Sunshine and Showers Positive Mental Health - About us
Sunshine and Showers was set up by Time to Change Health Champion Claire Jones in response to the NHS cuts in 2011 and has gone from strength to strength offering a safe space for people with long term health conditions to get together, share information around recovery and re-build confidence in the community.
Claire says " Two years ago I got very unwell due to circumstances beyond my control and I went into the very lacking mental health system and was offered the limited support of Cornwall mental health service, I was referred to a Day Centre in Truro and received vital and life changing support from peers of that day centre who had also suffered with a mental health condition. However the criteria at the time was that the support was temporary (six weeks) and I knew full well my condition would take longer than that to heal and for me to regain my confidence in the world and the people within it.
We were then threatened with the support being withdrawn on a general basis and only be available to people who had critical or substantial needs and the rest of us were going to be discharged after 6 weeks.
Knowing that this support from like minded people was paramount in proactively preventing mental illness I set up Sunshine and Showers Peer Support Group with a grant from CRCC to help provide a safe space for those people who where being left without social support"
We all know that some mental and physical illness symptoms come and go depending on our level of stress and I feel that by doing all the things we can to stay positive can contribute towards preventing a Mental Health Crisis which could be life threatening to some.
Sunshine and Showers was set up in March 2011 with a monthly Ten Pin Bowling activity and now runs every two weeks out of Truro Ten Pin Bowling alley every other Thursday. (see Ten Pin Bowling Pag for more info)
We now have 3 extremely helpful and knowledgeable volunteers who are vital to our continued success and who each in their own way have experience of mental illness or a long term health condition.
We welcome new members to attend our group and feel free to call 07507 259479 use the Contact us page or email admin@sunshineandshowers.co.uk.
"Proactive prevention is better than reactive crisis intervention" - Claire Jones
"By working proactively we can help prevent crisis and Peer Support groups like Sunshine and Showers Ten Pin Bowling group are paramount in helping in these times of uncertainty within the NHS" - Member
The sunshine and showers bowling club is 100% vital. It allows people who have experienced mental health difficulties a chance to get together, to talk, to support each other.
The is the basics CPT have forgotten. Claire has not, she works in her own time, to provide this opportunity to others. She faces hostility from the CPT an organisation which is 'all tip, no iceberg'. She faces it with grace and humanity because she cares. Please support her, there is no other service for the people CPT choose to forget - Outlook SW
WWW.SUNSHINEANDSHOWERS.CO.UK
Claire says " Two years ago I got very unwell due to circumstances beyond my control and I went into the very lacking mental health system and was offered the limited support of Cornwall mental health service, I was referred to a Day Centre in Truro and received vital and life changing support from peers of that day centre who had also suffered with a mental health condition. However the criteria at the time was that the support was temporary (six weeks) and I knew full well my condition would take longer than that to heal and for me to regain my confidence in the world and the people within it.
We were then threatened with the support being withdrawn on a general basis and only be available to people who had critical or substantial needs and the rest of us were going to be discharged after 6 weeks.
Knowing that this support from like minded people was paramount in proactively preventing mental illness I set up Sunshine and Showers Peer Support Group with a grant from CRCC to help provide a safe space for those people who where being left without social support"
We all know that some mental and physical illness symptoms come and go depending on our level of stress and I feel that by doing all the things we can to stay positive can contribute towards preventing a Mental Health Crisis which could be life threatening to some.
Sunshine and Showers was set up in March 2011 with a monthly Ten Pin Bowling activity and now runs every two weeks out of Truro Ten Pin Bowling alley every other Thursday. (see Ten Pin Bowling Pag for more info)
We now have 3 extremely helpful and knowledgeable volunteers who are vital to our continued success and who each in their own way have experience of mental illness or a long term health condition.
We welcome new members to attend our group and feel free to call 07507 259479 use the Contact us page or email admin@sunshineandshowers.co.uk.
"Proactive prevention is better than reactive crisis intervention" - Claire Jones
"By working proactively we can help prevent crisis and Peer Support groups like Sunshine and Showers Ten Pin Bowling group are paramount in helping in these times of uncertainty within the NHS" - Member
The sunshine and showers bowling club is 100% vital. It allows people who have experienced mental health difficulties a chance to get together, to talk, to support each other.
The is the basics CPT have forgotten. Claire has not, she works in her own time, to provide this opportunity to others. She faces hostility from the CPT an organisation which is 'all tip, no iceberg'. She faces it with grace and humanity because she cares. Please support her, there is no other service for the people CPT choose to forget - Outlook SW
WWW.SUNSHINEANDSHOWERS.CO.UK