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    Darren's Volunteer Journey - National Volunteer Week 2024

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    For National Volunteer Week we want to express how grateful we are to our volunteers and how they contribute to The Recovery College. Darren is one of our volunteers, he has been with the college for a number of years, helping with co-production and as a volunteer co-facilitator. In April the marketing team sat down with Darren to di...

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    Louise's Volunteering Journey - National Volunteers Week 2024

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    Louise has been a volunteer for The Recovery College for a number of years and she wants to share her volunteering journey and perhaps inspire others to volunteer too! In this fantastic video for National Volunteer Week you can read Louise's journey, how she discovered The Recovery College, why she enjoys volunteering and how she would describ...

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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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    Donna's Story - National Volunteers Week

    Donna-English-Day A Day in the Life of..Donna English A Recovery College Volunteer

    At The Recovery College, our Volunteers are an important part of the college. Earlier this year, we sat down with Donna to film a series of videos about her time at the college as a volunteer.  In our conversation with Donna we covered topics such as what she has learned as a volunteer, her previous volunteering experi...

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    National Volunteers Week, 2024

    Volunteers Week Celebration

    It's the 40th anniversary of Volunteers Week! We are celebrating the amazing contributions volunteers make to communities across the UK and most importantly for the Recovery College. The celebration starts on the first Monday in June every year. It's a chance to recognise, celebrate and thank the UK's incredible volunteers for all they co...

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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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    Gardening with The Recovery College

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    Our Gardening students are working very hard to transform our green spaces, have a look at the photos below to see the difference two sessions can make!  Did you know?...At each of our bases we have a garden patch that students can access. If you would like to learn more please get in touch. Call 0121 543 4061 or email info@therecoverycol...

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    Staying Safe - RC Hub Highlights

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    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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    Come and Join our Online Information Session, Friday 31st May!

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    Come and meet members of our friendly team on Zoom, this Friday from 1pm - 2pm. Here you will get to hear a bit about what we do, our ethos and the courses we can provide to help individuals with their recovery journey. We will also discuss where our bases are around the Black Country as well as our social media presence and handy website links. Th...

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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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    Healthy Lifestyles at The Link Walsall

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    Walsall College are hosting a *free healthy lifestyle session in June at The Link in Walsall town centre!   The session is available for adults aged 19+ and will take place on Friday 14th June from 1pm - 3pm! This session will focus on items including: Learning how to use the NHS food scanner appPortion controlHealth ConditionsB...

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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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    Liane's Message for Mental Health Awareness Week 2024

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    Liane is one of our Deputy Principal's here at The Recovery College and this is how she finds #MomentsforMovement.  "Three months ago, I joined a get back to netball league taster session. I hadn't played since school and when I arrived I didn't know anyone. I was really nervous! We play every week. It's helped to build my confidence...

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    Ravi's Message for Mental Health Awareness Week 2024

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    We hope you are enjoying the blog posts so far this week. Next up is Ravi who is one of our fabulous facilitators here at The Recovery College.  We are grateful to have so many staff members willing to share their story and how they find Moments for Movement! Ravi says -  'To me fitness is more than just a routine, it's a lifestyle t...

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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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    Co-Production Guidance: A Black Country Guide for those looking to Co-produce

    Co-Production Guidance: A Black Country Guide for those looking to Co-produce

    Co-production is one of the most important elements of our work at the Recovery College. Co-production means working together to do something different. It is about people with different views and ideas coming together to make things better for everyone. In the recovery college we take a co-production approach, meaning people with personal exp...

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    Lauren's Message for Mental Health Awareness Week 2024

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    Throughout Mental Health Awareness Week We are hearing from different members of the team and how they find #MomentsforMovement in their lives. Today I'm going to write about my experience with running! In April, I travelled down to London to support some of my friends and family who were running the London Marathon. Watching thousands of people ru...

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    Lisa's Message for Mental Health Awareness Week 2024

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    At The Recovery College, Our staff love to support and encourage you on every step of your recovery journey. For this Mental Health Awareness Week, our staff want to encourage you to find #MomentsforMovement.  Today's message comes from Lisa, one of our Facilitators, she shares how she finds Moments for Movement i...

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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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