUGUST



Black Cultural Archives

to 8 September

Commemorate the 75th anniversary of Windrush 📣

BLACK FUTURES MONTH THANK YOU

Champion, Empower & Disrupt

📚 'Ebony Empowerment': Stories, Workshops & Disco!

Mental health events – to December 2024



Activate Collective


Living Streets

LGBTQ+ hidden history walks



Art

for 2 claires



Arts + Ourselves to July



National Portrait Gallery


Sound bath healing



Jupiter Artland


All change art

Arts activism + cultural exchange

Co-op Community Fund and All Change



Collective Arts



Co-Production Collective



Conquest Art



Art Emergency



Art UK

Experience the world through art 🌍

Sun, sea, sand and art 🏖️

Sound and vision 🎶🖼️

We ❤️ sculpture!

LGBTQ+ artists 🌈

Murals in UK

public sculptures in UK

Learning and creativity for all 🖌️

Introducing The Superpower of Looking 👀



64 Million Artists

Poetry is therapy

Solidarity Knows No Borders

story of an object🧶

drawing 🎨🖌️🖼️

imprint 👣

things in common💐

creating art from things around you🪁

cooking 🧑‍🍳

pick me up🤩

sign name🧏

🕺dancing 💃

Hands🙏

🎁Free resources and training



There is an alternative (TIALT)



Street wisdom



Ignite Imaginations – latest news



Tangled feet



The Daily Haiku



Film Oxford



Raindance



Abbianca Makoni – GXNG GIRLS


#inktober52



Otakar Kraus Music Trust

28 July + 3 + 31 August



OSO



What Works Wellbeing

Beyond GDP what matters to national well- being

Understanding how agency and control matters for community wellbeing

Belonging and wellbeing through physical activity

Housing and wellbeing: insights from English Housing Survey data

New Zealand Living Standards Framework update and first wellbeing report

Personal power: reframing the locus of control


Social Value UK



Tender


CEASE



In this period of campaigning before the general election , here are our priorities for the new government:

Make pornographic content that sexualises children illegal online, as it already is offline

Make it illegal to possess, produce or host pornography that includes acts that meet the international definition of torture

Introduce regulation to end the trafficking and exploitation that is rife within the pornography industry and which normalises violence against women and girls

Ensure age verification for any site carrying pornographic content is regulated by Ofcom to the standard set out in the Online Safety Act

Introduce the Nordic Model to deter demand for prostitution and support victims of sexual exploitation

 

Peer Support

 

CHARM

 

Restraint reduction network


Cure Mental Health

Essex Mental Health deaths

Parliament debates current toothless inquiry to be a full Statutory Public Inquiry 31 January2023

ESSEX FAMILIES – SUPPORT FROM PARLIAMENT GROWS FOR A STATUTORY PUBLIC INQUIRY

Professor Simon Baron-Cohen declares support for Statutory Public Inquiry in to Essex MH Services

Essex mental health patient deaths probe calls backed by professor

Our Autism scandal

Amy + Dannielle + Lauren + Shaun

NHS mental health services set to face full public inquiry to force staff to give evidence

Failure to 'appropriately assess' girl, 17, contributed to her suicide, coroner says - PETITION

LEADING MENTAL HEALTH CHARITY SANE JOINS CALL FOR STATUTORY PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO ESSEX MH

Essex Mental Health Inquiry: Chair renews push for legal powers decision

Edwige Nsilu: Inquest opens into death of young woman at mental health unit in Basildon, Essex

Essex mental health staff fell asleep on duty, inspection found

Julia + Chris


Not Westminster



Stir to action



Coop news



Sisters of Frida



Kukunori


Transforming communities for inclusion



Safe place



KEY RING

According to govuk at least 30% of prisoners have learning difficulties and/or disabilities

update


Hub of hope is 4 years’ old


adoddle



Chasing the stigma



The survivors trust



BEAT



Thrive LDN

Resilience and conflict resolution training workshops




Healing Justice

including events



Self- injury Support


Beyond Equality



The equality trust

22 July

2024 Manifesto



we are the economy

well-being economy now ? - Wendy



"These stories have incredible value": the impact of our work in Birmingham

What should we use people assemblies for ?

British Gas profits rise 10 fold

Billionaires have grown their wealth by £ 180 BN

Thames Water proves the UK is on the wrong path

pushing forward the case for taxing the rich



Enforce Equality Act provisions

making reasonable adjustments to enable more disabled people

(20%+ of the population) to actively participate in local and national politics



A just 2 % global tax on billionaires could raise $242 billion each year !



Intentional Peer Support

update



Academy of Peer-supported Open Dialogue



Little Village



Soteria



Battersea Befriending Network



Mosaic



Freecycle network


Friends, Families and Travellers

police act 2022 in breach of European convention of human rights



Community catalysts CIC – update



We think this is a pretty brilliant list of enablers of strengths-based working and practice!



Focus on building relationships

Listen more, talk less

Ask meaningful questions

Support people in building their own power and agency

Nurture safe and collaborative spaces

Invest in community-led initiatives and projects

Focus on participatory budgeting

Leverage community connections and local knowledge

Encourage communities to take control

Get involved in informal and fun activities – not just the usual – and go to where people are



Women’s aid


Centre for Mental Health

the power of ordinary

Big ideas for dismantling mental health inequalities

Mental health, nature and gardens: expanding the narrative

How local councils can support better mental health for all

Finding ways to end the toxic impacts of poverty: our first Festival of Ideas event

How can local councils know if their mental health services are working well?

