Some of the group activities include:

• Activities aimed to introduce people to nature, green spaces and physical outdoor activities
• Social prescribing model
• Indoor physical activities including yoga, different types of dance, home workout
• Mindfulness and meditation
• Sewing/knitting
• Cooking alone online and sharing recipes and meals

Artful wellbeing workshops: calligraphy, clay-making/pottery, crafts/card making.

All of this has an element of reducing isolation, improving physical and mental health, making connections, tackling loneliness and taking the stigma out of seeking support for emotional distress

We run various community and public health education sessions including Chronic Disease Education (on diabetes, weight management, hypertension, kidney care, substance misuse, heart disease). And other community courses like Sound Minds Champion course, Stress Management, and women’s health including contraception and support around FGM (female genital mutilation. Our overall objective is to enable our target community to make informed choices about their general health and wellbeing

At Vanclaron, we believe in the power of every individual and their capacity to change, to aspire and to achieve. Therefore, we deliberately create volunteering, placement and employment opportunities for people, including young adults, to mentor them and give them learning opportunities to become the leaders of tomorrow or just to support themselves and those around them.

It is another way of empowering the community, spreading the skills and knowledge and widening the pool of our supporters and members regardless of their disabilities or other barriers.

Our 1-to-1 tailored support utilises the 5 steps to wellbeing approach and mental health first aid, a non-clinical support service that also signposts to statutory mental health services.  However, we put this to use  through the prism of the wider determinants of health, taking the holistic person and working with them from where they are. This is often a 6 week initial sessions, concentrating one element each week although a client can exit the programme earlier or later, depending on how soon they feel empowered and upskilled to manage their own self-care. There is emphasis of the service being culturally competent, being supported by staff who have been there themselves and or have the right foundations and mindset to support people to support themselves. A supportive, safe, non-judgemental, compassionate, understanding and an empowering environment. We work with people, their limitations, wishes and desires and set realistic and achievable targets that underline the abilities and the possibilities as opposed to the barriers and constraints.