Phase Hitchin

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

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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

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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

Creative space

My year with Phase

This year I have been working with Phase as the 'Self-harm Support Intern' and what an exciting year it has been. I've seen Phase achieve so much and am excited about the future of the charity which I will continue to support and be involved with,

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

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Talking to someone who struggles with self-harm

Earlier this year, Phase was asked to write something about what are some helpful things to say to a young person struggling with self-harm. I’ve spent some time putting together a list of some common things people may say, why they might not be so helpful and what people

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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

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Filming Fun in Hitchin Town Centre

Last week, some of the Phase team ventured down to Hitchin town centre with a camera team and a big red arm chair. The aim was to capture some footage to use in a new 'Let's talk' [http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ngrSSyMv-E] video.

mental health

Mental Health Awareness Week 2016

(16th - 22nd May 2016, was Mental Health Awareness Week and this year the theme was relationships.) This blog post is titled 'people need other people' > “You’ll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people

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

Youth Work

Relationships workshops

Recently we delivered workshops about Relationships in Hitchin Boys' School as part of the schools sex education course with year 9. The workshop starts by defining what relationships are, thinking about all the different relationships we have around us. We then move on to think about more intimate relationships.

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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

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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

Easter Cracked

Our journey through the year with year 6 students continued with a workshop focussing on Easter. With most of the workshops happening during Holy week it was the perfect opportunity to explore what happened over 2000 years ago. Starting with Palm Sunday we imagine being the disciples and the emotions

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

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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 '

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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

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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

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#YoungMindsMatter

A couple of weeks ago, on Monday 17th February 2016, the week after Children’s Mental Health week 2016 [http://https://www.place2be.org.uk/our-story/childrens-mental-health-week/], Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge visited the Huffington Post as guest editor for the day. She posted this article, highlighting the

Time Trek

Time Trek Feb'16

We recently had our biggest Time Trek event ever with 71 children attending! Along with all the adult leaders we also had 8 teenagers helping as young leaders. Here is how one of them, Mary, found the day... Time Trek happens every half term on a Tuesday. As soon as

self-harm

Self-harm Awareness Day: A personal reflection

To me, self harm awareness day is an incredibly important day. A 13 year battle with self harm that I'm yet to feel I have truly left behind means I have more than my fair share of experiences that show why more awareness of this issue is so