Please see our round up of events, opportunities and projects. As always feel free to email in if you’d like something shared at charm.mentalhealth@gmail.com
- Tomorrow – next International Open Dialogue Network Meeting (in Rovaniemi and Online)
Date: Wednesday 27th August
Time: 9.00am-11.00am GMTHeld as a hybrid session before the five-day 29th International Meeting on Dialogical Treatment of Psychosis begins in Rovaniemi. For those who are interested in joining online, the meeting will be freely accessible via Zoom. We look forward to your participation and to sharing this moment together, whether in person or online.
ZOOM link:
Topic: International Open Dialogue Network Meeting
Time: Aug 27, 2025 12:00 PM Rovaniemi time (EEST) – 11:00 AM CEST
https://eoppimispalvelut.zoom.us/j/64512901552?pwd=slwgjhoWFJWkbW0NvGVZtv1o1iK9bG.1
Meeting ID: 645 1290 1552
Passcode: Network - Inclusive Museum Day at the Museum of Transport
Date: Sunday 31st August
Time: all day
Location: Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester Boyle St, Cheetham Hill, Manchester M8 8UWLink for more information: https://motgm.uk/events-themed.html#inclusive
The Museum of Transport is holding an event aimed at welcoming and supporting disabled visitors to get the most out of a visit to the museum. As well as all the wonderful vintage buses on display, there’ll also be a modern Bee Network bus and Ring & Ride bus on site all day.For anyone a bit nervous about travelling by bus, it’s an opportunity to try out a modern bus with ramp, audio and visual announcements, hearing induction loop, wheelchair spaces and anti-slip flooring, with no time pressure. There’ll be drivers and Bee Network staff on hand to help and answer questions – as well as take any feedback.
For anyone who needs a quieter atmosphere to enjoy the museum, we recommend visiting in the afternoon. At 3pm when the museum usually gets quieter, they’ll turn off bright lights and turn down the volume on all video displays to create a more relaxed, sensory-friendly environment. There’ll be a guided tour at 11am with BSL interpreters.
There’s no admission charge to visit the museum that day.
- Kyrie Farm online meeting – with Peter Kinderman
Date: Tuesday 2nd September
Time: 6.30-8pm
Zoom link: register on Eventbrite https://CHARMKyrieFarm.eventbrite.co.ukKyrie Farm is a new therapeutic initiative that will open in Ireland in 2026. It is based on a vision by the McKeon family after the loss of their son and brother. Based on the concept of therapeutic farms such as Gould Farm, founded in 1913 and Hopewell Farm, founded in 1993, the aim is to create a healing environment for people experiencing mental health challenges and support them to move toward recovery, health, and greater independence. The farm will employ a recovery-oriented, rights-based, and person-centered approach, offering a range of mental health interventions and holistic therapies. Created with the support of a lived experience panel, the farm has been developed to honour and value lived experience.
Peter Kinderman is a professor of Clinical Psychology, and has worked at the universities of Liverpool and Manchester, is a Clinical Psychologist in independent practice and a member of the Board of Directors of Kyrie Farm. He will talk about the farm’s development, its principles and the hopes that the team at Kyrie farm hold for a more therapeutic and healing environment for people suffering deep mental distress. There will also be time for discussion.
- NEUROMANCERS’ Care Practice Collective
We are neurodivergent+ peers (just like you!) who come together each month to offer a Care Workshop for someone who needs it.
A Care Workshop is a space where a group of neurodivergent+ people come together to help support and strategise around one person’s needs. Think of it like an MOT – just for you and your mind.
Applications are open between the 1st and 8th every month. We’ll get in touch if we can offer you a Care Workshop.For more information: https://neuromancers.org.uk/care-practice-collective
Application: https://form.jotform.com/251383084613354 - Jak’s World – Salford Suicide Prevention Conference
Date: Wednesday 10th September
Time: 9.30am-4.10pm
Venue: Salford Lad’s club, Ordsall
More information: https://jaksworld.org/wspc2025/ - National Voices vacancy – Lived Experience Partner
Closing date: Friday 12th September
Link for more information: https://www.nationalvoices.org.uk/work-with-us/work-for-us/
Lived Experience Partners are people with either:
– direct personal experience of living with long term physical or mental health conditions/disabilities and health inequalities; or,
– experience as an unpaid carer of a family member who is living with long term physical or mental health conditions/disabilities, and who experiences health inequalities.
Our Lived Experience Partners work with us to inform and influence National Voices’ work, providing unique insight and expertise, and bringing a diverse variety of experiences and skills. They support us to deliver our work in a way that balances power with people with lived experience. This ensures our work is rooted in the reality and experiences of people on the ground using the health and care system. - Mapping power in the Mad movement (Network Meeting September 2025)
Date: Thursday 18th September
Time: 4-5.30pm
Link for more information: https://www.nsun.org.uk/news/mapping-power-in-the-mad-movement-network-meeting-september-2025/Join NSUNs policy team, Kieran and Courtney, for a practical workshop on mapping power in the Mad movement. They’ll introduce two exercises which will help you reflect on the power and resources you hold, as well as helping you to identify where you might be best placed to support efforts toward health justice.
This will be an interactive session with options for group discussion and solo working – no prep required. If you do not want to join the discussions then you are more than welcome to join and listen along. Bring a pen and paper!
The NSUN network meetings are for members who want to connect with others shifting power in mental health. Maybe you’re part of a user-led group supporting your community, maybe you campaign for change, or maybe you want to get more involved in the network. - Gaddum Peer Support Q+A – working with suicide in peer support
Date: Monday 29th September
Time: 12.30-1.30pm
Online, free to attend – see gaddum.eventbrite.com / flyer attachedThe Q+A will be led by a peer group facilitator from START which brings together suicide attempt survivors, those experiencing suicidal thoughts and/or ideation.
- CHARM’s re-envisioning mental health care day
Date: Saturday 4th October
Time: 10-4pm
Venue: Ascension Church, HulmeWe are delighted to announce that CHARM are holding a celebration event to reflect on our Projects and think about where we want to go next – and we want you to come along!
This event is free and will be a beautiful day to come together to consider how we want to reimagine mental health care across the city and beyond. Please see the invitation and eventbrite link for further details and to register – https://CHARMreenvisioningday.eventbrite.co.uk
Preceded by an Open Mic night – location TBC, on Friday 3rd October
- HeartTouch Workshop in Otley, West Yorkshire – Working with Anxiety, Emotional Pain & Trauma
Date: Saturday 12th October
Time: 10am-5pm
Link for more information: https://easternpeace.com/events/heart-touch-yorkshireThis workshop is open to anyone experiencing emotional or mental distress, whether or not you have a psychiatric diagnosis. It is also suitable for individuals going through spiritual emergency or psychotic states, though we ask that participants join only if they are reasonably stable. If you are currently in an acute stage, it may be better to begin with 1-to-1 work together first — please feel free to contact me about this.
The workshop also welcomes family members caring for loved ones with complex needs or mental health challenges. We will explore practices you can share with them to support regulation, while also helping you strengthen your own resilience and wellbeing.
In addition, the workshop is open to mental health practitioners, clinicians, and bodyworkers interested in learning embodied, trauma-sensitive approaches to supporting people in distress.
Please feel free to share this invitation with anyone who may benefit or be interested in attending.
- List of foodbanks
The most up to date comprehensive list of foodbanks & pantries covering all Greater Manchester – 307 foodbanks / pantries listed.https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1L3WQBoS4t9uMQDKDANByfabig7pNDBMD?usp=sharing
This link is dynamic – feel free to share
