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News
March 2010. New Gardening Project; Fanon Resource Centre in Brixton was successful in obtaining funding for a partnership gardening project with Roots and Shoots. The project will support Fanon customers to develop the back garden area while learning some useful new gardening skills at the same time.
Feb 2010. Southside has become a MINDFUL EMPLOYER (c) . Southside has signed up to the Charter for Employers Who Are Positive About Mental Health. This is part of our ongoing commitment to getting more people with mental health issues into our workplace. We have a 10% target in the current business plan (with ambitions to grow this target quickly)
Feb 2010. It's official! Southside Partnership and Support for Living to merge. Southside Partnership and Support for Living have just confirmed that the two organisations will merge this year. We announced we were in merger talks back in September, and since that time have been working to get to know each other better and to be sure that the merger is in everyone's interest. The merger will take place on 01 April 2010. Read more in our first merger newletter or check out the merger website www.sspsflmerger.org.uk.
Feb 2010. MERGER ANNOUNCEMENT. Southside Partnership is to merge with Support for Living, an Ealing based not for profit. The merger will take effect on 1st April 2010. The new organisation's 650 staff will support over 1700 people with learning disabilities and mental health support needs. The new Chief Executive of the merged organisation, which is yet to be named, is Southside's Aisling Duffy. For more information, contact merger@southsidepartnership.org.uk
Oct 2009. Southside's Customer Satisfaction Survey reveals that 83% would recommend us to a friend.
Oct 2009 Southside granted funding from City Parochial Foundation. CPF is providing funding to support a work pathways scheme for all mental health and learning disability customers at Southside. This funding will help in setting up an across-organisation scheme that will support customers to train, gain volunteering and work experience and find a job. A crucial element of the scheme will be to meet 'consumer preference' and also to work with employers to support them in providing work opportunities. Ultimately, it is hoped that service users will be employed within the scheme to provide one-to-one advice and support to those seeking a work pathway.
Sept 2009 Southside wins funding from Dept for Business, Innovation & Skills Transformation Fund for an innovative prison project. Southside, partnering with Media for Development and NHS Surrey , was successful in winning funding for a highly innovative project developed within our Beyond Prison services. The proposed project models itself on an innovative approach to addressing mental health issues using comedy as a medium. "With the level of mental ill health so high in prison populations, approaches to mental health awareness and recovery are of paramount importance and our research shows that a comedic approach is likely to be very successful in helping prisoners with mental health issues access support" said Fabio Gomes, the Beyond Prison manager. The project aims to write, produce and film a comedy, based on mental health issues, and then broadcast it throughout British prisons..
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