Championing trans and non-binary people's mental health

made in community

Mental health and the climate crisis

Building a mentally healthier nation

A constant battle: exploring the intergenerational consequences of racism in the UK

It's a constant battle that knocks you

Men's mental health month

How can we give every child a mentally healthy start in life?

Pursuing racial justice in mental health

Policies for better mental health: the case for a mental health policy test



Mental health figures 2024 – the problems

Mental ill health costs England £300 billion a year

including connecting housing + mental health – Wendy



idea of golden triangle of influence

Data

Lived experience

practice



Good Grief



AtaLoss



Cruse Bereavement Care



Death cafe



Frazzled


Men's shed

shoulder to shoulder

 

Seniors

 

Centre for ageing better

Good homes for all: a proposal to fix England's housing



Independent Age

Our research

has found that one in six older renters have less than £100 disposable income a month after their rent

That’s just not enough to live on, and leaving many stressed and anxious about how they’ll pay for the essentials

52% of older people on a low household income were unaware of broadband social tariffs before taking the survey



September 2023



Ending discrimination for older renters


National pensioners convention



Age UK

My Windrush story: justice denied



Compassion in Dying



Age UK – RICHMOND runs FREE IT courses +



In common



University of the third age



Democracy



Zarah Sultana

Gaza

Knife crime evidence based approach

Scrutinising arms exports

Everyone – including young trans people – deserves access to high -quality healthcare

Stop arming Israel



Clive – Thames Water



Social market foundation



Compass

 

our report reveals voters now have little faith that our political system can address the big challenges of our time:

🌡️51% say the system is unable to address the critical issue of climate transition

📈50% don’t think the system can fix inflation and avoid economic turmoil

🌍63% don’t believe it can help us find a better approach to immigration

🚨63% say our politics is failing on wealth inequality

🏘️64% believe the system isn’t able to cope with the housing crisis



But it’s even worse than that:

🤑73% of voters believe the political system mostly serves the rich and the powerful

71% say it doesn’t work for ordinary people

🤲63% say it puts too much power in the hands of a small number of swing voters

64% see the system as too short-term

💂67% judge it as far too London centric

64% think the system cannot bring people together and unite the country



Power to the people

John + Neal

Old power v New Power ? People before profit ? -Wendy



Citizen control

Degree of citizen power

Delegated power

Partnership

Placation

Degree of tokenism

Consultation

Informing

Therapy

Non participation

manipulation

 

Old power

New power

Currency

Current

Held by few

Made by many

Pushed down

Pulled in

Commanded

Shared

Closed

Open

transaction

relationships




Left Unity



Transform politics

11 August

Waseem


Electoral Reform Society

Why is it so important that women are present in decision making?

How honourable are honours lists?

Including Welsh government progressive electoral reforms

The Non-Battleground Election: Millions of voters are ignored

Including Liz Truss appointed one peer for every 1.5 days she served as Prime Minister

Trump shows how First Past the Post gives the keys to extremists

First past the post distorts public opinion on small boats

A future Labour government would be right to use Citizens’ Assemblies

Pursuing Parity: Examining Gender Quotas Across Electoral Systems

Only China’s rubber stamping National People’s Congress is larger than the Lords

Single Transferable vote the gold standard for proportional representation

Victory as Ceredigion joins Powys and Gwynedd with STV consultation



Local people are best placed to decide the priorities of their local government - but voters in England and Wales have very little impact on who sits in their local council chambers



Four steps to protect our elections from AI interference

What happens when the Lords defeat the Government?



74 councillors in Wales took their seats without a vote being cast

Manifestos outside the two parties: Putting democracy on the agenda



Senedd expansion is a pivotal moment for devolution

Wales lead the way

devolving power to the people ? - Wendy



Make votes matter

Strong + stable



Trust the people

Flatpack Democracy



Open space principles:

Whoever comes are the right people

Whenever it starts is the right time

When it’s over, it’s over

Whatever happens it is the only thing that could happen



Take the jump



Centre for social justice


Trust for London

Introducing our 2030 funding strategy

update

Millions of Londoners below minimum income standard

including open letter on temporary housing + other amazing stuff – including peer research – Wendy



St.Giles Trust



Debt Justice

Debt, colonialism and power

council tax debt making people destitute

Together against debt – The people’s manifesto

Debt deal for Zambia

Ghana

Quiz

Jo + Andy



WATCH 📺 People power in action!

