People Zones

People Zones aims to grow safer communities by building on strengths, creating connections and empowering everyone to play a role. People Zones supported St Joseph’s project to move all our wellbeing support and workshops to a new area within the grounds of our Centre, to help us continue our informal wellbeing support and deliver more structured workshop groups, both for families and individuals and for businesses, schools and groups.

Find out more on https://www.peoplezones.co.uk/

Heritage Crafts Association

St Joseph’s Rural Centre is also home to Cairn Crafts, where Kevin has been leading coracle workshops for over 30 years, helping others to build their own coracles and exploring the different spiritual facets of the symbol of the coracle through storytelling, drama, and the audio-visual arts.

Find out more on https://www.heritagecrafts.org.uk/

Mental Health Friendly Places

A Mental Health Friendly Place is a public-facing community touch point in Leicester, Leicestershire or Rutland that has received training, resources and support to confidently navigate conversations around low-level mental health and wellbeing.

Find out more on https://www.startaconversation.co.uk/mental-health-friendly-places

Chatty Café Scheme

The Chatty Café Scheme is the UK’s leading non-profit organisation tackling loneliness.

We offer a space where customers can sit if they are happy to sit and chat over a coffee with others.

Find out more on https://thechattycafescheme.co.uk/about-us/what-we-do/

YMCA North Staffordshire

Over the last twelve years, St Joseph’s, Monos and North Staffordshire YMCA (NSYMCA) have been in relationship, developing a deep and meaningful collaboration of mutual love and support for both organisations, and their accompanying visions and ethos. This has resulted in us being able to offer bespoke support for NSYMCA’s provision of emotional, mental and spiritual wellbeing strategies.

Practically this means us providing staff and young people retreats and away days and regular away days of young people to our Centre. We also offer residentials that allow either staff or young people to extend their time away with us.

Find out more about NSYMCA’s work on https://ymcans.org.uk/

Paladin Education

Paladin Education brings together many years’ experience working within the education and care sector supporting educational needs to an array of people and groups. They say: “Recently, we have reemphasized the importance of taking a holistic approach in educating the whole person and are glad to have the opportunity to collaborate with St Joseph’s Rural Centre in providing training and well-being resources to people and groups.”

Paladin Education’s expertise includes training, audit, development and coaching in Mental Health Awareness, Safeguarding and Prevent Solutions, CSE, CRE and County Lines, DSL coaching and leadership and management development.

National Forest

The National Forest has provided support and a grant for the wellbeing garden and wellbeing initiatives at St Joseph’s Rural Centre, including birdfeeding stations, a talking bench, pond and clearing and preparing the site.

Find out more about them at https://www.nationalforest.org/