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All Things Bright and Beautiful
For carers and those they care for – every Tuesday at 2.30pm at St Mary’s Church Swanage, a short simple service followed by tea, cake and chat.
Art Workshop
Gently therapeutic art and craft, suitable for beginners and improvers. People with disabilities and life challenges especially welcome.
Welcoming and supportive community. £6.50 per session payable for a half term in advance. Introductory session £8.
People on income-related benefits can apply for a Bursary – £2 per session. Friday Mornings in term time 10am–12pm.
All Saints Hall, Ulwell Road. Please ring to check we have space.
Swanage Bereavement Group
This is a group counselling session helping those affected by bereavement. We offer attendance for up to 10 people per session for a maximum of 10 sessions per person. The group is led by Cindy Weller, a fully accredited counsellor.
Based in the rectory classroom, Church Hill, Swanage, the meeting takes place on the first Monday of every month (except for bank holidays) and is from 11am to 12:30pm.
Space is limited to 10, and places must be booked by telephoning James Smith funeral directors on 01929 422445. We cover the Isle of Purbeck.
Bereavement Support
National Charity helping people through one of the most painful times in life – bereavement support, information and campaigning.
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Dorset Council Cost of Living Support
Money worries take up lots of headspace, leaving you with much less mental energy and time to make good decisions about your money. Remembering to look after yourself can also be hard. Talking to someone can help point you in the right direction and provide the strength to tackle problems. Reach out early for whatever help you need if you are struggling in any way. If small problems have already become bigger ones, get support now.
We can offer free, confidential and impartial support on:
- Money worries
- Accessing affordable food
- Housing and employment rights
- Looking after your Physical & Mental Health
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Dorset Council Housing Support
Local council support and advice for housing needs.
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Dorset Health Care NHS
We provide specialist support for people living with persistent pain, helping them to lead as fulfilling and independent lives as possible.
Our community pain service deals with all forms of chronic pain, including musculoskeletal (muscles, bones and joints), neurological (nervous system), internal organs and unexplained pain.
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Dorset Mental Health Forum
Our Mission is to increase understanding of Physical & Mental Health, to support people’s Recovery and to build capacity within services and communities to bring about change.
We deliver our mission through four Strategic Aims:
- Increasing understanding of Physical & Mental Health through Recovery Education and Co-production.
- Supporting and enabling people to live the lives they wish to live.
- Developing capacity and building connected communities across Dorset.
- Influencing and transforming local services with the collective voice of lived experience.
- Over the years, we have been able to bring lived experience expertise and people’s voices to the heart of statutory service design and delivery, influencing and driving culture change throughout local Physical & Mental Health services in Dorset.
We are proud and honoured to be making a positive difference to thousands of people’s lives across all of our projects and activities every year.
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Dorset Pain Management Service
To help you with your pain, we’ve actually set up our four pillars model, and that’s to help you get a greater sense of control about how to live with and manage your pain. So we help people understand their body, their brain, their spinal cord.
We help them think of how to become more fit in themselves, how to work with their diet and their sleep. Also how to make better life choices in terms of taking up hobbies that might have fallen by the wayside, the skills you might have, and finally help to deal with the anxiety and depression that just goes hand in hand with living with pain.
So if you think we can help you in some way, please get in touch; we would be delighted to help you.
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Dorset Recovery Education Centre
The Recovery Education Centre (REC) is delivered in partnership between Dorset HealthCare and the Dorset Physical & Mental Health Forum, a local peer led charity.
We offer a wide range of educational courses across Dorset which focus on recovery and wellbeing.
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Durlston Country Park and Nature Reserve
Local country park offering opens space, opportunities for volunteering and wellbeing.
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East Dorset and Purbeck Citizens Advice
Citizens Advice in East Dorset and Purbeck is an independent charity that provides free, confidential and impartial advice and support. Our goal is to help everyone find a way forward, whatever their problem.
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Live Well Dorset
Our mission is to help people living in Dorset lead healthier, happier lives. Our coaching, support and advice is absolutely free and part of your council’s commitment to improving public health. Weight Management, move more, stop smoking and drink less.
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Mosaic supporting bereaved children
Local charity supporting children and Youth and Parenting throughout Dorset.
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National Trust
National Trust Purbeck information on the first ‘super’ nature reserve in Purbeck Heaths.
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Planet Purbeck
Coming together to care for our countryside, coast and communities. We’re a young organisation, ‘the new kids on the block’ if you like. We’re connecting with the community and developing wonderful friendships as we go. We don’t all go wild swimming at 5am before knitting a vegan breakfast out of leaves…!
We’re from all walks of life, with teens through to those in their 80’s getting involved. Coming together like this is creating incredible energy and a nice, tingly feeling of joint purpose.
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Public Health Dorset
Improving health and wellbeing across Dorset – lots of information and links to help around Dorset.
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Reach - EDP Drugs and Alchohol Service
We’re here to help you cut down or stop your drug or alcohol use.
We’ll help you regain control of your life, by building on your strengths and supporting you to make healthy changes.
You can access our help directly – there is normally no waiting time to get started.
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Stepping into Nature
Have you ever had that feeling of just wanting to get out in the fresh air, have a change of scenery or do something different?
Our beautiful Dorset landscape is full of opportunities to enjoy nature in fun, social and creative ways. For some of us though, finding opportunities to enjoy nature that suits our needs are harder to come by.
Ability, confidence, and age can all influence what we can and can’t do. The Stepping into Nature project is about listening to our community in Dorset and working in partnership to enable everyone to enjoy nature.
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Sustainable Swanage
Our founding mission was to positively support the community of Swanage in reducing its waste, with an emphasis on plastic, but we have since expanded our work to include biodiversity and energy. We provide a link between different local organisations and groups and are working together to find solutions to issues that affect our local environment.
We provide a central point of information for the community on these issues and provide a means of sharing good tips and connecting people. We are a positive group looking to the future and how we can all live more sustainably and become resilient to future stresses and challenges that we face in our community.
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