10 million people across UK struggling to pay bill because of heavy debt



People of the global South have been rendered vulnerable to climate change because of poverty

Discrimination and precarious living conditions are intensified under this ever-rising debt problem

The global financial system is extractivist in essence –

[characterised by] the extraction of human and natural resources for the relentless pursuit of profit and the ever-increasing use of fossil fuels"
Mae Buenaventura, Asian People's Movement on Debt and Development



This week in weed



Marijuana Justice



Unlock democracy

3 out of 47



Taxpayers’ alliance

Dealing with HMRC is a famously laborious experience but they’re very aware that while members of the public might not like paying taxes, most of them tend to play by the rules

Sadly, we can’t say the same about our universal credit system

The Public Interest Law Centre recently pointed to an example of a client who had been asked for a “photo of you next to your street sign with your right hand holding it” and a “photo of you holding your local newspaper for the area you live (not a national tabloid paper)

This should be dated the same day as you upload the photo”



Increasing defence spending isn’t a silver bullet



Town halls accused of insulting taxpayer by splashing out £350,000 to send staff to glitzy award dinners



Town hall rich list 2024

City Hall rich list 2024

GP rich list 2024

Could AI be part of the answer ? - Wendy



Public money 'wasted' as Kent County Council lost £2.8m including £63k to care for dead resident

Councils have spent nearly £700,000 paying internet bills for staff working from home since 2019

information obtained using Freedom of information act ? - Wendy



Council tax rises – interactive chart

Councils pay £70000 to social media influencers

How does the State spend £100 of your money?

£80,000 in business class travel

Wasting Monet

MoD bosses living the high life

Council fatcats on the French Riviera

£35k on curtains for the British embassy in Berlin

£2 M on cycling lessons



Environment



Earth day🌍



Library of things – Twickenham – why buy when you can borrow



Restart project

Think global, fix local 🛠

Repair for everyone 🔧💚

The results are in.. 🗑️

So much waste ! - Wendy

Oliver

author of wasteland



Right to repair Europe

Anna + Sandrine + Biljana + Malte + Sara + Sean + Franck



Centre for alternative technology



Energy for all



Fuel poverty action


Green new deal

Zarah

protest at Labour conference – June 2024



GREENS

27 July

Ella’s law

Request a Tour of the House of Lords



Manifesto 2024

A wealth tax on the super rich
Scrap two child benefit cap
Cancel fossil fuel licences including Rosebank
Introduce a carbon tax for polluters
Bring water companies into public ownership
Invest £50 billion in NHS
Create 150,000 new social homes per year



Energy Charter treaty



Defund climate choas


Tipping Point

22 July

24 July

25 – 29 July

8 - 13 August

Climate reparations now

What is green colonialism?



Common knowledge


Climate defiance



Extinction Rebellion (XR)

23 July

23 July

27 July

30 August – 1 September



Vigil for Amy


Right to acquit



What’s the urgency? - Stephen Fry

My extinction

What young people think ?

Organise a Community Assembly

XR foundation programme

insure our future not fossil fuels

Stop the scramble for Africa



No dogs on a dead planet

Americans spent $147 billion on their pets, but only $1.2 billion was spent on protecting endangered wildlife

Is it the same in the UK ? Many in the UK copy the USA ? For example politicians ? - Wendy



Power Hour for Palestine

12 December(and weekly), 17:00
Join this weekly Climate Justice Power Hour for Palestine


Refurbish, Don’t Demolish

Methane Emissions From Dairy and Meat



Paid to pollute campaign


The Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill


Empathy Cafe: our feelings and the future



Share the petition & help prevent a tidal wave of plastic pollution

 

The story of plastic

 

Burning Injustice

Climate racism

 

uncovering fact vs fiction on coca-cola iconic bottle

 

The story of broke


less stuff, more joy!


The Story of Stuff Project - Nestlé's Troubled Waters


The story of solutions


The world we need

 

Friends of the Earth

sisters



The Climate coalition



Climate change committee



War on want

We demand the next UK government takes action to:

  • End poverty and inequality

  • Lead ambitious action on the climate crisis

  • Support the Palestinian people’s struggle for justice

  • Defend human rights and democracy

  • Respect workers



Exposed: UK Arms used in Israel's Attack

COP28

Sri Lanka land grab

Asad

no UK arms for Israel's war crimes


Oxfam



These are the priorities we think our newly elected government must tackle:

  • Prioritise a safer world, including an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza

  • Ensure fast and fair action to support people hit hardest by the climate crisis

  • Support a global economic system that prioritises people and planet

  • Build a fairer and more caring UK economy that values paid and unpaid carers



vacancies

Record temperatures – and record profits for polluters

Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, report says


Save the children

sign open letter



GREENPEACE

22 July – Wellington Arch – 12:15 – in support of Port Talbot steel workers



The Truth About Britain’s Allotment Waiting List

Naho

Fatima + Fauziya

shell

Shell must clean up its mess

TotalEnergies is sponsoring the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON)

while causing devastation to communities and landscapes across Africa

unearthed

Positive news - Single-use plastic banned in Lagos

Inside a climate justice case at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights



Possible

25 July

Solar train



Fixing Factory



Power for People

Local Electricity Bill



City to sea

the reuse manifesto :-

introduce a cap + reduction on UK plastic production

support a legally binding global plastics treaty

roll out extended producer responsibility (EPR)

completely ban single – use packaging

introduce an “all in” deposit scheme

set ambitious + legally binding targets



Marine Conservation Society

Giving a pay-rise for nature

Making polluters pay

Delivering more space for nature

Putting a right to a healthy environment in law

Ensuring fair and effective climate action

 

Ecohustler



Sustain – campaigning

Trailblazers in children's food: five areas ensuring school food for all

LGBTQ+ food projects in London



free school meals – how other countries do it

Many countries around the world are expanding their school meal programmes, with countries including India, Brazil, Sweden, Finland, Estonia and 8 US states now providing universal school meals

Our friends at School Food Matters have taken a look at Sweden's universal school meals programme, delve into Japan's acclaimed school food and also talk to Prof Rebecca O'Connell at the University of Hertfordshire on what England could learn from Portugal's school meal system


VEG CITIES



Roots to work



Campaign for preservation of rural England (CPRE)

star count 2024

The hidden homelessness crisis

Using rooftops for solar - moronic and absolute nonsense?

