Kieran Murphy

self-harm

Rise in self-harm

Earlier this week the NSPCC [https://www.nspcc.org.uk] released statistics about the rise in self-harm amongst young people. Nspcc said > Nearly 19,000 children and young people in England and Wales were hospitalised for self-harm last year You can read the full article here [https://www.nspcc.

mental health

Mental wellbeing conference

On Friday 7th October Phase were part of a team of people who put on the UK's first mental wellbeing conference for schools. A day not just for teachers and other school staff but for students and young people too! It was an exciting day with over 100

team

Phase team grows!

Sasha Austin-Seade and Helen Bainbridge joined Phase in September As the Phase team has grown again this year with Sasha and Helen joining as Wellbeing Development Lead and Schools and Youth Worker respectively, Kieran sat down with them to find out a bit more about the new members of the

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The Core

The Core Training conference for all youth and children's workers and is happening Friday 30th September 5pm till Saturday 1st October 4pm. What is The Core? No matter what your calling to youth and children’s ministry might look like, we are praying that ‘THE CORE’ will encourage

Young People

Love Always Hopes

Love Always Hopes wristbands are in memory of Mary Bacon who sadly died suddenly in May 2016. Mary was heavily involved with Phase in a variety of ways, from helping at Time Trek [http://blog.phase-hitchin.org/time-trek-feb16/] to being a young leader at our Holding Nothing Back [http://blog.

mental health

Headspace

As Phase has been developing our mental wellbeing support for young people, we have been looking at various apps and programmes that young people can engage with in their own time to help promote wellbeing and mindfulness. One of these apps is Headspace [https://www.headspace.com/my], an app

support

Celebration service

On Sunday 2nd October 6:30pm we will be holding our annual celebration at Walsworth Road Baptist Church [http://www.wrbchitchin.org.uk] and we would love you to join us! It will be a fun packed hour hearing about the great achievements of Phase from last year, exciting plans

Blogs

What to blog about?

At Phase we are passionate about seeing people's wellbeing and resilience grow, understanding of mental health increase and people living life in all its fullness. As we come into this new academic year, we want to know what you would like to see on our blog! What subjects

funding

Diana smashes her target!

Back in May Diana Seller [http://blog.phase-hitchin.org/dianas-challenge/] took on a personal challenge in memory of her son Mark and raised a whooping £2286 for the work of Phase! Diana's original hope was to hopefully reach £1000, but has been blown away by peoples support. This

mental health

Friendly Places

"There's no health without mental health" [http://www.faithaction.net/portal/our-projects/friendly-places/] Phase HQ recently received our Friendly Places [http://www.faithaction.net/portal/our-projects/friendly-places/] certificate from Faith Action [http://www.faithaction.net/] confirming that we are a faith organisation that is committed to

fuel training

First Aid Training

On Saturday 2nd July we are running First Aid Training to qualify you as a first responder. This is the ideal training for anyone working with children or young people. Currently, we have some spare spaces!! When: Saturday 2nd July 9:30am - 3:30pm Where: Hitchin Christian Centre [http:

volunteers

Volunteering is good for you

[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-36482370] There was a great article on the BBC News website this morning about the positive impact of volunteering for individuals and for organisations. You can read the article here [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-36482370]. Do you have some time and some

Young People

Inspire

On Saturday 18th June we are asking people to come along and hear about how they can get involved with planning and running fundraising activities for Phase. As the work of Phase grows, there is a need to increase our fundraising so that we can continue to support more and

fuel training

Fuel - leaders training

For the past 6 years Phase, Urban Saints and the Forum run a free leaders training evening called Fuel. Over this time Fuel trained nearly 500 leaders working with children and young people across Herts, Beds and Bucks. Fuel training continues to cover a wide range and variety of topics

comet community awards

Comet Community Award

Those of you who are avid readers of The Comet may have seen an article recently highlighting the great work of Phase and that Kieran has been nominated for a Comet Community Award [http://www.cometcommunityawards.co.uk] under the category of 'Service to the community' Below is

forum

Forum Leaders BBQ

Forum leaders BBQ Tuesday 17th May 7:30pm - 9:30pm The Forum is the collection of youth and children’s workers from across the churches in Hitchin. We meet on a regular basis for fellowship, prayer and to plan joint activities to enrich the faith journey of children and

fund rasising

Diana's challenge

On Saturday 23rd April one of our Phase Partners Diana Seller will begin a 140 mile walk from to Todds Green in Hertfordshire to Lugg Green in Herefordshire raising money for Phase and all in memory of her son Mark who would have turned 30 this year. Diana said '

funding

LV= Supporting RISE

Masks created by students showing that there is more to them than others see. Phase received £200 from locally based LV= [http://www.lv.com] in support of our RISE project, this came from their community support committee. Over the past academic year hundreds of students across Hitchin have been

funding

Hitchin Youth Trust

We are very pleased to announce that Phase has recently received a grant for over £2000 from the Hitchin Youth Trust [http://hitchinyouthtrust.co.uk] in relation to our Creative Space [http://blog.phase-hitchin.org/creative-space/] project. The support from Hitchin Youth Trust will enable Phase to provide all the

Young People

The Parent Participation Toolkit

The Parent Participation Toolkit ‘’When parents and carers are fully engaged in the treatment process, we see improved outcomes for the child and family.’’ This quote comes from a new toolkit [http://www.youngminds.org.uk/psaytoolkit/forparents] that has been produced to help improve mental health services for children

mental health

NHS Taskforce report

Recently the government released the Taskforce report about the current state of mental health services across England, I would encourage you to download it and have a read yourself. Read the full report [https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Mental-Health-Taskforce-FYFV-final.pdf] [https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/

corporate support

Paragon

As the Phase team expands and our work and support for young people grows, we need to increase our capacity to match our output. One of the areas that Phase really need to expand was our printing capability. Since our inception back in September 2002 Phase has lived with various

fund rasising

Impact for Phase Raffle

We have an amazing raffle happening, where you can win some fantastic prizes!! 2 x 5 Personal training sessions worth over £400* Signed Saracens Rugby team Shirt - priceless! 2 Physio sessions with top sports therapist Liam George worth over £80 Hotel Chocolat Tasting Table worth £65 3 course meal

november campaign

November campaign update

November may seem like a long time ago, however, it has taken us a little while to count up everything that came in through our November Campaign. We are extremely pleased to announce that the grand total of the campaign was....... £11,000 This is made up of people dropping

Young People

The Bloodhound Project

Phase hits over 1,000mph with BLOODHOUND Project [http://www.bloodhoundssc.com] Hitchin’s youth support charity Phase will hit new speeds when the unique BLOODHOUND Project - a global engineering adventure, using a 1000mph world land speed record attempt car launches later this year. The team behind the land