Top Tip no. 2 for looking after your mental health

Keep active.Regular exercise can boost your self-esteem and can help you concentrate, sleep, and look and feel better. Exercise keeps the brain and your other vital organs healthy, and is also a significant benefit towards improving your mental health.

Top Tips on looking after your mental health:

1. Talk about your feelings. Talking about your feelings can help you stay in good mental health and deal with times when you feel troubled.

Denman courses - good news!

Mental Health Resolution 2018 - what can we do?

‘Mental health matters as much as physical health. The NFWI urges all WI members to recognise the importance of parity between mental health and physical health, and take action to make it as acceptable to talk about mental health issues as much as physical health issues, and to lobby government for better support for mental illness.’ Callow End WI, Worcestershire Federation

‘I urge you to support this motion and more than that, to work together with the
other people who are feeling the same to create a genuine step change in mental
health care in this country - because people deserve it’.
Andrew Molodynski, Consultant Psychiatrist at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, NFWI Annual Meeting 2018

Here are some ideas: 

1. Find out how you can look after your mental health. As a starting point, we’re encouraging members to think about how they can look after their own mental health, regardless of whether they are experiencing mental health problems. Specialist charities such as Rethink Mental Illness advise finding something that’s right for you.
2. Learn how to start a conversation about mental health. We want to make it as acceptable to talk about mental health as it is about physical health and are asking members to help break down the stigma associated with mental health. Just starting a conversation with someone by asking them how they are can help by letting that person know that you care. It can sometimes make a big difference and make it easier for people to say how they are feeling.
3. Help change attitudes towards mental health.
You could get in touch with your local Mind to explore volunteering opportunities. Some local Minds, for example, offer training to become a volunteer speaker on mental health. Why not see what’s available in your area by contacting your local Mind?
4. In light of the reported benefits of gardening, we’d love to hear from members with ideas about how to engage WIs in the mental health mandate specifically through this activity. Send in ideas to publicaffairs@ nfwi.org.uk and you could see your suggestion promoted nationally in the spring! Please also share with us any other ideas around craft, sport and music, for example.

Does anyone have any ideas.......

Less than a month to go until WI Sports Week! Is your WI or federation organising an event? 

From walking netball, clubbercise and abseiling to talks from dietitians, sports therapists or coaches – the choice is yours. 

WI Sports Week will take place from 15 to 22 September 2018. 

Please keep in contact and let us know your plans, or if you have any questions please contact h.neal@nfwi-unit.org.uk

Cream Tea at the Paignton Club

Wow! Delectable scones, cream and jam served with a perfect cup of tea served from pretty china tea pots! A perfect afternoon, with wonderful company!

Dart Bay Food, Craft and Skills events

2018 Events

• Monday 1st October 2018 Screen Printing day  Double Elephant Print Workshop.11am to 3.30pm St Martin’s Church Hall, Barton Hill Rd Barton Torquay  Bring own packed lunch.Cost £25.00 bring own lunch 

• Monday 22nd October 2018 - DIY and wooden bird boxes, 10am - 4pm, Coombe Pafford School, Torquay.  Price approx £30 tbc, includes materials and lunch

• Monday 12th November 2018 - Fabric Advent Calendars, 11am - 3.30pm, St Martin's Church Hall, Barton, £25 includes materials and refreshments, bring own packed lunch

• Friday 7th December 2018 - Christmas around the World Dart Bay special, 10am - 4pm, Rattery village hall, £25 includes materials for 3 workshops and refreshments. Bring a shared lunch.

2019 Events

• Friday 25th January 2019 - Papercraft Day, either 10am-1pm or 2-5pm, JAX Studios, £18 includes materials and refreshments

• Thursday 21st February 2019 - Cocktail making masterclass, 7pm start, COCO Cocktail Bar, Torquay. £26.50 includes 3 cocktails, nibbles and tuition.

• Friday 1st March 2019 - Dart Bay Annual Meeting, St Martin's Hall, Barton, 7pm start, FREE event but names required

• Thursday 4th April 2019 - Pottery Workshop, Poppins Studio, St Marychurch, 10am - 4pm, £28 includes materials, firing and refreshments. Own lunch in St Marychurch or bring sandwiches

• Friday 17th May 2019 - Retro Birds Mosaic Workshop - JAX Studios, either 10am-1pm or 2-5pm, £18 includes materials and refreshments

• Wednesday 19th June 2019 - Textured Sterling Silver Ring with setting- Furrough Cross Church, St Marychurch, 1030-1.30pm, £22 includes materials and refreshments​

For further details ring Vicky Bundy on 01803 813477 or email vickybundy@outlook.com

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Can anyone help?

Most people are probably not aware but our local Homeless Outreach Charity PATH normally go to Glastonbury after it has finished and collect any tents and sleeping bags that are left in the fields. they would normally have about 180 sleeping bags laundered and stockpiled for the winter. So this year no Glastonbury....... they have none! If any of you have any in the attic from old camping trips or are buying new ones, please consider donating them.. Please help or next winter will be desperate for the guys on the streets.