support - Phase Hitchin

National Volunteers Week

Each year there is a National Volunteers week from 1st -7th June. If you volunteer with us and you missed one of our thank you posts on social media last week – please take this as an additional thank you for all your amazing support! Shirley & Jean, two of our

anxiety

Let's Talk Anxiety Support Group Reflections...

Over the past term we have had the privilege of running 5 'Let’s Talk Anxiety Support Groups' across the Hitchin Secondary Schools. We are seeing more and more young people struggle with anxiety, especially as we start to emerge from lockdown and are processing all that has happened over

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Let's Talk Anxiety Support Groups

At Phase we are passionate about helping young people live life in all of its fullness, to reach their full potential and thrive. However, due to the pandemic, we have seen a rise in mental health issues and a high level of anxiety. A survey carried out by Young Minds

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Happy New Year Hitchin

Where do we start then, friends?! There’s so much to say but we’ll keep this brief. Phase knows that the start of 2021 has been difficult and upsetting, to put it mildly. You may be experiencing anxiety, stress and worry for many people in Hitchin (and of course

COVID-19

Food support in Covid-19

Do you know what food provision projects are running in Hitchin & Letchworth? I didn’t – but after a Forum prayer meeting where we were looking at Food Poverty earlier this month, I decided to do some investigating… Numerous people have been impacted by the Covid-19 Pandemic, with resultant job

team

Tales of the unexpected

Recently I was telling someone about the work that I do at Phase as the Office Manager – the 5 areas that I cover (Office Admin / Finances / HR / Supporters / Communications) and what that entails for each area. But, as I thought about this a bit more it became apparent that actually

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The M-factor

What is the 'M-factor'? Mentoring! Mentoring is such a valuable tool that adds so much to somebody’s life. My experience of mentoring has been really positive and helped me to learn and grown in myself. By meeting with someone regularly and consistently really honestly has so many benefits. Here

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Hitchin Youth Trust

Phase are excited to announce that we recently recevied a grant from Hitchin Youth Trust to support our Creative Space drop-in programme. We are extremely grateful for the continued support from Hitchin Youth Trust. Grants enables Phase not just to continue the programme but expand it so that more young

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Celebration service

On Sunday 2nd October 6:30pm we will be holding our annual celebration at Walsworth Road Baptist Church 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 for the coming 12 months

funding

Diana smashes her target!

Back in May Diana Seller 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 money will enable Phase to deliver four

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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, just perhaps from more

mental health

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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Volunteering is good for you

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. Do you have some time and some skills that you could offer to Phase? Could you organise and run a fundraising

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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 'It

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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= 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 through our 4 week

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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 in relation to our Creative Space project. The support from Hitchin Youth Trust will enable Phase to provide all the equipment, resources and materials needed to deliver Creative Space

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 that has been produced to help improve mental health services for children and young people by valuing the role

november campaign

£4 for young people for change

This November Phase is running a campaign across many of the church's encouraging people to sign up to support our work with young people struggling with self-harm. Each Monday, we will post the information that was shared across church's the previous Sunday. Here is the first instalment. So who is

Souter Trust

We are very pleased to announce that the Souter Trust recently gave Phase a grant of £5000 in relation to our self-harm support work. With this money added to the other fundraising efforts, we are now over 50% towards our £15,000 total needed for the first year of this