Labour’s ‘rooftop revolution’ to deliver solar power to millions of UK homes

As much energy as 10 new nuclear power stations – PETITION

QUIZ – do you know the true power of rooftop solar?

Rough sleeping in countryside higher than some urban areas, analysis shows

can the next generation think outside the box on land use ?



Coal Action Network – Adani coal mine – ACTION

Badwas

25 July

26 – 28 August



Campaign for Better Transport

World Sustainable Transport Day! 🌎

How far could £2 get you?

Including cut on tax for domestic flights which will lose £130 M in lost revenue in a year ? - Wendy



End War + Global Justice



Sum of Us – EKO



Behind the label



Amos Trust

Doing Hope in South Africa



BDS Movement


Palestine Solidarity Campaign

24 July

10 August

A message from Benjamin Zephaniah…

Maxine Peake

boycott Barclays

Aimee


Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association



1 in 5 Palestinian civil society organizations are not on social media



🚨7amleh Documents 10 Million Instances of Violent Content in Hebrew Throughout the Year 2023🚨

🚨7amleh Launches Arabic Violence Indicator – July 2024



ONE

Mandela

tree growing

malaria vaccine

Where does poverty really come from?

Did you know that 80% of people displaced by climate change are women?


Trade Transformed


Global Justice Now



For election 4 July

During the election we’re going to push all politicians on the issues we care about most:

  • A radical green transition which phases out the fossil fuel industry in a just and equitable manner

  • An end to British complicity in Israel’s war crimes

  • A new approach to the global south, repairing the damage done by vaccine apartheid and hijacked aid spending

  • A humane way of supporting refugees, recognising that so many people are fleeing situations which British foreign policy has exacerbate



teach in on Palestine

Stop big pharma’s £25 billion NHS grab!

Pharmanomics

How billionaires get away with it – Davos

£22 billion for Shell. And for the rest of us?

these women give us courage

The Secret World of Investor Courts

Did you become a billionaire last year?

Hazem

Communities in the Niger Delta are trying to make Shell pay

Fossil fuel treaty


We own it

No bail out for Thames Water



Campaign against the arms trade (CAAT)

Solidarity with Yemen

Solidarity With Yemen Campaign

Warton's War on Yemen

Syria – arms sales to dictators , displacement + militarised borders

Arms sales back on trial - PLEASE SHARE

Defund Military – ACTION

Tanks Out of Twickenham and a Secret Court Case

Ukraine + update

The UK’s hidden arms sales



CAAT’s research revealed that the aid workers Israel killed in Gaza were murdered by a drone made by Elbit Systems with an engine based on UK technology



FILM – Do not buy a bomb

But will ISDS come into play here ? Wellbeing economy now ! - Wendy



Barclays Bank: new report on links to weaponry used in Gaza

Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) at 50 : adapting resistance to a changing world



Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)

11 – 25 July

13 – 25 July

27 July – Fascists not welcome

☮️The truth about Hiroshima and Nagasaki

🚀Spending on Britain's nuclear weapons is skyrocketing



Stop the war coalition

3 August

27 July

🇵🇸Ceasefire Now!

Stop the arms race

DEFENDING THE STATUS QUO: WHO ARE THE POLICE PROTECTING BY ARRESTING A 12-YEAR OLD AND A DISABLED ACTIVIST?



Do not suffocate the truth



Behind the sun



Falun Gong


Free Tibet



MPOWER



Jewish voice for peace

Socialism 2024 – 30 August – 2 September

The Pegasus effect



Five principles for dismantling antisemitism

Do not isolate antisemitism from other forms of oppression
Challenge political ideologies that promote racism, hate, and fear
Create environments that affirm and celebrate all expressions of cultural and religious life

Make undoing all forms of racism and bigotry both policy and daily practice


Refuser Solidarity Network

Shahar + Einat + Evyatar + Nave

Maya



I am not the problem

I have never left my country nor have I ceded any part of it

Nobody has entered into a treaty or talked to me about who I am

I am Arrernte Alyawarre female elder from this country

Please remember that

I am not the problem



Stop the wall

Free them all



More alternative information sources



Freedom News



Tortoise

IN FRANCE

The NFP - launched on 10 June2024 is dominated by Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s far-left France Unbowed (LFI)

Also includes the more moderate Socialists, Greens and Communists.

