Health & Wellbeing
The health and well-being of our clients is of the utmost importance. Every day our staff ensure they embed a client’s health and well-being into their daily working practices. Health and well-being comes in many different forms, we will liaise with external services to ensure our clients physical; mental and social well-being needs are met. Staff can support a client with access to these services and attend appointments where needed. Some of these services could be:
• Drug treatment services
• Correct medication
• A variety of mental health services
We have been successful in gaining funding from many different organisations such as Neighbourly Tesco Covid Grant and North East ladies lunch luncheon which is vital to carry out our daily activities.
Suicide Prevention Fund
Then One grant that impacted us greatly was gaining a funding grant from the Suicide Prevention Fund to enable us to carry out positive activities within our project.
At Fresh Start, some of the activities we carry out are:
• cooking
• gardening
• arts & crafts
• building using recyclable materials
• day trips
• movie nights
These activities not only build on our client’s skills, they held with communication with one another to help overcome social isolation.
Help & Support
In the Stockton-on-Tees area, suicide is the largest cause of death of men under the age of 50. Some of the lifestyle factors which increase their risk of suicide include:
• drug and alcohol misuse
• history of trauma
• unemployment
• social isolation
• family breakdown
• violence
• imprisonment
We find that most of our clients will fit into one or several of these categories, which shows the importance of providing the various activities we carry out.
Teesworks Benevolent Foundation Funding
We are incredibly grateful to the Teesworks Benevolent Foundation, who have kindly funded us to provide and purchase essential items for Fresh Start Project CIC. Their generosity is helping us create a more welcoming and comfortable environment for the people we support, making a real difference in their everyday lives.
These activities not only build on our client’s skills, they held with communication with one another to help overcome social isolation.
