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    Help For Heroes: Veterans Moving Forward Course

    Help For Heroes: Veterans Moving Forward Course

    Help for Heroes: Veterans Moving Forwards The Help for Heroes, Veterans Moving Forwards course has been designed by Veterans for Veterans. This course is suitable for all military Veterans, regardless of when or where they served. By the end of the course, students should understand the true impact of their military experience and be equipped ...

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    Accessing Social Activities in My Community RC Hub Highlights

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    The RC Hub is a mental health, recovery, health and wellbeing resource library, for people living in the Black Country. It is ever-growing with new activities, leaflets, videos and other tools to help you. Continuing in our Hub Highlights series, I'm going to show you an example of what you can find in the Accessing Social activities...

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    Cocaine Anonymous Group, Smethwick

    Cocaine Anonymous will be starting a new weekly meeting at Dorothy Parkes Centre on Monday 24th June, 7.30-8.30.   If you feel you would benefit from this group, We encourage you to attend.  For more information: Website - www.cauk.org.uk Phone - 0800 612 0225 Email - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Monday 7:30pm-8:30pm Address: Dorothy Parkes ...

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    Walsall College Open Day, 18th June 2024

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     Walsall College's final Open Day of the academic year takes place on Tuesday 18th June! You can register for the open day on the link below! The free Open Day is taking place at their Wisemore Campus, Green Lane Campus and Digital Engineering Skills Centre from 4pm – 7pm! This is a great opportunity for adult learners (aged 19+) and...

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    Accessing help in my Community - RC Hub Highlights

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    Next in our RC Hub Highlights series, I'm going to show you three resources from our next category - Accessing Help in My Community. You can access all of our resources for free, download and save for later! Through this series we are shining a light on the amazing resources you can access on the Hub to help you on your recovery journey. ...

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    New Women's Wellbeing Walk in Wednesbury

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    Would you like to meet new people and enjoy some fresh air? Starting from this week there is a new wellbeing walk for women, taking place at Hydes Road Pool in Wednesbury. Where and When? - Every Wednesday at 13:45pm  To register your interest please email the activities team This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 0121 437 0033

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    RC Hub Highlights: Learning about My Mental Illness

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    Continuing with our series about our RC Hub, the next category is Learning about my mental illness.  The Recovery College Hub (shortened to RC Hub) is a mental health, recovery, health and wellbeing resource library, for people living in the Black Country. Every resource that is uploaded to our hub has you in mind. If you have any resourc...

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    Staying Safe - RC Hub Highlights

    Staying Safe RC Hub Highlights

    The Recovery College Hub (shortened to RC Hub) is a mental health, recovery, health and wellbeing resource library, for people living in the Black Country.  The next category we are going to dive into is Staying Safe.  All of our resources are separated into categories under the RC Hub tab to help you find what you nee...

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    What's on at The Link Walsall in June

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    The Link has a number of great sessions coming up in June to help people in a variety of areas! Starting from Monday 3rd June there will be a host of sessions available including:  A confidence and motivation workshopMultiply Project - Beginners Maths SupportEmployability SkillsApprentice Recruitment Sessions The Link is located in Walsal...

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    The Multiply Project The Link Walsall

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    The Multiply Project helps adults aged 19+ to improve their numeracy skills by offering easy access to free courses that can help you brush up your maths skills, as well as helping you become more confident with numbers. Whether you need help in managing your bills, budgeting, helping your children with their homework or you want to improve your po...

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    Local Black Country Fitness Groups #MomentsforMovement

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    The theme for Mental Health Awareness Week 2024 is #MomentsforMovement. One of the best ways to protect our mental health is movement. Even a short burst of 10 minutes' brisk walking can boost our mood and increase our mental alertness and energy. At The Recovery College we want to promote some of the fantastic fitness groups that ar...

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    Living a Healthier Life - RC Hub Highlights

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    Next in our RC Hub Highlights series, I'm going to show you four resources from the fourth category.. Living a Healthier Life. You can access each of these categories on The Recovery College Website under the RC Hub tab. You can download any of these resources and save for later! Through this series we are shining a light o...

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    Recovery & Wellbeing in Sandwell Newsletter

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    In this edition of Recovery & Wellbeing in Sandwell newsletter. There is information on places to go, things to do, and opportunities to build recovery for everyone. In this edition we continue to try to list as much that is going on locally as we can. See the image below for contents of the newsletter. We hope you find this useful!&n...

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    Prepare for your Driving Theory Test with Walsall College

    Walsall College's Pleck Library Campus is hosting a *free course to help people prepare for their driving theory test! If you're looking to start driving, or finding the theory test a complicated and frustrating barrier to getting your licence, take part in this course beginning Tuesday 14th May from 9.30am - 11.30am!  The course wil...

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    RC Hub Highlights - Making Lifestyle Changes

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    Next in our RC Hub Highlights series, I'm going to show you three resources from our third category.. Making Lifestyle Changes. You can access each of these for free, download and save for later! Through this series we are shining a light on the amazing resources you can access on the Hub to help you on your recovery journey. The RC ...

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    Craft Fair at Brandhall Library

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    Do you enjoy Arts and Crafts? On Saturday 4th May there is a Craft Fair at Brandhall Library in Sandwell.  There is no entry cost and there are lots of stalls with a variety of art pieces, fragrances/candles, jewellery and more! See the poster below for more information. Download PDF File Here

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    RC Hub Highlights

    Managing and Improving My Mental Health

    Have you had chance to explore the RC hub yet? There are 9 categories for you to explore, today we're looking at Managing and Improving my Mental Health. The RC Hub is a mental health, recovery, health and wellbeing resource library, for people living in the Black Country. It is evergrowing with new activities, leaflets, videos and other tools to h...

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    The Recovery College Hub Highlights

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    Did you know we have an online hub full of resources to support you on your recovery journey? The RC Hub is a mental health, recovery, health and wellbeing resource library, for people living in the Black Country. It is ever growing with new activities, leaflets, videos and other tools to help you.  We want to shine a light on the amazing...

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    Poland Syndrome Fundraising Event

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    There are many children born in the UK and across the world with a rare syndrome called Poland Syndrome. Very little is known about Poland Syndrome and it's hard to find the right people in the know in the medical community. There is an event to raise awareness and funds for PIP Charity. 27th April at Dorothy Parkes Centre, B67 6EH. There...

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    Go Play activities in May!

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    Throughout May Go Play are hosting a variety of activities for children.  Activities include: Sports Games, Family Games, Digital, Themed Arts and Crafts and much more! These activities are free and for all ages!  These activities are spread across West Bromwich, Wednesbury, Oldbury and Smethwick.  For more Information...

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