 

Mélenchon was the first to react to the results last night, calling on Macron to invite the NFP to govern

 

Its programme includes:

 

  • reversing Macron’s controversial reforms that raised the pension age from 62 to 64

  • raising the minimum wage by 13 per cent

  • freezing energy prices

  • bringing back a wealth tax

 

The NFP has also pledged to “immediately recognise” a Palestinian state

 

Le Pen insisted that far-right victory in France “has been merely delayed”

Her party secured 89 seats in 2022 - that number has now almost doubled

The presidential election is due in 2027



How fossil fuel producers hit the World Bank’s jackpot

Children for profit

Putin’s murders – podcast

Fortress Europe isn’t working

Asylum spending

The Sacklers: Getting away with it

The Good Soldier: Killings and cover-up in Afghanistan

Bukayo Saka: footballer targeted by racist abuse after Euro final

 

Ozempic: nice work for Novo

This is how Bad Pharma – please see Ben Goldacre’s book – operates within the Mental Health system – with devastating consequences - Wendy


Rest of world

iPhones are made in hell’: 3 months inside China’s iPhone city


Belling Cat

Images of Syrian Civil War Take on a Second Life in Gaza Conflict

Lake Alice Psychiatric hospital

Can anyone defend this ?

Yet ECT is still done worldwide + in the UK –please see website for further details

Why do people turn a “blind” eye + say they can do nothing ?

for example Health + well being board + Integrated care board

Does that makes them complicit in the crime?

Wendy

geoguessr



The Bureau of investigative Journalism

People’s Newsroom Community

Made in Bury

Welsh Inclusive Journalism Network

The Sunshine Millionaire: How one man took £130m from British taxpayers

Britain’s evicted kids : dispatches

🕵️Private spies: trained by the British state, working for autocracies

The strawberries you eat are picked by exploited workers

Supermarkets STILL stocking pineapples linked to killings

Tax dodgers can continue getting away scot-free

Santander's billion-dollar oil deal – despite green pledge

How Qatar hacked the world cup

Trans+ Voices

Visa system forces care workers to stay silent on rape and abuse

How Russia’s hungry surveillance machine is fed

Voter ID laws blocking access to polls for trans+ people

Thousands of care workers risk deportation after employers breach rules

Russian dark money is flowing through Europe

Investor brands Barclays as "totally dishonest"

Facebook failed to block thousands of political ads peddling false claims – JULY

How we investigated the Facebook network run by Reform UK candidates

Undercover investigation reveals UK political parties accepting illegal donations



Taxwatch



NewsGuard



Revoke


Centre for women’s justice


International Planned Parenthood Federation


corporation watch



heat the rich



New Internationalist

23 July - STICKY FINGERS: HOW THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT INFLUENCES AFRICA'S ABORTION LAWS

Nothing is fair in war

Who’s backing Glencore’s toxic mining?

We need to ‘transition’ away from capitalism

Getting a grip on climate capitalism

Could Uganda’s anti-gay law be overturned?

Pressure from the grassroots

the case for public ownership

all eyes on Uganda court

10 Steps to World Peace

How British colonizers caused the Bengal famine

Turning crisis into justice

Either we move beyond capitalism, or we die

South Africa: 30 years later

When will the Sahrawi people get self-determination?

How renewables corporations are exploiting the Global South

A frightening future for Palestinians

'We are as much Indians as everybody else'

Giorgia Meloni’s canny game

No bombs from Brighton

Turning people power into political might

'The poppy trade sustained the British empire'

Weapons made on my doorstep are helping to kill people in Gaza

Should religion play a role in politics?

WHAT IF... WE WORKED LESS?

COUNTRY PROFILE: GEORGIA

Just because people are poor it doesn’t take away their human dignity’

No love for Modi in the Indian Himalayas

what if we banned billionaires ?

ABORTION: WHY IS MY BODY STILL A BATTLEGROUND?

BIG OIL IS BANKROLLING THE UK’S ELECTION

It's time to hold Big Tech accountable for violence in the DRC

Gambia tries (and fails) to bring back FGM



Freedom Press



Novara Media

Ash + Ingrid


Common Dreams



Double Down news

Boris Johnson was able to rise because of powerful anti-democratic forces

The other 9/11: how to make a nation scream

The oligarch that took over Britain

Lindsey + Tony

Former British Soldier EXPOSES King Charles

Gary Younge on Race, Racism & Identity

Nadeen +Mohammed

Roger Waters

Naomi

Peter + Nigel

Matt

Ken Loach

Peter + Keir

Israel is a Terrorist State

Yara

Joe Glenton

Avi + Ghada

Lara

Jesus + Peter

Israel’s plan to starve 2 million people

Lowkey

Peter

Yanis

Rachel + Lowkey

Richard

Israel’s secret war

we are live-streaming a genocide

Andrew

Paul

Keir Starmer’s hollow victory



Megaphone



Left foot forward

Time for a universal basic income

Universal Basic Income trialled in England for first time

Anger at record profits

The right-wing takeover of Britain’s media

Khan sets out plan to provide universal free primary school meals next year

London Renter Left Homeless After Black Mould Complaints Go Unanswered for Years

Largest four-day working week trial shows it has been a huge success for businesses and workers

Time to freeze rents?

Who funds the Reform UK party?

