This Loneliness Awareness Week, we are spotlighting our Being You Leeds service! Being You Leeds supports communities in Leeds to stay well, by creating spaces for people to connect with each other, learn about their mental health, and boost their wellbeing. Read on to learn more about their support in their own words... Being You Leeds is a partnership service, funded by Public Health, that helps people to connect
May is Maternal Mental Health Month. This month promotes the importance of mental health support for all mothers and particularly raises awareness of mental health problems experienced before, during and after pregnancy (the perinatal period). Touchstone provides a range of specialist mental health support for people in the perinatal period. This month, we want to spotlight the forms of support we offer. Perinatal Support at Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service
This month is National Walking Month! Walking can be a great way to boost our mental health and connect with other people in our communities. To celebrate this month and shout about the amazing power of walking, we are a shining a spotlight on our Active Travel Project, which runs friendly, accessible walking groups across Leeds and Yorkshire. If you would like to get walking, read on to learn
We know many people we work with across Yorkshire and beyond will have been affected by the news from the Supreme Court ruling yesterday. At Touchstone, we fully support all trans and gender nonconforming communities and are thinking of everyone feeling the impacts of this news. As a mental health and wellbeing charity, we understand that many trans people will be feeling the mental health impacts of this
April marks Stress Awareness Month, an important date in the Touchstone Calendar! Stress can impact us all in different ways – and we all need different things to help us through it. Whatever level or kind of stress you’re experiencing, whether you’re looking for a group to help boost your mood or same-day support for when you’re struggling to cope, Touchstone is here for you. All of our support
A big hello from our Touchstone services in Wakefield! We wanted to let you know about some of the support we offer in the Wakefield area here at Touchstone and how our services work together to make sure people in Wakefield can access the best support possible... The support we offer in Wakefield There are three Touchstone services in the Wakefield district covering Pontefract, Castleford, Knottingley, Normanton, and Wakefield.
At Touchstone, we want everyone to be able to thrive as their authentic selves at work! This #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek, we are keen to share resources on how we can all make our workplaces safer and more inclusive for neurodivergent colleagues. In 2024, we worked with West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership to create a Neurodiversity in the Workplace toolkit. This toolkit is full of resources to help make NHS workplaces
February 12th marked the launch of the brilliant Remembering What’s Forgotten’s digital exhibition! The exhibition, co-ordinated by Synergi-Leeds and Words of Colour, captures inspiring narratives of 60 people, as a creative response to 50 years of mental health and racial inequalities in Leeds. The aim of the exhibition is to champion unheard community and lived experience narratives to tackle the overrepresentation of Black and South Asian men detained under
The value of lived experience and peer support is integral to all of our work at Touchstone. Martin, a former Service User at Touchstone, has kindly shared his journey to becoming a Peer Support Worker at Touchstone below... Where to begin with this rollercoaster (in a positive way) of a journey through Touchstone? So here goes! I came through the service in 2022 with CST (Community Support Team) after
During the holiday period, Touchstone's Central Office's opening and closing times will be as follows: From 1pm on 24th December (Christmas Eve) the office will be closed. The office will remain closed on the 25th December (Christmas Day), 26th December (Boxing Day) and the 27th December. We will then re-open on 30th Dec at 9am-5pm and close on 31st December at 3pm and on January 1st (New Year's Day).