Tag Archives: Croydon Covid-19 Local Mutual Aid

Sign up to be one of Croydon’s thousand mental health aiders

Posted on October 10, 2020 by

The Croydon Covid-19 Mutual Aid group is campaigning with the council and community groups to get a thousand residents trained in “Mental Health First Aid” as part of today’s World Mental Health Day. Taking part in the four-day online course … Continue reading →

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10 tips to help you and others on World Mental Health Day

Posted on October 9, 2020 by

Tomorrow is World Mental Health Day. Here, ROWENNA DAVIS (left) outlines some of the things which all of us can do to help others, and to help ourselves We need World Mental Health Day more than ever this year. According … Continue reading →

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Covid group ask you to Take The Pledge for mental health

Posted on October 8, 2020 by
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Train on a free course to help others suffering the covid blues

Posted on September 5, 2020 by

The council is offering a two-day online course for residents to become mental health “first aiders”. Funded by Transport for London and the council, the course is in response to findings from charity Mind which showed the scale of the … Continue reading →

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#Onetin: You can make a difference to reduce food insecurity

Posted on June 6, 2020 by

ROWENNA DAVIS, pictured right, and her covid-19 mutual aid group are making a difference to those struggling in poverty – one tin at a time At the beginning of this crisis, food insecurity was widespread, as supermarket shelves were stripped … Continue reading →

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Covid-19 Mutual Aid group put our ‘unsung heroes’ on the map

Posted on May 6, 2020 by

The borough’s mutual aid organisation that was set-up at the start of the coronavirus emergency, has now produced an updated map of food banks and soup kitchens which they hope will help “the unsung heroes of this crisis” – the … Continue reading →

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Covid mutual aid volunteers dial up a telephone helpline

Posted on April 15, 2020 by

The covid-19 mutual aid groups across the borough have started a telephone helpline, operating 12 hours a day, especially to offer aid, advice and avital connection to those Croydon residents without access to the internet during the coronavirus lockdown. In … Continue reading →

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