Five Politically-Connected Healthcare Giants Rake in NHS Contracts Worth Billions

Biggest Tory donor said that Diane Abbott ‘should be shot’

Government spends more than £1 million of UK taxpayer money to advertise on GB News

The future of Britain's water companies …

a ‘historic’ opportunity to reverse 14 years of NHS privatisation in their first term



Andy Burnham’s manifesto – Housing first – Mbacc – Live Well

Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has called for corporate manslaughter charges for Whitehall departments over the infected blood scandal



A record 145,800 children are now homeless in England – MAY 2024

David Cameron slammed for ‘swanning around’ in £42m luxury jet as Tories prepare to slash sickness benefits



The number of English households living in temporary accommodation more than doubling between 2010 and 2023 from 48,000 to 112,000 - the highest figure since records began



The Labour government commitments – 17 July 2024



Disaster Capitalism



Access capitalism



Hope not hate



Exit Hate



The Conversation

24 September



Logical thinking, curiosity, evidence-based decision making and fresh perspectives are all benefits brought by neurodiversity



How universal basic income’s impact on people’s finances could transform the nation’s health

England’s rural housing crisis could be solved by fixing land prices and bringing land into public ownership

We gave $7,500 to people experiencing homelessness — here’s what happened next

Medical gaslighting: when conditions turn out not to be ‘all in the mind’

Five signs that you might be rightwing

How rightwing beliefs shape your view of the past – while leftwingers look to the future



Argentina’s anti-government protests offer a lesson for the international struggle against the rise of the far right

Putin’s Russia: first arrests under new anti-LGBT laws mark new era of repression

Mexico is suing US gun-makers for arming its gangs − and a US court could award billions in damages

Germany decriminalised cannabis: why the UK should consider doing the same



How subtle forms of misinformation affect what we buy and how much we trust brands

The free trade myth: how the US manipulates global markets for economic supremacy

The global food system is owned by an ever smaller number of companies – it’s damaging our health, our communities and the planet



British jails are at a breaking point – here’s how the Dutch halved their prison population



Nazi doctors weren’t just ‘a few bad apples’, shows report – and simplistic stories won’t help guard against future medical abuses

Or current medical abuse – listen to the people - stop Electro convulsive treatment now – Wendy



Who's Your Herstory Heroine? Nollaig na mBan

Remembering Wallace J. Nichols: the blue mind scientist who explained our human connection to water

Irish referendum: how the Catholic church shaped Ireland’s constitution to define the status of women

The millions of people not looking for work in the UK may be prioritising education, health and freedom



Five tips on talking politics with family without falling out – from a conflict resolution expert

Three ways to get your nature fix without a garden

Simply looking at greenery can boost mental health

Slavery stole Africans’ ideas as well as their bodies: reparations should reflect this

Kenya at 60: the shameful truth about British colonial abuse and how it was covered up



Capital gains: Sunak and Starmer’s tax bills show how the system benefits the rich

Vulture Capitalism: Grace Blakeley’s new book is smart on what has gone wrong since the 1980s

New house prices are rising rapidly despite a flat market – we need to diversify what we build and who builds it



Why you’re less likely to get rich these days if your parents aren’t already wealthy

time for community land trusts ? + an end to wealth supremacy ? - Wendy



How preventive healthcare could save the NHS – lessons from Finland, Japan and Singapore

Or us ? Or New local ? - Wendy



What my undercover investigations at arms fairs reveal about how the west supports military dictatorships

Inside the global arms industry: what a secretive London trade fair reveals about international weapons sales

Gun control is dead and we killed it’: unmasking the ‘lonely incel’ who designed the world’s most popular 3D-printed firearm



Oil firms forced to consider full climate effects of new drilling, following landmark Norwegian court ruling

Five reasons to heat your home using infrared fabric

Hemp is more sustainable than timber – here’s how it could transform low-carbon construction



Gordon Brown wants £3 billion for the ‘austerity generation’. But the UK needs a more enduring solution



We polled EU citizens on what they want asylum policy to look like – their answers may surprise you

Is this why we need People assemblies NOW ! - Wendy



School absence rates have rocketed – the whole educational experience needs to change

As per Ken Robinson’s work ? - Wendy



We don’t know whether most medical treatments work, and we know even less about whether they cause harm

Millions take antidepressants for chronic pain – but there’s little evidence the most commonly prescribed drugs work

Could many dementia cases actually be liver disease?

Can Alzheimer’s really be reversed, as a new documentary claims?



With airstrikes on Houthi rebels, are the US and UK playing fast and loose with international law?



Kafka 100: struggles of disabled characters in systems that don’t support them feel just as relevant today

Assisted dying: Canada grapples with plans to extend euthanasia to people suffering solely from mental illness

This is why the idea of mental “illness” is so dangerous – Wendy



Bad Science Watch Update



YES!

The healing power of film

Social Media for the Revolution

A New Hollywood “Origin” Story

Serj Tankian Says “Down With the System”

Nature Welcomes Queer People When Society Doesn’t

How Nature Makes Us Healthier and Happier

How Three Young Women of Color Took on Power

Dragon fruit

understanding project 2025’s threat to democracy

Can Connection Be the Cure for What Ails Us?

