Recognising those who give up their time to help support others
Local mental health services are celebrating the volunteers who give up their free time to offer kindness and support to people using specialist services and hospitals when they are at their most unwell. Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, which provides…
Drive For Mental Health Nurses – The Ins And Outs
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, which provides mental health and learning disability services in Sussex, is in line for an award for its campaign recruiting 150 new mental health and learning disability nurses during the past 12 months. Its ‘Not…
Small Town, Open Mind
By Pete Donohue The Hastings & St. Leonards community has a history of all-inclusiveness and speaking its mind that stretches back over many years. Through 2017 we continue that tradition and in these times of politically motivated national divisiveness coming…
Troubled Mental Health Trust ‘needing improvement’ welcomes new CEO
By Andrew Everest The mental health trust that services Hastings and Rother, has been assessed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) as ‘requiring improvement’ as of September 2016, as it prepares to welcome a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The…
Youth Council submit petition to the Home Secretary
Following on from the successful Love Hastings, Love Yourself event held in Hastings (October 2016) to celebrate World Mental Health Day, Hastings Youth Council has submitted a petition to Amber Rudd Home Secretary and MP for Hastings and Rye. The…
Hastings Academy students’ fun fashion and refreshments find funds for MIND
By Andrew Everest Students at Hastings Academy have used a fun fashion day, and a dash of enterprise, to raise funds for the school’s chosen cause, the mental health charity MIND. Students felt MIND’s focus on mental health chimed with…