This week:
- Soul Shack LDN CIC - food pick up: URGENT
- Age UK – phone friends
- Get Set UK – mental health first aiders
Soul Shack LDN CIC - food pick up: URGENT
A social enterprise tackling the roots of youth violence in Lambeth, Soul Shack run a weekly food bank and urgently need drivers who will be able to pick up food donations on a Friday night – picking up from Tesco Brixton and delivering to Kennington (not in the congestion charge zone!). You’ll need to drive your own car, licenced and insured, to pick up from Brixton about 9:30-10pm on a Friday evening. Soul Shack are looking for two or three drivers who can share this Friday evening rota, starting this Friday – can you help?
Age UK – phone friends
Age UK Lambeth is an independent local charity working in Lambeth to offer support and services to older people. Even as Covid lockdown eases slowly, Age UK are still actively recruiting for volunteers. Whether you would like to volunteer to have a 'phone friend' and be matched with an elderly member of the community to have a weekly conversation that will help and reduce isolation and loneliness, or you have some extra time and would like to help elderly members of the community who may be struggling to get out - however you may able to help, they would love to hear from you.
Get Set UK – mental health first aiders
Get Set UK deliver services in employability and skills to a wide range of job seekers. They are offering free four-day courses designed to teach people how to spot the signs and symptoms of mental ill health. Mental Health First Aid MHFA training is the mental health equivalent of a physical first aid course. It will not teach you to be a therapist, but it will teach you to listen, reassure and respond, even in a crisis – and even potentially stop a crisis from happening. Training in mental health first aid will give you an understanding of how to support positive wellbeing and tackle stigma in the world around you. You will learn to recognise warning signs of mental ill health and develop the skills and confidence to approach and support someone while keeping yourself safe, as well as how to empower someone to access the support they might need for recovery or successful management of symptoms. NOTE: To be eligible you need to be over 19, live in Lambeth and be currently unemployed.
The next four-day courses run 19 - 22 April, 11 - 14 May, and 17 - st May – sign up here.