“political violence” from RNC to Gaza

Social prescribing – what matters to you …



ProPublica

Hundreds of Children Are Stuck in Psychiatric Hospitals Each Year Despite the State’s Promises to Find Them Homes



Media

Undercover Hospital : patients at risk

Guardian foundation

Socialism Is Gaining Popularity, Poll Shows


Socialism = no war + no hierarchy + need not profit

Capitalism = war + hierarchy + profit not need

-Wendy-



Writing with fire

Vijay + Patrice

Swiss Schools’ Surprising Solution to Bullying

Bhopal Survivors Continue 40-Year Fight for Justice

Total Trust: Surveillance State

Colombians Welcome Chiquita’s Guilty Verdict, But Thousands More Deserve Justice

In the US they think we’re communists!’

They’re patronising, arrogant …’



I’m a psychologist – and I believe we’ve been told devastating lies about mental health

are women really more mentally ill than men? As a psychologist , I’m not so sure

Electroconvulsive therapy mostly used on women and older people, says study

Abortion UK: Women 'manipulated' in crisis pregnancy advice centres

Siege days are over: how Northern Ireland came to lead the UK on abortion



‘Andrew Tate is a symptom, not the problem’

Algorithms ‘amplifying misogynistic content’

The hunt for ClothOff – the deepfake porn app

Why is generation Z so divided on gender?

Esther Ghey and Emma Sutton shows power of restorative justice – danger of mobile phones

The soft life: why millennials are quitting the rat race

France becomes world’s first country to enshrine abortion in constitution



Why are we so ill? The working-age health crisis

less medication not more for elderly – Chris Whitty

NHS nurses being investigated for ‘industrial-scale’ qualifications fraud

Almost half of antidepressant users could quit with GP support, study finds

NHS patients raising safety concerns too often ‘fobbed off’, says commissioner

Nurse regulator condemned over toxic culture



Pollution Crisis in Mexico Shows Limits of Plastic Bag Bans in Global Capitalism

Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s pollution

City is most exposed in world to air pollution from aviation, global study finds



Berlin’s vote to take properties from big landlords could be a watershed moment

The end of landlords: the surprisingly simple solution to the UK housing crisis

Rough sleeping in London hits highest level in a decade

UK spends more on housing than almost any other developed country, and gets the least value from it too

Fix Europe’s housing crisis or risk fuelling the far-right, UN expert warns

Private rents in Great Britain hit record high, data shows



Is the British Gas boss really worth £8.2m?

It’s literally giving somebody money for nothing

Ijeoma + Sonali

Transphobia and Allyship on Trans Day of Visibility

Eating Like the Ancestors

Is It Time to Break Up With Capitalism?

Swapping red meat for herring, sardines and anchovies could save 750,000 lives, study suggests



Poo + whizz air

Thames Water nationalisation plan could move bulk of £15bn debt to state



The rage epidemic

Global spending on nuclear weapons surged by more than 13 percent to $91.4 billion in 2023

students Target Teachers in Group TikTok Attack, Shaking Their School



wealth supremacy + how to build a democratic economy

British asylum housing tycoon breaks into Sunday Times rich list

Britain’s richest family sentenced to jail for exploiting staff in Swiss mansion

Largest UK public sector trial of four-day week sees huge benefits, research finds



The big idea: why we need to kick big money out of UK politics

the Trans history you were not taught in school

bullshit jobs: the rise of pointless work + what we can do about it

From beating burglary to weight gain: 12 ways that working from home has changed Britain

Intersectional Activism in a Post- Roe world

Former Isle of Man chief medic sacked for whistleblowing is awarded £3.2m

Lawyers raise alarm at struggle to tackle UK local government corruption

A Blueprint for Decolonization in Berlin

Why are you asleep ?

How Ancient Grains Empower Indian Women

Vandana Shiva: Reciprocal Care Will Give Us a Future

Cocaine, gangs and murder: Ecuador’s 10 days of terror

Black Imagination Can Build a Better World

black classical musicians are creating community



India archive reveals extent of items extracted from colony in royal jewellery collection

The British monarchy’s ties to slavery are writ large in the historical archives

Courtier demanded assurance king could not be prosecuted under new Welsh law

Corrupt Real Estate Firms Are Displacing Indigenous Mexicans in New Colonialism

Revealed: how Church of England’s ties to chattel slavery went to top of hierarchy



More than 11 million Britons have less than £1,000 in savings

Work until you’re 71? It could be time to echo the French – and get angry

UK cannot ignore calls for slavery reparations, says leading UN judge

British boys more at risk of modern slavery than any other group in UK, says study



Fujitsu won £1.4bn in new government contracts after court ruling on Post Office software bugs

Inquiry to begin into DWP’s treatment of ill and disabled people on benefits

As Norway’s largest private pension fund, we are divesting from Caterpillar

International scheme to tax billionaires’ wealth technically feasible, study finds



A deeply broken system' Is it time England scrapped council tax?

Carers threatened with prosecution over minor breaches of UK benefit rules

From our experience navigating the DWP is a nightmare + causes a lot of stress - Universal basic income now - Wendy



Solidarity and strategy: the forgotten lessons of truly effective protest

Graham Smith - Republic

Free school meals ‘cut obesity and help reading skills’ in England, study finds

Minister consulted BP over incentives to maximise oil production - Freedom of Information request reveals



What’s behind the rise in dog attacks?

