The 4-week course forms a part of the work Family Hubs has been doing which offer residents support with a range of practical, social, emotional and financial issues. Over the course of the 4 weeks parents learn to cook a low-cost healthy meal, then are given the ingredients to practice at home. During the course, parents are also given a slow cooker for free allowing them to practice cooking the meals they have learnt to prepare in the sessions.

Guest speakers also attend to offer advice including speakers from CAP UK and Thinking Works to discuss money management, Sutton Health & Care to discuss healthy eating, and the Welfare Benefits Advice & Support team to meet with parents and discuss support needs.

The sessions are open to vulnerable residents across the borough including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and on lower incomes, creating an inclusive environment for residents to learn how to afford and maintain a healthy diet.

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These sessions are open to anyone wanting a safe space to spend some time

having fun with peers away from the temptations of drug or alcohol use.

Location: Orion House, 19 Cedar Road, SM2 5JG

Date: Saturdays, 1pm - 6pm

At PAPYRUS we support young people who may be struggling with thoughts of suicide. We currently have some funding to do a FREE suicide prevention training for communities/organisations around South London and we would love ffor you to share this with anyone you think who may find it useful. It can even be for yourself or your team.

The course itself is our SPEAK training (Suicide Prevention Explore Ask Keep-safe) and it is a 3.5 hour course (which can be done online or face to face). It is a CPD accredited course as well so each participant will receive a CPD certificate by the end of it.In the SPEAK training we will cover the following:
1. Myths and facts around suicide (and correcting pre-conceptions)
2. How to recognise the signs that someone is having thoughts of suicide?
3. How to talk to someone openly about suicide (this includes how to ask the question and how to respond to them if they are having thoughts of suicide).
4. And how to create a safety plan to support a person thinking about suicide.

This is a FREE training (which would normally cost £500) and we can invite a maximum of 30 participants. If you do not have 30 staff but are still interested for any amount of staff from your team (even if it is one or two), we will be more than delighted to have you on board and we will open it up as an OPEN session as well if needed.

As it is a funded training, the training will need to be done before the start of April. The date has not been set yet but will be set based on interest from your team etc.

Please contact Falah Noor (falah.noor@papyrus-uk.org / 07434 248 096) for more information

Talk with PC Jessica Connolly LGBT Liaison Police officer

Location: Wallington Library, Shotfield, Wallington SM6 0HY

Date: Monday 10th February 2025 

Time: 6:30pm

RSVP: Email - vilma.songui@smhf.org.uk text - 07754994392 

Please see the flyer for the upcoming Men's Mental Health Support ‘Man Space’, In partnership with Wallington Community Wellbeing Charity, St Paul’s Church, The Proper Blokes Club, and the Wallington Wellbeing INT.