Success for Hammersley Homes!

The primary vision for Hammersley Homes in Hampshire is to provide ongoing, lifelong support to people with enduring mental health issues. In recent decades there were psychiatric day centres and supported accommodation in psychiatric hostels. These are long gone leaving many people with only short-term support, vulnerable and becoming hospitalised, homeless, or unfairly imprisoned. Their plans are to maintain and develop the Outreach programme which provides consistent home visits and support – and to run regular group Connections sessions so that people are supported to meet with others and to grow. This year they ran their first focus group in order to develop the involvement of people in the shaping of services. John has been working with them for several months with the latest success being a £15,000 grant from the Garfield Weston Foundation.