The Working Together Better Partners and Customers put together the Your Voice in Kirklees Newsletter. Hosted by Richmond Fellowship, we bring contributions together from across the partners to share with the residents of Kirklees.
Community Links – CLEAR Service
The Community Links Engagement and Recovery Service (CLEAR) is commissioned to provide support for people in Kirklees with a range of mental health needs, including dementia to reach their goals and aspirations.
The CLEAR service supports self-help and promotes choice, wellbeing, recovery
and inclusion.
Tel: 01484 519097 or 01924 438383
Email: clear.huddersfield@commlinks.co.uk clear.dewsbury@commlinks.co.uk
Website: www.commlinks.co.uk
Hoot Creative Arts
Hoot offers high quality creative activities with professional community artists for people experiencing issues with their mental health or wanting to maintain their wellbeing.
We also offer a specialist programme of creative activities for people with dementia.
Hoot delivers sessions in Huddersfield, Dewsbury and Batley.
Tel: 01484 516224
Email: info@hootmusic.co.uk
Website: www.hootcreativearts.co.uk
Cloverleaf Advocacy – Carers Count Service
We support carers whose loved ones have mental health needs, or are using drugs/alcohol or both. We provide 1:1 emotional support, carers groups, short carer breaks, a
information and advice. We also provide advocacy support to help carers speak up
for themselves.
Tel: 0300 012 0231
Email: info@carerscount.org.uk
Website: www.carerscount.org.uk
WomenCentre – Women’s Mental Health & Wellbeing Service
We provide safe women-only spaces in both North and South Kirklees, offering drop-in sessions, counselling,
therapeutic 1:1 support and group work and self help groups in the following areas:
Confidence building, mothers apart from children, refugee & migration support, LBTQ, relationships, eating distress, post-natal support, quitting smoking, music/movement therapy, walking and nature wisdom. We recognise life experiences and skills as assets and offer opportunities to ‘give back’ and get more involved.
Tel: 01484 450866 & 07590 445846
Email: wmh@womencentre.org.uk
Website: www.womencentre.org.uk
Support to Recovery (S2R) – The Great Outdoors Project
Opportunities for adults to engage in activities connected to the natural environment, such as: allotments, conservation tasks, bushcraft, bee keeping, along with seasonal activities. Delivered in small group settings to improve emotional and physical well-being, reduce anxiety and promote social connections. Our activities take place at our venue in
Huddersfield and various locations across North and South Kirklees. You will have
the opportunity to contribute your ideas and skills to help us shape the service for the future.
Tel: 01484 539531
Email: contact@s2r.org.uk Website: www.s2r.org.uk
Touchstone – Kirklees Advocacy & Peer Brokerage Services
Provides statutory and non statutory advocacy for Kirklees, includes Mental Health, Mental Capacity, Health Complaints and general advocacy, supporting people to understand their rights and have their voice heard. Group advocacy opportunities are developing and include “Meeting of Minds”, a peer-led forum. We also deliver brokerage support for people to use their mental health personal budgets (and/or
their own funds) to create personalised support packages to maintain independence and recovery.
Tel: 01924 460211
Email: advocacy@touchstonesupport.org.uk
Website: www.touchstonesupport.org.uk