Number of abandoned French bulldogs increases sharply in England and Wales

200 cats, 200 dogs, one lab: the secrets of the pet food industry – podcast

Calls for new dog licences to better control unruly pets in England



New AI tool ‘can rapidly rule out heart attacks in people attending A&E’

The mothers fighting a scandal bigger than thalidomide: ‘We were told the medication was safe’

Martha’s rule



Hundreds of vulnerable children sent to illegal and unregulated care homes in England



Essex mental health deaths review demands legal powers

Deaths unexplained, lives devastated: here’s another national tragedy hidden in plain sight

'Deeply entrenched' ageism limits mental health care for elderly, report says

ICB whistleblowing process ‘not fit for purpose’



Steep rise in black mental health patients injured while restrained by police

Disputed medical terms used to explain deaths after police restraint

Outdated and offensive’: police in England and Wales barred from blaming restraint deaths on ‘excited delirium’

NHS ombudsman warns hospitals are cynically burying evidence of poor care

If the Tories really cared about mental health, they’d stop trying to score cheap points



Dutch woman, 28, to be euthanized over mental illness after psychiatrist said it will 'never' get any better

Mental illness is a lie - this is a very dangerous development in my opinion – Wendy



Thirteen Reports of human rights abuse within Mental Health wards – Edenfield + Essex + Huntercombe +then there is Winterbourne + Whorlton Hall

please listen to us – Wendy


https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001ckxr/panorama-undercover-hospital-patients-at-risk

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/hospital-undercover-are-they-safe-dispatches

https://news.sky.com/video/the-huntercombe-group-a-mental-health-scandal-12731576

https://news.sky.com/story/health-trust-apology-after-reports-into-deaths-of-three-teenagers-seeking-mental-health-care-12736347

https://www.itv.com/news/2022-11-02/barbaric-hundreds-with-learning-disabilities-kept-locked-up-for-years

Problem linked to local councils + housing - Wendy


https://www.itv.com/news/2023-03-31/people-with-learning-disabilities-face-hell-being-locked-up-in-care-homes

Including Norman Lamb mentioning Human rights abuse in MH system


https://www.channel4.com/programmes/locked-away-our-autism-scandal-dispatches

https://www.itv.com/news/2023-04-12/county-lines-drugs-gangs-he-was-first-given-drugs-at-12-in-a-park

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/sexual-abuse-mental-health-uk-b2484163.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yKmvJgcukA&t=4s

https://news.sky.com/story/mental-health-patients-raped-and-sexually-assaulted-in-nhs-care-as-national-scandal-revealed-13056678

https://www.itv.com/news/2024-03-21/millions-spent-on-keeping-adults-with-learning-disabilities-locked-up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHeGaWr1BBc

The cost of sectioning people + holding them in hospital is 1.2 M per person + they call us crazy ! - Wendy



Edenfield Centre: Vulnerable patients denied human rights - review

Sexual assault in mental health to be probed following The Independent’s investigation

Leaked NHS figures reveal 15,000 died in care of mental health trusts in one year

Time for a more sustainable approach ? Peer run respite centres ? - Wendy



Operation Soteria: a new approach to investigating rape

Norfolk and Suffolk mental health campaigners want inquiry over data

Ministers order ‘rapid review’ into mental health inpatient care in England

Will the person doing the review have unconscious bias ? As per the Mental Health act review ? - Wendy



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Mental Health Act Statistics, Annual Figures – 2020-21

Mental Health Act Statistics, Annual Figures – 2021 – 22

monitoring the Mental Health Act 2022-23

Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics , Performance August, Provisional September 2023

Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics, Performance February 2024

CQC ratings of NHS mental health trusts 2021

CQC ratings of NHS mental health trusts 2022

NHS England mental health trusts record 26,000 sexual abuse incidents

2022 data – to see the full data set click on the Trust’s name below

ECT

Restraints

Seclusion

Serious incidents

Meds.errors

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership

 

 

 

 

 

Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health

 

 

 

 

 

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

24 people 282 sessions

913

167

67

69

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

 

 

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

 

 

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

 

 

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

 

 

Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust

20 people 169 sessions

961

168

9

290

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

 

 

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

 

 

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

461 treatments

932

41

 

1079

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust

 

 

 

 

 

Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

 

 

Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

 

 

Devon Partnership NHS Trust

Not provided

979

641

76

1164

Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

 

 

East London NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

 

 

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

636 “treatments”

2365

229

125

801

Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

 

 

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

 

 

HEREFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE HEALTH AND CARE NHS TRUST

30 people

1242

This trust does not seclude people

120

795

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

 

 

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust

365 people

1120

208

198

791

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

 

 

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

23

3481

270

11

717

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

62 people

1808

214

93

804

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Data not provided

1711

121

47

Data not provided

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

17 people

5477

837

394

2661

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

53 people 409 treatments

2266

71

311

1249

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

 

 

North East London NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

 

 

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust

28 people

1005

12 ?

91

434

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

15 people

960

294

27

923

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

 

 

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

 

 

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

24 people

1022

37

43

2

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

 

 

Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

 

 

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

 

 

Solent NHS Trust

 

 

 

 

 

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation

44 people

2548

410

779

659

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust

17 people

1492

261

95

437

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

 

 

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

 

 

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

 

 

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

 

 

Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

3

 

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

 

 

West London NHS Trust

32 people

 

 

91

 

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Community asset mapping

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